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03-04-2011, 05:45 AM | #251 (permalink) | ||
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03-04-2011, 06:48 AM | #252 (permalink) | |
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Still I'm paying to see national acts below $30. This year so far I've purchased tickets for Phoenix and Cold War Kids and I think they totaled to less than what an arena act would charge - baseline - in the summer.
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03-06-2011, 04:42 PM | #253 (permalink) |
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The people who gripe about good new music not being everywhere or not existing are in my opinion:
-Lazy (it's called a Google or YouTube search; these exist for a reason) -Never adapted to the times -Expecting everything to be handed to them on a silver platter via corporations or DJs -Got stuck in a musical rut while the rest of us experienced new sights and sounds with an open mind -Looking at the past through rose colored glasses while the rest of us live in the real world |
03-07-2011, 12:44 AM | #254 (permalink) | ||
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Fame, fortune, power, titties. People say these are the most crucial things in life, but you can have a pocket full o' gold and it doesn't mean sh*t if you don't have someone to share that gold with. Seems simple. Yet it's an important lesson to learn. Even lone wolves run in packs sometimes. Quote:
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03-07-2011, 06:31 PM | #255 (permalink) |
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I actually have to disagree with the "music is as good as it was, you just have to look around" concept. This is definitely true to a degree, but I view the 60s as being the last large creative explosion. The last couple decades have been creatively stagnant in comparison to the 60s and parts of the 50s and 70s.
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03-07-2011, 06:37 PM | #256 (permalink) |
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It depends on what you like. I'm an Electronic music freak, and most of the genres I like didn't even exist until the late 80s. If you like Rock, then I could definitely see that as being possible.
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03-07-2011, 06:56 PM | #257 (permalink) |
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That's true, but I still feel like in terms of influence and originality, nothing really matches that period. Not only rock, but jazz, minimalism (Terry Riley, A Rainbow in Curved Air, Steve Reich etc.), and the beginnings of synth stuff really leaves me thinking that there's not a decade/era since then that can really compare. There's definitely a pretty large scope to the 60s that often gets overlooked by the great rock stuff that was going on around the same time.
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03-07-2011, 07:00 PM | #258 (permalink) | |
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The reason those are remembered yet you can't think of a similar movement today is because those movements had a social stigma attached to them. Jazz was considered the devil's music. The older genreation felt nobody but booze hounds and black people listened to that stuff. With psychedelic rock you had the counter culture movement. Today you have hipsters, I guess, but their whole philosophy is to be completely apathetic towards everything that comes their way and I think that translates to the music.
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03-07-2011, 07:24 PM | #259 (permalink) | |||
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Also, I agree that every decade has it's creative types, but the 60s saw a greater audience for those creative types, that's what made the difference. The 60s saw a demand for innovation not only coming from the artistic community itself, but from a greater portion of the general public. After all, art and artists are intrinsically linked to their audiences. The root of that demand for innovation came from the unique time period. Feminism, anti-war protests, etc. all contributed to creating a population that wanted change, including musical innovation. The 60s was an outburst of creative freedom stemming from the restrictive post-war mentality of WW2, and more specifically the restrictive nature of the early 50s. Given the circumstances, it was going to naturally be a period of great change. I also don't really understand the correlation between "indie cred" and the production of high quality music. Quote:
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By modern recording I just meant recording in general. I should have left off the modern bit, sorry. Quote:
Now that I'm on the topic, though, I'd like to point out the 60's had just as much total crap as today. I got really into psychedelic rock recently, and once I wanted to go past the "essentials" it became painfully obvious that I would have to sort through a bunch of bands just trying to sound like Jefferson Airplane. I have just as much of a hard time finding those classic 60's gems as I do finding great modern music. Everyone may have really gotten into music and art in the 60's, but that doesn't mean it was good. Quote:
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