Peter Pardo and Martin Popoff's Legendary Bands Who Still Kick Ass (classic rock/metal orientated)

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cur-TdIg-j8

I thought this was quite fun, I barely know any of these bands (of course I know who most of them are), the only one I have any albums by is Uriah Heep (one album), but I would like to get into some more of them.

Sometimes the bands are argued to just be doing great stuff, sometimes they're argued to be just as good as they've ever been or are better than ever (Overkill in particular but also ZZ Top and a few others if I remember correctly). Of course Motorhead are finished but the last period is enthused about.

Something that keeps coming up is that many of the fans of these bands wont even give the later periods a chance, just assuming it's bad or unwilling to try new versions and directions.

I don't know if Popoff was totally serious about Heart and Kiss but I just included them anyway. They have a main top10 in the video but I just included everyone argued for, even if it was brief. I can't promise I haven't missed a band.

Poll Results

Option	Votes
ZZ Top	3
Cheap Trick	3
Iron Maiden	2
Saxon	1
Deep Purple	1
Heart	1
Kiss	0
Wishbone Ash	0
Accept	0
Kansas	0
Molly Hatchet	0
Lynyrd Skynyrd	0
Overkill	0
Testament	0
Motorhead	0
Uriah Heep	0

― Robert Adam Gilmour, Thursday, 27 August 2020 19:08 (four years ago)

I know folks ride for late Maiden but imo Overkill most recently released a great album (of the acts I know decently well)

― unpaid intern at the darvo institute (Simon H.), Thursday, 27 August 2020 19:10 (four years ago)

rather easily Cheap Trick for me.

― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Thursday, 27 August 2020 19:33 (four years ago)

I will definitely stick up for recent Uriah Heep; their 21st century albums are really, really good (assuming you're into that style of heavy rock). Motörhead got really good in the mid-2000s and stayed strong more or less all the way to the end; their last album was better than the one before it. ZZ Top's last album was good, but their '90s work was terrible and don't let anyone convince you otherwise.

― but also fuck you (unperson), Thursday, 27 August 2020 19:34 (four years ago)

Popoff talks about some controversy about who is actually playing on the recent ZZ Top studio albums, as if the band hasn't been transparent about that.

― Robert Adam Gilmour, Thursday, 27 August 2020 19:39 (four years ago)

pete ?

https://img.discogs.com/dqK4DTLBsQzf5HkZxmZNNO_gwYk=/fit-in/600x596/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-7214586-1436507011-9507.jpeg.jpg

https://www.discogs.com/Suck-Baby-Suck-Suck-Baby-Suck/release/7214586

― budo jeru, Thursday, 27 August 2020 22:33 (four years ago)

"deep Heep fans" is a hilarious term

― budo jeru, Thursday, 27 August 2020 23:01 (four years ago)

uriah peeps, surely

― unpaid intern at the darvo institute (Simon H.), Thursday, 27 August 2020 23:09 (four years ago)

Heep Cuts

― Muswell Hillbilly Elegy (President Keyes), Friday, 28 August 2020 00:49 (four years ago)

What's the story with Frank Beard (and perhaps Dusty) not playing on some albums?

― stirmonster, Friday, 28 August 2020 01:01 (four years ago)

Well, Eliminator was Gibbons and a bunch of machines (and then Dusty did some vocals). Same deal with Afterburner, I think.

― but also fuck you (unperson), Friday, 28 August 2020 01:25 (four years ago)

Beard helped beef up the rhythm tracks on Eliminator, but he (and some other uncredited drummers, including engineer Terry Manning) was having to conform to the sequencer.

― "...And the Gods Socially Distanced" (C. Grisso/McCain), Friday, 28 August 2020 01:50 (four years ago)

Yup, i'm aware it was drum machines in the Eliminator era but Martin Popoff claims Greg Morrow drums on some later albums instead of Frank.

― stirmonster, Friday, 28 August 2020 02:22 (four years ago)

two months pass...

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

― System, Saturday, 31 October 2020 00:01 (four years ago)

The 21st century albums I've heard from these groups are The World Is Yours by Motorhead and Now What?!? by Deep Purple, both of which are at least respectable.

It's nice that Popoff continues to support the bands that he grew up on, he must be the only critic to say that ZZ Top made the best metal album of the 90s.

― Halfway there but for you, Saturday, 31 October 2020 00:59 (four years ago)

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

― System, Sunday, 1 November 2020 00:01 (four years ago)

Accept and Motorhead in the 2000s are/were great. Black Sabbath and AC/DC should probably be in this, although one album in 20 years might not be considered enough? Testament looks out of place, it’s the only one not from the 70s. There are loads of other 80s bands still doing great stuff.

― Siegbran, Sunday, 1 November 2020 00:41 (four years ago)

80s band still doing great stuff = Destruction

― but also fuck you (unperson), Sunday, 1 November 2020 01:07 (four years ago)

Did Overkill start in the 70s?

― Robert Adam Gilmour, Sunday, 1 November 2020 04:03 (four years ago)

technically 1980, and since there was no year 1, that makes them a 70s band?

― Lover of Nixon (or LON for short) (Neanderthal), Sunday, 1 November 2020 04:09 (four years ago)

Doobie Brothers with Peter Frampton sound pretty good covering EC's "Let It Rain" that just got posted up a few days ago. Tom Johnson, Patrick Simmons and Frampton all sound in good voice and play well on the tune.

― earlnash, Sunday, 1 November 2020 16:01 (four years ago)

Ah yes Overkill too of course - I mean there are just so many 80s thrash/death metal bands still about, churning out good material in the 2010s that those two just feel like a arbitrary choices. The pickings from 70s bands are much slimmer, which I guess is pretty inevitable, ageing/dying members & all.

― Siegbran, Sunday, 1 November 2020 16:10 (four years ago)

Voted for Deep Purple bc new album r0x0r.

― I guess I'd be lonesome (Sund4r), Sunday, 1 November 2020 16:15 (four years ago)

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