It was inevitable. Most authorities agree that modern music reached it's highest peak and ultimate expression with the Go-Go's. After that there was no where to go but down.
Posted on 08/23/2011 10:55:38 PM PDT by Rockerwolf
Because going back to the 60's,70's,and 80's there was good music like the Rolling Stones,The Beatles,Buffalo Springfield,Iron Maiden,Led Zeppelin and such.
Compared to modern music which seems to be mostly about image over whether they can play. I'll take "Stairway to Heaven" over Lady Gaga any day.
Because it seems they have turned the whole music industry into a beauty contest and not if a person can play a instrument like bass,guitar,drums,or such.
Here’s another life-changing Jam: Vai, Malmsteen, and Satriani play Little Wing.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ojUtFyfnIJE
Also, there’s been a lot of dissing Amy Winehouse on FR, but seeing this convinced me she was well-deserving of her fame.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ebf171vP74k
I remember the day I first heard The Wall. I won the album in a radio contest at Q107 in Washington DC (WRQX.)
I guess I was maybe nine years old?
I sat dazed through the entire four sides, staring at the speakers. I had never heard anything so amazing, so soaring, so haunting in my life. I am still blown away by the soaring solos and fresh, wild melodies.
Thanks for the J Burnett thing. Never heard of him. I’m just on dial-up so videos, etc., are ridiculous for me to try to view. .....I did take the time to load your link, though, and heard some of the music and singing (although it was constantly buffering). ....Sounded like music I would like, so I’ll check for something I can play in the car. ......Guess folks here don’t remember Jimmy Reed, Bo Diddley, Fats Domino, Otis Redding, the Platters, Dave Brubek, Ahmad Jamal, Little Richard, and all the other groups and individuals from the ‘50-’60s.
It was inevitable. Most authorities agree that modern music reached it's highest peak and ultimate expression with the Go-Go's. After that there was no where to go but down.
As a fan of Led Zeppelin I wouldn’t put “Stairway to Heaven” even in my top 5 favorites. Possibly not even in my top 10. Just sayin’.......
it was a ripoff anyway.... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NCgC1LOxiBM
You can wander around here for hours:
Crooners
http://www.angelfire.com/dbz/jd/FullList.htm
Makes me shake my head when I hear todays "artists" who have no concept of musicianship or lyrics that can/will stand the test of 30-40 years to be hummed and sung by future generations.
Other than flashing some skin in a faux-porno video, yapping about being gay, a thug or some other inane thing, today's musicians are entertainers in line with carnival geeks.
Modern music has sucked for every generation that has to listen to the trash the next generation comes up with.
I am of the opinion that the younger generation just wants to stick it to the preceding generation and music is one way to do so without getting punished for same.
I find listening to the classics, Mozart, Radesky, Shubert most relaxing unless I am stressed then it is hard rock.
To each his own and just to tune out the noise of the preceding generation.
“Modern music has sucked for every generation that has to listen to the trash the next generation comes up with.”
I mentioned something aobut my kids music to an old gal at church. She laughed - “It was the same when I was a kid!”
I looked at her sorta funny and said “Huh?”
“We kids liked the big band music. My folks thought anything with horns in it was the Devil’s own!”
The worst part with my kids is they’ll listen to this crap (some rap, but “screamo” is big with my son and one daughter), but it is all Christian music - so what can I say!?
Myself - I’m a huge Rush fan. And speaking of modern music - they are coming out with another album late this year, early next. And then another tour. And while not in the same style as their early stuff, I think their last album, and from the two songs they play from their new album - they are getting back to their harder core roots.
Rockerwolf,
a few examples: Rival Sons, The Answer, Voodoo Highway. Look for them on the dreaded youtube. You won’t regret it. The good music is out there, but must be sought.
IMO, a lot of 60s 70s and 80s also sucked.
In case you’re ready to flame me I might just qualify my opinion by saying I’ve been a rock and roll musician for over 30 years and made a lot of money in the industry. I just grew up and grew out of it. Although I’m still involved playing classic rock it’s not my music of choice. Not by a long shot.
Lots of modern stuff is still very worthy. You can’t judge everyone in modern music by Lady Gaga you know?
Just switch to smooth jazz and enjoy the sweet ride.
OH YEAH!!! Saw them do it live in ‘73.
I switched to Country Music - America’s music. The writing, talent and arrangements are far better than anything else out there save a few modern Rock bands like Nickelback.
Your comment is exactly right!
Great music is out there, but you won’t hear it by turning on the radio and waiting for it.
I was in high school and junior college in the mid and late sixties.
Top 40 radio played a wide variety of music from The Beatles to The Supremes.
Nobody then thought it strange a Booker T. and the M.G.'s instrumental immediately followed Herman's Hermits on the same station.
We all had a capacity to enjoy any music that was good.
Radio has narrowed programming to virtually a demand that each song in a format has to use similar chords, singing styles and tempo.
People have a much wider capacity for music than the obsessed modern programmers believe.
In one respect, it is far different now.
Music taste is somehow artificially divided into strict radio formats.
What gets on the radio is a small list of songs dictated by a handful of know-it-all's trying desperately to preserve ratings in a relentless fight for the attention of very busy people.
Music is not art anymore.
Music is nothing but a tool of business. The business people dictate popular music, not the artists.
Business people always try to take the crap-shoot out of presenting new artists. Some artists are wildly received. Some fade quickly. Business people don't like such gambles. They have tried to turn modern music into more of a sure-thing investment and we all suffer for that.
You are ABSOLUTELY correct. When I was living Silicon Valley, during most of the 1990's I could hear a huge variety of music from various different types of radio stations all over the San Francisco Bay Area, from rap all the way to New Age. But as companies like Clear Channel took over huge swaths of stations, this large variety of music was lost, and the types of music you could hear over broadcast radio dropped dramatically. 
Nowadays, if you want to listen to a huge variety of music, you either have to subscribe to satellite radio, use the Music Choice service offered by many cable TV systems or start buying music digitally through iTunes or the Amazon MP3 download service. Indeed, I've developed a taste for a specific style of dance music called trance, and I was able to buy digitally a whole bunch of historic trance hits through iTunes from the likes of Binary Finary, Paul van Dyke, Ferry Corsten, Chicane, and several others.
There was crappy pop and metal in the 80s, but the second albums from Skid Row and Ugly Kid Joe are two of my favorites.
I grew up on Zeppelin, Sabbath, Aerosmith, Boston, and Kiss.
I like Alice in Chains, Soundgarden, Pantera and some of the more modern stuff, but “Nu” metal sounds like they are just imitating Pantera, Slayer, and Megadeth.
I found iTunes-Radio can connect a person to thousands of stations around the world with a variety of genres.
One can find the best of Classical, Blues, Jazz, Contemporary, Foreign and even Vintage 78s, such as this station
http://www.venerableradio.com/samPHPweb/playing.php
We are fortunate to have these many ways to enjoy music.
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