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Why Modern Music Is Awful

#81
Michedelic said:
Let's face it, human beings are awful, and need to be replaced.
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'Summoning the demon.' 'The new tools of our oppression.' 'Children playing with a bomb.' These are just a few ways the world's top researchers and industry leaders have described the threat that artificial intelligence poses to mankind. Will AI enhance our lives or completely upend them?

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#82
seilerbird said:
That was the whole point. Virtually any new music is much better than this piece of crap. It is really hard to tell exactly when the guitar solo starts and when it ends. It is impossible to deduce what he was thinking.
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But there is someone out there who likes it, I'm sure.

And maybe that person doesn't like Rush's Moving Pictures or Mastodon's Leviathon or Peter Gabriel's So or Guided By Voices' Alien Lanes or Sonic Youth's Sister or Miles Davis' Miles Ahead or Led Zep's III or Shostakovich"a 3rd Symphony.

There is plenty of music to go around and everyone has their own tastes and perception and....ok that song was truly effin crap :D
 
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I always love this conversation - it's like people who judge other forms of art... always makes me laugh

on another note, who here has produced a song which has been listened to more times or by more people than Rebecca Black's "Friday"? ... anybody?
 
#84
Most of the songs played on Top Forty radio are collaborations between producers like Stargate and "top line" writers like Ester Dean. The producers compose the chord progressions, program the beats, and arrange the "synths," or computer-made instrumental sounds; the top-liners come up with primary melodies, lyrics, and the all-important hooks, the ear-friendly musical phrases that lock you into the song. "It's not enough to have one hook anymore," Jay Brown, the president of Roc Nation, and Dean's manager, told me recently. "You've got to have a hook in the intro, a hook in the pre-chorus, a hook in the chorus, and a hook in the bridge." The reason, he explained, is that "people on average give a song seven seconds on the radio before they change the channel, and you got to hook them."

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alaskaleftybass said:
Most of the songs played on Top Forty radio are collaborations between producers like Stargate and "top line" writers like Ester Dean. The producers compose the chord progressions, program the beats, and arrange the "synths," or computer-made instrumental sounds; the top-liners come up with primary melodies, lyrics, and the all-important hooks, the ear-friendly musical phrases that lock you into the song. "It's not enough to have one hook anymore," Jay Brown, the president of Roc Nation, and Dean's manager, told me recently. "You've got to have a hook in the intro, a hook in the pre-chorus, a hook in the chorus, and a hook in the bridge." The reason, he explained, is that "people on average give a song seven seconds on the radio before they change the channel, and you got to hook them."

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This is the way it's been since the beginning of music. Dude thinks he's reinventing the wheel.
 
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Define modern music, the new electronic music that you hear at the night clubs or any music written by young musicians in the last 5 years? If the former then there are plenty of good modern music, just like in the past. just don't expect it to sound like LZ, The Beatles, DP, etc.

While replying to this thread I visited youtube and I found these new bands, at least to me, I am sure that I can find several new good music every single day.



 
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#88
1bassleft said:
I remember Mickie Most, one of those music gurus of British 70s Talent shows (again, something that Simon Cowell didn't invent in our most recent tea break) proclaiming that a song had to hit you in the first 6 seconds or it would never be a hit on the radio. Attention spans haven't changed much more than the goldfish have.
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Mickie Most was probably the biggest producer in England during the British Invasion next to George Martin, too. And the hits he produced and released on his label lasted him into the early 80's. Mickie Most was correct then, correct 200 years before him, and he's correct today.
 
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bassdude51 said:
Ummm, there were a lot of "awful" music back in the 50s and 60s too. He mentions The Beatles, Led Zeppelin, Kinks, Bob Dylan which were like the cream of the cream of music back then and then compares it to Justin Bieber, Spears, Ga Ga which is not necessarily the cream of the cream of music today.

I'm not gonna waste any time mentioning "awful" bands from the 50s and 60s and etc but there were plenty of them and they were very successful.

One person's awful music is another's favorite music. Let's be nice! "To each his own."

And, the video..................TL;DW By the way, the guy's English accent? Obviously, East Liverpool, Ohio. (Yes, there is!)

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Agreed, pretty much. I don't get the Beatles, or most modern music. I don't care what other people like though, just don't expect me to heap praise on the latest genius and we're cool.

I can tell why I don't like modern music though. Its the samples they user for percussion/drums (clap in place of a snare drum). And I don't like the Beatles because of the clean vocals.

But if someone else likes it that's cool.
 
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pedroims said:
Define modern music, the new electronic music that you hear at the night clubs or any music written by young musicians in the last 5 years? If the former then there are plenty of good modern music, just like in the past. just don't expect it to sound like LZ, The Beatles, DP, etc.

While replying to this thread I visited youtube and I found these new bands, at least to me, I am sure that I can find several new good music every single day.


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I really like the 1st one. 2nd is decent. 3rd is to electronic for me.
 
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I've posted this before when the OP video started a previous thread, but I spend a lot of time avoiding English-speaking music radio in Southern Spain - where my childhood/youth is always in fashion. Any of the "this week in 19XX" chart rundowns is quite illuminating, in a bad way. Terrible, terrible songs predominate. Even that week in 1996, which was one of the better years (and I was in the early stage of my 30s, young enough to notice, old enough to discriminate or be less tribal) featured one "meh, it's ok" song (Jamiroquai) and a solitary "Oh good, Prodigy - Breathe, turn up" for the whole chart. When we were young, a lot of the chart was rubbish but we were so cool it didn't matter because we knew where the good stuff was. Now we don't, and we think modern music is barf. I let my son burn discs for our long drives from England to Spain. He has taste and he fills good cabin. Sometimes, one or two of his dad's old classics appear in his preferred listening - as it was when I was his age.
 
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pigpen1 said:
I really like the 1st one. 2nd is decent. 3rd is to electronic for me.
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Fair enough, it is all about what you like and don't like. But ,I am being honest, I found these bands 10 minutes ago just by looking in youtube for modern music. I don't expect radio stations to feed me with good music, I have to look for it. I did the same 30 years ago when if I wanted to listened to ''good music'' I have to searched for new metal bands via fanzines but nowadays I use youtube or any other media, at the end of the day nothing have changed for me.
 
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pedroims said:
Fair enough, it is all about what you like and don't like. But ,I am being honest, I found these bands 10 minutes ago just by looking in youtube for modern music. I don't expect radio stations to feed me with good music, I have to look for it. I did the same 30 years ago when if I wanted to listened to ''good music'' I have to searched for new metal bands via fanzines but nowadays I use youtube or any other media, at the end of the day nothing have changed for me.
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Same. I just want to be clear that when I say I don't like something its not an attack on anyone's choices or tastes. It's just stating my own preferences and opinions.
 
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alaskaleftybass said:
'Summoning the demon.' 'The new tools of our oppression.' 'Children playing with a bomb.' These are just a few ways the world's top researchers and industry leaders have described the threat that artificial intelligence poses to mankind. Will AI enhance our lives or completely upend them?

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"Open the pod bay doors, Hal"
 
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Relayer71 said:
But there is someone out there who likes it, I'm sure.
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The amazing thing is that it is very popular among the garage band crowd. It has been included on several compilation albums. Another ironic thing is that the Music Machine had exactly one hit, Talk Talk. That was one of the tightest produced hits of the 60s. Exactly the opposite of the Eagle and the Fly.
 

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