Is Old Music Killing New Music?

@jssmith 

+ 1, you hit the nail on the head with adjectives: "monotony, simplistic and formulaic." Most of the so-called new music sounds like everyone involved was following some type of recipe. Poor songwriting is bad enough; but, there is a serious lack of stellar musicianship that could lift the poor songwriting above the level of mundane muzak or sonic wallpaper.

This is a complicated subject with no easy answers. Someone once said: "there is nothing new under the sun," which is another way of saying it's a copycat world that we live in. The thing that worries me the most about this subject is that I don't sense the kind of non-conformity by young musicians or listeners that is needed to shake things up and create something new or transcendent.  I hope to be proven wrong on that one. 

@hilde45 ...chill Brah...

@glennewdick..spot on

@recluse...WORD!

@deadhead1000 .. Right on Man!

Check out the radio broadcast "Extra Eclectic" for new, exciting music.

If you dare.

is this old or new?

I dont give a damn....

It sound pretty much near the "eternal feminine soul " to me....How about Eve in the garden?

A thousand years old tradition sang nowadays how do we called that?

It is "jazz" from India to my ears....Not less beautiful than Ella Fitzgerald for sure....

Hypnotically beautiful ....

For this thread , i will change the title for: "old ears" listening always the same tunes are killing the eternally new.... 😁😊

By the way the population of India is : 1.38 billions, 4 times de US....

They have some musicians and some unknown instruments that are among the finest instruments ever created by mankind.......

How many americans confuse the simple veena, the rudra veena and the vichitra veena and the chitra veena , the sitar and the sarod?

Who know the hypnotical power of the sarangi?

I can goes on here about many thousand years old Indian "jazz" musicians.....

Dont upgrade, buy some "new" music.....😁😊

@tgilb 

For producer Rick Rubin, The Beatles' recorded achievements are akin to a miracle.

He's not the only one who thinks that way today.

However back in the mid 60s Lennon said, as he sat at his home in Weybridge, staring (stoned?) into the distance for hours and hours doing nothing (much like like later on in the Dakota) that he must be the laziest man in Britain.

Just goes to show how times and sensibilities have changed.

From Please Please Me to Abbey Road in 7 years is one hell of a journey.

You could argue that they were lucky in that a lot of things fell for them - Epstein, Martin, EMI, the emergence of the LP as a serious art form, the kaleidoscopic background of the 1960s, but nevertheless it still looks rather miraculous.