Best Musician of All Time

[ComradeBadger]

Stevie Wonder :cheese:

 

[Dr. Freeman]

Trent Reznor, but only due to my overwhelming fanboyism for Nine Inch Nails. If I were to actually sit down and think about it, I'd probably say David Bowie or Maynard James Keenan (everything he touches turns to gold). Or Kirk Hammet. Or Alec Empire. Or Jerry Cantrell. Damn, this is hard...

And you people hoping for the new NIN album by Summer are being way too optimistic. This is NIN for god's sake. Let's look at the facts:

Pretty Hate Machine --> Broken = 2 1/2 year gap
Broken --> The Downward Spiral 3 year gap
The Downward Spiral --> The Fragile = 5 year gap

So I guess we could expect Bleedthrough around 2006

hehe wow i haven't seen this many NiN fans on one board ever :E

i agree with u saying anything Maynard touches turns gold, the guy really knows what hes doing.

as for when next album comes out.. ehh so what
i'd like to see NiN tour a bit more tho.. and im sure all NiN fans would agree

btw, thanks for pointing out the sig thing.. i was playing around with it a week or so ago and messed it up then, but its fixed now

 

[Anthraxxx]

Hmmm.. greatest musician....

well, many come to mind, but there are too many to list. So, instead i'll just list a couple that I like.

Nobuo Uematsu(sp?) <-- The guy that does the music for many of the Final Fantasy/Squaresoft games. The stuff he comes up with stirs emotion that way music should. The music he composed for FFX is some of the finest i've heard from him. Not many games have a musical score that is as compelling as FFX's soundtrack. As a matter of fact, one of the songs in the game was, in his mind, so beautiful that he refused to have the song translated into english. Truly beautiful music...


Queen <-- I've currently got their song "Don't stop me now" stuck in my head.

System of A Down <-- just cause i like them


.............

 

[iamironsam]

Aphex Twin

It's a toss up between Aphex Twin and Wesley Willis.

 

[Jammydodger]

What are you all talking about we all know timmy mallet is the king.
" Itsy Bitsy, Teeny Weeny Yellow Polka Dot Bikini "

CLASS

 

[not28]

I should probably get some more NIN albums. The Downward Spiral kicks ass.

 

[LoneDeranger]

Pleiadians

 

[Dr. Freeman]

I should probably get some more NIN albums. The Downward Spiral kicks ass.

u should definitely get Pretty Hate Machine and The Fragile

now if ur a hardcore fan.. then getting the remixes is a good idea too :E

 

[qckbeam]

u should definitely get Pretty Hate Machine and The Fragile

now if ur a hardcore fan.. then getting the remixes is a good idea too :E

yay! you have good taste in music Dr. Freeman

 

[KagePrototype]

If you've only got The Downward Spiral, have an open mind when listening to NIN's other work, as they're all rather different. Pretty Hate Machine is definately more of a synth-pop/metal hybrid; Broken is pure Ministry-esque Industrial Thrash; The Fragile is more of a David Bowie/Pink Floyd affair (though more twisted an dark), more atmopsheric and a helluva lot more progressive.

Why stop there? Get ALL the halos! And All That Could Have Been is worth it simply for the extra "Still" mini-album, a bunch of "deconstructed" NIN songs. Effectively, it's NIN unplugged, and it's fantastic. Get the DVD as well. The Perfect Drug is a masterpiece all on it's own, all the remix albums are nice and insanly ****ed up, and most of the singles have a bunch of nice remixes on them.

NIN need to release some sort of Halo boxset at some point. That would be pretty cool.

 

[Varg|Hund]

Kurt Cobain!
May he rest in peace. *respectful silence*

The same goes for Nirvana, even though they were pretty big before that Kurt guy killed himself. It makes me fu-u-u-ucking sick!

'That Kurt guy'!??
'pretty big'!?

