Posted on 10/03/2022 6:09:25 AM PDT by 1Old Pro
Listening to a few Rick Beato features like the link above - Episode 91 with Joni Mitchell.
Whether it's the top 20 guitar solos or it's this piece discussing Joni Mitchell it becomes obvious that from folk to metal to rock to county we have some brilliant musicians. They understand theory, phrasing, poetry, art.
Every aspiring musician that grabs a guitar and starts playing has to realize the complexity of music and the genius of some of these musicians from Larry Carlton to John Bonham.
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Rap, with some rare exceptions is abject crap.. but that’s a generally true statement of pop music in general.
Yes you do get a few generational artists that stand out, and yes thanks to lock of moderne technology there was at least true musicianship to some degree in the past vs a lot of todays slop.
But all in all, the majority of popular music has always been dumbed down swill for mass consumption.
You can’t go through any decade of pop music and not realize 80-90% of it is utterly forgettable musically and lyrically.
Yes certain songs will speak to individuals because they relate to events in their past so they hold special places for them because they were the popular song during some important event. But musically most of it has always been swill.
As a whole though, yes Rap is probably the lowest of the low…
Well, yes RAP = crap. However, out here in CaCaLand it is special, oh so special.
The pinhead guv’na just signed a law that provides immunity for rap lyrics — anything can be said without consequences. Libel, racism, calls for violence, whatever. It is now holy writ.
So, what I want is an aspiring rap “artist” to come up with a song in which street thugs are encouraged to assassinate the guv’na.
Let’s see how that works out, guv’na. Action => reaction, or haven’t you heard?
Kinda proving the point.
Sorry, couldn’t resist.
I never realized how intricate and convoluted songs could be until I watched some of these videos. Song and music writers can be quite brilliant.
Yep, a bit more complicated than a drum machine.
I like Chaphop and Nerdcore. Technically “rap”...
The only time rap was almost OK were those scenes in all the old 1930s Tarzan movies...
Rap is 90% rubbish, 5% novelty, and 5% brilliance. Rap battle done properly is positively Shakespearean.
Eminem’s Stan and Lose Yourself are very well written.
Spoken words as “songs” are inherently amusing. Whether its Shatner, rap, or Mockney. A pub night in sahf landan is best with a snooker table, Snakebites on conveyor belt, and a low volume playlist that isn’t a chavvy R&B screechfest. Guy Ritchie got the right idea.
Blur (”Parklife”), Goldie Lookin Chain (”Your mother’s got a penis”), Middlerow (”Right Proper Charlie”), and Chas n Dave (”The Sideboard Song”).
Yeah...I know. But I like what I like....
Were they the “Youth of a Nation” singers?
Yep
I remember liking the drumming specifically.
Most music these days is not ‘music’. It is a manufactured product.
There’s always been “manufactured product” in music.
The thing is, as more time passes, there is more and more music from the past that modern music has to compete with.
The stuff that came out in the 60s and 70s had the benefit of being totally new. Now everything that comes out is a derivative.
True. I’ve never liked the term ‘music industry’.
Before there was Rap and Autotune, there used to be such a thing as TALENT and MUSICIANSHIP
But that's too much work. Even the virtuoso's put in non-stop work on their projects.
Modern country sucks.
It’s the same thing. Some idiot droning on about how great he is and people from the country, only southern, are.
Rap does the same thing, only t
It’s ghettos.
The things they own, the superiority of their culture and then some sh!t about women.
Modern country is rap for white guys.
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