Moody Blues is starting a 50th year your. I guess our parents were wrong when they said Rock & Roll was a fad.
Remember when music was good?
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Love the Moodies from the late 60's.
A 30 something kid at work turned me on to MUSE.
Sort of Bono-esque vocals with Radiohead sensibilities with the rock wick turned up.
Watch the "live from Rome Olympic stadiu"m and tell me this is not a superband.
Like him or dispise him for his presumptuousness Matt Bellamy is a musical FORCE.
A 30 something kid at work turned me on to MUSE.
Sort of Bono-esque vocals with Radiohead sensibilities with the rock wick turned up.
Watch the "live from Rome Olympic stadiu"m and tell me this is not a superband.
Like him or dispise him for his presumptuousness Matt Bellamy is a musical FORCE.
Now that I'm much closer to meeting my maker, I find myself deliberately going back to the music of my earlier years for a sense of nostalgia and simpler times. I don't fault anyone their taste in music. There are some music genres that I just can't to listen to.
Originally Posted By: dishdude
It seems like there isn't a lot of good rock out lately. Rise Against, Chevelle. ..maybe Twenty One Pilots...
Wow, I disagree. Chevelle is excellent, but there are TONS of great bands now. From classic sounding rock, to heavy metal and everywhere in between.
I like "Ghost". They really sound like classic rock. This song has a good bit of BOC type sound in it.
It seems like there isn't a lot of good rock out lately. Rise Against, Chevelle. ..maybe Twenty One Pilots...
Wow, I disagree. Chevelle is excellent, but there are TONS of great bands now. From classic sounding rock, to heavy metal and everywhere in between.
I like "Ghost". They really sound like classic rock. This song has a good bit of BOC type sound in it.
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Absolutely.. and album art was incredible!
Originally Posted By: Shannow
'80s had whole albums that you liked front to end, and as many of them available as you could afford...
It's not like that anymore, exepct for the odd really god one.
Last one that I found was Bring me the Horizon, "That's the Spirit".
Originally Posted By: Shannow
'80s had whole albums that you liked front to end, and as many of them available as you could afford...
It's not like that anymore, exepct for the odd really god one.
Last one that I found was Bring me the Horizon, "That's the Spirit".
Question - I assume "The Loop" in Chicago is long gone -I've been gone for 25 years.
When did it end?
Thanks!
When did it end?
Thanks!
As a member mentioned before, back "then", you'd listen to the whole album, not just the hit songs that were being played to death on FM. Really gave you a better feel for the band what they are all about. Now, with internet and stuff, you can just get the hit songs. Do they even make "albums" any more? Most of the other songs on those albums were pretty good too, just that the producers didn't push but one or two songs. Sometimes you'd get an album like Rumors or Moving Pictures or Dream Police that had a whole album full of great songs. Don't see that anymore. Everything is kind of almost designed to be a one hit wonder and with the advent of computerization, you can't even tell if that's even the singers real voice.
Originally Posted By: Alex_V
I grew up in a house where, almost without fail, "all good music is old music" so I would be predisposed to think that way, but I really like a lot of stuff from Lord Huron, The Lumineers, Adele, and a song or two from plenty of others. However, I was de-stressing while listening to the Eagles' "Take it to the Limit" the other day, and I don't think another group will ever do what they did better. I feel the same about other artists: Bob Seger, John Denver, etc.
Same on all accounts. I don't really care for new music that is popular. I love lumineers. We pretty much listen to "alternative" these days. Some good stuff out there
I grew up in a house where, almost without fail, "all good music is old music" so I would be predisposed to think that way, but I really like a lot of stuff from Lord Huron, The Lumineers, Adele, and a song or two from plenty of others. However, I was de-stressing while listening to the Eagles' "Take it to the Limit" the other day, and I don't think another group will ever do what they did better. I feel the same about other artists: Bob Seger, John Denver, etc.
Same on all accounts. I don't really care for new music that is popular. I love lumineers. We pretty much listen to "alternative" these days. Some good stuff out there
I think music continues to be on the same level of quality (for the most part). Radio top hits generally don't last and become forgotten. As another poster said, it's just fluff.
And of course people of a generation love their music more. I still love Nirvana, Korn, Sevendust. Yet I appreciate the newer and the older generations of rock/metal. Metallica, Pantera, Dio, Zep and Skynyrd. They are all great to listen to but my tastes of right now have been moved back to the Nu Metal era and the new stuff.
Chevelle is meh for me. I'm partially biased as I cannot stand radio rock, it's too fluffed. Though I believe Alter Bridge is the best modern hard rock (radio rack) in a long time.
