Bands who have aged with you....

Very few bands from the 1970s are as they were then, but the name ('brand', even) lives on in most cases. I had cause to check the Wikipedia entry for Canned Heat earlier today, and their list of former members is comically long.

That said, a friend and I had a barbecue on my roof terrace this afternoon while listening to Ten Years After's 'Watt' and Wishbone Ash's 'Argus': superb!

Sonic Youth, cannot think of any other band that would be releasing an album as strong and relevant as "The Eternal "  after 30 years.

An honourable mention also for Neil Young check out his latest Le Noise. It rocks.

Not forgetting "The Church" I have 21 of their albums, only one" best of" as well.

Good thread by the way.

Rush, Neil Young.

Rolling Stones, Tom Petty, U2 . . . and honorable mention goes to Led Zeppelin, perhaps?

Springsteen seems a rather obvious inclusion

Slayer, still as heavy and fast as ever

The Cure

Meat Beat Manifesto, under-rated electronica group still going at it

Cranes

Bands that didn't stay with me...Can't get into U2 since after the Joshua Tree (don't like anything from them after that).  Can't get into Metallica anymore either ...And Justice For All was their last good one for me.  I am not saying either band is bad now, just a matter of taste for me.  Finally, I don't like Rush after Signals.  Power Windows made me sick. They have had some good stuff since then, but I like the old Rush.

I saw The Human League last week and came away wanting Susan Sulley to sit on my face. I'm not sure what this means.

It means that you are human.

Half Man Half Biscuit (they just get better and better)

Fairport Convention (not quite as good as ever, but still great after all these years)

Ozric Tentacles (album after album of highly listenable music)

If we extended it to artists then Scott Walker and Ritchie Blackmore (Purple, Rainbow, Night - the music never stops). 

The new Uriah Heep album is a bit of a disappointment. 

All the best, Guy 

Neil Young, certainly, though diminished compared to the stellar heights of yesteryear (Le Noize was very good), Robert Fripp in his various guises, Eno, and (seagull where are you?) Van Der Graaf all put out original stuff that still does them great credit.

Over the last ten years or so I've gradually become reconciled with seeing the bands of my youth re-treading the boards in the (dis)guise of respectable retired accountants, estate agents and plumbers in bald decrepitude (much as myself) instead of hip, hirsute rebels (highly honourable exception to Iggy/Stooges). And it no longer seems unlikely that they can rock as well as and often play better than 40 years or so ago.

As a young man I couldn't imagine someone like Daevid Allen performing the way he did in Brighton last year at the age of 72 and I shall definitely be using him as some sort of inspiration the next time the dread of approaching 60 sneaks up on me.

Tom Waits

Bob Dylan

Bruce Springsteen. I've been a fan since 73 or thereabouts and still get excited when a new release is due.

My youth goes back to the late 70's so not a lot of bands remaining from that era that I listened to back them with current releases...except The Fall.

And good to see Sonic Youth mentioned above.

Let me see ... as a teenager in the 60s ...

Rolling Stones

Hollies (still going strong, albeit with some changes)

I suppose you could say one of the many groups calling themselves  "The Drifters", although they probably bear little relationship to the original.

Not many others, alas. 

Robert Wyatt - from his earliest days in the Soft Machine to current projects.

I have to shamefuuly admit I forgot Killing Joke very few bad albums and their last two are classics.

Jaz Coleman is quite unique, "penning  music that sounds like your eardrum pressed against an industrial sander", although the Apocalypse had not happened yet!!. Geordie is perhaps my favourite guitarist an unmistakeable sound and instantly identifiable sound.

Their recent album Absolute dissent is brillant, and recorded with the original line up.

I agree.  In the words of John Peel 'Always different always the same'

I reckon I've aged rather better than the music(ians) of my teens; Jethro Tull, Horslips, U2, Rush. Even my favourite student-years artists have failed to last the course; The Smiths, Prefab Sprout: James, 10,000 Maniacs

I really struggled to think of anyone I've liked consistently who has also grown and developed their music. Half a nod to Billy Bragg perhaps?

Bruce