Whatever man.

I'm 55 and think most new music blows, but Im not gonna go on a rant about it. I appreciate different opinions in this world, and ain't gonna get al tied up if something I don't like is popular.

I did notice that there are no longer bands.

The Best duo/group nominees were all solo artists who teamed up for a song collab.

I think marketing and executives are to blame.

I like some new music but mostly listen to retro stations. Music is a great mood lifter, I aint gonna turn on it.

Rock bands aren't dead. They're just not a popular thing anymore. It's all about individual personalities. Like you said, the industry is focused on featuring top tier artists with other top tier artists, stacking personalities. It was said in another thread: pop music is generally very shallow. So shallow that it often doesn't even matter what music they make. As long as a song has the right singer, it will sell.

So and so (feat. someone else)

I actually had to introduce a filing convention in my music collection.

So for example, if a song was a live version, I would use a [LIVE] tag to facilitate quick searching and stuff.

I have a filter element now for [FEAT.]

It's funny, when I was a kid, "classic rock" was stuff from the 50s that was 20 years old. Now, classic rock is stuff from the 70s and 80s that's 40 to 50 years old. There's a reason for that.

It's not like there wasn't plenty of vile shit being pawned off as music back then, but the stuff that was good has stood the test of time.

Classic rock is Pearl Jam, Alice in Chains, and Janes Addiction now.

Man, you new around here?

Disagree with the thread title. I am completely in awe at the breadth and depth of music available to us in so many ways. Whatever you are into whatever you want to explore it is all there for the taking.

It is an incredible age for music. If something I personally like is not super popular or getting Grammys come what may?

I don't get it.

Is it time to call Nickleback classic rock yet?

Yeah, most music today is crap. Mainstream music is probably 100% garbage. Interesting that the more technology is used in music, the worse it is.

Yes. 20+ years in pop rock now.

There are certain commercials, Apple among them, that have an Asian sounding technobabble voice set to some sort of synth beat peppered with annoying tooting sounds. Is that just something some lunatic thought up for the commercial, or are there actually people in the world who pay to listen to that shit and like it?

I don’t normally watch this stuff, but I’m watching The Voice because I know one of the contestants. I feel dirty.

Lol, no idea. I don't listen to new music much anymore. Not for many years.



You might be talking about kpop. which is garbage.


here's a funny thing: several years ago when my nephew and niece were around 15-16 yrs old, they were listening to kpop and whatever else kids were listening to a few years ago. That X-Mas my brother and I were having a couple scotches, and put on some Stevie Ray V., Led Zep, Genesis, etc. They came downstairs and wanted to know who we were listening to. They sat and asked a bunch of questions about the bands and hung out with us for over an hour.

Since then, they don't listen to that modern crap. They're becoming zepheads, getting into SRV, the Eagles, Skynyrd, etc.


Real music trumps electronic nonsense every time.