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Given the heavy artificialization of music in the mixing and mastering stages, there is a very good reason why my music collection ends rather abruptly in 1997.
@@TheJoyofVinylRecords AutoTune, Quantization, Compression and Limiting are now done as a matter of course. Life was much better before any of that came along. It is considerably less on Vinyl than in digital storage, so you're lucky on that count. Thing is I seem to spot it right away and find it totally cringeworthy.
@@Douglas_Blake_579 Rick Beato makes a very nuanced, detailed argument on his channel about why rock has been dead since the early 2010s. For the reasons you've stated PLUS how new commercial rock/pop music is aired and made solely for gigantic automated radio station conglomerates.
@@TheReal1953 I don't care if rock is dead... It had a pretty good run. I would be happy for some fresh music -- real music -- to come along and replace it. It would at least give me something new and interesting to explore. Like most other things, music stopped being about art and entertainment a long time ago. Now it's all and only about money. I've listened to some of the "song soup" these guys are dishing up and quite frankly *it is not music* it is a constant similar sounding noise. Aside from my own personal revulsion, I feel sorry for the people now growing up without hearing real music. Even live performances are AutoTuned now. Many are just spectacle acted out over pre-recorded tracks. Be it Jazz, Rock, Classical, or even Disco... these people have no idea what they are missing. If you watch the reaction videos -- where they play an old song they've not heard before, and then say what they think -- most often you get a mind blown kid who had no idea how good it could be. One guy even commented "He's not even using distortion" over a live version of "Sultans of Swing". Maybe rock and R&B are dead... The problem is their replacements completely suck.
Love Samatha Fish, don’t have anything by her, but I should. I have also seen her in concert, when she opened for Buddy Guy. I don’t know the other too bands but I will check them out. My wife is a big Tom Petty fan, about the only thing we don’t have on vinyl, is Southern Accents, but we are looking. She was so happy when they finally repress Mojo, as that is one of her favorites. Now if we could only find the first Mudcrutch album.
I saw the Interrupters open for Green Day in Melbourne Australia I immediately went to the Merchandise stand and bought one of their albums I now own multiple albums. I’m also a big G20 fan
Not really a new artist but my daughter turned me on to a Canadian band July Talk a few years ago....really been listening to them a lot lately...their rookie album is awesome with Garden, Summer Dress and Guns and Ammunition awesome tracks
Another great video Rick! I'm still buying old albums i missed but a newish metal band i like are Green Lung from London. Mythical, Witchy, Prog, a bit of an Ozzy sound, great 70's guitar sound. Toured internationally with Clutch 🤘
Being a child of the 60's counterculture and a die hard devotee of that era's music, there aren't too many contemporary bands that I listen to but one which has impressed me is, The Main Squeeze. They have a catalog of good original music with videos here on YT but they do a few classic rock covers that will leave you slack-jawed.
Cheers it's very cool that you picked up the Interrupters Lps. I saw them the beginning of last Summer. They were the first band That played Stone Ponys Summer stage Asbury Park New Jersey .... They were on fire , fantastic show, love their mix of Ska 👍🏻... You ever get a chance you won't regret it
Thanks I will have to check out these artists sound ! ...I was an avid Columbia House member back in the day built a lot of my album collection through them and also by signing up friends to get those free LP's, lol. Cheers Rick !
....and today finally received the record clamp I ordered, you recommended.. It is perfect, good wt and has black base with antique brass clamp adjust top screw cap. The look compliments my turntable as well ! Thanks Rick!@@TheJoyofVinylRecords
I can relate to neglecting certain music for various reasons. In the 70s, I turned my back on pop/rock (because I didn't like what I was hearing) and absorbed myself in classical. Still into classical, but I've also been buying albums from Boston and Green Day.
Thank you for recommending Samantha Fish. I definitely like what I've heard so far. To return the favor, have you heard Billy Childish? Billy Childish is an English singer, guitarist, painter, author, poet, photographer, & film maker. He has performed with multiple groups, including Thee Headcoats, Thee Milkshakes, The Buff Medways, The Musicians of the British Empire, & The Pop Rivets. His music stylings include blues, punk, ska, indie, & garage, to name a few. With such a prolific list of bands & genres, Billy Childish has released over 120 albums. Definitely a large rabbit hole, but one worth discovering.
Hi Chris! No - I haven't heard of him, but based on this I am checking him out. It seems my life is full of rabbit holes to explore these days. Cheers!
