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For the jazz / Blue Note fans - the BN store has 40-50% off on Tone Poet LPs. Just ordered a few I don't have.

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Read an article a few months ago about people's responses to "when X was best", X being music, economy, various things. Most of it tracked pretty strongly with certain ages. Music, as I recall, was pegged to the best being when the person was about 15.

Unless you really dive into it, so much is forgotten that it's hard to really assess. So like everyone else, I'll wing it too, lol. Note that I turned 15 in 1979...

But for me, the 1960s are a decade that really broke open so many possibilities in music that set the stage for a lot that followed. Rock obviously had major creative inputs from the British Invasion to the beginnings of prog and metal, Frank Zappa and other "art rock". The Brits brought the blues back to the US and helped revive or raise the careers of great black blues musicians like Muddy Waters, Taj Mahal and BB King.

Then for me as a big jazz fan, there was a tremendous amount of experimentation building on the established mix of big band / swing / hard bop in the 1950s. John Coltrane, Miles Davis, Eric Dolphy, Grant Green and others produced incredibly influential records in styles varying from avant garde / free jazz to funk / soul jazz, and the beginnings of fusion.

Hitch A Ride is great. ALL of the songs, except for "Let Me Take You Home Tonight" are very good to great IMO. That's the only miss for me - just a banal, generic rock song. I found out years later it was the only one not written by Scholz.

Wish I could have seen them live in their heyday.

Boston's debut was my entry to getting into rock and prog rock. I was 12-13 when it came out and my first 2 LP purchases were Boston, and Kiss's Rock and Roll Over. Both bought at least in part because of the covers, lol.

My favorite track was and will always be not one one of the 2 most people remember and mention, but the longer Foreplay / Long Time. The instrumental opener, Foreplay, blew me away - I had never heard anything like that with the spacey guitar sounds and organ. I always wanted more of THAT but they never really did it. The follow up records were too polished and pop rock for my taste, shorn of energy. But I soon discovered Rush which solved that.

This has been going on for decades in IT. I was told in 1999 to train an Indian replacement who was in Bangalore, and who had zero experience in what I was supporting then and very low knowledge.

My office HERE in the US is basically completely Indian now, too. I'm the only non Indian on most calls I'm on. They are good folks, and most are more competent now than that 25 years ago. But it's still very disconcerting and at times upsetting to walk in that door and feel like I moved to another country. Musk and others have used H1B as an exploitative loophole for their benefit to bring in lower paid workers who owe their existence to the company b/c it controls their visa.

As others have said, way too subjective. Lots of fantastic musicians out there and many mentioned already.

Just to throw out a name I think is underrated but always impresses me with his creativity and just sheer joy of making music:

Adrian Belew

Heart Of Glass:

Either/Orchestra, "Red" by King Crimson is a favorite of mine.

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Opeth

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frick yes. They should be my #1. New record coming and Mike is back to growling and playing heavier.

Zebra is/was fantastic.

If you haven't seen it, Randy & Zebra did a concert with the Acadiana Symphony Orchestra a few years back. Here is "Take Your Fingers From My Hair" - it is PHENOMENAL.

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"eco-metal"?

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Well, kinda?