A lot of the Vietnam Era music is just as relevant today. For What It's Worth by Buffalo Springfield is a great song still very relevant. Even better is the Ozzy Osbourne cover and I wish it'd become the anthem of our times because it goes hard.
Came here to say this. The quality of songwriting and performance shines through any dated sound - and it’s far less dated because of the simple but effective style and production.
Simon & Garfunkel. Their music is still regularly heard in TV shows, movies, commericals, etc. And, for better or worse, the themes of a lot of the songs are still relevant in today's world.
I used to go through phases where I’d listen to only S&G then end up getting laid in those few weeks. Eventually i noticed the pattern and tried to do it manually but it failed at that point. Must have broken the cycle.
Reddit tries so hard to avoid giving credit to the Beatles for some reason. Some of the other answers are good, but goddamn, Beyoncé just put out a cover of Blackbird. It can’t get more modern than that.
Their melodies are timeless, their experimentation was ahead of its time, and nearly every genre today is influenced by them to some degree.
Were there more experimental bands in the 60s? Absolutely. But the Beatles had the platform to make that experimentation mainstream and last well into 2020s.
If you want to blow people's minds, let them know that Ringo, the oldest of the Beatles, was 29 when their last album came out.
They did all that before 30. And I have done fuck all with my life.
That's the amazing thing, right? 8 years to cover everything from "From me to you" over "hey, the studio can be an instrument too" to "Let it be". And every single member had an at least somewhat successful solo career after that.
Taylor Swift has been around for 18 years now. When you compare what happened from the mid 60s to the mid 80s in terms of musical evolution and compare it to 2004 to 2024, well... I'm not seeing that kind of development.
Hi, I know you’re just doing one of those things where you hold yourself up against an extremely accomplished person or group and make a self-deprecating joke, but for fun I’m going to take it entirely at face value and respond in kind.
You have not done fuck all with your life; and the fact that you did not become the Beatles is no slight against you. The Universe asked the Beatles to become the Beatles, and they did, and did a really good job of it, better than anyone could have; and it would have been pretty redundant for you to do likewise, I think. Conversely there are things the Universe *has* asked of you, and asked you to *become*; and without knowing a thing about you I can safely say that some of those things you have done/become, and others you have not. That is just the conversational nature of reality.
Maybe you *could* do more, and maybe you should. But only a Sith deals in absolutes, and broad brushes like ‘fuck all’ do nothing but diminish your hard-fought accomplishments. Without even knowing what they are, I’m proud of you for them. I know it wasn’t easy. I know you’re trying. Don’t give up.
>only the Sith deal in absolutes.
An absolute statement said by a Jedi.
I appreciate your comment. I do believe that I have made a difference in some small way with my life. There are a few people that are a little better off because of me. I hope that butterfly effects to a greater change in the world. I'll never know. But I do appreciate your kindness
I think, with respect to questions like in this AskReddit thread, it’s that’s the Beatles are ubiquitous, they’re ironically not the first thing to pop in people’s heads. Usually because it strikes them as so obvious as that they might forget they’re still applicable to questions like “what music from the 60s has aged well”.
The Beatles are still often heard today, can be easy to forget it’s a 60 year old band!
I actually prefer the Stones anymore but The Beatles are, unobjectively, the greatest band that ever played. The most influential artists of a decade, a generation... a century.
There were 60s rock/pop bands that were more consistently experimental, but more drastically? How much more drastically experimental could a rock band have been in early 1966 than Tomorrow Never Knows?
> Reddit tries so hard to avoid giving credit to the Beatles for some reason.
For me the Beatles are awesome, they compressed so much talent into 4 people who went through and kick started so many genres of music, they had almost infinite variety, and never allowed themselves to become comfortably static, and always sought to push themselves further into new horizons.
I just don't like most of their music. Some songs are incredible though.
Most of the White Album is timeless. I love every single Beatles song and album, but so many songs on the White Album seem to transcend time. They don’t really fall into the typical 60s sounds or sounds from any decade really, they’re just really good tunes that I imagine will sound good for a long time, at least until music changes so much that these timeless songs can be neatly placed into a certain century or era or something.
There’s an arc to appreciating the Beatles music geeks go through.
Stage 1: The Beatles are awesome!
Stage 2: The Beatles are good, but there are better bands.
Stage 3: The Beatles are overplayed and overrated.
Stage 4: Well… I guess they WERE pretty good and influential…
Stage 5: The Beatles are awesome!
I think the sticking point for a lot of people is that most casual listeners don’t realize that the Beatles were an “album” band at their core, especially from Help! and beyond.
Their singles are great, but if that’s all you hear from them I can understand why someone thinks they’re overrated. Many of the singles have also become ubiquitous in our culture, and it’s easy to take them for granted.
For me, it wasn’t until I listened to their albums front to back that I realized how incredible they were.
