Posted on 12/02/2021 7:26:02 AM PST by dmam2011
Actually gospel music has gone through some major revolutions, you just gotta be going to the right churches to find out. There was the big black gospel movement that started in the 1920s. Then the southern gospel run which was basically bringing black gospel styles into white churches in the 60s. Then Christian country which started in the 50s but really gained traction in the 80s peaking in popularity in the 90s. The 90s saw a big explosion of Christian rock.
Sure the very old style “traditional” churches are still throwing around 200 year old hymns. But that’s a small section of what’s going on out there.
Give them time. As a kid I despised “The Beatles.” As a 42 year old, I think they are pretty good.
Great album choice.
There’s an absolutely stellar band from Russia that does covers of Chicago and other horn bands.
Many believe they play better than Chicago, and man do they put on an awesome concert. We recently drove 400 miles each way to see them perform.
Leonidandfriends.band
Ain't that the truth?
Sincerely, Another Old Person
I agree, but every single one of those churches you talked about would understand and know any of those old songs once they started singing them. Even the Christian rock churches have hymnals hanging around and know those songs.
And having been in churches all around the world, in at least five different languages, they know those songs also. I have sung and heard those three in Ukraine, In Sierra Leone, in Germany, etc.
As any musical theorist worth their salt knows, music history is like a mountain. The peak was reached around 1968 or 1969. It’s been trending down ever since.
Classics stick around for a variety of reasons. But the persistence of Homer doesn’t mean story telling has changed.
“While my guitar gently weeps.”
IMHO, the greatest single moment in guitar history was when Prince started jamming that song with Tom Petty, Jeff Lynne, Steve Winwood, and Dhani Harriso was, in the words of everyone there, Epic.
I stopped listening to “pop” music when the singing started to sound exactly like a young woman I once shared a labor room with. Add in today’s rasp and screech, and I’m done.
Today’s singing style is senseless and chaotic, and contributes nothing to the music industry or society. Put bluntly, it is nothing more than the wail and whine of a self-pitying spoiled child, and has absolutely nothing to do with talent.
How are you on Nine Inch Nails?
I kind of liked them when I was younger, but haven’t listened to them in years.
The only song of theirs I remember is “Closer.”
On the bright side, there’s still a lot of superb jazz musicians out there. Even at that though, a lot of the music is their contemporary take on old standards.
On the pop side, I can’t hardly have some kind of audio playing without stumbling on “old” music (ie 50’s through 90’s). I conclude that era is still extremely popular across a broad range of ages.
Yours truly
“Blackbird” is also a good track on that album.
There is a song Trent Reznor wrote, called “Every Day Is Exactly The Same”, that describes the Fascism we are living in today.
It’s brilliant.
Because it isn’t music.
and I listen to some of the music from the late 60's and early 70's and think how terrible it was...."Jeremiah was a bullfrog" and "dizzy" are examples...
Personally I find music these days uninspired and frankly boring. I am a child of the 80s and still think it was the best music.
To be honest the band at my church are better live singers than most popular bands are now when they do live concerts. I really like Hillsong United. Some beautiful voices from down under.
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