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Imadofus 
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 Posted: February 12 2008 at 23:58 |
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Look, I can understand that you don't appreciate most mainstream music nowadays, but saying that "music is falling" is exaggerated. Therer are people who enjoy rap, grunge and punk, and they are neither better nor worse than you because of that. Music is all about taste. It's not like prog is the only good music that has ever existed.
Plus, in every moment of the past 50 years there has been good and bad music. In fact, there is no such thing as good or bad music, only music you like and music you don't.
And, Man-Erg, saying that Punk made people think that "rock has to
be loud and agressive and everything else which is not guitar-driven is
crap" or that "rock has to be kept down to 3 chords and it
can't be well played by good musicians" is like saying that Prog made people think that "rock has to be complex and everything that doesn't have a keyboard is crap" or that "rock has to have as many solos and time signature changes as possible, and can't be well played by anyone who isn't a virtuoso". There are many people who would support one of those ideas, as there are many who would oppose to them.
Edited by Imadofus - February 12 2008 at 23:59
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MAN- ERG
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Posted: February 13 2008 at 09:52 |
 Imadofus wrote:
And, Man-Erg, saying that Punk made people think that "rock has to be loud and agressive and everything else which is not guitar-driven is crap" or that "rock has to be kept down to 3 chords and it can't be well played by good musicians"
is like saying that Prog made people think that "rock has to be complex and everything that doesn't have a keyboard is crap" or that "rock has to have as many solos and time signature changes as possible, and can't be well played by anyone who isn't a virtuoso". There are many people who would support one of those ideas, as there are many who would oppose to them. |
Not really.
This ideia of proficient musicians playing rock died in the 70s and is absent from the music industry since the 80's up to the present. One can only find it in guettos (small ones). But I believe that in the initial post by Mike Giles he was speaking about the state of music today AS A WHOLE. If we are going to talk about specific scenes, of course there is very good music being made today. For example:
The albums SOMEWHERE DEEP IN THE NIGHT or WHERE OUR LOVE GROWS by Manchester soul-jazzy-pop band SWING OUT SISTER are fine exemples of sophisticated music being made in the 2000s. But those are exceptions if compared to the whole state of the music business. Their success is small and local (Japan only) and like many other good bands that still exist, they don't count for the analyses of the actual condition of the music industry (because of poor sales, lack of exposure in TV, radio, press, music books, etc... ...in other words: no one knows they exist).
And this happens to a lot of other groups which make (these days) daring, well crafted and complex music : they pay a high price for being good : they make no commercial success. Today, image counts more than talent. Today, joe public normally goes after the easiest sounds made by the sexiest girl or the handome guy. These days nobody cares anymore for better music. People prefer what's more raw, direct and immediate. They won't waste time learning a good melody that demands more than one listen to be understood.
If it wasn't for the internet these groups which are still going against the grain would be gone a long time. Lack of commercial succees has wrecked many bands in the past.
 To avoid confusions, I was kindly asked to not login under the nick MAN-ERG because there is another MAN ERG here. So these are my last posts under this nick. And to make things clear I AM NOT THE ONE WHO IS A LONG TIME MEMBER which, by the way, I haven't spoken too.
Edited by MAN- ERG - February 13 2008 at 09:58
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Man Erg
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Posted: February 14 2008 at 09:05 |
^^^ Off topic Hi MAN- ERG,Pleased to meet you.Great nick name by the way. Good luck and best wishes Lee 
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Petrovsk Mizinski
Prog Reviewer
Joined: December 24 2007
Location: Ukraine
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Posted: February 14 2008 at 09:52 |
MAN- ERG wrote:
robg wrote:
what a bizarre post.
You're complaining about grunge?? Are we in a time-warp where it's forever 1992 here?
Sorry, but this little rant comes across as very ignorant and childish..... |
Bizarre post ? Why ? Mike Giles post is accurate. It is superficial to say he is in a time-warp back to 1992. GRUNGE and PUNK may be distant in time, but they keep producing its effects to the present day.
