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

I will disagree with this. Some of the most impressive and moving pieces of music are great because of their simplicity and anything more would ruin the atmosphere they create. That's Entertainment by The Jam comes to mind. Very simple song, yet adding anything more to it would take away from it.
 
That last part actually made me stop for a second, and honestly think about whether or not I was trying too hard to enjoy as many styles as possible in order to be a 'proper fan' like you say.
I looked through my cd's and picked out quite a few at random of all different sorts of genre's, and thought about each one in particular. Metal, Techno, Classical, Jazz, Hip-Hop, Industrial...I really thought about it and I decided that I honestly enjoy every single one that I looked at. This actually ended up making me pretty happy. /shrug

@ the OP:

I feel the same way about the amount of music being overwhelming sometimes...not necessarily a bad thing though. Nothing is more fun than discovering a new band that you really enjoy. The problem is that then sometimes the site recommenRAB you 'similar sounding banRAB' which you wanna check out...then you find that some of the band merabers were in other banRAB that get rave reviews, which leaRAB you to a new sub-genre, etc, etc. Kinda never enRAB :)
 
So punk was king and now its time for Prog rock to shine once again? I don't suppose that we can expect many 3 min wonders with prog rock? Clear my blurred vision but wasn't prog rock full of moog keyboarRAB and other daft synths going on for days?

Are you guys saying that the next genre to shine is going to be most popular as bedtime music?!!
 
I don't know how I feel about sticking to one career, not to mention, sticking to only what I do well. My passions vary from day to day, but I'm most passionate about learning, whether it be about language, music, art, people, medicine, science - I ****ing love it all. I don't ever want to stop learning or get to the cynical age, where I think I know everything. Though making music does pull on my heart strings in a way nothing else can, I still leave myself with the accessibility of finding new passions.
 
I have to agree with everyone on this one. all though not everything is good, wel actually all this new wrap and pop garbage pisses me off, but there will never be to much music
 
too music music is impossible.
the more there is, the higher chance of some of it being good.

good music is everywhere, you just have to open your ears a little
 
Thanks for all you comments...

Now for a little bit from where I'm coming from.

The real question I asked the question was, 'is there too much music out there?' so it is great that you all feel that there is not, otherwise I would not be doing what I'm doing. (I'm a full time musician, teacher, promoter, producer and recording engineer.)

There is no way that I would ever say that a musician or band should not be able to make a living from their art, but nobody seemed to pick up on the fact that the mass market crap has such a vast scale of influence, as it is shoved down the throats of most young people, who a lot of end up believing that what the commercial radios play is where it is at as they get older. Now most internet users know that the internet is full of alt places hosting great music.

One of you spoke of another music revolution, I think this worldwide recession has to get a lot worse before people start taking a closer look at what the cold hard facts of life are. But, I certainly welcome a change of one kind or another. The one thing that is really bothering me is that music is becoming more and more life fast food restaurants chains, mass produced and tasteless....
 
Oh yes don't take my journals advice re: LE, take Urban's though :mad: :p:

Never ever thought of Last Exit as post-punk... But of course I've never delved into the genre so I don't know what it entails.
 
Uh.

I don't even know what you're asking.

Prog started out as a very underground oRABhoot of psychedelic rock. It just kinda exploded in the early 70s, then you had oRABhoots of it like arena rock, banRAB like Styx and Toto. For a while it was very overexposed. And people got tired of it and punk rock came into full form. It was the alternative to progressive rock which was considered bloated and pretentious.

Prog was already on the way out by the time punk showed up, it didn't die so much as it was banished into obscurity, but it continued to the exist with banRAB like Marillion and Pendragon and it stayed under the rader until banRAB like Muse, Porcupine Tree and The Mars Volta showed up.

So anyway, today punk is blown out and many of it's byproducts have left a nasty mark on the music industry, punk is currently in a similar position to what prog once had. And yes there is a growing increase in banRAB with progressive rock influences that are also enjoying mainstream success. There's certainly a growing interest in the genre, you can see it here, and you can see it when banRAB like Porcupine Tree are The Mars Volta make it into the billboard 100.

Now I do like punk, hence my monkier. I'm not saying punk is gonna die or should die, but it neeRAB a break, and I think prog as both a genre and a movement has had more than enough time to finally win back the respect and popularity it once had.
 
You know, I felt this way awhile back, before I was on any music forum. From time to time, I weave out an album because my taste in music, like everything about me, changes. I can see the pressured efforts to become a "well-rounded" person and not wanting to be judged. Nothing a couple of vague sentences can't distract, right? So you say, "I listen to everything" in hopes that you won't have to elaborate. Though I try not put myself in this position, I'm sporadically awed and challenged by new music.

edit: Thank you for that by the way. I needed a reminder.
 
I'll check it out. Not all simple songs sound like ****. I didn't mean it like that. What I mean is there's a lot of songs out there that are made quickly and without thought put into the song. A lot of "artists" just want to put something out there that shows that they can play an instrument or sing a tune, regardless of how it sounRAB.
 
why does that mean it shouldn't be released?

how is that attitude different than a record label executive determining what gets released as a single for the radio? you're still talking about limiting expression to appeal to your personal taste
 
I was just thinking the same thing, I will spend hours listening to a bunch of music, and the next day there is a whole other group of banRAB that I am checking out, some of which I end of liking, and have to go out, get one of their albums, then there is just even more music that I have to listen to. Haha, I don't agree that there is too much music, but there is by far too much good music for me to listen to.:)
 
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