Before 1920s: $/40
1930-1950s: $/21 
1950s-1990s: $/5 
1990s-present: $ 
Posted on 10/04/2018 4:06:30 PM PDT by Hugin
I have wondered why I find modern church music rather uninspiring - maybe not the best word but it will do.
I have many modern Christian songs that certainly inspire, but one trip into a sanctuary with professional musicians shows the difference.
I used to run sound for Highland Park Presbyterian Church in Highland Park TX. The difference between their musicians with a pipe organ and full choir, and our strings and a drummer in our home church is night and day.
The average person memorized over 200 songs before recordings? Amazing.
“Something About You” by Level 42
That song has been in my head all day, and I never knew until now who sang it. Thanks!
That was a great era for music.
No 'Dire Straits' with Mark Knopfler and a little steel-body guitar? Go to youtube and you'll hear young kids say about them, "Why don't we have music like this?"
You have to seek out some of the “alternative” music that is out there . Nine Inch nails (Trent Reznor) has been putting out varied types and styles of some absolutely great songs and beats with decent lyrics....some not so hoit...but he is a machine as far as quantity goes...rap sucks and always has since sampling entered. Grandmaster Flash “don’t push me cuz’ I’m close to the edge “ was the best rap tune ever made...the last decade has had some good metal such as “magnetic death” from Metallica...what is making music uninteresting is the manipulation electronically ...non-artists (can’t play an instrument)...but anyway there are some really good up and coming artists but on Alternative stations..
Before 1920s: $/40
1930-1950s: $/21
1950s-1990s: $/5
1990s-present: $
“Rock N Roll’s been going downhill ever since Buddy Holly died.”
It’s called a Dobro dude.
One of my buddies played bass with Leana Hornes Orchestra.
But he was a racist /s
Really? That's as far as you go? There were a lot of really good tunes in the early 80's from the New Age and later with 1 hit wonders and some Arena Rock groups.
Pop music (Beyonce) and such is what killed rock/pop music. Every song sounds the same. Without all their dancers prancing around, what do they have?
I predicted back in the 60's that rocknroll would die eventually. There are only 12 notes to western music. Yes, you got minors, flats, 7ths, 5ths, and variations on those, but how long could it go on?
Again, the 70's was the end? I believe the mid-90's was the end since they were just repeating the same stuff, maybe at a different tempo. I'm a musician and pretty much listen to the classics from The Platters to REO Speedwagon to Journey to Guns & Roses and others like them. Think Foreigner, Billy Idol, Bon Jovi, Prince, even the electronic stuff from Europe like Duran Duran. "Hungry Like a Wolf".
What a shame you don't like those melodic rockers or the slow melodic ballads like, "I Wanna Know What Love Is" by Foreigner.
To each their own.
1. Music in every era of mankind has had sectors that were terrible and sectors that were fantastic.
2. The “music industry” while not entirely irrelevant is no longer home to talented uupcoming performers and music writers. They can affordably access instruments, recording studios, recording engineering, promotion, and distribution channels outside of the old industry all while retraining complete control of and rights to their work. Analysis pulled from the legacy industry is therefore of limited relevancy and accuracy.
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I haven’t listened to modern music on the radio in the last thirty years.
I got lots of good old CDs last in the 1980s.
Good point. However, the Stones outdid them both back in their heyday in the 60's and early 70's.
Personally, I don't believe there has EVER been a better intro to a rocker than Gimme Shelter. Not only is the guitar work with Richards and Taylor so complimentary, but the haunting vocal of the female singer makes it still a classic on just about any jukebox.
There has been no other song that has been so often used in movies/TV than that. It sets the tone of the scene every time. "Sympathy For The Devil" is also a classic. Did you know there are NO drums in that song? Being a drummer, I'm probably one of the few that only hear the bongos, plus hand percussion. Charlie Watts did not play his drums.
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