Bands Successfully Reflecting Their Old Spirit

SteveG wrote: cstack3 wrote: The latest track by Jan Akkerman is the best thing I've heard in ages, it really harkens back to Focus' "Moving Waves"!   Great video Charles! But you didn't mention King Crimson! I hope you're not ill.

Logan wrote: Guldbamsen wrote: David Bowie’s swansong Blackstar is one of the finest albums of this sort and truly stands shoulder to shoulder with his 70s oevre - some of it even giving a musical nod towards the olden days. I listened to it last night and was yet again completely blown away by this elderly man’s album. Rest in peace my name-brother - you literally hit it out of the park with your last stint I love Bowie and I love Blackstar. I'm still so sad he's gone, but what a high note to go out on. It's my album of the millennium.

Yeah me too. I got all choked up whilst listening to Lazarus
The man’s music has followed me since I was 10 or so.
Still strange that he’s no longer here.

Blackstar though is a very rare accomplishment in that it genuinely sounds like an album spawned in the mind of someone who is still naive and childlike in his way around music. It is so rare you get that from musicians, especially successful musicians, 45 years into their career.

Franco Battiato’s from 2014 is like that as well imho. Mixes his early progressive rock albums with a contemporary type of electronica. Still get those poignant and wafting dove-like vocals as well as the slow oozing organs.
Perhaps not as great as Blackstar..but a damn fine album that takes it’s cue from the olden days..in a completely different light.

cstack3 wrote: The latest track by Jan Akkerman is the best thing I've heard in ages, it really harkens back to Focus' "Moving Waves"!   ...

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Absolutely. Latest Strawbs album is right up there with group's best works in the '70s.

cstack3 wrote: The latest track by Jan Akkerman is the best thing I've heard in ages, it really harkens back to Focus' "Moving Waves"!

Great video Charles! But you didn't mention King Crimson! I hope you're not ill. 

richardh wrote: verslibre wrote: AFlowerKingCrimson wrote: ABWH sounded of it's time though. Sure it had long songs and a prog influence but not as blatantly a return to the old prog sound as KTA was. It was similar to ELP(with Powell)'s 80's album that way. Prog sound but not a blatant return to the seventies just a tip of the hat to it. All IMO. Ok, now I'm done. :)   3 - To the Power of Three was much more of an attempt to sound "modern" compared to ELPowell. The 1986 album is better. Much better. "The Score" sounds about as "ELP" as you can get, too. They also included a classical cover. What the album lacks is a side-length piece, or suite.     Greg Lake actually addressed that at the time and regarded Side One as something that was continuous and you could strap the headphones on and immerse yourself . Personally my main issue with that album was there was so little Organ but for that little tease on the third track. Also the 'shouting' was not good for my ears! I much preferred Black Moon. Three To The Power Of Three at least had Desde La Vide but mostly was boring AOR.

 

David Bowie’s swansong Blackstar is one of the finest albums of this sort and truly stands shoulder to shoulder with his 70s oevre - some of it even giving a musical nod towards the olden days. I listened to it last night and was yet again completely blown away by this elderly man’s album.
Rest in peace my name-brother - you literally hit it out of the park with your last stint

Rememering some who have left this world, Gerard Hourbette's Art Zoyd delivered top class until the end, Holger Czukay's last work is still original and fresh, as are Jaki Liebezeit's last collaborations. Reflecting the spirit of the old times perhaps, but always reinventing themselves.