The Real Reason Why Music Is Getting Worse

[Speedbird]

The Real Reason Why Music Is Getting Worse
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[Richard Cranium]

Thanks. Saw this when I clicked the link.

 

[Ron_M]

WILL be playing these today

 

[Ron_M]

And broadcast FM is no better. I love Queen and Tom Petty just as much as anyone else BUT I do not need to here the same songs by them EVERY hour! Dig deeper into the album!
This really happened... Queen Bohemian Rhapsody on 3 FM stations all at once!

 

[Speedbird]

So many called "the best live album."
But none top this.
Hard to believe it was live.

 

[YY1]

Remember back in the 80's when people said 80's music sucked?

"Hold my beer" says the 2000's, 2010's and 2020's.

At least the 90's gave us-

Alice In Chains
Smashing Pumpkins
Ministry

 

[Ron_M]

Part of the grunge rock movement that had the records labels kill blues rock (anyone remember Blue Murder?) BUT AIC ROCKED and the Pumpkins Cherob Rock was great at high volume too!
I will have to look up the album in post 5.

 

[Coelacanth]

My biggest annoyance with most modern music these days is how songs just end as if the tape was spliced off. Absolutely no thought or effort is given to having a song outro or even so much as end with a bass drum hit + cymbal crash...the song just cuts out. This is due to the prevalence of synthesizers being used for most of the compositions, using patches that simply end at the last note of the last bar, and not continue to the first note of the next bar to do a proper finish. Just listen to 75% of music nowadays and you'll hear what I'm talking about. Songs end as if they're doing a final inhale...and no exhale.

 

[YY1]

Part of the grunge rock movement that had the records labels kill blues rock (anyone remember Blue Murder?) BUT AIC ROCKED and the Pumpkins Cherob Rock was great at high volume too!
I will have to look up the album in post 5.

If you like Cherub Rock, check out the album before that- Gish.
...and Geek USA from the same Siamese Dream album.

 

[Ron_M]

I have Siamese Dream and had and maybe still do, whatever 1979 was on. I like the pumpkin s, but love classic British rock more.

 

[Ron_M]

I think that there ARE great songs and albums out there made within the last 15 years, but that we never here them because that aren't promoted properly.

That said, I took a chance on Def Leppards Diamond Star Halo and while it definitely isn't Pyromania, which I love, it ain't too bad.

 

[YY1]

These all ROCK-

Tristessa
Bury Me
I Am One

All on Gish.

If you're not playin air drums to those, somethin wrong with ya.

 

[#41]

I saw this video quite awhile ago. I think it is one of the most insightful things about music I have ever seen and is a big reason I do not subscribe to Spotify.

 

[Richard Cranium]

And broadcast FM is no better. I love Queen and Tom Petty just as much as anyone else BUT I do not need to here the same songs by them EVERY hour! Dig deeper into the album!
This really happened... Queen Bohemian Rhapsody on 3 FM stations all at once!

This is a pretty good, but rarely played Queen song .....

 

[Speedbird]

One of the rare times a live version is better.
Phord has since used the studio version to peddle its truck.
The commercial isn't as good either. Just filler music
Seems like an unimaginative rip off.

 

[3sloppydogs]

I will say that classic rock stations for the most part suck. They play the same songs over and over. If I hear free bird or stairway to heaven again it will be to soon. Take a band like little feat they might play one song, maybe, but their stuff is fantastic. They play 2 songs from The Band and none of the other stuff.
So I find oddball stations on the web such as The Gamut that play everything. Like it or not it will expand your musical interests
As for live music Joe Bonamassa is so much better live than studio stuff. Check him out

 

[j-c-c-62]

Remember back in the 80's when people said 80's music sucked?

I heard that line of thinking in the 60's and 70's.
My takeaway, it's not that it sucks, it was the music was so good back in the day, it's hard to measure up today.
We were blessed back then.
I'll never forget an early outdoor concert in early 70's I did, with Ferlin Husky, and had a few audience members approach the mixing console complaining they could hear the drums, and stating this was not a rock concert.

 

[Detective D]

The reason over the air has a bad time with playlists is every time they put a song on air they need to pay a royalty, OR they work out a contract with the IP owner to play a song X amount of times a year.
I usually listen to a country station in the car around here. Started to listen to it in the garage once in a while like 4 years ago when i was doing the Ramcharger. Plays stuff like Willie, Waylon, Clint Black, John Anderson.... then, 2 years ago, they got an expansion, and managed to contract for The Belamy Brothers(f'ing cowboy hippies) The Judds(not my cup of tea, but some like them I get it) and..... sigh..... Shania and Garth. That year I could not tune in, those "new" artists contracted to play on the channel had their music on once every half an hour.
I actually stopped tuning in.
This last year it seems to have leveled off, they didn;t add any new artists. But IMO they ruined the channel adding late 90's into it. I tuned in to listen to Waylon or Johnny Cash, not f'ing Shania.

The music "industry" has gotten so formulaic and segmented.... performers don;t seem to write their own stuff anymore.

I listened to a lot of 90's grunge. I was a young adult. People need to remember the internet was not a thing. So you had the radio. On the radio, you had pop music(puke) grunge, or 90's country(Garth and Shania-barf) Some of the grunge was pretty good. Alice in Chains I still listen to, Meloncholy and the Infinite Sadness once in a while, a few other tracks.
I have my favorites from the 80's but none seem to be on the radio in any meaningful amount. I like the Scorpions, I like Journey. Once a day you might catch a track from them.

here is one of my favorites that goes back a little past the 80's from the Scorpions...

 

[padam]

So many called "the best live album."
But none top this.
Hard to believe it was live.

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Thought I was the only one that heard of Hawkwind.

 

[moparedtn]

Thought I was the only one that heard of Hawkwind.

Hawkwind gave us Lemmy. All that matters.