Posted on 06/29/2007 10:29:49 AM PDT by ShadowAce
What's emo?
Hehe...I’d give it until September 24, 1991.
That’s the date Nirvana released “Nevermind.”
The crud sold in the 1990s changed my very values. I just don’t need an endless stream of materialism in my life, hoping that the next $15 spent on an album will bring happiness. I know that it won’t.
It took a thousand bad songs to realise this, but now even songs I think are great don’t impress me that much.
Egads! How long did that take?
Until the 1950s, musicians made their living by performing music, not by selling copies of performances.
The days of going into the studio once every two years to work for a few days and then going out and living the high-life in hotel suites for a few months promoting the record are over.
There is no more free lunch for musicians. They may need to put in 40 hours a week like the rest of us unglamorous slobs.
The record companies, like magazines, provide editing.
And they generally do as good a job of editing music as the editorial staff of the Newsweek does editing news.
I have no problem deciding for myself what news is trustworthy and important and what music is good.
Since Led Zeppelin was a rock band influenced by an array of blues artists, I’d agree that they were a poor subsitute for traditional blues.
On the other hand, Led Zep was a tremendous rock band.
The 80s ended and the 90s began.
;-)
IOW 80s music was great and the 90s sucked.
After punk and hardcore music came a more melodic style of punk, with a longer, slower songs and more tuneful vocals.
Lyrics changed from desriptions of gruesome topics or expressions of rage to more personal lyrics about breakups, etc.
This more melodic, emotional punk became known as emo.
Musicians should know that it's not profitable any longer. They deserve no sympathy or special protection for their foolish investment.
In theory about 250 hours for my entire 3,000+ CD collection.
It's easier than it sounds - I just fed CD after CD into my PC while working on other stuff.
You know - pop one in when I go to check email, pop one in before going to bed, pop one in before going to work in the morning, pop a few in while I work at home on a project, etc. Adds up to about 100 a week.
Huh? You don't want the law to protect their intellectual property?
What if we stopped protecting patents? There wouldn't be technological innovation. But hey, the computer companies don't deserve any sympathy or special protection for their foolish investments.
Emo is more like whiny elevator music by people that can't play instruments (e.g. 'The Cure').
It's an outgrowth of 'Adult Contemporary' if you have to pidgin hole it.
My daughter used that same Microsoft program for about the last 2 years. I just bought an Ion USB turntable, and I love it. I’m still trying to get the track labels right - but I’ll get there. I am always looking for older albums.
Huh. Any popular examples that I might know of?
I lost interest in punk after the Clash broke up. The Ramones were a lot of fun too.
Every time I am in San Francisco on business I stop by Amoeba and buy about 30 CDs. I bring an empty carry-on on my way there just for that purpose.
It's the best CD shop in America, and I've been to all the famous ones.
I couldn't even name a half-dozen current, newer, bands if not for my grandkids.
Performers of the '70s, even the '80s and earlier used to sound different and distinctive, the new ones pretty much sound the same to me, at least within their genre.
If you liked the Ramones you’ll hate Emo.
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