ITT: "They're still making music??"-core
>>64559682
http://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/2285-playing-the-angel/
Mandatory reading for bands like these.
>>64559746
not anymore lol
>>64559742
>>64559682
At least Elton John was a respectable artist once upon a time. Duran Duran have no cred, no respect, nothing. They were nobody when they were somebody.
>>64559929
Can think of a more perfect album for this thread.
>>64559976
idk Rio and Hungry Like the Wolf are GOAT pop rock songs
I think Elton John's music is still pretty good. I appreciate soft rock though, unlike many friendly /mu/ hipsters.
>>64559976
>Duran Duran have no cred, no respect
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lP1KntHF90E
TLC are releasing an album this year kek
I can't associate them with anything other than that 90's sound
https://youtu.be/WFyY0ONAXK8
>>64560110
Duran Duran sucks balls for the most part.
>>64560097
As much as I love pink floyd this should never have seen the light of day
>>64560179
I disagree. Richard Wright's final recordings are worth it.
>>64560211
It has some good melodies, and the last few songs are nice. It's pretty much just That Lucky Old Sun but with the Beach Boys and no spoken word interludes.
>>64560161
This isn't even their most recent album lol
Though Dystopia was a lot better than this piece of shit
>>64560211
It's actually good, but still fits the category
>>64559742
I liked this actually, had some p decent tracks on it. Definitely not as good as their 80s & 90s stuff though
I'm glad the Rolling Stones quit releasing new albums after ABB instead of embarrass themselves further.
>>64560366
Can't judge That's Why God Made the Radio by its cover. Brian's on production, so it sounds pretty good.
>>64560406
>>64560316
>>64560073
>>64559929
A lot of these albums are just advertisements for a tour where they just play Greatest Hits setlists and the stuff is just paint-by-numbers renditions of their classic songs.
>>64559826
Yay
>>64560221
They're literally just his last recordings, just because they're his "final" works doesn't make them any better.
>>64560517
aesthetically pleasing
drawn lady even
Although I have to admit I liked it a lot more than I was expecting to.
>>64560553
>>64560517
Get out.
>>64560591
Not him but I thought it was worth a spin. Interesting look at how they made their music and it had it's moments.
>>64559804
Say what you like about super, butElectric was definitely a return to form for them though.
>>64559976
>Not liking Rio one of the best pop albums of the '80s
>>64560655
It wasn't awful by any stretch, it just seemed like a waste of my interest
>>64560406
I can't decide what's worse: throwaway but listenable pop meant for the Ashlee Simpsons and Heidi Montags of the world, sung by someone who you'd think would merit the best music in Max Martin's vaults (MDNA), or experimental music whose experiments went horribly, horribly wrong (Rebel Heart).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vkYyqxHdwNg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vkYyqxHdwNg
>>64560580
>Not posting the newer one with the Jon Anderson wannabe
>>64560621
Nah, Tempest is shit too.
>>64560406
She needs to just face the facts that she is irrelevant and will never be popular like how she was back then. Hell even Lady Gaga the second version of Madana is becoming irrelevant now
>>64560857
>>64560615
>>64560517
>>64560211
These are all good though.
>>64560800
wew
>>64560800
Whoever designed that cover art apparently thinks this is 1988.
Yup, should have quit after God Hates Us All.
Both of them.
>>64560103
>liking anything with guitar involved
>>64561214
>Time
Time to stop
>beach cover
>his signature
>guitar in hand
fuck it's like a horrid stereotype
>>64561175
Chicago will be releasing albums forever.
>>64560857
youre kidding right? rush can do what they want senpai
>>64561214
Actually not his most recent.
>>64559682
This album cover looks like it was made in a cheap program
>>64560711
>>64560655
>>64560097
i actually feel its a nice closer to their discog, its like the come down to a nice acid trip
>>64560097
Pink Floyd don't exist anymore
>>64560762
This album is absolute shit I hate it so much
The later albums with Jon still had the occasional good track
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9W_vXIvN2kU
I wish they'd make more
>>64561506
15 years ago she was the lead singer of the most popular band of the music mags' favorite genre.
>>64560316
>doobie brothers
>doobie
>doob
wew
>>64560156
>Duran Duran sucks balls for the most part.
You're disgusting. Leave here.
>>64559742
>Not liking Rio
>>64560103
Seems rational, considering that this is one of the greatest albums of all time.
>>64560762
Fly From Here didn't have Jon Anderson either. That guy was literally from a Yes cover band, which is essentially all Yes are at this point.
>>64560916
>>64561335
I have a feeling these were posted by the same person, the same one who constantly complains about them.
