Thumpalumpacus
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Grilled bratwurst hot-dogs are of the gods. How dare you?!
What's wrong.....with todays music?
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Grilled bratwurst hot-dogs are of the gods. How dare you?!
Howard Gibson
Senior Airman
There are fifteen pages of stuff in which I may already have posted this opinion, but it is worth posting again. They did lots of awful pop music back in the fifties and sixties, lots of horrible classical music back in the eighteenth century, and lots of awful movies back in the nineteen thirties. All you get to see how are the few masterpieces they made back then. With modern music, you hear everything, definitely including all sorts of crap you (hopefully) will never hear again.
"Pretty Good Beards (of the Civil War)" The Two Man Gentlemen Band
The Two Man Gentlemen Band - "Pork Chops"
"Pretty Good Beards (of the Civil War)" The Two Man Gentlemen Band
The Two Man Gentlemen Band - "Pork Chops"
Thumpalumpacus
Captain
Right, part of it is survivor bias. We see the same thing in the vintage music-gear community.
"Every guitar from the 50s I've ever played was fantastic!" (All three of them)
"Maybe that's why they survived 60 years." (And the other 18,773 got thrown into the chipper).
Bullshit gets thrown away quickly. When you're listening to modern radio, you aren't getting the filter of years and years of people saying, "yep, that's garbage, throw it away". You're hearing it immediately, with no bullshit detector going on. I'm old enough to remember "Afternoon Delight", "Disco Duck", and (lord forgive me for mentioning the name) Air Supply.
The 70s and early 80s also gave us Thin Lizzy, the Cars, EWF. Gold has gravity, and you can pan it.
And, thanks to modern technology, anyone can record and publish their music now. Previously, record companies were there to filter a certain amount of the dross.
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MiTasol
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Where is Young?
Thumpalumpacus
Captain
at6
1st Sergeant
Perhaps they ate him?
manta22
Banned
Amen on rap.
A lot of opera is tedious crap but some is really great. Think of the voice as just another musical instrument in the orchestra. Here is one for you- it is from the classic Cook Laboratories recording of "The Seven Last Words" by Dubois. If you have a big subwoofer, you can feel the 16 Hz notes of the big pipe organ in Boston's Symphony Hall. Enjoy!
Thumpalumpacus
Captain
It's not the melody of the vocal in opera which put me off -- I get using the voice as an instrument -- it's the overwrought tenor, the actual tone of the voice that is nails-on-a-chalkboard to me.
To me it depends. I think female opera voices can go well fused with out types of music well. Take Tara the original Nightwish singer. Absolutely beautiful sound with her opera trained voiced.
Thumpalumpacus
Captain
To my ears it's a human straining to be, well, a violin. I'd rather hear Isaac Stern play the melody than anyone sing it. At that point I'm so involved in the vocal technique that the words mean nothing, and that rather defeats the purpose of lyrics anyway, to my ears.
That's just my taste, no right or wrong involved, just what I like and don't.
Yeah musical tastes vary. No right or wrong. Just what you like.
Outside of metal music like above, I am not a fan of opera either. Maybe Klingon opera though…
Outside of metal music like above, I am not a fan of opera either. Maybe Klingon opera though…
Thumpalumpacus
Captain
Thumpalumpacus
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manta22
Banned
Uhhhh....no thanks.
