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What happened to music?

Anubis said:
loudness war and money
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Ha, my son, with part of his landscaping $$ wanted a stereo for the 2002 Accord. Told him that I would pay for the 6X9 (kickers) if he paid for the stereo. Installed all of that today and dropped an AC/DC cd in. Full blast. He opens the door, "That's kinda of loud."...pussy. Sure sounds better than my Tacoma.

$250 OTD, free labor.
 
Paladin3 said:
"DJ Khaled! Another one! [INSERT AUTO-TUNED MUMBLING]" <----- That's what happened.
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What happened to music? Nothing happened to it. It's still out there....there's just not as much good stuff as there used to be. Autotune and image have replaced a lot of talent....but there's still some talent out there.
 
jcwagers said:
What happened to music? Nothing happened to it. It's still out there....there's just not as much good stuff as there used to be. Autotune and image have replaced a lot of talent....but there's still some talent out there.
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There's tons of talent out there. It just isn't on commercial radio. Back in the day, you had a handful of stations. and a band had to compete to get attention, get signed, and get on one of those stations. Talent was still a requirement, but corporate interests dumbed down the package to make it secondary to image as time went on. Music was a 'movement'; a 'club' people belonged to.

Now it's image before all, and the radio stations are gone. There's no real mainstream 'movement', and there's niche for everyone. Scouring the second-twelfth tier music services will turn up lots of great music. You don't get to join a 'club' like you once did, but you'll have good stuff to listen to.
 
The reason most popular music is shit is that most people have no taste. Therefore, it's the vast legions of tasteless people who buy the most music.
 
lxskllr said:
There's tons of talent out there. It just isn't on commercial radio. Back in the day, you had a handful of stations. and a band had to compete to get attention, get signed, and get on one of those stations. Talent was still a requirement, but corporate interests dumbed down the package to make it secondary to image as time went on. Music was a 'movement'; a 'club' people belonged to.

Now it's image before all, and the radio stations are gone. There's no real mainstream 'movement', and there's niche for everyone. Scouring the second-twelfth tier music services will turn up lots of great music. You don't get to join a 'club' like you once did, but you'll have good stuff to listen to.
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And don't forget, there's alternative radio... non-commercial radio that doesn't have to conform to the pressures exerted by advertisers or program directors' stringent reigns.

I am a college radio DJ, I play whatever I want on my weekly 3 hour shows, pulling from my station's ~115,000 item collection (includes CDs, LPs, 7", 10", 12"). I can play anything that doesn't violate FCC rules. If it does have a bad word (fuc*, shi*, ti*, cun* ... yeah that's crazy and we used to be able to play those things back in the 1980's, but the damned government has gotten conservative, it's the evangelicals to a big extent, I think), or is patently offensive (subjective, there, but there's not alot like that), we can play it and do. We are just infinitely more interesting than any commercial radio. We broadcast at 90.7FM from Berkeley, CA, and stream from www.kalx.berkeley.edu.

We don't have a program director anymore, we assign regular shows by committee and individual shows by efficacy seat of the pants methods.
 
Technology has killed so many art forms. Or at least changed them. Back in the day you had to be able to sing and play actual instruments. Now you can sample some of this, some of that, massage the digital bits with a computer, and out comes "music" that is impossible to actually play live. It's cheap to produce and the masses who can't tell the difference, or have never known anything else, eat it up with a spoon.
 
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Stopped caring for 'mainstream' music at around the time clear channel started to get big and america's get 'talent' and the rest of the karaoke shows started to come on tv.
 
Muse said:
And don't forget, there's alternative radio... non-commercial radio that doesn't have to conform to the pressures exerted by advertisers or program directors' stringent reigns.

I am a college radio DJ, I play whatever I want on my weekly 3 hour shows, pulling from my station's ~115,000 item collection (includes CDs, LPs, 7", 10", 12"). I can play anything that doesn't violate FCC rules. If it does have a bad word (fuc*, shi*, ti*, cun* ... yeah that's crazy and we used to be able to play those things back in the 1980's, but the damned government has gotten conservative, it's the evangelicals to a big extent, I think), or is patently offensive (subjective, there, but there's not alot like that), we can play it and do. We are just infinitely more interesting than any commercial radio. We broadcast at 90.7FM from Berkeley, CA, and stream from www.kalx.berkeley.edu.

We don't have a program director anymore, we assign regular shows by committee and individual shows by efficacy seat of the pants methods.
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gonna stream it right now...loverboy is getting on my nerves now.
 
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