Music hasn't died and never will. It's just that as time goes by people remember the good stuff and forget all the shite. There's plenty of good music around now.
Sadly I remember plenty of Michael Jackson, Mariah Carey and Celine Dion songs only too well...
No way Michael Jackson should be pumped with those two!
Okay - Rockin' Robin was alright.
Lots of Jacksons stuff is great, not so keen on the solo work
I think it is perception. Henry irving recently posted something on here about every 7 years or something ie at 17 the music is best and that summed it up well.
I remember in my early teens thinking the best music was the 60s with the beatles, kinks, who etc and it was all crap nowdays but now look back to the 90s with the dance music and Oasis etc and think it was amazing.
Everytime I think music has had it a great song or band comes along. Arctic Monkeys...some of their stuff is pure poetry for example. Even Hard Fi who aren't everyone's cup of tea really resonated with me on their first album. Killer's Hot Fuss is pretty flawless as an album and there are so many brilliant bands and artists.
The Blossoms "My Charlemagne" (last year I think) sounds like if Liam Gallagher had been the front man of Suede and is on loop in my car. Also people coming through with bangers like rag n bone man etc and the odd new dance tune keeps it optimistic.
I think that almost all post 1990 music is a repeat of something previously recorded.
Probably a good time to mention Radiohead. They get a bit of a kicking on here, but in the very least one can't deny they've continually reinvented themselves and their sound. Pablo Honey vs King of Limbs is quite a contrast.
I think it is perception. Henry irving recently posted something on here about every 7 years or something ie at 17 the music is best and that summed it up well.
I remember in my early teens thinking the best music was the 60s with the beatles, kinks, who etc and it was all crap nowdays but now look back to the 90s with the dance music and Oasis etc and think it was amazing.
Everytime I think music has had it a great song or band comes along. Arctic Monkeys...some of their stuff is pure poetry for example. Even Hard Fi who aren't everyone's cup of tea really resonated with me on their first album. Killer's Hot Fuss is pretty flawless as an album and there are so many brilliant bands and artists.
The Blossoms "My Charlemagne" (last year I think) sounds like if Liam Gallagher had been the front man of Suede and is on loop in my car. Also people coming through with bangers like rag n bone man etc and the odd new dance tune keeps it optimistic.
It wasn't until I saw 8 Mile that I understood the process and invention that goes into rap and hip hop. Coming up with rhyming couplets and fitting them to a beat.
This guy rhymes the word 'four' with the words 'four' and 'four' several times. Then he rhymes a machine gun imitation with another, slightly more stacatto machine gun imitation. Still, what he lacks in invention he makes up with aggression. Felt really scared for the other guy. He's lucky he didn't get shot by the bullet noises.
Hip Hop, House, rave music, dance culture - it all left me behind. I kind of stopped listening in about 1993. Oddly, I have been enjoying music from my youth that at the time I thought was uncool, square and my parents shit, simply because I find that now it evokes pleasant memories of my parents or my childhood, Frank Ifield anyone?
I've recently found a new genre that I didn't know existed, just by spending some time browsing Itunes. Some brilliant stuff. Lunatica, Within Temptation, Tarja, Sirenia, Achillia, Nightwish, check them out. (If you're not familiar already).
If you haven’t come across it already, enjoy this.
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This guy rhymes the word 'four' with the words 'four' and 'four' several times. Then he rhymes a machine gun imitation with another, slightly more stacatto machine gun imitation. Still, what he lacks in invention he makes up with aggression. Felt really scared for the other guy. He's lucky he didn't get shot by the bullet noises.
Here are a couple more of his...
This one is a great piss take too
http://nightwish.com/en/news/2017/06/170906-decades
Bet I'm the oldest one there!