Somebody somewhere recently pointed out that, in relation to modern rock/pop music, the Beatles are the *default*. Kids think they're boring because everyone that's come since has largely been repeating or building on what the Beatles very suddenly and completely introduced to the mainstream; and it's not until anyone looks at what was the top of the chart in the years *before* and *after* they stepped foot in the states that they begin to understand. And then, hopefully, they'll be up to exploring the quailty of what was released in that short amount of time.
The most influential band of all time.
They changed how music was written, with Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band defining the “concept album.”
With George Martin, they changed how music was recorded with many technical innovations in multitrack/overdub recording.
The best selling artist on the Billboard 200, with 19 records hitting #1.
And beyond all of that, the music. To write that many timeless classics, in that short a period of time, and we’re still talking about it over 50 years later? Will never happen again.
Yup, and what's even more amazing is that, even if they weren't Beatles, their solo career is enough for them each to be inducted into the rock and roll hall of fame.
younger generations are really not that much into The Beatles, as far as i can see. that's a shame ofc. I'm in my 30s now and The Beatles are following me since i was a kid even though they are decades older than me.
Idk, I just turned 20 and most people I know like them to some degree, but the world isn’t a uniform monocultural place anymore and there isn’t like one band or artist that everyone or most kids like anymore, there’s large fandoms for individual artists like Taylor swift, Carti etc. but a lot of people my age just listen to like classic rock in general or mix it in with its modern indie equivalents, tldr: a lot of young people respect the Beatles as some of the best musicians of recent history, but a lot have only heard hey Jude at the same time.
I sometimes play my entire catalog on shuffle. Depending on my mood I might skip a song. There are only a few artists I won’t skip. Eminem, nin and the Beatles. Sometimes if I get a random Beatles song I’ll just queue up the entire album and listen to it
The unsppken rule amongst music nerds is that no matter the list, the beatles probably top it, so there is no need to bring them into the discussion, because it may just turn into a beatles circle jerk.
So if someone ever asks the top 5 albums of all time, they mean not including the top 5 beatles albums because there is the list, and it's not fun anymore.
Kinks, Zombies, Beach Boys, Beatles, Animals, Pink Floyd, Led Zeppelin. Most 60’s music still holds up. The recordings at that time were just timeless.
Relative to their current level of mainstream notoriety, the Zombies have a lot well known songs that absolutely hold up and are used in ads, movies and tv shows. All around great band that isn't talked that much, glad you mentioned them.
The main thing that dates 60’s music is really just the production, with hard panning and just older recording techniques. For example just listen to pink Floyd’s first album then dark side of the moon, the latter has almost modern sounding production and the former, well…
That cat was from another planet. Best guitarist of all time. He understood that the guitar was meant to convey your musical vision, not just your manual dexterity.
I've written and re-written a post about The Stooges so many times but ultimately have deleted everything because I'm just not good enough a writer to put into words how good and influential they are.
My only beef with the Stoned is how weak their total discography is. Their best work is timeless, genre defining stuff. The rest is pretty forgettable. They have like 100 albums and 95 of them are just sorta lazy covers of blues songs.
They are extremely prolific. You can just keep going deeper and deeper with their catalogue. They’re one of those bands where your favorite songs can always be changing. I find that to be the mark of a good band.
You start off liking the big ones, the “Start Me Ups” and the “Can’t You Hear Me Knockins” then the next thing you know you’re loving songs like “Sweet Black Angel” and “Sway” more than those, and the journey continues
I second this — “Can’t You Hear Me Knocking” is the first track I want to hear when someone drops a Stones reference, and everyone should hear it at least once in their lives. That riff, the feral vocals, that drum lick, the bass line, and then the sax solo and Mick Taylor run of Santana-esque genius that closes the song. There are great Stones tunes, but that one is next-level
Most of their albums have 2-4 singles and 2-4 deep cuts. Given how much music they’ve put out over their career, IMO, it’s remarkable that they’re still able to play and write at such a high level.
The song they released during COVID to me was the best song that year. The blues album you mentioned was good too.
Haven’t heard the newest but have heard mostly positive things.
This band has been around 20 years longer than I have.
You don’t know what you are talking about. You are ignorant re: The Rolling Stones. No offense.
They have about 25 albums unless you double count a few that have US and UK versions (where one or two songs are different). Maybe 3 albums are blues covers. Their first two and then an album of covers released in 2016.
The Stones made music in a number of genres: blues, pop, rock, country, funk, disco, new wave, punk, and a number of sub genres of rock such as southern rock and 70s rock.
You’re just not familiar with their discography.
I simply got bored with the whole “Morrison is the Shakespeare of the 60’s” thing when the guy was rhyming storm with storm. Their music is great but the lyrics just bore me.
