Why I Hate Modern Music

[FORTUNATA]

This is a rant. I've ranted about music before and it seems I'm not the only one. Both Bill Wyman and now even Elton John have been expressing their views. I think it was Bill Wyman who said something like if the Rolling Stones were starting out fresh today, they'd get nowhere. The other day I was also surprised that George Harrison had said that modern music was suffering from the effects of marketing, image and profit.

Anyway, so often I'm out walking my dog and a car will go past. I hear this "Boom,Boom,Boom,Boom and the usual profanities. Someone shouting swear words into a microphone or some awful hip hop rhyme. I then ask myself where is the creativity?

Whenever I raised this before, people will say I'm biased like everyone else who says music was better in their day. I honestly don't think that's the case, though. I loved Hendrix, The Stones, The Beach Boys, The Beatles but there were later bands like The Police, Scritti Politti that I thought were O.K. For me, it started to go off in the late nineties. The problem is all the bands sound the same and do the same thing. The tracks are doctored with autotune and processed and I often wonder if the band members can play an instrument. Whereas, the Beach Boys had their sound, The Beatles had their sound too and Hendrix had his own sound.

It is fair to say, audio technology has given rise to great possibilities but the music industry has gotten lazy.

Sadly a few weeks ago I was exposed to the sheer torture of some party track that was being played over and over again. It was probably not all that bad but nothing special. Just an average song that bands like the Bee Gees had bettered back in the seventies. Yet the DJ was playing it over and over again on radio. Then later in the day, the same DJ risked A Day In The Life from Sgt Pepper. Half way through someone switched it off. I was stunned!

Edited September 5, 2014 by FORTUNATA

[muddywaters]

Think the worst thing to happen to music is Xfactor, I could think of a good few legends that would not have made it today.

And you have named a few of them.

Lets face it if the Beatles or Dire Straits would never have made it on Xfactor

[Athy]

modern music was suffering from the effects of marketing, image and profit.

Were Elvis, Cliff, Little Richard and many more not marketed with an image which was not their real persona, the motive for so doing being profit?

 

PS I too think that rap should usually be prefaced by a "c".

Edited September 5, 2014 by Athy

[Delta9]

There was plenty of crap music around in the past just as there is plenty of good and creative modern music. If you are only hearing crap you are probably listening to the wrong radio stations.

[Higgs]

There was plenty of crap music around in the past just as there is plenty of good and creative modern music. If you are only hearing crap you are probably listening to the wrong radio stations.

 

 

It's that sort of crap I get exposed to at work. I'm sure there is 'good' modern music about, but never likely to hear it. The reason I say this is because it occasionally finds its way to me via a friend, as a present.

 

The youngsters want stuff that belongs to them and is no bad thing to them if it drives their parents up the wall.

[John V]

ETA for Double post

Edited September 5, 2014 by John V

[Wanted]

Youth culture and music oft go hand in hand, the result is something that us old gits are not suppose to like.

 

If you need me I'll be listening to some classics jazz...

 

 

[John V]

 

 

try this one then!!!!!

[Wanted]

 

 

try this one then!!!!!

[Guest]

Just for Rob...

 

[Ronniesonic]

Have a listen to 'Royal Blood', album just released.

 

A young 2 piece that create a genius sound for those that like a slightly heavier guitar sound than the normal indie stuff. Amazing!

 

There is tonnes of brilliant new music. Search it out online............. However, avoid most daytime radio & stick to more specialist shows in the evening or the internet radio stations.

 

I still prefer the sound of vinyl ran through a decent set up with topnotch full scope speakers. I used to own 10,00 vinyl Albums & 12'' singles but sold most. I still have 1000+ CD's but have not got a single MP3 / wav file.

 

I have have a very wide taste & currently love Northern Soul. I went to a Scooter gig a couple of weeks back & it reminded me what a great sound it is.

 

Enjoy & hunt out the new.............. some is ace!

 

 

To nearly spoil my post I used to be a DJ in the summer of love 88 & 89. Got arrested having carried to full record boxes across a field........ Amazing times though.......... I remember playing Carly Simon's 'Why' (93 BPM) infront of 8,000 people in the 'Balearic' part of my set, followed by Soul II Soul's 'Keep on Movin (95bpm). I also went to Caister & prestatyn Soul Weekenders but as a balance mosh pitted to Nine inch Nails...............

 

Music is the Answer in my eyes........

 

I also dance at EVERY party I go too. You know the type...... LOL

 

Ronniesonic out!

Dead Kennedy's !................ Love it......... Seen them Live too!

 

If you don't like Rap try 'Del a Soul'......... Happy Rap with a 'daisy' feel & they even sample Steely Dan! (amoungst others)

 

 

To not bore you anymore I am going to walk the hound......................

[Wanted]

Just for Rob...

 

Holy shite! That is truly awful!

 

Just as it stopped though, Dane went passed with a thumping Bolinder, now that's a noise I like..

[tree monkey]

Youth culture and music oft go hand in hand, the result is something that us old gits are not suppose to like.

 

If you need me I'll be listening to some classics jazz...

