equippedwithtowel
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Today's music is garbage
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3 things that made me laugh in the 5 minutes I listened:
"90% signing about boyfriend/girlfriend"
Wecome to music
"I'm learning guitar...you know, ACOUSTIC guitar"
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"The only people still still making good music; Metallica and Avenged Sevenfold"
:/ Come on now pls be troll
"90% signing about boyfriend/girlfriend"
Wecome to music
"I'm learning guitar...you know, ACOUSTIC guitar"
Hipster
"The only people still still making good music; Metallica and Avenged Sevenfold"
:/ Come on now pls be troll
They never died. Pretty much every genre still has great output. But as bands like Sic Alps and Thee Oh Sees either call it quits or taper off, there is definitely room for a new batch of ubiquitous artists.
Can't really comment on Post Punk. I will say that some of the bands in that area making a name for themselves today (Savages, Beastmilk, Merchandise etc) really do nothing for me, but I never got into the genre to begin with. I tend to listen to more straight Punk Rock and into the metal spectrum from there.
I don't listen to every album but I always try to listen to at least 10 or so from each genre per year, unless I know I won't like it (country, grunge). And the metric is my opinion.
Yeah ranking music by decade is pointless, but so is this thread.
biggersmaller
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So "today's music" defined as...what? It's staggering how broad a judgement that is. Beyond snobbish. To make a statement in any other time would be almost as pretentious, but since iPod that statement only depends the arrogance.
Arcade Fire and Decemberists just make me feel embarrassed for them. Joke bands at this point (not to say you should feel ashmed for listening to them, just that I find it to be a struggle). VW is pretty good, but hardly saviors.
again opinion
hate that i have to clarify that after every post
equippedwithtowel
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Protomartyr and Ought are gunning for my top 10 this year, especially Ought.
And agreed on the second point.
If you don't mind me asking, how are they embarrassing? Is it just because they're too "quirky" for you?
OnionPowder
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I miss the 90s metal scene (Death, Cynic, Gorguts, At the Gates), but my tastes have evolved over the years. So much variety nowadays it's insane.
I couldn't deal without having all my Math Rock, and before 2004 it was pretty much non existent besides a few outliers.
I couldn't deal without having all my Math Rock, and before 2004 it was pretty much non existent besides a few outliers.
billy beane
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That new Drake is pretty good.
Arcade Fire aren't even quirky. they just play the blandest, safest shit that's derivative of way better music and are hailed as saviors of rock music.
REM's best output was from the 80s....
It's because they're so absurdly earnest, image-centric and self-absorbed, to such an overwrought degree that it makes me cringe. On top of that they're both extremely bland and predictable (although I do feel like AF at least tries to be interesting... but they try so painfully hard that it hurts). They both have good songs once in a while though.
That's a bit off topic though, just my feelings on those bands
I didn't say indie music is shit. For example Transatlanticism is one of my favorite albums of all time
Yeah, I agree, but I'm not sure what Servbot finds "embarrassing" about them? I don't like them that much, but to say indie music is shit is ridiculous.
I feel like this is true about most rock bands, though. If the Beatles hadn't been experts at marketing their image they wouldn't have been taken seriously. If Metallica wore short hair and polos they'd have been rejected by the metal base. The Decemberists in particular are probably one of the less image-focused bands, as they can change their sound and the way they present themselves in a heartbeat.
Today's music is very much oriented to generate income. Forget about artistic risk in music. If is not going to generate rapid buzz is shit.
Today's artists are merely puppets of their music labels, self centered in vanal and vulgar ways to live.
where are the true musicians? Where are the true composers?
Today's artists are merely puppets of their music labels, self centered in vanal and vulgar ways to live.
where are the true musicians? Where are the true composers?
equippedwithtowel
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XANDER CAGE
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Is it hard to type with your pinky extended that far out?
Subversive and experimental music is probably more visible now than it's ever been.
I hate to see what you think of video games when the end goal of development is nothing more than something to generate income
It is more visible because there are more tools people can use to mainstreaming it. What you don't see here is true musicians are hardly supported by labels.
What are the requirements to be an artist now?
