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Originally Posted by The Porn Nerd
People may have complained about an album filled with shit filler but at least they were gathering a record (or CD) collection. And many gems were buried within that 'filler' that went overlooked and unnoticed.
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That's true, too. I think of my own collection over the years - and the albums/CDs I bought that I knew were mostly mediocre, but still had a few gems that surprisingly didn't get any radio play. And often times I bought the release just to '
complete the set' so-to-speak. Kinda' like having Boardwalk in Monopoly...and buying Park Place even if you didn't really want it.
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Originally Posted by The Porn Nerd
Music used to be THE avenue for artistic expression and communication to a generation. But music also has the power to unite and stir up the masses and well, we can't have that '60's hippie shit anymore now can we? So the 'greying' (or blandness or uniformity) of music began in the nineties full-time and now it's the norm. Very sad really but I'm hopeful fifty years from now a smarter, hipper generation will re-discover the power of music and view it as the instrument of change it is and not just background noise.
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Excellent point.
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Originally Posted by The Porn Nerd
They say I'm a dreamer
But I'm not the only one....
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Appropo.
I like to think I'll live long enough to see a resurgence in good music that mainstream music fans can enjoy and/or be motivated by. It gets time consuming hunting for those rare nuggets and gems these days.
Since 50% of the Beatles are gone - please, please...just one more concept album from Pink Floyd to rival The Wall. That's all I ask.