"NEW" music rant!
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- ********0
I still listen to "old" music like it never left.
There is a reason why this happens so infrequently I guess.
Because really good music that is timeless, is very rare.
- Jaline0
I haven't listened to the older stuff enough to know which artists influence newer artists. I mean, I have an idea, but still. My collection includes lots of older music (before the 90's, I mean), and a lot of newer stuff too. Pretty much equal.
- ********0
- 5timuli0
ween's guitar playing is up there with jimi.
jaylarson
(May 21 07, 14:13)Did you really just say that? Heehee :)
- elms0
Arvo Pärt
- pascii0
the drummer in my sideproject saw jimi playing live here in zurich. he's 54... we we're all very silent after he told us : )
here's my suggests:
- mr bungle
- peeping tom
- bloc party ('cause they care)
- Seu Jorge
- the the
- easy star all stars
- gorillaz
- valentim0
something old: Dave Grusin..or anything from GRP
- valentim0
Vicente Amigo
- vespa0
i saw that jimi doc too, it was great.
that said i'd played the night before with a band that made me want to smash their faces in for the sheer boredom instilled in me by all their learned virtuoso antics. euromale bassists and their clit-flicking facial expressions do my head right in.
at the moment my favourite band is "Chik Budo", they are like James Chance & the Contortionists in a paranoid bathtub speed factory.
check out 83 Shot
http://www.myspace.com/chikbudo
- vespa0
James Chance & the Contortions, that is
- bolus0
check out dijf sanders
- BaskerviIle0
If you're bored of 'new music' then listen to old music. So much music has been produced over the last 500 years most people have only heard a small fraction.
Current popular music is a tiny pinprick in the overall scheme of music.
Classical music has a huge history and can be incredibly beautiful and express emotions that most popular music can't. The term 'classical' is only a small period as well. It's like someone called all popular music 'rock' there are other genres and periods within classical music – baroque, romantic etc,
Also by learning about how music works you will discover new music and start to reinterpret music you already know. If you study the theory then after a while jazz and classical music will speak to you more.
Jazz has an amazing wealth of stuff to be listened to in its short history, and there is always new things happening.
I agree that pop/rock music has become more generic, but remember that rock has only been around for about 60 years, how can you write it off already?
There's tons of great music out there, you just have to start searching outside your normal routes. Most of us on here probably mainly listen to western music, how about all the great music coming out of africa and south america? Indian classical music is some of the most complex and enchanting out there, it could take a lifetime to get your head around! Again, this music (like classical) is squashed into one genre: 'world music' which I find to be very patronising.
It's like, here's all the pop music we make here, it sounds mostly the same but we'll divide it up into thousands of categories – emo, screamo, grindcore, metal, numetal, trance, techno, house, hiphop, etc but it's all essentially the same western scales.
If you want truly new music, then got to jazz, contemporary classical or music from other places in the world.
And if after all that you are still jaded with the music available, then make your own. Play what you want to hear. There are only 12 notes! (or quite a few more in other cultures) so be creative with them.
- tyranisus0
A friend just turned me on to Olivia Tremor Control's Black Foliage - it's from '98 or something and I guess it's the soundtrack to an unreleased animated movie, it's NUTS - like the Beach Boys kinda nuts - very very good though.
- 23kon0
thats so true baskerville about pop music being so subdivided and everything else is thrown into jazz/classical or world music lol i never thought about that before.
vespa. i shall check out your suggestion.
- melq0
isis is like a breath of fresh air in the metal. they are, without a doubt, the ground-breaking band in that genre over the last several years.
heavy, beautiful, original.
- neverblink0
dunno if you know any of these, but check them out. Some have been around for a while tho'
the Knife:
Devendra Banhart:
Britta Persson:
CEX:
Patrick Watson:
Plaid:
Venetian Snares:
CocoRosie:
Sia:
- ********0
".., nor am I a rap fan, ..."
T-Dawg
(May 21 07, 15:07)what's in a name?