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More and more Established EDM artists in genres like Progressive house, Trance, Dubstep, And Electro-house, Dutchouse, Tech house Etc. Are collaborating with more mainstream vocalists and releasing albums and
singles that have fianlly broken into top 40.
A lot of EDM lovers are complaining bout this but I dont see anything wrong with trying to get yourself out of the unknown, or underground.
It make it easier for people who listen to to that type of music to find the Albums in record stores, and you dont get stared at or laughed at for buying it or playing it.
I used to listen to almost exlclusively dance music and stuff in High school and got laughed at..... now everybodys bumping some kind of EDM in thier cars.
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Everybody? Not so, respectfully.
Freedom is the right to discipline yourself.
I heard it there in '82 and have hated it ever since.
I like that people are listening to music - any music! Even that which I don't care for, such as electronica and rap/hiphop. Those people are being moved by it, just as I am moved by the music I love.
My sons are into heavy metal (don't ask me to strip it down further - lol). One of the many guitarists that comes around told me how much he was into the sound of a guitar. I turned him on to Segovia, Bill Kirchen, Robert Johnson, BB King and many other guitarists of many other genres. He has found much to like, and he still loves his metal.
So whatever you listen to, enjoy it... and maybe try to branch out a bit on occasion to see what else you might be missing. I never thought I'd find any metal I could love, or any ambient music. People that "get" music can usually appreciate tremendous talent within genres they have had little exposure to, and they evolve as a result. But even if they don't, they're still music lovers, which gives them a special place in my heart.
I listen to a Dance Channel on the cable box, I rarely tire of it, but when I purchase CD's or LP's it's not dance. Go figure.
I love the folks who say electronica is the same over an over - really but the Stones and the Beatles were so vast with their 3-4 instruments? I like them BUT - the Beatles sound pretty much the same - it's not like bands are going to do anything revolutionary with a drum set, bass guitar, electric guitar and singer.
Bottom line is it comes down to what YOU like. I don't really get why people rip into different music or artists. 80s music was considered complete crap during the 80s and now it is held onto as the last good decade of music by most. Too funny.
The same people who whine about Rap not being music because the guy can't sing - but has a bunch of Bob Dylan, Mick jagger, and Leonard Cohen albums makes me sneeze my drink through my nose.
Those three together couldn't hold a sustained noted for 3 bars if you held a gun to their head. They're TERRIBLE singers. So you buy it for their "poetry" well if we're buying it for poetry because it speaks to us and our plights then I don't see how that is ANY different than buying 2Pac for the plight of his fans.
Not sure how this is "bad" music. And it is music and it is JUST as relevant as anything else.
Just like anything - there is good and bad jazz, rock, pop, rap, and trance, house, hip-hop. And that is subjective anyway.
Being unwilling to accept anything new is a trait common in people of all ages.
Point taken. Age has nothing to do with. Older guys have introduced me to plenty of house/trance that I never heard of. I guess the term old fart is less to do with age and more to do with fuddy-duddyness which occurs at any age.
I like 90s rock too Dont own much of it but Every once and a while I find an internet radio station that plays stuff by Nirvana, Wheatus, Audio slave, and pearl jam.
A lot of 90s CDs have been showing up at thrifs lately and I've been buying them like sugar.. and spending money like water.. got some 80s rock too. I like bon jovi so I bought about 4 albums of thiers...
As for electronica eurobeat can be cheesy and annoying but in moderation its okay, I usually buy CDs of stuff like that if its got songs I remember from my childhood. If you didn't dance to cotton eye joe when you were 5 or 6 back then, you were a sheltered kid.
Dont care for that song now... way too cheesy!
I usually go for the Dirty dubsteppy and Ambient/hard trance stuff I like the cheesy stuff too but less so...
I once found a radio station on the internet that played nothing but cheesy happy dance music sung by what sounded like chipmunks. That stuff can kill zombies...
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At least you aren't like a friend of mine at college. He was the hardest of hardcore fans. He had fights with Bauhaus art rockers and Joy Division suicidalists. He didn't just go to the gigs, follow the band, buy the records, wear the T-Shirt... he got the band's name tattooed across his chest in huge letters.
Imagine his surprise when weeks after the tattoo healed, Adam and the Ants morphed from being the Dirk Wears White Sox dark post-punk rock bleakness to dandy teeny-pop princes.
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"It's merely a subset of the prefabricated, formulaic dreck that seems to be the only stuff passed on as "popular" these days."
