Is Old Music Killing 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.

@cd318

Well said but in defense of my favorite Beatle from my youth I think his musically unproductive years were more like from 1975 through 1980. He did release four albums from the time the Beatles broke up in 1969 through 1974. Three more albums than most artists today release in the same period of time. Of course artists like Ryan Adams and others are the exception.

Plastic Ono Band, Imagine, Mind Games, and Walls And Bridges were nothing to sneeze at in that four year period. And the song Imagine is potentially one of the most powerful songs ever written.

And the artists during the 60’s like the Beatles and Stones were pressured from their record companies to release two or more albums in a year while also touring. Not an easy task.

Making it in the music industry is for only the few but for those that do make it I’d say they have an easier task in the world of streaming and not being pressured to cut an album every year or three.

I enjoy a lot of the new artists that I can hear through streaming but I’m not simpathetic if I still enjoy the music of the 60’s, 70’s and 80’s.

If the Beatles are geniuses because of thirteen albums in few years what about Bob Dylan productions? He was alone and it is certainly comparable productions...

Anyway who know the 6 thousand works Telemann output?

The 500 hundred Vivaldi concertos?

And his more than one hundred operas?

People call genius anybody they like...

I prefer to call genius some others ....

I will call Bach a genius for example....

Sorry for the Beatles, i like them very much anyway....They will be the first astounded by the ignorance of their fans....

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+1 @mahgister .

The Beatles were a very nice and popular band.

Bach was a genius.

Maybe not enough "new" music is "good" music. When something is appealing, people find it without it being spoon fed to them by a music executive. Take a minute to listen to what is now defined as R&B. Over processed tunes that muffle good vocals trying to sing poor lyrics. Maybe if artists... focused on making good music and not scoring likes on Tik Tok or IG, there might be stuff people would gravitate to. One thing this article inadvertently proves... good music never goes old ... even after 18 months!!!