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General => General Music Discussion => Topic started by: KevShmev on July 30, 2017, 09:13:44 PM
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Plenty of artists who were big and/or peaked in the 70s continued making music into the 21st century, but which of those artists have the best albums of this century? The ones that stand out to me are:
Peter Gabriel - Up
Styx - The Mission
Rush - Clockwork Angels
Van Halen - A Different Kind of Truth
David Bowie - Blackstar
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Plenty of artists who were big and/or peaked in the 70s continued making music into the 21st century, but which of those artists have the best albums of this century? The ones that stand out to me are:
Peter Gabriel - Up
Styx - The Mission
Rush - Clockwork Angels
Van Halen - A Different Kind of Truth
David Bowie - Blackstar
Nice to see Rush brought up here, which would've been my first pick.
Is the new Styx album that good? I haven't had a chance to listen to it yet, but the single they put out didn't sound half bad. I'm not the biggest Styx fan, but I do enjoy their classic albums. If their latest one is anything as close to those, I may have to get it at some point.
I'm not very familiar with a LOT of 70's rock bands outside of the typical prog giants, but I'd have to say King Crimson's The Power To Believe is a sonic treat, easily one of their best albums. It's already 14 years old, and I've been waiting to see if they'll ever record another full album again, but until that point, the last studio album by King Crimson definitely stands out as a great modern album by the 70's prog pioneer.
-Marc.
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Heaven and Hell - The Devil You Know
Forget about the name, it's still Sabbath and it stomps all over 13.
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Rush - Clockwork Angels
David Bowie - Blackstar
Yes. These are fairly obvious. :tup
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Agree with Marc above.... The power to believe is truly a great King Crimson Record
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ADKOT is the clear winner for me, hands down.
I will get laughed at for this, but for me, Sonic Boom by Kiss. I LOVE that record, and listen to it FAR more than anything from the non-makeup period.
These are 80's bands, but:
Dance of Death (or Book of Souls; I won't quibble) by Iron Maiden.
Marbles by Marillion.
Heaven and Earth by Yes (I'm KIDDING! I KID!)
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Maybe not quite the level the op is talking sbout, but Angel guitarist Punky Meadows released an excellent album last year.
Although the recent KISS albums were only ok, they deserve kudos for releasing good albums in each of the last 5 decades
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David Bowie - Heathen
Pat Metheny - Speaking of Now
Renaissance - Grandine il Vento
Glen Campbell - Ghost on the Canvas
Al Di Meola - Pursuit of Radical Rhapsody
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Cheap Trick -- Bang, Zoom, Crazy...Hello
Tears For Fears -- Everybody Loves A Happy Ending
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Tears For Fears -- Everybody Loves A Happy Ending
Tears For Fears were big in the 70's?
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Yeah, where are these 70 albums I've never heard? :lol
The Power to Believe is a good pick. I totally forgot about that one.
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I'll get behind Heaven And Hell. The Devil You Know is Awesomesauce
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Alice Cooper has put out some crap this century, but The Eyes Of Alice Cooper, released in 2003, is awesome.
I also love UFO's The Visitor.
Heaven and Hell - The Devil You Know
Yup!
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Yeah, where are these 70 albums I've never heard? :lol
The Power to Believe is a good pick. I totally forgot about that one.
So I blur decades! :lol. They were good to me! :lol
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Fanatic by Heart is one I like.
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Fanatic by Heart is one I like.
I hate that album. So little hooks. I was so disappointed.
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I don't know which one I like the most, but Journey's post 2000 albums are really good.
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I was trying to remember other 70s rock bands who had recorded albums in the 21st century. Then I remembered that The Who had released an album a few years ago called The Endless Wire. I think it was supposed to be another rock opera. Did anyone ever hear it?
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Sorry.... double post
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Scott Walker - The Drift
The scariest album of all time. Hard to believe the guy made pop music in the 60s/70s.
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I was trying to remember other 70s rock bands who had recorded albums in the 21st century. Then I remembered that The Who had released an album a few years ago called The Endless Wire. I think it was supposed to be another rock opera. Did anyone ever hear it?
Yeah, not bad. Not Tommy, but not bad. There was a song on there called "Tea for Two" or something like that, and it was awful hard not to hear that and think it was about Pete and Roger, and it was incredibly moving.
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Kansas - Somewhere to Elsewhere
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Kansas - Somewhere to Elsewhere
Great call! The songwriting on that album is by far their best since the 70s. Walsh's voice was a little rough around the edges, but still mostly good enough (although there is that one line near the beginning of Icarus II that makes me wince). Distant Vision is the best Kansas song of the last 35 years.
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Leonard Cohen
Bowie
Roger Waters
Scott Walker
I would include Rush here but for the fact that they were NOT that big in the '70s.
They were only headlining theaters (mostly) as late as 1978. They weren't even breaking even until the Permanent Waves Tour in 1980.
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Leonard Cohen
YES
You Want It Darker is an awesome album.
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Deep Purple's Now What?! is one of my all-time favorite albums.
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Nothing that hasn't been mentioned already, but:
Kansas - Somewhere to Elsewhere
David Bowie - Everything he released this century was good
Heaven and Hell - The Devil You Know
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Kansas - Somewhere to Elsewhere
Great call! The songwriting on that album is by far their best since the 70s. Walsh's voice was a little rough around the edges, but still mostly good enough (although there is that one line near the beginning of Icarus II that makes me wince). Distant Vision is the best Kansas song of the last 35 years.
When I first heard the line, I winced too and wondered why they didn't rerecord the vocals. But I'm okay with it now, as it gives the song a weathered character which somehow suits the state of a 70s band still making its mark in the 2000s.
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Hard to answer. Most of the bands that were great in the 70s didn't release anything good recently...
except King Crimson - The Power to Believe
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Does King Crimson even count with all the lineup changes?
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Does King Crimson even count with all the lineup changes?
Not any more or less than other bands mentioned in this thread like Styx, Kansas, and Deep Purple.
-Marc.
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True, but all those other bands are good! :yarr
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True, but all those other bands are good! :yarr
Not as good as King Crimson though :corn
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Mike Oldfield - Return to Ommadawn
David Gilmour - On an Island
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Yes - Heaven & Earth
:natalieportman:
No but seriously...
Pat Metheny - The Way Up
David Bowie - Blackstar
Keith Emerson - Keith Emerson Band Feat. Marc Bonilla
Steely Dan - Two Against Nature & Everything Must Go
Eagles - Long Road Out Of Eden
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Toto - Falling In Between
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Angel guitarist Punky Meadows released an excellent album last year.
Oh, I've got Zappa's "Punky's Whips" stuck in my head now...
Aerial by Kate Bush - one of the best comeback albums ever