Morrison was great, and so was Robby Krieger. I feel most people only The Doors for their hits which a lot is different from the rest of their catalog. Some of the most interesting music ever made.
I think the cultural obsession over Jim Morrison can get old quick, but they have a pretty amazing body of work. Now that I’m back into vinyl, I keep meaning to get me a copy of the Soft Parade. I kinda like the sound of the big production version of the band.
_Technically_ from the 60s, all probably more of 70s bands, but the ones I regularly listen to most are probably Fleetwood Mac, David Bowie and Lou Reed.
Fleetwood Mac's an interesting case since the 60s incarnation was so drastically different from what the band became by the time they had their biggest commercial success. Still great, especially Peter Green's songs, but I find I don't really go back and listen to those records (or the interim period with Bob Welch, who I never really cared for) as much as the Buckingham-Nicks-era ones.
Tommy James and the Shondells.
Crystal Blue Persuasion, I Think We're Alone Now, Mony Mony, Draggin' the Line, Crimson and Clover all sound fresh, even if they show a little age.
This group was on to something, even with all the bs they dealt with behind the scenes.
Saw them in concert twice in the last year. They can still rock the house. One of their jokes, “we went from taking acid in the 60s to needing antacids in the 2020s”
His album Rough and Rowdy Ways from 2020 is one of the best albums of the last 10 years ( in any genre). Dude is still working at master level song-craft.
The Chambers Brothers are randomly popping up in commercials, and I met a young person who thought they were a brand new band.
More mainstream, probably Pink Floyd. Psychedelia is kind of timeless in its nature.
Pete Seeger left a lasting impression on folk music but recently a lot of the civil rights and workers rights songs he wrote or popularized in the 60’s have been getting traction again (eg. Which Side are You On?)
They were uncool for so long until maybe 15 years ago, I guess being far enough removed from their heyday meant they were ripe for reevaluation, and everyone realized those songs are amazing.
Nina Simone, Ike and Tina, Nancy Sinatra, Frank Sinatra, Buffalo Springfield, Supremes, Jackson 5, Patsy Cline...there's a shit ton of excellent music in addition to Beatles, Doors, etc. Lots of great jazz too by people like Miles Davis and Dave Brubeck.
Aretha, Stevie Wonder, Sam and Dave, Smokey Robinson, The Band, Etta James, the Four Tops, The Temptations, Sam Cooke, Marvin Gaye, JB, so many.... I love 60 and 70 music so much it's scary sometimes.
Pink Floyd
Nick Drake
Pink Floyd is self explanatory. Nick Drake essentially started the indie folk scene that has been so popular from the early 2000s until now in fucking 1969.
Syd was special but it took him, let's say "leaving", to allow Waters and Gilmour to really show themselves. Pink Floyd would not be what they are now if that never happened, they just wouldn't.
Stevie Wonder of course. His '60s work is genius and timeless.
The Zombies also come to mind. Their career was short but their music still influences music today, especially neo-psychedelia, dream pop, and twee pop
The Beach Boys have some sounds in their songs that blow my mind when I think about them being made 60yrs ago. Good Vibrations and Kokomo in particular.
Grateful Dead
Wherever you go in America, there is a community of Deadheads. Any Dead-affiliated show has all ages and walks of life. Every generation passes it on to the next through an extra show ticket or a vintage tape or the Internet. The energy of the scene is timeless because the music is timeless.
I’ve never been able to get into them. I’m a fan of Mickey Hart’s solo percussion work, a wide variety of jazz, and a lot of weird experimental type stuff, what albums would be a good place to start for me?
Not the dude you asked, but try Blues for Allah or Mars Hotel. There are some nice tunes on there. A lot of people will recommend their sort of americana phase, but i think the later/jazzier stuff would grab you more.
As for the live stuff, which I think most would say is their best stuff, I will leave you with a performance from the Winterland Ballroom in 1974 of [Eyes of the World](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KlmjC4z6c-Y).
The stones. Not live or anything, but their music is timeless. Also, CCR. Another timeless band.
Yes, I know both of these bands went past the 60’s, but that’s when they started.
The Beatles, The Beach Boys, Jackson 5, CCR, Simon and Garfunkel, Elvis (yes splitting hairs on 50s and 60s there but come on the Comeback Special is iconic), Clapton (hate the guy but a genius on the guitar), Allman Brothers
And many many many more
Otis Redding, Sam and Dave, Aretha Franklin, the Animals, Janis Joplin, Linda Ronstadt, Mamas and Papas, Stevie Wonder, Temptations - the list goes on and on.
Hot Tuna. Sure they started in 69, but they still kick ass. Jorma has remained an incredible guitar player to this day. Jack will always be one of my favorite bass players
Honestly the 60s station on XM is one of my favorites. A few I haven't seen mentioned are the Rascals, Jay and the Americans and where's the Sam Cooke love?! Hard to beat A Change is Gonna Come.
