This House Is Not For Sale (2016) - Post Album Release Discussion

It s the sad truth IMHO. Those bands don't hold a candle to legends like Queen/Zep/Purple/Van Halen/Kiss etc etc.

The sadder the fact that BJ are trying to emulate them at their stage of their career. It is rather silly.

I listened to some of them. RIval SOns ist just a copy of Doors and others trying too hard to be retro. This whole "Let's sound like the 70's" is rather forced IMHO.
The Struts I might buy as their singer has some Queen & Freddie Mercury vibe which is never a bad sign.

The rest are either meh or I dunno them WHat also bothers me that those bands are just interchangable - no star quality whatsoever. YOu might meet them in the subway and won't recognize them. I rather prefer some originals larger than life

Cannot see anything of the bands I know from your list in 2016 Jovi. Surely no RIval Sons influence anywhere

Really? Do some research. You sound like my dad complaining about my music in the 80's.

That's really funny, considering I have heard 6 of the 10 albums you listed here. The Kiwanuka's album is proabably my 2016 favorite.

Meanwhile, you should do research on 'irony', because my post was clearly to compliment your argument and make fun of hardwired70 outdated rhetoric. I listen to as much new music as anyone.

Right on. Now I agree with some of this. The overall total package of bands these days is pretty nonexistent. They do lack a certain charismatic factor. Luke Spiller from The Struts is the exception though. He's the real deal in my book.
You have to remember that bands in the 60's, 70's, & 80's had the ability to be more original simply due to not having as much music in their genre and beyond they could end up sounding similar to.
Naturally bands now are going to sound like somome else. Rival Sons has more of a Zeppelin sound to me yet they do it way better than Whitesnake and copycats from the 80's who I actually dig as well.

My apologies. I didn't catch that sarcasm in your post and I do know what irony means.lol
Appreciate that we are on the same page in regards to the state of modern day music.

Could the non-album related bickering please stop, its a real clutter to read through.

It has gone a bit off track here yet it did originate from the sound/production of the new album and it's influences.

Can anyone else get the Labor of Love video on Tidal? Mine shows when I'm logged out but as soon as I log in it disappears. It showed once but when I clicked on it I had a message "This item is no longer available".

I just tried it on my phone and it works fine...plays right away.