What's wrong.....with todays music?

• Apr 19, 2022

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MiTasol

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Aw flaming stralia

I remember that back in Napster days one of the RAP "artists" who was always on about how you should rip off the man screamed blue murder over people getting free copies of his tracks.

I think, but am not sure, that it was Eminem. Whoever it was my thought was poetic justice.

 

• Apr 19, 2022

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Autotune

 

• Apr 20, 2022

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How can it be called music if it's just a drum beat and bass with the "F" bomb dropped every other word about sex with a nasty strumpet?

 

• Apr 29, 2022

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Not enough saxophone...

 

• Apr 29, 2022

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Zipper730 said:

Not enough Cowbell…

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Fixed for accuracy.

 

• Apr 29, 2022

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I guess it depends on your'e taste. Rap isn't my cup of tea (more of a metal person myself) but it hasn't changed much since 20 years ago arguably.

 

• Apr 29, 2022

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Macandy said:

Autotune

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So much this.

 

• Apr 29, 2022

• #248

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I spent yesterday fixing up a beater acoustic guitar I have. The saddle was busted and it couldn't hold strings, much less tune. I've got it 85% of the way home and looking forward to plucking strings on my porch this summer (I'm kinda bored playing electric right now).

No autotune, computers, Internet, or Facetime involved. Just fingers and wire and wood. That, my friends, is music.

 

• Jul 3, 2022

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Lucky13

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In my castle....

 

• Jul 3, 2022

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MiTasol

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Aw flaming stralia

and the modern sh one t is often "sung" with all the emotion of an dead stick.

 

• Jul 3, 2022

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MiTasol said:

and the modern sh one t is often "sung" with all the emotion of an dead stick.

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Most of the time it's had the emotion processed out of it by computer effects.

For instance, at 3:00 in this song, Merry Clayton, who is absolutely singing her ass off pushing air, has her vocal cords give out for a split second and then she recovers to keep on singing a brilliant take.

Nowadays they would have either done a retake or used software to "fix" it. The Stones kept it in, and rightly so. Mick Jagger's so amazed you can hear him shout "whoa!" immediately after.


That sort of emotion will never be conveyed by computerized music.

Ever.

 

• Jul 3, 2022

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This is what happens when twitter and Facebook become the basis for philosophical thought.

 

• Jul 4, 2022

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gumbyk

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I'll just leave this here...
70's songs...

 

• Jul 5, 2022

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gumbyk said:

I'll just leave this here...
70's songs...

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• Jul 5, 2022

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Still better than the crap these days

 

• Jul 5, 2022

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I think that a lot of modern "music" isn't. It's one of (or more) "sampling" of older songs, technological babble, foul language, rapping about "respect", dis-harmonious noises or extremely repetitive sounds.

 

• Jul 5, 2022

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A neighbor used to drive by my house with his brake pads worn to the rotor. Then, one day I stopped next to him and realised it was his radio.

 

• Jul 10, 2022

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gumbyk said:

I'll just leave this here...
70's songs...

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Every era has great and awful songs.

 

• Jul 11, 2022

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Every era has great and awful songs.

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although I do absolutely detest "gangsta" rap.

 

• Jul 11, 2022

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swampyankee said:

although I do absolutely detest "gangsta" rap.

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Sure, I like some rap but gangsta rap is essentially violence porn, so yeah, no.

The only genre I detest across the board is opera, because the singing ruins some beautiful music, for me. I can find something I like in every other genre and era.