i wish music today sounded as great as the music did in the 60's , all the stuff thats come out recently has all been garbage, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q1cfTMdjkYM&feature=fvst
As a semi retired professional musician I think it's better to take 2 tokes and wait an hour than start playing. Just be a little buzzed not so out of it you don't know what you're doing. I'm going to plagerise myself and give you some insight as to what is happening and has happened in the music business to get it to the state it is in now: Realise that the music business is a consumer driven entity as such there are certain trends that are easily trackable. Here are some things that I see happening that I really don't like: First there has been this really weird trend of paying more money for lower sound quality in the name of portability. Records sound great and are cheap but not portable. CD's don't really sound as good and are a little more expensive but more portable. MP3's sound like shit, are more expensive but are more portable. It's only a matter of time before there is a player that is about the size of your pinky nail sounds like a fart in a windstorm and the cost makes owning one out of everybodys league. Second, we have modern recording studios closing down left and right with experienced, competant engineers going with them. The reason being that anyone can buy Pro-Tools and use their plug ins in their own home to make a "Professional" recording. The problem is that you have morons who don't know shit about the science of recording who think that a $50 Sure SM57 sounds like or as good as a $10,000 Neuman U47 and that an LA-2A plug in sounds like an LA-2A compressor. They also believe that recording and mixing in their bedroom studio with cheap gear will sound as good as recording in a professional recording studio designed for recording and mixing music. Third, because the technology is so easily available and easy to use musicians don't actually have to be good anymore. Think about it your singer doesn't have to be able to sing anymore we can record 150 takes and edit together the best parts of each take then autotune the living shit out of it. We can program all of the synth/sequencer backing tracks so they will be perfect every time. If we actually use a drummer his time can be absolut shit because we can easily edit him and move him around on the grid until it is perfect. Fourth one fact that we need to face on a regular basis is that Aretha Franklin sounds like Aretha Franklin but Beyonce doesn't sound like Beyonce. What that means is that if you put a mike in front of Aretha Franklin and say "sing" she will sound like she does on the record. If you try the same thing with Beyonce it won't soud a fucking thing like the record. Beyonce is hidden behind so much compression, delay, reverb, pitch correct, double tracking, modulation, and harmonic exciter that you don't know what she sounds like. And don't tell me you've seen her sing on TV. You've seen her lip synch on TV. Beyonce is an entertainer not a singer. Fourth, the MP3 has set the buisness of selling music back about 60 years. 60 years ago they didn't have many long playing albums. They had 45s that was 10 minutes of music 2songs one on each side. You only bought 2 songs at a time. The artist didn't have the challenge of filling up a whole album. Instead of having to write 12 good songs to fill an album you only have to write one to sell as an MP3. Fifth, a general lack of quality control. Every time a new medium comes up to share music the Record industry blames that new medium for its decline in sales. In the early 80s it was the home cassette recorder. In the late 90s it was the CD burner. In the early 2000's it was file sharing. But here is what the industry doesn't take into account they only count the first sale. What that means is that when they calculate how well analbum is doing, calculating royalties, etc. they only coundt when it is sold new. Used CD's are not counted. I have heard some music I've liked over the past few years. Almost none enough to spend $13 to buy the CD. I'll spend $5 and buy it used. I know it screws over alot of buisness people but good burn baby burn. If it was better music I'd pay full price. Finally, I've heard it said that the music industry is run by a 14 year old white girl from the suburbs. The reason that this is said is that demographically they have the most "disposable income." They take their babysitting money and go to the store and buy whatever the man on tv or the radio tells them is cool. Why do you think that Twilight is one of the highest grossing movies in America right now? Why do you think that Justin Beiber is damn near unavoidable. This is the way Corprate America works. In closing I don't see it changing anytime soon. The music buisness is just that. It is also consumer driven. If it were to change it have to be a consumer driven change. As people who buy music the ones who buy the most would have to change their buying habits and seriously threaten the profits of the industry. Unfortunately the industry panders to 14 year old girls who want nothing more than to be "cool" and the entertainment industry dictates to them what is cool. Every year another generation crosses that threshold where what was cool last year isn't cool this year. and there is another generation of consumers there to take their place. Long story short. We're fucked. I'd like to add to this now that there is a lot of good old school sounding stuff coming out now. Some of it is even mainstream like this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ouI5KcyHfE"]YouTube - Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings "100 Days, 100 Nights" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_n6jZc2j-OI&feature=related"]YouTube - Sharon Jones & Charles Walker "Summertime" It's sad no one would know who Sharon Jones was if Amy Winehouse didn't use her backing band. Now for something else a little funky: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-U5fbCEgmfY"]YouTube - The Greyboy Allstars - "Left Coast Boogaloo" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fyFkrpybTsU"]YouTube - Robert Walters 20th Congress - 2002 San Diego Music Awards There is a lot of great music out there made the old fashioned way you just have to leave your comfort zone. Peace Out, Rev J
Music evolved, lots of it just is as great but of course it generally doesn't sound like music of 50 years ago. There's also lots of diversity and just because you may not like what is on the mainstream channel (which generally just is money driven and less based on musical talent indeed) doesn't say all music of today is that bad. I also think people who mainly like 60's music have trouble getting into modern music because they can't get into it because it sounds very different. This stands apart from the quality, sometimes you have to just be ready to discover what a modern music genre has to offer. Personally, I feel music today is at least as great as music from the 60's (of which I love lots as well), and I also dislike lots of the directions music has taken. It's just there are so many directions, there ought to be some you like if you have an open mind. If you just want more of the same you might get dissappointed indeed. I agree very much, this is all it takes (apparently harder as it seems for some ). And not all music that isn't made the old fasioned way is garbage, although this is subjective.
I wish for other things https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zyf0YwUJcqk"]YouTube - ★ I Wish - Skee-Lo ★
