Thread: can music in the modern age be clasifide as music?

i mean music today as most of us know does not come from the acual artist
most of there work comes from other people wrighting song for them and then they dont even sing it them selfs they use modern comeputer techology to inhance the way they sound. AND THEY CANT EVEN PLAY THERE INSTUMENTS!!! they use comeputer techology to do that as well.

I think its still music, just not the singers music. They're more of a marketing ploy.

Originally Posted by numb3rs

i mean music today as most of us know does not come from the acual artist
most of there work comes from other people wrighting song for them and then they dont even sing it them selfs they use modern comeputer techology to inhance the way they sound. AND THEY CANT EVEN PLAY THERE INSTUMENTS!!! they use comeputer techology to do that as well.

I think you're talking about pop. Rock, metal, jazz and many other genre's musicians are making their own music, they certainly can play their instruments and they don't need a computer to modify their voice.
Don't overgeneralize!

Originally Posted by numb3rs

i mean music today as most of us know does not come from the acual artist
most of there work comes from other people wrighting song for them and then they dont even sing it them selfs they use modern comeputer techology to inhance the way they sound. AND THEY CANT EVEN PLAY THERE INSTUMENTS!!! they use comeputer techology to do that as well.

i went to the Reading festival last year, and i can assure you that they all played their own instruments + were singing live

I shall be going to the Swallow Hill Folk and Roots Festival tonight. I'll pay close attention to see if the banjo player is lip-synching.

http://events.swallowhill.com/eventp...es.asp?evt=910

Originally Posted by Bunbury

I shall be going to the Swallow Hill Folk and Roots Festival tonight. I'll pay close attention to see if the banjo player is lip-synching.

Apart from keeping your socks clean, your powder dry, and saluting anything that moves, the other great survival trick is to beware of lip-synching banjo players.

Indeed, they are to be avoided at all costs. Fortunately there was not the slightest evidence of lip-synching, dirty socks, and surprisingly, not even a banjo. With that sad exception, instruments expertly played and sung to ran the gamut from didgeridoos to Stratocasters. For those who bemoan the current state of musicianship, I suggest they are simply looking in the wrong places.

Originally Posted by Bunbury

With that sad exception, instruments expertly played and sung to ran the gamut from didgeridoos to Stratocasters. For those who bemoan the current state of musicianship, I suggest they are simply looking in the wrong places.

Well said. There are many talented musicians out there, and to say that today's musicians can't play their instruments or sing well is definitely, as Elina said, overgeneralizing.

most of it annoying trivial trite boring ugly stupid garbage like rap usully or american idol music

like the zombies circa 1967 is an intersting band from uk with set melodies pretty much-tell her no,shes not there etc

the american idol type will sing maybe a few oif those then those boring trite "soul"riffs

what do they call that? i call it crap

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_txFq5S_H9I
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2bRMEKKI7nQ
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TQrlPqxxW84

Pain is a little old, but it's still relatively modern.

I like the older stuff anyway. Ragtime, blues, bluegrass, as well as Indian, Gypsy and Latin styles. Modern music is not limited to modern styles, there are many who remember what real music was, and it will never be entirely forgotten, you just need to know where to look.

You are clearly speaking about pop. Different music appeals to different people. Clearly untalented and ambitious individuals like listening to untalented and ambitious individuals.

Originally Posted by marcusclayman

You are clearly speaking about pop. Different music appeals to different people. Clearly untalented and ambitious individuals like listening to untalented and ambitious individuals.

I hope there isn't a parallel with the way many of us seem to like reading posts by archie.

some rap i can like if its like stuff with words that i can hear and seems like intersting stuff

the less techno the better

but i guess some like the crap rap or feel they should like it

Originally Posted by John Galt

Originally Posted by marcusclayman

You are clearly speaking about pop. Different music appeals to different people. Clearly untalented and ambitious individuals like listening to untalented and ambitious individuals.

I hope there isn't a parallel with the way many of us seem to like reading posts by archie.

what do you mean?

Every generation says the next generations music sucks noodles. However, my generations music DOES suck noodles. Music died in the late 80s. A few good things have come out since then but 1 in a 1000 decent tracks. :wink:

I don't see any indication that the good old days are gone. I'm a big "classic rock" fan, Led Zeppelin, Jethro Tull, Black Sabbath, that sort of thing. But that music isn't gone. There are new bands like The Black Keys and Wolfmother stepping up to the plate, bringing the old school stuff back.

On a somewhat related matter, is anyone else annoyed to hear Nirvana and Metallica on classic rock stations?

Yeah, I'm just about annoyed to hear them on any station. Or anywhere for that matter.
:P