Thanks to them and to the support of the music press, the music industry was corrupted by this (small thinking) idea that rock has to be loud and agressive and everything else which is not guitar-driven is crap.
Unfortunately people were led to believe in this "school of thinking" which says that rock has to be kept down to 3 chords and it can't be well played by good musicians. |
I used to be really narrow minded about pretty much all 'punk. I still don't like a lot of it, but actually get to know it a bit more and just the many people don't realise prog has many sub genres, many people don't understand punk has many sub-genres too. No I don't like Punk Rock, Skate Punk, Pop-Punk and the simpler genres of punk, because I like music that shows that artist is expressing themselves more freely and that shows they are challenging themselves. Two years ago, I heard an album by a 'hardcore punk' band called Refused, and I ended up loving it. It happens this band falls into the Post Hardcore genre, an off shoot of punk rock, with much hardcore influence as well. That album was so far ahead, creatively and expressively, of the simple punk genres, that I almost could not accept it was hardcore, because the general hardcore scene had become very stagnant, and here was something that seriously amazed me. Listen to At The Drive In, which is labelled a 'punk rock' band, and tell me it sounds like Greenday or any of those overly commerciaised generic punk pop groups. It doesn't. 2 of the At the Drive In guys went on to form The Mars Volta, whom are great musicians (even if you like them or not, they are undoubtably creative and expressive musicans, just like I don't really Opera vocalists music, but they are undeniably good at their craft nonetheless), and a great band in the progarchives listing, so surely At the Drive in had great musicans on board (and IMO they really did).
And I learnt a great lesson out of those 2 bands, which is to, instead of dimissing a whole genre because of the negative stereotypes and examples, give it a fair chance, because you are likely to find at least 1 good band among 100, 200 or even 500 sub-par bands. And if you dont want to have to just randomly sift through bands, do what I did, and research the genre, which lead to me discovering the sub-genres. Find out which sub-genre/s have the most appealing musical traits to your mind, and give some bands/artists in that sub genre a shot.
Edited by HughesJB4 - February 14 2008 at 09:54
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jammun
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Posted: February 14 2008 at 22:41 |
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I don't get it. What's the argument here? That what's popular sucks, compared to what's good? That's been true, sorry to say, since the early '70's, with obvious exceptions. But I'd guess Three Dog Night was outselling ELP back in the day.
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1800iareyay
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Posted: February 14 2008 at 22:48 |
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Music is failing? Wasn't 2007 the best year prog had in a dog's age?
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MHDTV
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Posted: February 18 2008 at 01:40 |
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Lol. Music isn't falling. The music industry is.
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Freak yo' swerve
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BroSpence
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Posted: February 18 2008 at 02:41 |
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What is this the 3 newbies rant about music they don't like thread?
Lets all embrace their love of genre dismissiveness and generalizations and get on with more interesting things.
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MHDTV
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Posted: February 18 2008 at 13:59 |
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Who is that aimed at? I'm assuming the starter of the thread and subsequent posters. But you never know.
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Freak yo' swerve
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A B Negative
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Joined: May 02 2006
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Posted: February 19 2008 at 06:25 |
MAN- ERG wrote:
The albums SOMEWHERE DEEP IN THE NIGHT or WHERE OUR LOVE GROWS by Manchester soul-jazzy-pop band SWING OUT SISTER are fine exemples of sophisticated music being made in the 2000s. But those are exceptions if compared to the whole state of the music business. Their success is small and local (Japan only) and like many other good bands that still exist, they don't count for the analyses of the actual condition of the music industry (because of poor sales, lack of exposure in TV, radio, press, music books, etc... ...in other words: no one knows they exist). |
I didn't know Swing Out Sister were back but I couldn't stand them first time round. I can't deny the sophistication but I just don't like them.
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