Is there a band that you have followed forever and still love?

thumpingrug

Marillion are probably the only long lived band that I have followed since the very early days and ongoing.  I appreciate that Axisus has a view that the music changed when Fish went his separate way, I happen to think that it refreshed the band and certainly once they managed to dump EMI and go it alone their Music just got better and better. 

Springsteen since Born to Run, though there are a couple of the more recent folky albums that haven't done it for me.  Ive still get them though. 

and Chris Rea is the only other artist that I have a complete set of.  The later blues/jazz releases where very good indeed.

Cranky

Sublime
Foo Fighters
Zeppelin
Bob Marley
The Beatles
Pearl Jam
Elliott Smith
Notorious BIG

Caffeine_Vampire

Patti Smith.

rivercider

Philly_Q said:

The first band that sprang to mind would've been Rush, but they are sadly no more.  Probably the only band I followed for 40 years who were as good at the end as they were in the beginning, and anywhere in between.  And hardly ever a duff album.

Bob Mould - I have hardly any of the Husker Du albums, but I have all his solo material and the Sugar albums.  I don't listen to them very often, though.

Bob Mould's latest album, Sunshine Rock, is excellent, I reckon.  His best solo work (and I'm including Sugar there).
I grew up on Husker Du, but you should probably avoid the early stuff. New Day Rising is my pick of their more evolved early output and a great place to start of they're not familiar to you.

I only recently tried Rush again, having always struggled with the vocal to be honest.  Great musicians of course, and this time around I'm enjoying listening to them.

Kebabkid

Steely Dan & Donald Fagen
Toto
Journey for quite a while
Thin Lizzy
Crowded House and subsequent Finn projects
The Police and subsequent Sting projects
Lewis Taylor

stickyfiddle

Wis for Foo Fighters. I know some find them bland, but the songwriting and live quality has been there from day 1 and recent records have still been decent.  

I agree with @ICBM on Pearl Jam. I like Vedder's voice, and I do love Even Flow but I've tried really hard with a lot of the rest and I just don't quite get it.

ICBM

viz said:

Duran Duran

I nearly said them too, but there are a couple of terrible albums from the late 90s when John Taylor had left. The ones after he came back have been pretty good though.

thumpingrug said: 

Springsteen since Born to Run, though there are a couple of the more recent folky albums that haven't done it for me.  Ive still get them though.

I’ve got all of them too, but it’s actually the other way round for me - it’s the more rocky ones that I haven’t liked after the late 90s... they just sound like the same formula over and over but without much inspiration.

Looking at my collection, the last 'rock' song he did that I really liked was the band version of Blood Brothers, which is on the Secret Garden single from 1995.

axisus

thumpingrug said:

Marillion are probably the only long lived band that I have followed since the very early days and ongoing.  I appreciate that Axisus has a view that the music changed when Fish went his separate way, I happen to think that it refreshed the band and certainly once they managed to dump EMI and go it alone their Music just got better and better. 

Springsteen since Born to Run, though there are a couple of the more recent folky albums that haven't done it for me.  Ive still get them though. 

I love the way that they have conducted themselves as a band, and I do think that they produce great, thoughtful and well executed music. The problem I have is that none of it actually moves me, well, one track, I think that Easter is superb. I have 8 of the later albums but I have no recollection of any song on any album, where I can sing along to everything on the first four!

digitalkettle

axisus said:

thumpingrug said:

Marillion are probably the only long lived band that I have followed since the very early days and ongoing.  I appreciate that Axisus has a view that the music changed when Fish went his separate way, I happen to think that it refreshed the band and certainly once they managed to dump EMI and go it alone their Music just got better and better. 

Springsteen since Born to Run, though there are a couple of the more recent folky albums that haven't done it for me.  Ive still get them though. 

I love the way that they have conducted themselves as a band, and I do think that they produce great, thoughtful and well executed music. The problem I have is that none of it actually moves me, well, one track, I think that Easter is superb. I have 8 of the later albums but I have no recollection of any song on any album, where I can sing along to everything on the first four!

