brianjones
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DominoKid said:
why would we though? why is that even relevant?
im just talking about what i look at in my itunes, not everything that came out ever
Lets talk about Music, was it better back then?
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why would we though? why is that even relevant?
im just talking about what i look at in my itunes, not everything that came out ever
Nappuccino
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My music is pretty damn great.
A Human Becoming
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Music like any form of entertainment is subjective, so I think that's simply a leading question.
Here is what I've been hearing on and off for what seems to be the past 2 years on various radio stations from various sources...
Cal-LA-FORNIA GURLS - Daisy Dukes on something...
Like a G-6
See you driving round town
wash your teeth with a bottle of jack
Just a dream nelly
frankly it all sounds the same and sounds like utter fucking shit...
makes me want death and deaf...
so yeah music was better like maybe 4-5 years ago...
Cal-LA-FORNIA GURLS - Daisy Dukes on something...
Like a G-6
See you driving round town
wash your teeth with a bottle of jack
Just a dream nelly
frankly it all sounds the same and sounds like utter fucking shit...
makes me want death and deaf...
so yeah music was better like maybe 4-5 years ago...
Nappuccino
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Emily Chu said:
I do believe we have found the issue.
welp I hear all this on basically z100 when I'm driving my 19 year old sister and her pals around... makes me wanna drive 140mph into a river or off a cliff...Nappuccino said:
haven't heard a good song on the radio since 2007 ish ?
it's not music it's just samey sounding jingles and vocals to brainwash young people into a false sense of security...
BocoDragon
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Sugar, ah honey honeyEmily Chu said:
You are my candy girl
And you've got me wanting you.
Honey, ah sugar sugar
You are my candy girl
And you've got me wanting you.
I just can't believe the loveliness of loving you
(I just can't believe it's true)
I just can't believe the one to love this feeling to.
(I just can't believe it's true)
Ah sugar, ah honey honey
You are my candy girl
And you've got me wanting you.
Ah honey, ah sugar sugar
You are my candy girl
And you've got me wanting you.
When I kissed you, girl, I knew how sweet a kiss could be
(I know how sweet a kiss can be)
Like the summer sunshine pour your sweetness over me
(Pour your sweetness over me)
Sugar, pour a little sugar on it honey,
Pour a little sugar on it baby
I'm gonna make your life so sweet, yeah yeah yeah
Pour a little sugar on it oh yeah
Pour a little sugar on it honey,
Pour a little sugar on it baby
I'm gonna make your life so sweet, yeah yeah yeah
Pour a little sugar on it honey,
Ah sugar, ah honey honey
You are my candy girl
And you've got me wanting you.
Oh honey, honey, sugar sugar ..
You are my candy girl .
MrToughPants
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GoutPatrol said:
Are you saying rap music is better now than it was in the late 80s and early 90s?
i agree, i highly recommend people to listen to Aloe Blacc new album "Good Thing"TheLastCandle said:
really great stuffs right there
I Need a Dollar - Aloe Blacc
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iR6oYX1D-0w
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Threi said:
Funny someone mentions Coltrane, cause his nephew put out one of the best albums I've heard in a while last year in Cosmogramma.
Pretty much everything about the the 30s-60s was superior creatively, I think.
I honestly think it's because in a lot of ways, there were many more restrictions. Whether it was censorship (taboos), technology or instruments... in general you just had to be able to do more with less. That always breeds creativity.
I honestly think it's because in a lot of ways, there were many more restrictions. Whether it was censorship (taboos), technology or instruments... in general you just had to be able to do more with less. That always breeds creativity.
BocoDragon
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Id guess you're not old enough. 20s? It's like the period when you turn 10 and notice how stupid Barney is. An adult would never waste their time hating on it, though. IMO when you get even older you notice pop music is just silly fun for people who don't take it too seriously .. It's not worth hating (at least in my experience.. on the other hand.. Some people just grow more critical).Emily Chu said:
viciouskillersquirrel
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The same period of time that brought us Roy Orbison, The Kinks, The Beatles, Simon & Garfunkel and The Rolling Stones and also brought us such hits as "Big Girls Don't Cry", "Monster Mash", "Please Mr. Postman", "Walk Like a Man" and everything the Beach Boys ever did.
So no.
So no.
brianjones
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viciouskillersquirrel said:
one of these things is not like the other
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viciouskillersquirrel said:
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Beach Boys hate. Will never understand it.
viciouskillersquirrel
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If you turned the radio on in the early 60s, you'd hear the same songs by The Temptations, The Supremes, The Crystals etc. with the gaps filled in with songs by dozens of imitators (including one group called The Cookies) on loop. Their sound wasn't all that distinguishable from one to the other if you were unfamiliar with the groups themselves or teen culture back then.Emily Chu said:
What's popular is by definition what's in demand and the radio only plays what's popular right now.
