Posted on 12/09/2022 7:11:05 AM PST by ConservativeInPA
And in fact someone was playing it. Playing it, indeed.
I said to Mrs. S, "That guy can play. Or girl, whichever, but that person can play."
"Dance of the Goblins", Antonio Bazzini, Op. 25, performed by Itzhak Perlman in Russia.
Here's a link:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-GfnR0OOxI4
Back to the OP's point, I don't believe it has any key changes in it.
I have some friends that play “Whipping Post” by the Allman bros in 4/4. No can do! Sacrilege! 😂👍
Ah, these music threads are more fun than even the firearms threads.
Absolutely. The gatekeepers wouldn’t believe it. Heck the bands didn’t. I remember Jon Anderson talking about the first time they went platinum, and the band sat around saying “that many people want to hear this?” They figured their friends and family would be 90% of their sales.
I remember being shocked when I first saw that album cover in a record store. I couldn't believe a band would put that out as an album cover and I predicted that album would die a quick death. One of the times I was dead wrong as that album went on to sell about a zillion records with pretty much every track on that album getting massive airplay. Not bad for a recording budget of about $65,000. This was back in the very early 1990s. Just before the Internet took off. Imagine going back to that time knowing what you know now!
Watching the cultures evolve is reflected in their music.
for the American black we saw Diana Ross and her peers singing about love, and it was popular. This drifed into punk rap void of love and full of rage. Killing cops, doing blo, sacking hoes and screwing whitey became the rage.
I think the deterioration of the black family and Christian values is what made it all happen.
I believe most of it is rooted in LBJ’s great society.
Another monumental fuck up by government intermedling.
Thank the rats.
😂👍
Music was previously a product to sell to listeners. Now, the listeners are the product being sold to advertisers. It's the same reason television and movies have been garbage for decades.
The goal of manufacturing such music is to make it sufficient; it only has to be tolerable enough to keep listeners from changing stations, playlists, etc.
It's akin to the concept from television of the 'Least Objectionable Program'. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Least_objectionable_program
Amen!
I don't listen to contemporary music all that much, but when I do, I notice not only that there are no key changes, but one never hears a fermata, caesura, rallentando, crescendo, decrescendo, etc. Also, just about all tunes today are in 4/4 time and in a major key. Nothing is composed in waltz time (3/4), jig time (6/8) or a minor key.
The only decent music being composed today is movie music.
Modern pop and hip hop is autotuned bubble gum. It is designed and engineered to be chewed up until the flavor is gone and on to the next thing. It is simple meant to stimulate the base levels of our brains. Same as it ever was....
If you asked me about Karen Carpenter when I was a kid a would have laughed. That’s the ignorance of youth. She had perfect pitch, simply incredible and amazing. It took a little learning for me to appreciate that. It took two songs with auto tune to know the voice behind the electronics was utter garbage and untrained. Go thru the Top 50 on Spotify if you want to torture yourself. You will find maybe a song or two without auto tune. Absolute trash and no rigor.
As long as people are getting out, breathing fresh air, mingling with actual humans, experiencing creativity in person vs hanging out on Twitch and talking to AI on discord, it's a win.
LOL! Yup.
I watched the PBS special on Little Feat celebrating their album Waiting for Columbus. I don’t think half the band members were alive in 1978.
The monotonous, plodding, dull, featureless, mechanical, beyond boring songs are just sickening.
The male singers are so effeminate and wimply that your standard gay male is more manly. They are beyond disgraceful.
The lyrics and band names are so inane that even children consider them childish.
The whole songbook after 1980 should just be flushed.
My Top Five from the fifties--and these probably won't be found on Spotify.
There is good inventive music out there, mostly in the hard rock categories. You have to find the right bands who are composed of actual veteran musicians. Going to see one tonight, as a matter of fact. LA Guns.
Shockingly accurate.
“Modern country songs are so similar that mashups of five or six songs sound like only one song.”
Yes, and most have a whiny, broken-heart, pleading, soft-pitched voice that sounds just like what you heard previously and will sound just like the one coming afterwards. I am referring to the male singers, all wearing a cap with bluejeans and a scraggly beard.
I always wanted to go see the Grand Ole Opry. I am so glad it is now on TV to save me the expense. Odds are, I would only see the squirrels who populate the show.
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