>>64561228
that album was great
>>64563445
>>64560916
>a 50 year old man wrote these lyrics
>>64563416
this was actually a really good album
>>64563532
A 50 year old bald man wrote them.
>>64563549
Get off of /mu/, Joe Elliot.
>>64563571
See >>64563427
Cover band is all DP are at this point.
>>64560800
Mew?
Men?
Wem?
Thank God Billy Joel stopped making albums in 2001.
>>64563667
what the fuck is this shit lmao
I bet you didn't know Winger had one out in '14 as well.
>>64561228
This album fucked me up.
Not in some emotional sense but a "Really? THEY'RE doing an album together" sense.
>mfw it wasn't bad
>>64561543
how come alice cooper looks like micheal scott though?
He looks like he's auditioning for a biopic about Mark Twain.
>>64560406
desu I feel kind of bad for her.
She's so desperate not to sink into obscurity she'd do anything
>>64563901
the first idea is cool, fans could debate about incarnations forever
>i like third wave nmh better
>3rd wave was great but 5th wave is really where it's at, did you hear their new album?
>>64560517
This is great, though.
Devo, like Sparks, will never be naff.
>>64564005
>>64563901
Incredibly, Paul Stanley and Gene Simmons have hinted at the possibility of retiring and hiring new young guys to continue Kiss forever.
>>64563637
Deep Purple still has Ian Paice, Ian Gillan, and Roger Glover. All Yes has is Steve Howe
>>64561228
This was a great idea, well executed.
Sparks get better as they get older.
>>64564063
>kiss forever
this idea doesnt sound nearly as cool
>>64564028
Guys who can still put on a lively, energetic show like Paul McCartney don't need to retire. Guys like Bob Dylan who look like a shambling corpse do need to retire.
You need to retire when:
>your rhythm section is dead (The Who)
>you rely on fill-ins at prominent positions who serve no purpose other than emulating the original guys (Kiss)
>people only go to your shows for the bragging rights that they saw you perform (Bob Dylan, Chuck Berry)
>>64564122
I'm guilty of the last one. Bob came around to my college and it was a free show. Figured I'd go so I could say I saw him... I'm glad I didn't pay the $50 everybody else had to pay
Brian May and Roger Taylor need to seriously stop going around performing as Queen. Come on. No Freddie=no Queen. Would you want a Rolling Stones without Mick Jagger or a Metallica without James Hetfield?
>>64564122
>>people only go to your shows for the bragging rights that they saw you perform (Bob Dylan, Chuck Berry)
I've gotten so many accidental bragging rights.
Saw Dylan at a show where I paid to see the two support acts (The Flaming Lips and The Violent Femmes) and he was shit, but in 40 years I'll be talking that shit up like it was Woodstock (which was also probably shit).
>>64564143
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xxixIbONuCQ
Dylan isn't even a fraction as bad as Chuck Berry now.
>>64561274
DAE
>this
>>64564211
Not at all, but he seemed bored when I saw him. And it was supposed to be opening night of the latest leg of his tour. His band was really good but I wouldn't have paid that much to see him under normal circumstances
I was going to say REO Speedwagon, but then I remembered they haven't had an album out in this decade and the last one they did was (lyl) a Christmas album.
>>64564211
At least BB King stayed pretty solid up until the last few years of his life.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k2Apg2NzC3o
>>64560594
I don't think this counts at all considering it sold like seven hundred thousand copies
>>64560800
I actually liked this album, probably his best in a LOOONNG while
>>64564302
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dtvdgETe4Yc
He's still pretty good at this '13 show. Not as tight as he once was, but he gets out his signature tone and also could still sing just fine.
I guess Chuck Berry is paying the price for a lifetime of sodomizing 13 year old girls and making them taste his poop. You get the old age you deserve.
>>64564450
You think the Kanye collab rejuvenated him a bit?
Guided By Voices released a new album this year and it was terrible. I really wish Robert Pollard would just stop already.
It depends. Solo artists like Bob Dylan can generally keep going until they die because their music is individual artistic expression. Bands however are basically product, so there's absolutely no reason for X hair metal band to release a new CD in 2016.
>>64563532
It sounds like a Pantera song got left on the cutting room floor.
>>64561508
this is the most surprising one in the whole thread
>>64564492
BB played fine (for 88), had a great voice still, ate well, fucked around in older age, and was adored by all who knew him. He even made a fantastic blues cover record in 2008. I say he got the old age he deserved.
Berry hasn't done anything noteworthy in many decades.
