Music nowadays is shit: Discuss. (1 Viewer)

[pete]

i'd forgotten about that My Town connection

http://members.tripod.com/~irish_pop/mytownframe.html

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ah, bless

 

[Lili Marlene]

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I'm not really sure what I have to say about this but it's probably true.

 

[pete]

Seems reasonable

 

[Space]

Make your own playlists.

 

[george mcfly]

Make your own tapes.

 

[nooleen]

make your own fuckin' tea

 

[Hector Grey]

Make your own fucking music.

 

[Hector Grey]

What's hoopla over Royal Blood? Why are they rated? Seems a trifle rehashed to me, with the added bonus of having no nuance because there's only two of them. Every time some young lads do some rock and roll, the world is saved again. But why? I dunno. Anyone got an insight.

Also: Tuneyards. How is that supposed to be sustainable over a career? One idea, that's really fucking grating after the second listen.

The answer is, I suppose, have loads of band members. Throw in a tuba. Don't collaborate with Mark Ronson. Collaborate with John Ronson. I'd listen to that.

 

[Lili Marlene]

Royal Blood are dreadaful imho.

What exactly is it about Tuneyards that is not sustainable? What is this one idea you are referring to? I see a lot of ideas, building on each other, over 3 albums. Most recent album doesn't even have ukelele, which is a pretty much what the entire first album is based on.

 

[Hector Grey]

Royal Blood are dreadaful imho.

What exactly is it about Tuneyards that is not sustainable? What is this one idea you are referring to? I see a lot of ideas, building on each other, over 3 albums. Most recent album doesn't even have ukelele, which is a pretty much what the entire first album is based on.

I just find it all kinda repetitive. I gave Tuneyards a go, but nothing grabbed me. Don't like her voice either, which is kind of a big part of the whole oeuvre. As for sustainability, there's a couple of tunes that are ok, I might hear one and think, hey, that ain't so bad. But two in a row is too much. I attribute this as much to the modern fad of compressing everything and mastering at an obnoxiously high level, which makes listening an unpleasant and nuance free experience.

But I'm more than open to the suggestion that this is because I am now old, and that I don't get the young peoples' music. Funny that.

 

[dudley]

it's her voice, not the mastering

 

[Lili Marlene]

I think WHOKILL is the only of the 3 albums I like start to finish, all the songs on that are good to great imho. But yeah, if you don't like the voice then you're out.

I'm like that with the Mountain Goats; I like the songs, I like the lyrics, I like the arrangements, I like the general attitude.... cannot stand his voice. Therefore I hate all their music.

 

[ann post]

Also: Tuneyards. How is that supposed to be sustainable over a career? One idea, that's really fucking grating after the second listen.

Why does it have to be a sustainable career?

 

[Hector Grey]

Why does it have to be a sustainable career?

I don't get you.

 

[ann post]

As for sustainability, there's a couple of tunes that are ok, I might hear one and think, hey, that ain't so bad. But two in a row is too much.

Also: Tuneyards. How is that supposed to be sustainable over a career?

I don't get you.

I'm quoting you and asking you a question about something you said about music. Its sorta on you to explain why that is a factor, if you want to.

 

[Hector Grey]

I'm quoting you and asking you a question about something you said about music. Its sorta on you to explain why that is a factor, if you want to.

Well, whether or not she wants to go on making music her life/career is up to her. I meant as in a body of work, from my point of view. I find her work thus far, her career if you will, a little one note, as it were. The lack of variation bores me.

But I don't mean "career" as in the next 40 years or anything. Bad choice of word, now that you point it out. CHEEERS M8.

 

[nooleen]

LADS, lads.

let's have a big fight.

 

[Lili Marlene]

while we're at it:

Why Perfect Pussy Are The Biggest Fuck You To Punk | NOISEY

the backlash starts probably before this article was even written

 

[Lili Marlene]

this is actually super interesting

The Shazam Effect - The Atlantic

Everyone I spoke with about the Hot 100—label and radio executives, industry analysts, and other journalists—agreed with Jay Frank’s assessment that consumers have more say than they did decades ago, when their tastes were shaped by the hit makers at labels. But here’s the catch: if you give people too much say, they will ask for the same familiar sounds on an endless loop, entrenching music that is repetitive, derivative, and relentlessly played out.

Now that the Billboard rankings are a more accurate reflection of what people buy and play, songs stay on the charts much longer. The 10 songs that have spent the most time on the Hot 100 were all released after 1991, when Billboard started using point-of-sale data—and seven were released after the Hot 100 began including digital sales, in 2005. “It turns out that we just want to listen to the same songs over and over again,” Pietroluongo told me.


Because the most-popular songs now stay on the charts for months, the relative value of a hit has exploded.The top 1 percent of bands and solo artists now earn 77 percent of all revenue from recorded music, media researchers report. And even though the amount of digital music sold has surged, the 10 best-selling tracks command 82 percent more of the market than they did a decade ago. The advent of do-it-yourself artists in the digital age may have grown music’s long tail, but its fat head keeps getting fatter.

 

[pete]

this is actually super interesting

The Shazam Effect - The Atlantic

“It turns out that we just want to listen to the same songs over and over"




You think?