-King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard: 25+ albums in 10 years, take your pick from prog to psych, turkish electronic inspired rock, thrash metal, garage punk, and more. -The Lemon Twigs: Heavy 60s influence, The Kinks and The Beatles for sure. -Uncle Acid and the Deadbeats: if John Lennon sang for early Black Sabbath -Viagra Boys: post punk, great sense of humor and political slants, big attitude Could give ya like 40 but those are the ones I listen to constantly and love the most!
Really enjoyed you sharing the 3 groups. Like to see you share some bands you have in you collection the average person might not know. Listening to Sue Foley lately. Cheers
I absolutely adore Sue Foley. Just saw her a few months ago in Portsmouth NH as a matter of fact. Marks the second time I've seen her live. I have everything she's put out on vinyl, unfortunately, alot of her music was released when CDs were king and haven't been pressed on vinyl. Hopefully one of these days. Cheers, Dean!
Hey Rick you're absolute correct about Samantha Fish. After hearing about her from you.ordered Death Wish Blues and thought it was great. Ordered Kill or be Kind got it today, it was great. Thanks for the info.
I'm a 65 year old drum teacher and I grew up on classic rock. However over the last 20 years I have found a wealth of amazing female artists. Here's a bunch of recommendations. Larkin Poe, Beth Hart, First Aid Kit, The Pretty Reckless, Margo Price, Kasey Chambers, The Wolff Sisters, Ally Venable, Laura Cox, Hannah Wicklund, Amy Macdonald, Lydia Loveless, and Imelda May. I've also gotten into some bands a little older that I missed like Cowboy Junkies, Garbage and The Corrs.
I was the exact same way with Tom Petty, never got into him when I was younger. Just in the past 5yrs tops I started picking up his stuff...actually have Hard Promises coming in the mail from a whatnot auction..lol. I love Samantha Fish as well , she is amazing. Need to grab some more of her stuff.
I think you'll really appreciate her stuff. I am more into her more blues-oriented music, but even her more recent albums that incorporate some rock and funk are stellar.
Love Samantha Fish. Her best alum (in my opinion) is Black Wind Howlin' Speaking of the blues, I highly recommend you check out Larkin Poe (sisters Megan and Rebecca Lovell - who are descendants of Edgar Allan Poe). Super talented blues/roots/Americana/rock artists, Rebecca plays lead guitar (and mandolin) and has a powerhouse soulful lead vocal and sister Megan is an accomplished and renowned slide guitarist and provides beautiful harmony vocals. Dubbed by Derek Trucks as "the little sisters of the Allman Brothers," Larkin Poe's newest album "Blood Harmony" is nominated for a Grammy in the Best Contemporary Blues Album category. Saw them last February in Austin Texas and they rocked the place down.
I do know of Larkin Poe, but am not very familiar with them. So now I will fix that. I had no idea the "Poe" in their name was related to Edgar Allen Poe. Very cool bit of trivia. I also agree - _Black Wind Howlin'_ is a great record and I was thrilled when that was re-released. Picked it up when I last saw her perform at the merchandise table.
I don't have hardly any Tom Petty, but I picked up that stellar sounding Wildflowers & All The Rest 3LP set back in 2020, and then Angel Dream in 2021 (part of the June RSD 'drop' that year). Last May 2023. I saw Frank Turner, with Chuck Ragan opening (long familiar with both of them) and The Interrupters were on the same bill...and I eventually discovered there were the HEADLINER. Their brand of anthemic punk wasn't quite my thing, but they do put on a very energetic performance and clearly were beloved by members of the crowd. I believe it was sold out. Coincidentally, I literally just added a Near Mint version of Hound Dog Taylor And The HouseRockers - Genuine Houserocking Music record to my Discogs 5 days ago. Last year I inherited several boxes of old records and a lot of jazz...but unfortunately a lot of it was trashed (no sleeves / lots of scratches), however this Hound Dog Taylor record was stellar and I just discovered it this past week; I had it cranked just the other day! Addendum from WIKI: Taylor had a condition known as polydactylism, which resulted in him having six fingers on both hands. As is usual with the condition, the extra digits were rudimentary nubbins and could not be moved. One night, while drunk, he cut off the extra digit on his right hand using a straight razor. Source: Sforzini, Hank (November 23, 2011). "Five Musicians With Missing and Damaged Fingers". Pastemagazine.com. Archived from the original on October 5, 2016. Retrieved April 3, 2018.
Wow - I didn't know the story behind it. I didn't even think to count thr fingers on that hand - just did to check. Unreal. That's very cool that you got to see him perform!
