(03-31-2022, 12:42 PM)mikesez Wrote:

(03-31-2022, 11:16 AM)The Real Marty Wrote: There are songs and there are whole groups that haven't held up for me over time. 

Groups- The Doors and Led Zeppelin.  I don't like them at all any more. 

Individual songs- Back when I was listening to that type of music, it came in the form of vinyl albums, so you listened to the whole album.  Some songs were good and some songs, in hindsight, were crap.  The Rolling Stones, The Who, Cream, and Jimi Hendrix- those were some of my favorites, but their albums had some great songs and some crap songs on them.  Or The Beatles- Strawberry Fields is a great song.  Rocky Raccoon, for example, is pure garbage.  But they didn't sell "songs," they sold albums, so you had to take the good with the bad. 

I also find that some stuff that I dismissed when I was young was actually pretty good.  Pink Floyd sailed right past me.  I wasn't paying attention. 

That was all 60s and 70s music.  I still listen to a lot of 60s and 70s music.  By that I mean 1860s and 1870s.

The Doors made a lot of harsh and overly energetic stuff, but, to me, a couple of their songs really hold up.  Light my Fire and The Crystal Ship are both really original compositions/arrangements, without being so original or so complicated that they fall under their own weight.

As far as Led Zep, obviously Jimmy Page is a master, but there are a lot of guitar masters you don't necessarily want to listen to for very long.  Buckethead, Malmsteen, etc.  Led Zep weren't the originators of loud blues, that was Jimi.  But the teenage, adolescent energy Led Zep captured is remarkable.  I haven't been a teenage male in let's not say how long, but they captured that excess violent emotional energy really well. I remember what it was like and those recordings remember it too. As older males we don't relate to it anymore, but we do remember it.

Agreed about Pink Floyd, they are certainly music for more mature audiences than Led Zep or the Doors.

Zep's early recordings are energetic if highly derivative, but their later albums covered a lot of experimental territory from rock to country to pop to folk to even yes, reggae. They are still one of my favorite bands although I find I like the less popular recordings best. III and Houses of the Holy particularly.

The Doors never did it for me. The lyrics were mostly drunken ramblings and the musicianship was nothing particularly special IMO. Mrs. MarleyJag is fond of them though.

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