Favourite Artists?

Writing, music, painting, movies, whatever. Feel free to say something or nothing about them.

Movies:

Stanley Kubrick
David Lynch
Salvador Dali

Music:

Miles Davis, changes with the times, lots of skill, always great songs.
Pere Ubu, knows what they want and sticks to it, plays great music, nobody like them, lots of intergrity.
Cop Shoot Cop, always said what needed to be said, lots of skill.
Buckethead, tons of skill, always did what he wanted to do, tons of great songs, good sense of humour.
Univers Zéro, lots of skill, every song is a goldmine.
Television, lots of skill, meaningful lyrics.
Suicide, very influential, lots of integrity, some great songs.
Swans, very influential, meaningful lyrics.
The Dancing Did, lots of skill, meaningful lyrics, strong sense of humour.
The Pixies, very influential, good sound, meaningful lyrics.
Melvins, Great sense of humour, great skill, lots of great songs.
Lydia Lunch, meaningful lyrics, speaks her mind.
Johannes Brahms, sense of humour, perfectionist, lots of integrity, tons of skill, very influential.

Visual Art:

Francis Bacon
Grant Fuhst
H. R. Giger
Hans Holbein the Younger
Salvador Dali
Hieronymus Bosch
Ron English
Linda Bergkvist
Almacan

Writing:

Friedrich Nietzsche
Kim Wilkins
Lo Kuan-chung
Whitley Streiber
Frank Herbert

Sorry I didn't get to add to it or anything but it's 5 in the morning, not the kind of time to be thinking about who had how much impact. Damn I've spent way too much time on here. :wave

 

Artist: Vincent Van Gogh - "Irises" "Cypresses" "Starry Night"
Writers: Robert Heinlein, George Orwell, John Steinbeck, Ernest Henningway
Movie Directors: Alfred Hitchcock, Roger Corman
Music: Anything Bluesy or with screaming guitar (Alvin Lee, Leslie West, Jimmie Page, Hendrix, Ian Hunter, and on and on)

 

Artist: Salvador Dali, Monet
Writers: Dean Koontz
Movie Directors: Mel Gibson - who else uses millions of their own money to make a movie about Jesus Christ....
Music: Rock -AC/DC; Classical - Wagner; Non-secular - Skillet

 

Artist: Boris Vallejo
Writers: Bernard Cornwell, Conn Iggulden and Mia Dolan
Movie Directors: Stephen Spielberg
Music: DJ Tiesto, DJ Sammy, Judge Jules, Rihanna, William Orbit, Rod Stewart.

 

Tom Waits too? I really should have added him to my list.:tired

 

That works for me!

Man, I thought you were an old dude. LOL Guess I was wrong.http://i142.photobucket.com/albums/r94/musksnipe/Smilies/BikeRide.gif

 

Artist: Monet, Vega
Writers: John Steinbeck, Charles Dickens
Movie Directors: Robert Redford
Music: BB King, Eric Clapton ( I could make this extremley long, won't tho)

 

Artist: Louis Royo (Fantasy Art)
Writers: Sun Tzu, Laurell K Hamilton, Mishuhashi
Movie Directors: Tough call.. I like a lot of different directors, but Jackson, Stone and marshall jump to mind offhand
Music: Meat loaf, Kina, Mercy Me


~C

 

Sun Tzu, and Laurell K Hamilton are good choices, I haven't been able to get into them yet. I've got a bunch of Luis Royo art on my computer though.

 

I know this one song about Eric, but I wont talk about it here, it isn't exactly complimentry.:innocent

 

Classical is so awesome, I mentioned Johannes Brahms in my post who used to make music similar to Wagner, well before he died anyway. Actually it's more accurate to say that Wagner made music similar to Brahms.

 

Artist: Trey Parker & Matt Stone, Leonardo Da Vinci, Claude Monet
Author: Julian May, Stephen Donaldson, Raymond E Feist, David Eddings, Katherine Kerr, Janny Wurts
Music: 60's 70's & 90's
Beatles, Eagles, Led Zep, Deep Purple, Machine Gun Fellatio, The Angels, Billy Idol, Garbage, Green Day, Guns n' Roses, Hole, Hunters & Collectors, Jeff Buckley, Jimi Hendrix, Nirvana, The Offspring (Early), Pearl Jam, Regurgitator, Smashing Pumpkins, Placebo, Thomas Dolby, The Audreys, Gotye
Web Site: Major Geeks :major
Radio Station: Triple J
Television Ratio: 4:3
Pet: Rock
Sandwich Tomato, Lettuce & Cheese

Gotye - Heart's A Mess
Good clip, Great Song, Free download
http://www.gotye.com/?cat=5

 

Ugh!Tomatoes are nasty!! and to think you were really cool until you said that (im just kidding ‘bout you not being cool anymore but not about the tomatoes uke LOL )

Author: Robert Ludlum, Corrie Ten Boom
Music: Good Charlotte, Ciara, Carrie Underwood, Chicago, Lecrae, Aaliyah, Matchbox 20, Nickelback, Jojo, Keith Urban (the list goes on way to much to type here!)
Favorite Song: Nelly and Tim McGraw – Over and Over
Movie: Wedding Planner, The Transporter, House of Flying Daggers, The Pacifier
Desert Ice cream and chocolate :drool

 

Now you've aroused my curiosity, Cocaine?

