RodeoSchro said:

RKJCNE said:

Doesn't every generation hate the next's music? My uncle hated the beatles, he thinks they ruined music.

That was pretty much true until the 70's. For those of us born in the late 50's on, we grew up on rock and roll, or real soul, or badass funk. We haven't outgrown it either, and we'd love to hear young kids playing it right again.

Your uncle did not grow up on rock and roll. That's why he hated the Beatles.

I promise you that when you grow up/older, you will not hate the next generation's music unless it is truly bad.

Finally someone who gets it. I would go back a little further though and say people born in the 1940s because by the time they got old enough to be into music in the 1950s, the rock and roll era would already be in progress. As for orgers, there are a few older orgers but most of us were born in the late 1960s or later. Just do the math, that means our parents are/were still young enough to spend their childhoods while the rock and roll era of the 1950s was in progress. It wasn't our parents trying to put a stop to rock and roll, it was their parents.

There are always people that are exceptions that may have hated rock and roll for the sheer sound of it the same way that a lot of us in our generation hate today's music. But the general mass hatred and opposition to the rock and roll era had nothing to do with hating the sound of it. Rock and roll was basically rhythmic black music brought to the white mainstream by white artists who were influenced by black music. There were also primitive minds back then who thought anything rhythmic was the work of the devil and even more stupid primitive minds back then who thought that anything that came from blacks was the work of the devil. All the documentaries about that era show the famous clip of the white DJ smashing rock and roll records and saying "we're not going to play any nigger music" and have images of people holding up racist signs about rock and roll and interviews with people talking about the black music "corrupting their white youth".

Since then, I haven't seen any mass hatred to mainstream music by a lot of people until now, with the exception of the disco era and a lot of that hatred to it was fueled by racism, homophobia, and also jealousy by rockers because they felt their music wasn't getting as much airplay as disco. Other than that, when it comes to music, people have pretty much gone with the flow until the shit hop era. Like disco and rock and roll, shit hop has brought black music into the mainstream again to the point where kids of all races are into it and even mingling together like some of them were during the disco era. I know the disco era was a turning point in my life when it came to mixing, mingling, and becoming friends with blacks and maybe the rock of roll era may have helped a few white kids of that era also because the parents of that generation who weren't politically correct back then sure as hell voiced their fear of whites kids hanging with blacks because of the music bringing them together. I've seen a few racists hate shit hop for that reason. However, the vast majority of people that I've seen hate shit hop hate it because it actually is shit and sounds like shit. And the majority of people that I've seen voice their hate of shit hop the loudest have been black. That's why it gets on my last nerve and makes me taste vomit every time I hear someone say "Every generation hates the music of the next generation" because it's a damn lie and the majority of us that hate today's music, hate it for entirely different reasons than our grandparents' generation, not our parents' generation.

prodigalfan said:

allsmutaside said:

Corporate radio's takeover has contributed to the death of popular music for me as a geezy geezer. I know that there has been some return to fine form with XM and that kind of privitaztion of stations, but the mid 70s to mid 80s were where it's at for me. Request lines! Give aways! Lengthy artist interviews. B sides and album cuts! Concert tickets for the 7th caller! QUIET STORMS! Lee Bailey and Radioscope!! DJs! I am idealizing the memory, but it sure is easy to do cuz it was a poppin' time. I do wish that experience for younger people. But just because my lack of familiarity with their formats leaves me cold in response, that doesn't mean it isn't a valid music. Music reflects the times we live in, and "it sure is getting tough out here. It's rough out here, tough out here." (Rog)

I love this post. I forgot about request lines and calling contests. Dang radio has died. It is like MTV. songs recorded on a tape loop. What happened to real radio personalities. And you tuned into your favorite show because you liked the musical taste of that particular DJ.

Radio back when it was live was absolutely wonderful. My favorite thing to do on Friday and Saturday nights when I'm drinking, is to turn on my computer which I have plugged into my stereo, and turn it on shuffle so that I never know which song is going to be played next. I love to play my own music but there's nothing like sitting back and letting someone else entertain you. It's like the difference in giving yourself a handjob or sitting back and letting someone else give you one.

When I play songs on shuffle, it's like having my own radio station with thousands of songs playing at random but they are all good songs. However, it still doesn't take the place of good radio because you can tell it's a computer playing the music because it doesn't have that live human presence. Today's radio is the same way. Back when radio was live, if you were bored, lonely, working an all night shift somewhere, etc. radio made you feel like someone else was in the room with you hanging out. From the song selections one after another that the DJ played on down to position at the end of the song to where the DJ began the song, and some DJs were even more creative and beat mixed and blended the songs together. Whether mixed or simply overlapped, that was a human touch that you can't get from a computer. There was no fading to complete silence between songs on the radio like there is now. And the talking that the DJs did was also another human touch and it's according to how much shit a DJ could talk as to what would make him or her a personality. My favorites were the ones that would talk all through the intro of a song on up to the point where the singing began. Some people didn't like that because they were trying to tape the songs off the radio but I already had most of the records anyway so I loved it because it was pure entertainment from a cool ass person rather than just a dead fish playing records with no talkwhatsoever.

