Posted on 07/03/2018 11:00:42 AM PDT by SamAdams76
However, to give the devils their due, before this latest generation of pop came along with their Whoops, there was yellin' and screamin' in Classic Rock that my Dad thought was just noise. Witness:
Top 10 Screams in Classic Rock
Further, as I've said elsewhere on FR, there IS really good, contemporary music out there - check out Greta Van Fleet, Royal Blood, Ty Segal, Kaiser Chiefs, or Sabaton. You have to LOOK for it, but it's out there.
If you're lazy...Google it, or listen to XM Radio channels other than Classic Vinyl or Classic Rewind (maybe Underground Garage is my choice to find good, new stuff).
If you're not lazy, I encourage people to go to a local bar and catch 5-6 bands for $10. Yea, some of the bands will such but you'll hear an act or two that renews your faith that Rock Isn't Dead. Maybe you'll plunk down $10 for a CD or tshirt and encourage the little whippers to keep on keeping on.
And remember...if it's too loud, you're too old.
There's a fairly famous Frank Zappa clip on YouTube where he praises the old cigar-chomping music executives from the 60s. They had no idea what anyone liked. They were out of touch. And so they took chances -- "Put it out as a single! See if the kids like it!" And a lot of great music saw the light of day.
Zappa goes on to say that eventually the music industry became dominated by younger, hipper executives who thought they knew everything. They just kept repeating old tricks and were reluctant to try anything new or take chances. And it all became slop after that.
I quit listening to pop music about the time the Beatles came along.
To this day I cannot stand the screaming, screeching, and moaning crap that passes for singing.
I tell people I shared a labor room with a woman that sounded like that once, and that once was enough.
Frank was the best.
No apology needed. Most of my favorite music is from the 1970s as well.
That is not music. It is auditory diarrhea for 10 yo girls.
Thank s for that tip. I also look up a song I find on Pandora or Spotify on iTunes and look at what others listen to. Following that technique can really eat up some time. It’s so cool to be able to sample 30 or 60 seconds of a song to see if it may be of interest to you.
I’ve got three stations near me that all play 70’s and some 80’s retro rock and R&B. Actual music sung by actual musicians.
I used to enjoy country but most of it is just pure pablum now.
Don’t Forget Amazon Prime Music.
Chances are you already subscribe to Prime. If so, hundreds of thousands of songs and artists are free.
Hick-hop. I love it. I just call it Nashville Country. And I avoid it like the plague.
Americana music, red dirt radio, outlaw country, call it what you will. It’s out there. And it is the real deal.
The rebirth of the 50’s doo-wop, doo-wop.
Kind of like how I expect to hear Rush Limbaugh every time that Pretenders song plays (I heard Chrissie Hynde rues the day that Rush chose "My City Was Gone" as his bumper music).
The 90’s saw the last great resurgence of music. Since 2000, almost nothing produced is listenable. There are some wonderful exceptions, but by and large, the music died 1/1/2000 or just before.
Everything cycles in life, so at some point the music industry will be so bankrupted, something will take its place and there will be a new resurgence of good music. I don’t know when that will come. It is a long time coming now.
I found a radio station that broadcasts out of Magnolia, Texas. Low power station, but they are online also.
They go out of their way to not play corporate radio stuff.
I heard Roy Clark’s “Thank God and Greyhound your gone” the other day.
Listening to the band Suffocation is a good cure for this problem.
There was a shopkeeper who mounted speakers in the trees in from of his business and blasted classical music to run off loiterers who couldn’t stand the sound of Beethoven & Brahms.
They tried to climb the trees to rip out the wires but he had wrapped the trunks with barbed wire. So they went elsewhere.
Doonesbury even made fun of it with a ghetto dude going into to the store to ask, “That be the Trout Quintet Opus 114 in A major!? Man, I dig that Franz Schubert, he be my dawg!!”
Thanks for posting this. Now I have a name for this phenomenon. My wife and I just called them “oh-oh-oh” songs. This is comparable to the tendency of urban artists to cram about 40 different warbly notes in a measure that was meant for 4. I could never figure out how to describe this until I heard one of my local conservative talk show hosts call it “urban yodeling”. That definitely hit it on the head for me and gave me a phrase I can refer to when I hear it. I will be using “millenial whoop” for this occurence from now on.
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