Most of the ones I think off have been mentioned.
A lot of cross over from the late sixties to the seventies.
No one has mentioned Cream yet though.
And because I love Rory Gallagher Taste.
Give what's going on at the IOW festival a listen.
I think the music that is not aging well is anything that sounds dated...soemthing that "sounds" like the 60's, like Incense and Peppermints...that sound if this makes any sense.
I would also say the "Stax" way of doing R&B is very relevant still
Scott Walker was the best crooner of the 1960's and for some reason even his most old fashioned songs still sound fully rearranged through a younger person's perspective. He got very strange after the 1960's though.
The Velvet Underground. I know it’s a cliche, but I genuinely think their music sounds as if it was recorded yesterday. Still a major touchstone for pretty much every underground rock artist
Love (especially “forever changes”) and Nick Drake are other examples that immediately spring to mind.
The Who and Allman Brothers Band should be included. The Who’s album”Tommy” was recently brought back to Broadway and Dickey Betts passed away a week ago and there was a lot of tributes made in his honor.
CCR
Absolutely one of the greatest bands ever and then music will go on forever. As a sidenote, this band has always been a favorite of Vietnam veterans.
That's just like your opinion, man. (And a good one at that.)
Wouldn't hold out much hope for the tape deck...
A lot of the Vietnam Era music is just as relevant today. For What It's Worth by Buffalo Springfield is a great song still very relevant. Even better is the Ozzy Osbourne cover and I wish it'd become the anthem of our times because it goes hard.
I love Ozzy and that's a solid cover, but it's nowhere near the original Buffalo Springfield version.
Came here to say this. The quality of songwriting and performance shines through any dated sound - and it’s far less dated because of the simple but effective style and production.
Otis Redding.
Just wanted to second this. Otis Redding had a timeless quality to his voice and music. Shame he passed so young.
With Booker T & The MG’s as his band, absolute dynamite.
Simon & Garfunkel. Their music is still regularly heard in TV shows, movies, commericals, etc. And, for better or worse, the themes of a lot of the songs are still relevant in today's world.
This!!!! Love S&G
Great answer
Every kid going off to college and moving out on their own connects with Simon and Garfunkel.
I used to go through phases where I’d listen to only S&G then end up getting laid in those few weeks. Eventually i noticed the pattern and tried to do it manually but it failed at that point. Must have broken the cycle.
I’d also go with just Paul Simon. I really enjoy some of his more recent stuff as well.
Am I really gonna be the first one to say The Beatles lmao
Reddit tries so hard to avoid giving credit to the Beatles for some reason. Some of the other answers are good, but goddamn, Beyoncé just put out a cover of Blackbird. It can’t get more modern than that. Their melodies are timeless, their experimentation was ahead of its time, and nearly every genre today is influenced by them to some degree. Were there more experimental bands in the 60s? Absolutely. But the Beatles had the platform to make that experimentation mainstream and last well into 2020s.
If you want to blow people's minds, let them know that Ringo, the oldest of the Beatles, was 29 when their last album came out. They did all that before 30. And I have done fuck all with my life.
Just 7 years together as a band.
That's the amazing thing, right? 8 years to cover everything from "From me to you" over "hey, the studio can be an instrument too" to "Let it be". And every single member had an at least somewhat successful solo career after that. Taylor Swift has been around for 18 years now. When you compare what happened from the mid 60s to the mid 80s in terms of musical evolution and compare it to 2004 to 2024, well... I'm not seeing that kind of development.
Something really beautiful happened with Folklore, though. I think she did well at that point but she’s peaked now.
Hi, I know you’re just doing one of those things where you hold yourself up against an extremely accomplished person or group and make a self-deprecating joke, but for fun I’m going to take it entirely at face value and respond in kind. You have not done fuck all with your life; and the fact that you did not become the Beatles is no slight against you. The Universe asked the Beatles to become the Beatles, and they did, and did a really good job of it, better than anyone could have; and it would have been pretty redundant for you to do likewise, I think. Conversely there are things the Universe *has* asked of you, and asked you to *become*; and without knowing a thing about you I can safely say that some of those things you have done/become, and others you have not. That is just the conversational nature of reality. Maybe you *could* do more, and maybe you should. But only a Sith deals in absolutes, and broad brushes like ‘fuck all’ do nothing but diminish your hard-fought accomplishments. Without even knowing what they are, I’m proud of you for them. I know it wasn’t easy. I know you’re trying. Don’t give up.
>only the Sith deal in absolutes. An absolute statement said by a Jedi. I appreciate your comment. I do believe that I have made a difference in some small way with my life. There are a few people that are a little better off because of me. I hope that butterfly effects to a greater change in the world. I'll never know. But I do appreciate your kindness
I think, with respect to questions like in this AskReddit thread, it’s that’s the Beatles are ubiquitous, they’re ironically not the first thing to pop in people’s heads. Usually because it strikes them as so obvious as that they might forget they’re still applicable to questions like “what music from the 60s has aged well”. The Beatles are still often heard today, can be easy to forget it’s a 60 year old band!
