Ruphus -> RE: Is good music dead? (Aug. 21 2018 13:25:08)
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I have not seen the video, but can relate to the thread title. I notice what could be called world music and hear what might be newcomers or B-chart presented in German and francophone channels. And beside do hear what must be current top of disco music through boring reports on celebrity and awards. To start with the latter, it is obvious that music writing pros are being at work with bringing up lines and arrangement that will allow trained voices to display their range. All skilled producing, but sterile and musically hollow. Regarding music of newcomers, it appears to vastly be based on melodiousness that everyone comes up with occasionally under the shower and such. One finds a note or a vocal nudge that sounds good and goes from there to make a piece of it. However, as for most there isn´t anything further added to that one kind of melodiousness in question, it ends up being a one-trick pony that stands for the slightly varied repertoire of a whole interpreter´s or band´s presence. Conclusion: Poor public who needs to get by with contemporary output and charts. And good for them that they are not familiar with the creative, pulling and tremendously rich eruption from before the eighties of past century. Otherwise they couldn´t wave to scarcity and plagiarism. For, by and large one needs to either put on the turntable from the old times to rock the boat (missing the cassettes that I exquisitely compiled by fit crossing back then. There have never been delightful moving gatherings and parties again, like those with such soundtrack) or make do with dolled up, lame mediocrity. That is basically it, with the exception of the sporadic new song that may have something to it, though not extraordinarily so. It´s just seven notes and only so many of individually appealing shades of tone / arrangement. The great plains however have been grazed already, and that as brilliant as it gets. It is other fields that have reserve left to blossom like technological and scientific ones. And they actually do thrive incredibly. Music however has close to zero white spots left on the map. Procol Harum, The doors, Led Zep, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Uriah Heep, Beatles, Stones & Co. will be there for as long as humanity lasts, while very most of afterwards and future will be diminishing in transience of furthermore production. Having said that, me is the first one to be sorry about it. But it is a sad fact of limited bandwidth of means and creativity. Let aside lively inspiration of a past period of hope on undiscovered harmonical ground, wedged between the horrors of WWII and a stolen revolution. The good thing with internet in the meantime being that sources will stay available long after labels have ceased publishing.
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