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Today's Music has no soul
The highly produced and computerised music of today does not possess and soul or feeling to it. In every area of music such as RnB, Dance, Rock, Hip Hop, Indie, etc. Nothing is gained from listening to 98 per cent of musicians now. No feeling or emotion resonates from the music. Music is more important in times of hardship such as these than it has ever been, and yet nobody has been able to produce a record of any worth. It has all been produced for one simple reason - to make money.
If you go back to early popular music, to Sam Cooke, Smokey Robinson, Marvin Gaye, Ray Charles and James Brown. They were all wonderful musicians who led hard lives and produced music to reach and help people. They were powerful personalities who gave people hope and pride to the down trodden communities of North America. When the Civil Rights campaign was in full swing James Brown was able to call on the people of Boston and stop rioting. Smokey Robinson would not play in auditoriums that separated black and white people. Sam Cooke wrote the most powerful song that has ever been written "a change is gonna come", a song that changed the entire Civil Rights campaign. My point is that this music was about bringing people together and having a great time. It was about forgetting people's differences and embracing their similarities.
The soul and gospel of the 1950s and 60s is exceptional music. It makes you want to dance and have a good time. The beats and rhythms are so intoxicating that drugs and alcohol aren't needed to have a good time and it encourages people to be themselves instead of making them part of a scene or encouraging them to front an image. Soul and gospel stops the hatred that a great deal of the violence and segregation that today's music encourages. These old records provide so much emotion and raw musical power that you can't help but love them. This music will give you everything that you ever need in life!! Listen to the early Motown records and Stax records. Sam Cooke is also essential listening fro everyone.
I love the fact that you seem to think music ended after the
1970's, seriously it's hilarious.
Fro everyone!
I will vote for anyone who uses this as their campaign slogan.
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http://nopaininpop.com/2009/06/that-doldrum-joy-sound/
Sorry mate, its not the 1970s
I was in a band last year with a drummer that kept saying:
"It (music) all went downhill after 1982".
Are you our ex-drummer Staple?
You have a stupid.
ha ha, I love you staple
I want to see at least ten more of these
YOU GODDAMN YOUTH
and your blippity bloops and autotunes and drummin machines!
You sound like that geez in the tattered cardigan who schlepps Time-Life music anthologies
you're right
anyone up for setting up a charity to raise funds for the poor penniless brown, charles, robinson, gaye and cooke estates?
How can you generalise to such a degree as to to state that all music of recent years has been "produced for one simple reason - to make money." you daft numpty!
Do you you know how hard it is for bands to make money these days? You have to be huge to actually recoup any decent wage from being a recording artist.
And to add to that...
There have been plenty of bands come along as of late, full of energy and emotion. Whether they are relevant to these hard times, or creating a song that could be integral to influencing a movement important as that of the Civil Rights one is a different matter. But there are certainly bands out there that are perfect for times like these, and in no way in it for the money.
is this GHOUL..?
staple makes a sound arguement. maybe you don't agree with his examples but its a passionate statement about music and thats what its all about. i enjoyed reading it and its fair to ask what new music is resonating such emotion in these times of hardship? I can't think of many examples if any.
What's with all the shit copy/paste blogs of late on here?
bit of a cuntvasion this week
the above is so sweeping, inane and hackneyed
the writer should take their head for a massive shit.Then not write about it.
Goddamn kids
Need to appreciate my Benny Goodman and Roy Orbison records.
bulltits.
You're suggesting that music isn't real unless it's been crafted by someone who's suffering in some way or other.
you do realise people used to drink copiously whilst listening to soul?
iz party music YEH?
two for two so far, Staple.
two posts, two facepalms.
Who let Bill Cosby out?
"Y'see, the kids, they listen to the rap music, which gives them the brain damage. With their hippin' and their hoppin', and their bippin', and their boppin'... so they don't know what the jazz is all about!"
FAO: trolls
Keep it to the social board yeah?
again, you have a point, but fail to get anywhere near explaining it.
ahh
fatal flaw to your argument...back in the "good ol' days" there was less music around. arguably only good music was signed and released. whereas nowadays anybody can and has had their music recorded and released in some shape or form. Just look at myspace for example.
Yes, 98% of today's music is shite, but that's only because there is literally 98% more music around today than there was 30 years ago. You need to dig a little bit deeper these days to find the soulful and passionate bands (and this doesn't mena they have to be soul or funk).
Seriously, I knew someone like you once and to be honest this pessimistic attitude got so irritating that I (and many others) ended up avoiding you. I bet you bore the living crap out of people with this stuff down the pub don't you?
I disagree
If you're finding music souless and that it has no feeling to it clearly you aren't listening to the right thing for you. Plenty of new stuff moves me, you've just got to keep looking for what you like.