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Badfinger - Baby Blue

Sam Phillips - Push Any Button (2013)

A set of engaging, quirky, introspective, retro-ish pop songs from a singer-songwriter I've posted about several times previously.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-zkDahX ... tNuCm_sSEv

Redocbew wrote:

I assumed that was the "devil's key" from the news blurb at the beginning of the video. Either way, it's a spooky bad thing sought after by spooky bad people so they can step up their game at being spooky and bad, I guess.

yay for evil people! i'd gladly accept that key!

Young the Giant - Simplify

Poets Of The Fall - Carnival Of Rust

New Omnium Gatherum single dropped this morning - Gods Go First

Just realized while watching the video and confirmed through wikipedia that the lead guitarist for Omnium Gatherum is the same lead that featured on Insomnium's Winter's Gate album/tour.

I've posted about Porcupine Tree's Fear of a Blank Planet album before. But if you missed it last time around, I'm gonna reiterate how you've gotta go and listen to the track Anesthetize at least once. An epic prog rock suite in the grand tradition, with everything that implies (clocking in at nearly 18 minutes long). Alex Lifeson of Rush even puts in a guest appearance, with a guitar solo that starts at around the 4 minute mark. Quite possibly the best thing Porcupine Tree ever released.

JBI I tried, but failed. Where is it written that modern prog rock MUST come with Metallica-style crunchy guitars (IOW, does 21st Century prog really mean prog-metal)? Lifeson's solo was the sole bit of actual guitar sound in the entire piece.

The comments were hilarious in praising the drummer. A pre-arthritis Phil Collins could have banged out those rhythms in his sleep.

Ariane Grande - No Tears Left to Cry, because terrorists suck.

Testament
Judas Priest
Meshuggah
Technical Death Metal
Classical
Some Jazz
Any music that requires actual talent and dedication to play.

Do not listen to POP, RAP, and Country - Garbage Music.

Wake up children.

I heard something on one of the SiriusXM comedy channels recently.

Lady GaGa is proof that David Bowie once porked Carol Burnett.

Captain Ned wrote:

JBI I tried, but failed. Where is it written that modern prog rock MUST come with Metallica-style crunchy guitars (IOW, does 21st Century prog really mean prog-metal)?

Not a written rule, but definitely seems to be a trend; prog metal is probably the most popular prog offshoot these days, and there don't seem to be a lot of bands still making "retro" prog.

In an odd sort of reversal, Opeth (who were a prog death metal band in their earlier years) have pretty much gone full-on retro for their past 3 albums. Though some of it is more retro-hard-rock (think Deep Purple) than prog.

Captain Ned wrote:

Lifeson's solo was the sole bit of actual guitar sound in the entire piece.

The comments were hilarious in praising the drummer. A pre-arthritis Phil Collins could have banged out those rhythms in his sleep.

Spoken like a true '70s prog rock die-hard!

Kacey Musgraves - High Horse

Supergrass - Alright

just brew it! wrote:

Captain Ned wrote:

JBI I tried, but failed. Where is it written that modern prog rock MUST come with Metallica-style crunchy guitars (IOW, does 21st Century prog really mean prog-metal)?

Not a written rule, but definitely seems to be a trend; prog metal is probably the most popular prog offshoot these days, and there don't seem to be a lot of bands still making "retro" prog.

In an odd sort of reversal, Opeth (who were a prog death metal band in their earlier years) have pretty much gone full-on retro for their past 3 albums. Though some of it is more retro-hard-rock (think Deep Purple) than prog.

Captain Ned wrote:

Lifeson's solo was the sole bit of actual guitar sound in the entire piece.

The comments were hilarious in praising the drummer. A pre-arthritis Phil Collins could have banged out those rhythms in his sleep.

Spoken like a true '70s prog rock die-hard!

Anesthetize is a great song; but I never truly began to love it until I saw it on bluray. My personal favorite from PT will probably always be Arriving Somewhere but Not Here. For Captain Ned's sake I would recommend this one above Anesthetize as it is probably the truest example of 70's Prog that PT has ever written. As for other bands that follow a more traditional 70s prog song, I know I have come across several in the past but I personally lean to the more grungy sounds and don't recall most of them I came across. I want to say Baroness has a few classic prog songs; but I never listened to them much and couldn't give you any tracks to look up. They also change their sound intentionally with every album so it could take some combing to find what you are looking for.

