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During this morning's commute I was playing with the Sirius radio again, this time exploring the bottom end of the channels. I stumbled on one that focuses on the 60's, and heard To Sir With Love by Lulu for the first time in decades. I never cared for that song much, but hearing it today was a bit of an eye opener (or ear opener, if you will). She did a great job on that song!Awhile later they played some Petula Clark, and it was quickly apparent that the two of them were in different classes.
Who else got better with age? Not too many IMO. I never cared much for Bob Seeger back in the day, either. But his old stuff seems to have become a lot better.
What songs became better in your book?
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That must be one hell of an embalming job...
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her picture was on the spine of the album.
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and then when I got older, found out that is what the song is about!!!!!!!!!!!
Just saw Pete & Roger last night in DC...The version of "Eminence Front" they played was tighter & more cutting that anytime I'd heard it done before..also- the "My Generation" that had "Cry if you Want" in the jammed -out ending was great..Zak Starkey is the perfect timekeeper for this Who, Pete was just smoking all night!
And I'd rather see them than the Stones. Starkey is an excellent drummer, but as I've said before the drum and bass mix was a bit diluted IMHO. I was listening to the Who on the way home, and realized how much I miss John Entwistle's contribution.
a member of the lucky sperm club?
In a recent interview with a drum magazine he said that his dad and Keith Moon were close, and Zak and "uncle Keith" hung out a lot.
His solo at the end of "Won't Get Fooled Again" was every bit as good as Keith Moon's. Yet it was different.He has the chops, far more than what his dad Ringo ever had. I like him better than Danny Carey, and has a stylistic repertoire that I think is lacking in a lot of recent drummers of note.
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I don't know- but I think he's got more drumming skill than dad!
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I can't think of a major rock group from the 60s and 70s that doesn't.
I wouldn't include the Beach Boys in that group, of course, merely because they weren't a major rock group. Once they got away from the teenage surf and car stuff, their popularity tanked...
All were extremely hot for awhile, only to fade into oblivion.
I take exception to Frampton. He is doing some pretty damned good work, and now that he is out of the "Peter, Peter, Peter" phase, I like him. He can do almost extraordinary things with a guitar. I forgot to put emphasis on "almost".
Boston, Journey, Styx, Kansas to name a few. I'd throw KISS in there, but I don't consider them a major rock group.
that goes for poseurs like "KISS" doubly.
I get the impression that Kiss is more-popular today than ten years ago.... There is some sort of charm to them. Maybe it's the painted faces. The appearance of originating from a comic strip. I don't know. I think this band has benefited the most from the "post-1990s decline."Journey was a band that was killed by digitization. Don't ask me why, but I like the music on vinyl, it never sounded right on CD. Very sterile. ELP was another band like that.
Styx I think did too much stuff that made serious rockers say "Give me a break!".... "Kilroy Was Here" was one album that although I liked it personally, it killed (no pun) Styx' reputation as a "serious" rock band. Maybe forever. The band tried to be too cute at times.
Kansas was a band I think if anything, was ruined by modern political correctness. It had a bluegrass element. It had somewhat of a "redneck" image. It was a band that I thought could really bring it. I think it has gotten the worst rap of them all. (Although watching live footage, I now realize the band was best in the studio. It never came off particularly well in concert. Toto had this problem as well.)
Then there is Yes, which I always thought would have been relegated to this class, but for some reason hasn't. I thought this band was all effects and cliches, but nothing really humanly deep. (I hear people talk about the bassline in the song "Roundabout", yet to me it sounds as if its sole purpose was to merely show off the bassist.) I think the intro to "Roundabout", which every college guitarist seemed to be able to play, was maybe the one element that made the difference. "Kilroy" in reverse.
It's a song that never did anything for me, until recently. And I don't think Clapton's "Unplugged" performance had anything to do with it.The other song that comes to mind is Queen's "We Will Rock You", a song I initially couldn't stand. I now think I might get the album, "News of the World"..... I still think that guitar backing up the end of the final refrain of the coupled tune "We Are the Champions" was the single-greatest guitar line, ever.
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as I read that. You're right, it is great.
This may seem ridiculous, but I feel that way about many of the Beatles' songs. Too many to bother listing. After having heard so many Beatles' songs/LPs so often as a "kid" in the 60's, and as a teen into the 70's I took a break from the Beatles through the 80's and well into the 90's. Their songs had just become far too easy to take for granted. With the exception af "Abbey Road" I took a LONG break.Listening to them now they have aged remakably well, and actually have improved with age to my (hopefully non-nostalgic) ears, and they were certainly good to start with! Having just recently bought The Beatles "LOVE" CD and listening to that fantastic recording/reworking, this most recent appreciation of them became even more apparent.
The Impressions' "People Get Ready" and a few other of their early tunes have aged mighty well too.
"I always play jazz records backwards, they sound better that way"
-Thomas Edison
Just about any of CM's discs I have played recently still sound fresh and seem to have emerged without any bad tendencies.
America Today is still rivetting.
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"I always play jazz records backwards, they sound better that way"
-Thomas Edison
and I am with you on Love. That CD is a blast to listen to.
...that get better with age.Chuck Berry, Little Richard, some of Elvis, Roy Orbison, and many of the girl group songs, like from the Ronettes, Crystals, Shirelles, Martha Reeves and the Supremes.
Which brings us to MoTown - Smokey Robinson, Temptations, Marvin Gaye, Four Tops, Aretha, Junior Walker, etc.
Which reminds me of Stax/Volt - Otis Redding and Booker T, IIRC.
Which brings us to all the old blues singers from Robert Johnson forward...to Eric Clapton's covers.
And all the quality stuff in between that's too lengthy to list.
Forget Lulu and Petula...and I never cared for Seeger, either.
You don't have to convince me when it comes to Roy, Smokey, Booker T or Clapton's covers.As for the Lulu song......find a copy and give it a listen. I was quite surprised even over satellite radio and on my car's stock sound system. Of course my perception, taste and understanding of music has changed dramatically since that song was first released.
Seger holds up well, on the other hand, Ted Nugent, Nightranger, Ozzy Osbourne come to mind as ones that don't
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