Today's Music ... What A J-O-K-E!

[Afixer]

The crap the music industry passes off as entertainment today in a word sucks! Any blonde big boobed pretty with half a singing voice will be pushed to the top as a star until she hits rehab and another takes her place. Pa ... lease. Hip Hop ... puke. Is talent dead in the world? I'm sure I'll get beat-up, but before you do, put your music where your mouth is. Here's a challenge for ya'. Think todays music stacks up against yesteryears?
Prove it. Below is a sampling of "real" music from real artist. I'll show you mine if you show me yours.
Maybe I can be converted.
Put your seat belts on for a ride back in time.
When music was heartfelt and great ...
Grand Funk Railroad - I'm Your Captain/Closer To Home
Creedence Clearwater Revival - Fortunate Son
Roger Waters + David Gilmour: Comfortably Numb, Live, O2 Arena 2011
"Lola"- The Kinks
Steppenwolf - Born to be wild 1969
Aerosmith - Cryin'
The Box Tops - The Letter (Upbeat 1967)
I'd Love to Change the World-Ten Years After
Three Dog Night - Mama told me not to come 1970
Led Zeppelin-Stairway to Heaven
Queen - Bohemian Rhapsody

[Usagi]

I'll direct you to the very many excellent selections in the Music thread:

http://coastgab.com/index.php/topic,2472.0.html

Not a lot of recent stuff on there, to be sure. ;p

[pepsiguy]

It could be your age showing. I agree about this generations music, but I remember my folks cringing at 60's rock n roll. pretty sure their folks hated Elvis and Buddy Holly. I have rediscovered music from my formative years that I didn't even know I liked. Nelson Riddle, 60's lounge music, and can't get enough Henry Mancini.

[Afixer]

It could be your age showing. I agree about this generations music, but ...

I'm sure there are many current artist who's musical style appeals to their target audience. But when I hear a lot of them and their lyrics are repetitive and by in large hollow ... I just cannot help but compare them to the classic rock groups that sprang up in the late sixties early seventies. Wow .. they just dripped with true musical talent with both their writing and musical instrument abilities. I think the young people of today really don't have any idea of what they missed and for the most part are being spoon fed artist today that back then would have been booed off stage. Just my opinion of course.
... and yeah ... I hit the big Six-0 in a few days. I also happen to Dee-Jay and I spin a lot of classic rock that never fails to please.

[Yorkshire pud]

The crap the music industry passes off as entertainment today in a word sucks! A Think todays music stacks up against yesteryears?
Prove it.

Okay...

(I'm fifty years old by the way)

London Grammar - Strong (Official Video)

or...

Elbow - One Day Like This

In my humble opinion, if you don't like those two, you don't like music.


or...

Texas - Halo (Live In Paris)

Seen these live, twice...fantastic..

[Yorkshire pud]

I'm sure there are many current artist who's musical style appeals to their target audience. But when I hear a lot of them and their lyrics are repetitive and by in large hollow ... I just cannot help but compare them to the classic rock groups that sprang up in the late sixties early seventies. Wow .. they just dripped with true musical talent with both their writing and musical instrument abilities. I think the young people of today really don't have any idea of what they missed and for the most part are being spoon fed artist today that back then would have been booed off stage. Just my opinion of course.
... and yeah ... I hit the big Six-0 in a few days. I also happen to Dee-Jay and I spin a lot of classic rock that never fails to please.

Let's not get too attached to the rose tinted specs; There was a great deal of crap in the 50's, 60's and 70's, and 80's, and 90's..and now. But too say that the old stuff was all classic music is simply not true..Not all of Zepplins stuff was good. Or Floyd (Although I do think Comfortably Numb is a tremendous song-especially live, look up Live 8 concert).

[Yorkshire pud]

And if this doesn't get you emotionally (I mean it) nothing will...A quartet from Texas..

I can't see Zeppelin doing this can you? 


Explosions in the Sky - The Birth and Death of the Day (Planet Earth)(Official HQ Song)

[Juan]

One big problem, at least in my part of the United States, is that music programs have been severely cut back in the schools.  That means that the only kids who get musical training are fairly well-to-do, where it used to be available to almost anyone.  In the classic rock days, several of the kids in the band would have had at least some music training - now kids are learning by sitting at a computer, or iPad, and coaching out "beats" with a mouse or beatbox. 

[Afixer]

And if this doesn't get you emotionally (I mean it) nothing will...A quartet from Texas..

I can't see Zeppelin doing this can you? 

Thanks ... that was awe inspiring. And no ... I don't see LZ doing that. Since the struggle of nature seems to interest you a bit ... here's a golden oldie if you haven't seen it. Even if you have it's worth another viewing.
Battle at Kruger

[Yorkshire pud]

Thanks ... that was awe inspiring. And no ... I don't see LZ doing that. Since the struggle of nature seems to interest you a bit ... here's a golden oldie if you haven't seen it. Even if you have it's worth another viewing.
Battle at Kruger

Well, I put that actual YT clip in respect to the tune, but it could just as easily have been the live version in Seattle. The lion hunt is interesting, at Kruger. I've been lucky to go to Kenya several times and the Tsavo national park. I can confirm that lions in the wild are invisible.

