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Old 10-22-2011, 03:54 PM   #291 (permalink)
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Saying that there are a greater quantity of good bands today is a close minded thing to say. Thats a fact? It certainly isnt. There are also more people alive today than there were in the 60s, so, that means there are more people to make music. Of course the quantity of music is greater, but i wouldnt say the quality is. Bands of the 60s were revolutionary, they breaking through into new territory. They were breaking barriers of traditional music with their creativity and paving the way for todays bands.
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Old 10-22-2011, 04:15 PM   #292 (permalink)
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I think that the 70's were the golden age.
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Old 10-22-2011, 04:26 PM   #293 (permalink)
 
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Saying that there are a greater quantity of good bands today is a close minded thing to say. Thats a fact? It certainly isnt. There are also more people alive today than there were in the 60s, so, that means there are more people to make music. Of course the quantity of music is greater, but i wouldnt say the quality is. Bands of the 60s were revolutionary, they breaking through into new territory. They were breaking barriers of traditional music with their creativity and paving the way for todays bands.
Were you there in the 60's to witness this revolutionary music first time round? If not then how can you directly compare the music of the 60's with the music being made now? Also who's to say that there aren't bands breaking down barriers today with their creativity and paving the way for the bands of tomorrow?
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Old 10-22-2011, 04:31 PM   #294 (permalink)
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Saying that there are a greater quantity of good bands today is a close minded thing to say. Thats a fact? It certainly isnt. There are also more people alive today than there were in the 60s, so, that means there are more people to make music. Of course the quantity of music is greater, but i wouldnt say the quality is. Bands of the 60s were revolutionary, they breaking through into new territory. They were breaking barriers of traditional music with their creativity and paving the way for todays bands.
It's funny, my parents actually lived through the sixties, unlike you and I, and they definitely seem to feel that the case for music from that decade being revolutionary is pretty overstated.
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Old 10-22-2011, 04:45 PM   #295 (permalink)
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Were you there in the 60's to witness this revolutionary music first time round? If not then how can you directly compare the music of the 60's with the music being made now? Also who's to say there aren't bands breaking down barriers today with their creativity and paving the way for the bands of tomorrow?
No i wasnt there but luckily I can still listen to the music. Im sure there are, but Traditional music isnt as strong as it use to be. Musicians were walking down the same traditional path for a while until the revolutionaries of the late 50s and 60s came along. It was those people who broke that traditional boundary and set off a creative revolution who really opened up that artistic freedom for music ever since. How can anyone deny that artists like The Velvet Underground, The Beatles, Jimi Hendrix, The Doors and Led Zeppelin, just to name a few, didnt change things? They certainly did, and their music remains very unique and creative to this day. They continue to inspire and they always will. I dont think many bands will ever be able to match the influence that bands like that had on music.

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It's funny, my parents actually lived through the sixties, unlike you and I, and they definitely seem to feel that the case for music from that decade being revolutionary is pretty overstated.
My parents lived through the sixties as well, and they think that the music was highly revolutionary. The sixties were a wild time and that had its affect on the music.
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Old 10-22-2011, 04:50 PM   #296 (permalink)
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I don't think we'll know if we're experiencing a musical revolution until after it's passed.
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Old 10-22-2011, 05:07 PM   #297 (permalink)
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The music wasnt the only revolution of the times. The sixties were a very revolutionary time in many ways. And I think that obviously had a profound affect on the minds of the people and in turn that had an affect on the music.
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Old 10-22-2011, 05:18 PM   #298 (permalink)
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Once upon a time I shared your opinions. I thought that new music - anything made after 1999 - couldn't possibly be good music.

Then I started listening to new music.
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Once upon a time I shared your opinions. I thought that new music - anything made after 1999 - couldn't possibly be good music.

Then I started listening to new music.
I never said that it couldnt possibly be good. There is music being made in the 21st century that i like, but its mostly made by artists that go back to the 20th century. I still think that most popular music today is crap.
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No i wasnt there but luckily I can still listen to the music. Im sure there are, but Traditional music isnt as strong as it use to be. Musicians were walking down the same traditional path for a while until the revolutionaries of the late 50s and 60s came along. It was those people who broke that traditional boundary and set off a creative revolution who really opened up that artistic freedom for music ever since. How can anyone deny that artists like The Velvet Underground, The Beatles, Jimi Hendrix, The Doors and Led Zeppelin, just to name a few, didnt change things? They certainly did, and their music remains very unique and creative to this day. They continue to inspire and they always will. I dont think many bands will ever be able to match the influence that bands like that had on music.
But what defines traditional music? It could mean music going back hundreds of years. Would jazz and blues musicians not have broke a traditional boundaries as well and set off a creative revolution in the early part of the 20th century? Musicians are always trying to break "traditional" music and create something new and different no matter what decade.

I certainly respect the likes of The Velvet Underground and The Beatles for what they've contributed to music but there's been plenty of other bands throughout the past few decades which have had a profound impact by doing something different. A lot of these bands don't get recognition until after they've split up, as was the case with The Velvet Underground, and I'm sure there are some bands today that will be seen as revolutionary in 20, 30, 40 years time but it's impossible to compare them to 60's bands at the moment because they have not yet been filtered by time.
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