This will probably say at least as much about people's tastes as it does about the music.
Ground rules: Nothing later than the 70s.
Was listening to live Allman Brothers in the car yesterday. Still great stuff. Likewise Little Feat.
Posted on: 25 September 2010 by JRHardee
And Creedence. And, surprisingly, Steppenwolf.
Posted on: 26 September 2010 by BigH47
Cue all the music that's in the "hasn't aged well" thread.
Posted on: 26 September 2010 by Voltaire
Mozart?
Posted on: 26 September 2010 by Guido Fawkes
quote:
Originally posted by Voltaire: Mozart?
Do you think people will still remember him in a few years time?
Agree with Creedence and Steppenwolf and there are lots of others - Chas n Dave.
Posted on: 27 September 2010 by Jono 13
David Bowie, Talking Heads and Kraktwerk meet the late '70's criteria and still sound great.
Jono
Posted on: 27 September 2010 by Pedro
Lindisfarne.
Pete
Posted on: 27 September 2010 by Bananahead
The Clash
Posted on: 28 September 2010 by JamieL_v2
Although the remasters have done the best to destroy the sound.
Posted on: 28 September 2010 by Salmon Dave
Pentangle and Nick Drake - timeless. Took me a long time to 'get' Pink Moon, I have to admit. There are some stunning, note and pitch perfect, live videos of Pentangle on Youtube.
Judee Sill, Anne Briggs, Karen Dalton - recent discoveries for me, quite superb.
Piper at the Gates of Dawn - one record that seems to have shone with its recent remaster (the LP always sounded a bit muddy to me).
Another vote for Little Feat - see the Netherlands 1976 concert on YouTube for a staggering performance.
Posted on: 29 September 2010 by Bruce Woodhouse
My first proper listen to The Beatles was buying some of the recent re-masters. Did not cross my mind when listening to Revolver for example that it was in anyway dated.
Bruce
Posted on: 01 October 2010 by George Fredrik
Perhaps it might be a reasonable definition of music that has aged well, could be that it speaks powerfully to the generation [and generations] of people who come after the first that heard it.
Gracy Fields had a very long career, but she barely is known today among people aged thirty or younger, so sadly perhaps her musical contribution has not aged so well in the end. Similarly, for Edith Piaf, for example.
I wonder how well Rock and Pop music will speak to the young in 50 or 60 years time after the original artists have retired?
Just as people of my age [born in 1961] may well find more pleasure in the music of Petula Clark compared to that of Lady Gaga, perhaps people of my grandparent's generation would have preferred Gracie Fields to Petula Clark ...
The music that has most successfully "aged well" is surely to be found among the "classics" and often the current generation will know this music as part of the general cultural grounding without even knowing what the music is! Most people could probably name the Fifth Symphony by Beethoven, but of music known, but not by name, it is easy to imagine that Bach wrote a huge number of examples.
I don't think that any other composer wrote so much music that seems timeless, though many composers did from Handel to Wagner, and to Stravinsky – just for three notable examples!
The great thing is that if we are still of a generation where the popular music of the 60s till the present day still speaks to us, and we enjoy it, what does it matter if it becomes a musical footnote for future generations - as Gracie Fields has for the under thirties? We still get pleasure from it
By this reasonable definition - I believe - we shall not live long enough to know whether much of today's [and the music of the last fifty years or so - classical or popular] really will age well.
Best wishes from George
Posted on: 02 October 2010 by ray davis
could it be Hifi was not as good as some of the recordings made and did not do them justice. One of my oldest recording is Bing Crosby and Rosemary Clooney sound track to Slow Boat to China, its old crackles and its good to relax to.
Posted on: 03 October 2010 by Guido Fawkes
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Gracy Fields had a very long career, but she barely is known today among people aged thirty or younger, so sadly perhaps her musical contribution has not aged so well in the end. Similarly, for Edith Piaf, for example.
I wonder how well Rock and Pop music will speak to the young in 50 or 60 years time after the original artists have retired?
Just as people of my age [born in 1961] may well find more pleasure in the music of Petula Clark compared to that of Lady Gaga, perhaps people of my grandparent's generation would have preferred Gracie Fields to Petula Clark ...
Welcome back Dear George .. and controversial as ever
Lady Gaga is tripe IMHO (I mean just look at her dress), but Gracie and Petula are both wonderful - I have lots of records by both.
This track contains a solo that is all too rare these days on the Spoons.
Dear George can I recommend you try
Entertainment of the highest order - 5CDs for under £7.
As for Ms Clark, I doubt it is still possible to find this wonderful brace of albums
but if you look downtown and avoid sleeping down in the subway you never know.
ATB and good to have you back on song, Rotf
PS - I'm also a big fan of Marie Lloyd, Vesta Tilley and Lillie Langtry - but ask the kids of today and they know nothing: it's all rop and hap-hip or some such nonsense.
Posted on: 03 October 2010 by George Fredrik
Sir Edard Elgar [1857-1934] was a great fan of both Marie Lloyd, and Gracie Fields.
In 1930 he was allowed to sit in on one of Gracie's recording sessions having just finished one of his own downstairs after having been told she was in the building.
Her account of the meeting is electrifying! To be found in Jerrold Northrop Moore's book [OUP], "Elgar On Record." Elgar's own diary entry is much shorter, but just as immediate and complimentary [also quoted in Moore's tome]!
