Posted on 04/11/2020 9:01:29 PM PDT by Olog-hai
The problem with blow your socks off unsigned bands is too many are forced by the record companies to sell out when they do get signed. It is a story that is older than rock.
What's odd today, is the parents should be more open to new music since their parents haaaated The Who, Zeppelin et al.
I have no doubt the great unheard music of today will break through. It's simply distressing that many older people today who should know better are more ignorant than their parents. Maybe it's the fluoride.
I just like the tune that McVie wrote and sang!!
>he’s claiming there is no longer music of substance when he turns on the radio...
He’s absolutely right as far as it goes concerning the “music industry” and airplay on the radio, but, he’s absolutely wrong in his initial premise.
With the ubiquity of the home computer virtually anybody who wants to can acquire his own recording and production studio starting at a few hundred dollars, and, while a person could spend thousands, if not tens of thousands of dollars for better hardware, a thousand dollar home studio will rival a several hundred thousand dollar pro studio of today for most purposes and surpass those from thirty or 40 years ago.
Given the ability for “Every-man” to make his own product, the “music industry” of times past, while still clinging to life has been rendered irrelevant. This is a golden age for music of all genera, only the listener is not going to find it on the radio, the music of today in on YouTube, SoundCloud and a dozen other places online, music as good as anything created in the past.
My favorite musical genres include Vocaloid, ProgRock, FolkRock, Opera Metal/Orchestral Metal, EDM/Dubstep/Chillstep, Experimental Electronic, Polka, Classical and Modern Indian, Hot Jazz from the early 1900’s to about 1940, and Big Band from the 30’s and 40’s, Western Swing, along with Western Classical.
I can listen to something new every day for the rest of my life and not be disappointed by the quality of what is being produced, or what historical recordings I can find online.
McLean’s premise is so last century. Time and music have moved on, for the better. McLean’s premise does apply to those whippersnappers in their mid 20’s and younger, who, unfortunately don’t care for either the quality of the composition or it’s audio quality. Methinks that, hopefully, their musical tastes will grow with age.
If you just listened to three songs in the last hour and a half you are probably over 60 and are into ProgRock.
>IMO, the main vocalist of “Nightwish”, Floor Jansen, is the best female vocalist in music today.
Dittos, Certainly one of the best.
Ghost Love Score - Epic !...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4V_eoR6r1Tw
Be tough to peddle it door to door these days.
It was tough enough back then!
My Don McLean story: I grew up in the Hudson Valley in NY in what was then a semi-rural area (more horses and cattle than people). When I was a yut (somewhere around 1969-70), our neighbor threw a huge welcome home party for his son, who had been wounded by a punji stick in Vietnam. There were hundreds of people there, lots of beer and weed, and family, friends, neighbors, parish priest, etc. Sitting on a stool with guitar near the make-shift bar was a guy named Don Mclean singing songs, both his and borrowed. IIRC, McLean was living in Cold Spring, NY, playing coffee houses and pubs, and my neighbor’s son befriended McLean before heading off to Nam. After that, I had a few personal meetings with McLean at my neighbor’s house, both before and after he went big time with Vincent and American Pie. I was a kid half his age, but I remember him being a really nice guy and talking to us youngsters like we were all on the same page. Later on in life, when “scholars” tried to dissect American Pie, I would laugh at the disconnect, remembering what I had heard from McLean at the time he wrote the classic.
I agree. That entire concert was epic.
Floor’s performance of Ghost Love Score was incredible. I watch that video very often.
Google: why is music so bad today
Many postings and video.
Comes down to 6 companies controlling 90% of what we see and hear.
Isn’t it ironic that the internet gave us potential access to so much, but it turned out just the opposite....
applies to news, music, whatever....
80’s was last decade with it’s own style and sound.... Everything that’s come after that has been a rehash of something that came before..... But there was actually a lot of very good music in the 90’s with retro influences
I mostly agree with your assessment as far as quality of records that were produced... Though I think the 60’s was every bit as good as the 70’s, if not even better.... But if you’re just talking about song writing and not record production, then the 30’s and 40’s were arguably the two best decades of all..... In the 1950s, when record production started to get better, Frank Sinatra, and other singers like Peggy Lee, Tony Bennett, etc were promoted as singing stars after the decline of the big bands, and most of the songs they recorded in the 50’s were written in the 30’s and 40’s for Broadway musicals..... All the great rock and roll artists of the 60’s and 70’s grew up on that stuff, and that’s why they knew how to write a good song
.....and now you’re supposed to write songs that are gender neutral..... James Brown could never get away with it’s a man’s man’s world today
Every combination of notes that can ever be attempted have already been written down and played. From here on it’s all plagiarism.
And all the really good stuff was in the 70s and very much all influenced by the Beatles. It was a Renaissance, that time period.
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