Gen Z’s Summer Music Vibe: Sad

Yahoo! ^ | August 21, 2021 | Lara Sanli

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Thanks!

[Robert DeLong]

You surprised me, I thought you would hate him. He's very gifted and seems to have a lot of intelligence. Large vocabulary. He used to go basking on the streets of London when he was 17, and a person who heard him said him up for a record deal. But he couldn't handle it at 17. Interesting story.

BTW, I had no clue was the heck basking was. If's a street artist who collects tips in a basket. 😋

Anyway, I'm glad you liked him. I also linked you to a group called The Score & the Album Atlas. which I also found interesting, but more along the normal lines of music.

[drwoof]

Perhaps one of the creepiest things I’ve ever seen... Good Lord.

[left that other site]

Maybe they call it “basking” in England, but here it is called “busking”. Tracy Chapman did a lot of it in Harvard Square before she had her big break. I have done it myself. Back in the 1960’s I sat on Boston Common with flowers in my hair singing my own songs and playing guitar.

The hippies loved me but never had any money, ha ha ha.

So I’ve been playing music for people for over a half century.

I still do. In fact I’m headed out tonight to play. LOL.

One of my songs is on my home page...the lyrics that is.

Yes, the Score is good, but familiar-sounding, whereas Ren sounds really unique.

[Robert DeLong]

Yeah, you are correct, it is called busking. I was close. 😋

[left that other site]

Sometimes, if I was busking in direct sunshine, I was basking too. LOL.

[Rocco DiPippo]

Not for nothing but I’ve seen and heard of far more folks over 40 clinging to their masks, spreading the covid fear and extolling the “virtues” of getting injected, again and again and again and again than young folks. And I’ve known plenty of 50+ assholes who fret and shriek about the “Climate Catastrophe” and how great BLM and the crazy LGBTQWERT nonsense is. Plenty.

[Levy78]

I became a teenager right as grunge hit. So got super into the music and still love it. (Jammed Nirvana most of my workout this morning lol) Fortunately, I missed the look (mostly)!

[minnesota_bound]

Junior Brown Surf Medley - 03/25/2023
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2HL8ki-shMA

[Robert DeLong]

Oh, you have first hand knowledge of the scene huh. Kewl. 😋

[left that other site]

It’s kinda been my life...singing for my supper as it were. I don’t regret a thing.:-)

[doorgunner69]

The gym I went to in that era played a radio station of that grunge crap. i made a FM radio low power jammer to blank it out. Really confused them but gave me peace.

Now, my hearing is so bad all I can hear is pounding and thumping of whatever the crap is they play. I gather it is some sort of ghetto inspired chanting and shouting.

[ProtectOurFreedom]

“Perhaps one of the creepiest things I’ve ever seen... Good Lord.”

I know. Can you believe people actually make that drek AND have “fans” watch it? And we thought cat videos were bad!

[minnesota_bound]

Marty Stuart on Letterman - great guitar
https://youtu.be/Cx_l9kLxycw?t=35

[Yardstick]

Yep, there’s tons of talent out there. The problem is there are no great songs. The problem of our era, musically speaking, is that talent isn’t translating into songs for some reason.

[DoodleBob]

Sorry if you took shrapnel from my friendly fire.

I was at a shoe store, and the “girl” (she’s in her mid-20s) looked harried. I asked if anything was wrong. She told me she had MULTIPLE jobs AND was building a website.

I was driving a desk in my mid-20s. I’m a piker compared to her.

At the same time, we’ve let the left set the tone of hopelessness for this nation. That’s a dereliction of duty.

We need to show the kids - nay, everyone, that America has always had a block of 20% that are Loyalists/traitors/enemies of freedom. Let them wallow in their pity, while you scale untold heights.

[Jeff Chandler]

I haven’t heard that song yet. My tastes run pretty eclectic — classical, ragtime, jump jive, early rock, classic rock, blues rock, 80s, indie music. I stay away from contemporary pop music, r&b, hip hop, rap, and all other short bus music.

[Sirius Lee]

Here's a list someone put together of the 50 happiest songs.

https://swnsdigital.com/uk/2020/05/these-are-the-top-50-happiest-songs-ever-released/

I don't necessarily agree with the list at all. Although the no. 1 "Mr Blue Sky" is a pretty good choice.

There are no Gershwin or songs, so the list is already mostly crap right there. And what of Handel's "Happy happy" from Acid and Galatea?

The best sad songs are those that sound happy but which are tinged with melancholy. Burt Bacharach is the master of this.

The all-time happiest song that is a tale of woe is Gilbert Sullivan's one hit wonder: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D_P-v1BVQn8

[Texan5]

“And I’ll never have that recipe again” Gag!!

[ConservativeInPA]

I think there are very good songs, but the way we discover and listen to good songs has changed. The entire music industry has been turned on its head. Basically the only thing I can hear on radio where I live is crap. There are very few independent radio stations anymore and none near me. The vast majority are own by several large companies. They employ program directors for each genre of music their stations play. Individual stations don’t have their own program directors. There really is zero competition and what you here is determined by a very select few. I don’t even listen to radio anymore. For me, radio died when Rush Limbaugh died.

Now I use Spotify. I mostly listen to full albums - just like when I was a kid. The only thing that’s missing are album liner notes and album art. I also have made my own play lists. When I hear about new artists I search for them and check them out. There lies a big difference than in the past. It used to be when listening to the radio, the local program director would work in new songs and you would passively hear the new songs - multiple times, whether you liked or not. Sometimes a song would grow on you, and others. Eventually it would get more air play and sometimes a song would just plain get worn out as it was frequently played on multiple stations.

Searching on Spotify is usually a single chance at success. If I don’t like a new song, I don’t listen to it again. There’s no chance a song will grow on me since I don’t play things twice that I don’t initially like. Really, that’s my problem not Spotify.

There’s another way I hear new music on Spotify. Spotify creates top 50 play lists based on songs that are similar to things I’ve already listened. I listen to one of these this afternoon and there was some really decent music on it. Some of these artists I haven’t heard of before. A couple I am going to give a second listen. That seems to somewhat similar to listening to the radio in years past, but a bit more active.