Is Old Music Killing New Music? (8 Viewers)

[sonicboom]

Vinyl records are outselling CD's.

 

[Sailorsaint]

Vinyl records are outselling CD's.

I’ve been thinking about buying myself a player for Christmas so I could listen to my old records.

 

[Taurus]

Old music isn't 'killing' new music. It's just hanging around being good.

New music is killing itself. More autotuned, more melodically simple, fewer instruments, very few harmonies and so fragmented you may never, ever find that song you heard from the neighbors house.

What little large-market music there is is sanitized, same-ified, soundalike garbage.

I'd say there's no Prince, no Floyd or Dire Straits but for all I know there is. But only fifteen people have ever heard them and they damn sure aren't going to be allowed on your local FM station

 

[saintmdterps]

Old music isn't 'killing' new music. It's just hanging around being good.

New music is killing itself. More autotuned, more melodically simple, fewer instruments, very few harmonies and so fragmented you may never, ever find that song you heard from the neighbors house.

What little large-market music there is is sanitized, same-ified, soundalike garbage.

I'd say there's no Prince, no Floyd or Dire Straits but for all I know there is. But only fifteen people have ever heard them and they damn sure aren't going to be allowed on your local FM station

The lyrics and musicianship in most new country and Christian rock (now there’s an oxymoron for ya) are quite simply atrocious. The genres seem aimed at 18-30 year-old women, so go to a concert, jam in your earplugs, and enjoy the scenery.

Here's how it's done. No autotune, just a righteous, powerful voice. And she's easy on the eyes.


Live on the The Midnight Special

 

[guidomerkinsrules]

Old music isn't 'killing' new music. It's just hanging around being good.

New music is killing itself. More autotuned, more melodically simple, fewer instruments, very few harmonies and so fragmented you may never, ever find that song you heard from the neighbors house.

What little large-market music there is is sanitized, same-ified, soundalike garbage.

I'd say there's no Prince, no Floyd or Dire Straits but for all I know there is. But only fifteen people have ever heard them and they damn sure aren't going to be allowed on your local FM station

My son has a playlist of Frank Ocean, Kendrick, Tyler the Creator, Laufey, and a few others
All of it very good and could stand up to most eras better efforts

But searching for this era’s good music on the FM dial is like going to the local multiplex to see this eras best video storytelling
Th best stuff isn’t in the movies, it’s on streaming platforms

 

[saintmdterps]

My son has a playlist of Frank Ocean, Kendrick, Tyler the Creator, Laufey, and a few others
All of it very good and could stand up to most eras better efforts

But searching for this erase good music on the FK dial is like going to the local multiplex to see this eras best video storytelling
Th best stuff isn’t in the movies, it’s on streaming platforms

You're derelict as a father if you don't introduce your son to Molly Hatchet.

 

[gr8Saints]

Lack of talent and autotune are killing today's music.

 

[guidomerkinsrules]

Lack of talent and autotune are killing today's music.

We are the generation that created We Built This City on Rock n Roll
We don’t get to say **** about **** in regards to other musical eras

 

[saintmdterps]

We are the generation that created We Built This City on Rock n Roll
We don’t get to say **** about **** in regards to other musical eras

That song is pretty awful in its own right but the lineage back to The Jefferson Airplane ensures it is even more atrocious due to the precipitate fall.

 

[faceman]

That song is pretty awful in its own right but the lineage back to The Jefferson Airplane ensures it is even more atrocious due to the precipitate fall.

Chicago had a similar fall when Terry Kath died.

 

[SystemShock]

We are the generation that created We Built This City on Rock n Roll
We don’t get to say **** about **** in regards to other musical eras

Why?

"We" didn't create anything. That is but one drop of a song in the middle of an ocean of Springsteen, Tears for Fears, Depeche Mode, Bowie, Prince, R.E.M., Dire Straits, Petty, Mellencamp, Run DMC, heck, even the Beastie Boys.... just off the top of my head, around the time We Built the City came out.

 

[faceman]

Why?

"We" didn't create anything. That is but one drop of a song in the middle of an ocean of Springsteen, Tears for Fears, Depeche Mode, Bowie, Prince, R.E.M., Dire Straits, Petty, Mellencamp, Run DMC, heck, even the Beastie Boys.... just off the top of my head, around the time We Built the City came out.

I've said the same many times. The best music is rarely at the top of the charts. In 1969 the #1 song for
the year was Sugar Sugar. If I asked you who was your favorite group from that era, I guarantee many would not
say The Archies.

We built this city was recorded in 85. I was all in to Metallica,Judas Priest,Iron Maiden,AC/DC etc etc etc.

Back to a point raised earlier. Should old rock n rollers face mandatory retirement ? I say no. Keep on doing what
you love. The age of the musicians below range from 73- 77. Yes, they are past their prime and it's damn criminal
the Rock and Roll hall of fame finally inducted them 27 years after they were eligible.

 

[Saintman2884]

Chicago had a similar fall when Terry Kath died.

The crazy thing is is that some rock journalists back then and even later on suggested he was depressed or suicidal about his diminishing role in Chicago by mid-70's as they gradually went more into a pop-oriented direction instead of their celebrated late 60's rock-jazz fusion "experimental stage" but in reality while Kath was certainly intoxicated, he just accidentally shot himself fooling around with guns IIRC, at a pool party.

 

[Saintman2884]

You're derelict as a father if you don't introduce your son to Molly Hatchet.

Terps, take a little dope and walk out in the air, the sounds are all connected to your brain..

Find yourself a woman and lay down on the ground, the pleasure keeps falling down like rain...

Get yourself a car, and feel forking angry and downright insanely powerful while you fly.

It all seems fine, to the Naked Eye but I swear by God and Jesus Christ, it doesn't feel like that way one GD BIT.

You hold that maternalfornicator gun and I know the rules and we stand down looking in each other's eyes, some butt crevasse SOB's could die and it might seem fine to the Naked Eye, but it wouldn't feel that great at all.

The Naked Eye, Behind Blue Eyes along with most of Who's Next (based off Pete Townsend's ill-fated larger abandoned proposed follow-up to Tommy, Lifehouse "Brave New World in rock terms") has to be the band's most angriest, guttural, fork-you-maternal fornicators and to the Universe, bastages immemorial record ever recorded. It borders at times on being psychotic, vindictative, and overly vicious in some of its songs like some pissed-off loners deliberately starting a riot in any public place in general and picking fights just for the forking hell of it and because their anti-social misanthropes.

 

[faceman]

The crazy thing is is that some rock journalists back then and even later on suggested he was depressed or suicidal about his diminishing role in Chicago by mid-70's as they gradually went more into a pop-oriented direction instead of their celebrated late 60's rock-jazz fusion "experimental stage" but in reality while Kath was certainly intoxicated, he just accidentally shot himself fooling around with guns IIRC, at a pool party.

According to James Pankow the trombonist from Chicago there was going to be a Jimi Hendrix collaboration.
Hendrix's untimely death prevented it from happening.