 

I don't have any favorites... half the people who create that I love are famous, the other half are unknown. No writers I read all of, and no TV at all. My movie tastes range from Army of Darkness to the notebook. I think eclectic is a good understatment.

 

It's about his son comitting suicide. Not the most popular band in the world. Uhhh, what exactly are you asking by the way?

 

It doesn't matter that they're unknown, I mentioned a bunch of unknown artists in there, uhhhhh, like Pere Ubu.

Technically TV isn't Art. And you'll notice this is about your Favourite Artists. If you're talking about "Television", it's an old Punk band.

Well so do mine! Except that I haven't seen the Notebook.:wave

 

He did a song called Cocaine, when drugs were in.

His son I believe was only 4 years old , fell out a window of a high rise then song he wrote was Tears in Heaven, sad. Is that the one?

 

A lot of musician's have done songs about drugs. It was part of that era of american life.
And it was 'Tears in Heaven', Darlene...good call.
I have never heard it said before that Eric Clapton was not popular...at one time he was considered a god.

 

If you look up his bio it's unbelievable the bands he's been with or started or went by other names. He is one of my favorite blues artists. Actually Cocaine was JJ Cale's but Clapton made it popular, lol he made everything he did popular.

 

Yes, ma'am. One of the best career musician's to come out of the early years of the British Invasion.

 

I'm not talking about a song written by Eric, I'm talking about a song written by a band that bases everything it does on being offensive, the song is called "Your son commited suicide because you suck", but the lyrics are still about Eric. They even did an album full of sappy love songs to piss off their own fans.:duck

 

i am old enough to have seen THE AXEMAN when he was with CREAM (a long time ago) the last time i saw him was in Germany about 7 years ago and he was still fantastic.

my opinion is that he and Mark Knopfler are the two best guitar men in the world

http://www.ericclapton.com/
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Absolutely! I just recently got THE ROAD TO ESCONDIDO w/ JJ Cale my favorite is w/ BB King Riding with the King, it's good. I noticed on your link Complete Clapton, now there is something to have and his autobiography that should be interesting.

Mark Knopfler, from Dire Straits yes great also.

 

That makes you a god in my eyes. LOL I have seen him as a solo act, and it also was great.

 

So, should I assume everyone wants to see me dead now?:major

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@ Anupu..not in any way....you created a good thread.

 

Right, see I thought the Eric fiasco may have polarised things.

Uhhh, just so you know, winking generally indicates sarcasm.:seeya

 

Where on earth did that come from. Your taking things all wrong and way to personal. It's simply a discussion, opinions. As for winking it's flirting, good natured teasing.
Dead should not even be a word you should consider using. I don't think it to be a language barrier here, lighten up a bit, if your angry talk to someone. No one is 100 % right all the time, we have all been taken down a peg here. It makes me sad for you to think that way.

 

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I use the wink to mean something like, "hint, hint, nudge, nudge, did you get that?" I gurantee that when I'm being sarcastic or offended, you'll know it. I won't use an emoticon.LOL

 

Hey ANUPU don't take everything you read on here as personal one of the aims of the forum is to be able to discuss any topic without intentionally offending another member,we have a very wide spectrum of people here from all walks of life and intellectual skills,the age group varies from young to old so obviously opinions will differ regarding music/lifestyle/education/humor and so on but we have learned to accept our limitations,

one thing you can not have failed to notice is that on occasion we tend to have a laugh at the expense of others (Lev got me yesterday in the chat box) but it is not taken as offencive or putting you/me down.

regarding the as you put it "ERIC FIASCO" you are young and have your own taste in music which differs from mine because i grew up in another era but that does not make your music or mine better it just means we have different views.

i was 60 years old last week so we are eons apart i can still remember my parent saying "DO YOU CALL THAT MUSIC" but its dejavu because i now say the same thing to the grand kids and the response is usually "yeh but you are ancient".

all we ask here is that all members be tolerant and respect the views of others we are not always right but having said that we are not always wrong either.

i hope you will continue to post with the forum as other points of view are always interesting and everyone can contribute.


But the fact that some geniuses were laughed at does not imply that all who are laughed at are geniuses. They laughed at Columbus, they laughed at Fulton, they laughed at the Wright brothers. But they also laughed at Bozo the Clown.

Carl Sagan (1934 - 1996)

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We do have an emoticon for sarcasm - this one rolleyes

but even that emoticon is generally used light-heartedly on this site (in the lounge anyway rolleyes)

It is very difficult to tell what people mean just from the written word, which is why it pays to use a lot of emoticons

You will find most of the time that most of the people on this site are good-natured and enjoy stirring each other up a little bit (or is that just me )

As far as the song about Eric Clapton, that is the problem of the band that wrote/perform the song.
Sounds like incredibly poor taste on their part, and they perhaps need to look elsewhere for inspiration.
If a band has talent they do not need to rely on provocation or other cheap tricks.

That is the bands problem - not yours.

It's all good