What you noted was true all the way into the late 80's. That's when the labels themselves (who had been trying to kill every other genre off for years) did the most insidious thing ever. They embraced a half dozen bands, called them "alternative" and that's all you heard on the radio the next 10 years, these same sounding alternative bands that were not alternatives to anything as it was all you heard.
Now rock, all of it, sounds like these horrific "alternative" bands.
Country and western was turned into a bad form of the above years ago as well. It's no different other than the singer has an "country" accent, the lyrics are different (he's bemoaning a lost pickup truck) and you might hear a pedal steel in the song somewhere.
What this guy is talking about is just a further morphing of rap, which was never music any more than this is and it doesn't require any more talent than rap does either.
Those are the worlds 3 choices in "popular" music. It's enough to make you reach for the safety on your Luger....
Good music does exist, but it's generally called "indie" and the general public is entirely ignorant of it even though much of it is as good or better than anything ever done. One of the best bands of the past 15 years is The Acid House Kings. They release a gem of an album every 3-4 years yet nobody knows who they are. Say Yes If You Love Me
It's all about the music...
I just happen to believe the network media dictates to the masses what music will be popular, not the collective tastes of the mainstream audience. The media initially creates a false impression of popularity towards a certain performer or song, the masses perceive it as "genuinely" popular, then unsuspectingly pile on. The end result is popularity due mainly to a seeded illusion of it.
When I saw Chris Brown on the good morning America show a few weeks ago I just wanted to throw a hammer at the screen.
Even your morning Network television pushes the agenda without question. They will embrace a woman beating, no talent looser if it gains em a few extra viewers. Shameless whores they are.
I normally never bother to watch such programing. Happened to be at a friends house when it was on. Reminded me why I stopped watching nearly ALL television as a whole over the years. Pretty much only PBS is what I pay any attention to. Vast majority is pure trash IMO.
As a teen of the 90s I have to attest to the fact there were some GREAT rock and roll bands that were clumped into, part of that genre and era.
I mean, come on, are you gonna say Pearl Jam sucks? Also look at Sound Garden, Chris Cornell is an AMAZING rock singer. One of my all time favorites. Also the first two Stone Temple Pilot albums were great rock. Alice in Chains was another great band. Heck, Wheezer, Smashing Pumpkins, Rage, RHCP, Live... And lastly, what may go down in history as most under rated rock type band of the 90s Blind Melon. Yes the bumble bee girl video of No Rain, that band. That entire 1st album they released was a work of art. The 2nd album was pretty darn good too. Then the signer died...
Sorry but I have to stand up for my teen youth years of rock. Grated allot of BAD stuff was, record company created, of that time and beyond. But there still were allot of AMAZINGLY talented folks to emerge out of the Alternative era / genre.
Probably my all time favorite is The Black Crowes, who are still making great music. They were never really "alternative". Always rock / southern rock IMO. They can do and love REAL country and blues. And its obvious in their music they like it. Yeah they made a couple not so amazing albums but their first 3 records are just incredible works of rock. Pickup at Warpaint on up. IMO they are like the Rolling Stones of modern time.
This is a video clip from Chris and Rich Robinson, lead singer and lead guitarist of the band. They toured and cut Brothers of a Feather, CD and DVD. Just a wonderful culmination of acoustic / electric soul, blues and rock numbers on the tour. They clearly have some real talent.
People are often disposed to the "music of their youth" and it not only tends to be the only thing they like or listen to their entire lives, it's why they often can't access other things. That's called musical amberism. It's why old farts drive around humming Elvis tunes, and even older ones hum Benny Goodman.
I'm not asking you to stand up for your tastes or your music. You like what you like, I like what I like. However the things you mentioned were many of the very bands I was referring to when I said the industry created it's own banal version of alternative and packaged it off for everyone. I don't happen to care for a single thing you mentioned. I think it's all awful.
Those are just opinions however, but that the 90's were a black hole in the history of popular music is not. They are the time when the culture of popular music that had existed (for most of the 20th century, and beyond really) finally died. Even if musical amberism isn't good, at least everyone walked around humming the same songs. In the 90's we stopped walking around humming the same songs, and we have not since.
It's all about the music...
Right now Im jamming Randy Newman Rednecks on my laptop. He is a phenomenal lyricist and composer IMO.
