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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Which I do not understand but whatever.
In any case there is a lot of good music out there but you will not find it on Spotify without looking for it. But people are lazy and do not bother.
Indeed. Musical tastes and trends among Top 40 fans in the sixties changed rapidly.
In the summer of 1965, I went to Germany for a year. The Armed Forces Network (AFN) station in Frankfurt played mostly Adult Contemporary music, which I hated, and also a show featuring Hawaiian music, Dick Sinclair's Polka Party, and Jim Pewter's Oldies show--but no Top 40. When I got back home the first thing I did was to tune in to Boss Radio 93 KHJ. The music had changed considerably from the summer of 1965, but I still loved it.
I really don’t think that today’s music is any worse than yesterday’s music.
Sometimes I listen to old Casey Kasem top 40 shows. Most of the featured top 40 hits of the 1970s are completely forgotten now. Only a fraction of those hits remain popular today.
Twenty years from now, people will be watching music videos of 2020s songs and commenting that they wish modern music (of the 2040s) was as good as it was back in the 2020s classic era.
Her stuff’s not that bad. Just be glad you never dated her.
“Most of the male singers are whiny and sound pretty much the same.”
Absolutely. It is even like that in country music.
I listened to that link provided for the Top Ten Spotify. Was surprised, not bad.
“And many of the female singers sound screechy to me.“
Or they sound like they’re nine yrs old. It get tiresome.
There are some bright spots but the problem is most of it is manufactured. Teams of song writers putting together songs that get executed by some attractive singer. That and that hip-hop is mainstream.
I’ve contended for a while....if you don’t sing or play instruments, without harmony & melody, you have rap. It’s the lowest common denominator. It’s all about ‘bars’ (clever lyrics) and ‘flow’ (different tempos). Many young people are discovering old music through YouTube ‘reaction channels’, listening to recommended songs of yesteryear. They can’t believe what they’re hearing.
Can’t stand Neil Young’s nasal singing.
My go-to when I used to run were rock operas such as The Wall, Thick as a Brick, A Passion Play, Quadrophenia, etc. Those worked for me. Couldn’t imagine listening to an hour of electro music.
“Most of the male singers are whiny and sound pretty much the same.”
Like this one?
James Blunt - You’re Beautiful
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oofSnsGkops
In the summer of 1965, I went to Germany for a year. The Armed Forces Network (AFN) station in Frankfurt played mostly Adult Contemporary music, which I hated, and also a show featuring Hawaiian music, Dick Sinclair’s Polka Party, and Jim Pewter’s Oldies show—but no Top 40.
LOL, I always think of “Good Morning, Vietnam”.....
“Eddie Kirk here, and Ray Conniff jubilee
coming up in just a few moments. I call it a jubilee.
Actually, it’s a Ray Conniff featurette. Three, maybe four,
back-to-back Ray Conniff classics.”
No, it is just noise.
How Bill Klinton turned all music into crap
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=reesdiAbvk4
(Rick Beato video)
Today, hubby and I took our walk with the doggie. We came back to the car, and I turned on the radio, which has Sirius on it. I just found the 70's channel, and they were playing the Top 40; and, what comes up: Kermit singing Rubber Duckie. And I still enjoyed it much more than any "music" I hear today.
Some years ago, maybe around 2000, my wife was working in a bookstore. One of her coworkers had a 15-year-old daughter. The girl came in one day all excited about this new group called Pink Floyd.
The girl came in one day all excited about this new group called Pink Floyd.
Did she ask, “Which one’s Pink?”
Nah, there’s lots of great music happening now. You just gotta go find it. We are no longer in a world where Steely Dan level music gets popular and therefore gets radio play and you can have that music just thrown at you. We are now entirely in a world of “optional entertainment” (Frank Zappa’s favorite phrase). You have to decide to find it, decide to listen to it, and you’ll find it’s great.
Another great song from The Last DJ album
Money Becomes King
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I6Hzr3h9g0k
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