Gone are the golden days of music, i think late 60's, 70's and 80's was the best time for music.
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Gone are the golden days of music, i think late 60's, 70's and 80's was the best time for music.
I might agree with you, but can't resist saying that even if we think it, it's also been thought (and said) in at least several previous centuries.
After all even in classical circles there are myriad stories about premieres of "new music" where either some clerics or secular critics or the audience took exception, tried to ban a performance or halt it in progress or merely engaged in fist fights with each other over whether it should go on. A few of the reports are mythical or exaggerated, but many more are well documented. The beat goes on. New music is inevitable and so, apparently, is resistance to it.Like some other forum members, I was mostly immersed in classical music during my formative years, which probably explains an eclectic taste in other music that's still sorting itself out. But I don't find it odd --at least not any more-- that people with training in or deep exposure to classical music also like jazz or rock. The jazz pianist and composer Brad Mehldau comes to mind as an example, in his recent release of works based on the music of JS Bach.
It's all about exploration, really, no matter the genre. Sometimes what glitters in contemporary times doesn't age well, and sometimes it gets revisited later and takes on new and richer aspects. Anyway the journey is what matters, and we all have to make the trip for ourselves in the end. I'm another one of those who like to put a wildly mixed playlist together for "road music" and just see what turns up as I drive along.
I might agree with you, but can't resist saying that even if we think it, it's also been thought (and said) in at least several previous centuries.
Like some other forum members, I was mostly immersed in classical music during my formative years, which probably explains an eclectic taste in other music that's still sorting itself out. But I don't find it odd --at least not any more-- that people with training in or deep exposure to classical music also like jazz or rock. The jazz pianist and composer Brad Mehldau comes to mind as an example, in his recent release of works based on the music of JS Bach.
It's all about exploration, really, no matter the genre. Sometimes what glitters in contemporary times doesn't age well, and sometimes it gets revisited later and takes on new and richer aspects. Anyway the journey is what matters, and we all have to make the trip for ourselves in the end. I'm another one of those who like to put a wildly mixed playlist together for "road music" and just see what turns up as I drive along.
We've seen in the 80s the most successful bands, albums and singers.
http://mentalfloss.com/article/62536/20-best-selling-albums-history
Not necessarily.
Some would argue for the 60s, others for the 70s.
Me, I take @LizKat's view - the long one.
I might agree with you, but can't resist saying that even if we think it, it's also been thought (and said) in at least several previous centuries.
Like some other forum members, I was mostly immersed in classical music during my formative years, which probably explains an eclectic taste in other music that's still sorting itself out. But I don't find it odd --at least not any more-- that people with training in or deep exposure to classical music also like jazz or rock. The jazz pianist and composer Brad Mehldau comes to mind as an example, in his recent release of works based on the music of JS Bach.
It's all about exploration, really, no matter the genre. Sometimes what glitters in contemporary times doesn't age well, and sometimes it gets revisited later and takes on new and richer aspects. Anyway the journey is what matters, and we all have to make the trip for ourselves in the end. I'm another one of those who like to put a wildly mixed playlist together for "road music" and just see what turns up as I drive along.
Great post, and one with which I concur completely.
In any case, within classical music - which I do like, even some modern classical music - (Philip Glass and so on, and some Russian 20th century composers) I like medieval, Renaissance and Baroque music - specific sub-genres within classical music, and love to hear musical forms such as counter-point made an appearance in - for example - Irish traditional music, which is still a living tradition with living links to the music of the 15-17th centuries and beyond.
Most of my iTunes library is alternative rock/pop, rock, and electronic. I'll listen to a mixed bag of stuff on local/internet radio though.
My mom came of age in the 80's and likes to push that it was the best decade for music and goes on about MTV/VH1/etc and still watches documentaries on artists/bands/movies/TV during that time. I just don't say anything, every decade has its good and bad.
My mom came of age in the 80's and likes to push that it was the best decade for music and goes on about MTV/VH1/etc and still watches documentaries on artists/bands/movies/TV during that time. I just don't say anything, every decade has its good and bad.