It's funny how we mention in the older days you listened to the entire album. Sure, I can listen to the entire discography of Zep and Skynyrd. But I certainly cannot listen to whole albums pushed by top radio artists of those times or today. They are one-hit-wonders.
I have a very picky taste in metal, not like any other genre I listen to. The only modern metal band I can listen to from album to album is Trivium.
Everyone has their own tastes. I cannot stand 80s hair metal bands (the glamour bands), I think that was truly the lowest point in rock history and wish Scorpion, Poison, Motley Crew, Quiet Riot and Twisted Sister, to just name a few, would be exiled from the radios JMO.
And of course people of a generation love their music more. I still love Nirvana, Korn, Sevendust. Yet I appreciate the newer and the older generations of rock/metal. Metallica, Pantera, Dio, Zep and Skynyrd. They are all great to listen to but my tastes of right now have been moved back to the Nu Metal era and the new stuff.
Chevelle is meh for me. I'm partially biased as I cannot stand radio rock, it's too fluffed. Though I believe Alter Bridge is the best modern hard rock (radio rack) in a long time.
It's funny how we mention in the older days you listened to the entire album. Sure, I can listen to the entire discography of Zep and Skynyrd. But I certainly cannot listen to whole albums pushed by top radio artists of those times or today. They are one-hit-wonders.
I have a very picky taste in metal, not like any other genre I listen to. The only modern metal band I can listen to from album to album is Trivium.
Everyone has their own tastes. I cannot stand 80s hair metal bands (the glamour bands), I think that was truly the lowest point in rock history and wish Scorpion, Poison, Motley Crew, Quiet Riot and Twisted Sister, to just name a few, would be exiled from the radios JMO.
Originally Posted By: mjk
Question - I assume "The Loop" in Chicago is long gone -I've been gone for 25 years.
When did it end?
Thanks!
Looks like The Loop is still playing classic rock...
http://www.wlup.com/
The thing I remember most about listening to Chicago radio in my teens is loving and hating Steve Dahl...he could be really funny, but also way too obnoxious at times and he would talk over songs when the station forced him to play music and he had something he wanted to discuss. Finally, he talked over a song that I REALLY liked and then proceeded to make fun of a guy who had appeared on his show and died under anesthesia for a dental procedure, saying he was the only person dumb enough to die at the dentist. I had enough and never listened to Dahl again...the thing about the guy dying may well have been some kind of hoax, but the whole scene just plain infuriated me.
Question - I assume "The Loop" in Chicago is long gone -I've been gone for 25 years.
When did it end?
Thanks!
Looks like The Loop is still playing classic rock...
http://www.wlup.com/
The thing I remember most about listening to Chicago radio in my teens is loving and hating Steve Dahl...he could be really funny, but also way too obnoxious at times and he would talk over songs when the station forced him to play music and he had something he wanted to discuss. Finally, he talked over a song that I REALLY liked and then proceeded to make fun of a guy who had appeared on his show and died under anesthesia for a dental procedure, saying he was the only person dumb enough to die at the dentist. I had enough and never listened to Dahl again...the thing about the guy dying may well have been some kind of hoax, but the whole scene just plain infuriated me.
Originally Posted By: Schmoe
As a member mentioned before, back "then", you'd listen to the whole album, not just the hit songs that were being played to death on FM. Really gave you a better feel for the band what they are all about. Now, with internet and stuff, you can just get the hit songs. Do they even make "albums" any more? Most of the other songs on those albums were pretty good too, just that the producers didn't push but one or two songs. Sometimes you'd get an album like Rumors or Moving Pictures or Dream Police that had a whole album full of great songs. Don't see that anymore. Everything is kind of almost designed to be a one hit wonder and with the advent of computerization, you can't even tell if that's even the singers real voice.
I can only remember two sets of vinyl that I would routinely play without skipping around like crazy...Pink Floyd's "The Wall" and AC/DC's "Back In Black". Pink Floyd because it was telling a story, and BIB because it was just plain the most solid rock album I have ever heard...not a throwaway song in the bunch.
Other than those, I didn't have the patience to listen to songs I didn't think were really good and became very adept at dropping the needle on my (barely) portable Sears all in one turntable/amp/speaker set. I found this thing hidden in our basement when I was 10 or 11 and really put it to heavy use!!
Just my preference, I had friends who would just put albums on and let them roll...