In the very, late 90s early 2000s. I think it was after 2004, that I just completely stopped listening to the radio. I just gave up because I couldn't stand the trash they called music or talent that was being played on the radio. If I do turn the radio on, it will be to listen to r&b classics/dance/funk music and ballads of the 70s and early to mid 80s.

It all sounded the same, and nothing to strike me as 'awesome'. Around late 2006, I turned to myspace to look for new artists/new music, and I did find quite a few, whose music I enjoyed listening to, but haven't touched myspace since around the end of 2008, but did find some very, good artists, whose type of music wouldn't get radio play though. It would not have been considered 'mainstream' enough for radio.

I had to come to the conclusion that the music industry has changed completely and all they promote is crap they call talent. Much of the music today by many young artists, which because I'm an older adult, I consider it too young for me. Too many artists today 'sound alike'. I like artists whose voices don't sound like the Beyonce's, Rihannas, Katy Perrys, Lady Gagas, etc., All 4 mentioned, don't have sounds distinctive enough to cause a music revolution. they just sound like duplicates of artists before them.

Also even the new, ,young R&b artists all sound the same. The Neyos and Chris Browns, nothing striking, unique, about their music or talent. I noticed that even rappers have joined the 'electronica pop or pop' sound, because that electronica crap seems to be what the industry is promoting. I do miss the 'soul' in the music that once was. I'm not a fan of D'Angelo, but I have to say he's keeping that 'soul' thing going. and thank goodness Prince is still around, because his music has always been unpredictable, although you will only find his classics being played on radio, but when I hear a song of his, classic or not, it's nice to know that radio still plays his classics. State of music today, well, you have to do your own search to find some good musicians/artists, that fit your taste in music.

vainandy said:

prodigalfan said:

allsmutaside said:

Radio back when it was live was absolutely wonderful. My favorite thing to do on Friday and Saturday nights when I'm drinking, is to turn on my computer which I have plugged into my stereo, and turn it on shuffle so that I never know which song is going to be played next. I love to play my own music but there's nothing like sitting back and letting someone else entertain you. It's like the difference in giving yourself a handjob or sitting back and letting someone else give you one.

When I play songs on shuffle, it's like having my own radio station with thousands of songs playing at random but they are all good songs. However, it still doesn't take the place of good radio because you can tell it's a computer playing the music because it doesn't have that live human presence. Today's radio is the same way. Back when radio was live, if you were bored, lonely, working an all night shift somewhere, etc. radio made you feel like someone else was in the room with you hanging out. From the song selections one after another that the DJ played on down to position at the end of the song to where the DJ began the song, and some DJs were even more creative and beat mixed and blended the songs together. Whether mixed or simply overlapped, that was a human touch that you can't get from a computer. There was no fading to complete silence between songs on the radio like there is now. And the talking that the DJs did was also another human touch and it's according to how much shit a DJ could talk as to what would make him or her a personality. My favorites were the ones that would talk all through the intro of a song on up to the point where the singing began. Some people didn't like that because they were trying to tape the songs off the radio but I already had most of the records anyway so I loved it because it was pure entertainment from a cool ass person rather than just a dead fish playing records with no talkwhatsoever.

We should start a "live," spontanious channel - "I Want My Y OU Tube." Or does that already exist? ("Dumbass. Shhugarwater.")

Back in the day you could turn on AM radio and jam all the way to school and back home. The radio played what they wanted to play because you had mom and pop stations. They played the long versions of Knee Deep, & One Nation Under A Groove. Little kids on the way to elementary school would be groovin off of Bootsy on the school bus. You could hear songs that were album tracks, not neccessarily hits, but songs people requested. They would just wing it sometimes. We rocked to PFunk, Cameo, Prince, not Purple Rain Prince either, but you could hear Sexy Dancer and Uptown. They played Rick James and Teena, not just crossover Superfreak Rick, but that raw and real Bustin Out, and Mary Jane.

It was a different time.

I was out at a party recently when the DJ played some "new" music. It totally ruined the vibe. It sounded like aerobics. How do you dance off of that? The girls were dancing like they were at the strip club. Save some for your man at home. We used to have actual dances and steps to the old music. The music sounded so bad we left shortly afterwards. It was bad production, and then bad vocals on top of that. I'm having a good time, and then here's this Jersey Shore fist pump music. No thanks.

I never really listened to radio, but I stopped watching music video channels sometime in 2003-2004. I check out some of the new stuff on youtube, of course.

I do like some contemporary pop / dance music though.

iloveannie said:

There are some truly fantastic bands and musicians today. More so than at any other time. It's on the individual to find yhem and be open to them. However if it's pop music you are referring to... well that's always been always been fickle and disposable.

Exactly.

sfinky1 said:

Around 2007/2008 The penny dropped for me and I realized modern music is a fools game and was only gonna get worse not better... Time has proved me right sadly. '60s to 90s to me was the golden age of music and I mainly listen to stuff from this period