Posted on 01/23/2022 3:42:55 PM PST by Yardstick
Not me.
People who only listen to radio.
Record labels aren’t about the music anymore, they’re only about the Benjamins.
So true. And art died with the Impressionists.
So you don’t like music? That’s OK, plenty of people don’t.
I know there's good new music out there but so much of what passes for "pop music" these days is incredibly awful.
Most new music actually sucks. They write these songs that have lots of words then they end the stanza with one word like su oo uh oo uh oo un because they can’t figure out enough words to fill seven syllables before the word sun. Or they are line after line of nonsense versus that all end in the same rhyming sounds. Bed dead fed head red ed cetera. No imagination. Just stream of consciousness of how bad it is to be from a lower class background. There isn’t much to like.
Hasn’t got a chance - doesn’t fit in the 3 minute time frame radio stations demand.
The problem is, times have changed. From invention of radio til a few year into the internet, people were glued to the radio and local stations and therefore when life events happened they remembered the tunes playing, and everyone was in the same boat, a collective experience, 10s of millions heard same tunes. Not happening anymore, they can stream only what they want when they want..now when life events happen its with streams of old tunes or just music they like, it’s not a collective experience anymore. Radios influence died on the masses, it’s over, there will never be a 60s-90’s/early 2000s again.
“1) New music is great and those who disagree either don’t know where to find it or have a generational bias”
In the 40s 50s 60s 70s and 80s, you didn’t have to “find it”. It was -everywhere- all around you on the radio. You couldn’t avoid it.
Little Steven’s Underground Garage on SiriusXM has introduced me to lots of great new music. He highlights “The Coolest Song in the World” every week and while some are more appealing to me than others , but they’re always cool.
They could trim part of it out. Anyway, there have been lots of songs over three minutes that got plenty of play. I remember a DJ telling me that he’d always play “American Pie” when he wanted a decent bathroom break.
My dad was into Polish music, but I guess it would fit into the “old” category - kinda miss it myself: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X1FJuswuJCw
Hard to find new music for your record player?
Don’t forget that the country’s demographics are also getting older.
It’s a Victrola, kid.
I was kidding of course - that particular “musical gem” never fails to amuse me. But speaking of songs that were off-format time-wise, I can remember going to FM stations when I was a kid to get the long-form version of “Alice’s Restaurant”, which if I remember correctly ran something like 17 minutes. No telling what your DJ friend could do during that if his station allowed him to play it!
Tried. That lead guitarist cant play lead. Just slapping hooks together in a Skynerd/Molly Hatchet mess. Pass
OK.
russian couplets while fighting (Outdoor Cossack Moshpit)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0JQ0xnJyb0A
1.5 YO. Turn on CC.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NJpzcjFJT80
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