Who Is The Greatest Artist of all Time?

[Spindles]

Exactly, Joan Baez and many more.  Bjork is a wonderful artist, but to an extent she exists in her own musical and artistic bubble.

 

Joni Mitchell's blue was the album that defined the line between me being a child and a grown up, part of my musical education in a west country squat during the best summer ever.

[Amy Lawn]

Bjork's inimitable, but not uninfluential, I hear Bjork in a lot of contemporary artists. Specifically, I hear her influence in FKA Twigs and Young Fathers, two of the most exciting artists on the rise today, I think even Kanye has been at her back catalogue pretty much since Late Registration. Male, female, animal, vegetable, mineral, I think Bjork is the ultimate recording artist.

Edited July 22, 2015 by GETOFFAMYLAWN

[TheSilence]

I'd probably say that Bjork is my favourite female artist and potentially the best but I'll refuse to entertain the idea that she's as good or better than The Beatles, Led Zep, Pink Floyd or the Rolling Stones. It's just not true. 

[kaosmark2]

I'd probably say that Bjork is my favourite female artist and potentially the best but I'll refuse to entertain the idea that she's as good or better than The Beatles, Led Zep, Pink Floyd or the Rolling Stones. It's just not true.

I think she's far better than any of those, for the aforementioned reason that she constantly reinvents herself and her sound.

[TheGayTent]

I love a pointless discussion with no possible correct answer.

My thoughts on the above is that reinventing yourself doesn't necessarily equate to being great. Or even good for that matter.

Unless someone wants to try to argue that Madonna is good...

[Wooderson]

I think Bjork herself would laugh if someone told her she was better than Led Zeppelin, for example.

[LJS]

I love a pointless discussion with no possible correct answer.

My thoughts on the above is that reinventing yourself doesn't necessarily equate to being great. Or even good for that matter.

Unless someone wants to try to argue that Madonna is good...

That will be the multi-talentless Madonna?

[kaosmark2]

I love a pointless discussion with no possible correct answer.

My thoughts on the above is that reinventing yourself doesn't necessarily equate to being great. Or even good for that matter.

Unless someone wants to try to argue that Madonna is good...

We all love pointless discussions, if we didn't we wouldn't hang out on an internet forum.

 

I'd agree with your point though. I just think acts that are already great become greater by continuing to do new things. Radiohead, Bjork, Flaming Lips, Bowie. It's why acts like Oasis become tired aged reflections of what they once were while other acts remain fresh and exciting.

[TheSilence]

We all love pointless discussions, if we didn't we wouldn't hang out on an internet forum.

I'd agree with your point though. I just think acts that are already great become greater by continuing to do new things. Radiohead, Bjork, Flaming Lips, Bowie. It's why acts like Oasis become tired aged reflections of what they once were while other acts remain fresh and exciting.

I'd say that artists reinventing themselves definitely opens up new windows to explore themselves musically. If the talents there then it will work whereas if, a particularly untalented artist attempted to reinvent themselves it would, probably, fall flat.

That is a strong argument for Bjork being better than the artists I mentioned, bar the Beatles , but I think there are a lot more factors to take in to consideration.

[TheGayTent]

We all love pointless discussions, if we didn't we wouldn't hang out on an internet forum.

I'd agree with your point though. I just think acts that are already great become greater by continuing to do new things. Radiohead, Bjork, Flaming Lips, Bowie. It's why acts like Oasis become tired aged reflections of what they once were while other acts remain fresh and exciting.

Nice post until you name checked 5 artists - 3 of which are utter utter cack.

[kaosmark2]

Nice post until you name checked 5 artists - 3 of which are utter utter cack.

Oasis are and were cack. A fair whack of Bowie's stuff is cack but a lot of it is great. Won't accept that about the others

[TheGayTent]

Oasis are and were cack. A fair whack of Bowie's stuff is cack but a lot of it is great. Won't accept that about the others

Bowie is head and shoulders above everyone you named !!

[The Nal]

The reinvention as an artist is important of course but you can't compare some of the older artists with anything post Beatles really. They just didn't have the freedom. John Lee Hookers Devil's Jump (basically invented distortion) was as big a step for music as Strawberry Fields was. Just a lot more subtle. But Hooker was hardly a chameleon when it came to his music. 100 albums of dirty blues basically.

 

1949 for those counting by the way. 1949!!

 

Dave Davies was two years old.

 

Edited July 23, 2015 by The Nal

[The Nal]

indeed...

 

re-inventing smacks of band wagon jumping a lot of the time, especially in Madge's case. Not with Bjork though. I don't consider her are-inventor. She's an explorer... all the time, so not really re-inventing.

 

Re-inventing sounds like, "I don't know what I am, I'll try this for a while" without really having much of an aim

 

again, like Madge

 

I prefer my artists to sound like they know what they're aiming for

 

[windy_miller]

I love both those songs! Think I might be blinded/deafened by my love for them though. My least favourite song on white album is Glass Onion and ive been told by many a person im an idiot for that.

Yeah its my least favourite song on the Whit Album too.

 

Whats your favourite Beatles album, out of interest?

 

I'd have to say, The Best Of The Beatles.

[pehaw]

Not my cup of tea but no mention of Michael Jackson?

[The Nal]

Not my cup of tea but no mention of Michael Jackson?

 

3 good albums, and they're patchy in parts

[TheSilence]

3 good albums, and they're patchy in parts

 

What three? 

 

Think he's great for what he did for pop music to be fair, but besides his singles I struggle to enjoy his work. No idea why. Also very hard to swallow considering his legal "issues."

[The Nal]

What three? 

 

Off the Wall, Thriller and Bad.

 

Think he's great for what he did for pop music to be fair, but besides his singles I struggle to enjoy his work. No idea why. Also very hard to swallow considering his legal "issues."

 

Its impossible not to move to Billie Jean.

 

I think he was quite guilty but never proven. So, enjoy!

[TheSilence]

Off the Wall, Thriller and Bad.

 

 

Its impossible not to move to Billie Jean.

 

I think he was quite guilty but never proven. So, enjoy!

 

Yeah, I also think he was quite guilty. You don't agree on a settlement if you're not guilty. I know I personally would fight tooth and nail till I was found not guilty rather than pay any amount of money to shut them up. So I find it hard to enjoy him. I do have the odd listen, every now and then, though.