Wow, another emerging that I totally agree with.
At 3/31/2006 12:37 PM, Robert Patterson wrote:
>Then, as now, almost all contemporary music was/is dross. ("Then" being
>whichever period, era, or style is your preferred poison.)
Exactly. And you cannot understand why anyone would listen to it, well,
except for females singing on video ;-)
Really, why does being sexy mean you actually have any musical talent?
(Side note: I am on another list that is having a huge war about Fox's
IDOL and whether anyone on it has any musical talent whatsoever.
If you haven't watched it, you should watch 1 or 2 episodes. That was all
I could take. ;-)
But it appears to be "on the scene".
>For my money, the most influential and still-viable music of the last 50
>years (in any style) is the Beatles, and no other music I've heard comes
>close. I do not discount the possibility that contemporary styles can
>produce a music of equal staying power, but I do not think they have yet.
Great synopsis. I thought the early stuff was repetitive and boring. But,
they then developed into real musicians and made some exemplary music.
>After McCartney sang the Superbowl half-time last year, another new
>generation became enthralled with the Beatles. I am continually amazed
>how each successive generation rediscovers and owns them. (We boomers
>may have appreciated Goodman or Ellington. I certainly have. But we
>never *owned* them: they always belonged to our grandparents.)
I am pre-boomer, does that mean I own them ;-)
>That said, something that is fundamentally different now than just about
>any previous period I can think of, especially pop music of the last 50
>years, is the complete splintering of taste. My impression is that there
>no longer is any music that essentially everyone knows, even within a
>single demographic or age bracket. I think this makes it far more
>difficult for the next Beatles or the next Beethoven to emerge. Whether
>such emergence is important I leave as an exercise for the reader.
My personal opinion is that "rap" has a lot to do with it, but it may
actually have a lot more to do with impending immigration laws.
The whole country is becoming more splintered by the millions of illegal
immigrants who refuse to learn English.
Phil Daley < AutoDesk >
http://www.conknet.com/~p_daley
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