Posted on 01/23/2022 3:42:55 PM PST by Yardstick
It wasn't a cover which is why Cage's estate sued. Since it was longer than 4 minutes and 33 seconds (by a few seconds) the judge said the estate had to show exactly which 4 minutes and 33 seconds were lifted from the original. Since they couldn't the case was tossed.
Today’s mass cultures is garbage, but I think there are some interesting new musicians off the beaten path. My son, who is 21, grew up with the old music by his own choice, so he has developed a good taste in music. The new stuff he listens to is good. I listen to the old stuff because it is my comfort music, and I will listen to big band, jazz, standards, classic rock, Motown, and traditional country. There is a great radio station in Chicago where you can hear Sinatra, the Buckinghams, Tom Jones, Tina Turner,and Joni Mitchell in an hour of listening. But I have encountered some good new acts as well. I found Mean Mary (country, folk, Americana) and The Carolina Chocolate Drops (black string band, blues, jazz) while looking for something else on YouTube. I heard Porter Union (traditional country) on a now-defunct AM country station one night while driving to St. Louis. I ran into Ray Scott (traditional country) on Facebook. These artists record and perform only at small venues, and it’s a shame they aren’t better known.
Still listen to “Alice’s Restaurant” at some point every Thanksgiving.
Bingo.
Yep. The issue is how music is presented. Its slapped on Youtube and you have to search for it, and most of it sucks (see our resident Count Vlad) The crap that gets noticed is all Simion Cowel image over substance make me a fast buck. In the 70’s there were original bands that came out of the woodworks that 50 years later still hold up. Rap and Autotune ruined music and will continue to.
LOL!
A newish group that was very good was The Civil Wars (Joy Williams and John Paul White), but they broke up. I still listen to their Barton Hollow CD.
I like songs from the “Hamilton” musical like The Schuyler Sisters and The Room Where it Happens. Very catchy and tuneful.
The good modern symphonic music is often in movie scores. Hans Zimmer, Rachel Portman, Alexandre Desplat, Danny Elfman, et al. are very talented.
Younger? No thanks!
No, I love music!
I was answering the question.
The DJ’s at KSHE Radio in St. Louis took a LOT of long breaks. For many years, one might hear something like Court of the Crimson King (King Crimson), Salisbury (Uriah Heep), etc. And that wasn’t even on their “The Seventh Day” show on Sundays, when they’d play seven entire albums in a row, each LP side uninterrupted.
I always figured “Stairway To Heaven” got a lot of play for those bathroom breaks you mention... ;-)
I really like Lord Huron, Manchester Orchestra, and Weezer still cracks me up.
I'll be humming Pink Triangle the entire time Maura Healey's gubenatorial campaign is happening, which I hope implodes as soon as I post this reply.
Music, like fundamental science, has stagnated over the past 40-years due to a major reduction in the averages of both I.Q. and imagination in the highly educated human population.
Radio is my only source for music. I only listen to music when I'm driving, so I just listen to what's on the radio.
I just listened to 5-6 new bands people here have listed.
I do not get what is so great about them. No catchy memorable tunes.
I cannot remember a single one.
Back on the 70’s the first time you heard Melissa or Green Grass and High Tides, or Your Song by Elton John or a Pschechelic Furs or Heaven by The Cure, they a distinct sound that immediately attracted you to them and you knew they would be a hit
All these new groups sound alike.
Steam powered giraffe?. Listened to them 10-12 years ago and liked their stuff. They lost some members, one became trans and didnt hear anymore new stuff, I was done. Honeybee was my fav song.
They are also among the most Satanic creatures in pop culture today.
No one in his right mind will listen to any of these Satanic losers.
Yep good points. Are there still top 40 radio stations?
Can we talk about church worship music too?
I do not like most contemporary worship songs.
My daughter (who is a young adult) and I talk about how cringeworthy they are. How did we go from Handel’s Messiah to today’s music.
The correct answer for the moment is it sucks and MAY never come back. Every 3rd person thinks they will be a “musician” or “recording artist”— and the “industry” perpetuates this notion as they always have (parasitic in nature).
Here’s an example of 11 plus years ago— a song and artist that is infuriating- the track sounds like a cartoon soundtrack and at the same time the chorus and ending is a long annoying whiny weenie screed about a failed love affair.
Plan on suffering for their “art” (as they apparently, did):
Gotye- Somebody That I Used to Know
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8UVNT4wvIGY
As an antidote here’s the Eagles “Get Over It”— because the real underlying whine is “millenial” as in you need to pay for me, because...I’m me!
“Like to Find your little child and kick it’s little a@@!”
Get Over It— Predate Gotye by more than 10 years— they knew, The Eagles.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ViZIBhlBkcQ
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