Posted on 01/01/2014 7:18:16 PM PST by hecht
Last night we watched ABC's Dick Clarks New Years Eve Show. When they began to show music performers, the first I saw was Billy Joel. You could tell that it was one of his bona fide live performance as he sounded different from the studio versions, some minor errors etc. In my genervation ( I'm in my 50s) the best albums were often live , where the performers would jam, experiment and ad lib. The Allmans Live at Fillmore East is an example , or the Live version of Led Zepellin's "Dazed and Confused" -filmed in San Francisco - where Robert Plant ad libbed" going to San Francisco" in the middle of the song. After Joel the show went to a series of Millenial performers who all had auto-tuned lip synched performances, where they basically just aerobic danced to songs written by someone else, don't play instruments and have a few clones dancing in synch behind them. I joked to my guests" imagine if the Beatles were part of the Millenial generation. John Lennon would be lip synching an aerobic dance with George , Ringo and Paul would dance in unison behind him. What gives Millenials? have you no sense ? don't you realize that these "performers" are manufactured pretty boys/girls ? they are live action "Archies" If your taste in music is so vacuous , is there any hope for them? Is there any hope to wan them from Obama?
Even the non song writing performers of our generation i.e..e Elvis could at least perform.
The "millenials" make the old (mpw) Gen-X "slackers" look like workaholics in comparison.
Most music these days is absolute trash, unfortunately.
The old acts you mentioned were never on a network New Years Eve tv show.
Good music today wouldn’t be on these current shows either.
Generational tastes and snobbery. It’s always been better “before”.
Yes sir, you summed it up in the first sentence. They have NO clue.
The most "modern" music I listen to is Metallica, AC/DC, The Blues Brothers, Booker T and the MGs, Def Leppard, Led Zeppelin, anything by Elvis, etc etc.
We don't ALL suck. Just saying.
I don't consider it "listening" music -- Pink Floyd, Led Zeppelin, Jeff Beck, etc -- we used to just sit and listen. You'd follow the lead guitar, or you'd focus on the bass. Or you'd be a groupie for drummers. The music mattered.
I don't consider today's music to really be dance music. I remember when "Disco sucks" was a common expression. But much of that was intricate, clever, and was performed well. If you wanted to dance, it was good stuff.
Today? There is no musicianship. No point in really listening. They autotune everything. It's all over-produced. A big voice and a mindless beat (Adele, Katy Perry, Rihanna, Pink, Beyonce -- I can barely tell the difference).
It's sad. The Rolling Stones (and I am not really a big fan of theirs) have lasted 50 years because they really put out a worthwhile product. Does anyone think Maroon 5 is going to last 50 years?
Don’t forget Live at Leeds by the Who and Full House by J. Geils the two best live albums ever.
Better than all the crap from the last two decades.
It sounds like the work of L. T. Smash.
before, the performers wrote sang live and played their instruments. not just better before
Not on Dick Clark’s daily show. Not on most TV shows!
Thing is, sucking is in the ear of the listener.
Some of the BAnds you mention suck just as much as plenty of stuff today.
Led Zep, for example, a band that owned my high school, pretty much suck. They even had a song where Robby Plant sang suck it suck it suck it over and over in his high pitched woman voice.
100% agree. I leave a radio on the more or less oldies station. When there were a few attempts at a country gold station here, I would generally leave the dial alone.
I use I-Heart radio some and there is the CD collection of mostly soundtracks of older movies and TV shows mostly.
Ping to Salamander...
They simply know nothing else. I’m Gen-Ex. We had MTV when they had music. We had The Zep/Aerosmith Rock on one end and the Synth pop on the other. They were mostly actual bands and cheeze video aside, they performed...and we were USED to seeing it/expected it. Not always but at regular intervals.
Millenials have zero exposure to that outside the Warped/Ozzfest type tours. And those are far from broad spectrum venues. Most millenials only know Nikki Minage/GaGa type theatrics since thats all they ever had. Their music is pure studio creation ( I do electronic music as a hobby so I know how it’s done) and it requires only ‘some’ musical ability and many programs. You just need to know the programs. THAT is why it’s bland. Anyone can make today’s ‘music’ and everyone does...or tries to.
Thus Millenials are glutted with mediocrity at best and it’s all they know.
My daughter is 24 and a diehard 80s fan/metalhead. She has seen Brittney Spears and Iron Maiden live. Not hard to guess which was actually ‘live’ nor which she liked better.
“Whats the matter with these kids today” musically, is they need exposure to better than they have. And they lack the desire to look backwards to find it. Only forward into a devolving genetic clone of what they have now
but those bands wrote their songs, played their own instruments and performed live.
but those bands wrote their songs, played their own instruments and performed live.
I’m in my 30s. I love the Live Dead shows from Fillmore East in 1970.
Maybe it was.
Auld Lang Syne--Guy Lombardo & His Orchestra, New Years Day, 1946
Aw,come on.
Each generation thinks it’s music is the best.
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