General Music Chat

And I know 14 of those acts. Don't forget guys we are old. I remember being shocked that some 40 somethings had never heard of pearl jam when that had a bout 4 BIG releases. We lose touch because we don't hang with rabid new music seeking youngsters.

Right now there doesn't seem to be anything major happening in the world of music. No rock and roll revolution, no British Invasion, Disco, Rap, Alternative, we're not in any musical "era." Where's the next "big thing" in music? Where's the next big sound coming from? Have we become so diversified in our musical tastes that there can't be a next "big thing?" Are there too many genres and sub-genres? Seems to me we're in a huge rut, a grand funk.

I don't know Bob, it does seem like there is an overabundance of beat loops, autotune vocals, and really awful wannabe screamo metal bands but great music always happens. Sometimes you just have to look deeper for it. I think we always need the full spectrum of music because it makes the Vienna Philharmonic even more grand.

The more "F" words someone puts in their vocals, the more excellent my music becomes. I can live with that and if something comes on the radio that I don't like, I do know how to change the station.

This is why I hate old people, they always talk about "the good ol' days."

Seriously, every "era" of music always sucked to the majority while they were living through it. Pop music is, for the most part, complete crap. It's not until ten/twenty years later that all the cream rises up the top, and all the extra garbage is blessedly forgotten. Wait, in ten years they'll be talking about what a genius Amy Winehouse or the Black Keys or Esperanza Spalding or (dare I say it?) Kanye West is. And, hopefully, Ke$ha will be a Trivial Pursuit question.

This is why I hate old people, they always talk about "the good ol' days."

Seriously, every "era" of music always sucked to the majority while they were living through it. Pop music is, for the most part, complete crap. It's not until ten/twenty years later that all the cream rises up the top, and all the extra garbage is blessedly forgotten. Wait, in ten years they'll be talking about what a genius Amy Winehouse or the Black Keys or Esperanza Spalding or (dare I say it?) Kanye West is. And, hopefully, Ke$ha will be a Trivial Pursuit question.

speaking as a "old person"
your absolutely right

I respectfully disagree ... what sucked 40 years ago still sucks.
What sucks today will still suck in 40 years.

I like what I like phucq the rest.

This is why I hate old people, they always talk about "the good ol' days."

Seriously, every "era" of music always sucked to the majority while they were living through it. Pop music is, for the most part, complete crap. It's not until ten/twenty years later that all the cream rises up the top, and all the extra garbage is blessedly forgotten. Wait, in ten years they'll be talking about what a genius Amy Winehouse or the Black Keys or Esperanza Spalding or (dare I say it?) Kanye West is. And, hopefully, Ke$ha will be a Trivial Pursuit question.

Clue: Hating is for losers and you forgot one era... 62-72. There was AMAZING music going on then and it was coming from every quarter:

Aretha Franklin, Hendrix, The Beach Boys, The Who, Cream, Black Sabbath, Zeppelin, Bowie, Ray Charles, Creedence, Grand Funk Railroad, Santana, War, Earth Wind & Fire, The Kinks, The Byrds, The Animals, The Guess Who, Jefferson Airplane, Crosby Stills Nash and Young, The Doors, The Rolling Stones, Elvis, The Classics IV, Marvin Gaye, Stevie Wonder, The Supremes, Etta James, The Four Tops, Free, The Temptations, The Jackson 5, Janis Joplin, Neil Diamond, Booker T and the MGs, The Butterfield Blues Band, Deep Purple, The Mamas and the Pappas, The Beatles, and on and on.

This stuff was on the radio every day and you didn't have to wade though 100 flops to hear great songs by great artists all day. Yes those were the good old days and many of the songs are top requests today... 40 years later.

Yeah and as far as emotion goes ...

Nobody knows how to cry? Really?

Watch the tears roll down my face when I play ARMAGEDDON ...

Then tell me there is no emotion left in music.

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Clue: Hating is for losers and you forgot one era... 62-72. There was AMAZING music going on then and it was coming from every quarter:

I don't imagine there will ever be a span of music like that era... but I'd throw in 73 just for kicks some of the best.

Dark side of the moon
Houses of the Holy
Quadrophenia
Innervisions
Goodbye Yellow Brick Road
Raw Power
Selling England By The Pound
Band On The Run
The Wild, The Innocent & The E Street Shuffle and Greetings From Asbury Park, N.J.
Let's Get It On
Desperado
Queen
Billion Dollar Babies
Brothers And Sisters
A Wizard, A True Star
Goats Head Soup
Aerosmith
Yessongs
Mind Games
Living In The Material World
On The Third Day
Don't Shoot Me I'm Only The Piano Player
Piano Man

No doubt Jeff - those were exciting days.

There was a certain unity among many of the young folks then that centered around the music. Everybody wanted to be in a band. Some of us actually learned to play instruments. Later on we'd learn to actually play music, some oif us.

There is plenty of great music now - but it is impacting sub groups rather than 'everyone.'

The media that music rides upon has opened up in many directions and the many offspring of the original 'rock' days have their own channels, their own fan bases. Of course there is lots of cross over.

It's different now.

In those days I'd not selected a genre other than 'rock' and had not written many songs so I wasn't quite sure what I sounded like. I just wanted to play.

Still do but the excitement is not as overpowering. I understand jazz players better now. More relaxed. Not sure if that is a good thing.

Talbot

Yeah and as far as emotion goes ...

Nobody knows how to cry? Really?

Watch the tears roll down my face when I play ARMAGEDDON ...

Then tell me there is no emotion left in music.

You are not the new kid on the block Sans... You are categorically NOT in the newer generation of musician posers...My comment about not knowing how to cry does NOT apply to you...or pretty much to anybody over 40.

This is why I hate old people, they always talk about "the good ol' days."

Seriously, every "era" of music always sucked to the majority while they were living through it. Pop music is, for the most part, complete crap. It's not until ten/twenty years later that all the cream rises up the top, and all the extra garbage is blessedly forgotten. Wait, in ten years they'll be talking about what a genius Amy Winehouse or the Black Keys or Esperanza Spalding or (dare I say it?) Kanye West is. And, hopefully, Ke$ha will be a Trivial Pursuit question.

.Oh yea... There you will be...cursing and smacking your Ipod cause it got stuck on CULO for the hundreth time...and that's when it happens... You 'll start lecturing about it...You'll run to the mirror, see your self... and you'll say to your self...OMG! I have become all my old people.... heh heh! (Only a matter of time !)

I would blame our rut on the best and worst thing to enter music:
computers.

This is why I hate old people, they always talk about "the good ol' days."

Seriously, every "era" of music always sucked to the majority while they were living through it.

Ahhhhhhhh......."the good ol' days."

And it came to pass
That rock 'n' roll was born
All across the land every rockin' band
Was blowin' up a storm.......


It's mind boggling how much great music from the mid 60's through the 70's was created!
Can't be touched certainly not by today’s artists. And we didn't think it sucked...(well maybe some of the disco) we loved it then and still do today. We may have taken it for granted as if it would never end but it certainly didn't suck to be alive and exposed to the music of the day.

And this is what they had to say
Let there be light, sound, drums, 'n guitar, ah
Let there be rock

And the Black Keys rock right now!

Yeah 1973 was a hell of a year, as were most of the 70's. I spent a fair portion of my disposable income on records back then. Now days I buy mostly DVD's or replacements of things I bought decades ago. Buying new music is a challenge; there's just not that much that excites me.

I personally like 1930s era American music,
it's real soul music.