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Mainstream Music Stinks!

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I feel that more and more, what comes out of the studio is controlled by the Producer, not the band (except for those few bands that have earned and use their creative freedom). Sometimes I muse that its all an ego trip for certain producers to create a phenomenon out of something mediocre... or even terrible...
 
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Glenn Johnson said:
Am I just getting old or is the current mainstream, over-produced drivel pretending to be music the garbage I believe it to be. Sure, once in a blue moon something halfway worthwhile mysteriously finds it's way onto the radio, clubs, etc. - but that's rare. It"s almost as if the music moguls have brainwashed our youth into thinking that what they're hearing is worthwhile.

Anyone agree/disagree? Thoughts? Comments?

Edit: Yes, I know I sound like my dad.
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bass12 said:
Really? Tears For Fears' "Songs From The Big Chair" or "Sowing The Seeds..." albums sucked? The B-52's? Level 42? Chic? David Bowie? Joe Jackson? Sting? All crap? 'Cause all of that stuff was pop...
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Good lord....There is good music and bad music in every decade and every generation. All the bands/albums you mentioned were good examples in a decade that produced an abnormally high number of 'one hit wonders'. The sixties had bubblegum, the seventies had 'Three Dog Night', the eighties as mentioned etc. etc. Each of these decades also produced immortal music. My only point is that when radio plays guide popular music, the cream rise to the top, but so does the sewage. F.M. stations tended to play the artists you mentioned, flip over to the A.M. dial and garbage oozed out of the speakers- Hey Mickey (Toni Basil), anyone? My much more important point was that there is GREAT music being produced now.
 
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Paulabass said:
Good lord....There is good music and bad music in every decade and every generation. All the bands/albums you mentioned were good examples in a decade that produced an abnormally high number of 'one hit wonders'. The sixties had bubblegum, the seventies had 'Three Dog Night', the eighties as mentioned etc. etc. Each of these decades also produced immortal music. My only point is that when radio plays guide popular music, the cream rise to the top, but so does the sewage. F.M. stations tended to play the artists you mentioned, flip over to the A.M. dial and garbage oozed out of the speakers- Hey Mickey (Toni Basil), anyone? My much more important point was that there is GREAT music being produced now.
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Well alright then...
 
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I had a guy visiting from overseas who was interested in doing some work with me. Do you have loops? he asked.
No, I have instruments, you make your own grooves, that's how it works for me.

He explained to me that back home that's how they work, quick, efficient and devoid of any soul. Once they find a formula that works every other song will be a variation on that first hit so it's all starting to sound very generic.

Decades ago I think it worked because lots of stuff was invented by accident, guys just jamming and keeping the bits they liked and turning them into songs. I remember there were lots of bands in our suburb and on a Sunday afternoon you could walk around the neighbourhood and listen to the jams taking place.

Now all you hear is silence and the click of guys triggering samples on a keyboard...
 
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bluesblaster said:
I notice when I hear hip hop or rap tunes emanating from some car I hear the same drum track over and over.
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For me its a certain genre of latino music. I swear every.single.song. has the same basic drum beat. I think its something like Kick drum on the 1 and snare or tom on the 3 & 4. Not only is it homogenous, its downright robotic...

Don't get me wrong, there could be some great stuff played over this, but it features so prominently... it just kills it for me...
 
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Music? - for what it is today, is a direct result of removing music programs from our schools over the past 20+ years. Cause and effect. - More natural today to create music? using samples and technology rather than to spend years learning about music; practicing to master an instrument.
 
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coolhang said:
Music? - for what it is today, is a direct result of removing music programs from our schools over the past 20+ years. Cause and effect. - More natural today to create music? using samples and technology rather than to spend years learning about music; practicing to master an instrument.
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No no no, if you want to stifle creativity and innovation...



...get lawyers involved. The'll sue you for a three second segment of your song that *vaguely* sounds like something some minor act recorded 40 yrs ago...
 
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...my parents and older siblings didn't care for the Beatles when they were on the Ed Sullivan Show in '64... but that's when the light bulb went on in my head... fast forward to now... me, old and in the way... and my kids digging other stuff that I don't care for...I would never begrudge any generation their own "music", whatever form it takes... of course, now my sisters and brother think the Beatles were great... so far, I've managed to resist saying to them: "Told you so."
 
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Closing for cleanup. This may or may not get reopened.

EDIT: I think everything that needed to be said (and a fair bit that did not) has been covered. This will remain closed.
 
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