Constant incoherent warbling in every song these days

demanufactured wrote: »

I'm pretty happy thanks.
It's real, written by real musicians, on real instruments, with real emotion.

The tripe that gets pumped out by the Simon Cowells of the world is most definitely not real music.

Give me some Steely Dan any day over that prefabricated muck.

Of course it's real music. It may not be to your taste and that's fine. I wouldn't expect to hear a 10 year old blasting Cowboys From Hell on their way to their swimming lesson like.

Christy Moore does a huge amount of songs written by other people. Does that make him a less valid performer?

Tom Dunne wrote: »

As somebody whose taste in music can be somewhat eclectic, but firmly rooted in the pre-2000's, I decided to broaden my auditory horizon with the aid of Spotify. So the other day on the commute home, I put on a playlist called Top 50 Hits.

It consisted of either droning, nasal, wannabe starlets or angry urban youths.

As the playlist progressed, my inner Victor Meldrew came out in full force.

So many of them sound like they are holding their nose to sing, I don't get the love for the adenoidal drone

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VeryTerry wrote: »

Of course it's real music. It may not be to your taste and that's fine. I wouldn't expect to hear a 10 year old blasting Cowboys From Hell on their way to their swimming lesson like.

Christy Moore does a huge amount of songs written by other people. Does that make him a less valid performer?

Well I blasted cowboys from hell on my way to swimming lessons as a kid ....thanks for igniting a memory.

Christy Moore is a legend.
Whether the tunes are written by other people or not is not the point I'm trying to make.
It's a amount of terrible crap that passes for music these days.

Write a half catchy tune that 10year olds will like because it makes a funny noise, and use a cash cow to "perform" it
No creativity.

super_furry wrote: »

The second you start complaining about modern music just sounding like noise, you need to start planning for your retirement because you're officially old.

Not true though. Chart music overall has gradually been getting worse and worse, and is definitely worse than ever now. The likes of David Bowie, Prince, The Jam, Public Enemy, The Cure, Blondie, Elvis Costello, Primal Scream, Nirvana, The Smiths, New Order, Echo and The Bunnymen... these got into the top ten. U2 and Madonna did some brilliant stuff too. No way is the charts of the same calibre now, thanks to the internet and X Factor's Got no Talent type shows.

Duran Duran, Wham!, Spandau Ballet... these were the boy bands of their time. Mostly not my cup of tea but still infinitely better than their equivalent now, and the odd excellent song.

That was the thing - there was always gonna be rubbish in the charts; I started realising that when I was 13 (not when old) but there was always good stuff too, and always a joyous pop song that you'd get such a thrill out of hearing on the radio.

Those days are gone now. It's wall to wall blandness. Our parents and grandparents complained about noise, not blandness. They liked blandness!

There is still plenty of good music though, but I do miss the joy of a good pop song.

"Nothing's changed, you're getting old" is the new "In my day, things were better" - of course things have changed. Were things the same between the 50s and 80s? Of course not thanks to societal and technical changes. And today with the internet you can ramp that up even more.

Not sure I said anything about relying *solely* on the charts/daytime radio. Music wasn't always free either. In my teens I'd save up for albums, listen to Dave Fanning and watch 120 Minutes on MTV but I also never missed Top of The Pops.

Good pop is gone.