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

[Saddleworth2]

It's a pleasure to recommend The Lonesome Jubilee to anybody. Enjoy.

I like the Bruce albums you mention, but despite my love of all things acoustic, my favourite albums of his are Darkness on the Edge of Town and Born In The USA.

With you on the first, not so much the second. I liked his first couple of albums very much. His latter stuff is excellent too. Have listened to just about everything he has ever done and still prefer the more introspective work.
I see he is back to doing his Broadway shows this year.

 

[OB1]

Forgot Drive by Truckers, some excellent albums, Dream Theater are new to me, but been catching up with them and some great albums. Only heard bits of Kid Rock and like what I’ve heard, but some of his political comments put him in the Nugent Trump camp, which is off putting, but can only judge them on their music really. Although I like Spocks Beard, and Neil Morse in Flying Colours and Transatlantic but get put off listening to his solo stuff because of its very Christian slant. Which is a bit odd as I’m happy to listen to lyrics about wizards and elves ,or aliens and beings from other worlds hello Ronnie James Dio, but not Jesus and god. It always,steered me away from Stryper too who were also otherwise a decent band, still are apparemtly. Hard to explain.

I know what you mean about Morse. I quite like Spock's Beard but only have a bit of their stuff. Last year I bought a triple cd of covers by Morse / Portnoy / George, which I thought was really good so I decided to try a couple of Morse's solo albums and didn't focus on the lyrics although you can't completely ignore them. Not played them much but there's som good music on there: he is undoubtedly talented as well as prolific.

Never listened to Transatlantic; do have one Flying Colours album - thought it was OK but no more.

Not got everything by Dream Theater and lost interest when Portnoy left but will no doubt buy again at some point. Enjoyed them live when I saw them.

 

[blueparrot]

I know what you mean about Morse. I quite like Spock's Beard but only have a bit of their stuff. Last year I bought a triple cd of covers by Morse / Portnoy / George, which I thought was really good so I decided to try a couple of Morse's solo albums and didn't focus on the lyrics although you can't completely ignore them. Not played them much but there's som good music on there: he is undoubtedly talented as well as prolific.

Never listened to Transatlantic; do have one Flying Colours album - thought it was OK but no more.

Not got everything by Dream Theater and lost interest when Portnoy left but will no doubt buy again at some point. Enjoyed them live when I saw them..

Patchy after Portnoy left, the Astonishing is awful,Dramatic turn of events, just okay but the self titled Dream Theater and Distance over time are both good albums.
Of all the Portnoy and Morse collaborations think the Transatlantic albums are the best, I’d try Kaleidoscope or Bridge across forever if you are giving them a try.

 

[Mancitydoogle]

It's a pleasure to recommend The Lonesome Jubilee to anybody. Enjoy.

I like the Bruce albums you mention, but despite my love of all things acoustic, my favourite albums of his are Darkness on the Edge of Town and Born In The USA.

I like all Springsteens albums but for the first four are the best, I’d recommend
John Mellecamps Scarecrow and Big Daddy albums after Lonesome Jubilee,
ive seen him live quite a few times, the last time was at the Apollo.
imho the best singer songwriter now is Jason Isbell

 

[Mancitydoogle]

I really like Bruce. I actually like his Americana stuff better than some of his louder stuff. Far prefer The Ghost of Tom Joab and Nebraska to Born in the USA. I haven’t listened to much of John Mellencamp but will certainly try the album you mention. Thanks for the recommendation.

I saw Springsteen perform Ghost of Tom Joad at the Apollo, brilliant show,
if you’ve not already listened to Jason Isbell you’ll like him

 

[mikemcfc]

Neil Young, Cream

 

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[GoatersLeftShin]

Hillage counts - I bought Moitvation Radio recently.

"Hello Dawn" reminds me of the day my son was born.

I was in the hospital and I'd woke up in a chair and my heavily pregnant wife was asleep. I looked outside at this glorious dawn and realised that day my life would change forever. For some reason the lyrics from that song came to mind and wverytine I hear it, it takes me back to that room in the hospital!

I love Rainbow Done Musick by Steve Hillage. It's not what I'd call classic rock but shows how much musicians of that era could experiment and adapt. Didn't Hillage end up making dance music with System 7 in the 90s?

Great musician and reading the album name brought back great memories!

 

[OB1]

Not your fault mate, you gave yourself an impossible task.

You do have Joe Walsh but no Eagles though :)

I know but it was a quick A-Z of some of my favourite CR acts not a pure top 50 favourites :-)

The Eagles are much loved in my household. We should have been seeing them live at Wembley Stadium at the end of this month but they have cancelled. Hoping they will do an arena tour here next year instead.

 

[OB1]

I’ve seen Drive by Truckers several times, Kid Rock has been in the crowd for several of the shows (he lives up the road). You might like Tedeschi Trucks too, similar vein of music

I have a Tedeschi Trucks album :-)