I LOVE and listen to classical and jazz ALL the time too. My laptop is loaded with hundreds of CDs Ive picked up along the way in life. Constantly at thrift stores, mainly to find music. Everyone and their brother is looking to flip ANYTHING nowadays. But the music flows like water. At 50 cents to $2 for LPs and CDs, Im always growing my collection.
Since turning 19 my tastes have grown like mad. I listening to obscure stuff, world music and indie as you cited. Nearly anything. I love to broaden my horizons and not get stuck in a funk of knowing of and liking a narrow area.
Finding Bill Evans jazz for me really opened the Jazz door wide open! Blues and classical followed. Ive now got a huge collection of all the listen to it often. So if I may, I dont feel in lost in "amberism".
I do get where your coming from, but think part of the music industry and artists I mentioned have legitimate merit.
That being said, a WHOLE LOTTA CRAP has come out and things show no signs of tapering that effect. But there is allot of good stuff out there too, if ones willing to look for it.
All the best
Dave
Perhaps you are simply more expansive than I am, but then again I have always been a pop whore.
The problem is not that there isn't a "whole lotta crap" as you put it, the problem is that nobody knows about it. There is no culture of popular music anymore, it is dead. Go look on youtube for these "gems" of yours and they'll be lucky to have 4 thousand hits, if they are even there. Meanwhile the "dreck" on the radio has a half million, or more.
So yes, if we do lots of work, talk to people, get lucky, we may find hidden gems. However we shouldn't have to be doing any of that. If the music industry has a gem, why the hell are they not shoving it on our face? Same goes for audio. With tons of work on their part people can find out about good audio gear and buy it. Why should they have to?
Do you have to do that to find the best refridgerator? Is there some hidden community of refer enthusiasts (like this place) that buy and own cutting edge refer technology nobody else knows about? No.
Audio is dead.
The pop music culture is dead.
Sad, but that is the truth of it.
It's all about the music...
Yeah I can see why youd be VERY disheartened if, as you put it, your a pop whore. That would really suck...
That being known and said, I can completely understand how these would be the most depressing of times ever. That scene really has sucked, for me at least, since about the mid 90s.
For me, the most liberating realization came in discovering, I make my own music, audio gear, so fourth, reality. I dont rely upon others to, show me the way. If Im understanding you properly, seems you like to see what the industry, music scene, general trends are pushing forward, and go / gauge upon that. Again, if Im getting you right, you like to know and roll with what the mass population is pushing forward.
If thats the case, yeah these times suck. For me, I enjoy the fact I make my world and music scene what I choose. Thats been my way for as long as I remember. I was always quite the nerd for technology and music from 5 y/o on up. I remember in the early 80s when I was in my single digits, falling in love with The Who's Tommy, Jethro Tull's Stand Up and Thick as a Brick so on... Take that with my facination for electronics and stereo gear, I was DOOMED as a young child. No real common ground with my fellow grade school classmates. So Ive had to walk to the beat of my own drum for all I can remember. No biggie, learned to adapt along the way as time went on. It was in high school that I learned to embrace it and use it to my advantage. Then after high school I really learned to run with it.
Yeah, to me, good music, gear, the whole shebang simply has to be found by YOU. I just cant imagine wanting to and or depend on mainstream to dictate my tastes and purchases.
Plus, one thing that I feel you may not be properly factoring in. With the advent of the internet and mass changes in music as we know it, combined with population increase, its SO not the playing field it once was compared to 50+ years ago. IMO its really hard to quantify what the music scene is today. Theres just SOOOO much to be known and heard nowadays, seems impossible to try and gauge what music and gear is on the whole. Just a large ocean of EVERYTHING these days.
So yeah, I think I now better get where your coming from. And yeah, I think we simply approach things very differently.
Im content with my ways, seems to be suiting me ok overall. Im happy.
All the best
Dave
I got you confused by the term pop whore. By that I simply meant I like music... how to say it.... in the UK in the old days they had a term (and a show) called the old grey whistle test.They'd go out behind the studio, find a bum, play him a tape of a song they just recorded and if he could whistle it back on just one hearing then it meant it was catchy and would likely do well. Music is supposed to have a hook, that's what makes pop music. It's supposed to have brilliant instrumentation, good, if not insightful lyrics. It's supposed to be a celebration of what music is and how we feel about it, that's why it's called pop (popular) music.
That said, what I like runs a very broad spectrum and you probably wouldn't consider a lot of it "pop". In any case none of it is anything you have ever heard of before, and we're talking hundreds of bands and thousands of albums. How is that good?
