For the older guys

[Jimmyplaysabass]

It seems like the majority of the people on here only listen to things pre 2000 era music.

What about bands from 2000 up? I was just curious as to what bands you fellas know from the era I'm growing up in now (me being 17 and all that.) I've heard all the classic bands, the underground classics, the funk, the hip-hop, the rap, the pop, the punk rock, the pop punk (which i despise), the hardcore, the metal (all of them), just all of them.

but what about what's around today? specifically the garage rock revival?

just looking for what you all think about it.

 

[Jimmyplaysabass]

And i'm pretty sure this'll never be read, or replied haha, sometimes I wonder if people are more concerned with their gear than their music on here.

 

[Thunder Pulse]

If you're interested in current bands why is your question posed to older guys??? Seems like other teenagers would be more likely to know.

 

[Johnny Mac]

If you're interested in current bands why is your question posed to older guys??? Seems like other teenagers would be more likely to know.

Because he wants to see what the older guys think of the newer music.

 

[mike phillips]

dont get into newer music. im still livin in the past musically. we got into this topic last night with a 22 yr old friend of mine. he was listenin to metallica doin veteran of the psychic wars. so i played him the origional version by blue oyster cult, of course he didnt like it because it "wasnt in your face enough" hey if it wasnt for black sabbath or deep purple there would be no metallica. then again sabbath took blues riffs and made them heavy and dark. i reckon we owe thanks to robert johnson. but to answer your question i do not listen to any band past the early to mid eighties.

 

[phat daddy]

I listen to a lot of nu rock, indie rock, and current pop. That said, I'm 32 and completely obsessed with the 70's and I love everything from the 60's motown and psychedelia, 70's funk, disco and rock, 80's retro, pop, rock and hair metal, 90's post funk, 3rd wave ska, grunge, and rap, and 2000 on up. I'm also constantly watching Fuse and VH1 Classic. I think every genre is beautiful and and has a lot to offer both musically and lyrically but not so much in originality. What I've noticed with the nu rock is that it's completely retrofitted to some other previous genre, more of a continuation. I don't see a lot of original identities in today's bands, more of a retro revival, mostly 80's. I do find today's music very catchy, full of good hooks, and very well produced, but I can't help but feel these kids playing that stuff are riding on the coatails of genres that existed in original form 20 years prior.

 

[Thunder Pulse]

Because he wants to see what the older guys think of the newer music.

Ok, my bad, now I get it. From the way the post was written I didn't understand what he was asking.

dont get into newer music.

I agree, as far as rock/metal goes.

 

[Munjibunga]

And i'm pretty sure this'll never be read, or replied haha, sometimes I wonder if people are more concerned with their gear than their music on here.

Why would you say a thing like that?

 

[Jimmyplaysabass]

haha, its in off topic.

well look first off, metallica is old man, older than me anyways.

and music today offers no variety or originality? that like someone saying zeppelin and sabbath and the beatles are all the same.

example


i mean come on, i know there's a very large generation gap between myself and many of you guys. But I appreciate, and acknowledge all of the classics (from bach to miles to everything). I think a lot of the older players really over look some of todays bands and i'd like to think that instead of paying 50$+ to see ozzfest AGAIN, we might go see something different, seriously take a trek into a different branch of music.

Plus bands today write in many ways about today's problems and feelings, you know?

 

[Jimmyplaysabass]

btw, thanks for the feedback. I really do like hearing from you guys

 

[ogrossman]

My band is heavy on the '70s but we throw in a lot of newer stuff such as Audioslave, Velvet Revolver, System of a Down, etc for the younger crowd. It's cool stuff and I really enjoy playing it.

