Dire Straits doesn't have the deep catalog that some groups have, but Zoomers should listen to this, Knopfler is one of the most instantly recognizable and beautiful guitarists in rock history.
The actual boomers I’ve talked to have pretty much universally said that Grand Funk was a great album band but kind of shit live, and they suspected they had even more shilling and massaging of their image from their label than the average group did at the time. Don’t know if it’s true, but it’s what I’ve heard.
>On the group's first album, producer Gabriel Mekler unveiled an unprecedented concept: three excellent rock voices, named only in small print on the label, alternated on material which could be characterized for the most part as unjustly neglected. None of the singers wrote, the supporting musicians were anonymous and, with one exception, production and arrangement ranged from tasteful to superb. Taken all together, it was a brilliant revamping of the produced groups of rock's early days, applied to serious songs instead of honest schlock.
The beach boys are not overrated at all they are just finally getting their justified recognition as one of the most important and cutting edge american bands of the 20th century
Yeah they got enough hate for retarded reasons. They were amazing..they have a variety of different kind of albums in their prime. Pet Sounds, Smiley Smile, Today, Friends, Wild Honey, Sunflower - these sound nothing like each other
>One of the most popular and talented vocal groups of the late 60s/early 70s. >Helped turn people onto amazing composers like Laura Nyro and Jimmy Webb >Now just filler at every other Goodwill bargain bin.
They deserved better.
Maybe relatively compared to how massive they used to be but they're still pretty well known. I wouldnt put them in the tier of some of these other bands
Dire Straits doesn't have the deep catalog that some groups have, but Zoomers should listen to this, Knopfler is one of the most instantly recognizable and beautiful guitarists in rock history.
Their early work is really damn heavy for the time. It surprises me that they're not in the pantheon of proto-metal influences.
yeah at one point they were pretty popular, pretty big sound for a three piece band
now they're just kinda forgotten
Why did critics seem to hate them so much?
Too masculine for the soicucks
Watched the American band music video on YouTube. Geand funk we're all total Chads.
The actual boomers I’ve talked to have pretty much universally said that Grand Funk was a great album band but kind of shit live, and they suspected they had even more shilling and massaging of their image from their label than the average group did at the time. Don’t know if it’s true, but it’s what I’ve heard.
They were the biggest touring act of the early 70s, couldn’t have been so bad
>On the group's first album, producer Gabriel Mekler unveiled an unprecedented concept: three excellent rock voices, named only in small print on the label, alternated on material which could be characterized for the most part as unjustly neglected. None of the singers wrote, the supporting musicians were anonymous and, with one exception, production and arrangement ranged from tasteful to superb. Taken all together, it was a brilliant revamping of the produced groups of rock's early days, applied to serious songs instead of honest schlock.
Ten Years After
LOVE
Shocking Blue
Cream
Santana
For the opposite (bands which became more popular after the fact):
80-99% of Krautrock if not all Krautrock
Magma (largely due to meme culture)
Pretty Things
Ed Askew (if he counts as rock,probably not I guess)
Forgot to mention:
Pearls before Swine
Funkadelic
Gentle Giant
To a degree maybe Grateful Dead
>too AM for rockists
>too rocky for oldies
the ultimate curse for a boomer band
I think they're appropriately rated tbh. American Woman gets plenty of air time and is probably also their best song.
>probably also their best song
*blocks your path*
Now for 60s/70s Bands that are overrated by Zoomers:
The Beatles
Steely Dan
Yes
Frank Zappa
Captain Beefheart
The Beach Boys
AND
Fleetwood Mac
>steely dan
>overrated by anyone
No
Steely Dan was always correctly rated by those who knew.
They're not better than Jimi Hendrix or whatever the fuck though.
They aren't better than Jimi Hendrix at doing Hendrix things, but Jimi couldn't do Aja. They excelled at different things.
>They're not better than Jimi Hendrix
Nobody said anything about Hendrix, dude. You're bringing this comparison right the fuck out of nowhere.
Maybe but Aja as an album is overrated even within their discography. Same with pretzel logic but to a lesser extent
The beach boys are not overrated at all they are just finally getting their justified recognition as one of the most important and cutting edge american bands of the 20th century
Yeah they got enough hate for retarded reasons. They were amazing..they have a variety of different kind of albums in their prime. Pet Sounds, Smiley Smile, Today, Friends, Wild Honey, Sunflower - these sound nothing like each other
You big dummy
Their drummer was called Floyd Sneed
Sneedposters are singlehandedly making them relevant again
>One of the most popular and talented vocal groups of the late 60s/early 70s.
>Helped turn people onto amazing composers like Laura Nyro and Jimmy Webb
>Now just filler at every other Goodwill bargain bin.
They deserved better.
I know Age of Aquarius thanks to the 40 year old virgin but that's it
Well I recommend checking out more.
Pic related is my personal favorite.
bad company
all it takes is one needle drop on Stranger Things
Honestly it seems like Led Zeppelin has fallen off the map, when I was a kid in the early 90s they were still gigantic.
Maybe relatively compared to how massive they used to be but they're still pretty well known. I wouldnt put them in the tier of some of these other bands
Little Feat
Bruce Springsteen. I'm not super fan at all but Nebraska is a truly great album and very much in the vein of 90s lofi/indie stuff.
Thin Lizzy
Grand Funk didn't have memorable songs, simple as that.
Deep Purple