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Post by sirrastus on Feb 24, 2023 18:30:20 GMT
It don't mean a thing if it ain't got that swing. BTW I loved the swingin sax in the 50'uptempo tunes.
Here's an instrumental swinger from '58:
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Post by seamus on Feb 25, 2023 0:38:12 GMT
Was turned on to this app recently and it reveals some interesting music but some horrid likenesses. Was listening g to a rock station from Belfast and the fi and commercials sound like they were from LA except for the accents. Ghastly. apps.apple.com/app/id1339670993
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Post by seamus on Feb 25, 2023 0:39:02 GMT
Was turned on to this app recently and it reveals some interesting music but some horrid likenesses. Was listening g to a rock station from Belfast and the fi and commercials sound like they were from LA except for the accents. Ghastly. apps.apple.com/app/id1339670993fi? Pretty sure I meant D J. 🤪
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Post by joe on Feb 25, 2023 2:34:47 GMT
This analysis matches my listening impression over 7+ decades. The '50's and '60's were probably the peak of variety as far as what could become a pop hit. Records would break out of small markets and go national as a result. The Top 40 was populated by all genres of music and quirky tunes could still shoehorn in if they caught the public's fancy. The '70's began the era of radio programming 'consultants,' who would program the playlists of 100's of stations nationwide. Great if you made that cut, but bad for the variety of what you heard, since the effort to copy the hits intensified and music became more uniform. Then in the '80's, the drum machines and synths drove the sound of pop, and the music began to sound more similar as well as the content. In the '90's radio had become stratified by genre, and you had to skip around if you wanted to hear anything but one type of music. Listeners DIDN'T listen to just one genre, as proved by looking at Napster playlists in the early internet days. Everyone had tunes from all over the spectrum. Sirius and terrestrial radio still stratifies music by genre, don't ask me why. I don't know. The new century introduced AutoTune vocals and Beat Detection, further reducing micro-variations of pitch and rhythm, making music that much more identical. Every release competed to be the 'loudest' on radio, so all music now is as loud as the technology can make it. The tech today can make music so loud it's oppressive. I turn stuff down now, instead of turning it up, to try to listen to it. Also, pop melodies today are largely simple, repeated phrases over a limited number of chord changes. Dumbed down to the level of nursery rhymes. The oldie nursery rhymes are more tuneful. Hey you kids! Get off my lawn! I agree. True talent and originality has surrendered and given way to droning, robotic technology. IMO, real Rock & Roll has died a terrible death. I think NEW real Rock & Roll has almost died. I predict that the OLD existing R&R may be alive for a long time. I don't have any real stats, but I believe there is some measurable number of "young" people going over to rock. I see comments on YouTube all the time about how they recently got into rock after they started paying attention to what their parents were listening to. "Schools of Rock" high schools (not all by that name) seem to be popular. We have one here in town that is a full high school, but it's focus is teaching rock. I don't know much about it and was actually a little surprised to know it existed, just seen some vids and looked it up once. After hours they have adult classes, supposedly at all levels, taught by local rock musicians. No they're not big national names but from what I've heard they know their stuff. So maybe some of the youngsters will get together and come up with some new DECENT material. So I haven't given up all hope - yet.
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Post by beanguy on Feb 26, 2023 4:41:57 GMT
My dad was a big band musician who would be jealous that the songs from my teens and twenties are still being played daily thirty five years later.
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Post by Buck on Feb 26, 2023 18:10:48 GMT
My dad was a big band musician who would be jealous that the songs from my teens and twenties are still being played daily thirty five years later. Yeah. But today's music ain't got the same soul..
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Post by Buck on Feb 26, 2023 18:12:15 GMT
It don't mean a thing if it ain't got that swing. BTW I loved the swingin sax in the 50'uptempo tunes. Here's an i9nstyrumental swinger from '58: Great. That triplet echo on the snare backbeat really makes a great bed for the sax to swing against.
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Post by The Ocean on Feb 27, 2023 16:05:21 GMT
My dad was a big band musician who would be jealous that the songs from my teens and twenties are still being played daily thirty five years later. Yeah. But today's music ain't got the same soul.. And just like that, Bob Seger is stuck in my head. ….not that I mind.
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Post by The Ocean on Feb 27, 2023 16:05:51 GMT
My dad was a big band musician who would be jealous that the songs from my teens and twenties are still being played daily thirty five years later. Yeah. But today's music ain't got the same soul.. You also could have said “It don’t mean a thing if it ain’t got that swing.” 😂
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Post by sirrastus on Feb 27, 2023 18:05:34 GMT
Yeah. But today's music ain't got the same soul.. You also could have said “It don’t mean a thing if it ain’t got that swing.” 😂 LOL Ha I already said that.
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Post by beanguy on Mar 6, 2023 7:01:25 GMT
My dad was a big band musician who would be jealous that the songs from my teens and twenties are still being played daily thirty five years later. Yeah. But today's music ain't got the same soul.. I am referring to classic rock, specifically on FM radio.
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Post by Buck on Mar 6, 2023 23:10:59 GMT
Yeah. But today's music ain't got the same soul.. I am referring to classic rock, specifically on FM radio. Indeed! I'm astonished myself Classic Rock endures. Says something about current music.
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Post by joe on Mar 7, 2023 4:15:13 GMT
I think classic rock is going to be around for quite awhile. I guess what exactly is considered "classic rock" is subject to some interpretation. One of those things "You know it when you hear it." Long live rock and roll! Rock music is still alive today, so thinks Amazon. Amazon Prime has a brand new series: Daisy Jones & The Six
Basically about a fictional rock band going from nothing to the top, navigating their way through the LA music scene. Maybe considered "soft rock", but we haven't finished it yet. One new episode released each week. A couple of interesting notes: * The opening song for the series and each episode is “Dancing Barefoot” by Patti Smith. * The actress that plays Daisy is Riley Keough. Riley is Lisa Marie Presley's daughter. She performs all of Daisy's songs in the movie herself from what I've read. Which would make sense. The series is full of vary familiar tunes, mostly from the 70's. The track list of the episodes that have been released, as well as some background on the show, can be found at: www.elitedaily.com/entertainment/all-songs-daisy-jones-and-the-six-soundtrackAnd then at variety.com/2023/tv/news/daisy-jones-and-the-six-riley-keough-sam-claflin-band-music-1235537577/ is the story of how the two lead characters went from having no professional singing experience to, well, performing their own songs (not written by them, but all original I think). The wife and I find it very entertaining and very well done. How true to what bands really went through in LA in the 70's, that I can't comment on. Anyway if you get Prime you might want to check it out.
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Post by soonerbillz on Mar 7, 2023 13:53:26 GMT
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Post by soonerbillz on Mar 7, 2023 13:58:13 GMT
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