Classic Rock (Phil Collins lives, run for the hills)

[Kompany Car]

Noticed that the Ford Kuga advert has the obscure track Four Horsemen by Aphrodites Child on it.

 

[Kompany Car]

Any fans of the Moody blues, core 7 albums ?
I play them regularly really nice music in my opinion and one of my favourite all-time bands.
Sadly gave up making albums years ago after the loss of Mike Pinder and Ray Thomas.

By no means my era of music, but yes I appreciate them and enjoy their music. I also like the Blue Jays album (Justin Hayward and John Lodge) with a bit of 10cc thrown.

 

[mikemcfc]

In later life, my fondness for Tull has grown and grown. I first saw them back in 1977 - day after Lynyrd Skynyrd - and had Aqualung and Bursting Out on vinyl but I think I've now got all their albums, including box set versions of six of them. Shame Ian's voice is shot.

Me as well. Have always listened a lot, but more of a go to lately. The last time I saw them was '07 and Ian was struggling mightily on the high notes then, but a very good show none the less.
Really was surprised when they played one of my dark horse songs, Dun Ringill.
Not classic rock, but enjoyable.

 

[Onholiday(somemightsay)]

How am I supposed to fit my obligatory Smiths / Morrissey related comment into this thread?

Surely it just stays in here if we are classing Bono as Classic Rock............

 

[Onholiday(somemightsay)]

Nothing produced after 1975.

Classic Rock: Inside the circle of appreciation:

Yes
Genesis (up to then there were three)
ELP
Jethro Tull
The Who (up to Quadraphenia)
Led Zeppelin
Free
Family
The Stones (exempt from 1975 rule)
Kate Bush (also exempt as she is truly wonderful)
Nirvana (ok I know)
Creedence Clearwater Revival
The Doors
The Beatles (sometimes)
The Small Faces
Cream
Peter Green Fleetwood Mac
probably the odd other band I have forgotten Oh, King Crimson defo.

Outside the circle of appreciation:
Black Sabbath
Deep Purple (other than a handful of tracks)
Marillion (retches)
U2
Bad Co.
Pink Floyd (the Coldplay of their time)
Any Guns n' Iron Maiden kind of crap.
Fleetwood Mac after Peter Green
Phil Collins
The Beatles (sometimes).
Any American crap like t Eagles

I have left out solo acts like Bowie and Lou.


I am, as ever, a man of 1000 prejudices.

Fair play for trying to map out some boundaries, but did you just compare Pink Floyd to Coldplay?

 

[Saddleworth2]

Fair play for trying to map out some boundaries, but did you just compare Pink Floyd to Coldplay?

yeah, i was in a 'controversial' kind of mood yesterday to see how many I could offend. As it turns out, not that many really :-).

I like Pink Floyd well enough. Still play a couple of their albums. Have seen them live and Oz PF a couple of times. I have a deeper love for other bands though.

 

[Onholiday(somemightsay)]

Stick inside the circle;
Deep Purple - Made in Japan
I’d definitely add Floyd although I think they are timeless and probably my favourites, nowhere near as bland as Coldplay, so take that back.

Pretty much agree with everything else.

Id probably add a ton of other lesser known stuff from 1970-1975 as part of this cache whether I was particularly into it or not.

Wishbone Ash
Frampton
Home
Argent. (Maybe)
Ellis. (Listen to El Doomo)
Steve Hillage (Maybe more new age hippie than classic)

This thread is basically all the stuff I was listening to from mid seventies into the 1980’s even through punk and new wave, until Talking Heads came along and broadened my horizons.

It started with an obsession with everything Yes related, that got me out of listening to whatever was on the pop charts i.e. Abba etc.
I also played Made in Japan to death. The odd thing now is most of these bands are not something I return to much now as it doesn’t have the same meaning to me as when I was 14/15/16 years old.

Whereas the likes of Rory Gallagher from the same era is something that I find every bit as exciting now. Live in particular he just gets the juices flowing. But I wouldn’t have him in the same category as most of these bands.

Surely any list isn't worth writing without the inclusion of Rory............. ;-)

 

[Bill Walker]

Thank you OB1
I’ll definitely be a regular contributor.
And for you Bill - did you know Yes have released the following track from new album”The Quest”. It sounds better than anything on the woeful Heaven and Earth.

Hi mate Yes I was aware but to me Yes aren't Yes anymore sadly.
Tribute band.

 

[bavarian blue]

Bands like Budgie, Nazareth and Heep were the lesser lights at the time, but came up with some fine albums and concert performances.

 

[stonerblue]

 

[stonerblue]

 

[mancity2012_eamo]

Fair play for trying to map out some boundaries, but did you just compare Pink Floyd to Coldplay?

