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Music Head Wrote:we are complaining about what rises to the top<br>what becomes popular<br>"music is better than ever" <img src="http://www.music-discussion.com/images/smilies/laugh.gif" border="0" alt="" title="Laugh" smilieid="36" class="inlineimg"> have you ever looked through the top 50 charts of decades past? most of it is trite garbage. the reason why you don't hear about those acts today is because they were lost to the sands of time underneath more prolific artists as well as standouts who are (sometimes erroneously or with a great amount of hyperbole) credited with influencing a large amount of music. there's no sense in complaining about popular music today because you're doing nothing different from the accumulative generations of people who have done so over the history of all recorded sound. "what the **** is this baroque shit? WHERE'S THE REAL MUSIC?" drop the rose-tinted goggles.
CRAZY-HORSE Wrote:maybe you could give me a list of artists you think I need to hear, any genre, any era and i'll give them a whirl and let you know what I think of them. sure, I'll be sticking with the 90s and up because it fits the discussion of the thread. World's End Girlfriend, Portico Quartet, Deep Puddle Dynamics (or really any Anticon release), mouse on the keys, Ben Frost, Saltillo, The Books, Gellers, Kashiwa Daisuke, Hauschka (he has an excellent album with <span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Roboto, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 17px;">Hildur Guðnadóttir), Efterklang, </span>Valgeir Sigurðsson, Long Fin Killie, Boris, Kishi Bashi, Jesu, Worrytrain, Lauren Bousfield<br><br>I tried to refrain from anything too obvious like Flying Lotus who's dominating the LA scene right now or The Microphones since they get so much praise even though I think Phil Elverum's use of the absence of sound to simulate percussion is beyond riveting, as well as something like breakcore which would most likely produce an upturned nose despite some artists within experimenting wildly with time signatures. I don't like spamming names but I can do more if you want specifics
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thanks....
never heard o any o those you mentioned, i'll give them a listen/view via YouTube over the next couple of days and reply accordingly...
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I will be listening to some of the music you mentioned over the next few weeks.
What I am waiting for is the next.....
Dark Side of the Moon
A Night at the Opera
The Wall
Wish You Were Here
Oxygene (both versions)
Sixto Rodriguez
Apollo- Atmospheres and Soundtracks
Kansas -Two for the Show
The Song Remains the Same
Bad Company
Going for the One
Tales From Topographic Oceans
Nude
The Snow Goose
Rajaz
Works Volume 1
Brain Salad Surgery
Ryuichi Sakomoto
Vangelis
Tubular Bells
Tommy
Quadrophenia
Who's Next
and dare I say it , the Bee Gees, Bob Dylan, Cat Stevens, Tori Amos, Bob Marley, Simon and Garfunkel, Jim Croce, CSN&Y, Joni Mitchell, Tracy Chapman etc. etc. (I could go on forever here......)
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what I am not waiting for is the next...
Bieber
Kanye
Rihanna
Beyoncé
Kylie
Bros
Village People
Take That
One Direction
Miley
Selena
etc. etc. (I could go on forever here......)
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You and me both.
I am actually beginning to think that the powers that be/the media have desensitized people to intelligent, evocative, emotive music. Because if there are all these good bands out there, and I am sure that there are, why is no-one paying any attention to them. If the youth only have Kanye West to look up to no wonder it's all going south. God help us.
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lieu Wrote:have you ever looked through the top 50 charts of decades past? most of it is trite garbage.
Incidentally, that happens to include the 90's as well. (Two and a half decades ago now)
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don't knock Kanye, he said he's running for President next time round,
it will be a bigger farce than the Trumpty Dumpty machine that shows no sign of slowing down
after the results yesterday.
back to the question...
it wouldn't surprise me if I found out that the major labels throw money to the radio stations to get airplay,
ie: buy the airtime for their artists because no sel respecting DJ would promote such crap...or would they?
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Music Head Wrote:People are creating crap but there is no-one there to tell them that the material sucks
.........which is why I'm here What is sad is that even if people tell them that the music is bad, other people will tell them that its awesome because everyone has their own opinion on whatever it is that they are exposed to.
God bless you always!!!
Holly
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lieu Wrote:have you ever looked through the top 50 charts of decades past? I've been watching the charts for the past 5 decades
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James Otto Sweet Heart Wrote:What is sad is that even if people tell them that the music is bad, other people will tell them that its awesome because everyone has their own opinion on whatever it is that they are exposed to.
God bless you always!!!
Holly very correct
and when you grow up exposed to computer noise that is generated by video games you actually think that is music
and God bless you too JOSH
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