To get both a decent electric guitar and an amplifier for 200 bucks might be hard. Or will you be playing through some form of computer plugin?

I would try to find a second hand Squier or Ibanez, possibly Yamaha or Epiphone in your price range if you can put all the money towards just a guitar. Most electrics can cover most of the ground between really clean - really distorted in the end. Telecasters and Stratocasters get used in metal, SGs and Les Pauls in jazz and gospel.

If Squier, anything from the Vintage Modified or Classic Vibe series should be decent stuff.

I get what you're saying but I get really tired of the "then just don't listen to mainstream" argument.

Mainstream music media is literally the only way to reach any sort of real audience. It's the only way for artists to be seen or heard by a large enough group of people in order for a protest song to make an actual impact.

The fact that they refuse to ever deviate from the pop/rap formula is not only extremely harmful to music as an art medium (especially when it comes to historical preservation of songs) but also its detrimental to our culture as a whole because the once great medium for societal protest known as mainstream music is completely gone, at a time when we could really use it.

If it were as easy as just not listening that would be great but its so very much more complicated than that.

William Elliot Whitmore is on Until the Morale Improves

Jerry Garcia plays pedal steel on "Teach Your Children" by CSNY.

People these days Ty Seagull

The girl dancing right in front of the singer, I swear she never moves her feet 😂.

¿por que no los dos?

You should be able to find a free piano, the problem is moving them.

Npc take

King of the kerb by Echobelly

That's one thing I would like to study one day, the cause and effect of certain chord structures

The best music has no lyrics at all.

Acapella vs Instrumental. I'll pick instrumental every time.

Absolutely love all of your recommandations man, thx a lot

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Yes. Yes, you are.

That’s really strange, I can’t see his name anywhere. Could be different between the Uk and US version of Spotify

I mostly listen to rap music, and lyrics are basically the only part I care about. I actually don't even notice when there's beat switches or something unless it's pointed out to me.

If the lyrics aren't interesting or clever and sound good I'll almost certainly never listen to it again, even if the music itself sounds good. Obviously though if I'm listening to like EDM or something then the music is incredibly important haha.

Virginmarys - Dean Man’s Shoes

I've read that on the album liner notes...but I don't know exactly where she sings.

Corey Taylor doing the whistling for Secret Door by Avatar. Not that it's anything amazing (I mean, the guy can whistle, but like, so can a lot of people), I just find it hilarious that he, of all people, was the one to do it. No vocals, just whistling.

You think you're the smartest person in every room, but a Carly Simon song is sending you into total confusion lol

The music draws me in, but the lyrics keep me in.

Rush were (sad face) one of the best at that.

The first 35 are pretty decent too.

The Music comes first, if it's not catchy enough musically to grab your attention the lyrics don't really matter because I wouldn't give it repeat attention.

There's songs that I've loved for years that I never really dissected the lyrics on until way later and realized what the meaning was.

I recently learned that Shannon Hoon sings backup on Don't Cry by Guns & Roses