View Full Version : Is our best music behind us?
Huey P. Freeman
11-12-2003, 04:19 PM
I was listening to the Superfly soundtrack this afternoon and the thought had crossed my mind. Seem's to me somewhere in the 80's black music lost it's magic. Maybe it's just me but todays music is just not as.... well.... musical. I'm finding more and more that I have been looking to the 60's and 70's to get my fix for good music. Don't get me wrong there is some good newerstuff out there. But, at least to me, it seems like nowhere near the quality of the music from those eras. Anyone agree? Disagree? I'd really like to hear input from everyone.
Cordell
11-12-2003, 04:29 PM
Someone is graemlins/sleep2.gif
lol,
seriously,
there is great stuff out there but you have to be open minded.
then again,
it is always a matter of taste.
D J 1 3 8
11-12-2003, 04:40 PM
I think it has to do with perspective.
You can't judge "Plastic Dreams" by how it holds up to the Superfly soundtrack, just like you can't judge the Superfly soundtrack by how it holds up to "A Love Supreme". They are each from completely different eras, with different standards, different audiences, different expectations, different measures of what was considered ground-breaking.
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alex zen
11-12-2003, 04:57 PM
i think that the cream of the crop from those era's have stood the test of time while most music didn't. if you look at charts from the 60's and 70's you would find mostly crap with some good stuff mixed in. now the crap is forgotten and the good music is searched out.
like you said there is some good newer stuff out there. i think it's probably the same ratio as before and we just have to search it out.
as far contemporary music being less musical, it's pretty subjective. some people might blame it on the cheap home studios or commercial music being more marketing (formula based)and less a&r. i'm a track head so i don't need chorus verse bride etc. for something to be musical.
on dance music (probably not related to this topic but it's my post so what the hell): i like the bed room aesthetic. i like the fact that anyone for a grand (if you buy every thing) can make music. sure most won't be spectacular but there's bound to be some mind blowing music.
Huey P. Freeman
11-12-2003, 05:03 PM
Maybe I should clarify. I meant from an R&B, Soul, Funk, Jazz perspective. Not really Dance music or hiphop.
D J 1 3 8
11-12-2003, 05:13 PM
Originally posted by Eargasm:
Maybe I should clarify. I meant from an R&B, Soul, Funk, Jazz perspective. Not really Dance music or hiphop. Same holds true. Would you really compare Billie Holiday to Marvin Gaye? Apples and Oranges, IMO.
Huey P. Freeman
11-12-2003, 05:19 PM
Originally posted by DJ 138:
</font><blockquote>quote:</font><hr />Originally posted by Eargasm:
Maybe I should clarify. I meant from an R&B, Soul, Funk, Jazz perspective. Not really Dance music or hiphop. Same holds true. Would you really compare Billie Holiday to Marvin Gaye? Apples and Oranges, IMO. </font>[/QUOTE]I think maybe you could in quality terms but not style. I don't know but I have found that very little of the newer stuff even catches my ear. Maybe it's a taste difference but most people my age that I know do not listen to the same types of music I do.
alex zen
11-12-2003, 05:23 PM
Originally posted by Eargasm:
Maybe I should clarify. I meant from an R&B, Soul, Funk, Jazz perspective. Not really Dance music or hiphop. all those can house.
i still think it a matter of the cream rising to top. we just have either wait or search for the cream.
eargasm, have you been to late friday jam session at the green mill? check it out, there's a lot of young talents jazz musicians that stop through.
C hristian
11-12-2003, 08:20 PM
i think Billy to Sarah to Ella is apples and oranges and pears too. I JUST don't buy into a competition between artists . Everyone brings something completely different to the table. art is not a competition.
best music is yet to come imo
and always will be...
No.
Open your heart, and you'll hear the music.
Peace
TAC
We operate in a different time now. 'Classics' can be found in each era, style. What was one man's (or woman's) 'soul' in 1973 is different for another man (or woman) in 1983, and different still in 2003, and so on...
The difficulty always has been seeing that at the time. I for one look back on some years in the past ten with rose tinted spectacles and even sometimes yearn to be back there for just a day, but I often moaned at the time that 'things ain't as they used to be'!!! No doubt I will do exactly the same in ten more years...
Its all a matter of personal taste, but there are plenty out there still doing it. Whilst we can never and should never forget the past the future will be just as bright I'm sure...
Mart
:rolleyes:
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