I also did not say I want to rely on anyone. I simply said it shouldn't be an F'ing ordeal to find new stuff, and it IS an F'ing ordeal. Finding something good is like panning for gold in alaska. You can spend a week, hell a month, looking and get nothing. There is no reason for it to be that difficult, and as I said, I own thousands of brilliant things you'll never own or know about. That bothers you not at all? You're OK with being cheated out of that much?
Here is an example. Brilliant Indonesian band named Mocca, they normally have a bit of a jazz tilt and this is a song they did with swedish band Club 8 (also brilliant). Lablel it what you will, to me it's brilliant and a crime nobody has ever heard it. If you like it that's unfortunate as the LP it was on is OOP and they likely won't make them ever again. Again, what is good about that?
Note, the first 30 seconds is a commercial - Mocca
One of the best albums of the past 20 years was Cafe Regio by the US band Holiday. Never heard of them or it? Don't feel bad nobody else did either. Just 100 hits Holiday
I just hope you don't start looking for a used copy, they tend to start at $100
What may be the best album of the past 20 years is "Now that we're alone" by the band Fine from Barcelona Spain. A whole 297 views...
What a gorgeous song that is.
There is nothing good in the fact that great people have formed brilliant bands and cut titanic albums and nobody knows it. You being content and happy not withstanding.
It's all about the music...
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Your passion for this is so strong, it had me seeing things in a few directions. Also you seem to have this very bleak, dystopian view of things around you. Thanks to technology many new artists have a chance of being heard.
Yeah Im VERY familiar with, the show, Old Grey Whistle test. Never knew of the pop culture meaning behind the phrase. The show, I for one, have spent loads of time on you tube trying to watch all I could of the many great rock artists of years gone by. Humble Pie doing Black Coffee is one of my favorites. The very fact I could do this is an example of why Ive hope for things.
I think if there is a crime of things as they are, its that, many new, NOT top 40 artists cant make a "good" shall I say, living off their wonderful work. They DO however, stand a really good chance being heard by some thanks to the internet. MANY new bands will opt to release their LP for free on the internet in order to get their material heard and spread my many. IMO its one the best ways to get yourself out there.
Another approach being done is the, pay what you want, approach. Radiohead did this with their In Rainbows album and claimed to have done very well. Of course theres also direct to consumer release via the net. NIN did this with two albums. One for free the other for fixed prices less than $10 for the full album.
And you also have CD Baby and many other sites that only focus on small time names and labels. However I think a bands web site is probably their best asset. Offer allot of material, video clips, music and the fan base can help allot. One of my favorite touring bands does this allot. Umphrey's McGee. Their site is great. Helps them allot.
Also, whether one likes it or not, MUCH music is found via torrent sites. Again, not taking a solid stance on this one. I feel theres good and bad in this. On a positive note, it allows a wouldbe fan to find music that would otherwise be unobtanium and or priced out of reach. Some of the bands you mentioned before I was able to find on torrent search engines. Whether this is good or bad in your eyes I dont know. Personally, I would hope many artists would be happy that their music could possibly find an audience it might not know thanks to web sites. Especially after an artist has passed. Their music can live on. And not thanks to the labels promoting it, but the curiosity of never before known audience.
These are new and uncharted times, technology and its effect on exposure and distribution. I know right now ASCAP is trying to push a bill through that would somehow tax allot of these torrent sites and get the money to ASCAP to get back to some of the artists. Ill be the first to say, this would likly do very little for small name groups. But its a start. In economic times like these where so many are financially stretched to the limit, its hard to convince many that spending on an unknown group would be a hard sale. Part of the reason Im very much for bands getting internet exposure. Also gives them a chance of growing their crowd should they wish to tour.
Your CLEARLY very passionate of your knowledge of music and their being known. May I suggest you add something like, bands you may not know, to your fine web site? Your obviously a very talented gentleman with a vast knowledge of music many probably dont know. Share it with part of the world. I for one, would love to see a list you could make and find examples on youtube. Its through acts like that that many unknowns could be known to more.
I guess I just dont see it all as gloom and doom. Am I happy I dont know many of these great bands you know. No, I sure would like to at least have a chance to hear them. But with a 48 hr a week job, and a 4 y/o son to raise, I only have so much time to hunt. Again, part of the reason I suggest an addition to your site. Be a part of getting names you take pride in known. I feel many simply dont know where to look to find good stuff. Part of the reason forums like this exist. Also many, music only discussion forums out there.
