What Happened To Music?!
Question: Music used to stand for something.
The Beatles shaped our entire world for all of the '60s and '70s and they've continued to shape us as human beings for decades and they will continue and so on.. If ever you get the chance, visit Strawberry Fields - the feeling you get from it is overwhelmingly beautiful.
Led Zeppelin - Ultimately the best Cover band of all time. They put a timeless spin on other peoples' music.
The Doors! My god, The Doors might be the heart and soul of rock and roll party bands. They gave all they had and they didn't hide their flaws.
Basically, why doesn't anybody put heart and soul into music anymore?
Answers: Music used to stand for something.
The Beatles shaped our entire world for all of the '60s and '70s and they've continued to shape us as human beings for decades and they will continue and so on.. If ever you get the chance, visit Strawberry Fields - the feeling you get from it is overwhelmingly beautiful.
Led Zeppelin - Ultimately the best Cover band of all time. They put a timeless spin on other peoples' music.
The Doors! My god, The Doors might be the heart and soul of rock and roll party bands. They gave all they had and they didn't hide their flaws.
Basically, why doesn't anybody put heart and soul into music anymore?
One word : commercialism.
Once music became a product, the soul left the body.
My personal thing, for instance - why is all the music overmastered? Because the customer likes loud music. Solution - compress, compress, compress until there are only two types of sound - very loud and silent. This destroys the dynamics of the music and actually makes it harder to listen to.
They say that "illegal" downloading is destroying music - I say that music was destroyed when the record company put on the suit and said "well, music is a product, just like potato chips or cars."
Saul
Because sadly its all about rap and emo.
I don't know. All the good stuff has been done. It's kinda sad, really. I don't even listen to the radio. I listen to the music my mother listened to, and m 1 year old son will be raised on that music as well.
I don't know =[
I love those bands and I like today's stuff too, just not like I love the good ol' stuff.
I don't think people care anymore. Our parents' generation did, I don't know what happened between there and here. =[ It's kind of sad really.
probably coz of all the politics and stuff, but yeh i completly agree with u that music is noway as good anymore...its lame
simply put its, its all about the looks and not talent anymore..there are some great songwriters and talent out there but its not mainstream...you just have to find it...its all about the all mighty dollar....
Its all pop and dance now. Legendary music has been replaced with rubbish half-songs
You’re preaching to the choir on this one. The music industry if fixated on “image” 100X more than making good music. Some of the best musicians from back in the day probably would not get a second look because it’s more how you look not how you sound!
You should listen to every modern band before you come to a conclusion like that. That's just ignorant.
You just listed my 3 favorite classic rock bands...although I would never describe Zeppelin as a cover band or The Doors as a party band.
But a lot of people still put their heart and soul into music. But you're not gonna find too much on the radio that does so. You gotta dig a little deeper to find the bands that are really worth something.
i disagree i think that there are artists these days who are putting more heart and soul and creating much deeper lyrics than ever before. However you can't find that in the mainstream music. Check out alternative/indie rock artists, such as dashboard confessional or jack johnson. both of these artists have very deep and meaningful songs, that can be uplifting or heart wrenching, however i agree that pop and rap music are becoming very shallow and meaningless
I'm with you and I hate anything that comes out anymore that is popular. I can still find great music but it's not that easy to do, because you have to search and dig for it. Basically, if it doesn't sound good in the club, it's not going to be popular.
There are still bands that put their heart and soul into music - but they are being ignored while manufactured bands take the spotlight.
Look harder and you'll see that there /are/ good bands out there.
People are easily led and will go with the flow these days than rather stick to what they believe in. They feel, especially the younger kids that if they are not up to par, they will be considered lame and an outcast to the rap and emo fad or trend. I understand your pain. Music is taking a toll for the worst: bad rap videos degrading women, emos complaining about how bad their lives are, metal singers and bands that sound the same, Paramore and Jonas Brothers and Miley Cyrus, etc. If this is what the music of today has to offer, we are in trouble.
Listen to Led Zeppelin and how Robert Plants voice had SOUL and PASSION into every word he sang. You mean to tell me British have more soul than most the average American groups of today? Of course they do. Most of the guitarists these days sound the same with nothing but shredding and tapping techniques anyone can do with just practice. I still listen to Zeppelin, Rolling Stones, The Who, ELO, Allman Brothers Band.
Back in those days (60s/70s), rock music was THE uniting platform for youth. That's not the case today. Today's youth, for the most part, are preoccupied w/ So many more distractions outside of politics & social change. Look at all th footage of the teen & 20-something hippies. That whole generation gave us the civil rights movement. That same generation gave us the iPod today, funny enough.
