Decent new rock acts
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I was just reading about the history of Guns n Roses on the Wikipedia and I stumbled on Velvet Revolver, the band formed by ex GNR guitarist Slash.. pretty good stuff
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that's gonna be tough. the 'classic rock' style is pretty far out of the mainstream these days. Audioslave Velvet Revolver (as mentioned above) White Stripes Wolfmother were popular for about 10 minutes a few months ago. they sound like Ozzy beating The White Stripes with the corpse of Deep Purple . i also like Marah, who sound like mid-period Stones + the Replacements. and, Soundtrack Of Our Lives, does it pretty well. though they're not exactly Rockin!, a little bit smooth. -- modified at 22:38 Monday 20th November, 2006
Bleh. Those bands represent as good as mainstream rock gets, but actual rock is really making a comeback. I'm buying new CDs every month, and most of them are awesome. Both 'classic rock' and metal are totally thriving, outside the view of the mainstream ( which is where they always do best, anyhow ).
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Bleh. Those bands represent as good as mainstream rock gets, but actual rock is really making a comeback. I'm buying new CDs every month, and most of them are awesome. Both 'classic rock' and metal are totally thriving, outside the view of the mainstream ( which is where they always do best, anyhow ).
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Christian Graus wrote:
Both 'classic rock' and metal are totally thriving, outside the view of the mainstream
i seem to remember saying something like that, somewhere, quite recently. :)
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Well, I'm a middle aged rocker who grew up with acts in the 1970s/80s. My record collection is getting a little stale and I'm looking to update it. Who would you all recommend? My tastes are from the classic rockers like Purple and Led Zep, through acts like Kiss/Cooper, to AC/DC and Van Halen. Who are the wunderkinds who can compete with these pantheons of greatness?
Arthur Dent - "That would explain it. All my life I've had this strange feeling that there's something big and sinister going on in the world." Slartibartfast - "No. That's perfectly normal paranoia. Everybody in the universe gets that." Deja View - the feeling that you've seen this post before.
Wolfmother seem to be trying to be Led Zeppelin.
Stability. What an interesting concept. -- Chris Maunder
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Well, I'm a middle aged rocker who grew up with acts in the 1970s/80s. My record collection is getting a little stale and I'm looking to update it. Who would you all recommend? My tastes are from the classic rockers like Purple and Led Zep, through acts like Kiss/Cooper, to AC/DC and Van Halen. Who are the wunderkinds who can compete with these pantheons of greatness?
Arthur Dent - "That would explain it. All my life I've had this strange feeling that there's something big and sinister going on in the world." Slartibartfast - "No. That's perfectly normal paranoia. Everybody in the universe gets that." Deja View - the feeling that you've seen this post before.
Try the first album from The Killers. Pearl Jam (try some of the cheap live albums in the brown covers), Audioslave, Soundgarden, Swervedriver, Dinosaur Jnr, The darkness, Placebo and Tool
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Well, I'm a middle aged rocker who grew up with acts in the 1970s/80s. My record collection is getting a little stale and I'm looking to update it. Who would you all recommend? My tastes are from the classic rockers like Purple and Led Zep, through acts like Kiss/Cooper, to AC/DC and Van Halen. Who are the wunderkinds who can compete with these pantheons of greatness?
Arthur Dent - "That would explain it. All my life I've had this strange feeling that there's something big and sinister going on in the world." Slartibartfast - "No. That's perfectly normal paranoia. Everybody in the universe gets that." Deja View - the feeling that you've seen this post before.
If you like Black Sabbath, you TOTALLY need to get in to Viking Skull. They have a CD and an EP, the next CD is in the works.
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Wolfmother seem to be trying to be Led Zeppelin.
Stability. What an interesting concept. -- Chris Maunder
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that's gonna be tough. the 'classic rock' style is pretty far out of the mainstream these days. Audioslave Velvet Revolver (as mentioned above) White Stripes Wolfmother were popular for about 10 minutes a few months ago. they sound like Ozzy beating The White Stripes with the corpse of Deep Purple . i also like Marah, who sound like mid-period Stones + the Replacements. and, Soundtrack Of Our Lives, does it pretty well. though they're not exactly Rockin!, a little bit smooth. -- modified at 22:38 Monday 20th November, 2006
Chris Losinger wrote:
they sound like Ozzy beating The White Stripes with the corpse of Deep Purple .
Most people think they just sound like Led Zep. I only heard the odd track, I found it boring. But then, Led Zep is to me not quite as exciting as many would suggest.
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*grin* I read Blabbermouth, and buy Classic Rock magazine, otherwise I'd have no idea what was going on, either. Pretty much all the bands I've been recommending, I heard first on Classic Rock cover CDs and bought from there.
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Chris Losinger wrote:
they sound like Ozzy beating The White Stripes with the corpse of Deep Purple .
Most people think they just sound like Led Zep. I only heard the odd track, I found it boring. But then, Led Zep is to me not quite as exciting as many would suggest.
