For me, it's Bob Seger. I hate myself for how much I love Hollywood Nights. Also, I feel like Seger was probably just another one of those barely talented white boys who made it big because he literally stole a ton of stuff (melodies, basslines, hell even lyrics) from truly talented Jazz, R&B, and Blues musicians...but maybe I'm wrong. Just a gut feeling
As I get older, I find myself less and less concerned about my music taste being cool. I don't think it's worth ever hating yourself for liking music of any kind. I'm not afraid to admit that I find a lot of 90s boy-band songs rather catchy. Not trying to listen to them all the time, but I feel no need to maintain a front of dislike for them anymore.
So, with that said: I think boomers had some pretty good music. Yes, a lot of it is ripped off, and it's definitely worth exploring the source material the white artists were drawing from, but that doesn't make it shitty music.
tbh i like most boomer music, with some exceptions. lots of good classic rock, though very little that i like beyond 'it's fun to listen to', and classic soul and funk and disco are all pretty great
Aw b...b..but Pink Floyd has that one song making fun of the music industry, so they're based right? RIGHT?
I was gonna say the Eagles because Queen don't count as a guilty pleasure.
Most of the music I listen to is from the 1960s and 70s, and a lot of it was stuff my boomer parents listened to. Some musicians in my playlist include Jim Croce, Carly Simon, The Association, Flo & Eddie, Harry Chapin, James Taylor, Simon and Garfunkle, The BeeGees, Earth Wind & Fire, The Village People, Minnie Riperton, Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass, and Sergio Mendes.
Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young's Deja Vu album. Honestly through I listen to so much 60s/70s/80s stuff. I just think of that album as particularly boomer, because it doesn't stand up so well in comparison to, for example, On The Beach. It has a much more 'you hear the musical tropes of the time' kind of feel and has some kind of cheesy songs that I still enjoy
Neil’s albums always felt like cohesive and instantly identifiable works, whereas CSN and CSNY albums felt more like another batch of songs, although Deja Vu is a classic (still not Neil good though)
On The Beach and Tonight’s The Night are two of the greatest albums of all time
On The Beach and Tonight’s The Night are two of the greatest albums of all time
For Real. My favourite song on Deja Vu is 'Almost Cut My Hair', precisely because I feel like it has little fragments of Revolution Blues in it (even though its a Crosby song rather than Young). They both have this paranoid, angry atmosphere that really captures a feeling of the context of violence in which the counter culture was taking place and the anger that the peace and love version of that period effaces
Well said, and Almost Cut My Hair is a great track, but nothing any of the CSN guys have ever done can give me chills the way the last verse of Revolution Blues does (and every verse for that matter)
Ambulance Blues feels like the perfect vignette for the failure of the counter culture
Oh yeah, both those tracks are absolutely incredible. Damn, I've got to listen to that album now lmao
I like the old thing about Like a Hurricane, where it's said Neil does the 2nd best guitar solo in rock history, sings a bit, and then does the best guitar solo in history. Its hyperbole, but still.
Jimi Hendrix, Creedence Clearwater Revival, and Led Zeppelin. Black Sabbath if we're not putting them in the "underground/counter-culture and therefore not really boomer music" bucket.
I would definitely consider Black Sabbath as mainstream, even at the time. I don't think they were any edgier than Zeppelin.
If anyone ever tells you to apologize for Hendrix, CCR, or Zeppelin you can cut that person out of your life. You don't need that kind of negativity.
Aja is a fantastic album
Although I am curious - how popular was Steely Dan when that album came out?
I mean Stevie Wonder is the greatest musician of all time
