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".
Yeah about 7 levels of epic better...!
Your arse is sad and boring. I and a LOT of people I know still love listening to all the great songs of the past. How can you, in all seriousness, compare the absolute junk today to The 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.
He posts his own videos on youtube.
Weird Al is the man.
The new Monster Magnet album is pretty good, much more laid back and space-rocky than the last few.
Freegards
It’s not condescension so much as sadness, that’s an attitude that’s just depressing. Yes the majority of the new bands stink, but that’s been the case forever, just look at the charts from 1973, arguably the greatest year in the history of rock with Quadrophenia, House of the Holy and Dark Side of the Moon all released and yet Tony Orlando had the #1 song of the year. And we see something similar now, tons of crap at the top of the chars yet there’s still good new music being made. Just because 99% of everything in the top 10 is crap doesn’t mean everything new is crap, there’s lots of great stuff not hitting the top 10, especially last year which for my money seriously challenges 1973.
Motown, plus "Philly" (Stylistics, Delfonics, Dells, etc), and the enormous amount of great black music from earlier, such as Sam Cooke, Jackie Wilson, also the great doo wop groups. It's laughable to even attempt to compare today's absolute trash to all the great music from days gone by, in just about any genre.
Sorry, somehow I hit the wrong number, my post was meant for #26.
Freegards
The Decemberists are a bunch of Communists. I’d rather listen to fingernails on a blackboard.
Janelle Monae is doing some great stuff that hails to a lot of the motown sound. And if you like the Wall of Sound I highly recommend Monster Magnet, yeah they’re a dope-metal band but they’ve got an amazing fat sound, and a lot of great nerd references in their lyrics.
My favorite CDs released in 2013
Paul Burch — Fevers
Scott Miller — Big Big World
Howe Gelb — The Coincidentalist
New Country Rehab — Ghost of your Charms
Danny and the Champions — Stay True
Hem — Arrival and Departure
Brandy Clark — 12 songs
I don't know if the links are still good.
May 27, 2008
Communist band opens for Obama
'How many of 75,000 came to hear music?'
A hip rock band that features the Soviet national anthem and communist-inspired lyrics was on stage to open for Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama at his record-breaking Portland, Ore., rally that attracted 75,000.
The Decemberists, a Portland-based group with a large local following, also closed the May 18 event.
The Decemberists typically begin their concerts with a Russian-language recording of the USSR's national anthem.
A YouTube video shows the Decemberists beginning an April 31, 2007, concert at Messiah College in Grantham, Pa., with the anthem.
"Decemberists" refers to an uprising at Senate Square in St. Petersburg Dec. 14, 1825, when a group of Russian army officers led about 3,000 soldiers in protest as Nicholas I assumed the throne, after Czar Alexander died without an heir.
The Decemberists have posed for publicity photos in period Russian costumes with the red flag of the Bolshevik Revolution of 1917 waving behind them.
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/?pageId=65510
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The Soviet National Anthem / Гимн СССР
English translation (of the 1977 version)
Unbreakable Union of freeborn Republics,
Great Russia has welded forever to stand.
Created in struggle by will of the people,
United and mighty, our Soviet land!
Sing to the Motherland, home of the free,
Bulwark of peoples in brotherhood strong.
O Party of Lenin, the strength of the people,
To Communism's triumph lead us on!
Through tempests the sunrays of freedom have cheered us,
Along the new path where great Lenin did lead.
To a righteous cause he raised up the peoples,
Inspired them to labour and valourous deed.
Sing to the Motherland, home of the free,
Bulwark of peoples in brotherhood strong.
O Party of Lenin, the strength of the people,
To Communism's triumph lead us on!
In the victory of Communism's immortal ideal,
We see the future of our dear land.
And to her fluttering scarlet banner,
Selflessly true we always shall stand!
Sing to the Motherland, home of the free,
Bulwark of peoples in brotherhood strong.
O Party of Lenin, the strength of the people,
To Communism's triumph lead us on!
http://www.marxists.org/history/ussr/sounds/lyrics/anthem.htm
From the Decemberists' website:
See May 16, 2008, "Decemberists to play Obama rally in Portland"
http://www.decemberists.com/news.aspx
YouTube video of Decemberists concert:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CCCTe87IxfU
...then again, many of the classic rock artists are or were far left as well.
You might have noticed I listed only one (1) album.
Not an accident.
I like all of that music too, as well as the other music that you mentioned. I do like some recent music, if Diana Krall counts. :)
Because there’s great stuff coming out now. Some of it even by them. You put Tull in your list, are you aware that Anderson did a follow up to Thick as a Brick in 2012 that’s really really good (including performing both albums in their entirely on the tour) and he’s in the studio again expecting a late spring release? You list The Band, who to me were always hit or miss, they’ve got some amazing songs but when not being amazing were generally pretty bad, Robbie Roberton’s 2011 entry How to Become Clairvoyant (like all of his solo stuff) doesn’t suffer from the lows, it’s just the good stuff. Meanwhile right now I’m listening to the latest from Planet P Project, Steeltown a great story album about a small Scandinavian town in WWII which I’ll hold up to anybody on that list (most of whom I have their entire catalog).
New great music is being made, you just gotta go find it.
The Decemberists are so lame and pretentious. Even their name is wrong. The movement they named themselves after was the Decembrists.
Reference bump - Thanks! ;-)
Whole heartedly agree with you! It seems that every generation gets stuck in time while really great music passes them by. But we do need some guidance. The same happens with contemporary Christian music.
I put on radio Disney and found that there's some pretty good music these days. It has a techno beat. Not from radio Disney, but I love Pit Bull. He's a strong, commanding male. Not a sissy.
Put me down for Pit Bull. Timber.
And it was pre-Soviet. Yet the dopes play the Soviet national anthem before their shows, or at least used to.
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