OT - Grumpy Old Man Thread

[MikeDeTiger]

I've posted a lengthy thread with lots of modern music, playlists that I compile every year for the TX-OU game.  That's probably a decent place to start.

In general though, and no offense intended, it sounds like your mind's pretty much made up.  If, in all of the music of the last decade you've listened to for whatever reason, you haven't found ANYthing you like or are impressed with, then there's little chance anything I suggest is gonna penetrate that wall.

I'll look for the thread when I have some time.

It's not the case that I haven't found anything recent I like.  My assertion about repetitive chord progressions making the music "dumber" should not be conflated with "I don't like it."  Those are two different things, though it is nice to hear some unique and inspired progressions.  But that doesn't mean "basic" stuff can't be good.  There's a reason those chords are used so much.....they work, and many great songs are built on them.  

But I have come across modern stuff that sounds good.  It's less common than previous eras, because obviously I jive with those eras more, but it's there.  

One thing that has kept me away from the modern era is I'm still mining the "old days" for stuff I never heard previously.  In the limited time I have to search out new music, I'm still coming across old stuff that hits my sweet spot which I missed back then, and that undoubtedly cuts into the modern stuff I may like but am not searching for.  

[Honestbuckeye]

My issue is- I grew up with music that had instruments in it.  You know, acoustic guitar, bass, drums, piano, etc.    so much new music nowadays has none of that.  

[utee94]

I'll look for the thread when I have some time.

It's not the case that I haven't found anything recent I like.  My assertion about repetitive chord progressions making the music "dumber" should not be conflated with "I don't like it."  Those are two different things, though it is nice to hear some unique and inspired progressions.  But that doesn't mean "basic" stuff can't be good.  There's a reason those chords are used so much.....they work, and many great songs are built on them. 

But I have come across modern stuff that sounds good.  It's less common than previous eras, because obviously I jive with those eras more, but it's there. 

One thing that has kept me away from the modern era is I'm still mining the "old days" for stuff I never heard previously.  In the limited time I have to search out new music, I'm still coming across old stuff that hits my sweet spot which I missed back then, and that undoubtedly cuts into the modern stuff I may like but am not searching for. 

Yeah that's why I said "like or are impressed with."  

I can't say I know exactly what you're searching for, but I can say that there is more new music being made today across ALL genres and styles, and it is more accessible, than ever before.

What it is NOT-- is as easy to search for and discover.  To @jgvol 's point, music specifically, and pop culture in general, is more fractured than it was 30-40-50 years ago.  So although there is more of it in pretty much every style you can imagine, it's not as easy to just trip across as it was back when we had relatively few sources steering our musical tastes.

[MrNubbz]

One nice thing about the old LP albums is I found so many more good/great/enjoyable tunes than the immediate "hits" they produced. Many of these got traction later on the air waves and have staying power even today - the "B" sides if you will

[847badgerfan]

My issue is- I grew up with music that had instruments in it.  You know, acoustic guitar, bass, drums, piano, etc.    so much new music nowadays has none of that. 

Yep.

[FearlessF]

I usually prefer a guitar somewhere in the mix.

[Brutus Buckeye]

You've admitted that the modern music you're talking about is the Spotify top whatever, in other words pop music, and I'd argue that it's no less  sophisticated than the pop music from 40 years ago.  Tiffany, Debbie Gibson, or Samantha Fox.  These artists weren't paragons of talent and sophistication then, or now.

On the other hand, there's plenty of sophisictated music coming from talented musicisons, that you're just not listening to.

Balderdash. Nobody today is blending Metal and Pop like Samanta Fox.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W1btg3mpEOc

And she was a Penthouse pet? Who da Hell holds a candle to that in this day in age?





She was like a "real life" Kelly Bundy. 

[utee94]

Balderdash. Nobody today is blending Metal and Pop like Samanta Fox.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W1btg3mpEOc

And she was a Penthouse pet? Who da Hell holds a candle to that in this day in age?





She was like a "real life" Kelly Bundy.

Don't get me wrong, I was a fan then and I still am.

But that song is absolutely the proof in the pudding of MDT's complaint about non-complex, unsophisticated music with chord progressions that wouldn't ever be labeled as "adventurous.:  And it's from almost exactly 40 years ago...

[utee94]

My issue is- I grew up with music that had instruments in it.  You know, acoustic guitar, bass, drums, piano, etc.    so much new music nowadays has none of that. 

Yep.

I usually prefer a guitar somewhere in the mix.

There's a ton of new music with guitar and real instruments.  Y'all should venture away from the moldie oldies stations.

[betarhoalphadelta]

I do wonder if we're past the golden age of comedic cinema.  For me that was the mid 70s through the 80s, and maybe a little into the 90s.  Comedies these days tend toward the darker or more cynical, and just don't seem to be as much fun as they used to be.  But it's also possible that it's just a "me" thing wishing for the good old days.

And again we're in a demographic thing...

Comedy is very culture-specific. So comedy that plays well in the US might fall flat in Europe and would be totally incomprehensible in Asia...

This is why action and/or superhero movies are so common... You completely transcend culture. So they become global properties... Whereas comedies are limited by culture. 

[betarhoalphadelta]

There's a ton of new music with guitar and real instruments.  Y'all should venture away from the moldie oldies stations.

[Brutus Buckeye]

Don't get me wrong, I was a fan then and I still am.

But that song is absolutely the proof in the pudding of MDT's complaint about non-complex, unsophisticated music with chord progressions that wouldn't ever be labeled as "adventurous.:  And it's from almost exactly 40 years ago...

Did you not make it to the blazing guitar solo? 

[FearlessF]

There's a ton of new music with guitar and real instruments.  Y'all should venture away from the moldie oldies stations.

something released around September 29, 2017 new enuff?

[utee94]

something released around September 29, 2017 new enuff?

When you were kickin' ass in 1980, was something released in September, 1971 considered new?