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There is something very, very wrong with today’s music. It just may not be very good.
Global News ^ | 7/24/22 | Alan Cross

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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KEYWORDS: boomer; culturerot; music; popmusic
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To: Charles Martel

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


141 posted on 09/07/2024 3:30:21 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: Mariner

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.


142 posted on 09/07/2024 3:36:39 PM PDT by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer” )
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Just Listened To The New Spotify Top 10…What is Happening?!
10:38
Rick Beato
4.44M subscribers
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September 6, 2024
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qtUgtIoNGns
https://www.youtube.com/@RickBeato/videos


143 posted on 09/07/2024 3:39:16 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (Putin should skip ahead to where he kills himself in the bunker.)
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To: Tired of Taxes

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.


144 posted on 09/07/2024 3:40:58 PM PDT by Chickensoup
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To: monkeyshine
One was hip hop/rap and one was country.

I have noted that a lot of new "country" is sounding like hip hop. Real trash.

145 posted on 09/07/2024 3:42:25 PM PDT by grobdriver (The CDC can KMA!)
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To: grobdriver

They call it “Hick Hop”. And it’s as bad as you can imagine.


146 posted on 09/07/2024 3:42:59 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: DallasBiff

I can’t stand the constant repetition in much of the newer music. Always some female screeching and repeating something over and over.


147 posted on 09/07/2024 3:44:56 PM PDT by dforest
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To: Mariner
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.

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.

148 posted on 09/07/2024 3:45:46 PM PDT by chajin ("There is no other name under heaven given among people by which we must be saved." Acts 4:12)
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To: dforest

And those frickin’ click tracks. AHHHHHHHHH! Makes me want to take a flamethrower to something.


149 posted on 09/07/2024 3:47:02 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: DallasBiff

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.


150 posted on 09/07/2024 3:49:32 PM PDT by iluvschnitzle (We should follow Ukraines example and resist the illegal invasion)
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To: Chickensoup
When I was young, we didn’t listen to our parents’ and grandparents’ music.

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.

151 posted on 09/07/2024 3:49:34 PM PDT by chajin ("There is no other name under heaven given among people by which we must be saved." Acts 4:12)
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To: Tanniker Smith

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.


152 posted on 09/07/2024 3:54:15 PM PDT by cyclotic (Don’t be part of the problem. Be the entire problem)
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To: DallasBiff

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.


153 posted on 09/07/2024 3:54:29 PM PDT by x
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To: fidelis

And Elvis for sure.


154 posted on 09/07/2024 3:59:23 PM PDT by pfflier
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To: Diana in Wisconsin

Any room for Lynyrd Skynyrd on that list?


155 posted on 09/07/2024 4:10:09 PM PDT by EvilCapitalist (Pets are no substitute for children)
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To: chajin

Interesting post. Thank you.


156 posted on 09/07/2024 4:11:52 PM PDT by married21 (As for me and my house, we will serve the Lord.)
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To: cyclotic
Hurt. Johnny Cash

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.)

157 posted on 09/07/2024 4:12:49 PM PDT by chajin ("There is no other name under heaven given among people by which we must be saved." Acts 4:12)
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To: chajin

You might appreciate this. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I2py2PdG6dc


158 posted on 09/07/2024 4:14:06 PM PDT by EvilCapitalist (Pets are no substitute for children)
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To: pfflier

And Elvis for sure.


Presley or Costello?


159 posted on 09/07/2024 4:14:59 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: Boogieman

I hope Neil Young will remember, a Southern man don’t need him around anyhow.


160 posted on 09/07/2024 4:17:05 PM PDT by EvilCapitalist (Pets are no substitute for children)
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