Posted on 01/01/2014 7:18:16 PM PST by hecht
Last night we watched ABC's Dick Clarks New Years Eve Show. When they began to show music performers, the first I saw was Billy Joel. You could tell that it was one of his bona fide live performance as he sounded different from the studio versions, some minor errors etc. In my genervation ( I'm in my 50s) the best albums were often live , where the performers would jam, experiment and ad lib. The Allmans Live at Fillmore East is an example , or the Live version of Led Zepellin's "Dazed and Confused" -filmed in San Francisco - where Robert Plant ad libbed" going to San Francisco" in the middle of the song. After Joel the show went to a series of Millenial performers who all had auto-tuned lip synched performances, where they basically just aerobic danced to songs written by someone else, don't play instruments and have a few clones dancing in synch behind them. I joked to my guests" imagine if the Beatles were part of the Millenial generation. John Lennon would be lip synching an aerobic dance with George , Ringo and Paul would dance in unison behind him. What gives Millenials? have you no sense ? don't you realize that these "performers" are manufactured pretty boys/girls ? they are live action "Archies" If your taste in music is so vacuous , is there any hope for them? Is there any hope to wan them from Obama?
Even the non song writing performers of our generation i.e..e Elvis could at least perform.
I don't think grunge or later era hair metal was the best. :)
I'm on the later end of Gen X. The late boomers and early X'ers had the best music. I just missed it born in the 70's, but most of those bands released stuff in my time as well so I grew up with some of it.
1970's had the best music. Rock competed with Disco and it brought out the best. Led Zepplin, Credence (both in 60's as well), ZZ Top, AC/DC, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Allman Bros, Robin Trower, UFO, Motorhead, and Van Halen. Early 80's had Def Leppard (early stuff was good), Motley Crue, and Iron Maiden.
This isn’t, of course, exactly “millenial’s” taste - I’m 61 - but I’m excited because there’s so much good stuff out there and it can have a voice based on technology we carry around in our pockets. And it doesn’t have to sell out.
Hard country:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1cdvtSn4tTo
I’m old enough to feel nostalgic for music of several previous decades, plus I’ve researched several earlier decades back to the ‘30s, I feel none (nostalgia), and I think that the music nowadays and musicians are better than ever.
“1970’s had the best music. Rock competed with Disco and it brought out the best. Led Zepplin, Credence (both in 60’s as well), ZZ Top, AC/DC, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Allman Bros, Robin Trower, UFO, Motorhead, and Van Halen. Early 80’s had Def Leppard (early stuff was good), Motley Crue, and Iron Maiden. “
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Oh man—memories. I had 5 teenagers in those days and when I’d pull into the driveway the tunes were “pumping” all over the neighborhood..
I enjoyed it but my husband hated it——he was stuck in The Big Band era.
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I know of several guys who played in Hair Metal bands, switched to playing Country when Nirvana came out.
And the Carpenters competed with both rock and disco, sometimes winning out on the charts.
All right, that is one hysterical video. I don’t usually do country unless it’s really country. I may know some of the people in that one... ;-)
You got it!
What a lot of metalheads hate to admit is that the best guitarists on the planet are Nashville studio dudes. No contest. Guys like Roy Clark who were ‘more’ than just studio players could shred most metal guitarists under the table. And they knew it ;)
But there is some really terrific music being made right now, too. You'll never hear it on mainstream radio, but it's out there. Here are a few of my personal favorites from recent years:
Radical Face "A Pound of Flesh"
If you like Explosions, check out God is an Astronaut
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oMEGJ-Jk58Q
That's the real McCoy--unlike a lot of stuff that tries to pass for "country."
When I recently heard that “Nevermind” by Nirvana had been released 20 years ago, I realized that hard rock has not really developed beyond that point. All of the “new rock” that I hear is just a rehash of old grunge. As for pop, it hurts my ears with the overblown computer generated sounds and autotuned “singing”. Rap and country? fuggedaboutit!
Don't forget this one!
Here’s one that found me on Fakebook today:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yrp8wghfcI8&feature=youtu.be
He’ so stiff..really needs to loosen up more...let go... ;)
Damn that is some impressive playing.
I will admit that good music is out there if you look for it.
But part of the fun with good music not being so obscure, was that it was good to bond with others who also knew the music, instead of now being the only one on the block that ever heard of the artist.
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