Keith_W
Major Contributor
Another reason why modern music sucks: melody is dead.
Examples?There’s lots of good new music being made. It just doesn’t get played on the radio.
Look at my post three posts back. And the following four lists. My most played in 2022. May not be for you. I’ve been listening to music since my first Beatles album in 1967. People used to come to my parties just for the music they had never heard playing on my party mix on the reel to reel. Wide tastes and aware of a lot of what is out there.Examples?
So do you feel it's more a case of music isn't necessarily worse but what is made mainstream has become worse? or is it we tend to look back with a filter?Look at my post three posts back. And the following four lists. My most played in 2022. May not be for you. I’ve been listening to music since my first Beatles album in 1967. People used to come to my parties just for the music they had never heard playing on my party mix on the reel to reel. Wide tastes and aware of a lot of what is out there.
I think this is a ebb and flow of art as song and music. I just don't listen to it. /the new stuff. Nobody knows where we will be in 50 years.Yes the former. I believe that the music business has become even more cynical and music is more of a commodity than it ever was. And kids listen to shit and then make more shit to aspire to the top ten. Oops I’m sounding like the grumpy old men I’ve been harsh on!
I mean Crosby Stills Nash And Young used to be mainstream. That kind of quality on the radio is ancient history. Gad I really am a fogey. Hahaha! Rick Beato has some good perspective on it in his awesome YouTube channel.
Yes, I posted his video earlier. We also used to listen to music on proper home stereos rather than soundbars and wireless earbuds.Yes the former. I believe that the music business has become even more cynical and music is more of a commodity than it ever was. And kids listen to shit and then make more shit to aspire to the top ten. Oops I’m sounding like the grumpy old men I’ve been harsh on!
I mean Crosby Stills Nash And Young used to be mainstream. That kind of quality on the radio is ancient history. Gad I really am a fogey. Hahaha! Rick Beato has some good perspective on it in his awesome YouTube channel.
My interest is more for 'classical' music than pop/rock, and every BBC Prom season here I despair at the new compositions being performed, sometimes premiered, at each year's proms. Why do most modern compositions sound like someone throwing a piano down the stairs? It's all Pink-Plonk, Crash, Screech, Bang. No melody or tune one can whistle or hum. Nothing remotely memorable except for its awfulness. It's not even a recent phenomenon, it goes back at least 50 years, but the lack of melody, the lack of a tune, seems to characterise contemporary 'classical' music. It's as if dynamics (as in crash-bang) and dissonance have taken over from creating a harmonious sound.
I can hum along to Bach, Mozart, Beethoven, even modern composers like Walton and Elgar, but spare me mid-late 20th Century onwards.
S.