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2007-01-17 by jonesalley
2007-01-17 by lsf5275@aol.com
INSIDE the lines, Frank, INSIDE the lines.
2007-01-17 by jonesalley
2007-01-23 by jonesalley
> Instant gratification and lowered expectations happened. Every child
> wants to be a star NOW - the next hip hop mofo. Very few kids are willing
> to take the time or effort to learn to play an instrument. Now they're
> the center of attention because they're ... playing records at a party.
> Apparently there's some secret skill involved in fading a mixer between
> two turntables whilst cupping one side of your headphones over your left
> ear with one hand. I can't remember the last time I was at a party with
> a live band playing, but it goes back to the '80s. I guess it wouldn't be
> so bad if what they were playing was in the least bit interesting, but
> everytime I've had to go to one of these damned things it's the most
> unimaginative and repetitive bastard son of disco crap being played. I've
> often felt that Brando had Sheen call in the airstrike on the wrong people
> at the end of Apocalypse Now ...
>
> john barrick
> I'm not bitter
>
>
>
> jonesalley wrote:
>>
>> Whatever happened to a cool music subculture like we used to have?
>
2007-01-23 by jonesalley
>> Whatever happened to a cool music subculture like we used to have?Certainly true and will be as long as there are humans. I still can't shake
>
>
> hmmm...
> i wonder if our parents asked the same question... and their parents?
2007-01-23 by jonesalley
>To that, I'll add that the way the industry has shaped itself by following
> The cool music subculture was effectively killed by a music industry
> that was more concerned about making deals than making music. Sure,
> the music industry has always been more concerned with making deals
> than making music, but the dollar value of the transactions involved
> got way out of control.
>
> All is not lost though. It turns out that in the process of killing
> the music, the music industry has effectively killed itself. Short
> term gain has trashed the chances of long term survival. (Darwin
> would say that that sucks if you're an evolving species.)
>
> I'll predict that the music industry we've come to know is turning
> into ash, and a whole new music industry is rising from the ashes.
>
> -- Don
>
2007-01-23 by MAinPsych@aol.com
> Instant gratification and lowered expectations happened. Every child
> wants to be a star NOW - the next hip hop mofo. Very few kids are willing
> to take the time or effort to learn to play an instrument. Now they're
> the center of attention because they're ... playing records at a party.
> Apparently there's some secret skill involved in fading a mixer between
> two turntables whilst cupping one side of your headphones over your left
> ear with one hand. I can't remember the last time I was at a party with
> a live band playing, but it goes back to the '80s. I guess it wouldn't be
> so bad if what they were playing was in the least bit interesting, but
> everytime I've had to go to one of these damned things it's the most
> unimaginative and repetitive bastard son of disco crap being played. I've
> often felt that Brando had Sheen call in the airstrike on the wrong people
> at the end of Apocalypse Now ...
2007-01-23 by lsf5275@aol.com
I still can't shake
the conclusion that the original prog-rock decade was a pretty much
unparalleled age of innovation arising from a diverse blend of musical
influences with new technology and the geopolitics of the era adding their
own flavors to the blend.
2007-01-23 by Mike Dickson
> Certainly true, but that is more a function of the Lowest Common DenominatorThe music industry can sell *nothing* if people do not want to buy it in the first place.
> phenomenon. The music industry figured out how to package attractive young
> people and prop them up with technology and professional pop-hitmakers
> cranking out formulaic pap.
>
2007-01-23 by jonesalley
> Thanks so much for explaining the obvious there, Mike. McDonald's
> couldn't sell their shit if people didn't want it either. If people
> aren't exposed to good things, crappy ones that are shiny seem great.
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>
>
>>>
>> The music industry can sell *nothing* if people do not want to buy it in
>> the first place.
>