In the above video at about 1.22 demonstrates that..Honestly, if you didn't know they were there, you'd walk straight up to them. We were told of really (on the face of it) quite stupid incidents of tourists in the past, being taken by the wildlife. Even when I saw it myself, I still couldn't believe that an animal the size of an adult lioness can make itself invisible. I was looking through a telephoto lens for a pride our driver assured us was laid in the sun about 70-80 yards away from our vehicle.. No-one could see what he was talking about, and thought he was making it up. He went off road and drove within thirty yards and then we saw them, but they were still hidden behind grass and brush, and made me feel very vulnerable.

[b_dubb]

popular media outlets (MTV, E-News, contemporary radio stations) would have you believe Timberlake, Beyonce and Bieber are the only people making music. But there's an underground scene populated with lots of great artists like Santigold, TV on the Radio, Fleet Foxes just to name a few.  You just have to go looking for them.

[Yorkshire pud]

popular media outlets (MTV, E-News, contemporary radio stations) would have you believe Timberlake, Beyonce and Bieber are the only people making music. But there's an underground scene populated with lots of great artists like Santigold, TV on the Radio, Fleet Foxes just to name a few.  You just have to go looking for them.

As I understand it, US radio is not very eclectic?. It has only country stations or only rock stations or only sugar pop stations. If the advertisers don't like a particular genre, it simply doesn't get played; is that correct?

You can get BBC radio stations on the net: BBC Radio 2 is general stuff, 3 is classical music, 4 is mainly news items and debate, 6 music is up and coming independent bands  (NOT Katy Perry soundalikes) and stuff that doesn't get much airtime normally.. And yes we have programmes that are country or rock or whatever, but we don't have an entire station in those veins (Other than Classic shows..classical music) We had Fleet Foxes on a Bob Harris show and that was it; their single was played on every programme on radio 2 the following week.. same went for Sugarland..(jeeze I love Jennifer Nettles' voice). Bob Harris has probably helped more American artists get a foothold in the UK than all the other radio broadcasters combined. He has a country show but he also does a late night general rock show too..He's pretty encyclopaedic with his musical knowledge. Give it a try.

Click 'listen now' on his photo.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b037gpjr

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b006x527

http://www.bbc.co.uk/6music/latest-programmes

[Eddie Coyle]

As I understand it, US radio is not very eclectic?. It has only country stations or only rock stations or only sugar pop stations. If the advertisers don't like a particular genre, it simply doesn't get played; is that correct?

       Pretty much the case for essentially every station that is corporate-owned. Genre-specific, geared towards the mindless minions who enjoy being told what to listen to.

       Small independents and college stations can break free of this ghetto, literally "The Left of the Dial" the Replacements paid tribute to nearly 30 years ago. Of my 6 FM pre-sets, 5 of them are between 88-92FM.

[Nucky Nolan]

I came of age in the grunge rock era, but I preferred the one-hit wonder alternative artists of the '90s. I also enjoyed a lot of music that came both before and after that decade. It stretched from Chuck Berry to the Killers. I always just listened to what appealed to me. Some of it was in the "cool category" while some it was in the "lame category". It never mattered to me, but I indeed hid some of my embarrassing CDs from hipper-than-thou friends. I always thought that your era had better bands and songs, though. Distribution/promotional issues might have played a part in that, to be fair to fans/singers of the later eras.

[Nucky Nolan]

Small independents and college stations can break free of this ghetto, literally "The Left of the Dial" the Replacements paid tribute to nearly 30 years ago. Of my 6 FM pre-sets, 5 of them are between 88-92FM.

That brought back memories of 97X (RIP). Our region had a few good college and independent stations. You had to dial in those odd numbers just right to hear alternative rock songs without the static that came with weak signals. That was life in the pre-internet age.

[RealCool Daddio]

There is still a lot of good new rock music coming out, you just have to dig around a bit.  If you like seventies boogie rock, the Sheepdogs offer a great modern take on it:

http://youtu.be/-4JR6aw_Uqo


http://youtu.be/wFJ2Lh_YhcE

[Eddie Coyle]

That brought back memories of 97X (RIP). Our region had a few good college and independent stations. You had to dial in those odd numbers just right to hear alternative rock songs without the static that came with weak signals. That was life in the pre-internet age.

       The irony in Boston the past few years is how Clear Channel and CBS stations in the Boston area are getting interfered with by godawful pirate stations by "Carribeans". For whatever reason, the Haitian pirates etc(based out of one section of Boston called Blue Hill Ave) are located between 97-106. Which is where the corporates predominate.

       Thankfully, the indies and stations from MIT, Harvard,Emerson,UMass are largely unaffected. That said...I'd rather hear "Don't Stop Believin" for 863,291st time than the cacophony of steel drums on the pirates.

[The Alcoholic]

Even though you are more of a "get off my lawn" type than a "my generation sucks" kind this still applies to you OP 100%



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JcmylxQ0ma4