I'm sure everyone has experienced the overall lack of good music in our present age. On a daily basis, I'm bombarded by the status-quo on the stereo, and am left a bit sick by the sounds of what's considered popular. How I wish we could return to the styles of Stan Getz, Charlie Parker, and all the other great horns of a bygone era. Where have the great songwriters gone? Why has true talent been replaced by bass beats and auto-tuned voices? We have no Paul Simons', Gordon Lightfoots', Nick Drakes', Ritchie Havens', John Lennons',etc. The truly profound has been replaced with the likes of painted-up, prepubescent, flavors-of-the-month with all the staying power of a stale fart.
Two words: iPod, podcasts. That's all I listen to anymore. Christmas tunes on my iPod and podcasts (I particularly like the ones from NPR). I've lived in Vegas for two years and I could not tell you a single radio station here. There's never anything worth listening to on them so I don't bother. You do realize, Adam, that this distaste for "the crap kids today call music" is a sign of getting old, right? A blinking, neon sign... :-D
ReplyDeleteyes dear,but being a nightclub d.j. for so long also ruined me for all things popular-nothing worse in the world than a drunk bachlorette wanting to shake her ass to britney spears
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