New music doesn't all suck, does it?

bluesky said:
Too me... new(er) music is NOT very good. :dunno: I have Zero interest in it.

Maybe there is something 'there' that I just don't 'get'? But there is nothing there for me.

I think it's all 'amateur hour 'rehash, re-barf music, of what has already been done long before'.

And the women singers - people actually listen to that & 'buy' it??? " I just don't 'get it' >> or the 'attraction'. Is it the 'struttin'?

It's all Too Hard for me to swallow.

Punk & Grunge was the 'end of the line' of the Good Stuff. "Movement' music.

It's all so 'blatantly commercial' nowadays. :dunno: Whatever.
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If you're talking about new top 40 pop music, I would somewhat agree. There is so much more really good stuff out there though that's good. I wonder where you've heard new music and what it was that lead you to believe it all fell apart after grunge.
 
I like the "it's been done before" nonsense. I guess these people have never heard of music genres. If someone is making music in a genre, of course it's going to be familiar to what has come before and "sound" like that genre :crazy:
 
GChief said:
I like the "it's been done before" nonsense. I guess these people have never heard of music genres. If someone is making music in a genre, of course it's going to be familiar to what has come before and "sound" like that genre :crazy:
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Rolling Stones first album was almost all covers. Bands have to start somewhere. Then if someone does come out with something radically different people don't often care for that either.
Many people gave up on David Bowie after Let's dance- their is an entire thread dedicated to this concept - but his later albums are very weird and when given some time can grow on folks.

The Bad // dreems song I just posted certainly is a straight ahead rock song but I think lyrically it's interesting and the guitar solo was unique. I am sure people could find bands to compare them with.
 
Late Boomer said:
A new song from the Beatles - Now and Then


A mini-doc about how they did it (isolated the vocals and played instruments anew):

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Damn that was rough. First time I actually had a chance to listen to it. Sounds nothing like the Beatles except in a distant way but with a shaky voice.
C'mon Paul and Ringo, jeezus you can do better than this with all that "lost" back catalog stuff?
 
Mohawknl said:
Damn that was rough. First time I actually had a chance to listen to it. Sounds nothing like the Beatles except in a distant way but with a shaky voice.
C'mon Paul and Ringo, jeezus you can do better than this with all that "lost" back catalog stuff?
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That's it. The vault is empty.
I liked it and it sounds very good when listened to in hi res.
 
Mohawknl said:
Damn that was rough. First time I actually had a chance to listen to it. Sounds nothing like the Beatles except in a distant way but with a shaky voice.
C'mon Paul and Ringo, jeezus you can do better than this with all that "lost" back catalog stuff?
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“Now and Then” requires not just explanation but also, awkwardly, justification. The song was originally a demo recorded by John Lennon in his New York apartment in the late 1970s, well after the Beatles broke up. In the 1990s, it was among the recordings that Yoko Ono provided to Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr as candidates for being polished up into fully arranged songs. Two of those — “Free as a Bird” and “Real Love” — were released in the mid-1990s, as part of the “Anthology” series of TV documentaries, compilation albums and a book. But “Now and Then” was abandoned, in part because of technical difficulties in separating Lennon’s vocals from the murky piano on the same audio track: This was the audio equivalent of a scribbled note to self, not a usable studio recording. Decades later, though, in the course of making the 2021 documentary “Get Back,” the director Peter Jackson’s production company developed a cutting-edge machine-learning application that could be trained to tease apart components of recordings. Suddenly it was possible to isolate individual Beatles’ voices from garbled footage of them in studios and rehearsal halls as they conceived and recorded the album “Let It Be.” Applied to “Now and Then,” this new technology set Lennon’s singing free.
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https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/21/magazine/the-beatles-now-and-then.html
 
Bill S said:
What makes a good song? Good writing? Good lyrics? Good singing? Good musicianship? If so, then I think this song hits all of it.
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Just listened to your offering on the office headphones. Indeed sounds good, she ticks all those boxes. Never heard of her before.
 
Late Boomer said:
15 years old. Not bad though.

Meernaa - Wildest Eyes | Audiotree Live

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Oops that live version was from 2 years ago but the song was originally released in 2008. I just learned about her. She still puts out music so maybe she has other good ones that fit within the window
 
My wife has been into this guy for a while. Great atmospheric and introspective tunes.
This is a pretty impressive live, one shot version of this tune from his new album, with him walking in and then out of the recording room seamlessly while playing and singing.

 
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