>>64564783
Chuck actually hasn't set foot in the studio since Rockit in 1979, which was actually a pretty good record so maybe he believed in quit while you're ahead. Certainly I wouldn't want to see him try and release new music in his current state.
Fuck, Ravi Shenkar on his final world tour at 92 was playing better, tighter, and faster than Chuck.
Filter released a new album last month.
>>64559976
Duran Duran is one of the biggest names in synth pop idiot
I seem to remember Christgau shitting on BB King and Willie Nelson's late career albums.
>>64561798
That was pretty good desu
just stop
>>64564845
He gave up on life in the 80s and became an oldies act. Also his playing skills got progressively lazier.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0goHdXSxYO0
Let us remember Chuck as he was and not as he is.
>>64564956
Agreed. No Frusciante, I'm not listening to it.
>>64564870
He was Indian. Everyone knows those guys live to 105 and are like 60 under the hood because of the diet.
>>64561543
Why does that cover remind me of covers like this?
>>64563901
That's what Revolting Cocks did
>>64565093
Does he still sing stuff like "BABYBABYBABY I'm your backdoor maaan?"
>>64564702
>Bands however are basically product, so there's absolutely no reason for X hair metal band to release a new CD in 2016
Doesn't stop them from trying anyway.
>>64565126
He hasn't been able to vocally pull off that shit since 1975. He went downhill early on.
>>64564063
Gene Simmons is also a greedy jew who milks every cent out of that shitty band.
Has anyone seen Sun Ra Arkestra lately? It seems weird that they're touring and performing since the man himself has been dead for so long
And Angus still wants to do one more before he retires.
>>64564155
Well according to May, Adam Lambert has a better vocal range than Freddie and is just as charismatic onstage. In other words he's gone senile.
>>64565234
A band this horrifying doesn't deserve a logo as cool as that beetle thingie they use.
Yep. Apparently the "Final Countdown" guys put out a new album last year. I saw it at a Barnes & Noble earlier today.
I live in the US.
They haven't had a song or album even come close to getting on our charts since 1988.
>>64561129
That's a good album though
Thankfully new Queen albums stopped after 1995.
>>64565359
Looks like a scarab
>>64565292
You mean some recent releases are actual new music? I thought all those RSD releases and the like were just archival unreleased tracks by the Arkestra back when Sun Ra was alive.
>>64565359
ANY WAY YOU WANT IT
THAT'S THE WAY YOU NEED IT
Still crankin' it.
>>64565408
No, I'm pretty sure the recent releases are actually archives. Or reissues. The man's discography is certainly large enough for it.
I'm talking about the fact that they're still touring and performing live. Hell, I think they're going to be at Pitchfork fest this year.
>>64560800
wew lads
>>64565560
>>64559976
You have no clue what you're talking about m8
>>64565560
He's a faggot with an acoustic guitar singing faux-Americana. I don't think anyone will mind if he keeps going until he's 90.
>>64563667
This on the other hand...
>>64565677
Duran Duran were a boyband for 10 year old girls, dude.
>>64565640
>released in 2013
Literally who would pay money for this?
And what the FUCK is wrong with that middle guy's face?
>>64565605
I've seen some bad album covers, but...
>>64565702
Nick Rhodes is well-loved by gross 40/50 yo synth nerds actually
![00acc223[1].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/ea4VfP7.jpg "00acc223[1].jpg")
>>64565402
Did they? May and Taylor attempted to exhume their corpse of a band with Paul Rodgers in 2008 to resounding indifference.
>>64565703
I wish I knew. Besides, the only people who actually pay money for their concerts are 40 year old women who were fans of them in the 80s and show up to throw their MILF panties at Mark Wahlberg.
>>64565679
>He's a faggot with an acoustic guitar singing faux-Americana. I don't think anyone will mind if he keeps going until he's 90.
Yeah yeah, I know James Taylor's music lends itself to being an old guy better than Motley Crue's does, I mean more that he's a completely obnoxious, utterly insane Obama nutrider.
>>64565825
While you're at it, you may as well ask who'd pay money for >>64560073 or >>64560580
>>64565605
JUST
>hands trembling with fear, type in "grand funk railroad discography" on Wikipedia
>last album was in 1983
Thank you, oh merciful God.
Styx sans Dennis DeYoung are out on tour for some reason or other..
>>64565998
And she's only like 30 or something (28 when that album came out)?
>>64566039
Yeh but they haven't made a new album in a decade so I didn't mention them in here.
If this thread were made juuuust a few months ago, I could have posted Bad Magic.
>>64565893
Even one JJ album was too many. If her name were Janet Smith, she'd be a cashier at Target.
>>64563901
We only have eleven days left, /mu/. It's happening.
