| New Music. On It's A**e
Posted: 6/23/2009 6:52:27 AM | Been a thaught going around my head for awhile, whats happened to all the decent bands that has something to say? In the 90s new bands like the Manics and Oasis were new and amazing, the 80s had the Smiths and Stone Roses & U2. The 70s had the punk beginnings, 60s Rolling stones etc.
What decent bands have been around this decade that will be remebered in 5, 10, 20 years time? Arctic Monkeys? They are hardly amazing... Looking at Leeds festivals headliners it hardly fills me with optimism seeing KOL singing their done before, boring woaaaahs and crappy guitar riffs.
If im wrong please advise me, but it seems asif music is getting killed by talentless Xfactor singers.
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| New Music. On It's A**e
Posted: 6/24/2009 10:16:40 AM | I won't speak on your opinion that there's a decline in the quality of music. The statement is at least 200 years old. Probably 20,000.
But I do think individuals will have a harder time establishing a lasting identity because the medium of storage is now the computer file.
In generations past, the storage medium was hardware-manuscripts, piano rolls, wax cylinders, phonograph discs, tapes and cds.
Anyone with the proper equipment could, years or decades later, re-discover forgotten works and artists.
JS Bach was virtually unknown for a hundred years after his death.
Imagine finding a hard disk a hundred years from now. Even if the data and format could be
recovered, who's going to listen to 10,000 songs downloaded from UTOOB. | |
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| New Music. On It's A**e
Posted: 6/24/2009 11:10:31 AM | | Oasis had something to say? Thats a laugh.....all I know is, that if you don't like what you're being fed, go to a different place....I use internet radio, and can't believe how much amazing music is out there, then again lyrics and having something to say isn't important to me.... | |
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| New Music. On It's A**e
Posted: 6/24/2009 11:38:04 AM | The new music of today is unfortunately cultivated pop bands who can't play instruments and can only just hold a note or two..it seems mainly about how good looking you are and not what a talented musician/songwriter/band you are.
A lot of it is just so plastic! | |
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| New Music. On It's A**e
Posted: 6/25/2009 10:09:35 PM | This is an easy one
Radiohead has left the biggest imprint in the past 2 decades
Along with R.E.M and The Flaming Lips | |
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| New Music. On It's A**e
Posted: 6/26/2009 3:49:24 AM |
The new music of today is unfortunately cultivated pop bands who can't play instruments and can only just hold a note or two..it seems mainly about how good looking you are and not what a talented musician/songwriter/band you are.
This has been the case for 50 years, ever since the Postwar Boom generated so much money that teenagers became a real market force. These were (are) not sophisticated people at all, so the object has been to find the lowest common denominator of what they'll buy, and then mass-produce it. When music videos came along in the '80s, good looks became even more necessary than talent than it already was, and so here we are. | |
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| New Music. On It's A**e
Posted: 6/26/2009 8:09:41 PM | I don't think the digital medium is the problem, ewe tewb databases can be easily tranfered to newer formats, data can be backed up and transfered as new storage methods come available, etc
The problem lies in its generally harder to push the envelope, to make something truly new that sticks out. So much has been already done.
We also live in a culture that pushes the latest on us as fast as possible, and that's pretty fast considering the technology we've got these days. The result is fickleness, and lowered attention spans.
I mean, led zeppelin were popular well in to the late 70's, long after their best albums were released, but no one cares anymore about the strokes. Then again, Led Zeppelin were touring well in to the late 70's, something bands don't really do anymore.
Oh yeah, you're talking to one of the few who would rattle their brain trying to find out what was on that hard disk. | |
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| New Music. On It's A**e
Posted: 6/26/2009 8:27:25 PM | | I'm sorry guys but I just don't get why I can't ever find a forum out their where "music lovers" do anything but rant about how much music sucks blah, blah, blah....! Where are the "Music fans" that just can't get enough of the medium altogether! The addicts! The ones who just feel the art rather than being pretentious about how the same tired groups are the ones who will never be topped! Maybe it's because a lot of you guys are musicians and it becomes a craft rather than an art! Maybe you are just jaded! I don't personally know! Zzzzzz! Have your favorites but add to the plate! I love the old stuff, the new stuff, the alternative, the rock, the rap, the alternative, the dance, the adult alternative, the electronic, the pop, the country, the disco, the classical, etc. I may not like Celine Dion, for example, but I don't make a thread about it! I may make a tongue in cheek reference or a remark about but I'd rather explore, explore, explore new music than waste my time on not liking her! That's my rant on ranting! lol Peace! | |
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