From 1969 ...
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Not so sure music has has improved that much
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Gunslinger808
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I grew up on that stuff, but my in heart I will always be metal.
Won't bore you by linking up some Iron Maiden (although I should).
Won't bore you by linking up some Iron Maiden (although I should).
60s and 70s were a great time for music. I got to hear a lot of it as my Mom would have the radio on most of the day. She did play a number of Elvis records over and over. I have a lot of the music from back then on cassettes and some CDs and listen to them almost everyday.
Why would you expect music to improve? Obviously, taste and music appreciation are very individual, but improvement over time has simply not been my experience.
I had no great interest in music until I heard Little Richard in the mid-fifties. In general I liked about half of what was popular in White circles in the fifties and sixties (including, of course, Black artists like Chuck Berry and Wilbert Harrison), and maybe a third or less of what I heard on the Newark NJ R&B station. Some music that was current then I didn't hear until it's heyday had passed.
In the eighties (!) I discovered boogie woogie, a twenties form probably developed a little earlier. It's still my favorite, and those who are sufficiently talented still produce new pieces all the time.
Most new "music" does not appeal to me at all. I have no need to badmouth what others like, but I certainly don't accept the legitimacy of any assumption that I would or should like ANY particular style.
Improvement? ***eddaboutit.
I had no great interest in music until I heard Little Richard in the mid-fifties. In general I liked about half of what was popular in White circles in the fifties and sixties (including, of course, Black artists like Chuck Berry and Wilbert Harrison), and maybe a third or less of what I heard on the Newark NJ R&B station. Some music that was current then I didn't hear until it's heyday had passed.
In the eighties (!) I discovered boogie woogie, a twenties form probably developed a little earlier. It's still my favorite, and those who are sufficiently talented still produce new pieces all the time.
Most new "music" does not appeal to me at all. I have no need to badmouth what others like, but I certainly don't accept the legitimacy of any assumption that I would or should like ANY particular style.
Improvement? ***eddaboutit.
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I expected music to improve but was gravely disappointed.
Some ain't too bad. Wife and I watched "Hamilton" on Disney the other evening. It's sort of "Hip-Hop History." High energy singing and dancing with some "real" information that young folks might like. Except for making Thomas Jefferson foolish we enjoyed it (and the tickets cost $0). Joe
De gustibus non est disputandum.
Purrfectus!
Heck yeah, by golly
I stopped listening to new music sometime around 1987/88. The constant 3 year cycle of "new" genre's was mind numbing and simply did not resonate within me.
I reverted to classic rock'n'roll and the pop hits of my childhood/youth.
There were some massive pop songs in the 90's that I liked, but not enough to become fans.
Today's music is terrible. One verse that repeats three times and choruses consisting of one line repeated half a dozen times in between.
One of our TV breakfast shows played a new song clip yesterday the three hosts were gushing over. I thought was that it was rubbish.
Luckily there is so much of the old stuff to listen to.
I reverted to classic rock'n'roll and the pop hits of my childhood/youth.
There were some massive pop songs in the 90's that I liked, but not enough to become fans.
Today's music is terrible. One verse that repeats three times and choruses consisting of one line repeated half a dozen times in between.
One of our TV breakfast shows played a new song clip yesterday the three hosts were gushing over. I thought was that it was rubbish.
Luckily there is so much of the old stuff to listen to.
oddshooter
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In the old days, music was auditory.
Today it's visual.
Can you imagine Janice Joplin doing a choreographed dance with her cutesy "posse" and mouthing the words to the lip syncing canned music. She felt the lyrics, not just sang them.
The Grateful Dead played for hours without a chiseled in stone score by some producer. What happened to creativity?
Maybe this is why I still love the blues. Each rendition is meant to bring something new to a song; not just try to match the album.
Audiences have been trained to expect a song and dance routine to watch. Don't get me wrong, I'm a guy and like to watch scantily clad nymphets simulating sex; but, great music, it's not.
Whatever happened to listening.
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Today it's visual.
Can you imagine Janice Joplin doing a choreographed dance with her cutesy "posse" and mouthing the words to the lip syncing canned music. She felt the lyrics, not just sang them.
The Grateful Dead played for hours without a chiseled in stone score by some producer. What happened to creativity?
Maybe this is why I still love the blues. Each rendition is meant to bring something new to a song; not just try to match the album.
Audiences have been trained to expect a song and dance routine to watch. Don't get me wrong, I'm a guy and like to watch scantily clad nymphets simulating sex; but, great music, it's not.
Whatever happened to listening.
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rkittine
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I spent a couple of nights in the rain and mud of Woodstock (which was not actually at Woodstock). I was a very different person in August of 69 than I am today. Tried to go to the reunion, which was actually at Woodstock, but never made it. I was lucky enough to sit in a few times at the Barge on Long Island on Felix's Hammond B-3 when the Young Rascals where still a garage band in Westhampton Beach back in the early 60s.
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whoo hoo... finally got to use my high school latin class
thank goodness there was no math... lol
Every instrument has its place. Every piece of music I listen to my heart always follows the bass line but the one instrument that makes me wish I had followed a different path is a B3 with a Leslie 122 and somebody with the hands and feet that knows how to use them.I
I'm gonna go listen to some Supertramp and Boston.
rkittine
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I played in a band in High School and my early college years. I had a B-3 with a pair of Leslie units. When I was living in Louisiana in the early 90s I was able to buy a C-3 from a local church. Wish I still had it. I have a Korg M I, but there is nothing that can duplicate the sound of the B-3. There is a B-3 about 8 miles from me, that I could buy, but I don't have the room for it right now and I also have Dupytrins Contracture so playing it would be a problem.
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50's, 60's and 70s.....
Then disco happened. I could listen to the BeeGees but that was about it. I liked a very little punk and metal .Rap was horrible except for very few 'tracks' (I won't call them songs). I think my son liked it because I hated it. He doesn't even listen to it any more.
I think my favorites since that time are Dire Straits and Tom Petty. R.E.M. was pretty good. Pink Floyd stayed in the picture a long time. Queen was still great, but I favored their older stuff. Aerosmith wasn't bad.
'The Traveling Wilburys' were a breath of fresh air. A few bands that lasted into the later decades had some good songs, but nothing in quantity and I sure can't think of any 'Great Albums' after that time.
Then disco happened. I could listen to the BeeGees but that was about it. I liked a very little punk and metal .Rap was horrible except for very few 'tracks' (I won't call them songs). I think my son liked it because I hated it. He doesn't even listen to it any more.
I think my favorites since that time are Dire Straits and Tom Petty. R.E.M. was pretty good. Pink Floyd stayed in the picture a long time. Queen was still great, but I favored their older stuff. Aerosmith wasn't bad.
'The Traveling Wilburys' were a breath of fresh air. A few bands that lasted into the later decades had some good songs, but nothing in quantity and I sure can't think of any 'Great Albums' after that time.
I refuse to call some of the stuff played now music. Some of it sounds like lost souls burning on the hot griddle of hell.
The bulk of my playlist is stuff from the last two decades with a chunk of that being from the last few years. There is a wealth of impressive music done by gifted young folks out there.
All one has to do is take off the blinders and look for it.
All one has to do is take off the blinders and look for it.
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