Love the Lathums. They are a English band, Really loving Marcus King the energy he gives live is amazing. Please do a video of your new discoveries here 😊 And of course Beth Hart ❤
Hey Brent! I've seen many many shows there (I still refuse to call it anything else - it's always Greatwoods to me). My first show there was John Fogerty in either 85 or 86. It's been awhile though since I've been back there. I used to live in Hanson (near Brockton) was I was a kid and moved to NH (where I still am).
LOL! Love the static joke at the beginning and the ending, also! Can't wait to check out those artists! Will let you know what I think! Have a great day!
If you haven't discovered 2 Cellos yet, you really need to. They've got numerous videos on You Tube. They put out 6 studio albums and are solo now, but their duo recordings are well worth your time. They also have 3 or 4 complete concerts also on You Tube.
I will definitely check out Samantha Fish and GA-20. I do like Blues Music. Some newer music I've listened to is Scott Mulvahill. He played with Ricky Skaggs. His stuff is more like folk music. Not everyone's cup of tea. But he plays upright bass. Another one I came across months ago was Eva Cassidy. She's bluesy folksy. Sad she died way too young before her music really got much notice.
Shall try your recommendations if you try these swedish stuff... 1.Sven Zetterberg (blues/soul) 2.Viagra Boys (punky) 3.Ghost (hardrock) 4. GOAT (psych)
I liked the static-180g joke.-- I mentioned Bedless Bones (poppy cold wave/EBM) from Estonia before. Glaring/None out of Berlin (synthy atmospheric coldwave, towards lofi). Mission to the Sun (Detroit, I believe) with weird broody sounds; I described their latest one as "eery stories that should never have been told"; on LA's Felte Records. Bestial Mouths out of Ventura/Sacramento: Sonic Youth on acid, super intense. Chasms out of LA with quiet cold wave. Snow Ghosts out of UK with folksy synth dark wave. Suir from Düsseldorf (I think, Germany for sure) with rocky dark wave. Social station out of Washington DC with old-fashioned new wave. Creux Lies from Sacramento, a Depeche Mode rebirth. Semiotics Department of Heteronyms from Spain with avantgarde synth pop, quite cerebral, but some also danceable. Also Rue Oberkampf, iamnoone, Swesor Bhrater, Lucy Krueger & the Lost Boys, NNHMN, Zanias, Pleasure Leftists, Karl Kave, Public Memory, Whispering Sons, Sounds Like Winter, Kill Shelter +++. I really like to discover and listen to new music. -- No blues here, I'm afraid. On the punky side: Dividing Lines, Arctic Flowers, Bikini Death Race, Lié, Esses, Cable Ties, Ötzi, Yama Uba.
@@TheJoyofVinylRecords If you like anything in here, I will have more suggestions. Also if you have certain styles you like in the punk-indie-goth-wave spectrum, I am happy to share. Today is Bandcamp Friday, so loading up that cart!
If you look up on the net, what are a band's greatest album, there is often either a consensus, or it is between an album or two. Not with Tom Petty. Some say it's Damn The Torpedoes, some say it's Wildflowers, some say it's Full Moon Fever, or one of his much later albums. That thin wailing voice of his, was always a good test of how clean your stereo was on vocals. His voice was really a bit irritating to listen to at times, along with the group Boston's lead singer when their voices would hit the higher registers. As your system got cleaner sounding over time, the stinginess of their voices in those registers became less piercing. What's worse is my familiarity with Tom Petty's recordings began with the old MCA Masterphile Audiophile lps. Which were even more bright in that particular frequency range where his voice could cause ear wince. But his music was good. As was much Southern Rock from that era. Who can remember some of the more obscure groups like The Rossington Collins Band and The Henry Paul Band? One song that they don't play anymore that I thought was a true classic back then, was Grey Ghost by The Henry Paul Band, along with Green Grass & High Tides by The Outlaws. Of course I liked Skynard and the more in the limelight groups too. I probably had more Poco albums than any other group back then, as they were in the cutout bins often, and at that age, low price was very much a big draw. Lately I've been listening to a lot of piano music like Joe Sample. He was the piano/keyboard guy from The Crusaders before going solo. The Crusaders were one of the best Jazz groups ever, with a discogtaphy that stretches a mile long. They were formerly called The Jazz Crusaders. Hard to think of a group who put out that many albums, without ever putting out a bad album. Free As The Wind is one of their favorite albums along with Unsung Heroes. They WERE Unsung Heroes. Joe Sample is the only Jazz artist that I can think of who has no less than 3 cds, that are "best of" compilations. On one of them called Sample This, there are a few vocal tracks; one with Johnny Mathis singing. Nice. Johnny is still going strong and performing, last I heard. He must be around 90 years old. Anyway, Joe Sample's recordings are always very class recordings with super high fidelity, and along with his great playing and creative melodies, his music is a real attraction to play on my stereo, which has the most realistic sound on piano that I've ever heard; vocals too. You can really believe tha a grand piano is actually in the room. The piano, with it's very wide frequency range as an instrument, is a great barometer of how flat your frequency response is. One peak anywhere in the midrange, and the piano doesn't come off sounding believable, and will sound artificial. Lately I've also been listening to various interpretations of the music of who many consider the greatest American composer of all time; Aaron Copland. Especially his compositions Appalachian Spring and Rodeo. His piano concerto is really good too. Also been getting into the music of one of the great pioneers of Jazz/Rock Fusion; guitarist Larry Coryell. Both his solo stuff and his groundbreaking album Introducing Larry Coryell And The Eleventh House. This guy rivaled Hendrix for one of the best guitarists of all time. He actually sounds like Hendrix at times, but only occasionally. He had a much wider pallette that was more melody oriented, and he often even played acoustic guitar like on the song called Spaces, to name just one. His album Spaces was the only album by a Jazz/Fusion guitarist that made The Absolute Sound Sounds Super Disc List, when it was regularly published years ago.
