Anybody who says good music is no longer being produced: I invite you to listen to Nathaniel Rateliff, Clutch, The Lumineers, The Dear Hunter ... I could keep going.
I saw Nathaniel Rateliff and his band at Red Rocks in August and the place was packed, such a great show.
I was kind of disappointed in the first Nathaniel Rateliff album. There's a few songs that are fantastic and have a lot of energy, but then a lot of the other stuff fell flat... that's just me though. Still, to have that kind of sound in a "modern" band is great, and I'll be listening to their future stuff hoping for the more energetic songs.
I would also put Highly Suspect and Royal Blood up there with great modern groups. Both had very strong 1st albums.
Between Led Zeppelin, Pink Floyd, and the Rolling Stones alone, there are already way more than 50 songs in the 70s that are easily better than whatever you want to put against them.
The Wall alone has 26 tracks.Maybe 5 from the stones, 5 from zep, and 15 from Floyd. Gives you 25 to allocate to the rest, which sounds about right to me.
I think the slower, lower energy stuff is great too. He puts a lot into his singing and it really makes the whole group shine. Lot of passion and his live show just reinforced that for me.
I'll have to check out those other two groups you mentioned.
That's exactly how I feel about the harpsichord. Our local early music society hosts some great concerts but they have a thing for harpsichord that makes my skin crawl.I say that Devil's contraption called the Harpsichord lobbed a real carbuncle into what decent men call tasteful music!
I remember when I didn't know you were a horrible personand most of it sucks.
You might like Foxy Shazam.He does have a good voice, I just love the higher energy stuff so much that I wish there was more. I see now they actually have a 2nd album (or EP maybe?) that has some more tracks I like.
I've been listening to The Struts too, but they're a little different. The lead singer is like the reincarnation of Freddy Mercury, and they definitely have a classic rock and Queen like sound. Very fun music.
This. The 80s had the Eurythmics, 10,000 Maniacs, Talking Heads, the first two Bangles releases, Midnight Oil, Nylons, U2, the Clash, and then some real crap.While my main teen years were in the 80s I have to say there was way more BAD 80s music than good.