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Most people think they just sound like Led Zep.
they sound like an amalgam of all 70's hard rock, it's like a tribute/parody - even down to prog-rock lyrics about magic and dreams. i can't tell if they're serious - i hope not. but, the singer's voice spends a lot of time doing Ozzy and Jack White, and they've got that Deep Purple ™ organ cranking away in the background.
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Christian Graus wrote:
Most people think they just sound like Led Zep.
they sound like an amalgam of all 70's hard rock, it's like a tribute/parody - even down to prog-rock lyrics about magic and dreams. i can't tell if they're serious - i hope not. but, the singer's voice spends a lot of time doing Ozzy and Jack White, and they've got that Deep Purple ™ organ cranking away in the background.
Chris Losinger wrote:
i can't tell if they're serious - i hope not.
Yeah, they are.
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The Answer Roadstar The Answer Buckcherry The Answer Crystal Pistol The Answer Also - check out The Answer. I forgot a couple - Green Dollar Colour and, The Answer.
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Christian Graus wrote:
I forgot a couple - Green Dollar Colour and, The Answer.
Uh, is that your final Answer? ;P
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Well, I'm a middle aged rocker who grew up with acts in the 1970s/80s. My record collection is getting a little stale and I'm looking to update it. Who would you all recommend? My tastes are from the classic rockers like Purple and Led Zep, through acts like Kiss/Cooper, to AC/DC and Van Halen. Who are the wunderkinds who can compete with these pantheons of greatness?
Arthur Dent - "That would explain it. All my life I've had this strange feeling that there's something big and sinister going on in the world." Slartibartfast - "No. That's perfectly normal paranoia. Everybody in the universe gets that." Deja View - the feeling that you've seen this post before.
If you don't have Metallica's stuff in your collection, you owe it to yourself to get their CDs.
Jeremy Falcon A multithreaded, OpenGL-enabled application.[^]
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If you don't have Metallica's stuff in your collection, you owe it to yourself to get their CDs.
Jeremy Falcon A multithreaded, OpenGL-enabled application.[^]
Well, up to, and perhaps including, the Black album. For the love of all that's holy, don't buy St. Anger. If we're going to segue into metal, then the modern bands to check out are Hammerfall, Edguy, Primar Fear, Trivium ( The Crusade sounds more like Metallica than anything Metallica did post the 80s ), Dream Evil, and so on. Masterplan is on a metal label, but it's more another most excellent modern rock band, albeit nothing like the bands I mentioned, too polished. Russell Allens Atomic Soul, on the other hand, is an excellent slice of seventies style rock.
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Well, I'm a middle aged rocker who grew up with acts in the 1970s/80s. My record collection is getting a little stale and I'm looking to update it. Who would you all recommend? My tastes are from the classic rockers like Purple and Led Zep, through acts like Kiss/Cooper, to AC/DC and Van Halen. Who are the wunderkinds who can compete with these pantheons of greatness?
Arthur Dent - "That would explain it. All my life I've had this strange feeling that there's something big and sinister going on in the world." Slartibartfast - "No. That's perfectly normal paranoia. Everybody in the universe gets that." Deja View - the feeling that you've seen this post before.
The latest 2 albums of Samael[^] is pretty good metal if you ask me. I can't stop listening to Eternal[^]. They've progressed and transformed from the first album. Every album has a different sound than the one before. You might not like the first albums, as they are quite trashy.
-- Smell-o-vision users, insert nostril tubes now
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Well, I'm a middle aged rocker who grew up with acts in the 1970s/80s. My record collection is getting a little stale and I'm looking to update it. Who would you all recommend? My tastes are from the classic rockers like Purple and Led Zep, through acts like Kiss/Cooper, to AC/DC and Van Halen. Who are the wunderkinds who can compete with these pantheons of greatness?
Arthur Dent - "That would explain it. All my life I've had this strange feeling that there's something big and sinister going on in the world." Slartibartfast - "No. That's perfectly normal paranoia. Everybody in the universe gets that." Deja View - the feeling that you've seen this post before.
Geez judging by the responses there is a clear misunderstanding of what classic rock is all about. You might like "The Black Keys". But I gurantee you that you'll find stuff you like but have never heard of by using those bands as your starting point at the Music Genome Project[^]
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Christian Graus wrote:
Most people think they just sound like Led Zep.
they sound like an amalgam of all 70's hard rock, it's like a tribute/parody - even down to prog-rock lyrics about magic and dreams. i can't tell if they're serious - i hope not. but, the singer's voice spends a lot of time doing Ozzy and Jack White, and they've got that Deep Purple ™ organ cranking away in the background.
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You really don't know your rock geneology very well do you. Your post is wrong on so many levels I'm just going to pretend I never read it after a small period of time feeling sorry for you. (about a femtosecond) ;)
Because Jack White is not 70s ?
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The latest 2 albums of Samael[^] is pretty good metal if you ask me. I can't stop listening to Eternal[^]. They've progressed and transformed from the first album. Every album has a different sound than the one before. You might not like the first albums, as they are quite trashy.
-- Smell-o-vision users, insert nostril tubes now
Is there a link to Tobias from Edguy there ?
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