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Originally Posted by MikeSmoke
From an old fart's standpoint, things started going downhill fast in the 90s, for the most part. There's still tons of potential in the individual musicians --- but whether it has to do with the record companies and what they need for airplay, the culture in general, or something else --- the potential often doesn't seem realized.
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Well it's kind of weird since start of the 90's was a revival of the more rusty sound against the polished hair metal 80's etc. it all looked very promising at that time, but then it went completely synthetic and it is still like that for the last couple years.
It's hard to breath fresh air as they really seem to choke any talent or pseudo talent for babysitting money.
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Originally Posted by MikeSmoke
Example: I like what I've heard from the new Green Day album...but there's also a sameness to it that you didn't always hear from great artists in the 60s, 70s or 80s, who were always trying new styles and new things. (I *do* really like "Last of the American Girls" though lol.)
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Well I enjoy real hip hop against fake ass hip hop, I don't even mind dance music cause that's something that's not made to listen at home. Then I usually don't like drum and bass but I heard this guy Roni Size and said to myself - damn this is really inspiring music, the man knows what he's doing!
But I really dislike anything fake and phony, and that what they're trying to push, it's hard to believe anyone can take all the ass material that's flowing out of the TV seriously, it's not even interesting or fun, what is even funny these days?
Watching 8 female sweaty asses jump all over an ebony crusader that has serious ussues reciting a very retarded text over a gazzilion of synthesizer adapters to provide the most fake "entertainment" in history?
Fuck Diamond Dave singing about girls was not to break your brain but at least you could FEEL it's fun!
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Originally Posted by MikeSmoke
Example: I'm definitely not a NIN fan, but I went to the Nails/Jane's Addiction show here last week (my wife is a crazy NIN fan and the tickets were her Mother's Day present lol). I'd never seen him live before, but it was so obvious, even to me - it's sick how talented a musician Trent is. But IMO there's so much more he could do to make "great" music than most of the NIN stuff has been, compared to the "great" music from true talents from the earlier decades. (And I actually enjoyed the opening act, the Street Sweeper Social Club with Tom Morello of Rage Against the Machine, more than Nails or Jane's Addiction - their music was...well...more musical lol.)
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Jane's are playing together again?
Shit seems like I missed it, they're one of the most intense concert acts of all time, I got a little bit more familiar with NIN over Lost Highway from Lynch.
Some songs are really intersting, disturbing, nervous, modern although I think he's a little bit binded with his whole image.
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Originally Posted by MikeSmoke
I know I'm hopelessly old - but I don't hate everyone and everything - and I can't relate to music that does  |
I don't think we're discussing age that much here, i don't think I'm this old, I think we're more like discussing common sense and how low can a production of "entertainment" go to still lux someone's vallet.