I am proud of my knowledge of artists of the past. Personally I dont see why future generations not knowing of great artists of times gone by, is any less a tragedy of not knowing current artists. If great music goes unheard, great music goes unheard. That sucks.
And yes, I wish finding great new music wasnt like panning for gold.
All the best
Dave
You're not getting it.
I do not suffer from "gloom and doom". It is simply a fact the system is broken, those running the system deliberately broke it, and there is very little chance it will ever be made right again. These are just facts, and facts I can't understand why I or anyone should be happy about. Just because an obscure website like mine exists to tell people about some things doesn't make it all better.
You also don't understand why it broke. Go rent and watch the movie the Wonders if you have never seen it. That is what used to happen. When indie labels died in the 70's it left major labels without a method of finding talent, and trust me, amazingly enough major record labels have no idea how to find talent. So instead they created their own sound and genres, all of which sound alike, to make it easier for them and easier to push on a brain dead general public. They care about making money, not making music. It is a case of swines being fed their swill, so again, why would anyone be happy about that?
However most young people don't know how bad it is because they never knew how good it was. There were bands in the 80's that never got the recognition they deserved, but they still tended to sell 50 to 75 thousand copies of their album, because they were being noted here and there. That does not happen anymore. Today the same type of band usually only has a 1,000 copies of any album made, and they are lucky if in 3-4 years they have all sold, and then no more ever get made. As a result these people can't even make a living at music, it's a hobby and as soon as life intrudes that tends to be it for them, which is another crime.
And all the new technology is not helping. It's creating islands of ignorance because people are not finding out. People are creatures of habit, so unless the thing ventures to them accidentally it tends to be hard to find the unusual thing because it is outside their normal haunts. Look at you and I, we have absolutely nothing in common, and this is why.
There is little point in youtube as 99% of this stuff has no videos. Indie people can't afford to make videos for albums nobody is going to buy. As for my website I get the impression you mean my Magnestand website. That is just a part of my real website the Indiepop Spinzone which I've been doing since 1998, although I have not written a review in 3 years since I moved. I am sure it played it's part but trust me, it nor I am changing anything.
When the Beatles sang love me do, everyone was going around singing love me do.
When the stones couldn't get satisfaction, everyone sang that.
When glenn campbell was a lineman for the county, everyone sang that.
When the human league said don't you want me baby, everyone sang that.
Now, popular music culture is dead in america. We no longer sing the same songs and we never will again. We have to go search out "our own thing" which is why you and I have nothing in common. You can tie as many bows on that corpse as you like, it will never be a good thing, and the fact that you seemingly are refusing to even look at and acknowledge that it is dead is more proof that it will never be reborn.
That's what depresses me most actually. I know this is a dark age, and Lord it couldn't almost be worse, and yet you're defending it, saying it's not so bad, you found a good album once accidentally etc... and that's enough. You are genuinely perplexed at my angst and saying I'm full of gloom and doom. Son, you're looking at the reflection in my eyes, the gloom and doom is all around you. Stop trying to understand it thru me and look at it for what it is. I believe your generation is sleepwalking thru life... and you exchange more and more of what matters in life for "technology" that is doing you no damn good.
It's all about the music...
Well, there may be something to what you say, but how do you account for artists like Sade Adu? I doubt there's any music listener on the planet that hasn't heard at least some of her songs. She is, for a pop musician, wildly successful without being particularly prolific--110 million albums sold worldwide and just 6 albums released since 1984 (not counting collections, etc).
And she's actually original, and a good musician, too.
I think we were somewhat spoon-fed in the 1970s, and maybe the record industry finds it easier to create "stars" now rather than rely on scouting the indie scene. But there was no one out there that could predict or create many of the great pop acts.
Steely Dan was a "cool" band that stoner college students listened to until "Aja" came out. Now "Aja" is in the permanent collection of the Library of Congress, believe it or not.
Not too bad for two stoners from Bard College.
I think that in pop music the cream will rise regardless of what the record companies do, so I'll be the voice of reason here.
I think we're in a dry spell, not a dark age.
Im sorry this world is so horrible for you.
The last generation was Gen X. This one is the lost generation - don't know, don't care...whatever is on your phone that morning is OK.
And you think you feel sorry for me, wow do I pity you. I could see if you disagreed, everyone has tastes, but you really don't even understand what I'm saying after all these exchanges. It's like I'm talking to a wall, or someone from another planet. Your reality and mine are not from the same Earth.
