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I thought of another questions to pose to the forum! What band or artist could you listen to over and over and over again and never get tired of hearing them? Or do you think you'd grow tired of hearing them eventually?

Would love to hear your thoughts and reasoning!


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The list is long, but as a start, Bob James, Oscar Peterson, Elton John, Peter Nero.


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The list is long, but as a start, Bob James, Oscar Peterson, Elton John, Peter Nero.


Chuckle....yea....it can be if we think too deeply about it.

Me...I can confidently state Steely Dan/Alan Parsons/Chicago.

My "reasoning"?....none are inherently (IMO) pop pablum, stellar musicianship, excellent vocals, original song writing.

Buuut....that's just me.

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I think I could listen to "Rumours" by Fleetwood Mac every day for the rest of my life and never get bored of it.


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For me, it's Chicago, Maynard Ferguson, Little River Band, Styx, Chase, Billy Joel, Beatles, Burton Cummings (both solo and with The Guess Who), and The Eagles.


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There's some great choices here! What about them do you feel makes it possible for you to listen to them repeatedly without growing bored or annoyed of them? What about them is special to you guys?


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Artists (composers) especially their symphonies:
  • Antonin Dvořák
  • Pyotr Tchaikovsky
  • Josef Suk
  • Dmitri Shostakovich
  • Ludwig Beethoven
  • Sergei Prokofiev
  • Camille Saint-Saëns
  • Manuel de Falla
  • Aram Khachaturian
  • Fikret Amirov
  • and quite a few others, that will pop into my brain as soon as I click "Submit".

While I can listen to songs and/or artists from other genres of music hundreds and hundreds of times, something about the complexity of a great symphony will allow me to discover new things about the same piece of music even after I've heard it hundreds of times.

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Steely Dan for several reasons. Unusual chord changes, great arrangements, tremendous guitar playing (up through Gaucho), beautiful sounding records.

Louis Jordan for the funny lyrics, great playing and the joy in the records.

Brian Setzer for the arrangements and his playing.

Allman Brothers: "Brothers and Sisters" and "Win, Lose or Draw". The songs, the playing (particularly Dickie Betts) and the quality of the recordings.

Dire Straits Brothers in Arms. Songs full of emotion, recording quality and production.

Chris Whitley Living with the Law. Gritty, emotional, sensuous songs. It may be one of those things that hits you or doesn't.


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I'll have to think about my own answers and post a little blurb on it. The band Red immediately comes to mind, but I'd like to think of a few others and see if there's any parallels between them and report back.


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Other than Ember’s response, most mentioned so far are out of the business of releasing new music.

Of artists still releasing music, U2 is on my list. So are Radiohead, Elbow, The War on Drugs, The Choir, Kings of Leon, Temples, Stryper (yes they are still at it and they still do hair metal better than anyone-it’s a guilty pleasure), Ulrich Schauss, Beck, Allison Krauss and all the members of Union Station, Stevie Wonder, Snarky Puppy, Vulfpeck, Andrew Peterson, Coldplay, Switchfoot,

Of those that have stopped with original band members:
Death Cab For Cutie
The Beatles
The Beach Boys
Yes
Van Halen
Journey
Foreigner
38 Special
77’s
Adam Again
Talking Heads
Brian Eno
SRV
Rush
James Taylor
Tom Petty, and the Heartbreakers
Aaron Copland
Anything the Funk Brothers played on
Nick Drake
Fairport Convention
Jimi Hendrix
Some Miles Davis
Some Coltrane
Herbie Hancock
Jaco Pastorius
Run DMC
Deepspace5
Doc Watson
Ricky Skaggs
Bill Evans
Commodores
Anberlin





Of those dead before I was born:
Gustav Holst
Gabriel Fauré
Erik Satie
Bach Organ Fugues (the original heavy metal!)
Hildegard von Bingen
Scott Joplin
Antonio Vivaldi






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Well, given that the original thesis was "band or artist" (singular), not a list of 30, I will answer that way, and it would be Tower Of Power.

With the lineup turnover over their 51 year history, you get your choice of a couple of dozen singers, a long list of horn players that have flowed through, yet with that core stayed the same, their catalog of 30-ish albums, with enough live stuff in there that there are not the "canned" studio versions with the same solos, you can stay entertained for a long time with a lot of different flavor. I had the chance to meet some of them when Vito SanFillippo was their bass player when Rocco took a health related break, and he brought a handful of the players to an after show thing at a bar.

I don't think I have every CD of theirs, but I do have probably a dozen. Great stuff that can't help but get your toes tappin'. Mario turned me on to their last one and it did not disappoint.

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My choice today is different than it would be 10-15 years ago. Then I had not come to the full realization the Beatles had become better as solo artists than together as Beatles. I would say the same about The Eagles although they were slower to lose their essence and today, to me, have evolved into mostly a tribute band.

With the band I choose today, I'm still finding new songs from the large body of work through their own releases, collaborations, songs written for and recorded by other artists. They are a group that was active with all the original members from 1958-2003 and recording and releasing commercially from 1965-2003 -


My selection is the Bee Gee's.

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Gregg Allman - solo or with the ABB. For us Gregg’s voice defines the emotive power of the blues. As a fine example we listen to the ABB (with Eric Clapton) at the Beacon Theater (2009) perform T-Bone Walker’s “Stormy Monday” very frequently. The pundits who’ve for decades attempted to define the ABB as simply a “southern rock” band show a poor understanding of the ABB’s fusion of rock, soul, R&B and jazz.

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The reason the artists/bands I mentioned resonate with me is because they resonated with me when I first heard them and 40-50 years later, they still resonate and they are still my intentional go-to for listening (even though I have literally thousands of choices available). For some of them, I have also seen them play live in concert, which makes for another kind of connection.

For two of them (Beatles and Billy Joel), I recently had the conundrum in that Sirius/XM Radio was running both a special Beatles channel and a special Billy Joel channel concurrently. I only have XM Radio in my car, so I can only listen while driving (which is usually just 10-15 minutes to/from work). Tough choice. I ended up listening to Billy Joel coming home from work and the Beatles going to work. Both were great in that I heard a number of live recordings I had not heard before, include a Beatles song that I didn't know about (don't know how that happened), but just loved. So even in something old, I find something new.


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Most artists / composers has made music that I can get tired of, so I prefer to mention albums, musical works or compositions that I never get tired of listening to.

Above all is "Dark side of the moon" (Pink Floyd).
Also:

Boston (Boston)
Gaucho (Steely Dan)
Rumours (Fleetwood Mac)
Équinoxe (Jean-Michel Jarre)
"Around the world in a day" and "Sign o' the times" (Prince)
Symphony no. 9 (Gustav Mahler)
Scary Monsters (David Bowie)
Club Classics (vol. 1) Soul II Soul
Unfinished Sympathy (Massive Attack)
...and many, many others when I think about it... especially works from Bach, Chopin, Beethoven, Debussy and many of the Russian composers.

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Another vote for Don and Walt I'm afraid.
As far as I'm concerned, there's the Dan. And then there's everybody else.
Funny but I never noticed the guitar playing tailing off post-Gaucho!

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Great post !!! Quite often, musicians like what other musicians also like - I've got a bunch of new names to try. And - btw - all my favorites are covered above already...

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I don't have Two Against but I have seen a good bit of video from the last few years. My opinion is based on that.

As much as I love Becker's solo on Black Friday, a lot of his other work just sounds like noodling to me. He is smooth but I don't hear themes and his solos don't seem to build to anything. And they turned a lot of the solos over to him.

The other guy (I think it's John Herrington)is much stronger IMO.

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