I did like "Nightmare on My Street" back when he was with Jazzy Jeff

i'm laughing at the fact that beck, gorillaz, and u2 have all been listed. that shit is funny! so many jokers on this site!

dammme said:

Why do you dislike Shakira, Shakira is da bomb.

Snorah Jones

Moonbeam said:

I agree, although this is the second time bt11 has listed U2 in a hater thread, so he obviously doesn't like them. U2 are noted for changing their sound with nearly every album.

dammme said:

you must be kidding... at least I hope you are.


otherwise, you haven't heard what i've heard.

Moonbeam said:

They absolutely have their own sound, and they succesfully stick with it. I don't think that's experimental. I would call it boring.

BT11 said:

Pop album, Zooropa, all experimental for U2. Joshua was also something new for them.

Boy to War
War to Unf Fire
Unf Fire to Josh Tree
Josh Tree to Achtung Baby
Achtung Baby to Zooropa
Zooropa to Passengers
Passengers to Pop
Pop to All That You Can't Leave Behind

These are the biggest transitions in their sound.

I think people hear something like 'Beautiful Day' or 'City of Blinding Lights' and completely forget that this band also put out 'Numb' and 'Lemon'. I think that putting out some of their more classicist works lately has made people forget about all of the experimentation of the 90's. Nowadays, people don't realize what a complete and utter shock it was to have 'The Fly' follow 'All I Want is You' in the U2 cannon. Coming after 'Rattle and Hum', 'Achtung Baby' was a huge stylistic jump for the band.

PunchDrunk said:

Those are the first guys I thought of.

Me on the other hand, I have all kinds of experimental bones in my body.

David Hasselhoff.

im not even going to bother posting a responce cause far too many people are just posting artist they dont like rather then actually addressing the true question being posed here..


shoot...i guess eventually someone is going to claim bjork, grace jones or nina hagen dont have an ounce of avante-garde in them ehh?

Doesn't it depend on what you actually define as avantgarde? If you take as avantgarde what is often defined as such, the art music of the 50's, 60's and 70's with people like John Cage or Stockhausen, then I think almost no one of the pop scene will qualify as avantgarde (with few exceptions). Just think of the famous piece 4'33 by John Cage (if that is known around here)...

the patron saints.

Moonbeam said:

not that i'm exactly chomping at the bit to defend U2's prog cred, but their work with brian eno was pretty experimental for the time - espcially the "passengers" album, which wasn't even credited to U2.