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In Reply to: Songs that improve with age. posted by Bruce Kendall on March 9, 2007 at 13:37:05:
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...
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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.
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