02:50 pm - The Industry and music today.
How come there is hardly any good music being made nowadays? The only relatively new artist that I can think of that is making good, solid music is the White Stripes.
I can't listen to any of the shit that is coming out nowadays that is billed as "rock" music. That shit makes me want to rock as hard as a far-left liberal watching a far-right conservative program. It makes me angry. It makes me angry that this garbage is being classified as rock music. I take Tom Petty's position on the state of music today, in a comment that he said a few years ago to VH1:
"This is an emergency crisis that we're in. The entertainment media is affecting everything on the planet in a very negative way. I'm only interested in rock 'n' roll. Rock 'n' roll is a music that represents truth. Your TV channel has taken the word "rock" and knocked the "roll" off the end. You made rock this umbrella term for everything. That's wrong. Shakira isn't rock. These country artists with fur coats aren't rock - or country. I offered a video to VH1 of my band playing in the studio and they don't want to air it because it had musicians playing in it. They want some babe walking on the beach or whatever. I got turned onto this music by watching the Beatles and the Rolling Stones actually on TV playing their guitars. It completely took me over. When you can't see musicians playing any more, I'm not interested any more."
I feel like a stodgy old fart whenever my younger sister plays her music. It's noise to me. The sad thing is, her godawful music taste isn't as bad as others; at least she likes AC/DC. But it's near criminal that music is in the state that it's in. There's some guy from The Darkness who dresses in a meatsuit trying way too hard to invoke David Lee Roth and failing -- badly. He has neither the talent or the cartoonish personality that Roth did. There's these scrawny fags in girl pants and guyliner screaming about their ex-girlfriends or whatever on top of shitty instrumentation that sounds like kindergarteners pretending to be a metal band. "Look Mommy, I can play a power chord over and over and over and over again!" Talentless pop artists are made famous by some overcritical fag in a tight black shirt who would better belong on Queer Eye For The Straight Guy, and a drug-addict washed-up one-hit-wonder Eighties pop star. Artists are more known for the trouble they get into rather than the quality of music that they make.
I would have loved to be a music journalist in the prime of music - the Sixties, the Seventies, hell, even portions of the 80's and early 90's. But there is nothing for me to rave about nowadays. There is nary anything that deserves praise outside of older artists like Petty and Dylan continuing to putting out records (however, it is rumored that Petty's 2006 album "Highway Companion" is his last), Radiohead, and the White Stripes. I believe the dying music industry is propagating this garbage, and it probably won't go away until it reforms itself or it dies completely. Not a single artist can reform the sad state of music on their own.
I can't listen to any of the shit that is coming out nowadays that is billed as "rock" music. That shit makes me want to rock as hard as a far-left liberal watching a far-right conservative program. It makes me angry. It makes me angry that this garbage is being classified as rock music. I take Tom Petty's position on the state of music today, in a comment that he said a few years ago to VH1:
"This is an emergency crisis that we're in. The entertainment media is affecting everything on the planet in a very negative way. I'm only interested in rock 'n' roll. Rock 'n' roll is a music that represents truth. Your TV channel has taken the word "rock" and knocked the "roll" off the end. You made rock this umbrella term for everything. That's wrong. Shakira isn't rock. These country artists with fur coats aren't rock - or country. I offered a video to VH1 of my band playing in the studio and they don't want to air it because it had musicians playing in it. They want some babe walking on the beach or whatever. I got turned onto this music by watching the Beatles and the Rolling Stones actually on TV playing their guitars. It completely took me over. When you can't see musicians playing any more, I'm not interested any more."
I feel like a stodgy old fart whenever my younger sister plays her music. It's noise to me. The sad thing is, her godawful music taste isn't as bad as others; at least she likes AC/DC. But it's near criminal that music is in the state that it's in. There's some guy from The Darkness who dresses in a meatsuit trying way too hard to invoke David Lee Roth and failing -- badly. He has neither the talent or the cartoonish personality that Roth did. There's these scrawny fags in girl pants and guyliner screaming about their ex-girlfriends or whatever on top of shitty instrumentation that sounds like kindergarteners pretending to be a metal band. "Look Mommy, I can play a power chord over and over and over and over again!" Talentless pop artists are made famous by some overcritical fag in a tight black shirt who would better belong on Queer Eye For The Straight Guy, and a drug-addict washed-up one-hit-wonder Eighties pop star. Artists are more known for the trouble they get into rather than the quality of music that they make.
I would have loved to be a music journalist in the prime of music - the Sixties, the Seventies, hell, even portions of the 80's and early 90's. But there is nothing for me to rave about nowadays. There is nary anything that deserves praise outside of older artists like Petty and Dylan continuing to putting out records (however, it is rumored that Petty's 2006 album "Highway Companion" is his last), Radiohead, and the White Stripes. I believe the dying music industry is propagating this garbage, and it probably won't go away until it reforms itself or it dies completely. Not a single artist can reform the sad state of music on their own.