Re: Do you ever listen to any new music?

Date: Sun, 20 Jul 2003 23:05:14 +0000 (UTC)
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> > Are you Deep Purple people so lost in a time warp that you can't listen
to
> > new
> > bands? If you ever want to hear some great music check out Opeth.
>
I would love to here some new rock band that inspired and re-enthused my
interest in music, people suggest bands or artists I might like then when I
hear them I am always disappointed. Sometimes I hear a song, like it, buy
the album and realise its only that song I like. The last "new" rock band I
enthused about was possibly Kings X (hardly a new band now and anyway I
hardly ever listen to them these days).
I tend to listen to non rock music to hear something "new" - blues, jazz,
country, folk, classical. In most cases it's not new music but old music
new to me. I do seek out rock bands/artists I had never heard or ignored in
the seventies like Rory Gallagher, Gentle Giant and Renaissance.
The problem with current Rock music is that it just seems like a weak
version of the original 60's and 70's rock music. When I saw the Darkness on
Jools Holland and thought "wow a proper Rock and Roll band a wonderful
antidote to all of shoegazer bands" but within minutes I thought so what, it
was better done in the 70's.
Another problem is even the bands I still like from the seventies who are
still active disappoint me as they are all pale imitations of their
seventies peak - although some have had a few decent "comeback" albums in
the 80's/90's:
Purple - Perfect Strangers
Tull - Crest of a Knave
Yes - 90125
ELP - Black Moon
Floyd - A Momentary Lapse of Reason
The only time I get a buzz from many of these bands is hearing previously
unreleased stuff from the Seventies - at least, thanks to Simon, in the case
of Purple it is coming thick and fast. While I will buy Bananas I approach
it with trepidation, for me its Purple's last chance to show some spark of
creativity.
Yes and Tull are in the same boat as Purple as far as losing the creative
spark is concerned. Floyd and ELP are now gone (but in the case of ELP In
the Hot Seat showed they had lost it anyway).
Oddly a lot of the Hard Rock bands I really liked in 70's I do not listen to
at all any more (Priest, UFO, Lizzy) and some only sporadically (Zeppelin,
Rush, Sabbath).
It seems my taste in Rock music has narrowed sharply to a handful of artists
I like a lot but widened to include other genres.
Regards
Andrew