Re: That is you Jon,

Posted by Jon C. (A) on August 3, 2006 at 04:48:05

In Reply to: That is you Jon, posted by Jimmy on August 2, 2006 at 19:42:01:

Yeah, a lot of people are obsessed with the beat, that is true. All you have to do is look at how popular rap and hip-hop are, that shows it right there.

I wonder though how different this really is. (Please understand, NOT trying to pick an online fight...just wondering "out loud"). I see the clips of the Beatles performing in their early years and the crowds of girls screaming and almost passing out over songs like "I Wanna Hold Your Hand", which was about at the intelligence level of a 6th grader, if that. I also saw the Dead a few times and beleive me, most of the fans were not coherent. Were those fans truly into the music, or just the drugs? If you took the drugs away, how many fans would there have been? If the Beatles had been ugly but otherwise released the same songs, how many records would they have sold? How much of it was really about the music, and how much something else?

I wonder if things have truly changed that much, or if we just had good popular music 35 years ago due to pure serendipity.

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Topic - Internet Radio Noise - Peter Breuninger 10:42:16 07/31/06 (18)

Back to your question - Quiet Earth 09:37:28 08/16/06 (0)

Errrrr......... - Jimmy 05:56:24 08/02/06 (0)

Re: Internet Radio Noise - Jon C. 19:31:37 08/01/06 (4)

Variety of music and the chance . . . - sgmlaw 09:15:19 08/02/06 (3)

Re: Variety of music and the chance . . . - Jon C. 18:47:33 08/02/06 (2)

Variety is king - Gregg 06:07:03 08/07/06 (1)

Re: Variety is king - Jon C. 10:37:31 08/08/06 (0)

It's what USA's audiences let FM become, made worse, and no longer free. - Timbo in Oz 07:00:25 08/01/06 (10)

Beg to differ - Gregg 10:55:55 08/01/06 (8)

I beg to differ. - sgmlaw 17:43:49 08/01/06 (7)

Re: I beg to lighten up the posts here.......... - Jimmy 07:46:02 08/02/06 (6)

Re: I beg to lighten up the posts here.......... - Jon C. 18:54:45 08/02/06 (5)

'will they ever value better fidelity' - Jimmy 10:25:32 08/03/06 (0)

That is you Jon, - Jimmy 19:42:01 08/02/06 (3)

Re: That is you Jon, - Jon C. 04:48:05 08/03/06 (2)

Need to chime in - Gregg 06:27:50 08/03/06 (1)

t's all about convenience and marketability....analogue FM can't compete against that...nt - millen 09:51:08 08/03/06 (0)

Re: It's what USA's audiences let FM become, made worse, and no longer free. - Peter Breuninger 09:49:18 08/01/06 (0)

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Re: That is you Jon, - Jon C. 04:48:05 08/03/06 (2)

Need to chime in - Gregg 06:27:50 08/03/06 (1)

t's all about convenience and marketability....analogue FM can't compete against that...nt - millen 09:51:08 08/03/06 (0)

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