 

[Snakeman1066]

I'm a huge music junkie....I listen to everything....i like a lot of the newer music being produced these days...however in find that much like the late 80's most of the bands being played on the radio today all seem to sound the same. Metal is making a huge comeback...so much so that bands that haven't played together in 15 year are re-forming for new records and tours...

for comfort i listen to mostly late sixties and 70's rock (i.e. Hendrix, Doors, Janis, Sabbath, Purple, Rainbow, B.O.C, Jouney, Priest, etc.)

my 16 year old daughter keeps me young by bringing home stuff i would never buy myself and makes me watch IMF, not to mention i hang out from time to time with some of the younger local bands and those guys hand me CD's all the time (and i do that in reverse as well)

also noticed the rash of bands sporting a retro sound such as Wolfmother, Hives, etc....which i really like...

music is universal new, old, classic whatever.....

just enjoy it people...

Veteran of the Psychic wars rocks btw (original version)

guess i should add i'm 40 BTW

 

[Taurusmoo]

I can enjoy every music genre and epoch, as long as the music is "for real" and played with heart and passion - imvho that rules out most of "modern" r'n'b and soul, hiphop, all kinds of growlvoice metal, nintiesstyle indie derivates and jeans-commercial garagebands, and modern all-chops-no-heart prog metal. (No need to flame, I'm just an old geezer).

That being said, I am mostly stuck in the progressive seventies and it's later incarnations. The underground progressive scene is alive and well, but if we're talking major acts post-2000 I really like Porcupine Tree and The Mars Volta. Oh, and the Rush oldboys of course ;-)

 

[Bruce Lindfield]

I'm an older guy and I was at a gig on Friday by Christine Tobin - who was playing material she had written recently and mostly from an album which is not to be released until 12 May 2008 - recent enough for you!!!

Here's a link to the album :

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[BassChuck]

What about bands from 2000 up? but what about what's around today? specifically the garage rock revival?

just looking for what you all think about it.

I'm 55. My kids are grown... and never listened to pop music around the house anyway. My father knew exactly what I was listening to.. I didn't have an iPod or headphones, so it was all community listening.

So, give me 10 really good examples of music that has been recorded in the last 8 years, not just your favorites, but good examples of what's going on.

 

[pklima]

The only recent bands I've gotten into in the past few years are country except for Curtis Eller's American Circus and that's so retro he sings about "hoping things pick up in 1890".

 

[heroincredible]

I'm 55. My kids are grown... and never listened to pop music around the house anyway. My father knew exactly what I was listening to.. I didn't have an iPod or headphones, so it was all community listening.

So, give me 10 really good examples of music that has been recorded in the last 8 years, not just your favorites, but good examples of what's going on.

Edit: made a list instead

Pelican - City of Echoes
Pelican - The Fire In Our Throats Will Beckon the Thaw
Red Sparowes - Every Red Heart Shines Toward the Red Sun
3 Inches of Blood - Advance and Vanquish
Dredg - El Cielo
Dredg - Catch Without Arms
Tool - Lateralus

 

[Barkless Dog]

I'm 48 and listen to anything that well done in some way.

Its all good.'


I try not to live with blinders on.

 

[*smb]

So, give me 10 really good examples of music that has been recorded in the last 8 years, not just your favorites, but good examples of what's going on.

How about:

Queens of the Stone Age - Songs for the Deaf (hard rock)
Death From Above 1979 - You're a Woman, I'm a Machine (punk)
Brant Bjork and the Bros - Saved by Magic (blues rock)
Isobel Campbell and Mark Lanegan - Ballad of the Broken Seas (acoustic, singer/songwriter)
Earth - The Bees Made Honey in the Lion's Skull (ambient)
Mastodon - Remission (heavy metal)
CSS - Cansei der ser Sexy (pop)
Gogol Bordello - Gypsy Punks: Underdog World Strike
Monster Magnet - 4 Way Diablo (hard rock)
Pelican - The Fire in our Thoats... (instrumental rock)

 

[lunarpollen]

Graham Day and the Gaolers
Billy Childish and the Musicians of the British Empire
the Masonics
the Armitage Shanks
the A-Lines (are they still together?)