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Millenial's Music Taste (vanity). Whats wrong with your generation?

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.


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To: Billthedrill

Crazy blues trio:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Ra0DsbiNs0


101 posted on 01/01/2014 8:30:03 PM PST by Revolting cat! (Bad things are wrong! Ice cream is delicious!)
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To: Mears
Each generation thinks it’s music is the best.

I don't think grunge or later era hair metal was the best. :)

I'm on the later end of Gen X. The late boomers and early X'ers had the best music. I just missed it born in the 70's, but most of those bands released stuff in my time as well so I grew up with some of it.

1970's had the best music. Rock competed with Disco and it brought out the best. Led Zepplin, Credence (both in 60's as well), ZZ Top, AC/DC, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Allman Bros, Robin Trower, UFO, Motorhead, and Van Halen. Early 80's had Def Leppard (early stuff was good), Motley Crue, and Iron Maiden.

102 posted on 01/01/2014 8:30:41 PM PST by Darren McCarty (Abortion - legalized murder for convenience)
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To: Revolting cat!

This isn’t, of course, exactly “millenial’s” taste - I’m 61 - but I’m excited because there’s so much good stuff out there and it can have a voice based on technology we carry around in our pockets. And it doesn’t have to sell out.


103 posted on 01/01/2014 8:34:54 PM PST by Billthedrill
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To: Billthedrill

Hard country:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1cdvtSn4tTo

I’m old enough to feel nostalgic for music of several previous decades, plus I’ve researched several earlier decades back to the ‘30s, I feel none (nostalgia), and I think that the music nowadays and musicians are better than ever.


104 posted on 01/01/2014 8:35:48 PM PST by Revolting cat! (Bad things are wrong! Ice cream is delicious!)
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To: Darren McCarty

“1970’s had the best music. Rock competed with Disco and it brought out the best. Led Zepplin, Credence (both in 60’s as well), ZZ Top, AC/DC, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Allman Bros, Robin Trower, UFO, Motorhead, and Van Halen. Early 80’s had Def Leppard (early stuff was good), Motley Crue, and Iron Maiden. “

Oh man—memories. I had 5 teenagers in those days and when I’d pull into the driveway the tunes were “pumping” all over the neighborhood..

I enjoyed it but my husband hated it——he was stuck in The Big Band era.

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105 posted on 01/01/2014 8:35:57 PM PST by Mears
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To: Norm Lenhart

I know of several guys who played in Hair Metal bands, switched to playing Country when Nirvana came out.


106 posted on 01/01/2014 8:37:38 PM PST by dfwgator
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To: Darren McCarty
1970's had the best music. Rock competed with Disco and it brought out the best.

And the Carpenters competed with both rock and disco, sometimes winning out on the charts.

107 posted on 01/01/2014 8:39:19 PM PST by Fiji Hill
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To: Revolting cat!

All right, that is one hysterical video. I don’t usually do country unless it’s really country. I may know some of the people in that one... ;-)


108 posted on 01/01/2014 8:40:55 PM PST by Billthedrill
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To: Darren McCarty
1970's had the best music

You got it!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iA6BqS9FlQ0

109 posted on 01/01/2014 8:41:12 PM PST by Revolting cat! (Bad things are wrong! Ice cream is delicious!)
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To: dfwgator

What a lot of metalheads hate to admit is that the best guitarists on the planet are Nashville studio dudes. No contest. Guys like Roy Clark who were ‘more’ than just studio players could shred most metal guitarists under the table. And they knew it ;)


110 posted on 01/01/2014 8:42:04 PM PST by Norm Lenhart
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To: hecht
Popular music has been crap since the 70s. But what passes for pop music today is definitely the worst music our species has ever produced. Gaga, Lil Wayne, Katy Perry, Ke$ha... this stuff is pure, undisguised evil. It's not music. It's weaponized audiotoxin.

But there is some really terrific music being made right now, too. You'll never hear it on mainstream radio, but it's out there. Here are a few of my personal favorites from recent years:

Fleet Foxes "Grown Ocean"

Radical Face "A Pound of Flesh"

Explosions in the Sky "Postcard from 1952"

The Helio Sequence "Downward Spiral"

111 posted on 01/01/2014 8:44:04 PM PST by WhistlingPastTheGraveyard (If you don't stand up, you don't stand a chance.)
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To: WhistlingPastTheGraveyard

If you like Explosions, check out God is an Astronaut
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oMEGJ-Jk58Q


112 posted on 01/01/2014 8:46:18 PM PST by Norm Lenhart
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To: Norm Lenhart
Then there's Tommy Emmanuel...
113 posted on 01/01/2014 8:46:32 PM PST by Billthedrill
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To: Revolting cat!
Hard country:

That's the real McCoy--unlike a lot of stuff that tries to pass for "country."

114 posted on 01/01/2014 8:46:43 PM PST by Fiji Hill
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To: hecht

When I recently heard that “Nevermind” by Nirvana had been released 20 years ago, I realized that hard rock has not really developed beyond that point. All of the “new rock” that I hear is just a rehash of old grunge. As for pop, it hurts my ears with the overblown computer generated sounds and autotuned “singing”. Rap and country? fuggedaboutit!


115 posted on 01/01/2014 8:48:41 PM PST by yawningotter
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To: Revolting cat!
1970's had the best music

Don't forget this one!

116 posted on 01/01/2014 8:49:55 PM PST by Fiji Hill
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To: Fiji Hill

Here’s one that found me on Fakebook today:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yrp8wghfcI8&feature=youtu.be


117 posted on 01/01/2014 8:50:02 PM PST by Revolting cat! (Bad things are wrong! Ice cream is delicious!)
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To: Billthedrill

He’ so stiff..really needs to loosen up more...let go... ;)

Damn that is some impressive playing.


118 posted on 01/01/2014 8:51:08 PM PST by Norm Lenhart
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To: WhistlingPastTheGraveyard

I will admit that good music is out there if you look for it.

But part of the fun with good music not being so obscure, was that it was good to bond with others who also knew the music, instead of now being the only one on the block that ever heard of the artist.


119 posted on 01/01/2014 8:51:18 PM PST by dfwgator
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To: Norm Lenhart
One of my favorites...

"Remembrance Day"

120 posted on 01/01/2014 8:51:20 PM PST by WhistlingPastTheGraveyard (If you don't stand up, you don't stand a chance.)
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