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The generic music released nowadays.
The whole music business has, quite frankly, gone to pot.
It's times like these that I wish the music released was as it was in the 40's through late 50's.
No crap electronics to synthesise everything about a song.
No talentless bints somehow earning millions.
No fact that money was completely dominating the industry.
Good, solid, thought provoking, emotionally moving music.
You just don't get the latter anymore. Glance at the charts, and practically every song will have had the lead singer's voice modified, tweaked, pitch shifted. The 'instruments' will be electrically created (electric drum beats etc).
This post is pretty much all over the place, because I don't know really how to define why I despise the music industry right now. There's just so many little things that I really hate, and I can't get that across enough.
I'm just listening to some Frank Sinatra songs.
And they're all gold. The lyrics, the masses of talented musicians playing the instruments, and of course the voice.
It's non existant nowadays. I suppose this post has potential to be massively long.
But it's odd. I can't really be bothered to, which is strange considering it's something I feel strongly about.
The musicians themselves. There's no characters whatsoever. They're all lifeless, demanding prima donnas.
Gah, I'm going to stop here, because I myself can't really see where I'm going with this. I've just had the sudden urge to really post my thoughts on this, because it does indeed upset me somewhat that there's no real quality music being released. You could argue that it's all down to taste, but I used italics in the last bit for a reason.
It's true. The large majority of mainstream music released nowadays is completely crap. The music is not good. It really isn't.
And as I said, I'm done. The point I've poorly attempted to get across is indeed shrouded in a cloud of mutterings, but I dunno.
Meh.
***
And shock horror, a minute or so later and I feel compelled to make another point.
Towards the outro of Sinatra's version of Mack the Knife, he notes other great musicians that've done a version, and goes on to include names of the people performing (at which point when their name is mentioned, they perform a short ornament (a fancy bit)).
That's something else that's gone from the music. That touch. That something that's just so great about music. Now it's all manufactured - there's no human touch.
Bahhh. Expect some more in about 5 minutes...
The whole music business has, quite frankly, gone to pot.
It's times like these that I wish the music released was as it was in the 40's through late 50's.
No crap electronics to synthesise everything about a song.
No talentless bints somehow earning millions.
No fact that money was completely dominating the industry.
Good, solid, thought provoking, emotionally moving music.
You just don't get the latter anymore. Glance at the charts, and practically every song will have had the lead singer's voice modified, tweaked, pitch shifted. The 'instruments' will be electrically created (electric drum beats etc).
This post is pretty much all over the place, because I don't know really how to define why I despise the music industry right now. There's just so many little things that I really hate, and I can't get that across enough.
I'm just listening to some Frank Sinatra songs.
And they're all gold. The lyrics, the masses of talented musicians playing the instruments, and of course the voice.
It's non existant nowadays. I suppose this post has potential to be massively long.
But it's odd. I can't really be bothered to, which is strange considering it's something I feel strongly about.
The musicians themselves. There's no characters whatsoever. They're all lifeless, demanding prima donnas.
Gah, I'm going to stop here, because I myself can't really see where I'm going with this. I've just had the sudden urge to really post my thoughts on this, because it does indeed upset me somewhat that there's no real quality music being released. You could argue that it's all down to taste, but I used italics in the last bit for a reason.
It's true. The large majority of mainstream music released nowadays is completely crap. The music is not good. It really isn't.
And as I said, I'm done. The point I've poorly attempted to get across is indeed shrouded in a cloud of mutterings, but I dunno.
Meh.
***
And shock horror, a minute or so later and I feel compelled to make another point.
Towards the outro of Sinatra's version of Mack the Knife, he notes other great musicians that've done a version, and goes on to include names of the people performing (at which point when their name is mentioned, they perform a short ornament (a fancy bit)).
That's something else that's gone from the music. That touch. That something that's just so great about music. Now it's all manufactured - there's no human touch.
Bahhh. Expect some more in about 5 minutes...
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Azul wrote:
>
> That isn't a solution though, because the industry will still be the
> way it is, therefore a high percentage of new talented musicians
> can't come through. Which is the major problem.
This is where you use those sites that host little-known artists and download some free tracks to see if you like them.
>
> That isn't a solution though, because the industry will still be the
> way it is, therefore a high percentage of new talented musicians
> can't come through. Which is the major problem.
This is where you use those sites that host little-known artists and download some free tracks to see if you like them.
Azul wrote:
> Towards the outro of Sinatra's version of Mack the Knife, he notes
> other great musicians that've done a version, and goes on to include
> names of the people performing (at which point when their name is
> mentioned, they perform a short ornament (a fancy bit)).
> That's something else that's gone from the music. That touch. That
> something that's just so great about music.
Joe Jackson does that on a live album, if you like old music you might want to have a listen to his "Jumpin' Jive'" album, his otherstuff is rather varied but it's all retains that which has gone from other music and it's certainly not manufactured.
There's plenty of non-manufactured stuff out there, it's just under all the crap. Buy a few music mags read a few reviews and buy something that sounds interesting, I've done that quite a few times and been delighted 75% of the time with the results.
> Towards the outro of Sinatra's version of Mack the Knife, he notes
> other great musicians that've done a version, and goes on to include
> names of the people performing (at which point when their name is
> mentioned, they perform a short ornament (a fancy bit)).
> That's something else that's gone from the music. That touch. That
> something that's just so great about music.
Joe Jackson does that on a live album, if you like old music you might want to have a listen to his "Jumpin' Jive'" album, his otherstuff is rather varied but it's all retains that which has gone from other music and it's certainly not manufactured.
There's plenty of non-manufactured stuff out there, it's just under all the crap. Buy a few music mags read a few reviews and buy something that sounds interesting, I've done that quite a few times and been delighted 75% of the time with the results.
Pandaemonium wrote:
> Simple answer.
>
> Find music that you are passionate about, whether old or new and let
> the rest of the monkys listen to the crap in the charts.
>
Exactly. Music these days isn't all crap. There are thousands of musicians who have passion and desire, dead, alive, finished or new.
> saunters off to listen to Fleetwood Mac, yes thats right,
> Fleetwood mac
*ignores*
> Simple answer.
>
> Find music that you are passionate about, whether old or new and let
> the rest of the monkys listen to the crap in the charts.
>
Exactly. Music these days isn't all crap. There are thousands of musicians who have passion and desire, dead, alive, finished or new.
> saunters off to listen to Fleetwood Mac, yes thats right,
> Fleetwood mac
*ignores*
Yup, it was Profit in Peace, but it was Ocean Colour Scene. :D Who in fact, are an excellent band.
BRITNEY NEW SINGLE WAS A BIT CRAP. I LIKE HER OLDIES
Eh? That 'Hey hey, we aint going to fight no more' song was classic.
'Profit in Peace', was it?
'Profit in Peace', was it?
Agreed. But they were still commercial.
Yeah but still, The Verve rock(ed)
See, Richard Ashcroft. He tried to go all non-commercial after the Verve split, and all his solo stuff, to be frank, sucks.
gamesfreak wrote:
> Solution?
>
> Don't listen to it, just listen to the stuff you like because, well,
> it rocks.
That isn't a solution though, because the industry will still be the way it is, therefore a high percentage of new talented musicians can't come through. Which is the major problem.
> Solution?
>
> Don't listen to it, just listen to the stuff you like because, well,
> it rocks.
That isn't a solution though, because the industry will still be the way it is, therefore a high percentage of new talented musicians can't come through. Which is the major problem.
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