Has pop music not changed since the eighties?
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In the car the other day Flashdance came on the radio. My 13 yr old asked if it was a new song, I said "No, it was in the charts when I was a teenager". She said " Oh that's really old" and put her Taylor Swift CD on. I noticed that Taylor Swift didn't sound very different to Flalshdance.
So has pop music not moved on in thirty years? If a song from the Fifties was played on Radio 1 in 1985 it would have stuck out like a sore thumb. Even songs from the seventies would have stood out as "old" in the Eighties.
So has pop music not moved on in thirty years? If a song from the Fifties was played on Radio 1 in 1985 it would have stuck out like a sore thumb. Even songs from the seventies would have stood out as "old" in the Eighties.
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Blame them.
I can't, they are just cashing in. It is the people buying it to blame.
i.e. the general public.
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That. They've found a formula and continue to milk it to death.
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Edit:- One of my favourite recordings - The Allman Brothers At Filmore East. It is stereo but it was recorded in 1971. I doubt modern technology would make it sound better. Some sound engineer may argue but it is all about the feeling and getting your feet moving.
I do not decry new musicians. I decry manufactured "music".
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Technology can't make a bad song good. Same applies to film.
Nowadays it appears that film producers are willing to spend $100m on CGI and special effects and then spend $10 on a script or screenplay.
autotune ? the song maybe complete dirge but seemingly anyone these days can string a few notes together and gets hailed as a popstar.
Music by Cream, Hendrix, Peter Green and the Blues greats inferior? Yeah right.
Reasonable grounds for divorce there.
And the f*cking dancing. And the jungle shite. That's why you find me on here so much.
Do you ever consider introducing a hammer to your TV screen?
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It’s interesting that a reissue of the Beatles 1 made it to no.4 in the album chart this week, so they are clearly still popular.
I'd suggest if you listened to the tedium that is EDM you wouldn't find much resemblance to '80s music and that stuff dominates the charts.
There is now more music around than ever. Prog rock and electronica, for example is going through a renaissance. It's cheaper to make and distribute than ever before. Bands don't really need record deals any more, so they might not make any money, but that doesn't stop creativity.
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Here you go:
I remember winning a Bootsy Collins album and saying to my dad "I can't believe I've won first prize" to which my dad said "I can't believe that is first prize, what was the last one"?
I feel I would say the same today.
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Haven't seen live music for over 20 years until I saw a blues band the other night. It was ace. It was alive.
In the old days of tapes or vinyl, while you could skip tracks you tended not to and played the complete work. This meant that bands (yeah - BANDS, where you actually saw and knew who was playing the other instruments as well as the singers!!) agonised over the order of tracks and meant that while an album might start off with a couple of standout tracks, often after repeated plays there were other gems which didnt grab you straight away but grew on you and often became your long term favourites.
With CDs we just skipped over the tracks that didnt grab us within the first few seconds.
Nowadays wmany e dont even download the ones which dont get into the charts.
Even better (sometimes) were the 'concept albums' where the whole thing was an exquisite body of work presented in a linear composition.
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I actually find that da youth these days have a much greater appreciation of old stuff than we used to in my day - to me as a young teenager in the 70s the Beatles were old hat, despite the fact that I remember them being in the charts, and anything earlier than that was almost literally prehistoric: but I regularly come across kids listening to Clapton, Marley, Led Zep, Lynyrd Skynyrd - although there are downsides to download culture, it has made a much wider selection of music available to more people.
You can plot a line through Pyschadelia/Glam/Disco/Electro pop, but it just seems to grind to a halt c.1985.
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