Bagster
Posted on 06/18/2018 11:58:45 PM PDT by canuck_conservative
Perhaps I take advantage of collisions with different sounding stuff or fusions of world and whatever western music appeals to me. But for the most part I can say that I don’t buy into “you really stop listening or searching at 30...” Which is not my case at all. Perhaps it’s more of a case of you never stop running into things you’ve never heard before and they interest you.
We all have the music that shaped our lives... That’s inevitable no matter who you are or what limit of Technology you have available to listen with. I have listened to a lot of stuff. I have listened to and enjoy music from the last several centuries up to present day. But, one thing I cannot do with any degree of proficiency or self-confidence is repeat back any lyrics I’ve ever heard, I can sing along with a few courses and even that is very limited. But I do enjoy the the instrumental bits or the the sound of the melody, but lyrics have very little impact on me and I really just don’t pay any attention to lyrics at all...
You mean there is other country music produced prior to 1970? Never heard of it.
prior = AFTER....one more cup of coffee and I will be just fine. Now where did I put that bottle of Jack.
I’m so old I probably don’t even exist to the folks of NME and I seek out new music everyday. But “new” for me isn’t the latest crap from this year’s latest edgiest c-rapper - it’s new artists and new genre from the vast experience of music going back over the previous ten centuries and beyond.
I still seek it out.
It’s just that the vast majority of what I find sucks.
Bagster
There may be something to that, but with the “music” coming out now, the sound of which is counter to human experience with the art, how would they know. It is horrid.
It makes one wonder how people who can really sing, like Adelle or Leona Lewis and others (if voice only is considered), can ever make it.
In England, someone developed an algorithm to analyze music on many levels. Yep, music has gotten worse.
But you have to LOOK for it. And it does seem 30+ folk are locked in our ways. But there are great riches to be had for the adventurous amongst us.
I challenge us older types to go to a bar or club and catch 5 acts for $10. In NYC you can go on Bleeker St any night and do this...I used to gig at The Elbow Room (now a CVS...RIP) and, yes, a few of the bands will suck but you may find that the Death of Music is not here yet. Maybe you'll pay $10 for a CD or shirt and keep things moving (my latest CD additions are from punk bands in Maine and Philadelphia). I heard of a program where you pay a fixed amount and you can get into any participating club for free. On a larger scale, go to a show of 1000-1500 people and catch some new acts.
There is equally no shortage of boring old people blogging that Rock is Dead while listening to The Stranger and The Last Waltz (yet again) on their iPad. Be part of the solution, not the problem!
It has nothing to do with me, they just quit making music that was worth a damn in 1976 when I was 20.
Plus 1 billion to your comment, HHFi, and I would add that since most musicians believe in socialism (that is, no private property, no property rights), I want to accommodate them by never buying their music. It should be free.
I kind of disagree with the article; I’m 45 and after many years of enjoying rock and roll from the 60s and 70s, I’ve really gotten into some of the older blues guys. Muddy Waters, Little Walter, Sonny Boy Williamson, and all those guys. Just great stuff.
What? It's now an offense to stop seeking new music?
I stopped listening to current stuff decades ago once I realized that whoever is being praised as THE singer, group, etc. would likely soon be a “where are they now?” question. This also goes for American TV. (I exclusively watch British TV now - classics and modern shows thanks to Britbox, Acorn, Netflix and Prime)
Hmm. You might want to give Kamelot a listen, or maybe Nightwish.
What?
Well, golly, I get VERY tired of what’s on FM radio, and both most FM stations & Sat radio have such lousy sound quality these days, and You Tube is “variable” to say the least... I occasionally go for a random Internet Radio station just to hear something a little new (at least to me).
That doesn’t mean it’s “new” in age, of course, tho’ most is.
The funny thing is, I lean “Classic Rock”, but (aside from the horrid, mushy, compressed sound on FM), how many times can one hear some of this stuff w/o more variety? I mean, geez, throw in Robin Trower “Bridge of Sighs”, or INXS “To Look At You” (Extended version), or Real Life “Burning Blue”, or Red Rider “White Hot”, or Uriah Heep “Stealin’” (huge catalog of great stuff!), or Badfinger “Baby Blue”, or Styx “Crystal Ball” or “Suite Madame Blue”, or Strawbs “Heartbreaker”, or, or... (about a million suggestions!). How long has it been since I heard Steppenwolf “Magic Carpet Ride”, or Three Dog Night “Out In the Country”, much less any of the longer tunes that once were plentiful on college FM stations.
“In the Court of the Crimson King”, anyone?
They don't call it "classical" for nothing. By 30 I had almost given up on music, but by accident I discovered the Renaissance/medieval revival and it's stayed with me since. Music from an age where filth, disease and famine showed themselves in hard, unyielding contrast to the beauty, and the wonder, and the mystery of Art.
Me too. Oh, we could start a whole new 'me too' movement. ;-)
It’s more than that: If you’ve not done so already, check out “the loudness wars” (over-compression of the dynamics). It’s bad enough to know or remember what it should sound like (and maybe one’s brain can fill in, but MINE tells me what’s missing in the re-playing itself!)....
New music with no life left in it is even worse.(!!)
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