Posted on 07/31/2011 8:10:55 PM PDT by Revolting cat!
Every couple of years I would scour the Al Gore's most famous invention after climate for interesting music, sites like artistsdirect.com, garageband.com and others that don't exist anymore and where unsigned bands, or signed and little known artists uploaded their music, oftentimes quite good, occasionally brilliant. I'd listen to hundreds, thousands of cuts to find a few diamonds in the rough. I had a method, which probably missed a few rarities, but which served me well. I'd listen to a few seconds to decide, 5, 15, 30. Certain guitar chords alerted me to the worth of the rest of a recording. And I had my taste - hard rock was usually out, plaintive folk music as well, electronic sounds - foggetteaboutit. Americana, country, soul, blues yes. I was looking for authenticity. (Doesn't everyone?) I'd gather the diamonds and burn them onto CDs, which I'd take on trips to Europe where I'd hand them to my friends there, DJs and artists, all of them in awe of American pop music, and who I thought were too influenced by the limited range of the most popular artists played on commercial radio, as bad there as it is here. I liked to share my discoveries, and I had a reputation to maintain, oh, yes.
Then my life had changed, and I stopped listening, stopped searching. Until this year. Last month, actually. The Internet sites have changed, but the buried, largely unheard music is still to be found. I have found some amazing artists, whom I would like to present to you. Rock and roll, or whatever it is called these days, is not dead. There are people out there with the skills and the ideas, who may not sell many CDs or tracks on iTunes, but who all deserve our support, and speaking for myself, my enthusiasm. (Some or all of them may be familiar to some of you, especially if you live in their hometowns, but as a group, I suspect they are largely unknown.)
Here they are:
Ukelele Orchestra of Great Britain
Lastly, the two incredibles. The future of music:
The links are just samples of the artists' music, not always their best recordings, but ones that are easily linkable. You can find more music of these artists through MySpace, YouTube, Google, the artists own sites, and so on. Enjoy!
I have found all sorts of new music in my favorite genre punk on Pandora.
Lots of great bands and music out there, but the music labels won’t hardly take a chance on them.
Sorry, no good rock & roll since about 1982...
Bump to check out later
If I ever have a kid, I think I’ll slap them if they use words like “sucks” and “dawg”
That date depends on your birthdate!
you’re not looking very hard, or in the right places...
and the eighties? really? come on.
>>”Sorry, no good rock & roll since about 1982...”
That date depends on your birthdate!<<
You are correct. Rock died, for the most part, in 1971.
If I ever have a kid I'll slap him for confusing the singular with the plural!
“Rock N Roll’s been going downhill ever since Buddy Holly died.”
take this for a spin and this isn’t even scratching my 8,000 collection...
1971? I can tell your birthdate. Elvis’ best recordings, by the way were for Sun records, 1954-5. Then he died.
For me it was the 60's-70's.
Very nice.
Not great, just nice.
Very nice.
Not great, just nice.
A few weeks ago, I drove around with my kids in the car, and I decided for the first time to switch from my usual sports talk radio station to the classic rock radio station.....well now my kids are hooked. They can’t even listen to the pap that stands for popular music today.
Bump.
perception is reality but I know what you mean, I started in about 66 and am still putting hot stuff in my collection.
The worst part of the trip was going from 8 tracks to cassette to CD to Ipod. What a long strange trip it’s been...
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