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Well, maybe because new music suxx
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Most of the comments in this thread are positive... only a few obnoxious ones.
It seems that nowadays, whatever is hot and new never stays around long enough to form any attachment.
Whether it be music, movies, the latest smart phone, big screen tv, etc. it can be disposed of as soon as the
newest hot and new thing shows up. If you find some new music that you really appreciate, you best be saving it to your
playlist before it disappears.
Whether it be music, movies, the latest smart phone, big screen tv, etc. it can be disposed of as soon as the
newest hot and new thing shows up. If you find some new music that you really appreciate, you best be saving it to your
playlist before it disappears.
Someone isn't a musician if they use a computer to make music...but they are if they use an instrument?
Music, much like films, books, etc-- has been supplanted by video games for younger people. I have six kids in their 20's and only one is a serious music fan (new metal mostly). The rest are casual fans and do not listen to much music new or old. Podcasts have also cut into how much time people listen to music. The balkanization of genres makes it harder for new music to gain the widespread appeal that was common in previous decades.
/end threadSo to break it down...
Good music = stuff I like that you don't.
Bad music = stuff you like that I don't.
Younger people have all music available to them at all times. I didn't have that when I was 20, so I shouldn't be surprised when young people have a much more diverse diet of music than I had - including all music history. Also, copyright periods are too long, because corporate interests find it more profitable to make money on existing things, than to encourage investment in new things.
I would totally buy that record.
Somehow I doubt you are qualified to label every piece of music that has been created in the past two decades as sucking. I'd also be willing to bet that the "everyone" you mentioned actually constitutes an insignificant percentage of musical artists.
My grandfather, John Dobry, was stationed in Hawaii in 1941.
He had a tattoo by a guy named Norman Keith Collins, better known as Sailor Jerry
It was a Hula dancer.
He was stationed on the USS Vestal. On December 7th 1941 he and his ship was tired up next to the USS Arizona, and as they say, the rest is history.
There is a well known cave painting depicting the first two post-primates that knocked rocks together to make sounds. Below that painting there are further pictographs representing "Gronk make derivative nonsense" and "Oonk am trite and formulaic".
I agree that there is a lot of great music coming out these days, but really, I wonder if I will remember any of it 5 - 10 years from now ?
Black Eye Peas are good example, they were HUGE like 10+ years ago, but these days it seems they are lost to history. the "I Got A Feeling" song is the only thing that's left being played at conventions and stuff. Like will we still be hearing Ed Sheeran on the radio in 10 years ?? Or will there be more new music that is seemingly disposable ??
I listen to a lot of different genres of music, and try to hear new stuff ranging from jazz to prog to metal to pop, and very few things did I find 10 years ago do I still listen to now. But I do love exploring new music and sharing with friends when I find something cool !
Black Eye Peas are good example, they were HUGE like 10+ years ago, but these days it seems they are lost to history. the "I Got A Feeling" song is the only thing that's left being played at conventions and stuff. Like will we still be hearing Ed Sheeran on the radio in 10 years ?? Or will there be more new music that is seemingly disposable ??
I listen to a lot of different genres of music, and try to hear new stuff ranging from jazz to prog to metal to pop, and very few things did I find 10 years ago do I still listen to now. But I do love exploring new music and sharing with friends when I find something cool !
Much as i like Billie, Van Halen turned the world upside down....they had it all, a ground breaking guitarist, a frontman that owned the stage, a bassist with outstanding vocal harmonies, a drummer that got sampled by rappers.....its not even close.
Im seeing very few really good front men (or front women) in music...even Prince admired David Lee Roth and Michael Jackson latched onto EVH....sure a million imitators came along in the 80's but i saw VH 3 times in 78...it was out of this world and the fact i see very young kids in GC and music stores wearing VH shirts says something.
I mentioned Blu in an earlier thread ("Ah have lusted in mah heart"
Yes, I pretty much agree on all accounts. Above all I'm a fan of her funky and at the same time melodic bass playing and bassline composition. Vintage, Cotton Candy Lemonade, Toast with the Butter, all have sexy funky basslines that I really enjoy playing myself. There's a freshness to them. And she has mentioned Jamerson as an influence. But yes, the voice in the Talking Heads cover is rather too girly, probably for the reasons you mention. But she's still young and obviously not going the Joplin or Winehouse or PJ Harvey way in that respect.
Gotta wonder what old people's obsession with avocado toast is. Do they have something against putting some avocado on a piece of toasted bread...maybe with a strip or two of bacon and an over easy egg on top? It's delicious.
The whole tattoo thing just seems to only ever come from people who do not have tattoos. For some reason they are obsessed with how other people choose to decorate their bodies. They also seems fixated on what those bodies will look like when they are 80...because I guess they spend a lot of time thinking about naked elderly people for some reason and apparently think a naked 80 year old body looks good so long as it doesn't have tattoos on it. Some people just like to judge other people...seems to give their lives meaning.
My take is that this has been building for generations. Really, ever since marketing and accountants got hold of the reigns back in the 80's things have been on a steady decline. Ted Gioia isn't onto anything new here (I love his Erik Satie reference) although he certainly gets a good bit of it right.
For those who haven't viewed them, here are a few insights that explain some of it far better than I could. Some of you may be familiar with these, some not. Feel free to disagree, but I think that these describe the problem pretty accurately from where I sit. I was born in 1960 and I watched the decline over time. It has a been a heart breaking thing:
The following was read by Zappa at a classical composer convention at Ohio State in the early 1980's. It was aimed at "Modern Classical Composers" but it describes some of the issues that were and are still facing both classical and commercial music.
https://otg.brainiac.com/fzfull.htm
For those who haven't viewed them, here are a few insights that explain some of it far better than I could. Some of you may be familiar with these, some not. Feel free to disagree, but I think that these describe the problem pretty accurately from where I sit. I was born in 1960 and I watched the decline over time. It has a been a heart breaking thing:
The following was read by Zappa at a classical composer convention at Ohio State in the early 1980's. It was aimed at "Modern Classical Composers" but it describes some of the issues that were and are still facing both classical and commercial music.
https://otg.brainiac.com/fzfull.htm
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Being a condescending *** is a fantastic way to get people to listen to you!
Obsession with avocado toast?
Didn't know that was a thing. An old truck driver I used to work with had a number of tatoos. Good ol' boy from Oklahoma. We were talking one time and he said, "Yeah, I got 'em when I was in the Navy. I wished I hadn't of done that they fade and spread out, and there they are ... ah, whatever ... " So that's kind of how I think of tatoos. But I don't care all that much about someone else's tats. Life's too short.
I think a lot of Gen-z and Millenials on this thread are just rolling their eyes at a lot of the Boomer's comments. Their is all sorts of great stuff happening right now. Top 40 is dead, many boomers have no ear for current electronic productions (just like their parent had none for rock and roll). The whole model of music as an industry that older generations grew up with has crapped the bed, its a whole different game know, the ability to self publish allows for literally anyone to put out their art, there aren't really any gate keepers anymore
Being thin skinned is a fantastic way to not have fun on the internet.
Relax and shake your booty to some Dua Lipa while you still remember she exists
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