Posted on 01/07/2014 7:02:12 AM PST by Notary Sojac
This thread had its genesis in this one -
Millenial's Music Taste (vanity). Whats wrong with your generation?
- where a few of us made the case for really good music being made in the 21st century by artists who aren't retreads from the boomer era or earlier. It's a mission of mine to try to get my fellow boomers to break that fixation with the "oldies station" and listen to some new stuff.
I plan to make the case for a few artists here, and hope that more Freepers will chime in.
Please do so!! Give us a little info about the contemporary artists you like, with an album or track recommendation.
My tastes run to bluegrass, blues, swing, and what's now called "Americana", but any genre is welcome here. Except techno. Post any dance/techno recommends and you'll earn the Sojac raspberry!
To kick off:
Eleni Mandell is, like many of my favorite artists, not easily slotted into a genre. She has done country, pop, straight ahead rock, and classic '40s style lounge singing. But in every style her hooks are memorable and her lyrics witty.
Recommended album to start with: Miracle of Five, tracks "Moonglow, Lamp Low" and "Somebody Else".
Chatham County Line is a bluegrass outfit out of North Carolina. Straight up, tight bluegrass harmonies with a minimum of twang.
Recommended album to start with: Speed of the Whippoorwill, title track and "Coming Home".
Dave Alvin was, with his brother Phil, a founding member of The Blasters, the greatest roots rock group you've never heard of. Although his career with that group goes back to the eighties, most of his good solo material is post-2000. Dave perfectly rides the boundary between garage rock and country, a real sweet spot for me.
Recommended album to start with: Blackjack David, tracks "Abilene" and "New Highway".
No sorry. While the old guys are certainly still doing good stuff plenty of them are still performing, and new young guys are doing great stuff too. The only limitation is you. When you stick your fingers in your ears it’s not the musicians’ fault you don’t hear anything good.
I LOVE Third Day and Big Daddy Weave!
Well it certainly isn't my fault most of them suck today.
Most of them have ALWAYS sucked, which doesn’t change the fact that good stuff is out there, if only you’d broaden your horizons. You’re in a self inflicted prison and blaming everyone else. It’s sad seeing someone with a pulse be dead already.
No, provide us with the proof that what you consider “good classic rock” is considered good by sources with some knowledge and authority, and not just a mob of non-discerning non-discriminating teenagers, and not just sales figures, which prove nothing, if not often enough the opposite of good.
I understand that there is SOME good stuff out there. I just am not interested in looking through the humongous haystack to find those few rare needles.
And that one has already been explained to you, it’s easy to find, you just need to put some effort into life. Face it, you’re just a grouch waiting to die, you’ve decided you’re all done, no it’s time to just keep listening to the same 100 albums over and over again until your blood stops moving. Like I said at the start, a closed mind is a terrible thing.
Now that we’re in total repeat territory, which I’m sure you like, same ol music, same ol discussions, I bid you adieu. I’ll be looking for the new exciting conversation.
I used to have titanium finger tips but these days I only play for myself. I still have them though!
I posted a partial list earlier: Stones, Led Zeppelin, Allman Bros, The Band, Grateful Dead, The Who, CCR, Cream, Doobie Bros, Eagles, Doors, Moody Blues, Tull, Lynyrd Skynrd, Journey, Foreigner, on and on and on.
I doubt there are many in the classic rock world who will disagree with these choices.
LOL...Titanium is HARD...Bet y’all kin open beer cans with those! :-)
YOU are actually suggesting to me that I don't know how to find stuff? Have you ever visited my FR home page, or seen the tons of things I've dug up on the left and posted on this site? I know what's good and what sucks. Simple as that.
No actually YOU told ME you don’t know how to find stuff, or at least are too lazy to try.
For any Yes, Rush, King Crimson, and old Genesis Prog fans, I give you...Three Trapped Tigers. Amazing, amazing, amazing trio from London....
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VUSIJwGj5y4
You are welcome.
I said, based on the absolute garbage I've stumbled upon over the past couple of decades, I'm not even interested in bothering to look for the rare few good songs I might like (from the new crap, that is, because I'm always searching for great old ones I don't have). I have a mountain of music from many genres, including country, soul (Motown, Philly, Sam Cooke, etc), other R&B, classic oldies (Dion, Johnny Maestro, Duprees, etc), 60s rock, soul and pop, 70s rock, soul and pop, 80s. Even have some by the old crooners like Dean Martin. Tom Jones, Englebert Humperdinck, Whitney Houston, I think are among the best voices/singers of all time. The list goes on an on.
Yes and it’s been pointed out to you many different way you can leverage your current musical taste to be pointed to new artist you probably will like. Not to mention the dozens mentioned here on the thread. And yet you just can’t be bothered. thus you are, by your own admission, simply too lazy to even try.
” I just am not interested in looking through the humongous haystack to find those few rare needles.”
Too lazy to try, by your own words.
Simply relying on the law of probability.
Simply too lazy to explore the world around him and blaming everybody else.
I've been through this before, you know. I'm no kid. I find that most people's taste today in a lot of stuff simply sucks. I've been hearing their musical suggestions for decades, and rarely, and I mean RARELY, have I cared for any of it. So I've just about shut my ears to it now.
Yeah yeah yeah, everything sucks and you can’t be bothered. Really, you’re repeating yourself, and it’s boring. Enjoy you’re monotonous life. I’m enjoying exploring the wonderful world around me, listening right now to music you’d probably like but will never bother to explore. Goodbye.
Your freaking arse is too lazy to explore the world around him. I have a huge interest in all kinds of things, including the natural sciences (geology, paleontology, astronomy, cosmology, quantum physics, standard physics...), new technology, history (American and World), classic American automobiles, obviously politics...
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