Vocal Orgasmizzle
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Wait wait wait....have they not been shit?
Today's music is garbage
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Wait wait wait....have they not been shit?
Most genres are still going strong, and there are many albums each year that creates buzz online.
Some recent examples is
Swans - To Be Kind
The War On Drugs - Lost in the Dream
Deafheaven - Sunbather
The Hotelier - Home, Like Noplace is There
Todd Terje - It's Album Time
You just have to pay attention to the right places and discussions.
Some recent examples is
Swans - To Be Kind
The War On Drugs - Lost in the Dream
Deafheaven - Sunbather
The Hotelier - Home, Like Noplace is There
Todd Terje - It's Album Time
You just have to pay attention to the right places and discussions.
Relevant:
"This is a thing I imagined saying, and then daydreamed about being a hero for it, the lone musical hero".
Yeah, people respected black people back in MLKs days. What a fucking idiot.
Never Forever
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Jennifer has amazing taste, listening to hit songs by Britney Jean Spears, the voice of a generation.
But people are allowed to like whatever they like, I'm not sure why this kid thinks it's OK to just slag people off just because they don't like rock or metal. Personally, I'm not too fond of rock or metal, but I accept that people have different tastes because it's all chemical signals in the brain or something. It's really close-minded. Hopefully he grows out of it though, I know some 18-year-olds who still act like Oasis are gods and blah blah blah.
You just need to make use of the Internet to actually look for new music as opposed to making vids complaining about it :/
Mental Atrophy
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The great thing about today is that all of that old music still exists.
Why are you mentioning Milli Vanilli and INXS in the same sentence as if they have anything in common?
Didn't watch the video, but music has definitely dropped in quality the past decade. I've actually been listening to more country these days, which I never thought would happen. Rap sucks, and most pop is just recycled over and over. Need more rock groups like Foo Fighters, Gaslight Anthem......
I can't even compute this.
IceDoesntHelp
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When I was in my twenties, I railed against whatever the popular music was at its time, did the whole college radio DJ thing. As I got older, I grew more intolerant of the indie music snobs and just played whatever I wanted. At 40, I really don't know if today's pop is good or bad, simply because I don't really listen to it. I've heard a handful of songs, some were dreadful, others were pretty catchy.
The only modern music I really can't stand is twangpop (AKA "country" music). That shit is so formulaic its hard not to see past the McDonalds assembly line process it goes through. The fact that a lot of the singers sing songs that someone else wrote doesn't really bother me, country has always been that way. Its just very samey sounding and homogenized. Whatever is successful, copy it to death.
The only modern music I really can't stand is twangpop (AKA "country" music). That shit is so formulaic its hard not to see past the McDonalds assembly line process it goes through. The fact that a lot of the singers sing songs that someone else wrote doesn't really bother me, country has always been that way. Its just very samey sounding and homogenized. Whatever is successful, copy it to death.
zorlaczerohero
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Why? It cherry picks simple songs from great artists to validate mediocre artists lyrics. You really want to put any of these three up against the Beatles, Queen and Led Zeppelin? It wouldn't end well, not well at all.
Queen, Led Zeppelin and The Beatles have been around for four decades or more. Four decades from now Kanye West will be fart stain on the underpants of Pop, because that's what he is, Pop, for the masses. Much like the Beatles, but without the talent.
Thing is, none of these are the greatest lyricists of all time, arguing over them is like asking which flavour Ice Cream is best, Vanilla or Strawberry, hint it's a taste thing. If you're talking lyrics then there are so many artists that would make Kanye or indeed The Beatles look like gibbering idiots. It's a foolish point to make because music isn't about just lyrics, it's about feeling and soul. And putting Black Unicorn which is ok but totally forgettable against Black Dog which is a memorable iconic song is just silly.
Amen brother! Milli Vanilli were a produced bag of shite, INXS were one of the best acts of the last 30 years. This just says to me the poster you replied to only heard Kick, and not the wealth of top quality stuff they put out prior to that.
80s alt is better than 90s alt.
EightBitNate
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Lol that's why I hope it goes viral. It's not that it makes sense. It's just that if the roles were reversed it'd go viral.
First of all, they've got the science of promotion down ton exact formula these days. They're not gonna back a band unless it's a "sure thing", so there's much fewer acts that get the amount of mainstream exposure that they used to. Everyone else does their own promotion.
Also, King Crimson? Great example. They weren't exactly chart toppers back then, likely being brushed aside for radio airplay by The Archies. So as far as you know, there could be an amazing band out there that would blow your mind... but they don't have exposure.
OldAsUrSock
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lol do people not realize that being born later is better for music since you can experience the good now and the good before? It does not make any sense to cut yourself off of good music because some of your favorite music comes from a different era.
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thekenta
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Wow, this might just be the king of cringe worthy pics.
I was actually having this conversation with my friend a few days ago, as he and one of my other friends noticed that I listen to Ariana Grande on Spotify (why is this a big deal, I don't know) and he basically flat out told me "Cheddahz, you're the one that got us into "indie music" (I hate this term a whole lot, but that's a discussion for another time), why are you listening to the most random stuff now" and I was basically like "because I like, what else?"
