Music nowadays is shit: Discuss. (1 Viewer)

[Space]

I get ya now thanks D. "derivative hipster shite" covers it for me across the genres.

 

[Lili Marlene]

Ex Throwing Muses alt-rock icon Kristin Hersh says her multiple personality wrote her music

a more positive take on it all:

For someone so tough on the music industry, it is a surprise to hear her say today's ultra-commercialised pop culture is a dramatic improvement on the 1970s and 1980s.

“It was more insidious when we were growing up,” Hersh says. “It’s so dissipated [today] that you choose not only your genre, your decade, if you want to go exploring, and you choose your subcultures much more easily now.

“Shelf space and payola does not determine what we listen to any longer, all that went into fooling us to thinking we were bandwagoning with everybody else.”

“We have our own little villages again, even though they are spread out globally. I’m so attracted to that, I have to say. It finally happened, it finally blew apart!"

this may be the wrong thread, was there another one covering the music industry these days?

 

[rettucs]

Neil Young says he hasn't written a decent song since he stopped smoking weed.

 

[Lili Marlene]

Neil Young says he hasn't written a decent song since he stopped smoking weed.

why'd he stop?

 

[rettucs]

why'd he stop?

dunno, maybe he was sick of writing good songs?

 

[sleepy]

why'd he stop?

Did he ever start?! Ho ho!

 

[Cornu Ammonis]

Neil Young says he hasn't written a decent song since he stopped smoking weed.

Good thing I disagree with him. "Walk Like a Giant" is a monster.

 

[therealjohnny]

Music nowadays is shit: Discuss.

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[Lili Marlene]

The Wanted split up months ago, GAWD

 

[therealjohnny]

boy is my face red

 

[Lili Marlene]

To continue from above, this is another slightly messed up interview with Kristin Hersh, cos all interviews with her are a bit messed up, but it includes these choice bit:

There aren’t many good songs in this world. There are way more bad ones. I guess I just wouldn’t call them songs...If they’re stuck in time, if they’re trendy, if they have a moral, if they have a hook, if they have something that drags them down, then they won’t offer you any insight. But real songs, the songs that fly, it’s through them that we learn how to view our life...

...Musicians mostly work in bedrooms and garages, basements, sometimes bars or churches, street corners. Music is mostly ephemeral. It’s very unusual for real music to be in the music business, because it doesn’t suit the musician. Every now and then a Nick Drake will slip through or the Violent Femmes will make a record that just pops, but generally speaking, music and the music business are mutually exclusive.

In Conversation: Kristin Hersh | Features | Clash Magazine


Regrettably I like all the fake songs she's embarrassed about writing.

 

[Kermit McDermott]

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[David Kronenbourg]

Music is shit nowadays. Hoping I can get through life without hearing this spunkfest BBC unveils all-star version of God Only Knows, 17 years after Perfect Day | Music | The Guardian

 

[7 - No tomorrow]

Why is the BBC even in the music business?
Or the light entertainment business?

I can see news programmes and factual stuff, but the rest seems like someone else's remit.

 

[pete]

17 years since they did perfect day? ah here.

 

[sleepy]

Music is shit nowadays. Hoping I can get through life without hearing this spunkfest BBC unveils all-star version of God Only Knows, 17 years after Perfect Day | Music | The Guardian

Heard it last night. It's pretty bad. I think what ruins it is the fucking awful vocal gymnastics that half the singers insist on doing. "I've got one line to make an impression, better make it count: God onlaayyyy KNOOOOWWWSSsssahhhh"

 

[David Kronenbourg]

Heard it last night. It's pretty bad. I think what ruins it is the fucking awful vocal gymnastics that half the singers insist on doing. "I've got one line to make an impression, better make it count: God onlaayyyy KNOOOOWWWSSsssahhhh"

it kinda makes my skin crawl

 

[Lili Marlene]

Listening now....

there's Pharrell

 

[Lili Marlene]

haha Dave Grohl pops up!

 

[therealjohnny]

I was surprised to see him there too.

Stevie Wonder's harmonica sound and Brian May's guitar sound--unique and instantly identifiable

You'd think they get tired of the same sound after all these years.

I'm guessing this thing is aimed at xmas number one-which means we're going to be plagued with it until 2015