As a member mentioned before, back "then", you'd listen to the whole album, not just the hit songs that were being played to death on FM. Really gave you a better feel for the band what they are all about. Now, with internet and stuff, you can just get the hit songs. Do they even make "albums" any more? Most of the other songs on those albums were pretty good too, just that the producers didn't push but one or two songs. Sometimes you'd get an album like Rumors or Moving Pictures or Dream Police that had a whole album full of great songs. Don't see that anymore. Everything is kind of almost designed to be a one hit wonder and with the advent of computerization, you can't even tell if that's even the singers real voice.
I can only remember two sets of vinyl that I would routinely play without skipping around like crazy...Pink Floyd's "The Wall" and AC/DC's "Back In Black". Pink Floyd because it was telling a story, and BIB because it was just plain the most solid rock album I have ever heard...not a throwaway song in the bunch.
Other than those, I didn't have the patience to listen to songs I didn't think were really good and became very adept at dropping the needle on my (barely) portable Sears all in one turntable/amp/speaker set. I found this thing hidden in our basement when I was 10 or 11 and really put it to heavy use!!
Just my preference, I had friends who would just put albums on and let them roll...
I'm 26 and I like all kinds of music. One thing I do find kind of irritating is that most modern music is full of profanity and sex. I know it is very similar to what modern pop culture represents, but working in a school it is often hard to find modern songs to incorporate into presentations that don't have profanities every other word or sexual language.
I'm no prude, but I remember growing up lots of the hit songs were about love and actual people, not portraying women and men as material things to own and use.
I'm no prude, but I remember growing up lots of the hit songs were about love and actual people, not portraying women and men as material things to own and use.
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I have a very eclectic taste in music,with mid 60s garage rock being my favorite (which you'll never hear on those boring oldies stations). My music collection has several thousand pieces spanning from 1950's doowop to current day rock and neo psych. Another one of my favorites is the 1970s black disco and pop. Bands like The Spinners,Hot Chocolate,Heatwave,Brothers Johnson,etc. Such fun music!!
Eagles, BGs, Neil Diamond, Temptations, Fifth Dimension, Dr. Hook. Nothing like that being done today. "When You're In Love With A Beautiful Woman, It's Hard."
Originally Posted By: Malo83
60's,70's and 80's are my favorite years, [censored] being played nowdays, RAP has to be the worst! so IRRITATING! Yeah i'm an old grumpy [censored].
Rap and hip hop has got to be the worst noise pollution ever! It's as irritating, or maybe even more so than bagpipes...
60's,70's and 80's are my favorite years, [censored] being played nowdays, RAP has to be the worst! so IRRITATING! Yeah i'm an old grumpy [censored].
Rap and hip hop has got to be the worst noise pollution ever! It's as irritating, or maybe even more so than bagpipes...
Originally Posted By: Virtus_Probi
Originally Posted By: mjk
Question - I assume "The Loop" in Chicago is long gone -I've been gone for 25 years.
When did it end?
Thanks!
Looks like The Loop is still playing classic rock...
http://www.wlup.com/
The thing I remember most about listening to Chicago radio in my teens is loving and hating Steve Dahl...he could be really funny, but also way too obnoxious at times and he would talk over songs when the station forced him to play music and he had something he wanted to discuss. Finally, he talked over a song that I REALLY liked and then proceeded to make fun of a guy who had appeared on his show and died under anesthesia for a dental procedure, saying he was the only person dumb enough to die at the dentist. I had enough and never listened to Dahl again...the thing about the guy dying may well have been some kind of hoax, but the whole scene just plain infuriated me.
I remember when Dahl had a band and he did a spoof of The Knack's "My Sharona", only it was called Ayatollah, which was about the Iranian hostage crisis...pretty funny stuff...I never heard the dentist story before...I still have a version of the Ayatollah song on cassette somewhere...
Originally Posted By: mjk
Question - I assume "The Loop" in Chicago is long gone -I've been gone for 25 years.
When did it end?
Thanks!
Looks like The Loop is still playing classic rock...
http://www.wlup.com/
The thing I remember most about listening to Chicago radio in my teens is loving and hating Steve Dahl...he could be really funny, but also way too obnoxious at times and he would talk over songs when the station forced him to play music and he had something he wanted to discuss. Finally, he talked over a song that I REALLY liked and then proceeded to make fun of a guy who had appeared on his show and died under anesthesia for a dental procedure, saying he was the only person dumb enough to die at the dentist. I had enough and never listened to Dahl again...the thing about the guy dying may well have been some kind of hoax, but the whole scene just plain infuriated me.
I remember when Dahl had a band and he did a spoof of The Knack's "My Sharona", only it was called Ayatollah, which was about the Iranian hostage crisis...pretty funny stuff...I never heard the dentist story before...I still have a version of the Ayatollah song on cassette somewhere...
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