Music is declining

[Deluge Of Sound]

Music decline?
Ripoff?

Just listen to Kid Rock's new song. Something about Summertime in Michigan.

Seriously. When I first heard it I was all "thank god they're playing Warren Zevon on the radio!"

...

And it promptly segued into junk.

 

[RED5]

No need to apologize, "every generation throws a hero up the pop charts"...That's what I think you're hearing. Pop music. You need to go live see see the real thing in motion. Also? Check out Richard Thompson's disc, "1000 Years of Pop Music" This is an age old concern that music is suffering, it is but we'll hold back the tide and prevail...It's music after all, it's unstoppable.

 

[The Golden Boy]

not necessarily true... a lot of those kids don't get theirs from officially licensed sources so the band doesn't get a cut... and what does get sold in high street chains has a very small sliver going to the band... compared to what the band themselves get when they sell the merchandise at the concert.

Again, with officially licensed merch, the band gets more of the cut than it does with recordings. Perhaps publishing also...

 

[envika]

The only band from the 80's I can still listen to is Joy Division; they had something timeless about them.

I agree, but Joy Division was late 70s. Do you mean New Order?

 

[T-MOST]

People said the very same things when Jazz, Rock & Roll, Soul/R&b and Rap emerged... Music is supposed to evolve whether we like it or not.

 

[Tony In Philly]

Quote:
Originally Posted by guitfiddle0409
"The only band from the 80's I can still listen to is Joy Division; they had something timeless about them."

I agree, but Joy Division was late 70s. Do you mean New Order?

No -- I actually meant Joy Division. After I posted that I thought that my comment might spark that kind of chronological controversy. But to be sure, Ian Curtis committed his sad and tragic suicide in May of 1980, so one can say that 1) Joy Division actually did make it into the 80's, 2) the end of one decade and the beginning of decade often stylistically blur together (witness late 50's/early 60's and late 60's/early 70's) and 3) when I think of late 70's heyday music I'm much more tempted to think of bands like Kansas or Led Zepplin than Joy Division, which had a ton of influence on 80's bands. Sorry about the diversion from the main OP.

 

[Tony In Philly]

she also considers some current artists to be scary and pretty shocking, but I just dragged out the photo album showing me back in my punk days... the one with the nail through my nose totally silenced her.

 

[beyondhairy]

you know whats declining right now? solos.... lol

i took my cousin to this punker bands show the other night...

the bands were The Main, MetroStation, Good charollete, and Boys Like Girls....

and out of all 4 sets.... only one song by one band had a guitar solo in it, and it was just 2 measures long lol


my god what a boring night.... not just cuz of the solos, but cuz all the music sucked... lol a few songs here and there had potential, but i enjoyed good charolete the most out of them all... but got man... the singers from metro station and from boys like girls couldnt find the right key in a locksmiths tool box...

 

[Zuhzuhzombie!!]

This is how I feel. All that music that comes on the radio isn't even that great anymore. Most of it is fake music like techno that goes behind all that annoying sound alike pop, rap, hip hop, stuff that you hear all the time. Rock no longer has the feeling like it did back in the 60's, 70's, 80's, or early 90's. Metal, while having good complex riff, are often ruined nowadays by the ever common, scream. I use to like screamo but now it's all the same. Music started getting sour after Mr. Cobain had to leave us. What we need is some good music, not even complex, just good sounding, full of feeling that reaches out to people and changes the face of music. I can't listen to a radio with modern songs playing without wanting to rip it off whatever surface it's on and just slamming it repeatedly into the wall. We need a band to step up and take this job and I'd be more than willing but maybe when I play better and I have a band that will reach out to people. Thanks for listening, reading, if you did. Sorry to rant.

Sir, I say it with respect, but have you possibly considered that you're opinion on the health of music is because you're looking to the radio?

I'm not one to include Cobain in terms of "great music" either. Good song writer, though.

Plenty of solid bands out there. You just have to dig for them.




EDIT

Last live show I saw was Torche and Boris. Both bands were phenomenal.

 

[baalroo]

this punker bands show the other night...

the bands were The Main, MetroStation, Good charollete, and Boys Like Girls....
...

does not compute.