people today do not understand good music anymore.
I don’t think that’s anymore true than it’s always been, we just have a biased impression of the past because the best stuff from that period stays in rotation, but there was plenty of chart topping crap back then too
Yes thats true. However I always do say at least back then people had to learn and put time into music (even what we consider bad). There is a lot of great music now but the majority of the population wont hear it ever because they are brainwashed by Ai pop music. At least in ye olden day, good music that took talent was promoted (Boston, for example). The good news is now we have access to the old and the new music !
Generally your taste in musics sets in during your adolescent years.
What were you listening to, driving around late at night after the first one of your friends got their license?
That the type of music you’re going to fall back on when you got nothing else to listen to.
And if you’re in the metal scene, at least in the early to late 2000s… No part of rap/hip-hop/similar were allowed. No dance music. No pop music. It was the south, so there was some country mixed in that was allowed - old school Willy type shit, the outlaw legends at house parties. Everyone was trying to out-brvtal each other or some stupid shit though.
I got out of the scene because I left that social circle behind after starting a career, but kept a few close friends. They faded over time.
Working nightshift at a hospital does not bode well for your social life. You’re at work when everyone else is in the pit drunk off their asses.
I worked alone so I listened to my old shit, and eventually got tired of it. Eminem dropped a surprise album, and I liked some of his stuff (like I also like trance stuff for concentration, like work) and started listening, and I’m a former percussionist so I started drumming along in the air, and realized… man hip-hop drum grooves are chill, laidd back, flow, get people moving. Fuck yeah. Then I dove deeper. Ended up getting into some underground crap, and I’m still exploring going back to the 2000s stuff that was popular and I heard “around” in the world. I dig some of it too without the egotistical guitar soloists who just want to musically jerk off in front of everyone influencing everyone with their snobby bull shit. Yeah, snobby metal heads exist. Their title is probably “lead” something in the band.
Bad covers are frustrating, but I love a good cover where an artist is able to highlight what’s different about their approach to music and also pay a bit of respect to a songwriter they like
DEVO covering (I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction is way up there for me. Loses the fuzzy guitar but the lyrics land better as an odd punk song than the whining of one of the biggest rock acts in the world.
I always thought that was a terrible cover. I couldn’t grasp why it was so well received.
Because it’s the best written song they’ve ever performed (because they didn’t write it)
Simon & Garfunkel minus vocal harmony, plus angsty wallowing. No thanks
He took a beautiful song and made it broody and corny as fuck. I don’t get the appeal, either.
And the music video…
Do you have any idea what the song is about? It’s supposed to be broody, it’s depressing as hell. Even Paul Simon said he liked the Disturbed version.
Perhaps broody was the wrong word - it’s like…a middle schooler’s favorite dark cartoon character.
Its gratingly bad. But people today do not understand good music anymore.
Completely agreed
I don’t think that’s anymore true than it’s always been, we just have a biased impression of the past because the best stuff from that period stays in rotation, but there was plenty of chart topping crap back then too
Yes thats true. However I always do say at least back then people had to learn and put time into music (even what we consider bad). There is a lot of great music now but the majority of the population wont hear it ever because they are brainwashed by Ai pop music. At least in ye olden day, good music that took talent was promoted (Boston, for example). The good news is now we have access to the old and the new music !
Generally your taste in musics sets in during your adolescent years.
What were you listening to, driving around late at night after the first one of your friends got their license?
That the type of music you’re going to fall back on when you got nothing else to listen to.
And if you’re in the metal scene, at least in the early to late 2000s… No part of rap/hip-hop/similar were allowed. No dance music. No pop music. It was the south, so there was some country mixed in that was allowed - old school Willy type shit, the outlaw legends at house parties. Everyone was trying to out-brvtal each other or some stupid shit though.
I got out of the scene because I left that social circle behind after starting a career, but kept a few close friends. They faded over time.
Working nightshift at a hospital does not bode well for your social life. You’re at work when everyone else is in the pit drunk off their asses.
I worked alone so I listened to my old shit, and eventually got tired of it. Eminem dropped a surprise album, and I liked some of his stuff (like I also like trance stuff for concentration, like work) and started listening, and I’m a former percussionist so I started drumming along in the air, and realized… man hip-hop drum grooves are chill, laidd back, flow, get people moving. Fuck yeah. Then I dove deeper. Ended up getting into some underground crap, and I’m still exploring going back to the 2000s stuff that was popular and I heard “around” in the world. I dig some of it too without the egotistical guitar soloists who just want to musically jerk off in front of everyone influencing everyone with their snobby bull shit. Yeah, snobby metal heads exist. Their title is probably “lead” something in the band.
I think they played it live on America’s got talent or American idol, that’s why.
Live with autotune.
Can’t describe how much I hate people covering and ruining amazing original songs. Should not be allowed.
Bad covers are frustrating, but I love a good cover where an artist is able to highlight what’s different about their approach to music and also pay a bit of respect to a songwriter they like
johnny cash’s hurt immediately comes to mind or alien ant farm’s smooth criminal a++
DEVO covering (I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction is way up there for me. Loses the fuzzy guitar but the lyrics land better as an odd punk song than the whining of one of the biggest rock acts in the world.
My wife tells me she read a story once about NIN hearing Johnny Cash’s version and saying something like “Whelp, I guess that is his song now”.
Not sure of the authenticity of the comment, but dang JC does that song justice.