Musical Geniuses that made it

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sick. i was a bit bummed when i saw them in october because they didn't play their usual 3 hr set but it was like 1.5 hrs of just them so it's all good. i was surprised at no encore. played a lot of oldies too. at least i've seen them like 4 tiimes or something, and i got to go for frees! :D.
i'd have to say one of the most energetic bands i've seen live is gogol bordello. they're fun as fuck. and i'm going to have to admit i'd knock queens of the stone age on my top list. i think there's way too many bands that kick ass. and i have to admit, i hate metallica too, but you can't deny them a spot on most important musicians ever list, that being said, they're no marker for this past decade.
 
Gee, you're so fucking indie it kills me. To list Arcade Fire, Bon Iver, Beirut, Matisyahu, Postal Service and TV you have to have a VERY shallow understanding of music, though I love Bon Iver to death. These guys sound good, but they're doing nothing that could be considered genius at all. You're confusing songwriting with musical genius, and they aren't even the best songwriters as far as I'm concerned.
They have a sound. Don't confuse that with skill or genius. CCR weren't geniuses, but they had a great sound and songwriting skills, which set them apart.
If anything, you should be putting Rilo Kiley up there for starting the sound that Postal Service stole from them.
 
i do agree with you on 99% of those bands, but is it really fair to say that someone with a great voice and song writing abilities isn't a great musician/artist?
 
uhhhh i dont listen to words normally, just the music. and to have it reach me as emotionally as it does, thats why i consider it genius. again as to genius i agree i shouldnt have listed some of them, my main ones were jeff and isaac in that category.
 
sorry, i just dont like being told what to do or what to think, i like making my own conclusions based on my own experiences in life. my music doesnt tell me what to do, thats all. of course, theres a voice that goes with every style andthe music wouldnt be right without it, you cant not listen to them. they just dont have a meaning besides the musicality to me. if that makes sense.
 
it doesn't. but if you do understand that if you aren't listening to the words, you are missing out on a pretty heavy part of the song?
 
We're not debating musicianship here. All the bands listed in this thread are good or great musicians in their own way. We're talking about GENIUS here. None of those guys are geniuses (save maybe Tweedy or Mars)
 
sorry, we obviously have different experiences with music. I'm just saying the lyrics add a necessary something to the music, but dont affect my life other than that. music makes me do crazy shit, not because of the words, but because of the sounds those words make with the instruments. i get so emotionally charged beyond what anything else can do to me. not because of the lyrics meaning something literal to me.
 
can you be any more pretentious? i mean, lift your skinny fists was a great post-rock album, but im pretty sure youre just name dropping now to increase your hipster cred.

Musical genius =/= good musician... it has to be a sort of epic once in a generation type thing. i can name shitloads of really great bands that have an awesome sound and good songwriting, but that doesnt make them all music geniuses.
 
the man behind Gorillaz, Damon Albarn. demon days was an incredibly successful album commercially, and one of my all time favorites, the man makes amazing music. no question about it. he is incredibly talented.
 
clearly my ultimate goal was to join newschoolers and gain popularity throughout all internet time and space. pretentious? i'm sorry i named one of my favorite bands. i don't personally know anything else out there like it and if i did then i probably would be pretentious.
 
Actually, alot of the musicianship was left up to Brian McLean, Arthur's secondhand man. Arthur was the frontman and lyricist for about 70% of the lyrics and barely any of the music.
 
i don't get this thread. isn't this just the same thing as a "whose your favorite artist" thread? if you are a musical genius than you most likely "made it." a better thread would be "musical geniuses who didn't make it."
 
mars volta for sure, animal collective ( i don't know how anyone could dispute that one but i'm sure they'll try), Andrew Bird, and Spencer Krug. How do you fee about those? annnnd i really don't like arcade fire, am i missing out on something?
 
Some of these choices are god awful. People who aren't even very good musically. Even though some of them aren't bad to listen to. Jenkees and John Butler would def agree with. Haven't seen the second page yet.

I'm going to throw out trey. The complexity of the stuff he was writing at a young age is ridiculous. Also going to drop the mclovins who haven't completely made it yet. But there building momentum and there going to be pretty big within a few years.
 
Bumping my own thread after quite some time, but he came up on shuffle, and I think James Taylor is worthy of a bump

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come on now... what about
Notorious B.I.G.OutkastModest MouseCloud CultDeath Cab for CutieBob Marley
definitely not Kanye West...his live performances are terrible
 
Biggie- hardly, he was a lyrical genius, but his beats, which are essentially the music part of it, would not require what I would call musical genius.

outkast- good, but not genius

modest mouse- sure I'll give you this one

cloud cult- don't know them well enough

death cab- no...

bob- absolutely
 
Jay Z. Don't know if you would consider him genius, but his beats are good and he's been a influence on rap for a very long time.

No one has said them yet, but I love them, Passion Pit.

Could definitely create a legit argument for the placement of Eminem in this thread.

Nas?
 
Rush

Pink Floyd

The Doors

Primus

The rolling stones

led zeppelin

Beck

Pinback

Radiohead

Simon and Garfunkel

The shins

The Who

Old Modest mouse (before we were dead before the ship even sank or whatever that shit is)

Clapton

David Bowie+Queen

Cake

for people who are geniuses but are not super big

wolf parade

Karate (shit is so good, one of my absolute favorite bands)

Boat

Cuff the duke
 
i didnt read the whole thread, but on the first page i noticed a lack of a certain name:

LED ZEPPELIN

i will admit that i never played an instrument, so i am not sure how qualified i am, but they were as diverse as you can be (while still selling tons of records).

"d'yer m'ker" is a reggae-like tune

"kashmir" incorporated oriental influences

"going to california"/"thats the way"/"thank you" (among others) are incredible ballads

"whole lotta love" has a famous opening riff and a revolutionary atonal mid-part

just a few examples (without stairway to heaven, needless to say how great this song is) of how much influences they incorporated in their music comined with great and sometimes overly intellectual songwriting and unbelievable live-performances.

i know a lot of good bands, but if i had to choose one band to listen until my death, i would choose led zep and if i had to choose one album it would also be a led zep one.

 
Bumping old thread,
Led Zeppelin, specifically Jimmy Page.

for Ten Years Gone, he used 14 different guitar tracks for the harmony section. When you listen to the song, you really hear the genius behind the instrumental part. Other obvious examples of composition genius include Stairway To Heaven, Dazed And Confused, etc.
Next, Pink Floyd (all of them), I really need to post nothing to prove this. Listen to Dark Side of The Moon, Wish You Were Here, Animals, etc.

A current band that should get tons of recognition for musical genius has to be Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeroes. Now, since everyone has already heard Home:

Listen to the entire album From Below, definitely one of the best albums from the past ten years.
Arcade Fire, specifically the album Neon Bible:

All of their albums are amazing, but Neon Bible is a masterpiece.
Some others:Radiohead, Lou Reed, The Smiths, Jimi Hendrix, Black Keys.
all of this is my opinion, and inb4 being called a hipster.
 
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