the FUCK is wrong with music now?!?!?!?!?

I don't get why people are all smiles and laughs in circle pits. Motherfucker! You're going down! Elbows out, that's how I play. >.>

 

I don't get it.

It's a wonder you people don't kick the seats in front of you when you laugh at the movies; or punch the guy waiting next to you when your order of fries is finally done.

 

You guys have mosh pits at the movies or in the line at the restaurant??

 

Slam dancing, mosh pits, violence based music... moronic

 

Aint no music better IMO then ZZTOP! Ya! And they are still at it.
BF bought 4 tickets to their concert this spring and we are gonna have a blast. One of my fave bands besides the Stones and a few others.

 

Yeah, there should be no room in the world for music that has an emphasis on violent themes... Sounds like you were born a few decades too early

 

Thankfully.

I grew up listening to music that tended to be mostly about cars, girls, and having a good time.:2thumbsup:

 

I grew up with that stuff too. It's non exclusive you know

 

Most music made today is crap.I blame post-modernism.

 

Complete change in ideals, that's what happened.

 

Oh, come on now. Music is no different than how it has been forever, it's just changed styles. It has always been expression of the self and of their surroundings. There's nothing wrong with music "today" - everyone who says that sounds exactly like the adults (especially parents) of every generation ever. What is popular is not a good representation of ALL that is going on in today's youth. Dig a little deeper and you'll find some good stuff. Stop living in the past.

The Garden is a band by two twins (Wyatt and Fletcher Shears) that released an album in 2008. They have two other albums, and solo projects. I think they're very cool and unique. Check 'em out, they've also got kickass style and are doubling as models.

 

What's wrong is that people keep on buyin that shit dats all

 

difference being, I'm talking about a time when if it wasn't on the radio, you had to go buy a record....if it was available at your local record store...if your town even had a decent record store...and only if the promo for the record had even reached your city or town might you have even know it existed.

I know it's hard to imagine music before the internet.

 

needs more satan ..

 

I explored music the first few years without internet And we had a crappy recordstore in our village

But I thought you implied you were glad you grew up with just the songs on the radio about cars and girls? Or did I misunderstand you somewhere What are you exactly saying about the difference being?

 

Sorry Asmo, I didn't notice you had replied.

Ok so first of all you have to remember the music of the late 60's and early 70's; Creedence, Janice Joplin, Jimi Hendrix, The 'Stones, The Doors, Jefferson Airplane, Cream, Led Zepplin, Yes, Santana, The Who, etc ( they didn't play Black Sabbath on the radio, sorry metal-heads lol), this was all pop music! If you turned the radio to the #1 top 40 station, this is pretty much what you would hear, in heavy rotation! Think about man, in 1973 Pink Floyd was top 40 pop music! Seems pretty absurd by comparison with what is considered pop music today huh?

Of course there was the early punk movement but that was mostly happening east coast, (it certainly wasn't mainstream, and by design) By the time punk even caught on in the western part of the US, New wave, which was basically sanitized punk, mixed with just a little 50's rock formula and casio synthesizer, repackaged for the new bored suburbanit youth by the music industry that would later formulate and sanitize progressive rock/metal into the hair bands of the early 80's...*shudder*

Anyway I digress, my point is basically I didn't grow up around music that reflected hopelessness and existential angst (Grunge) or anger, violence, morbid obsessions with death etc (Modern Metal)
And if popular music is a way of society being reflected back upon itself (I do believe that) I must conclude that there just wasn't enough angst and violence in popular culture to support angsty/ violent music.

 

There was also Abba, Donny Osmond, Sonny and Cher, you had plenty of pop music which more or less resembles the pop music that exists today. I'm not sure if you made the discrepancy between Pop music and Popular/Mainstream music back then but today Pop music is more of a genre, which if we adopted it to the past would have exclusively included those I listed but not those Rock bands you listed, even if those bands had billboard success. Likewise there are still bands that chart today which have Mainstream success but aren't really Pop Music.

WTF!? The Wall by Pink Floyd is one of the most depressing albums ever put on record imo. Many of Pink Floyd's other songs deal with themes such as greed, War, insanity, so forth and so on.

Rolling Stones had angsty songs, discuss drug addiction, violence, the grimmness of the city life. An extreme example eventhough they weren't played on the radio really is the Velvet Underground who depicted pretty grim and dreary depictions in their music as well.

The Doors have some songs and themes that aren't exactly happy go lucky either.

How many bands around that time period got associated as with worshipping the Devil or having those type of themes?

 

You make some good points GB, I'm a little busy at the moment, I'll try to get back and address some of them later if I remember.