I'm thinking Fleetwood Mac post-Rumours, I'm thinking The Eagles (because you can't have one without the other), I'm thinking Tom Petty, Journey, Dire Straits. Not bands I would freely admit to enjoying - but bands I won't skip the radio from (with the exception of Journey). Recommend me some vapid, inoffensive soft rock that you strangely like. Because endless Radiohead, Alice and Muddy Waters just gets a bit much sometimes.
no, can't.
Sandstone, chalk?
You'd be better off with some hippy blues...try Canned Heat.
JJ Cale
Sandstone, chalk?
LOL! Took the words right out of my mouth! 🙂
Bob Seger
Edinburgh rock's pretty soft
Supertramp?
BOC?
Lynyrd Skynyrd?
Steve miller band
Converge.
IGMC
See if you can find an early copy of Creme Brulée's "Voodoo Lady". Was nearly released on Pickwick in '76 I believe...
Bad Company/Free
Queen
Early Bon Jovi
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The Grateful Dead
Steve Miller Band, Steve Winwood, Lynyrd Skynyrd..
Grateful Dead categorised as soft rock?
I went through a massive Dead phase but am a little over it now. They lack oomph, but also lack the understated, cocaine coolness attendant to good soft rock, despite obviously all having been hoovers in the 70s and 80s. Their music reminds me of watching an episode of Sesame Street, a chaotic quality, never seems to go anywhere but quite entertaining. Obviously they're in the pantheon of great bands etc etc
Another band from the same period, Paul Butterfield Blues Band. I was trying to work out what makes his voice unique, and then I got drunk and sang a bit when I was hungover the next morning. And realised that's exactly it: in all his best songs, he's clearly singing with that deep, unusually resonating hangover voice that gives you away to your co-workers on the phone. Sure enough: Wikipedia says drinking pretty much killed him in the end.
Same's true of Pigpen from the Dead.
Would you become a drunk if it elevated you as a singer (as it probably does, certainly for men)
Boston? Styx? Reo Speedwagon...sorry, can't do this anymore
See if you can find an early copy of Creme Brulée's "Voodoo Lady". Was nearly released on Pickwick in '76 I believe...
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foreigner, toto, boston...
good soft rock
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Maybe a bit too hard for you?
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Why has nobody mentioned Joe Satriani yet.
Pearl Jam?
Well, if Satch counts, then how about Joe Bonamasa?
No such thing. 😉
The Alice band
Evan & jaron
The rembrandts
Jellyfish
Some classic rock, like Rainbow.
How about a bit of Jethro Tull. I'll even dare suggest the 'later' stuff (Stormwatch, 'A')
Also Richard Thompson...'Rumour and Sigh'
You'd probably like Coldplay.
Coldplay make me want to burn stuff.
There is a distinction to be made between soft rock and $hit ($hit can be fashionable; soft rock never will be; soft rock can be listenable; $hit never can be).
In practice, most of the time, the two overlap, but they are conceptually separate *draws a big Venn diagram to illustrate*
The GTA Vice City soundtrack has some class soft rock for example.