I would also argue that 21st century prog rock doesn't mean prog metal, rather 21st century rock is most commonly metal. A big proponent of this is how main stream genres has recently shifted. Country has moved from country western sound to more southern rock/rock. That has left most of the remaining rock bands to either shift to a heavier sound and fall into one of the thousands of metal sub genres but loose radio time, or to soften their sound and become pop/alt-rock/indie. There aren't a lot of bands that are "pure" rock anymore and very popular in mainstream. Shinedown and Chevelle come to mind. Most bands that advertise as rock are one foot in rock and one foot in a different genre. It is just the inevitable result of musical evolution. I also partially blame American radio for neutering American metal bands. Most metal in the US ends of loosing its edge because radio and producers think a softer sound is more radio friendly and sells better. This has caused a lot American metal bands to loose their edge and become more of a mainstream rock sound while still carrying themselves as metal. 5FDP, A7F, Seether, Disturbed, Godsmack, Pop Evil, Hollywood Undead are all bands that have been corn-holed by American Radio standards. That isn't to say those bands don't/couldn't write good music, just that the songs you hear from them on the radio fall far from their true potential and lack the unique sounds that made them popular in the first place. I created my own metal sub-genre name just to use for bands such as these that I affectionately call "Hello-Kitty Metal." Most radio stations that play "Good" modern rock, tend to also lump the good rock in with Hello-Kitty Metal which causes people who like rock but don't want to listen to Hello Kitty Metal to listen to Pop-Rock stations instead, such as Theory of a Deadman. Thankfully, Radio is almost dead, and the pandora/spotify generation of the music industry is more aptly built to allow bands to be themselves and help lead listeners to a band, rather than the radio era which forced bands into a genre and slapped them with a stick when they tried to play outside of the predefined norms.

-Rant over

Courtesy of SiriusXM #26 this afternoon.

Three Dog Night - Shambala

Loggins & Messina - Angry Eyes.

Both well within what I would call '70s prog.

Jimmy Fallon Troll Doll Jingles, on XM98.

Here's a small sample of what's in my playlist lately:

Devouring Radiant Light - Skeletonwitch
Vile Luxury - Imperial Triumphant
Liquid Anatomy - Alkaloid
Our Raw Heart - Yob
Carnage - LIK
Winter Lights - Skyborn Reveries
Ámr - Ihsahn

Marshall Tucker Band - Dream Lover

Pointer Sisters - Cloudburst

Shoot, the fuzz are knockin' on my door again for being too funky.
Wait...they just wanna join the party. Alright alright alright!

Bill Frisell - Good Dog, Happy Man (1999)

One of many idiosyncratic releases from guitarist Bill Frisell's decades-long career. Laid-back instrumental Jazz/Country Fusion is probably about as close as you're gonna get to pinning anything resembling a genre label on this.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZnoA4Hi ... 3KWSqYKj5o

Mudcrutch - The Wrong Thing to Do on XM31

Kim Petras - Heart to Break

Great White - Rock Me

https://youtu.be/nSjbxfHzKg4


The Marcus King Band - Rita Is Gone

Quite the production standards as well for a live performance.

Van Halen - You Really Got Me

Is that the song that was on that Nissan commercial with Ken driving to pick up Barbie? (YT is blocked at work or else I'd check). That is in my top 3 memorable commercials of all time. I can still picture it from probably 18 years ago or more.

Usacomp2k3 wrote:

Is that the song that was on that 1995 Nissan commercial with G.I. Joe driving to pick up Barbie?

It is.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uh73lv_gZGI

The 1978 Van Halen version of You Really Got Me was a cover of The Kinks' 1964 original.



P.S.:
If we're going to go back to the 60's anyway, how about Whole Lotta Love off of Led Zeppelin II from 1969? Here's a 1987 cover by Patty Smyth, too.