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Is Old Music Killing New Music?
The Atlantic ^ | January 23, 2022 | Ted Gioia

Posted on 01/23/2022 3:42:55 PM PST by Yardstick

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To: ShadowAce

Blackberry Smoke is awesome.

Check out Too Slim and the Taildraggers…


41 posted on 01/23/2022 4:16:53 PM PST by CarmichaelPatriot (Recovering Kalifornian... Loving Alabama!)
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To: Alberta's Child

When we were growing up here’s what we did. We turned on the car radio, flipped between 3 stations and heard the best classically based music coming from live or studio recordings from people who developed their talent. If they sucked, they didn’t get sold nor played. Then we’d get an album at one of three record stores in town and we’d play it. Put it on the turntable and place the needle where you wanted to hear the song from the ffwd and rev are still the quickest. The sound quality from a pioneer receiver and a technical turntable with a diamond or sapphire stylus coming out of Bose or JVC speakers is nothing like what you hear at this point.

Even when my father drove us for a trip into Manhattan or to the Bronx, he’d put on 1130 AM and we’d hear jazz tunes you hear now in a Starbucks. Later, he’d play Credence with a tape deck in his Lincoln. And it was good. What? You don’t like Credence?

And then we would play those songs with our bands in our garage or in a downtown bar or a crosstown bar :)

And now if we former kids are together for any reason, a funeral, an award, business, we go to someone’s house preferably on the north shore of Long Island where all of this took place and on the back porch in the evening we play and sing harmony. Everyone knows all the parts to ‘Friend if the Devil”, “Dead Flowers”, “Please be With Me”. The girls alone - James Taylor, CSNY- Helplessly Hoping in particular.

New music Is fine. Hans Zimmer on a score is brilliant. Korean pop dancer singers are talented. But we don’t go looking for it. What it takes to hear a song in my car is dangerous.

Forget it.


42 posted on 01/23/2022 4:18:49 PM PST by stanne
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To: Yardstick

Most of what I listen to in recent years is not in English. If I don’t know the words it is less distracting as I am writing software.

Also, it is new to me even if it is from the 70s such as from the Anatolian Rock Revival project (e.g. Baris Manco https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9qfbepXqd3c ) or Zambian 70’s rock (e.g Witch and their ‘Lazy Bones’ album https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dZV-4tW5lKY ) or newer stuff like Russia’s folk rock Otava Yo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0HtvH34CmZY ) or the 3 lovely Georgian ladies of Trio Mandili https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EDK9KOfknTw, or various central and eastern european bands, traditional chinese music, or mongolian throat singing, or whatever


43 posted on 01/23/2022 4:20:50 PM PST by posterchild
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To: ping jockey

Sorry. Awful. Not my taste, anyway.


44 posted on 01/23/2022 4:21:58 PM PST by Beowulf9
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To: fidelis

They got their music from classic, blues, blue grass, traditional music with classic time signatures and Melodie’s that appeal to the soul

New musicians would do well to go back.

Same as film and story telling. They want us to like villains and to not look for conflict.

Doesn’t work.


45 posted on 01/23/2022 4:22:15 PM PST by stanne
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To: All

Skynyrd practiced all day long for years in 100 degree heat in a shack in FL. They didn’t press some buttons on a mixer or a keyboard to sell their records.

Glen Campbell picked cotton as a kid and left home w/ his $5 Sears guitar when he realized he wanted something more.

Today’s “artists” don’t know hardship, or hard work - so they don’t play good music. Sorry. I’m sure there are exceptions, but they are rare.


46 posted on 01/23/2022 4:22:53 PM PST by FLNittany
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To: stanne

But really, what new ground is there to break?

Back in the 60s/70s literally the sound changed from month-to-month.

Yes, good music can be made, but it’s pretty much derivative of stuff that’s already out there.


47 posted on 01/23/2022 4:24:13 PM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: brianr10

“ Absolutely. My theory is that people like the music they heard when they were kids. For me, it’s the 60s and 70s.”

Dod you read the article? They’re saying young people listen to old stuff. Jeez


48 posted on 01/23/2022 4:24:48 PM PST by stanne
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To: Yardstick

I find contemporary pop music to be unlistenable, and the same goes for modern “classical” music such as “433” by the “composer” John Cage which consists of four minutes and 33 seconds of silence. The only decent music being written today is movie music.


49 posted on 01/23/2022 4:25:47 PM PST by Fiji Hill
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To: posterchild
Most of what I listen to in recent years is not in English. If I don’t know the words it is less distracting as I am writing software.

You and I are the same. Mostly Polish music for me, but I have seen the Trio Mandili videos, and really enjoy them.

50 posted on 01/23/2022 4:27:38 PM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: Yardstick

It was better back in the day & yes to # 3.


51 posted on 01/23/2022 4:28:13 PM PST by leaning conservative (snow coming, school cancelled, yayyyyyyyyy!!!!!!)
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To: Yardstick

I have a radical idea for the music industry. Bring back Rock n Roll.

Forget pop. Forget hip hop or rap influenced crap. Just give us straight Rock....y’know electric guitars and stuff. You are the ones who insisted we move away from it. We responded by listening to classic rock more than any of the new crap you were pumping out.


52 posted on 01/23/2022 4:29:56 PM PST by FLT-bird
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To: Yardstick

In this woke country, we don’t have culture..... that’s a white man concept.

No comedy, no sarcasm, no history, no education, no truth of philosophy, no science, no debate, no religion, no family....

all white crap..... don’t you know?


53 posted on 01/23/2022 4:30:37 PM PST by dila813
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To: ping jockey

Thanks for that link. I went and looked it up I have three of his songs saved on my Amazon music app.

Ain’t nothing wrong with that, Devil’s land and Rita is gone.


54 posted on 01/23/2022 4:30:37 PM PST by Responsibility2nd (I love my country. It's my government that I hate.)
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To: Yardstick

For better new country music and/or Southern Rock, nearly anything from the Yellowstone soundtrack is pretty good. Blackberry Smoke, Whiskey Myers, Sturgill Simpson, Tyler Childers, Riley Green, and many more.

For other stuff: Home Free (acapella group that is phenomenal), Marcus King, Billy Strings (alone, with Marcus King or with Molly Tuttle), Jinjer (get ready for weird), the Barr Brothers.


55 posted on 01/23/2022 4:32:02 PM PST by cdcdawg (Everyone who disagrees with me is a Qtard blogger!!!!)
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To: Alberta's Child

As someone born in 1970....I’m willing to go back as far as 1965 and as far forward as about 2000. What the hell happened to music after the year 2000? It fell off a cliff. The industry refused to play much standard rock anymore.


56 posted on 01/23/2022 4:32:55 PM PST by FLT-bird
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To: Responsibility2nd

And there is the problem. Why isn’t good music mainstream? What happened to capitalism in this regard?


57 posted on 01/23/2022 4:33:43 PM PST by FreshPrince
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To: Yardstick

Auto tune


58 posted on 01/23/2022 4:34:10 PM PST by mel (There are only 2 races decent and undecent people )
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To: Yardstick

I do, but only in my truck because the cassette player is dead.


59 posted on 01/23/2022 4:37:20 PM PST by Tijeras_Slim
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To: Gen.Blather

Start with Mumford & Sons, Mickey and the motorcars, Lord Huron,Will Hoge, The war on drugs,Chris Rhea, Hard Working Americans and the Jayhawks


60 posted on 01/23/2022 4:37:51 PM PST by Responsibility2nd (I love my country. It's my government that I hate.)
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