 

 

Very very very cool

[Tesla]

As Ronnie says really there is some great music out there, more than ever in my view, but you do have to work a little harder to find it.

[Guest]

Holy shite! That is truly awful!

Just as it stopped though, Dane went passed with a thumping Bolinder, now that's a noise I like..

Their other well known hit is

 

'Ive got you..........'

 

But that's a very old joke.

[tree monkey]

 

 

try this one then!!!!!

And he's a cracker too

[Alan Saunders]

As I get older I find I no longer enjoy music like I used to. It surely cannot be my failing hearing; everything from Bill Hailey to the Beatles was heard on somewhat inadequate record-players and radios. If I had actually been at a live performance these 'tinny' sounds were translated in my mind into the original, live experience.

 

I was not keen on the Beatles until their Sergeant Pepper album which, I believe, was the first to be assembled as as a cohesive work rather than the usual a few hits and some other tracks that did not make it.

 

In the late 70's I bought a decent 'hi-fi' setup and even LPs came close to concert hall sound. Big headphones gave a weird 'middle-of-my-head' sound.

 

I still plug in the 'buds' for nostalgic performances on digital radio and TV. e.g. Pete Townshend (Fender Stratocaster) "This is a guitar made in California in 1950 and it is supposed to sound like this ..." - solo performance of 'Magic Bus'. I am watching, listening to BBC4 tonight - 'Beethoven's Missa Solemis' followed by 'Fleetwood Mac, Don't Stop the Music'.

 

Music moves on, excepting excursions into punk and rap, the 'pop' bar is set ever higher. Many of the best albums were performed by trained musicians e.g. "Pictures at an Exhibition, Mussorgsky (1874)", faithfully performed to the original score by Emerson, Lake & Palmer (ELP) on modern instruments in 1971.

 

There is so much great music already out there that it is difficult to compose a new work without being accused of pinching a theme or a riff. Rarely, a cover version is better than the original - Leona Lewis did it for me.

 

Alan (At 66 a Coldplay fan; 'wall of sound' originated by Phil Spector).

Edited September 5, 2014 by Alan Saunders

[Steilsteven]

And he's a cracker too

I hate Passenger, annoying oik.

 

Keith

[MtB]

And just what does this topic have to do with 'Living Afloat'?

 

 

MtB

[mark99]

There is some great underground music being made. It never gets out to people other than enthusiasts or people who seek it out.

[MtB]

There is some great underground music being made. It never gets out to people other than enthusiasts or people who seek it out.

 

 

This^^^

 

I am currently enjoying Jenny Hval. For example "I Have Walked This Body":

 

 

 

MtB

[Athy]

There is some great underground music being made. It never gets out to people other than enthusiasts or people who seek it out.

That statement could have come from 1968 - hey man, underground music. I remember some of it well - it was more often than not issued on the Island and Elektra record labels. The Doors, Spooky Tooth, Nirvana.....I sought it out - despite being a soul, blues and blue beat boy at heart, I was musically omnivorous back then. Thanks for the memory!

[fudd]

This is a rant. I've ranted about music before and it seems I'm not the only one. Both Bill Wyman and now even Elton John have been expressing their views. I think it was Bill Wyman who said something like if the Rolling Stones were starting out fresh today, they'd get nowhere. The other day I was also surprised that George Harrison had said that modern music was suffering from the effects of marketing, image and profit.

Anyway, so often I'm out walking my dog and a car will go past. I hear this "Boom,Boom,Boom,Boom and the usual profanities. Someone shouting swear words into a microphone or some awful hip hop rhyme. I then ask myself where is the creativity?

Whenever I raised this before, people will say I'm biased like everyone else who says music was better in their day. I honestly don't think that's the case, though. I loved Hendrix, The Stones, The Beach Boys, The Beatles but there were later bands like The Police, Scritti Politti that I thought were O.K. For me, it started to go off in the late nineties. The problem is all the bands sound the same and do the same thing. The tracks are doctored with autotune and processed and I often wonder if the band members can play an instrument. Whereas, the Beach Boys had their sound, The Beatles had their sound too and Hendrix had his own sound.

It is fair to say, audio technology has given rise to great possibilities but the music industry has gotten lazy.

Sadly a few weeks ago I was exposed to the sheer torture of some party track that was being played over and over again. It was probably not all that bad but nothing special. Just an average song that bands like the Bee Gees had bettered back in the seventies. Yet the DJ was playing it over and over again on radio. Then later in the day, the same DJ risked A Day In The Life from Sgt Pepper. Half way through someone switched it off. I was stunned!

Ask your grandad ! If you can.

[steven wilkinson]

shock horror - old people don't like modern music! Are you starting to sound like your own parents?

 

Another vote for 'Royal Blood' and how about 'Twin Atlantic'?

[Wanted]

Very very very cool

I came very close to selling a kidney to go and see DK play in Camden recently, but then I discovered that Jello wasn't gonna be there so I sacked it off.

 

Our next gig is to see the wonderful poet turned hip hop artist Kate Tempest. She's ace in my opinion..