Will there ever be a decade (again) ...like the 60's for music?!
Question: I don't think so. The 1960's still had a number of formative influences that we might not recall today:
1) The 40's and 50's memories, styles, music, and events were still recent. Many 60's artists were people who had lived through those years.
2) These people still remembered the events of WWII and Korea well enough. Worse, they were now coping with Vietnam, the Middle East, and the cold war.
3) Furthermore, it was a time of great things, great changes, great events, to name a few:
-- The first computers (Though they were as big as a house!)
-- JFK and the events surrounding the Kennedy clan.
-- TV shows like : Ed Sullivan, Candid Camera, The Tonight Show - first with Parr, second with Carson.
-- The whole space race moon race thing: Mercury, Gemeni, Apollo!
-- TV was new, so was color TV!
-- Music was on VINYL RECORDS! Not on Cd's...
-- The tape recorder, Reel to Reel, 8-track, and Cassette were new!
-- Electrical and electronic music instruments were also a new phenomenon.
4) Last but not least: The People! The Beatles, the Monkeys, the Who, Janice Joplin, early Neil Sedaka, Elvis, early Paul Anka, The Rat Pack, and so on... I cannot remember them all. (So if I left out a NAME, it is not intentional...)
So while there will always be music, and while there is yet great music to be written and played and enjoyed... We shall never see those days or their like again.
It is the same thing as the Renaissance and the classical music that was written back then. We shall no longer see those types of fugues, symphonies, arpeggioes, treatments, etc again in the same fashion.
But we must go on.
And someday, there will come another generation with great music, and their like will never be seen again.
But, the beat goes on!
Answers: I don't think so. The 1960's still had a number of formative influences that we might not recall today:
1) The 40's and 50's memories, styles, music, and events were still recent. Many 60's artists were people who had lived through those years.
2) These people still remembered the events of WWII and Korea well enough. Worse, they were now coping with Vietnam, the Middle East, and the cold war.
3) Furthermore, it was a time of great things, great changes, great events, to name a few:
-- The first computers (Though they were as big as a house!)
-- JFK and the events surrounding the Kennedy clan.
-- TV shows like : Ed Sullivan, Candid Camera, The Tonight Show - first with Parr, second with Carson.
-- The whole space race moon race thing: Mercury, Gemeni, Apollo!
-- TV was new, so was color TV!
-- Music was on VINYL RECORDS! Not on Cd's...
-- The tape recorder, Reel to Reel, 8-track, and Cassette were new!
-- Electrical and electronic music instruments were also a new phenomenon.
4) Last but not least: The People! The Beatles, the Monkeys, the Who, Janice Joplin, early Neil Sedaka, Elvis, early Paul Anka, The Rat Pack, and so on... I cannot remember them all. (So if I left out a NAME, it is not intentional...)
So while there will always be music, and while there is yet great music to be written and played and enjoyed... We shall never see those days or their like again.
It is the same thing as the Renaissance and the classical music that was written back then. We shall no longer see those types of fugues, symphonies, arpeggioes, treatments, etc again in the same fashion.
But we must go on.
And someday, there will come another generation with great music, and their like will never be seen again.
But, the beat goes on!
Doubtful...because a good bit of newer music uses older music because they can't write their own. Don't get me wrong, there is a lot of music out now that is great...but there are just too many artists these days that reuse the classic stuff.
Ha! The 60s are a HARD act to follow. I don't want to say a total no, but I don't see that happening anytime soon.
The entire way of making, marketing & exposing music has changed a lot since then & I think the only real revolutions we're seeing today are those in technology. Not music. Or rock, more specifically.
As far as the quality of music, I highly doubt it, but as far as influence and change, I hope so because we need someone or something to come along and save rock because it's pretty much at rock bottom right now. Alternative and grunge saved rock from the hair bands of the 80s, but today's crap is much worse than hair rock.
never
Possibly, because in the 60's the Vietnam was going on right, which made a lot of the "peace" like music. Plus, drugs never go out of style so people still write songs about that. Music nowadays is also getting "softer" and softer. When I mean softer I mean like, further away from the metal kind of sound. Were going through the whole iraq war thing, so yeah maybe.
Probably not where music that amazing is the mainstream. There are some pretty great bands that are kind of obscure around now, but not nearly as much great music is around now.
Sorry to say..... but I highly doubt it. Some of the best rock came out back in the 60's with Led Zepplin ~ Dazed and Confused / Jimi Hendrix ~ Purple Haze / The Stones ~ Cant Get No Satisfaction / Steppenwolf ~ Born to Be Wild and The Troggs ~ Wild Thing.... etc...
***I guess the only true test would be to see what songs from todays generation still hold any kind of fortitude in 40-50 years from now......
I'll check back with you then, K!
ha ha ha
we can only hope!!!
No, if this crap keeps on going.
sound wise no
fans, popularity and following wise maybe