All this is already said long ago:
Mono
Way back in the twenties a very clever turkey found a way
To bring the people music, the radio
He called it: hey, hey
Come on girls, put your headphones on
Hi-fi stereo headphones
Stop it, I can't control it
Ultra high and ultra low
I'm looking for a way to get back
(Mono, mono)
M-m-m-m, mono
The music of today is just a drag
I still recall the fifties (Fifties)
When rock and roll was heavy, it was fine
My head looked like a lolly
Just like Buddy Holly, what a time!
Rumble, wow and flutter
I don't care just like my mother
Ultra high and ultra low
I'm looking for a way to get back
(Mono, mono)
M-m-m-m, mono
The music of today is just a drag
Listen, listen
Since I have a girlfriend
Disco comes to no end
I get mad
When I hear Perry Como
It really drives me mono
I feel sad
Hi-fi stereo headphones
Stop it, I can't control it
Ultra high and ultra low
I'm looking for a way to get back
(Mono, mono)
M-m-m-m, mono
The music of today is just a drag
This record can be played on every modern lightweight pick-up
The stereo sound however can be reproduced only when stereo equipment is used
M-m-m-m, mono
(Mono, mono) I'm looking for a way to get back
(Mono, mono) Get back, can you get back
What is happening with the music.
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- 995 posts since 4 Feb, 2021
Tribe Of Hǫfuð https://soundcloud.com/user-228690154 "First rule: From one perfect consonance to another perfect consonance one must proceed in contrary or oblique motion." Johann Joseph Fux 1725.
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- Topic Starter
- 194 posts since 25 Apr, 2021
Ok, some moments made me
half hard (uhh, not an old fart yet, but then..), but this is not something I would expect from music. Lol
But that's a rap music, I'm not competent here. The lyrics sucks though, comparing to LL Cool J.
Now I remember there was a good stream on a BBC 6 radio station after midnight and the rap music they played was top notch. The creativity was excellent. They didn't sing about booties, more like political stuff. Seems like it was a real talented rap underground - cool melodies and trippy beats.
As for LL, some of his tunes if they were played now, no one would realise that they are old, as there are no any hints to it. But ay least they were catchy as fck.
Also, when this crack point happened that we don't hear much stuff like this on TV and radio, like if someone said : "stop releasing stuff that can make ppl go through "feelings" :
Alicia Keys
now a bit busy with her kids, hope she will be back.
half hard (uhh, not an old fart yet, but then..), but this is not something I would expect from music. Lol
But that's a rap music, I'm not competent here. The lyrics sucks though, comparing to LL Cool J.
Now I remember there was a good stream on a BBC 6 radio station after midnight and the rap music they played was top notch. The creativity was excellent. They didn't sing about booties, more like political stuff. Seems like it was a real talented rap underground - cool melodies and trippy beats.
As for LL, some of his tunes if they were played now, no one would realise that they are old, as there are no any hints to it. But ay least they were catchy as fck.
Also, when this crack point happened that we don't hear much stuff like this on TV and radio, like if someone said : "stop releasing stuff that can make ppl go through "feelings" :
Alicia Keys
now a bit busy with her kids, hope she will be back.
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- Topic Starter
- 194 posts since 25 Apr, 2021
No comments. But that's mainstream. Not the electronic scene. This would be a different discussion with a lot of arguments.
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- KVRAF
- 2540 posts since 18 May, 2002 from up on Cripple Creek (CO)
Again, people are still making music like this, and for those reasons. A lot of great musicians of all eras never had a "proper" music education, and plenty of people with such educations are out there making music of all sorts, including pop.Dark Lights wrote: Fri May 21, 2021 9:47 ambut not really. I was 15 when I heard this track. This was the crack poin for shifting to electronic music. I mean, I still listen a contemporary niche electronic a lot (Funckarma, Hecq, (ghost), Four Tet, Alveol, BVDUB, Lorn), but there are not that many left who can impress. I'm just thinking is this related to the fact that the newcomers doesn't have a proper musical education (music schools and etc) ot just a lack of talent, or the trend that is being heavily promoted by, well, promoters (radio, tv, labels).
I'm mean those tunes were the tunes that you could listen a LOT and rearly get bored. It's like you feel that it was not made for gaining popularity, fame and money, but rather a natural outcome of talent and skills.
The difference between then & now is curation. You mention MTV interviewing artists you like. The record executives who made that happen have been replaced by algorithms. The music you want is still out there, you just have to look a little harder. It isn't being put in front of you by record execs anymore, and the algorithms are worse at finding the good, interesting stuff than even they were.
People haven't stopped making good music, and they haven't stopped doing it for the right reasons. It's just harder than ever to get your music heard without "playing the game." This is unlikely to change if people keep supporting the corporate content machine.
