I've noticed a small sampling of aging rockers who seem to have some mellowing going on. Maybe it is true that we mellow with age? True, there's a handful of bands who seem to be defying this, but that's another playlist. Here's three pieces of evidence that prove that even the hardest of rockers mellows with age...
Admittedly these albums I have pulled these tracks from have nasty hard rockin' tunes on them so there's no suggestion that these guys have mellowed totally, they are who they are after all, I'm just saying there's seems to a slow mellowing in progress... Enjoy!
PLAYLIST -- http://www.podsnack.com/sgabbert/avzhschh
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I've got all 3 albums for different reasons.
For example, the Whitesnake-album was as far as I Remember one of the first "albums" I bought on ITunes on digital download. I never was much of a fan, and certainly not since they made that awfull "1984"-album, or whatever it's called. But Coverdale is an excellent singer, I'll give him that. This song is not bad, but by God it's ordinary.
It's been a while since I heard BOS. I liked it, when I heard it the first time, and bought it on ITunes as well as on CD. Stupid, and I've done that many times . I can't say, I still think this is a great album. I think it sounded like a travel back in time for me to 1984, and I liked that. It's a loooong album, and I doubt if I ever will listen to the full album ever again. I wouldn't put it on my top 10 list this year. I fear I won't have 10 albums to pick from, since I only have 1 or 2 right now. This song isn't bad, but it's draaaaggin along. I prefer a more classic Maiden-album, if I feel like listening to Dickinson-Maiden.
This on the other hand is an AWESOME song!! The best song on that Rush-album. I looove it. I remember almost getting tears in my eyes, when I heard it the first time, simply becuase I was overwhelmed by the fact, that Rush still could produce such great music. In a way, I hope this will be the last Rush-album, so they are one of those rare bands, that ends right at the top. What a fairy-tale that would be! Respect!!
CA is one of those albums that just gets better and better with each listen!
Why would you put BOS on your Top 10 list this year anyway? Maybe I just missed something...
I don't think any of these artists have "mellowed with age".
Whitesnake went the ballad route a long time ago and that basically turned me off of 'em since the ballads kinda sucked. This is a decent song (even though his voice is almost shot, something I really didn't notice before, at least I don't think so) and the album is ok, but I really like the one that came before it.
Maiden has done mellow songs before, but at least those were darn good. This doesn't do anything for me and this album really does nothing for me either. One of these days I might listen to it again, maybe with something like, oh, "Chinese Democracy" and Van Halen's "III".
Rush is Rush and you really can't say anything bad about any of their albums (well.......there were those few in a row that were just bland) but that song off of "Counterparts" immediately comes to mind when thinking about mellowness and it really wasn't overly mellow.
Well, at least it wasn't another live post?
Well, it was bound to happen again. I'm gonna agree with Jon on something. Coverdale's voice is shot. I also liked the preceding album better from Whitesnake. Musically, this was a really good album, I just thought DC sounded really bad. This song is okay, sounds like something Rod Stewart would do.
I think the Maiden song is really, really good. I just really like listening to it.
Even the Rush song is very nice. I haven't listened to this album since it came out. Maybe soon.
I wonder if everyone would think Steven Tyler had mellowed with age if they listened to his new one?
Norma Jean Fox
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