Good Music

[Tony Whitlow]

Why is fifty plus year old music better than the vast majority of today’s contemporary music?

 

 

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[oldtimer]

Because we haven't weeded out today's crap yet, like we have the fifty year old stuff.

[Chris A]

This is a little nauseating to read but addresses the current issue: the increasing similarity of hit songs today is being reduced to algorithms...popular music composition today is using “track-and-hook” techniques:  https://pudding.cool/2018/05/similarity/

 

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“The manufacture of pop songs has been so thoroughly industrialized that it makes the old Motown ‘hit factory’ look like a sewing circle.”

 

 

Due to the developments mentioned since the 2005 dissertation in the linked article, it seems to me wise to diversify musical tastes into genres that have already large existing libraries of music compositions that you've not heard before.  Namely this is music that comes from further back than even 50 years ago.  The stuff that survives to today--like oldtimer said above--has already been "weeded out". 

 

Another article--equally nauseating to read: https://nypost.com/2015/10/04/your-favorite-song-on-the-radio-was-probably-written-by-these-two/

 

Chris

[-js-]

just so you know - I am pretty much musically-illiterate, and creatively dysfunctional on top of that.  so with that in mind - I guess I'll just live in the past musically when we had composition "teams" - I'm referring to for example Elton John & Bernie Taupin, and others like them, just to choose one "team". where one is talented with the music & another with lyrics, and from collaboration of the two, or more than, we have the creative library that we have.  referring not just to them, but all the talents back to <whenever> - Beethoven, Mozart & all the rest who have helped bring us to this that we have today.

[Tony Whitlow]

Why is fifty plus year old music better than the vast majority of today’s contemporary music?
 
 
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[Jeff Matthews]

3 hours ago, Tony Whitlow said:

 

There is far more truth to that than you know.  I was thinking about this exact same topic a couple of days ago.  It occurred to me that the electric guitar was the game changer.  It was easy to go from sweet to grunge in a heartbeat - and especially in a way that was hard-driving and had never been heard before.  It was a music boom.  

 

Now, in the quest for new sounds, along comes digital.  

[Jeff Matthews]

On 8/23/2018 at 4:36 PM, Chris A said:

This is a little nauseating to read but addresses the current issue: the increasing similarity of hit songs today is being reduced to algorithms...popular music composition today is using “track-and-hook” techniques:  https://pudding.cool/2018/05/similarity/

 

 

Due to the developments mentioned since the 2005 dissertation in the linked article, it seems to me wise to diversify musical tastes into genres that have already large existing libraries of music compositions that you've not heard before.  Namely this is music that comes from further back than even 50 years ago.  The stuff that survives to today--like oldtimer said above--has already been "weeded out". 

 

Another article--equally nauseating to read: https://nypost.com/2015/10/04/your-favorite-song-on-the-radio-was-probably-written-by-these-two/

 

Chris

I read the 1st and 3rd articles, which were very interesting and revealing.  Good post!

[Zen Traveler]

It's a different generation with different interests. Back in the day our lives revolved around music but since the advent of the computer, social media, and doing SO MUCH with our phones the younger generations have more to do with their time--That's my take.