What artists can you not get enough of?

@mksun 

Hi. I’m the OP from the other thread…’’Are there any recording artists you just can’t listen to?’’

It was interesting to see the replies on this newer thread but l notice most are just a long list of names…..no facts as to why or what drives the appreciation of the artists.

Your list has added a new dimension to some of the long standing acts still active today……a time base. From what l deduce these time periods either offer up (in your opinion) the artists in their prime, or the period they meant the most to you?

@kb54 …..a good insight.

@immatthewj 

We are already aquainted through my post on the adverse effects of recording artists and has offered up the best reply so far to this new subject…..A really comprehensive and heartfelt answer to the OP @tomcarr 

Way to many to list...

These and many others, hold up for me, extremely well for repeated listenings. Although, some of them I don't listen to as often as I used to, since keeping up with new, great music in these genres keeps me plenty busy. 

Prog:

King Crimson 

Yes - only up to Drama, nothing after is of interest to me. 

Genesis - only up to Wind and Wuthering, everything after is unlistenable to me.

PFM - Incredible Italian prog band.

Univers Zero - avant-prog from Belgium.

Gentle Giant

Änglagård - Hybris

Magma - Could be my favorite prog band. 

Jazz:

Return to Forever

Mahavishnu Orchestra

Allan Holdsworth

John Coltrane

McCoy Tyner

Steve Coleman

Anthony Braxton

Weather Report

Mary Halvorson

Brand X

Keith Jarrett

The Art Ensemble of Chicago

Classical:

Elliott Carter - Uncompromising avant-garde composer.

The Second Viennese school - i.e., Schoenberg, Berg, Webern

Charles Wuorinen

Joan Tower

Kaija Saariaho

Bruno Maderna

Beat Furrer

Olga Neuwirth

Magnus Lindberg

Gyorgy Ligeti

 

Miscellaneous:

Frank Zappa - He covers all bases for me, he has music that is classifiable as prog (Inca Roads, as 1 example) , jazz (Big Swifty), classical (Yellow Shark, Perfect Stranger).

My “can’t get enough” formula includes the number of concerts attended, cumulative listening hours over how many decades. Only winners for me:

Yes - including Rick Wakeman solo. Massive variations of talent with outstanding mixes /remixes, always a check out experience. Enjoying Yes for almost 50 years including attending Jon Anderson  and the Band Geeks concert this Friday in Sacramento, my 12th Yes related show, the first being 46 years ago.

Acoustic Alchemy - How they rip those acoustic guitar licks is beyond comprehension. Live performances are incredible, always at a small venue. Attending my 14th concert in July @ Blue Note, Napa.

Bty, thank you for this post and contributions, always looking for new artists to explore via Qobez!

 

 

@immatthewj 

We are already aquainted through my post on the adverse effects of recording artists and has offered up the best reply so far to this new subject…..A really comprehensive and heartfelt answer to the OP @tomcarr 

I am not exactly sure what you are saying there, @mylogic , but what I was intending to convey is that any more it is not so much artists that I cannot live without, but certain CDs.  I would probably list in no particular order of preference:  Darkness On The Edge Of Town/Springsteen, Blood On The Tracks/Dylan, Trinity Sessions and Whites Off Earth Now/Cowboy Junkies, Simple Dreams/Ronstadt, Excitable Boy/Zevon, Fire And Rain/Jacintha, Running On Empty/Jackson Browne, Cafe Blue and Modern Cool/Barber,  Sweet Old World/Lucinda, Train A Coming and I Feel Alright/Earle and probably quite a few more.  

But I don’t know that I am any longer obsessed with any artists.  .  

On edit:  I suppose I would add Guitar Town/Steve Earle and possibly The Ghost Of Tom Joad/Springsteen to the cannot live without list.  I’d say Born To Run/Springsteen because the song writing is just so great, but the reason I wouldn’t put it on my list is that I do not do vinyl and I just have not found a digital copy that has very good SQ (at least not in my room on my system).  I might add The Wild The Innocent And The E-Street Shuffle/Springsteen to my list, simply for the  song Incident On 57th Street.  At one time Highway 61 Revisited and Blonde On Blonde/Dylan would have made my cannot live without list, but probably not right now.   I think I might add Lucinda’s self titled and her Happy Woman Blues to my cannot live without list, and I will also say that Black Eyed Man/Cowboy Junkies was once on that list, and after further thought, I’d keep it there, but if I could ever find a better SQ digital copy, I'd jump all over it.

Smokey Robinson/ The Miracles, Otis Redding, James Brown & some more James Brown And The Flames, Al Green, Sam Cook, Solomon Burke, Ray Charles, Al Wilson, Lou Rawls, Bill Withers, Earth Wind and Fire. Enjoy the music