Comforting news for anyone! Pop music too loud and all sounds the same: official

Reuters ^ | 7/26/2012 | Reuters

[a fool in paradise]

Hopefully Big Music will begin to die.

with a handful of companies owning all movies, tv shows, and music recordings published between 1930 and 2012 and the ever extension of "copyrights", they won't be going broke anytime soon. They'll continue to make billions and billions off of works whose production costs were long ago paid off.

IF they didn't have that nest egg to keep making bank off of, Hollyweird/NYC/Nashville would have to be more responsive to the market demands.

[a fool in paradise]

Some good artists still get played on commercial free (more free form stations like WFMU than Pacifica Communist radio or even college stations) but by and large white people are expected to PAY for radio these days.

I refuse. And what goes out over the airwaves for white people is a minimal list of 500 mediocre “hits” from 1968-1994 depending on the format of the station (classic rock, office music, nashville country, “alternative” songs that are 20 years old (alternative to what?), and maybe a dance pop station playing Ke$houkastgaga.

[a fool in paradise]

Pop music today is manufactured, not written. It is assembled, not arranged. It is executed, not performed.

So were the Monkees, Motown, and Chubby Checker.

[chris37]

I won’t pay for radio, in fact, I do not listen to FM radio unless it is an FM talk station.

I do prefer talk radio, but when I’m in the mood for music, I listen to my own playlist which I made from all the favorite music of my entire life.

I’ve heard them so many times that I have the lyrics memorized and can sing them as well, although probably not very well.

But speaking of alternative songs that are 20 years old, here is one of my favorites that’s about 27 years old holy moly!

I blast this one on the surround sound everytime it rains just, which is very rarely around here it seems, just to celebrate the fact that I don’t have to water my lawn for two days :D

It’s too bad that they just don’t make music like this anymore:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4IbJzn0QT5g

[OldPossum]

Thanks for your post 31.

I just wanted to clarify a remark. I really cannot speak about 1980s music since I haven’t heard that much of it. I quit listening to the radio shortly after 1970 since the music became boring.

As for “rap music” that seems a contradiction in terms. What it is is monotouous recitation of low-class ghetto “verse” that appeals only to those who have never heard real pop music.

As you note, the popular music of today is really bad. To me, all the female singers sound alike, as do the male singers. There is no discernible melody, nor any lyrics that I can understand. I really think that all the talented popular music songwriters are dead.

What a shame. I was fortunate enough to have gotten into radio announcing in 1962 when we had what I consider to be the Golden Age of Pop Music (well, it really began in the late 1950s). What a pleasure it was to sit back in the studio and listen to real rock ‘n roll on high-qualify studio speakers and in my earphones!

I lucked out. Too bad for today’s young people. They wouldn’t know good rock ‘n roll if it tapped them on the shoulder.