Music these days...

[davos]

The breadth and scope of current artists are not as good as previous generations. Artists back in the day had to go on the road to promote an album. So the album had to be good and they had to perform. Now one song can be downloaded a bazillion times and who cares about their other songs.

Every year good and bad gets produced. I just think you have to sift through more bad just to get to the good.

And i have two teen daughters so i get it.

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There's some truth and faults in this logic.  I just find that there are weird expectations from older generations not about the quality but where the quality comes from.  When the expected outlets of quality music start going down, they diss the entirety of the music industry.  It's not that hard to find some awesome music nowadays. 

 

There may not be a second coming of Tales from Topographic Oceans or Demons and Wizards but there's great stuff out there. 

[pstall]

​how can even positively quantify your first sentence?  i doubt you've listened to every artist that's out there right now.  probably not even 1% of them.  what's going on just below the surface is insanely vibrant right now and easier to access than ever before.  the problem with your generation (haha i loved typing that) is that you seemingly don't want to turn off the radio and go look for it.  you keep looking at this through the lens of the old, outdated, top-down structure the big labels are clinging to.

if the album format is dead then why did vinyl sales hit a 20 year high last year?  just a coincidence?  one direction fans getting confused and going to a record shop and buying melody echo chamber LPs by accident?

Nostalgia for vinyl. I only  listen to Pandora and  im constantly discovering new music.

Sorry your old man stereotype shoe doesn't fit here.

[pstall]

​how can even positively quantify your first sentence?  i doubt you've listened to every artist that's out there right now.  probably not even 1% of them.  what's going on just below the surface is insanely vibrant right now and easier to access than ever before.  the problem with your generation (haha i loved typing that) is that you seemingly don't want to turn off the radio and go look for it.  you keep looking at this through the lens of the old, outdated, top-down structure the big labels are clinging to.

if the album format is dead then why did vinyl sales hit a 20 year high last year?  just a coincidence?  one direction fans getting confused and going to a record shop and buying melody echo chamber LPs by accident?

Nostalgia for vinyl. I only  listen to Pandora and  im constantly discovering new music.

Sorry your old man stereotype shoe doesn't fit here.

[pstall]

Good article in the uk telegraph about dealing album sales. Rarely does anyone sell 3 x platinum. 

[davos]

Nostalgia for vinyl. I only  listen to Pandora and  im constantly discovering new music.

Sorry your old man stereotype shoe doesn't fit here.

​I don't think it's nostalgia.  Plenty of young people are buying vinyl nowadays...and not just urban outfitter f*cks

[pstall]

Album sales overall have been decling for 15 consecutive years.

2014 your top album was the frozen soundtrack . Which was released in 2013 and just sold 3 mil.

Vinyl is up due urban outfitters  typestate. Even those polaroid  type  cameras are making a comeback.

I contend its just  easier to buy snippets here and there more often than that's what sells.

 

 

 

[davos]

​Well if you're talking strictly sales, there's plenty to dissect but the thread was more about quality which there is a ton of out there.  It's easier to have a spotify account or find stuff online but that doesn't diminish any quality (which it seems you do w/Pandora).  But with Vinyl, it's something you can preserve, collect, and I really don't think it's a hip trend.  It's for people who like albums.  Most record stores by me have as big new music sections as the used and people have never really strayed away from it like has been done with a-tracks and cassettes, and CDs.  I think the idea that it's some hipster trend is highly inaccurate. 

[Darth Biscuit]

This thread has become what I had hoped it would not...  my original intent was to make fun of that one particular song...

Every generation has great and horrible music, now is no different.  When I was young we had "New Kids on the Block"... today you have "One Direction"... it's not about old and young at all.

 

Nobody has a monopoly on what's good and what isn't... sure we can all agree that Miley Cyrus and Justin Beiber are horrible, but I can find comparable artists from any decade... 

[Johnny Rockets]

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Uh oh Biscuit.....now even Dave Grohl is on the bandwagon.......

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"I'm officially obsessed - she might want to get a restraining order."

The 46-year-old dedicated three different songs in his set to Swift, including Congregation, which was recorded in her hometown of Nashville, Tennessee.

"I'm all about T-Swift. I'm going to dedicate this song to Taylor Swift, how about that?" the 46-year-old said to the cheering crowd.

http://www.stuff.co.nz/entertainment/music/68874876/foo-fighters-dave-grohl-admits-obsession-with-taylor-swift

 

 

 

 

[Darth Biscuit]

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Uh oh Biscuit.....now even Dave Grohl is on the bandwagon.......

. .

 

"I'm officially obsessed - she might want to get a restraining order."

 

The 46-year-old dedicated three different songs in his set to Swift, including Congregation, which was recorded in her hometown of Nashville, Tennessee.

"I'm all about T-Swift. I'm going to dedicate this song to Taylor Swift, how about that?" the 46-year-old said to the cheering crowd.

 

http://www.stuff.co.nz/entertainment/music/68874876/foo-fighters-dave-grohl-admits-obsession-with-taylor-swift

 

 

 

 

​Why Dave, why???

[Johnny Rockets]

​Why Dave, why???

​Well I don't think it's a coincidence that I post something about Taylor and a couple of days later Dave is also a hug fan.....

It's obvious he reads the Huddle in his spare time and is a big fan of me. 

[Darth Biscuit]

​Well I don't think it's a coincidence that I post something about Taylor and a couple of days later Dave is also a hug fan.....

It's obvious he reads the Huddle in his spare time and is a big fan of me. 

​I'm pretty sure Dave Grohl has a Johnny Rockets T-shirt.

[TheRumGone]

 

 

Mostly awful

 

 

Hair bands and terrible synthesizer music. 

 

 

All rubbish. 

 

 

Thank god Nirvana killed it all. 

​you can thank the pixies for that not nirvana.

 

nirvana ripped off the pixies like no other band has ripped off another band in the history of music.

 

not saying nirvana isn't good, but even cobain admitted this.  so in conclusion, i would stop talking poo about pop music, especially rap music, or poo just any music in general when you don't even know easy info like this. :-)

[*FreeFua*]

Eric Church or GTFO!