Yes and no. - SalD - Rocky Road

Yes and no.

Posted by SalD (A) on May 12, 2006 at 10:27:19

In Reply to: Deteriorating State of Yesterday's Music... Buyers posted by dave c on May 11, 2006 at 21:25:03:

In one respect you're correct... that whatever we listened to when we were, say, 16-24 is what we'll love forever. On the other hand, just because we love it doesn't make it special. Writers and musicians of all ages understand the importance of rock's golden age just as much as novelists understand the novel's golden age (which, by the way, I wasn't around for), filmmakers the movie's golden age, etc. In each case, especially with filmmakers, talented people were able to do what they wanted to do, rather than create "art" to the specifications of a committee of accountants. Commerce does interfere, and it does demand regurgitation of successful formulas. Very few accountants are also music people willing to take a chance on new talent, while in the sixties, record people were very often music people. Same goes for radio stations. They played anything. Today they play Mariah Carey or Pink Floyd every six minutes. When new music is created that is so powerful it demands to be heard (like rap), it will be, and it will change things. But so far, today's rock (and jazz as well) isn't rewriting any history books.

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Topic - DSOTM thread to end them all (please) - dave c 14:07:06 05/11/06 (15)

DSOTM: An Album I Play Occasionally. Sounds Good On My HiFi When I Do. - Lawrence of Suburbia 23:59:07 05/16/06 (0)

Damned Stuporous Overated Trite Monotonousnessszzzz....N/T - musetap 12:38:28 05/12/06 (0)

Deteriorating State of Today's Music..... - Todd Krieger 19:02:44 05/11/06 (8)

more like the Deteriorating State of the Music Industry...(longish) - vinyl*junkie 08:41:38 05/12/06 (2)

Right on... - Sugardawg34 11:57:52 05/12/06 (1)

Exactly! - vinyl*junkie 12:41:02 05/12/06 (0)

Deteriorating State of Yesterday's Music... Buyers - dave c 21:25:03 05/11/06 (3)

Yes and no. - SalD 10:27:19 05/12/06 (0)

Re: Deteriorating State of Yesterday's Music... Buyers - Sugardawg34 22:33:21 05/11/06 (1)

so you don't hear much new music... - dave c 23:02:29 05/11/06 (0)

fantastic point** - Sugardawg34 20:30:49 05/11/06 (0)

Turgid Turd - YECH 15:59:39 05/11/06 (0)

Dont sh*t on the masterpiece (nm) - Sugardawg34 15:24:58 05/11/06 (1)

that could as easily be "Dog SOTM" nt - dave c 16:05:12 05/11/06 (0)

Do Something Other Than Makeanothergoddamthreadaboutdsotm!!! (nt) - vinyl*junkie 14:58:19 05/11/06 (0)

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