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#102
Killing Floor said:
Rock on! I hate hearing grumps complaining about GVF. They are great players and they’re bringing back some really great rock’n’roll. Plus I guarantee any older guys, Jimmy Page hasn’t made any kid pick up a guitar and JPJ hasn’t inspired a 12 year old to pick up a bass in 30+ years. They should be grateful for younger players keeping it relevant.

Besides, as much as I personally love Zep, they ain’t exactly original.
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When was that recording made? .....Who is it?
I'm not familiar with that one.
Pretty sure this version is a cover of the Led Zeppelin version.

Here is the original recording from 1929 by Kansas Joe Mc Coy and Memphis Minnie



 
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#103
58kites said:
When was that recording made? .....Who is it?
I'm not familiar with that one.
Pretty sure this version is a cover of the Led Zeppelin version.

Here is the original recording from 1929 by Kansas Joe Mc Coy and Memphis Minnie



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Lol yeah meant to post the KJM but hit the wrong one. Big thumb. Anyway, I love Zep but they did a lot of remakes. That’s all.
I mean…
 
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#104
I'm early 40's and I'm still discovering music from nearly every decade, so I can't say one is my favorite.

I really love discovering new, current music because I love knowing this music I'm enjoying is out there being played live, and that there'll (hopefully) be more coming.

I love discovering old music because then I can dive into the catalog and see what else I've been missing.

I just got caught up in some great Thin Lizzy recently and it is/was awesome. Same with All Them Witches, PJ Harvey, Kurt Elling, etc...

Everything is so accessible these days it's fantastic.
 
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#105
Cool topic! IMO; there’s so much to appreciate from every era. I’m just a fan of music. One of my favorite things is being able to watch live videos of bands killing it in the 70’s 80’s etc.
 
#106
Killing Floor said:
I love Zep but they did a lot of remakes. That’s all.
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True for sure.

Whole Lotta Love was stolen/adapted from the Muddy Waters recording You Need Love which was written by Willie Dixon.
Dazed and Confused had been written and recorded by Jake Holmes in 1967, the Yardbirds used to cover it when Page was in the Yardbirds and he ended up recording it with his new Yardbirds (Led Zeppelin) and not printing the credit to Jake Holmes.
When the Levee Breaks at least got the correct title on the record so someone could find out where it came from eventually.
Babe I'm Gonna Leave You was a cover of a Joan Baez recording and the song was written by Anne Bredon.
You Shook Me was credited to Willie Dixon when Zeppelin covered it.
I Can't Quit You Baby was credited to Wille Dixon when Zeppelin covered it.
Robert Plant sung various parts (a line or two or three) of classic blues lyrics in their recordings and they had a habit of not printing exactly where they came from, which caught up with them on several occasions.
Regardless of those sloppy housekeeping habits, they were still one of the very best rock bands to ever cut a record.
 
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#107
HelpImaRock said:
I've listened to at least one new record a week for the past 25 years.
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My kids heard lots of music in our house growing up and they still like a lot of the records/CD's/bands my wife and I had playing all the time, plus MTV was on often as well.
The flip side of that is that they brought me new music from the time they started collecting (mid teens) so they've exposed me to so much new music without me having to hunt and dig for it.
 
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#108
58kites said:
My kids heard lots of music in our house growing up and they still like a lot of the records/CD's/bands my wife and I had playing all the time, plus MTV was on often as well.
The flip side of that is that they brought me new music from the time they started collecting (mid teens) so they've exposed me to so much new music without me having to hunt and dig for it.
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The days of hunting for new music are long gone. The apps have taken over and it's pretty great.
 
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#112
HelpImaRock said:
I save about $1000 a year subscribing to Apple Music over buying physical media. I don't listen to playlists or "radio". Only new albums and "new to me" albums, plus whatever else I like.
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Amazon Music is costing me nothing, my daughter subscribes and she somehow added me so I have it for free.
Because I'm and old fart, the idea of owning physical media still appeals to me, I still like owning CD's and like having music on my MacBook Pro hard drive (lots of it).
My cell phone has all the same music that is on my laptop so I can listen to the music I own in my truck or on earbuds or bluetoothed to my home stereo system.
 
