agreed, that's why there's so much to say for it!!! 8^) i haven't listened to regular radio in the car for years and prolly never will again as like you already know, it's a wasteland...
Posted on 11/03/2012 1:38:09 PM PDT by OddLane
Anyone listening to the radio looking for good music is an idiot...
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Our classical station is pretty good, and our jazz station plays jazz sometimes. But thanks anyway.
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I think their voices are unique, but I know they get on some people's nerves.
Pretty much everything, starting with the complete banishing of any semblance of a melody.
True but that’s not “radio radio”... ;-)
Very true. I was referring o commercial OTA radio.
Not a world class musician, but after listening to some of his stuff on Oscar Brand's Folk Song Festival I came away pretty impressed.
agreed, that's why there's so much to say for it!!! 8^) i haven't listened to regular radio in the car for years and prolly never will again as like you already know, it's a wasteland...
According to Aristotle, man is the rational animal; his mind is the source of his distinctive actions, including his creative ones. The process of creativity, in this view, does not consist on gaining a mystic insight or in reacting to a neural twitch; rather, it is a form of thought. If so, the thought of artists, scientists, and other cultural creators would be like that of men in other fields; it too would be guided by a method, by a mode of integration. So the creators of really lousy music such as rap and hip hop are guilty of defective methods of thought.
What’s wrong with music today? Well, for one thing, it isn’t “music”.
We worked with the kids in Sunday School, trying to teach them choruses and hymns, but everyone just screamed words. Then I figured out that they listen to rap mostly, and there is no melody or tune.
I like Jerry Lee Lewis, and The Eagles for secular. For sacred, love the southern gospel quartets.
What passes for “music” today has, for the most part, no heart, no soul and not even a tune that you can hum.
While I love the old r’n’r of the ‘50’s, ‘60’s and ‘70’s, I have switched to Texas Country. The Texas music scene is filled with great artists who have shunned the Nashville sound. Max Stalling, Hayes Carll, Ray Wylie Hubbard, Guy Clark....the list is long and the music is great....helps if you like steel guitars, though.
If I listen to new country music, it's usually Aussies, e.g. Kasey Chambers, Catherine Britt, Ashleigh Dallas, etc...
The Doc Marshalls is another great country/americana band from Nashville.
Almost none are trained musicians who can control their voice. They just belt out, loudly, and they think it's singing.
No thanks.
BTTT.
Technology.
Back in the day, studio time was expensive, so you needed musicians that were good enough to get it recorded in the least amount of time.
Why is rap music so popular with music execs? It’s cheap to produce.
It started with Whitney Houston, but has been aped by her much less talented epigones.
See Mariah Carey.
“throwing in notes that shouldn’t be there”
Yeah; that “scatting” is disgusting. I absolutely cannot listen. Until Obama began showing up so often during election season, my mute button was wearing out mostly from the Jennifer Hudson ads for Weight Watchers. My uncle would say, “She sounds like a sick calf dying in a thunder shower.”
Except on satellite.
Somebody left the c off the front.
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