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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This is the perfect example of a band I only discovered a few years ago: Dr. Feelgood. Damn these guys were good.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UX3SjwNFY80
Art is so poorly taught in this country.
My classmates were taught by our society that they must believe what the modern media told them was art.
I remember a college English professor telling me that,
“All art must support the revolution.”
I asked him about Bach and Monet and Robert Frost.
“That is not art. All art must support the revolution.”
What a cruel and inhuman thing to teach students.
Just Listened To The New Spotify Top 10…What is Happening?!
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When I was young, we didn’t listen to our parents’ and grandparents’ music.
But, young people today enjoy music that is 30-50 years old
Grow up we had big band opera showtunes .musicals rock and pop.
I listen to serenade radio . Com to get a portion of that.
I have noted that a lot of new "country" is sounding like hip hop. Real trash.
They call it “Hick Hop”. And it’s as bad as you can imagine.
I can’t stand the constant repetition in much of the newer music. Always some female screeching and repeating something over and over.
Forty years ago, I was probably the only person in my county who had any recording of music by Gesualdo. Today, push the right button and you can listen to practically everything he ever wrote, along with all the other late Renaissance chromatic madrigalists. The problem is that you have to know what to look for, and that takes an education that isn't Marxist anti-European indoctrination.
And those frickin’ click tracks. AHHHHHHHHH! Makes me want to take a flamethrower to something.
My 20ish daughter admits the older music is better.
Todays music lacks melody and “musicianship” for lack of better term. Where is the bass line, the sax, keyboard? Its all computer generated crap and sounds all the same.
I did, dad's Hank Williams records and mom's Frank Sinatra and Peter, Paul, and Mary records. Oddly enough, they led me to classical music, everything from Biber (Ignaz, not Justin) and Brahms to Milhaud's famous students, Brubeck and Bacharach. But I was an outlier, drawn to music when I was five and never leaving.
My daughter asked for playlist ideas for her upcoming wedding. I sent a long list.
If you’re looking for some ideas for your playlist, here’s a few old tunes you might like.
Playlist
We’ve only just begun. The Carpenters (or a new cover by Tori Holub)
Just be my lady. Larry Graham
Special Lady. Ray Goodman and brown
Happy Man. Chicago (Leonid and Friends Cover)
You are on my mind. Same as above
Just you and me. Same
One fine morning. Lighthouse
When you say nothing at all. Alison Krause or Keith Whitley.
Joy to the world. Three Dog Night. (Maybe Jeremiah really was a bullfrog)
One in a million. Larry Graham
Ain’t no woman like the one I’ve got. Four tops
This will be an everlasting love. Natalie Cole.
Laughter in the rain. Neil Sedaka
Lovely day. Bill withers.
You are everything. The Stylistics
Love Ballad. LTD Orchestra.
Rubber band Man. The Spinners
Summer Madness-Kool and the Gang
Some sappy love songs, some just fun tunes.
Hollywood has no new ideas. Why should Tin Pan Alley, or Laurel Canyon, or Nashville, or wherever music comes from now have any? 60s, 70s, 80s, 90s music had to do with the “youthquake” of the Boomers and its aftershocks. That’s all behind us now. No wonder GenZed is so p.o.’ed. There’s not much left for the new kids, so they’re into social media and videogames — media which haven’t yet been exhausted.
And Elvis for sure.
Any room for Lynyrd Skynyrd on that list?
Interesting post. Thank you.
OK, I'm kidding. (My daughter's wedding is two months from tomorrow.)
Seriously, I would add "I'm Never Gonna Let You Go," especially since Sergio Mendes passed away Thursday. (You should watch Rick Beato's analysis of this piece. The Most COMPLEX Pop Song of All Time.)
You might appreciate this. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I2py2PdG6dc
And Elvis for sure.
Presley or Costello?
I hope Neil Young will remember, a Southern man don’t need him around anyhow.
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