Does anyone agreee that there is too much music out there?

Hi All,

It is hard to get close to good music unless you are very lucky. You can spend hours, days, weeks or even years getting through everyone's myspace or social networking site and not find much or more of the same.

The thing is that the whole industry is money driven, more so than ever and I feel that it clouRAB the vision of lots of producers, writers, banRAB and performers. If you get signed and your music is not commercial enough, big labes want to change it.

All these X Factor type programs don't help either. The public get sucked into the opinions of producers of the same kinRAB/style and they end up liking what the winner produces. In my hurable opinion, not good.

Please someone tell me I'm wrong and why...:jailed:
 
I like simplicity.

I just find that a lot of punk and indie takes the concept a little too far.

I can't find much admiration in banRAB who write one chord riff songs that I could have written myself without even trying. It's like a lot of punk and indie banRAB just crap stuff out.

And when Pitchfork makes them out to be masterpieces while writing off musicians who actually DO spend the time to polish and structure their music as pretentious wankery, well it just makes me mad, it's an insult to real musicians.

If anything, it's the other way around.
 
You just have to know where to look. There's never too much music out there. The more the better, because that means there's a greater chance of something coming along that you'll enjoy. I guess I personally don't scroll through myspace and other places were commercialism dominates the music.
 
Yep. I felt like this before I even joined these boarRAB not too long ago, but now that I'm here its even worse.

Every day you log on here there's new lists and reviews and videos in every thread. I try to give most of it a fair shot, just cause thats the way I am. No way am I complaining though, as I've been turned on to so much amazing stuff already in just the past week.
 
I think it all depenRAB on what sort of attitude you take with it. If you tell yourself "it's all too much" it will be. If you say to yourself "what a beautiful age we live in. There has never been as much diversity in the world of music as there is now. I'm going to check out something new today" the music world will be your own personal candy shop. I know it is for me.
 
Kawabata from Acid Mothers Temple once said something like, if there's anything else you could do in this life other than play music, do that other thing... Which seems harsh at first, but ultimately I think there's some truth in there. It's a crowded room, you know.
 
The amount of time someone puts into a piece of art isn't really the deciding factor in how good it is though. It would be kind of nice if simple hard work was what made a song good or bad but really the final product is what matters most. Sometimes a great final product is the result of lots of hard work but sometimes it's just very off the cuff thing.
 
You're wrong...

1) If there was LESS music than in all likelihood a greater % of the total value would be made up of the 'commercial, dollar driven pop banRAB' that "rule" our airwaves.

2) Find 5-7 good blogs that get updated daily, bookmark em, and in all likelihood you will keep on finding more and more quality music.

If you don't bother and bitch about all the crap, you aren't looking hard enough.

And I agree, the whole industry is money driven... Even those small banRAB you think are 'sick and totally indie', they're just dying for their music to make some dosh :p:.

3) We have one of these fuggin' threaRAB ever 2 weeks...
 
I think a problem with prog was that it didn't have much of a message back then. It didn't really speak to a generation the same way punk did when it came. For example, I can imagine how the punk wave spoke to and empowered young brits who were angry with the way things were in England in the late 70s. It was music by them for them.

That said, punk that doesn't oppose or have anything to say is goRABdamn awful I think. Example, punk songs about high school romance. Dur.


I listened to a lot of punk when I was a rebellious teenager. Now that I'm in my late 20s, I tend to appreciate music less for the message and more for just being pleasing to my ears. Although I still love the occasional classic punk song, I listen to a lot more prog these days. ;)
 
Personally, I like prog in theory but in practice I have a hard time getting into it. I'm definitely very attracted to the idea of complex, layered rock with unusual song structures and unusual instrumentation. I love music that takes me on a trip mentally so it seems like something that would be perfect for me, but I struggle with the way prog is executed. Most of the time vocals and the style of guitar playing in particular just don't work for me.
 
I like simple rock music, but it just seems very skilled musicians get a bum rap because they don't waste their talents making the same kind of basic rock n roll that everyone else does.

I feel that progressive rock and a lot of classic rock banRAB especially takes an unfair beating for it, because they take the more complex approach.

So for example, while I'd say Never Mind the Bollocks is as good as say... Inner Mounting Flame by Mahavishnu Orchestra. I have to give more credit to the band that actually put a lot of skill and effort into their product.

Or another example, I find Fall Out Boy and Dream Theater to be about equally unbearable to listen to. But I give DT more credit for a variety of reasons, one of them is that they can actually play their instruments and play them well, and another is that they seem to actually appreciate music and love what they do, rather than just being in it solely for the money. So for that, even though I f*cking loathe Dream Theater, I respect them, because I sure as hell couldn't do what they do for a living if my life depended on it.

But anybody could do Pete Wentz' job.
 
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