Is today’s music worse than music was when we were young?
Yes. Yes it is.
Tell the truth. You already knew that, right?
Tell me something else. What’s on your mind? What would you like to talk about? It’s Wednesday Night Open Thread.
Who wants to start?
I’m with you! Darn kids and their caterwauling.
But I sbould say a few days ago I almost told some kids to get off my lawn and I’ve had this urge to call Consumere cellular.
This is why prog rock is still the most creative music ever made, and it is still being made, that god.
All music tends to regress to the lowest set of copy cat gimmicks that will sell records reliably. Then someone actually breaks out with something new, unique are not heard in a while and the whole thing starts again.
It’s strange that today when recording, processing, and reproduction has become so inexpensive that anyone with real talent can produce a professional quality album and yet popular music is so awful.
Still, the recordings are forever – that’s more true now than ever.
Perhaps someday the overlooked artists of the last 20 years will be rediscovered the way great musicians like Mississippi John Hurt, Reverend Gary Davis, Professor Longhair, and others were rediscovered in the 60s and 70s.
There are several groups from the late sixties and early seventies who should have made it big (in my humble opinion) but didn’t. Absolutely positively didn’t. That’s the bad news…the good news is that today you can find them all on YouTube you just got to go hunting.
Here are some that come to mind…Captain Beyond, Frigid Pink, Morgen, Dust, Gun, After Tea, Budgie, Wishbone Ash, and believe me there are many more. They are all on YouTube it’s just a matter of hunting them down.
Never heard of these guys. They sound very Sabbath influenced. Good stuff!
Dino Paul Crocetti, known to us as Dean Martin, was born June 7, 1917, in Steubenville, Ohio. Here he is, performing his hit “That’s Amore”:
I actually watched this video a few days ago. Good stuff.
This video is another good one about the sad state of today’s music. Beatles and Max Martin also mentioned in this one…