In recent years i have grown more and more tired with the 'Music Industry'. We live in an age where to find good music you have to actively seek it out, regardless of genre.
Popular music is now homogenized formulaic mediocre suicide worthy shit. I will be embarased when my kids grow up and they want to get into retro music and they look back on the late 90s and the 00s and see what my generation has produced.
(Bill Hicks sums up my sentiments in this video).
What do i define as bad music?
Music that hasn't been written by the performer in anyway (with the exception of covers, which is a different debate). It has to have some kind of tallent, such as not putting it through a computer to touch up pitch errors (such as bands like s-club 7, steps, boyzone etc.) or putting it through a computer such as
. It has to have some meaning beyond the homogonised chart music which generally seems to focus around sex (an example of this would be Rhiannas recent 'hit' 'Rude Boy' a song about a man getting an erection and seing how big it is).
The music i listen too, that our parents grew up with is so different to what we listen too. It had passion, tallent, meaning, there was really something going on with it. I dont like Led Zeppelin or The Beatles or Pink Flloyd but i recognise the importance they hold and how what they were doing they meant and there were really trying to share there music with the world.
This isnt a thread about the music i like, i asked everyone to share music they liked that was 'good' at heart, not part of the cynically money driven music industry. If you really have a problem with that then thats up to you, but this wasn't meant to be about me, it was meant to be about sharing music regardless of genre. Im sure you are going to have great fun picking apart this thread, but dont just assume everything i post is cynically about me and me being a prima donna, i was genuinely trying to share music with people because music is one the most important art forms we have as a species.
Kej?