I weep for the Republic.
http://www.buzzfeed.com/daves4/12-ex...ut-popular-mus
I weep for the Republic.
http://www.buzzfeed.com/daves4/12-ex...ut-popular-mus
yeah... I hate my generation.
So far, I can think of only two bright spots for your generation:Originally Posted by Peach Fuzz
Band of Horses
Dr. Dog
Probably never heard of them either.
Any comparison between Pop and a generations' true music imprint will always look like that.
You think Led Zep gives a flip that they never had a #1? Most of their fans don't care either.
There is some good music out there, just not much innovation, for reasons oft-discussed on this board.
My Morning Jacket is an excellent Festival band.
Blue October seems to be pretty legit.
They are there, just gotta look.
Oh my GOD you old fart hipsters are so annoying. Led Zeppelin is not the greatest thing ever. Lady GaGa is not the worst thing ever. You are OLD and GRUMPY.
Awesome Tier: My Tastes
Crap Tier: Your Tastes
fify
Just be very VERY happy you don't have to listen to Asian pop. My daughter and her friends constantly send me this drivvle trying to get me to listen.
I'd frankly rather ....
I don't know what, but it would be pretty bad and it would still be better than that.
When REM took over for Talking Heads something good went out of the world. That something has not come back, yet.
"I don't know karate, but I know ka-razor!" - James Brown
The whole Asian "Idol" scene is creepy as hell. I don't know if other cultures do that stuff like Japan, but it's weird and wrong and bad. And the music sucks, too.
pop "music" has been crap for 30+ years. it's not about music talent. it's a product that's created in hollywood, stepped on and packaged for girls. on the bright side, the indie rock scene has never been deeper or more talented than it is today. from arcade fire to rogue wave to band of horses, mayer hawthorne, cotton jones, family of the year.... too many to name.
If you're interested in sampling some 2011 Music:
FLUXBLOG 2011 SURVEY MIX
This ten-disc, 183-song mix is a survey of some of the best and most notable music from 2011. It covers a wide range of artists and genres, and I think it’s as comprehensive as it possibly can be while focusing on my personal favorites and omitting stuff I either don’t care about or outright hate. I think you’ll find that this serves as both a helpful guide to some of the year’s most exciting music and a surprisingly listenable series of mixes. Discover new music, rethink familiar acts, jam out to nearly 13 hours of music. If you enjoy this, please do pass it on. (If you’re reallllly behind on music, I should point out that the 2010 survey is still available.)
JPop beget KPop and those two beget CantoPop, which caused Indonesian boy bands to appear. Their success led to a hideous missonary boy in Thailand singing Thai country. And yet, in this sea of cloying effluent, there surely are islands of hope: achingly beautiful Philippinas fronting bands of tired eyed junkies working the hotel lounges of second tier industrial cities up and down the Pacific littoral. Proud Mary yet lives!
"I don't know karate, but I know ka-razor!" - James Brown
Sometimes, I have to doo-doo.
Bazinga
Your post reminds me of a clip on the evening news during the Vietnam War of a cover band in a Saigon bar and this chick giving all she's got to Smoke On The Water . . .
The scene never really ended. It's just that chick's granddaughter is now the one on stage.
"I don't know karate, but I know ka-razor!" - James Brown
Riigght. How many Rhianna albums do you own? You got that new Flo Rods album? I know you love the Biebs.
"Once a country boy's seen the way the steam rises off a man's insides on the sidewalk Tends to change the way he thinks, the way he sees everything when he goes back to where he came from."
POSSE TRANSPORTATION SPECIALIST. "It Fell Off the Back of a Truck."
Straight pop is probably worse than it used to be, but what happened in Nashville is probably the biggest travesty.
"Once a country boy's seen the way the steam rises off a man's insides on the sidewalk Tends to change the way he thinks, the way he sees everything when he goes back to where he came from."
POSSE TRANSPORTATION SPECIALIST. "It Fell Off the Back of a Truck."
Because the Beatles were so damn amazing before they started taking LSD and going off the deep end. And all those amazing 80s hair bands were so epic and unique.
It's pop. Pop sucks, and has always sucked. No exceptions, no caveats. It is engineered to satisfy the lowest common denominator so by definition it is terrible. But on top of that layer of suck you have awesome bands that create great music. The crappy love and peace 70s had things like the Grateful Dead and the Zep. The 80s had Aerosmith and Metallica, the 90s brought us Nirvana. Now we have bands like Radiohead and the Flaming Lips.
That article sucked for one reason: It based everything on sales and nostalgia goggles. Sales numbers are bigger now because the music industry is bigger and better focused. If anything it's a perfect indicator of the ClearChannel radio monopoly. Besides, since when was Elvis or Simon and Garfunkel considered so fantasticly ****ing awesome? And I thought the Black Eyed Peas were generally well respected as more innovative than corporate crap? Whatever. Go be old and grumpy somewhere else.
Are those damn kids still on my lawn?
We don't disagree. You were just the random subject I chose to poke today.Because the Beatles were so damn amazing before they started taking LSD and going off the deep end. And all those amazing 80s hair bands were so epic and unique.
It's pop. Pop sucks, and has always sucked. No exceptions, no caveats. It is engineered to satisfy the lowest common denominator so by definition it is terrible. But on top of that layer of suck you have awesome bands that create great music. The crappy love and peace 70s had things like the Grateful Dead and the Zep. The 80s had Aerosmith and Metallica, the 90s brought us Nirvana. Now we have bands like Radiohead and the Flaming Lips.
That article sucked for one reason: It based everything on sales and nostalgia goggles. Sales numbers are bigger now because the music industry is bigger and better focused. If anything it's a perfect indicator of the ClearChannel radio monopoly. Besides, since when was Elvis or Simon and Garfunkel considered so fantasticly ****ing awesome? And I thought the Black Eyed Peas were generally well respected as more innovative than corporate crap? Whatever. Go be old and grumpy somewhere else.
"Once a country boy's seen the way the steam rises off a man's insides on the sidewalk Tends to change the way he thinks, the way he sees everything when he goes back to where he came from."
POSSE TRANSPORTATION SPECIALIST. "It Fell Off the Back of a Truck."
To NP's point:
iTunes salvaged the music industry, yet contributed greatly to the PopStorm that is battering us daily. Kids have more $$$ now to spend on disposable things.
I grew up in a world where the 45 was dead and if you wanted music, you had to spend $8-$14 on an entire album, and sit in your bedroom at night in the dark and listen to Black Sabbath...wait, strike that. I did that. I had friends that listened to Neil Sedaka...sigh.
I rarely had that $14, so Christmas and Birthdays were my big days for music collection additions. Got Tres Hombres, Master of Reality and Grand Funk's Caught in the Act, one Christmas and I didn't come out of my room till New Year's Day to watch all the Bowl Games.
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