I thought so , yep your Mum is right. All the MEGA stars like M. Jackson , Prince , Bruce Springsteen and many British very successful bands shined in the 80s.
https://www.thetoptens.com/best-decades-music-history/
Would that be the 1780s? But I jest. The 1780s were the waning days of the high baroque period. Popular, but perhaps formulaic at least to the ears of those prepared to shift gears.Actually it was in the 1790s that popularity became "a thing" in classical music, as by then a composer like Haydn had been freed from the burden of having to check in with his patron before being allowed to compose just any old thing for a public audience. Of course with that freedom came a certain tendency to advertise new qualities of music to be performed in the public arena, and that advertisement preceded what eventually became the shift from the Baroque to the Classical era:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Haydn#Structure_and_character_of_his_music
Excerpt:
In 1779, an important change in Haydn's contract permitted him to publish his compositions without prior authorization from his employer. This may have encouraged Haydn to rekindle his career as a composer of "pure" music. The change made itself felt most dramatically in 1781, when Haydn published the six Op. 33 String Quartets, announcing (in a letter to potential purchasers) that they were written in "a new and completely special way".Charles Rosen has argued that this assertion on Haydn's part was not just sales talk but meant quite seriously...
In the 1790s, stimulated by his England journeys, Haydn developed what Rosen calls his "popular style", a method of composition that, with unprecedented success, created music having great popular appeal but retaining a learned and rigorous musical structure. An important element of the popular style was the frequent use of folk or folk-like material (see Haydn and folk music). Haydn took care to deploy this material in appropriate locations, such as the endings of sonata expositions or the opening themes of finales. In such locations, the folk material serves as an element of stability, helping to anchor the larger structure. Haydn's popular style can be heard in virtually all of his later work, including the twelve "London" symphonies, the late quartets and piano trios, and the two late oratorios.
In the 1790s, stimulated by his England journeys, Haydn developed what Rosen calls his "popular style", a method of composition that, with unprecedented success, created music having great popular appeal but retaining a learned and rigorous musical structure. An important element of the popular style was the frequent use of folk or folk-like material (see Haydn and folk music). Haydn took care to deploy this material in appropriate locations, such as the endings of sonata expositions or the opening themes of finales. In such locations, the folk material serves as an element of stability, helping to anchor the larger structure. Haydn's popular style can be heard in virtually all of his later work, including the twelve "London" symphonies, the late quartets and piano trios, and the two late oratorios.
Alas, today being day 42 of a rainy advent to summer, I remain a celebrant of Handel's Water Music
and popular though it may have been in Handel's own time of the baroque era (and he was popular enough at least in clerical circles to end up sharing a feast day --July 28-- with Bach and Purcell in the liturgical calendar of the Anglican church) I look forward to the weather gods discovering something else to play in the skies over this slice of American farmlands fairly soon, so we can get the damn hay cut. Elsewhere they're already saying see you at the 2020 Hay Festival and we can't even get our lawns mowed.
From classical to death/grind metal. This includes big band to jazz.
The only genre I don’t listen to is country.
The only genre I don’t listen to is country.
Except Kenny Rogers and Dolly.
[doublepost=1560872610][/doublepost]I never listen to Heavy metal
Well I can say I don’t listen to them either. I have, but it is something I don’t pick. Lol.
I usually feel that way about most country OR metal, but one day in the gym it was between metal and Fox... they switch hourly between CNNdless and FauxSnooze in the treadmill room, so I worked out on some machines instead and got treated to the metal. It was okay. No clue what it was though. Anti-news metal. Good enough! After that I started keeping an iPod Shuffle, charger and earbuds in my gym bag. Turns out that most blues rock or instrumental jazz cranked up to a six in my ears blanked out everything else: the gym minder and the trainers were all apparently into preserving their own hearing in the open spaces, no matter the source.
I like all sorts of music in a broad range of genres. Put most simply, I like whatever tickles my ears.
One genre in particular is more like a dentist’s drill in my ears and that’s country music.
One genre in particular is more like a dentist’s drill in my ears and that’s country music.
By now someone's probably done a thesis on the psychological harm in the themes of the lyrics of a lot of standard top-40 country music... and that's leaving aside attributes of the twang-genre music itself.
