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Why does most new music suck?

Ok I will have some exclusions to my statement. I'm not talking about classical or jazz. My comment is mostly pointed to rock and pop releases. Don't even get me started on rap.... I don't consider it music. I will admit that I'm an old foggy but come on, where are some talented new groups? I grew up with the Beatles, Who, Rolling Stones, Led Zeppelin, Hendrix etc. I sample a lot of new music and the recordings are terrible. The engineers should be fired for producing over compressed shrill garbage. The talent seems to be lost or doesn't exist. I have turned to some folk/country or blues music. It really is a sad state of affairs....Oh my god, I'm turning into my parents.
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frogman
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****Do you think that the great melodies of the past would not exist had those who wrote them not done so? They simply beat everyone else to the punch. There are no punches left to punch.****

I find that to be a strange statement. The great melodies are a reflection of a given composer's musical personality. Many of the great melodies are clearly identifiable as being by Mozart, Bernstein, Bacharach, etc. Are you suggesting that had Bernstein never lived someone else would have come up with "Maria"?
csontos
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Absolutely, yes. It is our intelligence that brings the best to the forefront of the myriad possibilities which can be calculated mathematically. Sure there are zillions of possible melodies, the vast majority being pure garbage as relates to our ears. But it's ridiculous to think any of the best ones are somehow still hidden in the math. Someone else would definitely have come up with something similar enough that if put side by side, would be considered plagiary. There have been lots of law suits regarding this issue. I believe it's called sampling.
frogman
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I guess that's one more to disagree about.

"Writing about art is like dancing about architecture" - Laurie Anderson
petepappp
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I must be from a different planet. I still listen to the old 60s and 70s stuff, but todays musicians are light years ahead musically than the old rockers. Go to your local liberal arts college and you will hear kids playing with the expertise that could only be mustered by a handful of musicians a few decades ago. There are literally 10s of thousands of young amazing musicians just in the U.S. Most of what we were listening to back in the day were glorified garage bands. Many were self taught and couldn't read music. Turn off the rig and go find some live music venue supporting local artists. You might be surprised.
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tostadosunidos
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Don't mistake technical prowess for artistic merit--ask those kids to do something original and good and then see what happens. The ones who can produce something imaginative and with "staying power" are not necessarily the same ones that can "play almost anything."

Frogman, I've seen that quote attributed to Martin Mull and to Frank Zappa but never Laurie A.
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