Sometimes us Classic Rock fans get stuck in a time warp, we wrap up our musical lives in the past. But many of heroes are still recording and releasing high quality rock and roll. Are we still listening? One of my favorite things about CRB is the New Music we present each week. You don't have to like it, but isn't it great that somewhere on the inter-webs someone is still championing new music from Classic Rock artists? So that's why this list was put together. I simply wanted to remind you that there's still some great music being written and recorded.
Here are 4 songs from fairly recent albums and Classic Rock artists that maybe you missed out on...
This playlist is sort of a Two-fer, I'll give you two progressive artists and two from the Heavy Rock genre. What do you think, do they still got it? Enjoy!
PLAYLIST --> http://www.podsnack.com/CA69EFD9E8C/a1jax0as
Why all the songs on this playlist ended up being from 2010 is a mystery to me, it was nto planned, but turned out to be a happy accident IMO...
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I believe I strongly recommended the Mastedon album a couple years ago? Who knows. It is a fantastic album, don't know if it's really in a "have they lost it" category since it's different from Kansas.
Spock's Beard is fine, but compared to the other bands/artists, they haven't been around as long.
The Krokus song is ok, still doesn't beat "Headhunter". Nothing they do will. At least this is better than a lot of the stuff they put out post-"Headhunter".
Yeah, Accept has still "got it". Shouldn't have worked out with the new singer, but it has. Imagine that.
Emotional Rescue isn't bad, it does bring back a lot of memories to me, especially with the title cut. But compared to a lot of their other albums, it's a bit lacking even though it's still enjoyable.
J.E. & MASTEDON - I like Kansas, but only once in a while. I don't own a Kansas-album, but have heard a couple of albums incl. a double best off at Spotify. This one is okay in a kind of 80's kind of way. It's pretty clear to me, that you love this kind of american pop-rock, Scott. It's just an okay listening experince for me, nothing special. Yeah, well, he's still got it, I suppose.
SPOCKS BEARD - Yeah, it was this album in a NMC 5 years ago, that made me aware of this band. I loved it at first listen, and went out to buy it and a Porcupine Tree-album, because these "new" Prog-bands now had my full attention. Later in the same year, I think. I bought Neal Morse's "Testimony 2", which I probably wouldn't had known excisted if not for knowing this album, so all in all that NMC was probably the most important for me ever. This is still a good album, better than the one coming after, but only slightly. The singer on this album sounds to me, like he's not REALLY a singer, but a musician filling out the space. I look forward to the new album, but after listening to the new song recently, I'm not convisted it will be that great. I CERTAINLY hope, they still got it.
KROKUS - Ah, Krokus!! I "found" Krokus in 1981, when I was looking for new bands/albums, and thought that "Harware" was pretty decent. "One Wice At The Time" was the very first "new" album, I bought in 1982, and it wasn't as good as "Harware", and I simply lost interest. I did buy "Headhunter", but it bored the hell out of me, and never bought another Krokus-album. I know you guys looooove "Headhunter", but I don't. Krokus is a b-version of Bon Scott-fronted AC/DC, and this track doesn't convince me otherwise. They NEVER had it!!
ACCEPT - Another band, I "found" in 1981 (I say found, because my mates at the time, started to buy albums by those bands, after I played those albums), and "Breaker" is still a good album. "Restless & Wild" still has got the two best Accept-tracks (the title-track and "Princess of the dawn"), and they made a couple of good albums the following years (which remind me: It's been a while, since I heard "Metal Heart"-the album. AOTW?). The last album by them, that I bought was "Russian Roulette" from 1986, and I didn't like that one, and moved on musically, as did Udo. This band always had an excellent "guitar-sound", and still kind of has, but even though I didn't really like the sound of Udo's voice (I was a fan because of the guitar-sound), there's no Accept without Udo imo. I've moved on musically but they obviously haven't. I don't care about this ......music....nowadays. No, they don't have it.
No chance for Metal Heart as AOTW...I don't own it.
Let's see:
Elephant - This is immediately nice. It's got a great melody and the vocals are quite good too. It has a simple, yet effective and cool solo. I dig the melodicness (pretty sure that's not a word) of this track and the best thing is that it's not cheesy. Some modern melodic rock tends to be cheesy. I can't say I'm familiar with this guy, but I have heard of him. I wanna say you featured him somewhere else, maybe in NMC, and I liked what I heard there as well.
Mr. Spock - I was expecting prog, but through the first two choruses there hasn't been any (despite that fact, it's been very enjoyable to this point). Now it changes up a bit and turns proggy. The guitar solo is schizophrenic but nice. I'd say the vocals are good, but I am partial to Ted Leonard's vocals in the current lineup. I think it's the keyboards here, but this band just reminds me of Styx, and that's a good thing. Add the keyboards and Leonard's vocals and they really remind me of Styx. I have already pre-ordered the new album and I'm looking forward to it. I'm interested to see if it can give Neal Morse's current album a run for my number one prog album of the year.
Kroakass - Never been a fan of this band. The AC/DC vibe is very apparent. He said "back street rhythm". I thought it was "back seat rhythm" at first. Anyway, it's a decent enough song, but I can live without it.
Decline - I can take or leave Accept. Matter of fact, I have this album. They remind me again of AC/DC, but I think they sound heavier. This song has a terrific guitar solo. My favorite thing about it is that it is old school metal, they aren't consumed with the distraction of double bass drumming.
If I were to rank these, I'd go with:
1. Spock's Beard
2. Elefante
3. Accept
4. Krokus
If I were compiling my own list, I might choose:
1. One Way Street (Rick Springfield)
2. Save Me Now (Billy Idol)
3. So Long China (Winger)
4. As Is (Van Halen)
Norma Jean Fox
(11/30/1945-9/7/2010)
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