Hot Take/ Musical Confession Thread!

Cage the Elephant deserve to be more loved than they are. I would easily count them as being among the most consistently good rock bands of their time and it confuses me why people just sort of gloss over them. I guess for a lot of people they peaked early with their first album and that huge "Ain't No Rest for the Wicked" single but they should be known for more than that.
 
gaporter said:
Cage the Elephant deserve to be more loved than they are. I would easily count them as being among the most consistently good rock bands of their time and it confuses me why people just sort of gloss over them. I guess for a lot of people they peaked early with their first album and that huge "Ain't No Rest for the Wicked" single but they should be known for more than that.
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I’ve tried. They get grouped together with a lot of bands a really enjoy but it just never stirs me the ways others do.
 
TenderLovingKiller® said:
I’ve tried. They get grouped together with a lot of bands a really enjoy but it just never stirs me the ways others do.
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Yeah I think everyone has bands/artists like that, where superficially they should enjoy them but they just don't. I get it. At least with CTE I have hope their best output is still ahead of them and maybe one day they'll win more people over, but I'm not sure how likely that is. But even if they stay in the lane they're currently in, I don't think that's a bad thing. They do what they do well and sometimes that's all a band needs to do.
 
Fleetwood-Matt said:
I wont argue with that lol. The crowd at Flo Milli was 95% white women, 5% white gay men. And i have a feeling lizzo and megan thee stallion will be the same way
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The first time I became aware of Firefly it was during a recap video from a previous year and it was just a sea of white people.
I think the Killers had either played or were about to.
 
LiamGallagher’sBucketHat said:
I think the Killers had either played or were about to.
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They are always simultaneously coming off of playing a tour on the white festival circuit, and getting ready for that same tour.


Caught the end of their set at Outside Lands a couple years ago, as they were the main headliners of the night and every other set had wrapped up. Seemed like the whole crowd was super lukewarm on everything except for the hits. Dude tried soooooo hard to be Springsteen up there, even brining out a sax player for a solo and trying to get that on stage chemistry going. It was sad.
 
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Here's my jazz hot take

The majority of Lee Morgans solo albums are decent soul jazz affairs, but it pales in his comparison to his work both in the Jazz Messengers and as a sideman. He performs much better in that context

Lee Morgan sideman > Lee Morgan bandleader

Also

The Sidewinder < The Rumproller
 
DJSJ said:
Here's my jazz hot take

The majority of Lee Morgans solo albums are decent soul jazz affairs, but it pales in his comparison to his work both in the Jazz Messengers and as a sideman. He performs much better in that context

Lee Morgan sideman > Lee Morgan bandleader

Also

The Sidewinder < The Rumproller
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Hummm. Both of these bands just follow the standard jazz album format. Write some tunes, get a band together and perform them. The Messengers had a lot of time to develop that sensitivity to each other. On the other hand Lee was able to pick a funkier drummer. Blakey was a monster, intense and hard swinging. But he couldn’t do much slick funky stuff. I guess it boils down to what sidemen you like better. That opening to Lee’s solo on Moanin’ is probably his most memorable phrases. My classic Morgan’s are Sidewinder and Cornbread.
 
DJSJ said:
Here's my jazz hot take

The majority of Lee Morgans solo albums are decent soul jazz affairs, but it pales in his comparison to his work both in the Jazz Messengers and as a sideman. He performs much better in that context

Lee Morgan sideman > Lee Morgan bandleader

Also

The Sidewinder < The Rumproller
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You need some Search for the New Land in your life.

I agree Sidewinder is overrated. Cornbread is way better.
 
Fleetwood-Matt said:
Idk how hot of a take this is but I couldnt help thinking about it last night

Cage the Elephant > The Killers in every conceivable way and should really take over their headlining spots at festivals
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This works for me. I'm not super into CTE, but to me, everything The Killers did after Hot Fuss was the Bruce Springsteen/Meatloaf crossover I never wanted.
 
bettim84 said:
You need some Search for the New Land in your life.

I agree Sidewinder is overrated. Cornbread is way better.
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I do, my listening (for better or for worse) has mainly been through physical copies, and a good copy of this one hasnt fallen into my lap, via a new pressing or a nice clean CD I can rip.

Cornbread is great though. Title track sounds like the theme to a funky 70's Black sitcom, in the BEST way possible,
 
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