Posted on 07/03/2018 11:00:42 AM PDT by SamAdams76
And we don't have the brains to listen and learn the lyrics so we'll sing along to wa oh wa oh
Political correctness - soon we will only be allowed to grunt at each other.
I sure do miss poetry in music. I never even knew I liked it until it was gone.
Let’s just forfeit this thread and listen to The Electric Prunes and Johnny Cash.
“Top 10 Screams in Classic Rock” —> I lasted 8 seconds. Screaming is NOT artistic and it most certainly is NOT singing. Yuck. I’ve felt that way since my early 20s.
I do make an effort to listen to contemporary pop music. There is a band called The War On Drugs that is pretty good, for example.
This is so interesting that its actually a “thing”. I had mentioned this so many times to my wife, she kinds of rolled her eyes. I didnt know officially what it was called, as I am not schooled in music theory, but I did notice that it seemed everybody was doing it. It was mildly annoying.
The early 1990s was a good period for new music. That was when bands like Nirvana, Smashing Pumpkins, Pearl Jam, Soundgarden and The Cranberries came on the scene. That was last time where there was an abundance of new artists with fresh material. The “Lithium” channel on Sirius/XM captures that era pretty well.
KNBT out of New Braunfels is my favorite station. I have their app.
True Americana music. They broadcast every Friday afternoon right from Gruene Hall.
Most recent thing I’ve heard that was halfway decent was “No Good” by the band Kaleo, which is from Iceland of all places.
There is still good country out there, just won’t find it on the radio.
Check out Amos Lee. Singer/Songwriter
https://youtu.be/QBMJsiLSt6w
But.... Disco????
Yes, screaming for the sake of screaming is useless....like a clanging cymbal. I find most contemporary heavy metal to be utter rubbish because of the advent of the "screamo" technique that infects what MAY be otherwise good music.
However, when placed strategically in musical compositions, screaming can be used to great artistic effect. At the end of Cavalleria Rusticana a blood-curdling scream that comes before the line "They have murdered Turiddu!" is VERY effective and famous in opera.
I find the two scream in "Won't Get Fooled Again" to be integral to the song, as well as the scream at the beginning of James Brown's "I Feel Good."
Last I heard, the McDonald’s in downtown Dallas does the classical music psy-ops thing as well.
How can I forget ‘Suzy Creamcheese’... my bad.
Geez, are they still doing this? It started a few years ago. I can’t listen anymore but I figured it would die fairly quickly. I don’t make it very far into one song now when I try to listen to top 40.
Ditto with WBill Jr. He can listen to anything he wants, but prefers my (rock, mostly) music - I pretty much stopped looking for new artists around 2000 or so.
No idea why, I'm sure it's not to impress me. :-) He said that he doesn't particularly like rap because it's "too angry" and "you can't understand any of the lyrics". Fine by me, my rap experience ended in school with the Beastie Boys and RunDMC back in about 1987.
He was listening to Pavarotti's version of "Nessum Dorma" the other day. He had added it to his playlist, said he liked Pavarotti's voice, and that it sounded like what singing in the shower should sound like.
Smart kid.
Kanye West can still think up some very engaging lyrics.
See following....
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9-K8LUJfUaA
KHYI 95.3 ‘The Range’
Fascinating. I will mention this when my daughters are listening to music until they can’t stand me and go off to their room in a snit.
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