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The National
Ocean Colour Scene
I appreciate that’s a strange mix, I just love these bands.
Rush
U2
Those are the mainstays in my musical world. I always keep an eye out for them in the press, see them as live as much as I can (or could with Rush). I have loads of other bands I go through phases with, like I have really got back into Metallica since they have been doing 'Metallica Mondays' over lockdown, but their last album and the release of it passed me by. Steven Wilson/Porcupine Tree are the same, I seemed to gloss over the last PT album but have loved everything SW has released since.
Grunge predated Britpop by a few years, and I found it so disheartening to see people who until around 94/95 were spinning Superunknown in their In Utero t-shirts and just getting into discovering bands like Sonic Youth and Pixies and Primus and Nine Inch Nails, all of a sudden sack it all off and start spaffing themselves to the Gallaghers' turgid, derivative wank - and then of course techno, because the same people were soon to be found waving glowsticks in a tent off their tits on E. A lot of my friends became overnight party arseholes in the 90s.
Pearl Jam are amazing, and what I've found over the years is that whenever you find someone who really doesn't like them, their objection is always that Vedder & Co. seem to be too earnest. Like it's a bad thing to take what you do seriously.
Actually, that reminds me -
Neil Young
I don't love everything he's ever done, and there are even a few albums I don't really like, but he's been consistently inconsistent for fifty years and I always find it's worth listening to whatever he's done this time.
"Take these three items, some WD-40, a vise grip, and a roll of duct tape. Any man worth his salt can fix almost any problem with this stuff alone." - Walt Kowalski
"Only two things are infinite - the universe, and human stupidity. And I'm not sure about the universe." - Albert Einstein
AC/DC. Patchy in later years but even then I live in hope of another SUL (which was an awesome late career high point IMO).
Chuck Prophet. Songwriting legend, live entertainer par excellence. Some patchy periods but always a gem or two per album and he rips on guitar.
Mark Lanegan. Prefer it when he’s rocking out and the last few albums have been a bit disappointing, I’d gladly have no more Duke whatsisname but the voice...
Close, but not quite so perennial (not as much airplay these days) -
The Replacements
Husker Du
The Clash
Sex Pistols
Dinosaur Jr
New Order
Iggy & The Stooges
The first band that sprang to mind would've been Rush, but they are sadly no more. Probably the only band I followed for 40 years who were as good at the end as they were in the beginning, and anywhere in between. And hardly ever a duff album.
A couple of others who I still think of as "new" bands - Clutch, Winger (there's a contrast).
Bob Mould - I have hardly any of the Husker Du albums, but I have all his solo material and the Sugar albums. I don't listen to them very often, though.
There are a few others who are still going and I buy their new albums, although they're not a patch on the classic material - Wishbone Ash, Robin Trower, Scorpions, Kansas, AC/DC. I'll include Iron Maiden in this list, although in fact they are still not far off their best.
Then there are some who I followed for a long, long time but reached a point where I just couldn't stand their new stuff - Aerosmith, Metallica, Megadeth. I'd reluctantly have to include King's X here as well - I loved and still love their early albums so, so much but somehow the magic just dwindled away.
I like a lot of new bands as well but most have only released a handful of albums so to my mind they don't really count, yet.
The only other band that could compare is Boards Of Canada, but I didn't get into them until 1998, some fourteen years after I discovered the Cocteaus.
I said maybe.....
Brilliant band and I've never felt more of a warmth between a band and their fans as I have at their gigs.
It Bites
Steely Dan
Francis Dunnery
and in more recent times Steven Wilson.
REM
Steely Dan
Couldnt be more different really but discovered both in my very early teens and both informed a different side to my musical tastes, a muso side and a more indie side.
The cleverest, most relevant band Britain has ever produced.
Great live too.
Here & Now:
Best live band I've ever seen and the catalyst for many unrepeatable (in both senses), amazing experiences.
Hawkwind:
So many wonderful gigs. So many terrible ones too, but the recent 50th Anniversary do at the new Albert Hall in Manchester was one of those unforgettable nights......
Schubert
Tchaikovsky
Steve Vai
Duran Duran
New Model Army
The Damned
Bach
The Cult
and Rainbow
Think I’ll always love them
Supportact said: [my style is] probably more an accumulation of limitations and bad habits than a 'style'.
The blaze albums are patchy but...
Trouble
Still love early Metallica but dont bother with anything in the last 30 years