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Post subject: Re: Are Your All-Time Favorites Still Releasing Good Music?
Posted: Fri February 01, 2019 5:45 pm
Future Drummer
Joined: Wed January 02, 2013 2:21 am Posts: 2870
Of bands still recording music.... Metallica - last two albums were very good if not great Iron Maiden - mediocre and becoming formulamatic, the loss of vocal range becomes more pronounced on every record Rival Sons - very good U2 - a shadow of what they once were but I still enjoy them. Better than almost any band 30+ years in. Radiohead - Great. I don't think they get the props they deserve for maintaining such a strong artistic vision through out their whole career. PJ - put a fork in 'em Ryan Adams - occasional good songs but hasn't had a good album in a long time. I forever hold out hope possibly because he hasn't lost a lot of his voice yet Bowie - Great until the end. His final run of seven album is possibly his best run of albums. Amazing Smashing Pumpkins - mediocre at best. Last record was a great improvement over Monument to an Elegy Noel Gallagher/Oasis - still putting out good stuff and worth it to still be able to hear Oasis songs live Porcupine Tree/Steven Wilson - a little less return on each album but still solid. Grace For Drowning is my favorite record of the 2010's Robert Plant - boring Judas Priest - please retire Opeth - a little less return on each album but still solid. Avenged Sevenfold - Great
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Post subject: Re: Are Your All-Time Favorites Still Releasing Good Music?
Posted: Fri February 01, 2019 5:51 pm
jeeeesus relax already
Joined: Tue January 01, 2013 5:10 pm Posts: 36256
I miss R.E.M. a lot. And i have been listening to SG, Audioslave and Chris´s music a lot...so in a few years its going to suck hard not to have anything new. Last QOTSA sucked hard but i adore the previous so its ok. Lanegan is always a pleasure....i do wish there was another Janes Addiction album....More Dangelo yeah..more beastie boys..
At the 2007 Roskilde festival, The National played on the final day. It has been a really hectic and fun week. I found a quiet and comfortable spot outside the tent, and sat there listening to them play. After 20+ concerts up front, it was just pure bliss.
Post subject: Re: Are Your All-Time Favorites Still Releasing Good Music?
Posted: Fri February 01, 2019 9:14 pm
Fake NYC Setlist Relayer
Joined: Thu January 03, 2013 7:55 pm Posts: 7646
Yeah that is a mixed bag:
Pearl Jam - good, sometimes very good but not great
MMJ - yes (I liked Jim James’ Uniform Distortion a lot)
The Who - no new music in a long time
Springsteen- I would say yes
Ben Harper (yes I still enjoy his music): yes (his last two albums - one with Charlie Musselwhite and the other with the Innocent Criminals were both good)
Rolling Stones - no
Soundgarden - sadly no
R.E.M. - retired
Neil Young - yes on account of the year he released Americana and Psychedelic Pill with Crazy Horse
Post subject: Re: Are Your All-Time Favorites Still Releasing Good Music?
Posted: Sat February 02, 2019 12:31 am
tl;dr
Joined: Tue January 01, 2013 6:06 pm Posts: 8566
Kevin Davis wrote:
A lot of my long-term favorites are either (a) dead or disbanded, or (b) in that workmanlike phase of their career where they release new music on their own schedule (sometimes regular, sometimes not), with inconsistent results ranging from "abysmal" to "surprisingly great" but usually settling somewhere in that late career wasteland of "respectable and not without highlights, but diminished." Some of these artists reward continued attention more than others, but over the past few years I've found myself increasingly content to simply disregard new releases by favorite artists if I don't expect them to be any better than decent, or if I feel like I'd be checking them out more or less out of obligation.
Brad Mehldau and Kanye West are probably the only two artists who I've been following for 15+ years who I'd say still consistently release things that excite me and stimulate my imagination as much as, or more than, they did when I first got into them. Elvis Costello might fall into this category too, but there's some recency bias; if he hadn't just released a spectacular new album last fall after a half-decade of inactivity, I'd have probably put him into category (b) as well.
theplatypus wrote:
My answer on my all-time favorite artist (Elvis Costello) is yes. Sure he recently took 5 years between albums, but he released 5 albums between 2008-2018 they're all really great. In that time, Pearl Jam released just two, and I don't even like them much
Yeah, thinking about it, Costello probably belongs in that last elite category too. He has greater and lesser records but he's never really had a protracted cold streak -- he's always been more or less on his game. I know he doesn't have a lot of other fans on RM, but I'd put Mark Knopfler into that category too. And Nick Cave.
To kind of rephrase my post, a lot of my "all-time favorites" have recent albums I enjoy. I was just drawing a line between artists who are really still operating at peak levels of creative engagement, and others who've fallen into varying levels of inconsistency (whether that's quality, frequency of output, or some combination of the two). But I guess that's not what LV asked for.
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