what "artist" provides the best example of how low the industry has fallen?
I miss the days of good old rock and roll and the great tunes of the 1980’s. No new music today comes close.
I completely agree. Music these days is complete crap. Everyone just grabs an instruement, learsn the most common scale and just tries to come up with something catchy right there, and it turns out to be nonsense compared to the gool old 70’s classic rock. Basically music has become a means of money making rather than a means of entertainment these days. Before, the bands actually enjoyed playing their music, and that was what made them great. Apart from that, there is techno to deal with. This is just as much as low as "music" can get. As fas as i’m concerned as a musician, that does not count as music. Random sounds do not count as music, neither do repetitive pieces going over and over. To get and artist which shows the best example of how low the industry has gone, just get any techno "artist", although in my eyes they are not artists, as they have not composed music.
April 15th, 2010 at 2:45 pm
pretty much anything that comes out anymore because everything these days is about selling out and mainstream appeal
Lets bring metal back!!!
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April 15th, 2010 at 3:34 pm
The music industry is dying, but only pop music seems to have hit rock bottom. Country probably has to (since it IS pop music now). Rock has an awful lot of commercial artists now but most of them are better than some of the 1-hit wonder artists from the late 90’s. (Chumbawumba, Semisonic, Marcy Playground, New Radicals, Verve Pipe).
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April 15th, 2010 at 4:03 pm
Just about every artist played today is evidence of how the music industry has deteriorated. It started with Mariah Carey and runs through to Avril Levigne, Paris Hilton, Jessica Simpleton and her no talent sister, and I can’t remember any others–I’m boycotting top forty until I find it’s improved. So I have forgot who’s being played. Top Forty has been rubbish for some time now. Give me oldies anytime. And I’m sorry, but just because Kelly Clarkson won a stupid talent contest on tv doesn’t make her a singer. She’s a screamer. And a shouter. Always struggles to reach octaves she couldn’t reach on a ten foot ladder. I’m listening right now to "All Time Oldies" where one can choose which songs to listen to by request. Fantastic selection of music. Check it out.
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April 15th, 2010 at 4:45 pm
Don’t give up hope! Actually there’s alot of great independent music out there. Also keep in mind, the industry has changed from entire album related creations, back to individual songs. In the 50’s most bands had one or two hits on an album at best. Once upon a time they thought Rock’n'Roll was the "devil’s music". Big band swing and classical was all that was considered "real" music.
In the 60’s and 70’s, bands such as The Beatles, Stones, Eagles etc. Created entire albums of hits. Records or what they call "vinyls" now, no longer exist.
What has changed is the method of delivery. Now it’s all in digital formats. And you are right, most of the newer music is digitally created minutia. Looping, drum machines, scratching, cut and paste and sampling rule the day. It’s more like "digital art" than music. The "heart" is gone. Many of the so called bands today cannot replicate their own music with real instruments because the songs were not made up that way.
However there are resources for actual bands and musicians out there. Try http://www.cdbaby.com and listen to some of the stuff that’s NOT being played on commercial radio. There are many cool songs and even some real bands out there. There’s alway crap in the mainstream radio airwaves but that’s only a small segment of what is being done.
The good thing about all the changes is that some artists who, in the past, could not make a cd or album, can now do that at a reasonable price and the market is actually much larger now than ever. It is world-wide and includes movies, films, video games and satellite radio etc.
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40 years in the music business
April 15th, 2010 at 5:08 pm
I think that the music industry will never die because through the years different generations will have different tastes in music so all new kinds of music will always be produced. Just because you think that the music of the 80s was the best, that doesn’t mean that the music now or before was any worse. Music has been around forever, and I think it always will be, and people will still make money from it.
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April 15th, 2010 at 5:54 pm
i don’t like a lot of the mainstream stuff today. but there are a lot of good indie bands.
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April 15th, 2010 at 6:37 pm
I would say some of the trash performers like Emimem pretty much sum it up.
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April 15th, 2010 at 6:49 pm
I completely agree. Music these days is complete crap. Everyone just grabs an instruement, learsn the most common scale and just tries to come up with something catchy right there, and it turns out to be nonsense compared to the gool old 70’s classic rock. Basically music has become a means of money making rather than a means of entertainment these days. Before, the bands actually enjoyed playing their music, and that was what made them great. Apart from that, there is techno to deal with. This is just as much as low as "music" can get. As fas as i’m concerned as a musician, that does not count as music. Random sounds do not count as music, neither do repetitive pieces going over and over. To get and artist which shows the best example of how low the industry has gone, just get any techno "artist", although in my eyes they are not artists, as they have not composed music.
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April 15th, 2010 at 7:24 pm
The music industry has not hit rock bottom, its audience has. When people steal music, it gets harder to sell records so bands sellout in order to reach a wider audience. There is a reason sucky bands are famous..people like them
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