We’re gonna need a separate Marillion thread!

Fish era: 4 albums in 4 years
H era: 15 albums in 27 years

You must be able to immerse yourself in ‘Brave’ or ‘FEAR’ and come out thinking they’re on par with the first four in some way...do it!

That said, they have to hit you at the right time. I know ‘Clutching at Straws’ is not their strongest and things were coming apart at the seams but I have a soft spot for it (discovered them in 1985...worked backwards...then anticipated the next release). I also had a disconnect...actually after ‘Seasons End’...but I’m glad I got over it.

fretmeister

DrJazzTap said:

Faith No More

I forgot them!

Yes, definitely.

axisus

digitalkettle said:

You must be able to immerse yourself in ‘Brave’ or ‘FEAR’ and come out thinking they’re on par with the first four in some way...do it!

I have Brave and Fear, bought both on release. Sorry they are OK but they don't really do it for me. Those first four albums had amazing guitar solos that ripped your heart out! Every one was a highlight. They had keyboard solos as well. H is a fine singer, but there was a passion about Fish that I loved. The fact is that they toned down the guitar solos after the first 4 albums. Personally I liked Script and Fugazi best, although the two that followed had amazing class and precision to the production. I couldn't get into Fish's solo career either. The magic was the band.

Litterick

Pere Ubu.

Reverend

Philly_Q said:

Reverend said:

Trouble 

Oh gosh, how did I forget Trouble?  Although I'm not sure if I liked the last album with Kyle Thomas and I'm also not sure if they're still a going concern.

They are still going, based on Kyle and Rick's facebook pages. They were supposed to play here a few weeks back.

Danny1969

Kings of Leon .... I look forward to every new release and love everything they put out. Nobody sounds like them and they have a knack of writing songs that get better with repeated listening rather than get boring. 
They also "sound" like a band where so many sound like a song writer, a bunch of session men and a producer. You can tell a lot of it is ol skool live recording. 

hollywoodrox

Guns n roses , Rolling Stones , van halen ,Aerosmith , crüe,Leppard ,Dokken,Ratt ,bang tango 

hollywoodrox

kennedydream1980 said:

Toto
It Bites
Steely Dan
Francis Dunnery
and in more recent times Steven Wilson.

Toto rule love isolation and the seventh one , also love 80s starship like knee deep in hoopla and the burn 

scrumhalf

I've been a fan of Deep Purple since Machine Head came out. There have been lengthy periods of no product and poor product but in their prime they were brilliant. 

ICBM

scrumhalf said:

I've been a fan of Deep Purple since Machine Head came out. There have been lengthy periods of no product and poor product but in their prime they were brilliant. 

I've tried, but I just haven't liked anything that wasn't done by the Mk2 or Mk3 line-ups.

Philly_Q

ICBM said:

scrumhalf said:

I've been a fan of Deep Purple since Machine Head came out. There have been lengthy periods of no product and poor product but in their prime they were brilliant. 

I've tried, but I just haven't liked anything that wasn't done by the Mk2 or Mk3 line-ups.

Would you include the 1980s albums by the re-formed Mk2 lineup?  I thought they were OK. 

I have several of the albums with Morse (and latterly Airey) but I've only played them once or twice each.  I've always found Gillan's voice and - even more so - his lyrical style a bit irritating, but he gets worse as he gets older. 

viz

@ICBM said:

viz said:

Duran Duran

I nearly said them too, but there are a couple of terrible albums from the late 90s when John Taylor had left. The ones after he came back have been pretty good though.

thumpingrug said: 

Springsteen since Born to Run, though there are a couple of the more recent folky albums that haven't done it for me.  Ive still get them though.

I’ve got all of them too, but it’s actually the other way round for me - it’s the more rocky ones that I haven’t liked after the late 90s... they just sound like the same formula over and over but without much inspiration.

Looking at my collection, the last 'rock' song he did that I really liked was the band version of Blood Brothers, which is on the Secret Garden single from 1995.

Like what? Big Thing and Liberty? (I’m guessing coz I can’t remember who’s in what)