- Zero knowledge in music theory
- Zero knowledge in musical instruments
- Zero knowledge in audio and recording
- Been handsome or pretty
- Naked yourself in front of other people
- Knowledge on dancing in suggestive ways
- Love money to fill your empty life
- being a slut or idiot would work
Profit...
I think the same way about videogames. I still miss the days of Snes era when there were true and talented people that love games before money.
basically, the same things that made popular acts thirty years ago. ok.
equippedwithtowel
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I don't know, I think it's pretty reasonable to say that today's mainstream music ( music that you hear on top 40 radio stations) is pretty terrible with a few gems that pop up now and then. I know I'm constantly changing channels because I can't find anything that I like.
How funny. He fits a lot of them. He's a semi-artist then!
XANDER CAGE
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Seems like everyone should have a major label record deal, then. Weird that they don't.
Time travel to your favorite band's decade of relevance and you'd likely feel the same way. History is good at cherry-picking the good stuff.
And yet he makes better music than any "real musician" ever has.
SwiftDeath
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Booty Patrol
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Holy shit. What's your problem?
Hell, you can even go back 50 years to the Go-Go fad of the mid 1960's. What amazes me about people like FauX is how he just creates his own version of history in order to satisfy his crap argument. As if pop music is something that was only created over the last 5 years, and has killed the very essence of music! What happened to those true legends like the Bee Gees, Miami Sound Machine, and Smash Mouth? That was the true golden age of music!
Stupid.
No he doesn't. He makes decent music for an especific niche, but he's not "trascendent" his lack of global stardom is proof of that. He's not a "genius", he's just one of the very few talended people in his genre, which is filled to the top with filler.
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I'm sorry we made a thread about your YouTube video.
your list is literally nonsensical
so many popular (and great) singers hardly ever wrote their own music, or wrote the hits that made them big. are they no longer true musicians in your eyes?
i'm weak
Coreda
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Do we have to resort to name calling, geez.
There has always been good music, it's just some tend to focus on the mainstream as some example of general quality. The best modern music I've listened to is not necessarily the well marketed or popular kind.
Saying it's all rubbish because someone can name a handful of modern artists they don't like isn't the grounds for a good argument.
There has always been good music, it's just some tend to focus on the mainstream as some example of general quality. The best modern music I've listened to is not necessarily the well marketed or popular kind.
Saying it's all rubbish because someone can name a handful of modern artists they don't like isn't the grounds for a good argument.
who is angry here
-ImaginaryInsider
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When have those things ever been a real requirement?
XANDER CAGE
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1. Arcade Fire won a grammy.
2. William Tyler/Joanna Newsom/hell, the drummer from The National
3. You must be trolling.
4. Google Lorde.
5. What?
6. Really?
7. Yes, even as Chad Kroeger gets married and has children with his attractive and successful wife - his vapid and by any account successful life as a shitty top-40 musician will only satisfy his empty soul because of the $$$. That's all he cares about.
8. Were you born before the year 2000?
skidoo800r
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I love my Big Room/Electro House/Trap/EDM though :c (Some dubstep too)
I like lots of music because I can appreciate it for what it is. Some songs have great lyrics, some songs have a good sound to them, some songs are just dumb fun, and some songs are the total package (I would put Michael Jackson and Queen songs in this category). There is even lots of music I don't like, but I'm not so full of myself that I have to criticize entire generations of artists and throw nonsense arguments around to show how musically superior I am.
You know music isn't just some form of art that exists in a vacuum, it evokes an emotional response from people. If I go to a party I actually want to hear songs like "Turn Down for What", because they're crazy and fun.
Oh, I see, you're just some troll.
WaffleTaco
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Music is subjective and that's that, people have different tastes. I may not like country, but I don't go make a thread about it. Let's be adults about this people.
But you are so full of yourself criticizing my "dumb" opinion? Who feel superior here?
If you don't like my opinion just close the thread. I wasn't being serious when I posted the list that offended you. I'm serious telling you music nowadays is centered in money. You should go to sleep.
Booty Patrol
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as opposed to the past where people did it for fun and the love of music <333333333
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