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Post by lmills72 on Sept 26, 2020 16:05:47 GMT -6
So I've been going through a lot of old/older music and I've discovered some bands/artists that I really miss, or realize that I've really under appreciated a few bands/artists.
Here are mine. Please share yours.
Band missed
REM. They were never my favorite band; still wouldn't be. But they were coming up right when I graduated from BSU and got my first job in Georgia. I look back at their catalog now and it's just filled with great stuff, IMO. I've wondered if they hung it up too soon, but maybe they quit at just the right time ... unlike a lot of other groups.
Band underappreciated
Peter Gabriel. So many of his songs that got a lot of radio air play - such as Sledgehammer, Red Rain, Shock the Monkey - I really didn't care for, and I didn't explore farther at that time. But now I go back and listen to his other stuff and I feel like I cheated myself.
Oh, and I also miss David Letterman's show. Dave seemed to have great taste in music, always had great guests.
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Post by rmcalhoun on Sept 26, 2020 18:09:46 GMT -6
Bands Missed, Nirvana, Pantera and I gotta throw in some 2pac
underappreciated Im drawing a blank several come to mind but I am not sure they are/were really under appreciated... Everclear maybe
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Post by 00hmh on Sept 26, 2020 23:46:29 GMT -6
I just wrote a long post about Paul Butterfield and Al Kooper for this thread.
Young musicians in the 60's when I was a teenager and had never heard any blues.
Might qualify for this thread.
Deleted it since it was necessarily also about old blues and jazz men they introduced me to in South Chicago. And a great little music store long closed in Richmond with lots of Chess Records label vinyl.
Anyway you have been spared. It got long as I travelled the blues circuit from Chicago to it's beginning in the deep South.
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Post by williamtsherman on Sept 27, 2020 19:01:08 GMT -6
If you're a gentleman of a certain age, and like 70's era music but are pretty much tired of hearing the same songs, try Big Star. Some see them as a precursor of alt rock, but to me they are classic 70's power pop/rock. They missed out on being as popular as they should have been due to record label mismanagement, and then the usual rock band dissension and untimely death.
Producing only two (some might say three) albums in the early 70's, these albums were crammed with good songs and very little filler. Thus they have more total good songs that some lesser bands that are much longer lived but have only a couple good songs per album.
Think of a cross of the Byrds/Who/late Beatles with a less polished feel (that's what, I believe, brings the alt rock talk in) and you'll have an idea of their sound.
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Post by Lurkin McGurkin on Sept 28, 2020 14:49:06 GMT -6
If you're a gentleman of a certain age, and like 70's era music but are pretty much tired of hearing the same songs, try Big Star. Some see them as a precursor of alt rock, but to me they are classic 70's power pop/rock. They missed out on being as popular as they should have been due to record label mismanagement, and then the usual rock band dissension and untimely death. Producing only two (some might say three) albums in the early 70's, these albums were crammed with good songs and very little filler. Thus they have more total good songs that some lesser bands that are much longer lived but have only a couple good songs per album. Think of a cross of the Byrds/Who/late Beatles with a less polished feel (that's what, I believe, brings the alt rock talk in) and you'll have an idea of their sound. After listening to a few songs, they sound a LOT like the Jayhawks. I miss Soundgarden most of all. Chris Cornell's tortured lyrics, through an equally tortured voice, to me was more "grunge" than Nirvana. Turn up "Burden In My Hand" to 11, then slow it down a bit with "Fell On Black Days", and top it off with "Spoonman" for a quick tour of their best. I always felt like the Black Crowes were underrated. I know they had some success, but DAMN they had a great sound, and didn't last nearly long enough. Old school Southern rock that just clicked. |
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Post by rmcalhoun on Sept 28, 2020 14:56:45 GMT -6
If you're a gentleman of a certain age, and like 70's era music but are pretty much tired of hearing the same songs, try Big Star. Some see them as a precursor of alt rock, but to me they are classic 70's power pop/rock. They missed out on being as popular as they should have been due to record label mismanagement, and then the usual rock band dissension and untimely death. Producing only two (some might say three) albums in the early 70's, these albums were crammed with good songs and very little filler. Thus they have more total good songs that some lesser bands that are much longer lived but have only a couple good songs per album. Think of a cross of the Byrds/Who/late Beatles with a less polished feel (that's what, I believe, brings the alt rock talk in) and you'll have an idea of their sound. After listening to a few songs, they sound a LOT like the Jayhawks. I miss Soundgarden most of all. Chris Cornell's tortured lyrics, through an equally tortured voice, to me was more "grunge" than Nirvana. Turn up "Burden In My Hand" to 11, then slow it down a bit with "Fell On Black Days", and top it off with "Spoonman" for a quick tour of their best. I always felt like the Black Crowes were underrated. I know they had some success, but DAMN they had a great sound, and didn't last nearly long enough. Old school Southern rock that just clicked. Ohhhh I forgot about soundgarden good call and you can argue they might have been under appreciated kinda swallowed by nirvana |
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