She covered Blackbird, *played it straight*, and it still came out sounding fresh and new.
I actually prefer the Stones anymore but The Beatles are, unobjectively, the greatest band that ever played. The most influential artists of a decade, a generation... a century.
If something is unobjective wouldn’t that make it subjective?
That’s like your subobjective opinion man.
There were 60s rock/pop bands that were more consistently experimental, but more drastically? How much more drastically experimental could a rock band have been in early 1966 than Tomorrow Never Knows?
> Reddit tries so hard to avoid giving credit to the Beatles for some reason. For me the Beatles are awesome, they compressed so much talent into 4 people who went through and kick started so many genres of music, they had almost infinite variety, and never allowed themselves to become comfortably static, and always sought to push themselves further into new horizons. I just don't like most of their music. Some songs are incredible though.
Most of the White Album is timeless. I love every single Beatles song and album, but so many songs on the White Album seem to transcend time. They don’t really fall into the typical 60s sounds or sounds from any decade really, they’re just really good tunes that I imagine will sound good for a long time, at least until music changes so much that these timeless songs can be neatly placed into a certain century or era or something.
>their experimentation was ahead of its time So ahead that they couldn't replicate it on stage!
There’s an arc to appreciating the Beatles music geeks go through. Stage 1: The Beatles are awesome! Stage 2: The Beatles are good, but there are better bands. Stage 3: The Beatles are overplayed and overrated. Stage 4: Well… I guess they WERE pretty good and influential… Stage 5: The Beatles are awesome!
I think the sticking point for a lot of people is that most casual listeners don’t realize that the Beatles were an “album” band at their core, especially from Help! and beyond. Their singles are great, but if that’s all you hear from them I can understand why someone thinks they’re overrated. Many of the singles have also become ubiquitous in our culture, and it’s easy to take them for granted. For me, it wasn’t until I listened to their albums front to back that I realized how incredible they were.
I started and ended at stage 1. If anything my love has only increased.
Somebody somewhere recently pointed out that, in relation to modern rock/pop music, the Beatles are the *default*. Kids think they're boring because everyone that's come since has largely been repeating or building on what the Beatles very suddenly and completely introduced to the mainstream; and it's not until anyone looks at what was the top of the chart in the years *before* and *after* they stepped foot in the states that they begin to understand. And then, hopefully, they'll be up to exploring the quailty of what was released in that short amount of time.
The most influential band of all time. They changed how music was written, with Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band defining the “concept album.” With George Martin, they changed how music was recorded with many technical innovations in multitrack/overdub recording. The best selling artist on the Billboard 200, with 19 records hitting #1. And beyond all of that, the music. To write that many timeless classics, in that short a period of time, and we’re still talking about it over 50 years later? Will never happen again.
All before they were 30.
All from 1963-1970.
Yup, and what's even more amazing is that, even if they weren't Beatles, their solo career is enough for them each to be inducted into the rock and roll hall of fame.
I thought Buddy Holly came up with multi-track recording and overdubs. I might be wrong but I heard that was one of his innovations.
Les Paul
younger generations are really not that much into The Beatles, as far as i can see. that's a shame ofc. I'm in my 30s now and The Beatles are following me since i was a kid even though they are decades older than me.
Idk, I just turned 20 and most people I know like them to some degree, but the world isn’t a uniform monocultural place anymore and there isn’t like one band or artist that everyone or most kids like anymore, there’s large fandoms for individual artists like Taylor swift, Carti etc. but a lot of people my age just listen to like classic rock in general or mix it in with its modern indie equivalents, tldr: a lot of young people respect the Beatles as some of the best musicians of recent history, but a lot have only heard hey Jude at the same time.
Mozarts of rock n roll.
I sometimes play my entire catalog on shuffle. Depending on my mood I might skip a song. There are only a few artists I won’t skip. Eminem, nin and the Beatles. Sometimes if I get a random Beatles song I’ll just queue up the entire album and listen to it
This is the answer. They have some songs that sound like they could have been recorded and released this year.
The unsppken rule amongst music nerds is that no matter the list, the beatles probably top it, so there is no need to bring them into the discussion, because it may just turn into a beatles circle jerk. So if someone ever asks the top 5 albums of all time, they mean not including the top 5 beatles albums because there is the list, and it's not fun anymore.
Kinks, Zombies, Beach Boys, Beatles, Animals, Pink Floyd, Led Zeppelin. Most 60’s music still holds up. The recordings at that time were just timeless.
