What's on your iPod?

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    Am I the only person here who listens to contemporary music? How ironic, since I'm also the oldest (almost surely, at age 70).

    I love rockabilly, doo-wop, surf music, soul music, the British Invasion, acid rock, heavy metal, Southern rock, progressive rock, hip-hop, new wave, and the other genres of the 50s-60s-70s-80s as much as anybody who actually lived during those eras.

    But I'm also quite enchanted by the music that's on the radio (and music television) today!
     
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    I usually post contemporary music videos.
     
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    I'm as old as you Fraggle and to me most of the new rock I hear doesn't stand up to the classics. Now there are a few good rock bands but they are far and wide. Give me an example of a good rock band of today that comes close to Led Zepplin, Pink Floyd or Jimi Hendrix. I cannot find any group that gives off the same vibs as those do so I do not listen to much of todays boy/girl bands that inundate the music scene both touring and radio.

    Today we have Bieber and Syrus, The Black Eyed Peas and Pink being heard on contemporary radio stations plus other same sounding bands trying to catch the coat tails of them. Sorry but I can't stand any of them but the music companies just keep pushing those "styles" down my throat. I just can't take listening to that kind of junk and refuse to do so.

    While there are many teens that are very content listening to them I can't understand why except they are so dumbed down they enjoy anything the music industry throws out to them. What happened to good old rock and roll? Why was it suppressed and almost extinguished? Name one great rock and roll band of today that has recently arrived on the scene that is a true rock band of great talent. U2 was the last great rock band I enjoy listening to and it came out over 20 years ago!

    So although there are a very few rock bands that really play rock I'll just enjoy the Cream of the crop and listen to the oldies but goldies from the 50's, 60's and 70's to while away the hours.


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    [video=youtube;KrbPlr4Wskc]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KrbPlr4Wskc[/video]
     
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    [video=youtube;TvtZuhv0Mzs]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TvtZuhv0Mzs[/video]
     
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    Pink Floyd are to release their first new album in 20 years.

    The legendary band will unveil "The Endless River" in October, their first new record since 1994's "The Division Bell." The album is based on a series of tracks originally recorded in 1994 and previously intended for release under the title "The Big Spliff." Following the death of Pink Floyd keyboardist Richard Wright in 2008, David Gilmour and Nick Mason headed back into the studio to expand on the existing tracks and add some vocals to the songs.

    However, fans hoping the news paves the way for a long-awaited reunion tour from the band are set for disappointment - a spokesman tells British newspaper The Sun on Sunday that the rockers will not be hitting the road to promote the album.
     
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    Audioslave, Tool, Foo Fighters, Muse, Nine Inch Nails, Seether, Creed, Alice in Chains (even with the new guy).

    A lot of these bands don't have the depth that the earlier bands did, so they end up making only one great album, but that one album is really great!

    Bands are nice, but so are singers. Lucie Silvas gives me goosebumps. Scott Stapp (when he's sober) is a dynamite solo act. Jann Arden, Rob Thomas, Natasha Bedingfield, John Mayer, Lissie, Chris Daughtry, Kate Voegele: I've seen most of them live (not Arden because for some bizarre reason she has no audience here, even though she sells out hockey stadiums at home and Sarah McLachlan is happy to sing backup for her).

    Oh and don't forget the new wave of Latin American music. I was the only Gabacho at the Jesse & Joy concert and they blew me away.

    How sad to live in the past. I know most of those songs by heart and have played many of them in my own bands, so I get bored with "classic rock" rather quickly.

    Last live show I saw was World Party. If you're into nostalgia, you should check out his first CD, "Goodbye Jumbo." The songs are barely 15 years old, but they sound like 1967, especially with his Bob-Dylan-meets-Mick Jagger voice. "Put the Message in the Box" brought the house down.

    28, to be exact. I hope you've seen Zappa plays Zappa! Renaissance just came through town a couple of months ago. It's actually just Annie Haslam with an entire new band, but they're as good as the originals--which I saw about eight times 30-35 years ago.

    I also hope you got to see "The Doors of the 21st Century." They couldn't call themselves "The Doors" because Dinsmore refused to be part of it, so unfortunately they were playing clubs instead of arenas. But with Ian Astbury in front... well I guess you wouldn't actually mistake him for Morrison, but you could see Morrison's face up in a dark corner, saying, "Yeah, he's got it!" He always said it was Morrison who inspired him to become a rock singer.

    Don't be like my parents, desperately hanging onto Lawrence Welk. Ya gotta grow or die!
     
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    Well I'm just going to stick to the 50's, 60's, 70's music and you know as well as I do that there were many different styles of music during those days. We had rockabilly, blues, jazz, hard rock, acid rock, folk, ballads , classical and many others. So I'm not tuned into any one style of music but enjoy a plethora of music. So unlike your parents days I enjoyed many more fine artists rather than only hearing one or two all of the time.

    By the way I did listen to Lawrence Welk, Liberace, Andy Williams and Perry Como, Frank Sinatra, Tony Bennett and Mel Torme from time to time and did enjoy their music for they were very good at what they did.
     
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    I loved that! I downloaded it.

    Thanks, Fraggle!
     
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    Adam Lambert: "Whataya want from me" (2009).

    [video=youtube_share;X1Fqn9du7xo]http://youtu.be/X1Fqn9du7xo[/video]
     
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