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#113
58kites said:
Amazon Music is costing me nothing, my daughter subscribes and she somehow added me so I have it for free.
Because I'm and old fart, the idea of owning physical media still appeals to me, I still like owning CD's and like having music on my MacBook Pro hard drive (lots of it).
My cell phone has all the same music that is on my laptop so I can listen to the music I own in my truck or on earbuds or bluetoothed to my home stereo system.
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I feel guilty streaming but I do it. Amazon Music Unlimited $8 per month above my regular annual Amazon tithe.
The musicians get screwed . I get access to 400,000 albums I'd never be able to listen to.
The Race To Zero is evil. But it sounds good.
 
#114
40Hz said:
I’ve noticed most people seem to prefer the music they were listening to when they were roughly between the ages of 12 and 25.

My favorite “era” was from 1964 till roughly 1979. I think the thing about that period was the huge variety of styles and the relative complexity of the music. compared to today’s simplified melodies, four chords, and genre siloing.
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I saw a study at one time about this phenomenon - it's very real and tied to brain development as we mature.

For me - it's the 90's and early 2000's rock/grunge/alt/metal. My high school years were the hair metal stuff - and I loved it at the time, but it's all aged so horribly badly for me. I remember standing in my dorm room in 1991 watching the video for Smells Like Teen Spirit and thinking that everything had just changed. And it did, practically overnight. From that point on, some really great music hit the mainstream, and I was there for it. That continued on for me until the 'end' of the nu-metal thing (groan if you'd like, but there is some really great songwriting and lyricism in that stuff - and bounce riffs are just FUN, ok?). After that, the music industry just became so incredibly homogenized and formulaic.
 
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#115
There was something magic about the immediate post and pre war babies..Eric Clapton, Stevie Winwood, Hendrix...just about every classic rocker was born in that period of 1940 to 1949.
Their parents were Swing era big band kids.
They reached their teens when Rock n Roll was young and new and exciting, and electric instruments and amps were in their infancy.
What do today's young people have to get excited about like the Mods and Rockers of 1962 England?
Bikes and scooters and rock n roll. Oh yeahhhh!
 
#117
I have as tough of a time nailing down a decade as I do picking a genre. My favorites growing up were KISS/Black Sabbath/Styx and while those are still in my personal playlists they are alongside Blackberry Smoke/Robert Earl Keen/John Prine. Throw in some Tom Petty, Iron Maiden and ABBA and you never know what will come up next in my playlist set to shuffle.
 
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#118
The '70s, especially soul/R&B/funk.

James Brown, Stevie Wonder, Earth, Wind & Fire, Parliament/Funkadelic (and Bootsy's Rubber Band, the Brides of Funkenstein and Parlet), Sly and the Family Stone, Cameo, the Isley Brothers, the Brothers Johnson, the Commodores, Kool & the Gang, the Ohio Players, the Meters, Pleasure, the Bar-Kays, Billy Preston, Herbie Hancock, Rufus featuring Chaka Khan, Rose Royce, Isacc Hayes, Barry White, Curtis Mayfield, the Stylistics, the Chi-Lites, the Dramatics, the Spinners, Gladys Knight and the Pips...
 
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#120
pcake said:
i've loved music from every decade since i was 14ish
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I've loved music from way before I was born up through at least the last turn of the century, but I'll be honest, I'd have a hard time naming any music that I genuinely "love" from 2010-2020.

Admittedly some of that is due to the fact that I just don't actively expose myself to a lot of current music any more. I no longer spend a lot of time in my car listening to the radio, I no longer have the time nor inclination to continually expand my CD collection, my entire preferred music listening paradigm is antithetical to the streaming services that seem to have replaced physical media collecting, and frankly the older I get the more I want to dedicate whatever free time I have to more physically active endeavors than passively listening to music.

Plus, the pop music of past two+ decades have caused me to completely lose interest in that genre. :)
 
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