Not so sure music has has improved that much

[Peak53]

If you can't get a few musicians on stage with instruments and microphones to produce their music, it ain't music. Nothing better than being present with fine, or even average, musicians doing their thing. If it is all produced electronically in a studio, I am not interested. I don't have a musical bone in my body, unless my ears count.

 

[Absalom]

Music is one of those things, like food and sex, where you can tell people what you like or dislike, but that just says things about you, not the quality of the music. It's an emotional thing; trying to dress it up as quality judgments is unproductive.

Fortunately, my tastes have grown with me. I go on regular nostalgia trips with old compilations, mostly sorted by decades, but I also regularly find new stuff, often accidentally on Youtube. It's a big interesting world out there.

Just not opera. Tie me up in a room, crank up some opera music, and I'll give up the nuclear codes in no time at all.

 

[oldbrownhat]

whoo hoo... finally got to use my high school latin class
thank goodness there was no math... lol

Especially using Roman numerals.

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[vytoland]

for me, there is NO improvement after these.....

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[Chukar60]

No music has to improved IMO.
I used to be hard rock and metal. Could not understand how anyone suffered country music at all.
Now? Country most of the time 80's and back.
Still do some rock when I am feeling nostalgic.
New country is pathetic. Nothing but hook-ups, vacations to tropical places and crappy instrumental work. Sounds like Air Supply with a twang.
Some of the new Blue Grass is pretty good though. Not better than the old, just better than the rest of the trash being offered.

 

[woodsltc]

I certainly agree that the new music put out today just doesn't measure up to the past.

In the 70's and 80's I liked a good variety of hard-rock & southern rock. Since then it's been more country (which is a lot like what was once called southern rock) and bluegrass.....but then it's hard to get anyone to agree on who/what was the best in the past. Don

 

[Golddollar]

Back in my misspent youth I was an oldies disk jockey, playing a lot of the records that my younger aunts and uncles had bought and I played at my grandparents' house. I accumulated a substantial collection of records from the 50s and 60s, which I still have. Now, with the advent of the internet juke boxes, when I go the the American Legion or VFW I can rock the house, and with people there of my age and older, I get a lot of good responses from others who remember those songs. Often they give me money to play the juke box because they enjoy what I remember and play.

 

[johngalt]

Doubt we will see (I mean hear) anything like Pink Floyd again.

Bands such as Van Halen and Sammy Hagar could play instead of fiddling with a synthesizer.

 

[Marshwheeling]

I can't say that music has gotten better, but neither can I say thatit has gotten worse. There are plenty of great bands and artists that emerged in the '80s, '90s and past the turn of the century. Talking Heads is one of the very best. Bob Marley, Springsteen. The Pixies, John Spencer Blues Explosion, Morphine. Adele. Jonathan Richman and the Modern Lovers, who has been around since the early '80s, but I never heard of until last year. Gogol Bordello. Some of these will last longer than others. Johnny Cash and Dylan have persisted through the decades. The American series, six albums of covers that Johnny Cash recorded before his death are some of his best work. Plus, we still have all the old music. Hank Sr., George Jones. If I get sick of what is on the radio, I can fire up some 1959 bebop, Oliver Nelson, Freddy Hubbard, Monk, Coltrane, Miles Davis. If I want to reach back a little farther, I have hours of Django Reinhardt on my Itunes.

My boy still listens to the stuff I played when he was little, that goes back before his time. Lou Reed, Bowie, Cowboy Junkies, Elvis, Leonard Cohen. In turn, he and his friends have introduced me to tons of music I might well have missed.

I see no point in discussing whether music has gotten better or worse. We have it all. You don't have to listen to it all but you can find great music from any era.

 

[Gunslinger808]

Doubt we will see (I mean hear) anything like Pink Floyd again.
Bands such as Van Halen and Sammy Hagar could play instead of fiddling with a synthesizer.

Ha, never heard of a band called Greta Van Fleet, quite the Zepplin sound.

Van Hagar was OK, but certainly not the OG.

Heck, Iron Maiden even put the Rhyme of the Ancient Mariner to metal, and for current "let's chug a beer or ten" there are groups out there that will rock you.
Alestorm to Rumjacks, and even Celtic rock (babes galore), you're missing out.

I listen to everything from New Sons of the Pioneers (wanna see pics of my vinyl collection?) to Death Metal, I love pretty much all music, except for Mariachi stuff, Polka is cool, the strumming of extra guitars is just grating. Aaahhh ho yaaa!

 

[RobertJ.]

Music is one of those things, like food and sex, where you can tell people what you like or dislike, but that just says things about you, not the quality of the music. It's an emotional thing; trying to dress it up as quality judgments is unproductive.

Well said. Taste in anything is extremely subjective.

And to say that nowadays there is no good music, one displays their tunnel vision. Sure, there's no modern music I like being played on the radio, but to use that to pronounce judgment on the entire music scene is ridiculous.

Normally (in any other year), I spend at least a day at the Waterfront Park Blues Festival over July 4th weekend. It sure would come as a surprise to all the attendees that there is no more good music being made.

 

[Rustyt1953]

 

[rkittine]

Every generation seems to have their most loved music. I think all music is good, there is just some that I do not prefer.

I lived in Franklin, TN for a few years, just south of Nashville and it was great to be able to go out to over 100 places any night that featured live music of EVERY kind. I especially liked Writers Night at Greene's Grocers in Lepars Fork as many of the writer in my opinion, where better musicians than those that they wrote for. Lived across the street from Vince Gill and next to Deborah Allen. Was a great time.

I found lots of great music even in Monroe , LA when I lived there. Dated Penny Gilly, cousin of Gilly of Texas Fame. She had her Loose Change Band.

Bob

 

[oldbrownhat]

LOL. My gf, who, like me, generally prefers classical (thank heavens, as she's not into guns) has her music player divided into various categories, one of which is "Ding Bang", for the few glaring exceptions to her other tastes.

Then there's this (says he, donning his Nomex suit):

"Enjoying music is like eating candy.
The first thing you do is throw away the rapper."
(Anon)

 

[ladder13]

Nothing will ever beat 60's to 70's Motown, imo, 80% of what I listen too. 49 on XM radio.

 

[jscheck]

I think in music we each tend to stick with what we remember. There are exceptions of course, but music seems to bring back the past in a vivid (and usually enjoyable) way. My two cents and you're welcome!

 

[Rustyt1953]

Music should be pleasing to the ear. Music should move you.

If music does that then music has done its job.


Queuing up songs is like dining...It would be a dreary business having to repeatedly order from a one page menu.

 

[Absalom]

 

[Rustyt1953]

Don't forget the Red Hot Chili Peppers, Hot Tuna, Vanilla Fudge, the Raspberries, the Cranberries, the Lemonheads etc, etc...

 

[rays44]

My perspective as a 60 something guitarist.
When Elvis came alone, the big band generation thought it was junk. Then it was the Beatles, Stones, etc. Next came the heavy stuff Hendrix, Sabbath, etc. and so on.
Somewhere along the way, skill and musicianship got replaced with sampling and likes. In rock music there are far fewer gifted players then there used to be. There are no more Rick Wakemans, Richie Blackmores or Neil Perts. No one could even begin to produce a "Dark Side of the Moon" or Bohemian Rhapsody any more. Don't have the talent, don't have a clue.
That is what has changed in music over the years. Styles change, like them or not, just like square soulless, plastic guns. But, the days of Danny Gatton and Santana (registered magnums and Pythons are history.