The conversation went on for a while and at the end, I told him "I'm grateful to be living in a age where you can easily find music online, follow music blogs, and revisit old songs that you liked forever ago. Yes, there may be music that you consider "garbage", but that doesn't mean it's "garbage" to other people. Just let listen to whatever they want and let them live their lives".
I guess what I'm trying to say is that saying other music is "garbage", besides the music you like, is immature
The conversation went on for a while and at the end, I told him "I'm grateful to be living in a age where you can easily find music online, follow music blogs, and revisit old songs that you liked forever ago. Yes, there may be music that you consider "garbage", but that doesn't mean it's "garbage" to other people. Just let listen to whatever they want and let them live their lives".
I guess what I'm trying to say is that saying other music is "garbage", besides the music you like, is immature
90s have a lot more than alt rock. Grunge really is the worst though.
I did Krav Maga with his guitarist, pretty cool guy too.
Anyway not counting international music, the 2000s gave me Esperanza Spalding, Janelle Monae and Sara Bareilles. I hear nothing wrong with this era of sound. *shrug*
Witchfinder General
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Dave Young does Krav? That is so fucking cool. Another reason why I love doing Krav.
Worst thing about that image is that those are not even the entire lyrics of Beyonce's song, they left A LOT out.. I mean, I prefer Queen by a long shot, but I cringe everytime I see this image.
Yeah, esp with new trends in electronic music and hip-hop. Grunge really ruins the decade for me, haha.
Laieon
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teruterubozu
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The outro to any song isn't that sophisticated.
fat bottomed girls you make the rocking' world go round
The Weeknd
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Kid hasn't listened to Migos obviosly.
Migos saving music along with Buggatti Beibz.
Migos saving music along with Buggatti Beibz.
How so?
Yup. It's an elitist attitude. No better than bragging that you only follow bands that no one's heard of.
Yep, and our Krav instructors are also military from the IDF and CF.
I remember getting giant bruises on both arms from blocking his bareknuckle hooks.
Fun times, but I left Vancouver for Japan, oh well.
He only likes the blues, man. Groups nowadays just don't have it.
SaggyMonkey
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Kid reminds me of Glenn Beck
Did the kid claim that music teaches people how to hack iPads or compare music to crack cocaine?
Screaming Meat
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If you think music is crap these days you are not looking hard enough. That kind of mentality is so bloody short sighted.
The majority of people think that 90% of music released is shit, whatever generation your from; whatever walk of life. Seriously, how blind do you have to be to not realise by now that every generation thinks the previous generation's music is crap? Genres and scenes spring up as a reaction to other scenes and it's been going on for hundreds of bloody years throughout Art History: the Romantic movement was a reaction to the rigidity of the Classical period, Hard Rock came out of a distaste for the hippy jamming mentality, punk rock was a reaction against the Prog movement and disco, Britpop was a reaction to the domination of grunge etc.
Forget radio, TV or the internet, there are plenty of incredibly talented people out there plugging away on your very doorstep. How many people that complain "music is crap these days" actually go out to gigs and support people/bands in your area? Once you wade through the aforementioned 90% of shit, you'll find it's where the most interesting stuff is happening.
If after that you still think music today is shit, pick up an instrument or fire up your computer and prove you know what you're talking about by fucking making some that isn't.
The majority of people think that 90% of music released is shit, whatever generation your from; whatever walk of life. Seriously, how blind do you have to be to not realise by now that every generation thinks the previous generation's music is crap? Genres and scenes spring up as a reaction to other scenes and it's been going on for hundreds of bloody years throughout Art History: the Romantic movement was a reaction to the rigidity of the Classical period, Hard Rock came out of a distaste for the hippy jamming mentality, punk rock was a reaction against the Prog movement and disco, Britpop was a reaction to the domination of grunge etc.
Forget radio, TV or the internet, there are plenty of incredibly talented people out there plugging away on your very doorstep. How many people that complain "music is crap these days" actually go out to gigs and support people/bands in your area? Once you wade through the aforementioned 90% of shit, you'll find it's where the most interesting stuff is happening.
If after that you still think music today is shit, pick up an instrument or fire up your computer and prove you know what you're talking about by fucking making some that isn't.
He's really talking about today's pop music, and, by most available metrics, pop music's relevancy is about as low as it's been in the recorded music era.
Thankfully, we have the internet, which has done a great job of breaking the grip of vapid, empty pop music on the public consciousness. There are a very large number of extremely creative musicians working today and they are, by definition, not working in pop.
Thankfully, we have the internet, which has done a great job of breaking the grip of vapid, empty pop music on the public consciousness. There are a very large number of extremely creative musicians working today and they are, by definition, not working in pop.
SaggyMonkey
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He has plenty of time to blossom.
Rumor has it that there's new material in the works. Looking forward to that.
I've never seen INXS lumped in with Milli Vanilli in my life. I just can't wrap my head around that. Hutch was one of the most charismatic rock showmen ever.
You know what, shit. I was quite drunk when writing this and have no idea how INXS got spliced in there. I think I was going to write a list of good bands and a list of shitty bands, and when I deleted the good bands INXS got leftover. I love INXS, particularly The Swing era.
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