What band never fails to make you listen?

John Cooper said:
If I have to listen to rap I prefer old rap.

Sugar hill gang
Grand Master Flash
And the like.
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I will admit to not only listening to, but owning two cd's of Childish Gambino (Donald Glover). Hate his politics and stance on some issues, but cannot help but love his music (well, at least two of his three albums). Talent is talent, no matter how you slice it.
 
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Blackberry smoke is top for me
Zac brown - his older music though, the past couple years he’s gone pop
George straight
Bob segar
Journey
Eric church
Robert jon and the wreck - one of my newer discoveries, but they’re really good, along with whiskey myres
Don Henley
 
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I'm not sure there's a band or artist that NEVER fails. Even my very favorite ones have a few that I don't like.

Zeppelin, Floyd, Rush, Seger, Eagles, and Queen all have a ton of great stuff. Lynyrd Skynyrd "Call Me the Breeze" might be my all time number 1 hardest to resist cranking the radio up. Allman Bros Ramblin Man and Segers Against the Wind are up there too. I was born in 83 so majority of it was well before my time. My wife calls me an "old soul".

In the 80s, Metallica and Megadeth. I went through a hair band phase but don't really listen to more than one or two songs from any of those bands and I lost interest in Motley Crue and Guns n Roses mostly because of their personalities. I don't listen to him much at all but I have to admit Michael Jackson put out a lot of good music.

I started discovering music on my own in the 90s. Really like the Black Crows, maybe because their sound is basically indistinguishable from something that could have released 15 years earlier. 🤣 I like the big hits from the grunge movement but if I listen to the album stuff that wasn't singles I lose interest. My #1 Pandora station is the one that follows searching for Possum Kingdom by the Toadies. I basically stopped keeping up with new music around 2004 or so, though I listen to some newer stuff like Coheed and Cambria and Trivium.
 
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JustDandee said:
classic Rap- Run Dmc- yo jay...

honstely I think some of you are holding back and would pit ABBA/Michael Jackson on your list😁
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Never was a Michael Jackson fan.
I have listened to ABBA.

The Mommas and the Pappas
The Greatful Dead
Crosby, Stills and Nash ...... with out Neil Young :sick:
Yard Birds
Eric Clapton
Jimmie Hendrix
Stevie Ray Vaughn
Fleetwood Mac
Tom Petty
 
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freedom_in_4low said:
I'm not sure there's a band or artist that NEVER fails. Even my very favorite ones have a few that I don't like.

Zeppelin, Floyd, Rush, Seger, Eagles, and Queen all have a ton of great stuff. Lynyrd Skynyrd "Call Me the Breeze" might be my all time number 1 hardest to resist cranking the radio up. Allman Bros Ramblin Man and Segers Against the Wind are up there too. I was born in 83 so majority of it was well before my time. My wife calls me an "old soul".

In the 80s, Metallica and Megadeth. I went through a hair band phase but don't really listen to more than one or two songs from any of those bands and I lost interest in Motley Crue and Guns n Roses mostly because of their personalities. I don't listen to him much at all but I have to admit Michael Jackson put out a lot of good music.

I started discovering music on my own in the 90s. Really like the Black Crows, maybe because their sound is basically indistinguishable from something that could have released 15 years earlier. 🤣 I like the big hits from the grunge movement but if I listen to the album stuff that wasn't singles I lose interest. My #1 Pandora station is the one that follows searching for Possum Kingdom by the Toadies. I basically stopped keeping up with new music around 2004 or so, though I listen to some newer stuff like Coheed and Cambria and Trivium.
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i will say i listen to country more often now, brother Osborne, Stapleton, Dierks Bently, come to mind as they have some of that classic rock vibe-Eagles, skynard, Black crows, Alabama southern rock sound i enjoy
 
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And I’m going to add that the Eagles are probably not my favorite band- I think I may have one album- they just hit the sweet spot a lot of times-

And probably not listening to them too much helps- But so many times a song will come on and I just stop everything- I think their music had a human element that a lot of us can relate to.

All that being said I am a huge fan of so much music from the late 60s to the mid 80s-

And I’m going to add that we probably all kind of hang on to music that we really listen to a lot from our early teens to our 20s for most of our life- Just like some of our mothers still have that Elvis album and many many others.

I’m going to detour a little bit talk about musicians and musicianship-

Probably the most technical guitar player I ever saw was Steve Vai, when he played with WhiteSnake.

Getting to see Neal Schon of Journey play was great - He is a fast, smooth player.

I have always heard Rush was amazing for a three man ensemble live.

I got to see Hall and Oates at their peak and man they were good.

We have had so much talent in our country and still do- I really can’t even scratch the surface.

Really glad that I got to see the nitty-gritty dirt band it was a last minute concert at the park kind of thing and man it was a perfect star lit night sitting on the grass fishing in the dark...

My tastes are pretty eclectic- But if it’s good -
it’s good.
 
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