Recently had a long drive, wherein in listened to some of my favorites. Went deep into my Lenny Kravitz collection. Man, he is simply awesome. Is there anyone cooler than Lenny?
Not hip to current culture. Maybe someone has supplanted Lenny.
Educate me.
'I define fear as standing across from Joe Louis and knowing he wants to go home early.' - Max Baer
Back in the day, I was a big U2 and REM guy...had all their albums from their first ones on. But Bono and Stipe? Meh. The more popular they got, the less I liked their music. Guess I don't go for superstars.
I like music. I like a wide variety of music. But the artists themselves?...They come and they go. I don't get attached anymore.
Seems like the upcoming generation (late teens, and twenties) are even more like "what have you done for me lately." They don't go and buy every album of a band and listen to them over and over agian. They have song lists which likely have a few songs each from many artists, and I don't think they have any hardcore allegiances to any particular "mofo."
Evil preaches tolerance until it is dominant, then it tries to silence good.
There are no real cool rockers out there that haven't been out there for decades. That's why the Stones are still
a choice (God help us).
The cool dudes and dudettes arrived int he 50's 60's and 70's. After than it's been a thinning out of talent.
As for Kravitz. I saw him in the early 80's trying to break into the Rock scene and he was unimpressive then. He dressed like
he was Jim Morrison, hammered his guitar like Randy Bachman and sang like he couldn't carry a tune. He was about as
original as a hangover. So, I never saw him as cool. He's gleaned a lot of respect over the years though I'm not sure why.
Most of the stuff today is auto tuned schlock, derivative and not very original but there are a few bands out there that deserve
consideration.
You may have posted to be rhetorical but maybe not. Your tastes will not align with mine but maybe you'll hear something that
stretches you tastes.
There's a reason why Buddy Holly, the Beatles, Stones, Doors, Zeppelin, Hendrix, N. Young, Cash and more are still on most
radio play lists - Outside of what is crap hip-hop/rap - there's not too much that's exciting - or cool.
My most favorite artist in the music world is Dimash from Kazakhstan (maybe the greatest male vocalist ever on this earth)
If you liked Nirvana - the continuation of that band is The Foo Fighters. Not bad at all.
I've been listening to tons of Ethiopian jazz. Some good stuff there.
