Posted on 09/07/2024 11:40:36 AM PDT by DallasBiff
On warm summer nights, the park across the street from my house is filled with people playing dribbling soccer balls, playing volleyball, or engaging in aggressive games of Spikeball.
Nearly all of them will have music playing through Bluetooth speakers, usually from the Spotify Top 100. And if I’m honest, none of this music is any good. All I hear is mumbled lyrics tunelessly rendered (well, except for the overuse of Auto-Tune) and beats so quantized that they could be substituted for an atomic clock
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I am friends with a drummer/percussionist who knows a lot about the battlefield drumming riffs that were used as signals and communications. He played them to warm up before a concert and would tell us what each meant.
When I listen to Taylor Swift (occasionally) I hear some of these signaling drumbeats and the lyrics seem to be a series of declarative statements overlaid on the drum tracks.
I wish I knew enough about AI to write an instruction set that would analyze all of Tay-tay’s songs to extract these patterns.
I was eight when Mendes and Getz played bossa nova at Carnegie Hall in 1962. I wish I could have been 38 like my dad and been old enough to appreciate what was being given birth there. I cried when I heard that Sergio died; the last time I cried for the death of a musician was Keith Emerson when he killed himself on March 11, 2016, the day Trump couldn’t hold a rally in Chicago and I dropped Cruz because he dropped Trump.
There are little or no real musical instruments.
It’s mostly computer generated noice with something resembling drums.
And the drums are about one a half a dozen beats.
Thump..thump ..thump.
It’s mindless talentless crap.
This Boomer thinks great rock & roll music ended in the mid-1980’s.
In 1985 there was a distinct downturn in music quality. The downturn continued through the late 80’s and by 1990 most music was junk.
"My only deep sorrow is the unrelenting insistence of recording and motion picture companies upon purveying the most brutal, ugly, degenerate, vicious form of expression it has been my displeasure to hear—Naturally I refer to the bulk of rock ’n’ roll."...Frank Sinatra article in the October 28, 1957, edition of the Los Angeles Mirror News.
I had the opportunity to play some of the most beautiful music ever written.
I try to explain to people what it was like to do that.
And sometimes, not all the time but sometimes, something magical would happen and the Conductor would stand there with his hands up, knowing that something magical had just happened.
And we would all look at each other thinking,
“Can you believe that? That was just magical.”
And then my classmates would call me stupid because I didn’t really care for the latest fad band.
Disclaimer...I’m not a gamer...
But the post-apocalyptic Fallout video game has encapsulated a vast array of vintage songs that are being heard by millions of players for whom this is their first exposure. They are liking what they are hearing. The focus is on songs of the 30s, 40s, and 50s.
https://fallout.fandom.com/wiki/Timeline_of_the_music_of_the_Fallout_series
Yup. See my post #23.
Fun! :)
Maybe a dozen times in my whole life, I was in the middle of performing an organ prelude, or conducting a deep choral piece (even modern pieces like Poston's "Jesus Christ the Apple Tree" or Rutter's "The Lord is my Shepherd") and suddenly I was transported to the closest to heaven that one can be on earth. IYKYK. If you don't know, you can never understand.
Yes, indeedy. Compare that to, say, Tom Jones in his prime in 1967:
As a lifelong musician of at least 5 instruments I can tell you... Music is in the ear of the listener (beholder), My friend. There’s almost no music that’s ‘for everybody’.
Just my take on that.
But, young people today enjoy music that is 30-50 years old.
I recently saw Herb Alpert in concert - the vinyl of his that I first listened to was stored in that little LP nook in my parents' console stereo. Perhaps I'm a bit of an outlier in that regard, but there have always been singers and bands from previous generations that maintain some level of new listener interest.
The big difference now, mostly due to digital music streaming, is that the older music never really goes away. When I was a kid, there were a few radio stations that played current music, separated roughly by genre. Plus, there was an "oldies" station that back then, was mostly playing the 1950s rock and roll. Eventually the oldies station began playing '60s music and I quit listening. Seems like the format kept the previous decade's hits around in a limited fashion for a decade, then *poof* - gone.
Now, younger people can hear the older stuff more easily - and new music frequently suffers in comparison.
Neil Young is one of the biggest lefty douchebags in all of music. He had some good songs in his early days though.
That is just so sad.
You are right, but it is just so sad.
I would like everyone on earth to experience that feeling.
I would try to explain to my classmates the intricacies and the care and wholeness of the written music I saw.
They just called me stupid and turned up their radios.
Other than technology(in the right hands)...what else IS good today?
“I would like everyone on earth to experience that feeling.”
They can whenever they choose to do so.
All that great music going back a thousand years...the bulk of that human catalog...is available today on CD...and probably Pandora and other streaming services.
Celebrate that.
But she'll get a few new songs out of it.
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