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The End is near....
Fri, February 22, 2008 - 8:03 AMIn between the shouts for me to buy something, I hear..what is that...oh its music...
Everytime I turn my ear to listen, I shudder. Every song is either a cover of and old song, a newly arranged old song (usually an originally upbeat song re-arranged to sound melancholy ...oh how contritely 'artistic'). If not that, its either a 'new' song that is nothing but a bunch of lines ripped off from other songs strung together, or an over sampled melody with rap lyrics on top. I won't even get into all the songs that are an old song with new lyrics put on top...ala Ice Ice Baby. Or the thinly vailed, rip off of bass lines and guitar riffs and leads.
The music has died and its clones have taken over. Someday, in the far future, the Messiah of original music will rise up and save us, or at least our great, great, great.......grandchildren. Or maybe not. That undiscovered state-sized meteor is still hurling its way toward earth at 100,000 miles an hour. I wonder what kind of music the bees and roaches will have after the apocolypse. Sorry, I forgot, we're already killing all the bees. Its up to the roaches.
Fri, February 22, 2008 - 8:03 AM -
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Fri, February 22, 2008 - 1:00 PM
Popular music these days isnt much different from the shouts in between for you to buy crap you dont need. I remember when i was a little girl, I asked my mom why the music she listens to isnt on the radio, and why did all the songs on the radio rhyme? She explained that it was there for "average" people because they often can't understand music with many layers of sound & lyrical metaphors, and that a "catchy jingle" (much like a commercial) is easily accessible to their minds, and sells records fast. She explained that "her generation" had briefly saved us, using the cheesy bubblegum hits of the 50's as "proof", and that something like that can never last since thinking folk are simply outnumbered.
Fortunately we have this fancy internet thingie now, where we can find, then download the good stuff. |
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Sat, February 23, 2008 - 8:05 PM
Eris put it well, and I know you drink from that vast digital river deeper than many, Mike. In fact, I remember you telling me once at Hagey's house to just take my mouse and drag it over a section of music unfamiliar to me and explore. That was good advice for me then. "Doctor, heal thyself!"
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