Music: Getting better or Going down the Drain?

[Shaolin]

GOING DOWN THE DRAIN !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Especially rock 'n' roll.

[Jared]

One band i found kinda recently thats got a pretty cool sound is A Perfect Circle. Their first cd " Mer de Noms" has more kinda... energy than their newest, but most of their music is pretty good.

http://www.aperfectcircle.com/

click on "music" then "listen" and you get a page where you can listen to some of their songs

One cool song they did. Its not like most of their stuff, but its a rendition of Paul MccCartney's "Imagine" (Windows Media Player)
Imagine

very nice. Different take.

But "Imagine" is by John Lennon.

[chickennob2]

One band i found kinda recently thats got a pretty cool sound is A Perfect Circle. Their first cd " Mer de Noms" has more kinda... energy than their newest, but most of their music is pretty good.

http://www.aperfectcircle.com/

click on "music" then "listen" and you get a page where you can listen to some of their songs

One cool song they did. Its not like most of their stuff, but its a rendition of Paul MccCartney's "Imagine" (Windows Media Player)
Imagine

[IZAAK]

I wrote this long negative post, but erased it because I don't wanna get banned.

At least, not tonight.

I'll just say now I know what my parents were talking about.....................

HAHA

Its funny, because I bet when your parents told you, you thought they were crazy... Now your telling your kids and they think your crazy....

[JWinn]

GONE down the drain!

I wrote this long negative post, but erased it because I don't wanna get banned.

At least, not tonight.

I'll just say now I know what my parents were talking about.....................

[Johnny Law Man]

PG-13 music is the death of anything even potentially decent..Ie. "top 40"

Heck, I could have writtem half of the lyrics to the songs on the top 40...

[Dream]

It's in constant change, certain genres are fading and some are coming up again.

[KnightOLB53]

50 cents Massacure is good and so is Games Documentry

[Jared]

It continues to progress and change.


However, as much as Top 40 has always been about marketing (and it has), it seems that within the past 10 years or so, producers and looks count more than voice.


I don't care if you are a producer driven pop singer ( i.e. Donna Summer, Celine Dion) as long as you can sing. I may not care for your music, but that's subjective.


But the pop singers no longer even have to sing that well. J. Lo, Ashlee Simpson, Ryan Cabrera, John Mayer.....all have very thin voices and very limited range.


I was considered a 'below average' singer when I was in bands, and I know for a fact that I have more range than ANY of those artists. I just tend to be flat at times.....should have never staretd smoking!

Anyway, the only voice I have heard recently in pop music that made me go.....hm......they have a good voice, has been P!nk. her songs are so-so, but she can sing.

I haven't been excited by anything on rock radio since 2002. Crossfade is hooky, but derivative. Three Doors Down is ok, but they are formulaic song writers. And so much of everything else is completely devoid of hooks or talent. Tool needs to put out some new music. So does Staind. And System of a Down. Those bands are amazing songwriters.

[ReleaseTheBeast7]

It's getting worse...

The music I like is Big Bands from the 40s, Philly oldies(The Temptations, etc.), and like 80s rock like Journey, Aero Smith, Bon Jovi, etc.

[rjcla30]

I am pretty happy with the Alternitive stuff that is coming out, but I just don't think it is good as stuff that was coming out in the 90s. I can't stand Top 40 anymore though.

[Adrenaline]

I am happy with most of the new rock that is coming out.

[Tatum26Bell]

I like most of the new Rock/Alternitive that comes out

[BroncoManiac_69]

I am forced to listen to the top 40 channel practically daily and the music is completely going down hill.

There are some great songs out there that I like but the main two that I cannot stomach at all is the new J-Lo with that annoying saxaphone that plays the same 3 notes over and over and over....

The other new one they are playing right now is what sounds like the chipmunks singing "lonely, I'm so lonely.... " PATHETIC! (Don't know the artist)

Bands like Sugar Ray and Matchbox 20 (my personal fav) are great and need to release new music. Our local station doesn't even play the new U2 AT ALL! What is up with that?

<sigh>

[FanFromMichigan]

I like the alternative/punk rock style like that of American Idiot - Green Day, and Start Something - Lostprophets.