Fine then, why fight it. Go get your serving of dreck and be happy with it, why shouldn't you be happy with it? It's all anybody needs and why should we expect or want more? What was I even thinking....Good day to you.
It's all about the music...
shrugs ... enjoy
Hey John, you typed all the right words to describe Electronic dance music as I see it IMHO. "Dreck" ,"Insidious" and "It's enough to make you reach for the safety on your Luger" pretty much covers my take on EDM as mainstream music. I know your words were from different genres but the mix worked well for me :) I haven't seen you here much lately ,I hope your doing well and your absence is because your so busy with Maggies or the house building adventure.
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Rap excuses ignorance, promotes vulgarity, glorifies violence, reduces women to sex objects and it's sole power is the ability to drag everyone involved in it down to the same sub level of humanity. It requires no musical ability (you steal that from others) and you don't even need to speak english, just make up words and your ignorance magically becomes genius. (fo shizzle?)
It is the flag that flies over the mound of the death of black culture and black family values in America, and it is a HELL of a long way from Sonny Rollins or James Brown. The sooner it vanishes forever the better off all of us will be.
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Yes, been busy with the house as I have sworn to finish it this year and that may appear to be actually possible. So in that light, adieu for now...
It's all about the music...
> > A lot of EDM lovers are complaining bout this but I
> > dont see anything wrong with trying to get yourself
> > out of the unknown, or underground.
This reaction has been going on in the music world since the beginning. The people who were early fans of a particular style of music when it was new and virtually unknown often loathe the thought of it going mainstream. The thought of losing their status distresses them.
It probably ties back to the human desire to be a member of an exclusive group. In their mind, this makes them more special than the ordinary hoi polloi.
But, this reaction is hardly limited to music. Clothing, cars, art... why it even happens to audio equipment.
Good for some I guess I just don't care for it. Music has to draw me in and it doesn't at all .
it was the early 90s and as a young computer nerd it was the coolest thing to listen to and play with.
I was NO Trent Reznor but hey, there was nothing else like it to play with.
An example of someone who made the jump from 60s music to your electronic dance music is Yoko Ono. No joke. She makes, produces, so on allot of famous elec music.
I will admit to being interested in the stuff. If its got a good mixup going for it Ill give it props. Also there clearly is genuine talent in making a good mixup. That being said I could not listen to it for long periods of time and "getting into it". When I would still go to clubs with frinds in my early 20s, it was pretty cool environmental mix. But now I just cant seem to get into it like that.
Again I acknowledge its art like presence. But personally I just cant get that into it.
For me, I personally like scratch music far more. Like DJ Z-Trip, Mix Master Mike, early DJ Shadow. Old school Hip Hop stuff. But even that in small doses.
Really the older I got the more my tastes broadened into love of Blues, Jazz and Classical. I was just beginning to discover early Blues in high school and after that. I was a new music animal. I always have my first love, classic rock. From grade school to high school that was my staple. Still love it to death and listen to it allot.
I really hope as time goes on you keep on discovering new music. That really is the fun of it IMO.
Enjoy
It's merely a subset of the prefabricated, formulaic dreck that seems to be the only stuff passed on as "popular" these days.
I remember how popular music was back in the 1960s...... The music was incredibly diverse, from smooth instrumentals to wild rock parties..... And just about everything in between.......... But today, every artist and song seems to sound like a variant of the next- It's as interesting as watching paint dry.
What F Scott Fitzgerald wrote about rich people is true of many of "us", as well.
"Let me tell you about the very rich. They are different from you and me. They possess and enjoy early, and it does something to them, makes them soft, where we are hard, cynical where we are trustful, in a way that, unless you were born rich, it is very difficult to understand."
F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Rich Boy (1926)
Observe, before you think
(in agreement with Todd)
Whether one likes it or not does not take away from the fact that there is little variety. Same sounds, same beats, similarly inane lyrics ...
I would say the adherents are comforted by how completely unchallenging this rhythmic noise is. It is for dancing not for listening. Not dual purpose like the best pop music which can be enjoyed while just tapping your toe.
into mainstream and charted pretty well... I've listened to this song for over 30 yrs (wow has it really been that long??!!) with renewed interested each time. Brilliant song.Other than that, nadda
may the bridges I burn light the way...
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it's found this is truly Sudz in disguise I will no doubt split my guts from laughter I swear to gawd
may the bridges I burn light the way...
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no i,m not sudz in disguise, sudz is someone else entirely.
BROTHER?
...regards...tr
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