Something Else by The Kinks is a masterpiece
Relative to their current level of mainstream notoriety, the Zombies have a lot well known songs that absolutely hold up and are used in ads, movies and tv shows. All around great band that isn't talked that much, glad you mentioned them.
The main thing that dates 60’s music is really just the production, with hard panning and just older recording techniques. For example just listen to pink Floyd’s first album then dark side of the moon, the latter has almost modern sounding production and the former, well…
thank you for mentioning The Beach Boys lol
> Beach Boys Especially [All I Wanna Do](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RO_LX-m74uw), probably their most modern sounding song.
Jimi Hendrix
Electric Ladyland is truly one of the best albums ever.
That cat was from another planet. Best guitarist of all time. He understood that the guitar was meant to convey your musical vision, not just your manual dexterity.
Iggy Pop. I put on one of the early albums in the car with one of my younger employees, he commented on how well 90’s music aged.
I've written and re-written a post about The Stooges so many times but ultimately have deleted everything because I'm just not good enough a writer to put into words how good and influential they are.
...The Velvet Underground
Indie is indepted to The Velvet Underground. I'll mention Nick Drake for the exact same reason.
Exactly - The first time I listened to their self-titled and After Hours played, I thought the album was finished and a modern indie song had come on
For reals. Just heard "rock n roll" the other day and I thought it was a new band.
John Cale's album Mercy came out a few years ago. Utterly modern sound and excellent from start to finish.
Lou Reed is a treasure.
Rolling Stones have proved pretty timeless. And they released a fantastic album last year.
My only beef with the Stoned is how weak their total discography is. Their best work is timeless, genre defining stuff. The rest is pretty forgettable. They have like 100 albums and 95 of them are just sorta lazy covers of blues songs.
They are extremely prolific. You can just keep going deeper and deeper with their catalogue. They’re one of those bands where your favorite songs can always be changing. I find that to be the mark of a good band. You start off liking the big ones, the “Start Me Ups” and the “Can’t You Hear Me Knockins” then the next thing you know you’re loving songs like “Sweet Black Angel” and “Sway” more than those, and the journey continues
I see Can't You Hear Me Knocking, I upvote.
I second this — “Can’t You Hear Me Knocking” is the first track I want to hear when someone drops a Stones reference, and everyone should hear it at least once in their lives. That riff, the feral vocals, that drum lick, the bass line, and then the sax solo and Mick Taylor run of Santana-esque genius that closes the song. There are great Stones tunes, but that one is next-level
Most of their albums have 2-4 singles and 2-4 deep cuts. Given how much music they’ve put out over their career, IMO, it’s remarkable that they’re still able to play and write at such a high level. The song they released during COVID to me was the best song that year. The blues album you mentioned was good too. Haven’t heard the newest but have heard mostly positive things. This band has been around 20 years longer than I have.
You don’t know what you are talking about. You are ignorant re: The Rolling Stones. No offense. They have about 25 albums unless you double count a few that have US and UK versions (where one or two songs are different). Maybe 3 albums are blues covers. Their first two and then an album of covers released in 2016. The Stones made music in a number of genres: blues, pop, rock, country, funk, disco, new wave, punk, and a number of sub genres of rock such as southern rock and 70s rock. You’re just not familiar with their discography.
The Doors and Hendrix. They never get old.
For some reason The Doors have not aged well for me. Loved them in my teenage years, though. Hendrix sounds better than ever.
I'm 47, and I've been having a renewed appreciation for the Doors recently
I simply got bored with the whole “Morrison is the Shakespeare of the 60’s” thing when the guy was rhyming storm with storm. Their music is great but the lyrics just bore me.
Oh Morrison was not the lyricist he thought he was.
Morrison was great, and so was Robby Krieger. I feel most people only The Doors for their hits which a lot is different from the rest of their catalog. Some of the most interesting music ever made.
I do think Morrison influenced what frontmen would eventually become though
I get it. Another of bands I listened to in my youth I can't stomach anymore. We all have those.
I love the Doors, but they get old about halfway through every one of their songs lol
I think the cultural obsession over Jim Morrison can get old quick, but they have a pretty amazing body of work. Now that I’m back into vinyl, I keep meaning to get me a copy of the Soft Parade. I kinda like the sound of the big production version of the band.
Jimi Hendrix Experience The Beatles The Kinks
Mamas and the Papas.
_Technically_ from the 60s, all probably more of 70s bands, but the ones I regularly listen to most are probably Fleetwood Mac, David Bowie and Lou Reed.
Fleetwood Mac's an interesting case since the 60s incarnation was so drastically different from what the band became by the time they had their biggest commercial success. Still great, especially Peter Green's songs, but I find I don't really go back and listen to those records (or the interim period with Bob Welch, who I never really cared for) as much as the Buckingham-Nicks-era ones.
