Father Heathen
Veteran Member
...or has music (especially rock) really turned to **** over the past decade?
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Is it just because I'm getting older...
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freethinker44
Well-Known Member
I think it got a little better since the 90s. At least the late 90s anyways. I wish the songwriting quality would be as good as 70s rock was. I always wonder how much better those bands would sound if they had the production quality of todays rock.
Guitar's Cry
Disciple of Pan
Problem is, genuine creativity wells up from the underground, but is soon watered down and bottled for the mass-market.
Father Heathen
Veteran Member
Right. The industry cobbles together and cranks out one bland, unoriginal one hit wonder after another. The depth and innovation that gave us the iconic classics of yesteryear is dead. Music is art and art comes from the soul. What plays on the radio today is soulless.
blackout
Violet.
There is certainly no musical depth or innovation in anything mainstream today.
(Not that I have heard anyway)
It's very disapointing.
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Father Heathen
Veteran Member
There is certainly no musical depth or innovation in anything mainstream today.
It's very disapointing.
It's the result of us as a culture allowing the industry (who's primary goal is maximizing profit and marketability) to dictate our tastes.
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Much longer ago than that. In the 80's I sold my guitar and started collecting only Classical. Nowadays I've added techno, but pop music... no way. Can't remember when was the last time I listened to top 40 radio, but I turn it off in my wife's car when that *** comes on, asap.
Yer old & out of touch.
I should know....so am I.
I can only go by what my daughter (19) listens to: modern "junk", Beatles, Broadway
The variety suggests that there must be some merit to the new stuff, even if I don't get it.
I should know....so am I.
I can only go by what my daughter (19) listens to: modern "junk", Beatles, Broadway
The variety suggests that there must be some merit to the new stuff, even if I don't get it.
Rainbow Mage
Lib Democrat/Agnostic/Epicurean-ish/Buddhist-ish
It's not just you. Yes it has...
doppelganger
Through the Looking Glass
It's just because you're getting older. Everybody says that eventually, and they have been as long as there's been shared culture.
It's like your mom's cooking. You are aesthetically "imprinted" by the emotional experiences at key times in your life and everything else seems shabby by comparison. Nothing compares to the music you were listening to when you first start to "get" the music.
If it helps, the kids listening to Lady GaGa will be echoing you in twenty years.
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angellous_evangellous
Guest
I only buy vintage stuff and listen to the oldies stations on the radio. They are starting to play 90s music (at least my station). That makes me feel old - I'm only 31 and the oldies station is playing music that I listened to in high school.
I do enjoy local music wherever I go, and I almost don't care about the style. Those are folks who sing/play from their hearts. Usually.
I do enjoy local music wherever I go, and I almost don't care about the style. Those are folks who sing/play from their hearts. Usually.
Welcome to middle age.
Just wait til you see stuff you grew up with sold as "antique".
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angellous_evangellous
Guest
That's already happend, man.
Sorry, gramps.
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angellous_evangellous
Guest
If I'm middle aged, you're so far over the hill you can't see what's past you with the Hubble.
These damn kids are pushing my moosik back to the oldies station because they are driving the industry.
Lady GaGa is a talented musician, btw. She just has no taste in clothing.
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angellous_evangellous
Guest
God I hope I have a son before I shrivel up and die.
You got dat right.
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angellous_evangellous
Guest
haha
I do feel like I'm getting old, though. My body is starting to fall apart. The only non-gross thing I can talk about is that my eye-sight is leaving me and I have a memory like a fish (because of meds). For the first time in my life I need glasses. Or so I think. I can't see, but my regular MD tested me and I'm 20/25, but he sent me to the eye doctor anyway because I've almost gotten into a few car accidents...