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It has nothing to do with Phish. I also brought up Waylon Jennings, Tool, and Young Dolph. Maybe I just have eclectic taste?

Ween has a great catalog.

For the record, while I did recommend Phish due to the nature of the thread(bands to obsess over), they aren’t a band I frequently listen to. A lot of people obsess over them though. Every other artist I listed gets frequent airtime at my house.

Highly Suspect, Joywave, Nothing but Thieves - my top 3 favorite bands.

I also would recommend Osees (or Ohsees, The Ohsees, whatever the hell they’re going by now) if we’re talking about bands with dozens of records that all sound wildly different. Even just their Orc trilogy alone is enough to get lost in, and that was just like one phase for this band.

It’s so weird to me to see Ween brought up in the same comment thread as Grateful Dead and Herbie Hancock

I know it’s because Phish covered Roses Are Free and that exposed Ween to a whole new audience

But frankly, Ween deserve their own comment thread, they’re one of the best. Weird fuckers who write goofy songs but are also really skilled musicians with a phenomenal band.

+1 for Blonde Redhead

Dunno, when I think of landmark years in music it does tend to be new and exciting artists that spring to mind. Later albums by old bands can be interesting but rarely as good as when they were at their peak. For many it is familiarity they like over anything else. How much Skrillex do people even need!

That means it dies though. These are just cycles though so I am just saying when oversaturation occurs to its own detriment. You go too mainstream and it runs the risk of becoming a joke like blues guitarists or glam metal along with at the same time obscuring creative artists who will be influencing the next wave

No. A basis of rock is blues. These folks drove the blues music into the ground to the point where it has restricted them. Even us guitar players make fun of it now. The new rock will shed it's blues roots I think and be more unrecognizable. I see a great shift in poplarity and influence in stuff that is clearly very rock based but has shedded its blues basis, bands like Infected Mushroom, Meshuggah. Sorry but I am under the impression Greta Van Fleet and Ghost are just boomer bait and not meaningful contributions to movement at all. The existence of Jack Black and that popularity is a sign it the old ways of "classic rock" became a parody of itself. You will also be able to see a huge growth in more creative means to this end since now entire studios can fit on your lap.

The early days of rock are clear and they were blues based they beat it into the ground and now the direction is being taken many different places.

I am not a historian but am a huge music fan and musician who plays music from before written history to now. People do a thing, then someone else comes along and does it extremely well so everyone likes that, then everyone does that, over saturation occurs then people use those same methods but to meet a different end as a rejection of what was done before. Those people who do it as a rejection do it extremely well and the cycle repeats. Like the spirit of classical music rock won't die but it may become unrecognizable to its former self

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Yea, I hate it when bands I like put out stuff I like.

Luis Alberto spinetta

If two Skrillex records defines a good year then I may just stop listening to music and burn all the records I already own.

Try out Normandie

Crossfade Start with Colors, move onto Dead Skin If you like those bands, you’ll love this one!

Yeah. I like to remind people Sha Na Na also played Woodstock. 😂

Bruce Springsteen with the Seeger sessions at the New Orleans jazz fest in 2006 7 months after Katrina. The whole crowd singing We shall overcome together and my city in ruins was incredibly moving.

People seem under the misconception that at one time you could turn on the radio and hear nothing but rock on every station.

That world never existed.

Did you try asking on /r/TheCure ?

The music business isn’t what it was 30 years ago. It’s a lot harder for new bands to get any exposure. You have to pay bigger bands to headline for them, do your own merch, production, marking everything. There are very few new artists getting contracts anymore. It really needs to be a passion because your most likely going to loose money for a long time. My guy always tells me of artists having gold/platinum records and living at their moms.

Rock is second in streaming behind Hip Hop and that has held constantly for many years. Rock never dies. It’s just media who talk about it being dead.

https://musicalpursuits.com/music-streaming/

Nothing sad about it

Bit sad if the best year in music is marked by lots of old acts releasing new stuff.

Thanks for the existential dread. Getting older