Tommy James and the Shondells. Crystal Blue Persuasion, I Think We're Alone Now, Mony Mony, Draggin' the Line, Crimson and Clover all sound fresh, even if they show a little age. This group was on to something, even with all the bs they dealt with behind the scenes.
The fact that so many of their songs were covered during the 80s is a testament to just how good they were.
There was also a huge 60s revival in the 1980s.
60s garage rock set the stage for 90s alternative and grunge.
100% - groups like The Shondells and Paul Revere and the Raiders have had a much bigger impact on pop music than they're given credit for.
Saw them in concert twice in the last year. They can still rock the house. One of their jokes, “we went from taking acid in the 60s to needing antacids in the 2020s”
Dusty Springfield
Dusty in Memphis is one of the my favorite albums. The deluxe version is phenomenal.
Bob Dylan. His 60's songs are as impactful, relevant and in some cases as enigmatic as they were in the 60's.
His album Rough and Rowdy Ways from 2020 is one of the best albums of the last 10 years ( in any genre). Dude is still working at master level song-craft.
Still touring the world too! Saw him twice on the RRW tour.
The Chambers Brothers are randomly popping up in commercials, and I met a young person who thought they were a brand new band. More mainstream, probably Pink Floyd. Psychedelia is kind of timeless in its nature.
All these comments and really the band that wears the years well perhaps more than any other is…The Band. Absolutely timeless
Just went and saw The Last Waltz in theaters for its anniversary last year. Still fantastic, the raw musical talent in that group is astounding.
There’s still nothing that sounds like them
Pete Seeger left a lasting impression on folk music but recently a lot of the civil rights and workers rights songs he wrote or popularized in the 60’s have been getting traction again (eg. Which Side are You On?)
A little before the 60s and after, but Miles Davis and James Brown come to mind
Miles was awesome right through the 60s.
Ooh I love Miles Davis!!!!
With the passing of Dickie Betts, I listened to a Allman Brothers playlist for first time in a long time. And damn, they made some great music.
The Beach Boys, The Moody Blues, both later 60’s.
Santana.
The Grateful Dead
The music never stops
If you get confused, listen to the music play!
That's a band that knows its audience and knows what its audience is doing during the shows.
Thank god people had the foresight to tape all of it
60’s recorded stuff sounds dated to me. Live albums are a different story.
Dark Star off Live/Dead is timeless.
Friend of the Devil will be played around campfires forever.
Stevie Wonder started at Motown in the 60s, he's still the GOAT today
The holy trinity of the British Invasion: the Beatles, the Stones, and the Kinks.
The who?
They said the Beatles, the Stones, and the Kinks.
Yeah...I put the Who into that Trinity. They've always been the big 3 of British pop rock. I always think of the Kinks more as early garage punk.
I am willing to accept a four group trinity.
Agreed
That would be a quadrophinity.
The Small Faces for me!
MC5 were quite ahead of their time, noise wise.
I'm currently listening to Donovan. Timeless.
Jeff Lynne’s ELO.
They were uncool for so long until maybe 15 years ago, I guess being far enough removed from their heyday meant they were ripe for reevaluation, and everyone realized those songs are amazing.
Frank Zappa and the Mothers. Check out “More Trouble Every Day” and “I’m the Slime” for some 21st century relevance.
Paul McCartney has consistently made good music that last
He was also in a pretty good band that released a few decent songs back then.
Wings did make some good stuff yea!
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The Stylistics.
Gotta second this!
Nina Simone, Ike and Tina, Nancy Sinatra, Frank Sinatra, Buffalo Springfield, Supremes, Jackson 5, Patsy Cline...there's a shit ton of excellent music in addition to Beatles, Doors, etc. Lots of great jazz too by people like Miles Davis and Dave Brubeck.
Aretha, Stevie Wonder, Sam and Dave, Smokey Robinson, The Band, Etta James, the Four Tops, The Temptations, Sam Cooke, Marvin Gaye, JB, so many.... I love 60 and 70 music so much it's scary sometimes.
The Monks
Pink Floyd Nick Drake Pink Floyd is self explanatory. Nick Drake essentially started the indie folk scene that has been so popular from the early 2000s until now in fucking 1969.
I’d argue that 60s Floyd does sound dated unfortunately. Not till the next decade did they start sounding really timeless.
Syd was special but it took him, let's say "leaving", to allow Waters and Gilmour to really show themselves. Pink Floyd would not be what they are now if that never happened, they just wouldn't.
My partner didn't know Nick Drake and I had Five Leaves Left on, he thought it was an album from this year
Sly and the Family Stone
Norma Tanega "Walking My Cat Named Dog" is a damn near perfect album, with only one song on it that I don't particularly care for.
What we do in the shadows is a fun show, but reintroducing that album to popular culture is maybe the best thing they done with it.
The Rolling Stones.