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- KVRAF
- 2856 posts since 10 Jul, 2008 from Orbit SW US
Sad but true.
gadgets an gizmos..make noise~crystalawareness.bandcamp.com/ soundcloud.com/crystalawareness Restocked: 5/2026
if this post is edited -it was for punctuation, grammar, or to make it coherent (or make me seem coherent).
if this post is edited -it was for punctuation, grammar, or to make it coherent (or make me seem coherent).
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- KVRAF
- 8074 posts since 9 Jan, 2003 from Saint Louis MO
I'm definitely an old fart. The music that was popular when I was a kid sucked when I was a kid, and I appreciate some of it more now. The music that was popular when I was in college sucked, and it's worse now. The music that is popular now is unfathomably bad.synthgeek wrote: Fri May 21, 2021 6:10 pm The difference between then & now is curation. You mention MTV interviewing artists you like. The record executives who made that happen have been replaced by algorithms. The music you want is still out there, you just have to look a little harder. It isn't being put in front of you by record execs anymore, and the algorithms are worse at finding the good, interesting stuff than even they were.
It's way easier to find, and acquire, interesting non-mainstream music yourself now though. No more do I take 3-hour road trips to a nearby city a couple times a year just to get to a half-decent record store, to browse the used section for buried treasure, and more importantly to grab a couple of zines for reviews and the addresses of indie labels to write to for a catalog. I haven't been inside a record store at all since the mid 90s, but I'm never lacking for new music or old favorites to go back to, or recommendations and reviews and stuff.
In fact one of my ongoing projects for this year is to cull my collection a bit -- moving a bunch of albums to a "One Star Archive" for music I might want to listen to again someday but doesn't need to travel with me on my phone and clutter my regular catalog. But my collection's been growing at about 2/3 of the rate that I've been trying to shrink it, just from picking up interesting stuff on Bandcamp Fridays
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- KVRAF
- 2540 posts since 18 May, 2002 from up on Cripple Creek (CO)
For sure. Speaking of Bandcamp, I have a massive wishlist there, mostly from just browsing around or following the recommendations from the bands I get stuff from and the "You might like" links at the bottom of pages there.foosnark wrote: Fri May 21, 2021 8:23 pm It's way easier to find, and acquire, interesting non-mainstream music yourself now though. No more do I take 3-hour road trips to a nearby city a couple times a year just to get to a half-decent record store, to browse the used section for buried treasure, and more importantly to grab a couple of zines for reviews and the addresses of indie labels to write to for a catalog. I haven't been inside a record store at all since the mid 90s, but I'm never lacking for new music or old favorites to go back to, or recommendations and reviews and stuff.
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- KVRAF
- 5444 posts since 15 Feb, 2020
I discovered a new artist from Niger yesterday on Pitchfork, then went to Spotify and listened to his entire back catalog and played his latest tune with its fantastic video to my kids on YouTube. And no, this isn't a parody post.
Modern access to music for an old fart like me is tremendous. Why moan that folks have moved on from the Orb? I just don't get it.
Modern access to music for an old fart like me is tremendous. Why moan that folks have moved on from the Orb? I just don't get it.
I lost my heart in Cap de Creus
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- KVRAF
- 4751 posts since 22 Nov, 2012
About 8 years ago I was at Lollapalooza festival in Chicago. we were old already, so we had the all access back stage experience. After 2 days I turned to my wife and said.... "it's either UBER talented beyond belief musicians who do nothing but cry and whine at me, or over the top fun bands with 0 talent. Where is the middle ground?"
where are the fun and talented musicians? because they are not getting pushed. and it is true that the record labels were better when they were run by old guys for this very reason. One band that I came away loving was the Swedish band GHOST tho. Great band.
where are the fun and talented musicians? because they are not getting pushed. and it is true that the record labels were better when they were run by old guys for this very reason. One band that I came away loving was the Swedish band GHOST tho. Great band.
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- KVRAF
- 26033 posts since 20 Oct, 2007 from gonesville
the point regarding curating is a salient one, I think.
Get away from music industry and people in it for the money and there has been no better time for music, not even close.
When I was young, the industry wasn't a lot of people that assumed they knew everything about what sells and what people will like. This changed around a half century ago. You need to be curated into their super-narrow mold of what people should be allowed to consume. There's not a lot of reason today to be dependent on the industry as your dealer, it's almost as though music is legal now.
Get away from music industry and people in it for the money and there has been no better time for music, not even close.
When I was young, the industry wasn't a lot of people that assumed they knew everything about what sells and what people will like. This changed around a half century ago. You need to be curated into their super-narrow mold of what people should be allowed to consume. There's not a lot of reason today to be dependent on the industry as your dealer, it's almost as though music is legal now.
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- KVRist
- 168 posts since 3 May, 2021