is the internet stifling music. (1 Viewer)

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By John Taylor
Duran Duran bassist

I hated being a teenager, until I discovered just how powerful the world of popular music was. It helped me find an identity and find myself.
Not just the notes and beats, but the icons and the haircuts and the clothes and the liner notes. Music saved me in a way, or at least it gave me a sense of direction of how life could be.
I became a teenager in 1972. In 1972, I was listening to music that was almost exclusively made in 1972. Some of it had been made in 1971, but that was about it, with few exceptions.

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http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/8347178.stm

 

[snakybus]

question: is the internet damaging music?
answer: not as much as Duran Duran did

 

[ratmonkey]

Duran Duran had their moments. Like when Roberto beat Sugar Ray Leonard.

 

[Lili Marlene]

ah now, don't be Mitchum about this, Duran Duran are great.

and he's got a point to an extent. But maybe people just listen to music differently now

all queries should be addressed to Bob Lefsetz

 

[Jerry Twig]

'This relative lack of need for current, innovative culture can cause, has caused, is causing - maybe - the innovative culture to slow down....'

Total fucking nonsense article.

 

[ratmonkey]

I like Duran Duran. Pretty hit and miss after the first album though.

Vaguely relevant but always entertaining:

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[snakybus]

ah Mitchum, where is he these days?

 

[Red_Dog]

???? Yeah well thats life things change , If he had of taught like this in 72 he wouldnt have got anywhere then. If anything the internet has made it much easier for people to get their stuff heard............... blah balah blah social networking

 

[snakybus]

Classic Red_Dog

 

[palace]

Duran Duran had their moments. Like when Roberto beat Sugar Ray Leonard.

or when he administered that orgmasatron to jane fonda...

 

[nlgbbbblth]

Rio. No filler.

 

[Kermit McDermott]

Pop is digesting itself.

 

[Dr_stanley]

is music stifling the internet?

 

[washingcattle]

Does anyone really care what anyone from Duran Duran thinks ?

 

[Lili Marlene]

Yes

 

[Lili Marlene]

no.

 

[SONYMEGADRIVE]

 

[Red_Dog]

Does anyone really care what anyone from Duran Duran thinks ?

Eh Lads, Nick Rhodes ????

The mans a synth legend

 

[Kermit McDermott]

I kind of know what he's getting at. I remember being in Bruxselles a few years ago, on the "indie" side, and they were playing loads of sixties bands, beatles, stones, Kinks ect, all of which I love. But I kind of thought it would be like being back in the sixties and going to pubs and listening to Sinatra & all that crooner shit instead of the latest music. Listening to the music of your parents generation.

I do think pop and rock music is becoming a bit like classical music, a museum basically where it becomes nigh on impossible to improve on the music of the past,
so we end up listening to the old stuff. I as guilty of this as anyone.

We're the box set generation.

 

[Los Davos]

This makes no sense at all. It is utter indisputable rubish.