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Yes and yes! We should hang out more...

Also, regarding how people find contemporary music. Sometimes I hit on something here, but mostly I just follow Pitchfork's reviews. I didn't manage to find another website whose tastes normally correspond to mine. There should be something similar out there for a classic rock fan like yourself.

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That's an excellent list, but such a long and varied one that it probably contains stuff you would love as well as stuff you would dislike intensely.

My personal choices from list would be:

Pink Floyd
ABBA
Elton John
Stevie Wonder
The Moody Blues
Supertramp
Genesis
The Beach Boys
Sting (solo and with The Police)
Donovan
Carole King
Jethro Tull
Yes
Joni Mitchell
Simon & Garfunkel

My second tier would be:
The Beatles
Led Zeppelin
Bee Gees (underrated by critics most of the time, unfortunately)
The Who
Eagles
Electric Light Orchestra (Eldorado is such an amazing masterpiece)
Crosby, Stills, Nash with or without Young, not so much Young solo)
The Kinks
Alan Parsons' Project
Neil Diamond
Santana
Paul Rodgers (with Free & Bad Co.)
Fairport Convention


Some of the others on the list I like, but only in a casual way.

If I had one piece of advice I would give to 15-year-old just starting out learning about popular music, it's this: be open to hearing other people's opinions/recommendations, but don't be afraid top follow your own gut instinct. Too often people of that age won't listen to something because it's not considered cool by their peers. If you happen to like KISS, great, but don't listen to them or buyh their records just because all your mates listen to them. Make up your own mind.

bob_32_116

Excellent recommendation. Fleet Foxes have a quite unique sound and I don't believe they have ever put out a bad product.

If you like them, check out Sufjan Stevens - but I need to warn you that some of his albums sound very different from others. I recommend Michigan, Illinois, and Carrie & Lowell.
Apologies if Sufjan has already been mentioned in the thread; I did try to search, but the search function is returning an error page right now.

bob_32_116

I see you like some of the classic progressive rock bands: Genesis, Pink Floyd, Yes, Camel. In that case you probably need to hear some of the "new progressive" bands, many of whom have evolved out of the metal scene but whose music now has little resemblance to heavy metal.
These include:

Porcupine Tree
Anathema
Opeth (began as very heavy, but have mostly left that behind)
Lunatic Soul/Riverside ("Lunatic Soul" is a stage name used by Mariusz Duda, the singer fron the band Riverside).

rubber soul

I'll second Sufjan Stevens, and especially those three albums. A folk artist really (I happen to love folk). Sometimes depressing (One of his best songs, off Illinois, is a summary of John Wayne Gacy, the notorious serial killer from Chicago), he none the less is quite melodic.

This one is off Carrie and Lowell

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bob_32_116

The album "Sunshine Superman" is terrific, and while the title song is a good song it really gives little indication of what the rest of the album sounds like.There is a case for the claim that Donovan started the whole psych-folk genre.

This track for example:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ThKDqLwmeo
As the title suggests, the song is about twelve king fishers.

Eleanor Rigby 14

Cool, that's the type of contemporary band I'm looking for. Thanks
Thank you! Well, I love your reviews, they're just so super-detailed, but I can imagine how tiring that must be. And I saw your comment on the reviews thread. I've just posted another one today. Thanks for the support!

Well, you're right, it's really long, and I've also included bands that, for example, I respect a lot and like sometimes but aren't really my cup of tea (for example, The Doors). Also, I haven't included names of important artists such as Bob Dylan because I don't really like him. As for the advice, thanks, you're right, specially about Kiss. Kiss is a band that many of my classmates claim to know, but they just wear their T-shirts and the only song they've heard is "I was made for loving you". Btw, I've never liked Kiss and think I never will
I've actually heard a bit of Porcupine Tree and Anathema, I'll give the other bands a listen too
Lol, before playin' it I thought it was gonna be a Beatles cover! Still, it's pretty good. I've actually heard one of his albums (Illinois), and I remember liking it very much, although I've only heard it once or twice
I've heard it It's a great album, really. If I didn't consider it great, I wouldn't have included Donovan as one of my favourite artists
Anyway, thanks a lot for all your recommendations!!!!

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Hey Eleanor, I’ve just been rereading this thread, and I noticed you mentioned that JImmy Page played on a Donovan track.
He might’ve played on one, in fact so did John Paul Jones and John Bonham.
However it’s not „Sunshine Superman”, but „Hurdy Gurdy Man”.

The personel on that song is very confusinh however, with various people present at the sessions credit different people and change their versions over time (including Donovan).

Jimmy Page does list „Hurdy Gurdy” as a song he played on as a session musician on his website though

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rubber soul

Wiki lists Jimmy Page and John Paul Jones of having worked on Sunshine Superman. I think I remember a Youtube bio on Jimmy Page mentioning Sunshine Superman too.

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Mucha na Dziko

Oh, really?
I had no idea

Thanks for the notice

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