*Fused becomes depressed seeing the ignorance of the masses*

 

[Jackal hit]

yes maynard is an excellent talent, but he also surrounds himself with like-minded and excellent musicians. the people in a perfect circle are GREAT and the people in Tool are arguably even MORE skilled. i mean c'mon, Danny Carey is one of the all time drum-gods. and the things that troy van leuwen(sp?) (of APC) and adam jones (tool) do on their guitars are insane(btw, i think they're HIGHLY underrated). but my all time favorite SINGLE musician.. probably mozart beethoven greig or tchaikovsky(march slav anyone?). but ehhhh Greatness, as far as usage goes in the context of THE BEST... is very subjective... to each his own. (btw NIN rules )

 

[Dr. Freeman]

If you've only got The Downward Spiral, have an open mind when listening to NIN's other work, as they're all rather different. Pretty Hate Machine is definately more of a synth-pop/metal hybrid; Broken is pure Ministry-esque Industrial Thrash; The Fragile is more of a David Bowie/Pink Floyd affair (though more twisted an dark), more atmopsheric and a helluva lot more progressive.

Why stop there? Get ALL the halos! And All That Could Have Been is worth it simply for the extra "Still" mini-album, a bunch of "deconstructed" NIN songs. Effectively, it's NIN unplugged, and it's fantastic. Get the DVD as well. The Perfect Drug is a masterpiece all on it's own, all the remix albums are nice and insanly ****ed up, and most of the singles have a bunch of nice remixes on them.

NIN need to release some sort of Halo boxset at some point. That would be pretty cool.

wow..lol
i didn't say much about the albums because i thought if he discovered it himself, he'd enjoy it more, but u went all out "deep" in describing the works of NiN hehe did a good job of it too

i think its safe to say this thread should be renamed to "the NiN thread" :E

 

[Bad^Hat]

Stevie Wonder :cheese:

What's black and screams?

Stevie Wonder answering the iron :E

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[SilentKilla]

billy corgan! hehe

 

[waedoe]

As the title dictates, Tell me who is the Best Musician Of all time.

To me its a toss up between Bruce Springsteen and Bob Marley.



If you say tupac ill kill you

^ is it cause hes black. Any how tupac couldnt even be nominated, because hes a *SINGER* not a *MUSICIAN* he has to acctually be able to play something asides his 9mm.

 

[Lil' Timmy]

^ is it cause hes black. Any how tupac couldnt even be nominated, because hes a *SINGER* not a *MUSICIAN* he has to acctually be able to play something asides his 9mm.

singers are musicians. anyone who composes, performs or conducts music is technically a musician. just fyi.

 

[Sulkdodds]

Has anyone mentioned Ennion Morricone? He's great.

 

[KagePrototype]

wow..lol
i didn't say much about the albums because i thought if he discovered it himself, he'd enjoy it more, but u went all out "deep" in describing the works of NiN hehe did a good job of it too

i think its safe to say this thread should be renamed to "the NiN thread" :E

Hehe, yeah. The only artist that rivals my NIN collection is Metallica.

[EDIT]While I'm here, I just thought I'd mention that Metallica's Load and Reload albums are vastly underrated. Hehe I do this sort of fanboyism on every forum I go to.

 

[Sulkdodds]

Ennio Morricone?

 

[Tak]

/me kills PvtRyan and SmwScott.

Hahaha....j/k.

 

[Brian Damage]

Spike Milligan?

 

[Lil' Timmy]

happy.. tree friends?

 

[Lil' Timmy]

Has anyone mentioned Ennion Morricone? He's great.

yeah, i generally wouldn't put film composers (morricone, horner, williams, elfman, etc..) in the running because they tend to be hack artists (ala williams) or one-trick ponies (ala elfman), relatively speaking.

 

[Brian Damage]

Happy Tree Friends!

La la lalalala,
lala lalalala,
la la lalalala,
lala lalalala...

 

[not28]

The Polyphonic Spree!

 

[OCybrManO]

Just because no one else has mentioned them anywhere on the Half-Life2.net forums... the Velvet Underground.

 

[BabyHeadCrab]

As the title dictates, Tell me who is the Best Musician Of all time.

To me its a toss up between Bruce Springsteen and Bob Marley.



If you say tupac ill kill you

biggie

 

[Gurph]

Jimi Hendrix b/c he revolutionized the way music was and did so many things with the guitar that probably still would never have been done. nuff said

 

[OCybrManO]

I would pick Jimi, too... but I couldn't believe that no one even mentioned the Velvet Underground in the entire history of these forums.

 

[CrazyHarij]

I'm not sure...

But at the moment it's Jean Michel Jarre...