New Music/Old Music

i hope it'll be psychedelic, or at least something different from their previous albums...

what about the hives or the strokes?

 

im sure theres good music out there right now... but just as everyone said, you have to dig deeper. I prefer music from the 60's and 70's because of the lyrics and tunes.... music is one of the greatest things ever. back then music was made to express yourself... it was so beautiful and i fear that not all, but most of our mainstream music right now is so commercialized.

 

i think Kurt Cobain would be rolling in his grave if he knew people were comparing him to gnr b/c he hated everything they stood for. Listen to his lyrics; thats where his messages are. that being said, i do agree that the music today is devoid of a message, singing talent, & energy. I saw Iggy Pop in concert & he had more energy at 56 than every one before him! Good music is hard to find these days!

Peace & Love

 

at 13 i couldnt find good stuff either but as you go on you get more open to different stuff and will eventually find a newer band that you like.

 

My Grampa raised me on the golden oldies when I was a kid and that led to me finding classic rock. The biggest difference that I find between the classics and the new stuff is that you can truly sing the classics. Anyone can sing along with the Beatles in the shower, but try to sing, and I mean sing, the words of the new stuff. You can't. Most of it is just a chours and special effects, totally un-singable. I, personaly like to sing along to the whole song, not just a few lines.
But that's just me.

Angel :sunglasse

 

There's still good music being made, but you won't find it on commercial radio. On an FM radio, start at the very bottom of the dial and work your way up, stopping in the low 90's. That's where most of the listener-supported stations are hiding. Don't give up on a station that might be playing something too weird or too tame for your tastes, because the shows that are more to your liking might be on at a different time.

There's a station like that in Bridgeport, CT, right across the Long Island Sound from me. One of their slogans is "Sometimes you just have to turn it off." They also say, "When it sucks for you, it's good for someone else, and when it's good for you, it might suck for them." If you happen to find a blues or folk show, even if you're not into either of those, keep that station in mind for future reference, because it's almost guaranteed to be a hip station and play something you like.

 

My impression of Blind Melon was that they sounded more like early Dead, but that's just based on one song, "No Rain" -- the one that got airplay, or at least, the only one whose airplay I heard.

 

Yeah, I'll give you that one. The freaks I knew sort of merged in their musical tastes from some diverse backgrounds. I started paying attention to top 40 around 1962 and dissing it by 1967 in favor of the heavier stuff I was discovering. Some of my friends were folk purists until Dylan revolutionized the scene, then they started discovering that the Stones were evolving, followed by the Beatles, into something they could get into. In fact, once the Beatles became "uniters," that's when our divider-in-chief says he stopped listening to them, because they were too "weird" and "psychedelic"!

 

One of the options I had in the 70's that's not really practical any more was to look through the clearance bins and find albums for like 50¢. If the jacket was freaky-looking or had names I recognized among the band members, I'd buy it, and more often than not, I was right on, which made up for the few lemons. Once I bought an album entitled "Rockin' Foo" on a whim. When I opened it up, I found a copy of the first Nazz album inside, so I bought another copy, found "Rockin' Foo" inside, and decided it sucked! Oh well.

These days, even clearance prices are outrageous, and the pickings are a lot slimmer and riskier.

 

Albums for 50 cents? Not Today :$ Music costs so much now you don't have the cash to experament. Sometimes I wonder just where the music industry has its' collectiv head?

 

"Tones of Home" was their first single for their album, before "No Rain"... tho at the time, you couldn't have a number one rock hit if you weren't a Nirvana clone, "No Rain" somehow made it to the top... It's hard to describe them.. a mix of early Dead and Led Zeppelin, with a super-energized Robert Plant at vocals, but deeper lyrics than either of those bands had ever written...

I don't listen to them hardly ever... I know my sister's got some of their cds, I'll be sure to check them out...

 

I also loaded up on 8-tracks when they were on their way out. At one point, they were 12 for $1! That was in the late 80's.

Recently, I kind of balked at paying $28 for the 2-CD Government Mule "Deepest End" album, but my wife talked me into it. When I opened it up, I found that it also contained a DVD, which made it a much better value. When I first started buying record albums, they were usually $2.39 for mono and $2.99 for stereo.

The band that was called Moby Grape in the 60's released an album "Legendary Grape" in 2003 minus Skip Spence, who had died in 1999. They couldn't use the name "Moby Grape" because some schmuck named Matthew Katz, who had been their agent or something at one time, claimed he owned it. He lost the case in court later that year and a few months later lost the appeal. I think he played similar games with other bands, like the Jefferson Airplane. Maybe that had something to do with the change to Jefferson Starship, with the eventual dropping of "Jefferson."

 

That reminds me of another good deal I got in 1968. If found the first Moby Grape album (mono version) in a Woolworth's bargain bin for $1. It was from before Columbia discovered the finger and airbrushed it out on reprints. It's probably worth about 40 bucks now.

 

for cool new music i listen to indie radiostations on the net. one of my favorites is http://www.scrubradio.com . the only time i hear fm radio anymore is at work. I like some of the new music, but alot of it all sounds the same. there is alot of underground artist just one click away . these internet radio stations don't stick to one genre, you get a great variety of music.

 

One of the reasons pop and rock doesn't sound as great is because the music of the 50s and 60s was fresh and new, you can still hear the freshness in A Hard days night, how vibrant it was and that will remain forever, but now bands like the White Stripes and the Hives sound hollow and contrived.

But bands lke The Smiths are just as good as bands from that era. Nirvana were great too.

 

I prefer oldies over new stuff, but Rooney is a good band....

 

I prefer the old music. I think it is just my personal taste. I do think that the music of the sixties was so much more emotionally and politically charged whereas alot of the new stuff can seem morose and with simple issues for example "take me out".

Of course I do believe there is music out there nowadays with great emotion and political issues (like mine ) yet it is all underground....

 

You just gotta look around for good new music, trust me you'll find it.

 

I know! But at the moment I'm too busy discovering all the old music that is out there. After I have satisfied myself with all the fantastic music back in the day then I shall seek the new music

 

you are so right floyd soul...