Is music (albums) or bands most important for you?

I prophesy disaster wrote:  I've been wrestling with the same or similar question earlier with regards to creating a list for the "All-Time Top 10 Progressive Rock Bands" thread..... Rarely do I get more than one or two albums of a given band, and even for bands where I do have several albums, they often do not feel like favourite bands. And many of my favourite albums are the only albums I have from the bands, and therefore those bands can't be regarded as favourite bands.

Edited by David_D - December 06 2021 at 04:10

I'm curious about your name, I prophesy disaster.

To me bands are way more important than albums. If you concentrate only on the albums you can end up downgrading the importance of the band itself and that is dangerous in my view. 

Edited by richardh - December 06 2021 at 02:24

In the end, it is the music that is most important for me, for that is precisely why I like a band and consider them worth it, not their "look" or "image", or anything else, really.

Edited by presdoug - December 06 2021 at 06:55

David_D wrote: ... It seems right "but the QUALITY of the work" are albums? Something else, I do somehow find KC done more important in comparison with some other bands than they have deserved - can evaluation like that be done objectively?

I have decided it very clear for me that anything modern in prog/hard rock music is alien to me, per definition. As well as any serious modern writers. If the band existed in the 1970s - I am more than eager to listen to it, even if its music sucked. 

Woon Deadn wrote: Subsonsciously and perhaps even consciously I feel that there were the times when the trees were nicer and the water was bluer. And I want to be part of those times' atmosphere. I want to soak that atmosphere. Or the atmosphere to soak me in. Or both.

Edited by David_D - December 07 2021 at 09:44

cstack3 wrote: I'm a musician, and the correct answer, of course, is "bands."

There's not such an objective "correct answer" here. The bands are not our relatives, friends, and/or loved ones. If someone is my relative, I might accept them as they are. Or can try to be good with him/her even if that person's "personality" changes in a bad way (for me).

I would never do that for the bands. If they do albums that I don't appreciate, I simply won't "try" to like or appreciate them. I'd still appreciate their albums that I liked and continue to cherish their "grand days".

I'm so far very lucky that none of my favourite artists turned into/out to be an a****le as a person. Hahahah. That should be very painful for a person seeing that his/her idol is revealed to be a rapist and such.

Edited by Shadowyzard - December 07 2021 at 01:55

Woon Deadn wrote: I have decided it very clear for me that anything modern in prog/hard rock music is alien to me, per definition. As well as any serious modern writers. If the band existed in the 1970s - I am more than eager to listen to it, even if its music sucked.  Subsonsciously and perhaps even consciously I feel that there were the times when the trees were nicer and the water was bluer. And I want to be part of those times' atmosphere. I want to soak that atmosphere. Or the atmosphere to soak me in. Or both.

Shadowyzard wrote: cstack3 wrote: I'm a musician, and the correct answer, of course, is "bands." There's not such an objective "correct answer" here. The bands are not our relatives, friends, and/or loved ones.