He did.

 

[OB1]

Stick inside the circle;
Deep Purple - Made in Japan
I’d definitely add Floyd although I think they are timeless and probably my favourites, nowhere near as bland as Coldplay, so take that back.

Pretty much agree with everything else.

Id probably add a ton of other lesser known stuff from 1970-1975 as part of this cache whether I was particularly into it or not.

Wishbone Ash
Frampton
Home
Argent. (Maybe)
Ellis. (Listen to El Doomo)
Steve Hillage (Maybe more new age hippie than classic)

This thread is basically all the stuff I was listening to from mid seventies into the 1980’s even through punk and new wave, until Talking Heads came along and broadened my horizons.

It started with an obsession with everything Yes related, that got me out of listening to whatever was on the pop charts i.e. Abba etc.
I also played Made in Japan to death. The odd thing now is most of these bands are not something I return to much now as it doesn’t have the same meaning to me as when I was 14/15/16 years old.

Whereas the likes of Rory Gallagher from the same era is something that I find every bit as exciting now. Live in particular he just gets the juices flowing. But I wouldn’t have him in the same category as most of these bands.

Hillage counts - I bought Moitvation Radio recently.

 

[MCFCTrick]

And the clubs we frequented to hear it in:

The Phoenix (where I met Mrs Trick in 1987)
Jilly's (original on Gore St ... only went in a few times before it closed)
UMIST Student Union
Henry's
The Banshee
Jilly's Rockworld

More?

 

[blueparrot]

I see people keep talking about classic rock as an era, and I guess ‘classic’ does lead to that thinking. For me though classic means more
a type of rock not a specific era and quite a wide ranging type of rock too, so everything from fusion stuff like Santana, early Chicago, through prog, Yes, Genesis, , blues rock, Purple Zeppelin, , metal, Sabbath, Priest, hard rock, Uriah Heep, hair Metal, Poison Motley Crue, Glam, Sweet T Rex, AOR, Journey, Boston,West coast rock, Eagles Fleetwood Mac, some singer songwriter stuff like early Rod Stewart, Elton John, Springsteen Billy Joel etc. Art rock Bowie, Roxy Music,,
There are some newer bands playing in all those styles, would still be ‘classic rock’, as well as some of those Legacy bands that despite line up changes are still producing great albums . In some cases their best since the 70/80s.
Here’s just some of what I’ve discovered from searching out during lockdowns.

Older bands with very good recent ( last 10 years) releases.

AC/DC,Alice Cooper, ,Allman Brothers, BOC, Cheap Trick,Deep Purple,Europe, Fates Warning, FM, Judas Priest, Kansas, Little Steven,
Magnum,Night ranger, Opeth, The Outlaws, Saxon, Styx, Thunder,Tygers of Pan Tang, Uriah Heep, Wishbone Ash, ZZTop.

Newer bands ( or new to me) playing ‘classic’ rock making great albums

Arena, BIg Big Train,Black Stone Cherry, Blackberry Smoke, Blues Pills, Cadillac Three, Circus Maximus, Dead Daisies, Cats in Space, Dream Theater, Dukes of the Orient, The Flower Kings,Flyin Colours, Frost, Ghost, Muse, Nothing but Thieves, Porcupine Tree, Presto Ballet, Riverside, Sons of Apollo, Spocks Beard, Ten, Threshold, Transatlantic, Wobbler.

There really is loads of very good new stuff out there to discover.

 

[OB1]

RUSH are one of the best bands to ever walk the planet but this guy is so underrated.

Seen some great gigs from Ted. He's a nutter but he can play and rock hard.

 

[OB1]

Me as well. Have always listened a lot, but more of a go to lately. The last time I saw them was '07 and Ian was struggling mightily on the high notes then, but a very good show none the less.
Really was surprised when they played one of my dark horse songs, Dun Ringill.
Not classic rock, but enjoyable.

A song that I really like.

 

[OB1]

Hi mate Yes I was aware but to me Yes aren't Yes anymore sadly.
Tribute band.

True of quite a few bands but some still produce decent enough music and gigs.

 

[mancity2012_eamo]

I’ll just leave this here.

 

[blueparrot]

True of quite a few bands but some still produce decent enough music and gigs.

My thing with this is, some of these bands, like Uriah Heep have always gone through line up changes, but the original line up isn't coming back, usually because they can't and evn if they could most singers can't perform. Take the new Kansas album different line up but the most 'Kansas album for years and one of their best. LIke Uriah Heep if you want to hear this old stuff performed well probably better than the original line up sounded live in some cases thengo and see them , and listen to their new stuff.
Been wondering if somebody played you a new album by one these bands and said they are old undiscovered music, would people then saythat's great sounds as good as ever ?