Your Favorite Bands?
Pink Floyd
The Doors
Supertramp
Led Zeppelin
The Who
Steely Dan
The Beatles
The Rolling Stones
Chicago
Black Sabbath
America
Curved Air
Electric Light Orchestra
Dang, a lot of my favorite music comes from people not bands, but this will make more thought go in to this:
The Kinks
The Band
The Mother Hips
Ween
The Fiery Furnaces
Grateful Dead
Faces
Talking Heads
Blackalicious
Deerhoof
Minutemen
Fairport Convention
The Books
Novos Baianos
The Jackson 5
3 Mustaphas 3
Jurassic 5
The Drones
The Flying Burrito Brothers
Paristetris
Not necessarily in that order.
I included single artists in my list as well. They usually have set a back-up band anyway.
I'd say The Kinks are one of the most important rock bands ever.
The Kinks were always on my radar though a bit before my time, but it wasn't until after my "phases" of musical taste had passed and I finally accepted every genre had great and mediocre music that I fell in love with them. And you have no idea how hard it was for me to not include some of my GoATs: Zappa, Mingus, Stevie Wonder, Sufjan, MJ and of course Bowie. Music is a big source of joy for me, but Blackstar is still devastating if I pay too much attention to it.
shareAs a diehard Bowie fan I did not like Blackstar. I respect it as his final statement. But he sounds old and ill. Yes, it's devastating and it made me incredibly sad.
I believe Bowie's last great album was Scary Monsters in 1980. After that he began pandering to American Top 40, beginning with Let's Dance in 1983.
Same here on both points. Not to draw any literal parallels, but I admire Blackstar as a work of art kind of like I view Come and See or Snowtown as exceptional genre films that I have to be in a specific mood for and do not necessarily "enjoy" though they all affect me in a profound way. Well, that may be a little extreme a comparison, but I'll leave it and trust my point will get across... :)
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