On the other hand certain critics have made fun of Vivaldi for seeming to have written the same concerto grosso 500 times. My riposte to that is that Vivaldi did find many different ways to ornament the same old 1-4-5-1 harmonies. Country music in the USA though seems not only to thrive on but brag on stickin' to the tried and true, no matter if the truck bed a teenage couple sees the Georgia sky at night from is a '59 Chevy or a 2019 F350.
I confess liking certain alt country a lot, and some offshoots and cousins of country here and there, usually if it has some fiddling and picking in it, plus traditional bluegrass -- fiddle, banjo, guitar, mandolin and bass. The bluegrass attraction came from back when my dad and his dad and my uncles formed up a fun (and pretty bad) pickin' band when we were out at my granddad's Wyoming camp sometimes in the summers in the late 40s and early 50s, everyone still celebrating "The Boys" having made it through the war. My taste for that genre has lasted to some extent. I'm a fan of some dobro players (Mike Auldridge was wonderful) as well. I thought that Joy Kills Sorrow was a thoroughly enjoyable roots string band while it lasted, and their members are amazing musicians now gone their separate ways.
But regular old "tell me baby how long I'm gonna cry" kinda country... no thanks, unless it has some jazz blues shining through it. As for rueful songs about leaving the porch light on for straying lovers? Uh, no. That's fairly hypocritical, since I had no problem cranking Billy Idol's fairly misogynistic rock out the windows on the far end of my 3-hour commute upstate. So be it. Billy Idol and his ilk kept me safely awake; most standard country lyrics and music do bore the hell out of me, and that is a step too close to putting me to sleep behind the wheel.
On the other hand certain critics have made fun of Vivaldi for seeming to have written the same concerto grosso 500 times. My riposte to that is that Vivaldi did find many different ways to ornament the same old 1-4-5-1 harmonies. Country music in the USA though seems not only to thrive on but brag on stickin' to the tried and true, no matter if the truck bed a teenage couple sees the Georgia sky at night from is a '59 Chevy or a 2019 F350.
I confess liking certain alt country a lot, and some offshoots and cousins of country here and there, usually if it has some fiddling and picking in it, plus traditional bluegrass -- fiddle, banjo, guitar, mandolin and bass. The bluegrass attraction came from back when my dad and his dad and my uncles formed up a fun (and pretty bad) pickin' band when we were out at my granddad's Wyoming camp sometimes in the summers in the late 40s and early 50s, everyone still celebrating "The Boys" having made it through the war. My taste for that genre has lasted to some extent. I'm a fan of some dobro players (Mike Auldridge was wonderful) as well. I thought that Joy Kills Sorrow was a thoroughly enjoyable roots string band while it lasted, and their members are amazing musicians now gone their separate ways.
But regular old "tell me baby how long I'm gonna cry" kinda country... no thanks, unless it has some jazz blues shining through it. As for rueful songs about leaving the porch light on for straying lovers? Uh, no. That's fairly hypocritical, since I had no problem cranking Billy Idol's fairly misogynistic rock out the windows on the far end of my 3-hour commute upstate. So be it. Billy Idol and his ilk kept me safely awake; most standard country lyrics and music do bore the hell out of me, and that is a step too close to putting me to sleep behind the wheel.
I completely agree with you on all of that. I do like bluegrass music just as you described as well. I don't listen to it all that often but there are some that I like, that harken back to the days of my Christian leanings. Alison Krauss and Union Station, Lester Flatt, Ricky Skaggs, some Ralph Stanley, Jerry Douglas and Dan Tymenski.
For me, the dentist's drill in my ears (and I like that analogy) comprises heavy metal, rap, and hip hop.
I used to loathe country, and find that I dislike it a bit less as I age.
As for music that tickles my ears - well, classical, (and some sub-genres within that such as Baroque and Renaissance), funk, jazz, trad, some pop, prog rock, rock, ambient music, some electronic, - my tastes are pretty eclectic.
I listen to any genre of music that sounds good to me. In early 2000's because of the internet I found "Trance" music and I loved it. Now that I have my Mac I started listening to trance music all over again.
That is about the time I found it also... I dig it and there are times I love nothing more than to put on a random shuffle and relax on my couch.
I remember doing just that back then picking a random radio station and falling a sleep on the sofa for about an hour.
