Some observations which which come from the Culture Bully site.
About two years ago a friend and I dug into eleven of the year’s releases by Classic Rock bands, the conclusion being that the bands who sounded most like themselves tended to release the better albums. On one end of the spectrum was Meat Loaf’s god-awful Bat Out Of Hell III (which sounded little like Meat Loaf but more like a nü-metal rock opera) and on the other was Neil Young’s Living With War (which sounded like Neil Young). After listening to the various albums by Bob Seger, Elton John and Peter Frampton among others, it became fairly apparent that if the music sounded like one would expect it to it would, at the least, be tolerable. And the more the music diverted from the framework of Classic Rock the worse it was. The biggest mistake that a band like Cheap Trick can make is to not sound like Cheap Trick, and the biggest mistake a band like AC/DC can make is to not sound like AC/DC.
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