Thankfully Motley Crue are retiring although that's mostly because of Mick Mars's health.
>>64565893
>>64566112
Also Christgau was a little bit too soft on her for my taste (her entire discography deserved a bomb or scissors). Plus his review of All For You was slightly creepy.
>60 year old guy talking about how this music gets the blood flowing to the ol' groin
>>64565446
ANY WAY YOU WANT IT
>>64566037
Wasn't that bad desu
>>64563901
This is the most disgusting thing I've read all day.
>>64560097
Why are all old prog bands so terrible now?
>>64560857
Pretty solid album to be absolutely honest.
>>64566497
$$$$$
>>64561506
That is a fucking great album cover
>>64565359
Without Steve Perry, they're pretty much a cover act.
>>64566497
Precisely because they have gotten old. Rock music is hard enough for the young, it's ridiculous to expect geriatrics to be good at it (there are some who continue to be, but they are the exception to the rule). Plus, in Floyd's case, they were never the same after the split with Roger Waters, anyway.
>>64560857
This may very well be the last one from them though. At least they left us with a really good final album.
>>64566659
>basic 4/4 music
>hard to play
>this is what rockists actually believe
There's not one rawk group that approaches the best jazz musicians for technical skill.
>>64566799
Lol, I saw him last year, and he's still kickin'.
>>64560800
I'm uncomfortable with how much I liked that album.
>>64566495
Same here. Deep Purple ltd.
>>64559783
this
>>64566653
When it came out, I actually didn't believe it. I totally thought it was some joke.
>>64566700
I was thinking more of the lifestyle (especially when touring) than the complexity of the music, actually. The effect of the drugs and alcohol and late nights adds up.
In the case of prog rock, there's a fair bit of complexity on the composition side, too. Playing ability as such is probably the last thing to go, but a lot of them seem to lose their game when it comes to writing and composition. And it's harder to get it up for shows consistently.
"Everyone has a limited number of good songs in them and I'm no exception. Paul McCartney, one of the finest songwriters of the 20th century, has written nothing but manure for over 25 years. Rock stars over 30 do not produce important material."
-- Noel Gallagher
And you thought Freddie-less Queen was bad
>>64567014
Black Gives Way to Blue was decent...But yeah this is pretty repulsive.
>>64566877
I've heard that this wasn't bad
>>64566973
Says the man who ripped off McCartney and a dozen of other artists.
>>64567112
But he made damned sure to rip off McCartney's EARY stuff. That's what counts.
>>64567202
*EARLY
>>64567129
X GON' GIVE IT TO YA
>>64567202
I mean, it's one thing when the artist is a guy who at least used to be good like Dylan or Pink Floyd, but who in the nine Absols of Hell asked for a new Whitesnake or New Kids On The Block album? Nobody needed their shit 30 years ago, let alone in the 2010s.
>>64567014
Hey this is a killer track
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9KmYFY5oOvM
granted I've only ever heard singles by Alice in Chains. I'm not a 90s kid.
>>64567321
90% of people in the 90s only ever haerd their singles too.
>>64567315
They may not have "needed" it, but I can assure you that seemingly all of the girls my age WANTED NKOTB 25 years ago.
>>64567321
>I'm not a 90s kid.
What are you, 12?
>>64567202
Still it sounds kinda bad. "McCartney burned out after 30, that bloody cunt. Who I'm going to rip off now?"
>>64567431
Noel Gallagher manages to sound like a douche virtually every time he opens his mouth.
>>64567426
>
>>64559746
hold it, you dummy
>>64567412
I'm sure 2 year olds were into NKOTB.
>>64560211
the last 3 songs on this album are very good. they should have let brian do that the entire album
>>64561540
>This
Construkction of light and Thrak are extremely underrated in my opinion. Also, they put out a live recording from a show in Toronto recently that is really good. It has two or three new songs on it. So hopefully some materially soon.
>>64565790
John Deacon is a boss for taking the high road out over a cash grab.
>>64560580
This is a great album, their best since Drama.
>>64566497
>>64566659
The album "Heaven and Earth" that came out a few years ago by Yes is literally one of the worst albums I've ever heard in my life. They have a great legacy. Why do this?
>>64559682
I saw this advertised on CNN
>>64559742
I saw this is Meijer, shoutout to midwest kids here if you know what that is.
>>64559746
>>64559783
End your lives
>>64559804
Pet Shop Boys are still a OK band
>>64560025
Bait
>>64560097
It was trash too. Literally "give me money" the album
>>64561228
Sparks fucking sucks
Nothing after 90125 exists as far as I'm concerned.
