Nothing. I'm still looking, listening and absorbing. I just don't feel the urge to ferret out everything that's available.
You're point?
You're point?
Why does most new music suck?
Ok I will have some exclusions to my statement. I'm not talking about classical or jazz. My comment is mostly pointed to rock and pop releases. Don't even get me started on rap.... I don't consider it music. I will admit that I'm an old foggy but come on, where are some talented new groups? I grew up with the Beatles, Who, Rolling Stones, Led Zeppelin, Hendrix etc. I sample a lot of new music and the recordings are terrible. The engineers should be fired for producing over compressed shrill garbage. The talent seems to be lost or doesn't exist. I have turned to some folk/country or blues music. It really is a sad state of affairs....Oh my god, I'm turning into my parents.
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Just my position in answer to the op's question that there's plenty of good music to find without having to settle for current new offerings. Rok2id hit the nail on the head though. I'm still stuck in the 70's. With me it's still all about the music. The gear really is secondary. I would not be interested otherwise. I don't care how good or bad the recording is. Good ones are a bonus, bad ones a challenge. |
I want to be proven wrong more than anything. The difference is that it is artists and songs like the ones below that we heard on the radio all day long without having to "look for them". Seems to me that this is an important part of what makes music "popular". Here are four that came to mind without any effort at all. What songs from the last, say, thirty years that are as well crafted and performed with a similar level of artistry come immediately to mind? Yeah, I know I know, it's subjective. Is it? http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=9j7z3nQJj-0 http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Tdw7kxD8eUc http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=YLQYkbzSz5s http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=WXV_QjenbDw |
Interesting comments about the music suffering for the "separation of artists and instruments". Intuitively, I'd reach the opposite conclusion. As technology changes, music adapts. To me, rock n roll is the musical child of the electric guitar. Had the piano not come along to follow the harpsichord, music would certainly have evolved differently. You can be pretty confident that piano music alienated a fair # of harpsichord music lovers and you know that rock n roll pissed off a whole lot of folks. Today, computers (and derivative electronics) are often the instruments of choice and music has morphed to accommodate that. The skills required to make music may have changed, but skills are still required. For me, it's progress, even if the results don't move me very often. Most of the music I love comes from artists whose careers started 40+ years ago and very little comes from new artists exploiting new approaches. That is, I do like a fair # of young singer songwriter types, but I don't like much hip hop or electronica. The fact that I don't love it, however, would never lead me to conclude that it sucks. Just MHO |
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