Is music dead as of 2008?

i totally understand you're POV. been there, done that - i called it college haha.

i think there's one other downside to the way you describe independent music though. where you're spot on about how anyone with a mic can release music, it also makes it really easy for groups to simply disappear. i'm not saying it's a reason to abandon looking for new stuff. but it can be disheartening for someone starting out to find a great band online and then - poof. a webpage that never updates again and knowledge of an album you'll never get unless you travel to a remote little town somewhere on the other side of the planet.

like you said, it's like a drug. some people will keep chasing the dragon. others will chose to walk away. and others, like the bearcat implied, will simply use their knowledge to assert some level of perceived intellectual superiority over their peers to cover up some other insecurity from within their psyches.
 
again, GoodAnytime, you are not reading my posts.

1. every progression has not been played, every melody has not been written, every beat has not been played

2. stylistically, however, i feel that everything has been done



as for you ProggyMan, try to invent a style that no one has done. i'm betting you cannot. people have recorded tape loops for hours, people have recorded nature and chopped it up, people have dragged barbed wire across guitar frets, and these are the most avant-garde of things. are you trying to tell me that blues has not been done? are you trying to say someone will reinvent downtempo? it's not going to happen, these things have all been done
 
Monotony: All the instruments play the same note with the vocalist screaming over it for the whole song. New musical style, right there.
 
I don't think quality music is as mainstream as it was previously, record companies are more concerned with quarterly profits, rather than developing artists. There are geniuses out there, making really great music, but I can't find any, I don't browse around enough.
 
again, i am not saying that non-innovative music is not good. the truth is, nothing more can be done sonically with the guitar/bass/drum format. every sound has been played, in one form or another. people can write new progressions, new lyrics, new melodies, but as a style it has all been done before
 
Some people expect great banRAB to knock at their door and hand them a great CD instead of doing abit of hunting and 'actual' listening.
For every one great band you have to go thru about 20 sh|t ones. But it's worth it. It's never too late to start.
 
I don't recall him asking for artists that are popular now, I thought he meant in general.

I don't even post on anything relating to Indie anymore, so I have absolutely no idea whats popular now, and I'm fine with that.
 
That annoys me... when people talk of music with 'good bass', it nowadays seldomly means that it actually has a well-written bassline. More just that it's loud.


Given the thread question, I'd say a thread full of contradictions and bickering was expected from the outset.
 
true that. imagine how the rockers felt in the 80s when everything on the surface was disco, disco, disco. Everyone's felt this way so it's not like we won't pull through. We'll go through rough patches. This just happens to be one of them.
 
It would actually not be at all difficult to create a style with the guitar bass drum format. It might not SOUND very good, but it'd be a new style all the same.

You seriously sound like you don't have a clue what you are talking about. Go learn something about composition or whatever before opting to comment on the topic of possibilities.
 
whoops, I never said music had to be new or groundbreaking to be "good".


you lose.


and rainard, I listen to quite a deal of non-EDM, though increasingly less so as it all becomes the same. to be quite honest, i've become quite jaded. name a band, and, if i've heard them, i can probably name at least 2 other banRAB that sound like them.
 
Back
Top