The sorry state of 21st Century music culture
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Now with cheap methods to record at home, and equipment being cheaper than it once was, everyone has the ability to make records.
I understand what you mean but disagree that this may cause more harm than good for todays music (apologies if thats not really what you were getting at). It's true that making music is much easier for the average joe but equipment is no way less expensive. A sequencer program will set you back at least £300. A PROGRAM! :wtf:
The future depends on the underground, but the underground is so called because it is characteristically unheard of. I personally believe the future of music lies in technology. Not to undermine the realm of acoustic musicians or bands, but rock music has had it's day. Not because there is no more great rock, but the number of truly innovative bands is dwindling by the minute. Rock, which was once about fighting the man and having a voice has given way to the myspace generation of hopefuls and wannabes. Kids don't want to be in a great band that make great music, they want to be a cool rock star, attempting to copy any other marginally successful act and pretend their the future. These bands plague our generation to the point that they bury the idealisms that made rock great in the first place. They scream for the attention and praise they don't deserve and havn't earned. Did you know the majority of major record labels in England and the US talent search solely on myspace? How do you get noticed on myspace? Worry about the 'friend' count and pretty colours first, music second. Such a perspective often convinces me that another truly groundbreaking act will never appear in the mainstream again.
What's great about electronic music? There is no image, only sound and the vibe. No long haired studs girating on a stage with huge lights and corporate sponsors, just the sound and the vibe. This is the way forward. Be a musician, not a model.
I hope people don't assume i'm ragging on rock music. I'll admit it's not my preferred area but I speak purely from a mainstream perspective. Great music is everywhere in all forms except where it is forced upon us.
The sorry state of 21st Century music culture
Dookie was the death of rock music, if one single album were to be the blame for all these emo punk rock kids sellout mainstream.
p.s yo thc, i cant find you on slsk.. fuckyouimgoingtocalifornia?? it dont even say the number of files next to that...
The sorry state of 21st Century music culture
there is some very good music around at the moment, keep your ears open and you may be surprised at what you find. a thing to remember is that when music becomes stagnant [as it always seems to] there is usually a sub-culture backlash. its happened in the past with rock and roll, punk and grunge and will happen again, soon hopefully.
The sorry state of 21st Century music culture
i agree, you have to dig. it is the assholes in charge who decide what is popular. most people listen to what they are told.
meaning, there is better rock than nickelback
there is still real country music being recorded, not pop shit like rascal flats
there are metal bands far above the commercial shit like slipknot
im assuming this all holds true for the kinds i dont here a lot.
also, this generation at long last has a guitar god who can stand shoulder to shoulder with hendrix and srv
www.myspace.com/jbonamassa
but yes, you have to look. people decided that money was more important than soul somehwere along the line, and realized they could easily market shit, some people would like it because they were told to, then the rest would like it cause they saw that is what everyone else did. that is my theory, why else would dogshit become mainstream. really to me it is like if all of a sudden one day eating your own waste was suddenly cooler and more popular than eating a juicy steak
and dont blame the music, blame the culture, the music never made the culture listen to it, the culture was just too damn lazy or stupid to say no
The sorry state of 21st Century music culture
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Originally Posted by suhl
also, this generation at long last has a guitar god who can stand shoulder to shoulder with hendrix and srv
www.myspace.com/jbonamassa
that guys a pretty damn good guitarist, his music would be better if he would shut the fuck up! lol. jk, but in all seriousness he should work on his vocals/lyrics. You should check out Eddie Hazel, his shit seriously rivals hendirx. www.myspace.com/eddiehazel
listen to maggot brain
The sorry state of 21st Century music culture
he didnt write any of the songs on that page that i am aware of. however he does need work on his lyrics, but being a blues guitar player lyrics arent a big thing. look at bb king and srv, guys arent exactly lyricists. but i will admit he isnt exact a poet. as for the voice, well have to agree to disagree i think the man can sing.
and you are talking to a proud eddie hazel fan here i have one of his solo cds. i think hed be called the next hendrix the problem was he didnt record nearly enough music, frankly what i have heard of him i like better than hendrix but it would be unfair to stack him up there as he only has problem 3 full length solo albums worth of work, and only one actually released as a solo album and only played on a few funkadelic albums. but belive me i love me some hazel
The sorry state of 21st Century music culture
on that page i think woke up dreaming is the only one he wrote or maybe i dont believe. really i dont know. but the point is his covers arent really covers in the traditionals sense, or rather they are what covers should be. the only thing that is the same is the original is the lyrics, behind that nothing.
The sorry state of 21st Century music culture
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Originally Posted by suhl
and you are talking to a proud eddie hazel fan here i have one of his solo cds. i think hed be called the next hendrix the problem was he didnt record nearly enough music, frankly what i have heard of him i like better than hendrix but it would be unfair to stack him up there as he only has problem 3 full length solo albums worth of work, and only one actually released as a solo album and only played on a few funkadelic albums. but belive me i love me some hazel
I like hazel much better than hendrix, yes, its true he only really has his 3 solo albums and Maggot Brain with funkadelic. However out of all of jimi hendrix's music the only album thats worth listening to again is Axis: Bold As Love. He mmay have a few good songs scattered throught his discography but axis is his only "Great" album imo.
(i dont wanna sound like im raggin on hendrix, i still like his music too)
The sorry state of 21st Century music culture
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Originally Posted by Metaphor
Dookie was the death of rock music, if one single album were to be the blame for all these emo punk rock kids sellout mainstream.
p.s yo thc, i cant find you on slsk.. fuckyouimgoingtocalifornia?? it dont even say the number of files next to that...
That's weird, I'm online right now, I see others online but not you. Are you on some invisible mode or something?
The sorry state of 21st Century music culture
hazel had 2 solo albums, rest in p was just his second one with more songs to my understanding, id like to get it but it is hard to come by. also i think he played on a few other albums besides maggot brain, im pretty sure he did. i prefer him to hendrix myself, but i am saying why he wont go down in history the same way hendrix will