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R.I.P music

#87
Jared Lash said:
I always have to smile when TBers get upset about the "state of music" when the music in question is aimed at preteens. New Kids on the Block didn't kill music. Neither did N'sync (sp?) and neither will this. What it WILL do is move a lot of product to kids that don't know that it's schlock.

The last three videos I watched before clicking on this thread:
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YouTube - James Blake - I'll Stay
YouTube - Mogwai - You're Lionel Richie

Not for everyone but to me these are examples of people who have and are moving music forward. Right now is a wonderful time to be a music fan. The barriers to entry in the record business are at an all time low. Anyone can record and promote their music freely and there is an immense amount of great stuff available. The hard part is doing the work to find the stuff that really moves you. But even that I enjoy.
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Yes. This. The people getting up in arms about this song are also the ones that aren't willing to dig even a little bit below the surface...I mean Thom alone has been on the mainstream radar for 15 years, at least. Want meaningful music? Get some Bon Iver. Get some Wilco. Glen Hansard. Mumford & Sons. M. Ward. Jenny Lewis. Charlotte Gainsbourg. Leave this Katy Perry / Friday / Gaga crap for the 99% percent of people who only want a new jam to bump stoopid loud in their whip.

So much good music out there. Dig a little.
 
#88
Jared Lash said:
I always have to smile when TBers get upset about the "state of music" when the music in question is aimed at preteens. New Kids on the Block didn't kill music. Neither did N'sync (sp?) and neither will this. What it WILL do is move a lot of product to kids that don't know that it's schlock.

The last three videos I watched before clicking on this thread:
Invalid Link Removed
YouTube - James Blake - I'll Stay
YouTube - Mogwai - You're Lionel Richie

Not for everyone but to me these are examples of people who have and are moving music forward. Right now is a wonderful time to be a music fan. The barriers to entry in the record business are at an all time low. Anyone can record and promote their music freely and there is an immense amount of great stuff available. The hard part is doing the work to find the stuff that really moves you. But even that I enjoy.
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This Mogwai song sounds a lot like early Porcupine Tree (incidentally, I think Steven Wilson is one of our times' marking composers).
 
#91
I personally think the extreme influx of crap music is due to the fact that record companies are desperately trying anything that might make them a dime, and horrible bubblegum pop is usually a pretty safe bet for a few bucks from the pre-teen girl market. I don't really consider this a bad thing, but its just hard watching the commercial music market gasping for breath in its death throes. Change is upon us, and alot of old time professionals are going to go under the tires, but thats the price we pay for technology that allows us to cheaply produce professional sounding music in our bedrooms, we don't even need to pay to produce mass amounts of cd's to sell anymore, just get it on Itunes and your set.
 
#93
hover said:
Yes. This. The people getting up in arms about this song are also the ones that aren't willing to dig even a little bit below the surface...I mean Thom alone has been on the mainstream radar for 15 years, at least. Want meaningful music? Get some Bon Iver. Get some Wilco. Glen Hansard. Mumford & Sons. M. Ward. Jenny Lewis. Charlotte Gainsbourg. Leave this Katy Perry / Friday / Gaga crap for the 99% percent of people who only want a new jam to bump stoopid loud in their whip.

So much good music out there. Dig a little.
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I actually find gaga's songs pretty good. The producing and composing on her songs are brilliant.
 
#96
hover said:
Yes. This. The people getting up in arms about this song are also the ones that aren't willing to dig even a little bit below the surface...I mean Thom alone has been on the mainstream radar for 15 years, at least. Want meaningful music? Get some Bon Iver. Get some Wilco. Glen Hansard. Mumford & Sons. M. Ward. Jenny Lewis. Charlotte Gainsbourg. Leave this Katy Perry / Friday / Gaga crap for the 99% percent of people who only want a new jam to bump stoopid loud in their whip.

So much good music out there. Dig a little.
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Man you're a hipster, I thought you were cool.
 

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