In 2008, social change & politics are a passing interest to most youth. They see the old footage of their 60s counterparts & it all seems passe to them.
Because music is no longer about art or feeling, it's about producing corporate-controlled, "aesthetically pleasing," "safe" music that has the best chances of being sold and earning money for the record companies.
i dont agree
i think you just need to find the right bands
theres heart and soul out there i know it
just because its not the same genre as some oldies doesnt mean it doesnt exist
I know a lot of people who think that the music died, but when I talk to them a little more, I find out that they just got old and quit listening to anything new that has come out since 'their' music.
It seems that when you tell someone my age to give fallout boy a try, pick up the chili's latest cd, or ask what they think of the strokes, they act like I'm crazy for even listening to anything made after 1994. Or 1988. Or 1984. Or 1978. People still make music. There are a lot more media outlets and variety in music choices, so it is unlikely there will ever be another band that every kid out there is listening to, but that doesn't mean they stink or just make sell-out records. You just have to listen through the 99% of garbage that's out there to find the gem that will someday be a classic.
MTV killed music. Example - Duran Duran releases an album in 1979 and it flops. Then re-release it when MTV hits the scene - and they are huge. Air play should not be dictated by a bunch of adolescent mall rats with a crush.
There are bands who talk about things that matter and put "heart and soul" into their music. They may not be on the radio or on tv but they're out there.
Long Before the Beatles or the Doors you had great singers such as Nat "King" Cole, Perry Como, Frank Sinatra, etc. Music is generation based, it speaks of the times, of what is going on around us. I am 42 and grew up with all types of music, from country to rap and have heard the change with times.
How can one argue that yesterdays music has anymore meaning than todays? Times are different, times are always changing. Though we may not understand it it doesn't mean the feeling or the artists "heart and Soul" was not put into the song.
I will be the first to agree there will always be the singers or groups who do it for the money, but you will always have those artists who put everything they are into their music, be it rap, rock or jazz. It is what they are!
I think a majority of today's musical artists put as much of their heart and soul into their music as any of the bands that you have listed. Albeit there are quite a few artists out there that are only in the scene for the popularity and monetary gain that comes with being a musical artist. But this has been true of artists throughout time, so in a sense they aren't really that far off from your topic either.
I think that the reason that the majority of us "older" people have with today's music is not being able to relate to it. That is why it doesn't "speak" to us like the music of our generation did. Essentially, music still does mean something, just that "something" is more relevant to the younger generation than to the older generation.
However, don't give up faith; keep looking; I'm sure that you'll find some current artists that are able to "speak" to you.
But you aren't giving credit to where credit is due - you have to put Elvis Presley in there too, I'm not a fan by any means - but he was wild back in his day...
Along with The Beach Boys & The Rolling Stones who were very controversial in their music considering "sympathy for the devil" was banned on most stations...
Black Sabbath is considered as one of the most influential bands to most metal groups, Aerosmith as well...
But you can't stick to just rock, the whole motown era was happening as well...
There is still good quality music today, but my grandparents hated the beatles & my parents couldn't stand Iron Maiden & I can't stand Fergie..
It's a neverending wheel....
Led Zeppelin only re-interpreted a handful of older Blues songs ~ the vast majority of their songs they wrote for themselves.
You want heart and soul? Listen to Blackmore's Night.
There is VERY good music out there, you just need to know where to look for it.... Send me a PM and we will discuss..
rap killed it. there are some still around,but not many
Nothing happened to music, I think it's people. They have just become lazy! I can find plenty of good music, it's just that all the music being thrown at us isn't credible, so we begin to believe that there's nothing credible out there anymore, or at least very little. Half the lazy people sit and accept it, and the other half go out and make something shoddy and unoriginal; thus it continues.
It does take some digging to find the right stuff, but it's worth it. I'm sure you knew that anyway though =oD
Well...The emu band called My Chemical Underpants!... is making "Meesic"...which is close?...
well mainstream always sucked whether its EMO or RAP-crap music.
however, there are plenty good bands UNDERGROUND, you just have to listen to them
my chemichal underpants LOL....meee!!!! its like goat singing :)
Two words: Money and Looks! It's very sickening!! Music these days isn't music. It's pure CRAP!!! I feel like vomiting!!!
A true musician.
'' Whatever happened to sex,drugs and rock n roll? Now we just have aids, crack and techno! ''
Guns n roses
http://it.youtube.com/watch?v=9DdmkxgQfp...