[OddLane]

Had to get my mind off Hurricane Sandy's wreckage, so I decided to rant about one of my favorite subjects.

[FlingWingFlyer]

Junior Walker, Jackie Wilson and Sam Cooke are all gone. Chuck Berry got old.

[Da Coyote]

Accompanied my wife to Kohl’s yesterday.

Had to go back to the car in order to avoid hurling over the worst vapid music I have ever been tortured with.

Well, second worst.

At least it wasn’t cretin IQ hip hop.

[Tax-chick]

The Carolina Chocolate Drops emerged from the Charlotte Folk Society. They often play around here. I can’t get to like Iris DeMent’s voice, although Scoutmaster provided helpful video links.

As a symptom of my midlife crisis, I find that I’m liking the music my 16-year-old listens to: Seether, Evans Blue, and those people with “Miss the Misery.” Also the electronic buzzing stuff, which as a side benefit makes the baby sleep.

[duckman]

Give me good old 50’s DooWop’s, especially ballads by the Channels, Five Satins the Dubs.......

[Wyatt's Torch]

Anyone listening to the radio looking for good music is an idiot...

[Berlin_Freeper]

Silver and Gold

[beaversmom]

Just saw your about page. RIP Breitbart. Was just corresponding with a friend about him. :(

I’ve hated music up until the last year or so. Now I’m really excited again about a lot of new artists. I feel like a teen again. I like Mumford and Sons, Young the Giant, Florence and the Machine, Adele, AWOL Nation and there are many artists with individual/a couple of songs that I like like the Lumineers, The Naked and Famous, Churchill, DeVotchka, Coldplay, Imagine Dragons and a few more that I’m forgetting. I think there’s a lot of creativity out there right now and genuine talent.

Oh, I saw New Order in October. That was a great blast from the past. Took two of my kids.

[GeronL]

I used to listen to 80’s pop and “light rock” but I don’t really listen to music at all any more. I have found some reasons.... the lyrics are normally retarded these days.

I found some Korean songs to listen to, sometimes its better if you don’t understand the words. lol.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pK8q7rS-Hjo&feature=my_liked_videos&list=LLRTMGlgUYzfmrSLqme1dG9A

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rTOmVpQBFBk&feature=my_liked_videos&list=LLRTMGlgUYzfmrSLqme1dG9A

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PKVyOWOg9H8&feature=related

etc

[RegulatorCountry]

There is plenty of great music being made today, you just won’t hear it on top 40 pop radio or over the PA in a restaurant bar.

It’s just that you’ve got to go find it now, instead of it finding you. Spotify, Pandora, iTunes, all manner of great singer-songwriters, niches that you’d never even hear about thirty years ago.

The day of big arena rock bands may be fading, but is seeing a musician or group you love in a club or smaller venue really such a bad thing?

I don’t think so.

[Lacey2]

I’m tellin ya, when Jolson died he took the music with him.

[dirtboy]

It’s why you will never hear a single by Iris DeMent,

THAT I can live with.

[SkyPilot]

For starters, rap "music" is vile and feral. Hip hop is garbage. Most pop music is synthetic, auto-tuned vocal formula garbage. Classic rock is mostly great stuff.....but it does not count as today's music. Very few good bands out there.

You can stumble into great artists by listening to Pandora. I have found radical cello players, great folk artists, and incredible pianists. Mostly, I look for beauty in music these days. In beauty there is truth, and in truth you see the fingerprints of God.

[equaviator]

XM Radio, the Deep Tracks channel (27) is where I go to hear music that I used to hear on Detroit FM radio back in the late 60’s and 70’s. There are also the Classic Vinyl and Classic Rewind channels (25 & 26) that I use as backups to Deep Tracks.

[Wiser now]

I will be dating myself but I stopped listening to pop music around 1970.
Oh well, at least there was still the choir music at church.
Then last week, the church’s pastor announced the choir was being eliminated in favor of a “Keep it loud” rock.
We will be looking for another church.
I’m so thankful for remote controls with mute buttons.

[unique1]

http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap120710.html

[Teflonic]

I gave up on new music many years ago when the rap took over but there are signs of a recovery. This amazing song finally trickled down to me and impressed me quite a bit, could use more vocals from the woman though: Gotye - Somebody That I Used To Know

[smalltownslick]

Iris DeMint’s voice makes me long for the sweet release of death. YIKES!!

[smalltownslick]

Someone gave me a rather rational explanation why I don’t like any new “music” - there’s no melody. More precisely, the music most of us know and like, no matter what the style, consisted of SONGS. Songs have a beginning, middle and end. Most of what’s popular today doesn’t have that - it’s more like never-ending chants with no variation.

[real saxophonist]

I was a Performance major in college. Then along came this new major, Music Industry.
No comment on that.
I did miss out on a few gigs because I refused to join the union.

[EricT.]

Those dadburned beatniks what with their jitterbugging and gitfiddle music... why, in my day we would walk 14 miles to listen to the circus calliope when it came to town... and we wore an onion on our belt because that was the style back then...