List of artists that have never lost quality throughout entire career


One of the brightest on my list is 

1. Depeche Mode. I'm big fan started listening and enjoying them from their very first album "Speak and Spell". I am devoted to their perfection of every song they create in terms of sound, melody, harmony and incredible intelligence. Their music may seem simple, but in reality much more complex than seems. I believe that they're somewhat commercialized, but also believe that they deserve their incredible success. They're indeed Kings of electronic rock!

2. Can (The Can). Every album they released is a journey to their creativity. What are they rock? Jazz? Prog? Their music often can cover all styles of music in one song. It's a blend of jazz-trained drummer Jaki Libezeit, classically trained keyboardist Irmin Schmidt(also conductor and neo-classical composer and film score composer), multi-instrumentalist bassist Holger Czukai and classically trained guitarist and electric violinist Michael Caroli (RIP). It's a unique blend of musicians with extraordinary skills and creativity

3. Dead Can Dance. This artist has plenty of praises and each and every of their album is a unique blend of electronics and earth bound instruments. Lisa Gerrard is known to be a part of Gladiator Motion Picture Soundtrack.

4. Tom Waits. Many would criticize Tom for not singing his own voice, but I'm amused the way he does it with spirit of Louis Armstrong! Yes indeed with spirit instead of just imitating. Embracing the spirit of inspired artist is different and Tom is clear example to that!
czarivey

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Drag, a poor performance of Back has nothing to do with Bach himself.
Of course a rock.pop, country "artist" requires little to no talent or musical knowledge .

I’ve heard all the Brandenburg's played at least a hundred times live, never heard a bad performance yet . Neither has anyone else who goes to the best orchestras.

No one has ever said Bach was the greatest organist, all comments made in his life-time did said he was a master .
The most agreed upon  opinion among serious lovers of Classical Music worldwide is that he is the greatest composer who ever lived or ever will live .
czarivey. You seem totally unable to grasp  that in adult conversation some things are so obvious that the norm is to not  state them .
Of COURSE there are people in pop/rock, even country, that are talented and well educated as well.
However it is quite CLEAR that above is optional !
Mozart studied with the best teachers available , Haydn for starters who, if not his musical equal, was very close to it .


Classical musicians improvise more than you think, Ivan Fisher the leader
of the Budapest Festival Orch ., which is one the very best in the world, seeks players who do. Every player has their own sound , two play a concerto you hear the difference, not better just different .Conductors use different tempos and stress different things . 

Billy Joel now plays classical , he said he was ashamed of playing what he did when he knew better .
Classical players pay attention to other players and good ones adjust to same . That's improv to me .
Right you are oregonpapa, I was just thinking about composers .
Schubert, Mozart, Beethoven and Brahms never did either for that matter .
The string quartets Beethoven wrote as he was stone deaf and at deaths door have never been surpassed .
Schubert died at 31 and wrote over 1500 pieces and the best were done in his last 2 years when he was very sick.
His String Quintet in C is the Holy Grail for string players, I heard no less a musician than  Arthur Rubinstein say, with my own ears, he thought it the greatest piece of music ever written .

+1 for Los Lobos , one of the few bands I liked .
    Little worse than a pot-head women .