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seriously, does music suck now?
Posted: Sun May 07, 2006 12:34 am
by BClark_Archive
sorry to those i offended, and i guess i have to correct myself and say that my statement only applies to rock. but if you are trying to make "rock music" then you should know what "rock music" is (at the very least, you should recognize it as an extension of the blues). in this sense, it obviously helps to have some familiarity with the artists that inspired "rock music" in the first place.
seriously, does music suck now?
Posted: Mon May 08, 2006 12:15 pm
by apl4eris_Archive
kerble wrote:apl4eris wrote:I was just introduced to this music (via the new album), and with that my belief in new good music was reborn.
rejoice.
I was just introduced to this music through this post.
rejoice, indeed.
"stunned" on
I want to Live a Peaceful Life is a breathtaking song.
According to iTunes, I have now listened to it 32 times. wetf.
I've added a link to their site where you may find this song.
Thanks - I hadn't checked out his site yet, only his myspace. Stunned is indeed a great song - a few others worth checking out too.
I'd be happy to throw a couple songs from the new album on the eamail if anyone's interested. Me and the hubby have been waking up with his music stuck in our heads every day for the last week or more, and singing/humming it off and on throughout the day. Mighty infectious, and it seems to be getting better w/age.
Another new band I'm enjoying is
Lords (the one from the UK). Hard driving rock, southern influenced, with some interesting twists. It's hard to stop listening once I start.
seriously, does music suck now?
Posted: Mon May 08, 2006 12:58 pm
by kerble_Archive
the gmail thing would be great, apl4eris. It'll tide me over until the vinyl arrives.
much appreciated.
Faiz
seriously, does music suck now?
Posted: Mon May 08, 2006 1:05 pm
by Bradley R Weissenberger_Archive
Justin from Queens wrote:Here's my experience:
Younger people tend to know more about lots of new music, because so many of their social cues are lined up around it. It's gives them a common language, shared experience and a quick way to cluster towards others who like similar things. In that type of environment, it's easy to find out about new things because it's so much of what people are paying attention to.
As people get older, they begin to spend their time in different ways. Their (usually smaller) social network is not so intently focused on music, and many of the functions that music served in their social network are now served by something else. Finding out about new music becomes harder for people when they are the only one in their social network to do so.
So as you get older, you have to work harder to find out about new things. The best resource I've found for this is the [url=http:///www.aquariusrecords.org]Aquarius Records[/url] mailing list. Sign up for this and read it through every two weeks. Listen to sound clips of stuff that interests you. And then buy from them. The people who run it are knowledgable, friendly and very enthusiastic about a wide, wide variety of things coming out.
I probably buy 50 records a year from them. 3/4 of these I've never heard of before. 1/2 the records I get end up being really, really good. So that's 18 records every year that I get that I would not have known about otherwise that are really good.
And none of them are the Arcade Fire or the Fiery Furnaces. Really, you can do better than that.
= Justin
Justin from Queens provides insight and good advice. Thanks, J.f.Q.!
A few other people have suggested that the ease of making and sharing a record is ruining music. I'd like to nominate these folks for some kind of non-award.
seriously, does music suck now?
Posted: Mon May 08, 2006 1:17 pm
by BClark_Archive
Bradley R. Weissenberger wrote:
A few other people have suggested that the ease of making and sharing a record is ruining music. I'd like to nominate these folks for some kind of non-award.
I second that nomination.
seriously, does music suck now?
Posted: Mon May 08, 2006 1:20 pm
by tmidgett_Archive
BClark wrote:sorry to those i offended, and i guess i have to correct myself and say that my statement only applies to rock. but if you are trying to make "rock music" then you should know what "rock music" is (at the very least, you should recognize it as an extension of the blues). in this sense, it obviously helps to have some familiarity with the artists that inspired "rock music" in the first place.
The statement that today's rock music is particularly linked to the blues is a myth.
People say it a lot, but it's not really true.
Modern rock music is just as indebted to English and Appalachian
folk songs and decidedly white hillbilly music as it is to blues and R&B.
Isn't there a big section in the Joe Carducci book Rock and the Pop Narcotic about this?
I feel that the term "rock and roll" implies a connection to blues and R&B that the term "rock" does not. I don't think that has really seeped into the definitions, however.
seriously, does music suck now?
Posted: Mon May 08, 2006 3:40 pm
by Ford_Archive
I'm with you to a point, tmidgett, but isn't it so that blues and R&B are themselves as much indebted to European folksong and devotional forms as they are to, say, African musics? In terms of tonality and structure, I'd venture that "Greensleeves" has maybe more in common with something which might be readily identified as blues than something like Ongo Trogode.
It's a little like punk. I don't think there's rock music of any stripe being made today which escapes the stylistic upheavals of the late '70s with absolute success. Likewise, the blues. Likewise tempered tuning. These are watershed phenomena which contextualize and influence all that follows them.
seriously, does music suck now?
Posted: Mon May 08, 2006 4:09 pm
by Bradley R Weissenberger_Archive
BClark wrote:Bradley R. Weissenberger wrote:A few other people have suggested that the ease of making and sharing a record is ruining music. I'd like to nominate these folks for some kind of non-award.
I second that nomination.
As long as you understand that I disagree vehemently with these "music sucks because anyone can make a record now-a-days" people, then nomination seconded!
seriously, does music suck now?
Posted: Mon May 08, 2006 4:19 pm
by Christopher_Dragon_Archive
Adam CR wrote:"Nonsense! Here, listen to Micro Hornet from Japan, they use TV sets as drum-sticks..."
Is this real?
If so, do they really use TV's as drum-sticks?
seriously, does music suck now?
Posted: Mon May 08, 2006 4:21 pm
by Jon_Archive
just because they like to dress up in women's clothes?