To be fair, I do think "Kokomo" is a decent song. I put that bit in as a bit of a joke since I don't think there are that many popular bands whose entire output I openly despise (apart from Creed or The Vengaboys).revolverjgw said:
Indeed, I even like a bit of ABBA. Waterloo and Fernando are incredible songs, though some of their others, like say "Knowing Me, Knowing You" or "Ring Ring" are incredibly annoying. I put The Beach Boys in as an example of largely annoying bubblegum teen pop from that era.
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Discotheque said:
they must associate beach boys with this
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9_5_AD9wXuY
krypt0nian
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Nostalgia is pure shit.
Mainstream music is aimed at the massmarket. It's designed to be as bland and as palatable as possible for the widest range of people. It's like what MacDonald's is to food. In the same way that many kids turn their noses up at more gastronomically interesting food, interesting music requires a more mature and broader palate. That doesn't mean you don't mind the odd McD's, but it's not going to be riding high on your list of culinary delights.
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Also remember that mainstream music is largely dictated by teenagers. I know I had pretty bad taste as a teenager, so it's not surprising when stuff like Limp Bizkit or Linkin Park gets popular over more worthy offerings.
f0rk said:
Well let's have a look at a US top 10 from 50 years ago this week.
Hmm, I'm guessing twisting was popular. And that Duke of Earl is a stone-cold classic. Pimpin'.
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Well the kind of music I listen to still has many good stuff.
But pop/rock in general (IMO, remember) sucks ass since the late 90's. There isn't anything (good) like old Madonna, MJ, U2, etc to listen to today.
But pop/rock in general (IMO, remember) sucks ass since the late 90's. There isn't anything (good) like old Madonna, MJ, U2, etc to listen to today.
There is a lot of good music out there, but it's the kind of music that isn't played on radio very often. Black Eyed Peas is played on the radio often, but it doesn't mean they're good. (They used to be good, but not anymore.).
Bruno Mars just released his first album in October, and he's an amazing musician. Just this out: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tkuoRGig4Cs
Bruno Mars just released his first album in October, and he's an amazing musician. Just this out: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tkuoRGig4Cs
ViperVisor
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Yes.
Steve Knopper - Appetite for Self-Destruction (The Spectacular Crash of the Record Industry in the Digital Age)
After getting through that book it is hard to argue things are not worse overall. The consolidation that has happened the last 30 years and then the build up of short sighted stupid stuff in the 90s.
Steve Knopper - Appetite for Self-Destruction (The Spectacular Crash of the Record Industry in the Digital Age)
After getting through that book it is hard to argue things are not worse overall. The consolidation that has happened the last 30 years and then the build up of short sighted stupid stuff in the 90s.
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Timber said:
Consumption hasn't really changed since the boom of the CD, people were only listening to 1 or 2 songs on a 15 tack CD. It just now bypasses paying for the filler.
There was a couple notes about how a music producer and Bob Dylan thought the consumption through ear phones and computer speakers did sorta have a stealth change in making things more more more and louder.
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mokeyjoe said:
I still laugh whenever a Gary "U.S." Bonds shows up on my iPod.
BocoDragon
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That's definitely true. But also, the genres that are more favored: hip hop, techno, dance, etc. have a lot to do with that as well.ViperVisor said:
Oh yeah, definitely. It's easy for people like us who post on forums where we're constantly linked to youtubes of songs to point out that there's plenty of good stuff being made today, but a lot of people simply don't know how to go about such a thing. And I can say to them "Just go on the internet!", but it's not that easy... You do need some experience with that.Blackace said:
Then again one of the hotspots for grumpy people complaining about how old > new is Youtube. Thanks to this thread I was just now looking for Beach Boys youtubes, and I came upon this video for which the highest ratest comment is
So I guess some people just don't want to know. Or as Brian Wilson put it, stay in their safety zone.
edit: Fucked up the link. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ALaajR2Wcjk&feature=related is the fellow. But the other one works as well, unsurprisingly.
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Paco said:
If aliens ever visited this place, I'd have hoped it would have been that precise time. They would have scanned our broadcast channels, saw the halftime show, and 180'd the fuck out of our solar system.
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EschatonDX said:
Nothing nostalgic about Superman. But ok.
Man of Tomorrow, bitches.
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LOZLINK said:
remember when is the lowest form of conversation
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