DrLove
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Why you gotta be such a buttholeI thought you would have taken that as a complement.
A reunion with your parents in your paradise
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Why you gotta be such a buttholeI thought you would have taken that as a complement.
A reunion with your parents in your paradise
Extract from The Don McLean Story: Killing Us Softly With His Songs by Alan Howard Copyright 2007 Starry Night Music, Inc. All rights reserved. Reproduction or translation of any part of this work without the permission of the copyright owner is unlawful. Used by permission
Iâm willing to bet Michaelsherry59 is DrLove or at least one them trolls on hereIt was reported for the family reference. Verboten around here.
Iâm willing to bet Michaelsherry59 is DrLove or at least one them trolls on here
Music wasnât just great in the 60s and 70s. It was great in the 80s and 90s as well. It began to die at the turn of the century and has been dead for at least 10 years. Itâs the millennials and especially gen z that I feel bad for.
More than the musical forms themselves died between then and now. So has the ability to enjoy it. Growing up in the 60s and 70s, I used to stop in a Radio Shack every day on my way home from school. Nearly half the store was filled with stereo equipment! Now you can't even find a Radio Shack. Or an Olsons. Or a Lafeyette. Not to mention real audio salons. Go try to find a stereo section in a department store now! They look at you like you are nuts.
Growing up in the 1960s, every home had one of these in their living-room or game-room:
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In the 1970s, every self respecting music lover had something like this in their house, probably in a dedicated room. From THIS:
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To THIS:
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Now kids are told music is bad for you and they have THIS to listen to music with instead, if they listen to music at all:
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âMissed outâ can also mean they werenât in high school or college during that time; it was the times that contributed to the music being great.Y'know - I actually know a lot of Gen Xers and Millennials who listen to a steady diet of classic rock. But don't dismiss more recent artists. There's still a lot of creative/ great stuff out there.
Don't forget the days when records use to priced in single digits as well, concerts were cheaper
That may be true. . . but. . .Like seriously Generation X have no idea what they missed out on. The older generation such as myself and many of you here who are 60+ we had the Beatles, Bob Dylan, Curtis Mayfield, Marvin Gaye, Aretha Franklin, Sly and The Family Stone, Queen, Laura Lee, The Doors, Elton John, The Jimi Hendrix Experience, Frank Zappa, Al Green, Stevie Wonder, The Kinks, The Stooges and many more.
Is a shame they missed out on that beautiful innovative groundbreaking period for music.
Discuss.
And they just wanted their own music and did not want to know about the 60s and 70s. There is a DVD set Music From Saturday Night Live. As you watch it the quality of the music gies down as you go from year to year.Like seriously Generation X have no idea what they missed out on. The older generation such as myself and many of you here who are 60+ we had the Beatles, Bob Dylan, Curtis Mayfield, Marvin Gaye, Aretha Franklin, Sly and The Family Stone, Queen, Laura Lee, The Doors, Elton John, The Jimi Hendrix Experience, Frank Zappa, Al Green, Stevie Wonder, The Kinks, The Stooges and many more.
Is a shame they missed out on that beautiful innovative groundbreaking period for music.
Discuss.
I've been a musician and songwriter for most of my life. I believe what is dying out is musical creativity and lyrics. It seems to me music since 2000 is largely 'formula driven' with very little originality. Everyone tries to sound like everyone else.
That may be true. . . but. . .
I believe a lot of us, as we get older, tend to just listen to what we grew up with, or relive the music that went with our memories, and tend not to explore new music anymore. But, if you have a particular genre of music, or even if you like new and creative artists, they are still out there, exploring and creating.
True. There is always good new music out there if you look to find it. Still, we tend to also listen to music we grew up with not only because it is allied with memories of our youth, but also because people tend to use their best ideas first and there IS no modern equivalent of Miles Davis, John McLaughlin, Chick Corea or a Jeff Beck out there now really; they have already done it all, the opportunity for the same creativity and inventiveness just isn't there and what kids are exploring now is ever increasingly more like noise and general chaotica, so more than ever, good new music now tends to more likely be just new variations on an old theme with the occaisional flash of brilliance.
By the year 2100, all music will sound like this:
They all strive to be different, when in actuality they look like hair colored, pierced, tattooed clones.You can look a pictures of people from the 50s, 60s, 70s, 80s, 90s and tell what decade they are from.
But today's clothing and hair all looks the same over the last 20 years.
Disco is back baby...I present the Dee Gees, aka Foo Fighters.Even the 70's disco music is better than today's pop music.
They had real talented singers and real musicians.