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Maddie & Tae sound pretty good to me.
I like Mattie and Tae but they won't answer my emails.
Maddie & Tae sound pretty good to me.
I'm still good with George Strait, Willie, Alan Jackson, Gary Stewart, Jerry Jeff and Charlie Pride.
There are three major stations in Detroit playing Christmas music as early as November. That's a condemnation of today's music as well.
And it's not like the days when your parents might have said your music sucked. Today's music, in general, really DOES suck. I mean, yesterday's music had a message, sometimes serious, sometimes silly, but still a message or a story to tell. Flash forward to today when the lyrics consist of calling a woman a bitch, or singing to a woman that you love her because she has a nice body. Yea, songs today contain shallow lyrics for a generation of shallow people.
Back in my father's time, it was Frank Sinatra, Perry Como. Yea, I grew up on the Beatles, Stones, and Doors, but I liked to listen to the songs of my father too. And, while my father always complained that the music I listened to wasn't good, there were still a few of them that he ended up listening to because he liked them. Once more, flash forward today where Country music is orders of magnitude more annoying than disco was in the 70's, where rap has become word salad, and what people dare to say passes for rock is insipid bullcrap.
Yea, the music of yesterday is outselling the music of today because, frankly, the music of today isn't music. It's crap.
Thank you, and **** you. LOL.
Old music is outselling new music for the first time in history | Chart Attack
I like Mattie and Tae but they won't answer my emails.
When did Nickelback get a sex change operation? :mrgreen:
What I often enjoy are remakes (covers) of those older songs. Some are quite close while others differ significantly.
Music video links to a few versions of the instrumental Apache follow:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=EzgbcyfJgfQ
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=f6tnj7IEI0E
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=0Zou2V-e0zo
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=PA948o42TR8
A couple more links for Runaway
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=NMufLXrFIg8
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=HPzcZNgVfpA
I like this, but really it's Talking Heads.
Here's Apache with a touch of Beefheart.
And it's not like the days when your parents might have said your music sucked. Today's music, in general, really DOES suck. I mean, yesterday's music had a message, sometimes serious, sometimes silly, but still a message or a story to tell. Flash forward to today when the lyrics consist of calling a woman a bitch, or singing to a woman that you love her because she has a nice body. Yea, songs today contain shallow lyrics for a generation of shallow people.
Back in my father's time, it was Frank Sinatra, Perry Como. Yea, I grew up on the Beatles, Stones, and Doors, but I liked to listen to the songs of my father too. And, while my father always complained that the music I listened to wasn't good, there were still a few of them that he ended up listening to because he liked them. Once more, flash forward today where Country music is orders of magnitude more annoying than disco was in the 70's, where rap has become word salad, and what people dare to say passes for rock is insipid bullcrap.
Yea, the music of yesterday is outselling the music of today because, frankly, the music of today isn't music. It's crap.
Thank you, and **** you. LOL.
Old music is outselling new music for the first time in history | Chart Attack
Apache with a touch of Jeff Beck:
Apache with a touch of bongos.
Oh, please, this is all nostalgic crap. The only reason old music is outselling new music, is because older people are the only people that freaking buy music anymore. :lol:
Music today is just as deep and as innovative as it has always been.
As far as quality goes, yeah, Top 40 of today is throwaway garbage. BUT, go back and look at the Billboard Top 100 lists every year going back to Whenever. Look at pop charts, country charts, whatever. You'll see how much throwaway garbage music existed back then too. I used to play bass in cover bands, and we'd always scour past charts to try and come up with a surprise song that people loved but had forgotten about. And I'm telling you, the amount of horrible music on those charts is legion. I've looked at every single year of the charts since 1960, and most of it is utterly forgotten because it was so bad.
What's different today is the celebration of artificiality. Many of these people have never laid down an original track in their lives. Or, if they did, it wasn't what got their current, written-by-someone-else song on the radio. And if left to come up with a song on their own, they'd disappear. What is Justin Bieber without an army of writers, producers, and choreographers? Without all that, he's nothing more than a fun guy on karaoke night.
But really, the vast majority of Billboard music has always been crap. It still is, just in a different form.
I agree with that. I think the difference between yesterday and today is that, yesterday, there was rebellion in a lot of music that ended up going mainstream. Today, most mainstream music is acquiescence to the status quo. Ever see the movie Demolition Man starring Sylvester Stalone? I truly believe that music is headed in a direction that could very well end up with the Armour Hot Dogs jingle as the number one song on the charts.