I loved Rossington Collins Band. I remember when "Don't Misunderstand Me" came out. Great song. I just looked up Larry Coryell. Yep - I can really get behind that. So good.
Coryell is great. I first got a sampling of him from an audiophile lp, wbich he did in conjunction with another artist on a Direct Disk Labs lp from the 1970s or 80s. I recently got a double cd set of Larry Coryell The Vanguard years, which was in a big lot of Jazz cds I recently purchased. I got the lot for what averaged out to be 7 cents per cd. It's a real buyers market for cds now. I don't think it will last. I see a renaissance coming on those too in the future. The Vanguard label had a reputation for very good sound quality among classical music audiophiles. Sort of under the radar while RCA Living Stereo, Mercury Living Presence, and London/Decca lps got the limelight. What Jazz Fusion is, is a fusion of rock and jazz. I don't know why they didn't call it Rock Fusion; as Jazz needed more recognition and was more popular than Jazz. Maybe the genre would have become huge, just by simply having chose another name for it. Jazz Fusion implies that it's predominantly Jazz. As us Fusion fans know, a great bit of it has its roots more in rock; the other way around. A lot of it sounds more like rock; but with tone colors and musical exploration without chains, beyond rock using many different instruments like sophisticated keyboard contributions and horns. Some Jazz Fusion has no horns at all. Hard to think of many which don't use keyboards as a main instrument. In the late 1960s and 1970s we were hearing sounds and textures we had never heard before, from groups like Weather Report, The Mahavishnu Orchestra, Soft Machine and Return To Forever etc. Even Frank Zappa got into it, and his Hot Rats album is on many a list of notable Jazz Fusion albums. Surprisingly I've never heard that one. Some of the most amazing virtuostic electric guitar players came out of the movement like Coryell, Al Dimeola, John Mcloughlin, Alan Holdsworth and Stanley Clarke.
Unless you have a satellite subscription new music is hard to find. The demise of terrestrial radio and independent stations was the death nell....I sure miss WFNX and the old WBCN in the Boston area
@@TheJoyofVinylRecords At 71, I go back to the Peter Wolf, JJ Jackson, Charles Laquidara and Danny Schechter days...but enjoyed them right into the 90's when it pretty much started to fall apart
@@TheJoyofVinylRecords Didn't end well for Mark Parenteau IIRC....One of my fav memories was on Saturdays when Charles went full split personality as Duane Ingall's Glasscock
@@GaryT1952 True - I heard about what happened with Mark. Did't Duane end up being shot by the CIA? 😂 I'm not sure if I remember that correctly. Then Charles went to a "robot" co-host.
Being born in 1974 and not really getting into music until the early 80s I have far too much interest in all of the great music of the 40s, 50s, 60s and 70s that I missed to worry about the modern impersonators. Granted there are some amazing “modern” artists to be sure and maybe 20 years from I’ll give them a spin…
Ahhhhh.....Columbia House.....the scourge of college record buying. Wherein they sent out Benny The Fish to break your legs if you defaulted on their idiotic terms.
Hey Rick, I'll definitely give Samantha Fish a try. I like trying new music. I'm just shy of 70 myself and like to keep an open mind about what I listen to. Being retired and tired of tv programming my afternoons are filled with music. Have you tasted Alice in Chains yet. LOL