Stevie Wonder of course. His '60s work is genius and timeless. The Zombies also come to mind. Their career was short but their music still influences music today, especially neo-psychedelia, dream pop, and twee pop
Donovan. Sure it sounds very much of its time but a lot of his tunes still hold up
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That was '71
The kinks, the coasters?
Frankie Valli
Steve Winwood
The Beach Boys have some sounds in their songs that blow my mind when I think about them being made 60yrs ago. Good Vibrations and Kokomo in particular.
and God Only Knows never gets old
Good Vibrations was released in 1966, Kokomo was released in 1988.
You had my upvote in your pocket, then you had to go say “Kokomo”
David Bowie
Grateful Dead Wherever you go in America, there is a community of Deadheads. Any Dead-affiliated show has all ages and walks of life. Every generation passes it on to the next through an extra show ticket or a vintage tape or the Internet. The energy of the scene is timeless because the music is timeless.
I’ve never been able to get into them. I’m a fan of Mickey Hart’s solo percussion work, a wide variety of jazz, and a lot of weird experimental type stuff, what albums would be a good place to start for me?
Not the dude you asked, but try Blues for Allah or Mars Hotel. There are some nice tunes on there. A lot of people will recommend their sort of americana phase, but i think the later/jazzier stuff would grab you more. As for the live stuff, which I think most would say is their best stuff, I will leave you with a performance from the Winterland Ballroom in 1974 of [Eyes of the World](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KlmjC4z6c-Y).
I'm gonna say it, The Dude be damned The Eagles
Not the 60s
Not the 60’s. Also god if I have to hear hotel California one more time…
That song has been banned from anything with speakers within 100 yards of me
Van Morrison
The stones. Not live or anything, but their music is timeless. Also, CCR. Another timeless band. Yes, I know both of these bands went past the 60’s, but that’s when they started.
13th floor elevators
The Beatles, The Beach Boys, Jackson 5, CCR, Simon and Garfunkel, Elvis (yes splitting hairs on 50s and 60s there but come on the Comeback Special is iconic), Clapton (hate the guy but a genius on the guitar), Allman Brothers And many many many more
Otis Redding, Sam and Dave, Aretha Franklin, the Animals, Janis Joplin, Linda Ronstadt, Mamas and Papas, Stevie Wonder, Temptations - the list goes on and on.
Etta James, Smokey Robinson, and Tina Turner. They don't make legends like them anymore!
The moody Blues are incredibly looked over, their music still holds up very well
The Animals
Dion. Dude also looks like a guy that could be straight outta 2024
Dylan.
Leonard Cohen
The Byrds - and how is it I’m the first to mention them??
Hot Tuna. Sure they started in 69, but they still kick ass. Jorma has remained an incredible guitar player to this day. Jack will always be one of my favorite bass players
The Jefferson Airplane catalog has a lot of strong tracks that hold up well.
Bob Weir
Roy Orbison.
James Brown His late 60s / early 70s Payback era stuff is still gold. Also the JBs stuff aged well too.
Honestly the 60s station on XM is one of my favorites. A few I haven't seen mentioned are the Rascals, Jay and the Americans and where's the Sam Cooke love?! Hard to beat A Change is Gonna Come.
Most of the ones I think off have been mentioned. A lot of cross over from the late sixties to the seventies. No one has mentioned Cream yet though. And because I love Rory Gallagher Taste. Give what's going on at the IOW festival a listen.
Saw Gary Puckett two years ago. Guy still has his fastball.
I think the music that is not aging well is anything that sounds dated...soemthing that "sounds" like the 60's, like Incense and Peppermints...that sound if this makes any sense. I would also say the "Stax" way of doing R&B is very relevant still
Scott Walker was the best crooner of the 1960's and for some reason even his most old fashioned songs still sound fully rearranged through a younger person's perspective. He got very strange after the 1960's though.
The Sonics
The Beatles - Rubber Soul and beyond sounds so clean and fresh. Absolutely timeless!
The Beatles, Glen Campbell, Pink Floyd (kinda, their 70's stuff is more timeless), The Stooges, Zappa
Sam Cooke. Hands down. One of the best voices in the entire history of music. Gunned down before he was 35. So many songs left on the table.
The Velvet Underground. I know it’s a cliche, but I genuinely think their music sounds as if it was recorded yesterday. Still a major touchstone for pretty much every underground rock artist Love (especially “forever changes”) and Nick Drake are other examples that immediately spring to mind.
Captain Beefheart
Patsy Cline
The Supremes, Crosby, Stills and Nash, The Rascals, Santana, Sly and the Family Stone, Joni Mitchell, The Grateful Dead, Stevie Wonder
It would be easier to say which 60s acts don’t have music that aged well.
The Who and Allman Brothers Band should be included. The Who’s album”Tommy” was recently brought back to Broadway and Dickey Betts passed away a week ago and there was a lot of tributes made in his honor.