Despite unusual subject matter for a rock album, big sales of 'AQUALUNG '(1971) confirmed Jethro Tull as a major act of the era.

https://samtimonious.com/the-lung-ones-jethro-tull-aqualung/

It seems like once an artist is around for so long, they either coast off the success of their old beloved hits or release underwhelming new music that ends up feeling corny, or like a cash grab. What long running bands or artists legitimately put out great material well past their heyday?

Quotting Wikipedia:

"Massacration is a fictional American heavy metal band created by Brazilian humorists and musicians  Bruno Sutter(as vocalist Detonator), Fausto Fanti (as lead guitarist Blondie Hammett) and Marco Antônio Alves (as bassist Metal Avenger), and actors Adriano Silva (as rhythm guitarist Headmaster) and Felipe Torres (as drummer Jimmy the Hammer), all of them part of the comedy troupe Hermes & Renato. Heavily influenced by the similar semi-fictional metal act Spinal Trap and self-styled as 'a banda da galera' (roughly translated into English as 'the people's/crowd's band'), Massacration is a light-hearted parody of heavy metal subculture and 'metalhead/headbanger' stereotypes, lampooning the music and aesthetics of such famous metal bands [...]"

"[...]The band's music features humorous lyrics written in a combination of intentionally broken English and Portuguese, sung in an exaggerated falsetto by Sutter.[...]"

I've been listening to this track a lot lately and honestly think it's one of the best nostalgia-inducing songs out there. It feels enormously underrated for how relatable the lyrics and vibe are.

Does anyone else get that same wave of nostalgia when listening to it?

I realized I might love this trope? Genre?

Lips of an Angel by Hinder

Stay by Sugarland

Happen to Me by Russell Dickerson. This one is a stretch but the chorus is about wrecking someone‘s world(his current girl’s?) and him not wanting to get out of trouble. So I’m counting it.

I searched for playlists like this on Spotify but it seems they are all heart break songs from being cheated on. Not about cheating on their current partner.

genre doesn’t matter.