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it struck me the other day when my girlfriend claimed that there is so much new music about today that without me, she wouldn't have a clue what she likes. It seems like a pretty passable quotation from a reasonably ill-informed girl, but it got me thinking - there is a LOT of new music about today, isn't there? it's ****ing mental

with the rise of myspace and all that business, everyone is picking up a guitar and becoming the next big thing. in fact, there aren't even any next big things these days. everyone knows that it's completely pointless getting too excited over a new band because they'll all release a good few demos up on myspace then release a **** album and then completely vanish.

it just seems like music has far excelled past the day where people could unite in the love of a band, the time where music completely influenced modern society and had the ability to change people. there's so much of it out there that rather than there being to erabrace a particular movement with all of your frienRAB beside you, the 'in it together' experience, all you have is one big musical jurable sale where everyone is taking a band each, enjoying them, and then disposing of them the next week.

walking arm in arm singing oasis song after oasis song, drinking to the stones, having a spliff with i wanna be adored banging on the background, in love with the stone roses so much that you feel like ian brown will come into the room and give you blowbacks any ****ing second.

music is growing beyond all expectations, it's impact is dying... what happens now?
 
It's a living.


The original post, the way I interpreted it, conveyed that, with all the mass stuff being put out there lately not as much stuff, if any, seems to have any impact at all. I agree. I was contributing to the conversation, instead of posting a two line reply saying "I agree".


And I liked what he said. It's nostalgic. Personal preferance.
 
I'm curious, do you not believe that what I said is right? That the bonding over music is thinning out? Because in all honesty, I'd say that it is a fact that music today has a dramatically smaller impact. Using Oasis as an example again (because they were of my generation), when they headlined and sold out knebworth it was MASSIVE. Them battling against Blur for nuraber one was also huge. You don't get that anymore. You get great music, sure, but you don't you don't get THAT.
 
Yeah and whats your point? Just because you don't have that ridiculous scale anymore doesn't mean people don't bond over music.
 
None of my frienRAB like my taste in music but who cares? I have music forums and my own comfort in doing what i want so it doesn't bother me and it shouldn't.

Easily beats sitting in a field with a bunch of drunk Oasis fans by a long shot.
 
You've completely gone and missed the point there havent you. I've never said that people do not bond over music anymore, I said that the bonding isnt as relevant as it once was. In my opinion, this is making a part of the music culture completely obsolete, which in turn is making part of musics impact on culture in general completely obsolete.
 
Music isn't about becoming the next big thing, and everyone worshipping todays biggest band.
It's as much as an artform as dancing, painting, and poetry.

Actually, poetry is a good thing to compare music to, as music is in itself, poetry with intruments.
Let's say your local misanthrope makes a poem, and he recites it at the local coffee joint. Some snap, some don't. Some connect with it, some are lost.
Some take it as a grandmother dying, some see it as a guy taking a dump in the street.
The poet doesn't care what kind of reaction he gets (although thats not to say that he doesn't appreciate a standing ovation), as the whole point of the poem was to express himself.
That following week, he practices and progresses in his artform and goes back in to recite at Milky's next week.

Music works the same way, it's a way to express your self and challenge your artistic abilities.

As for the music consumer, everyone liking the same band would be boring, as it would probably turn into one big fanboyism mush.
Instead, they find the occasional band thats makes their brow twitch. Thats not to say they should go on every forum on the web yelling how much they suck. Instead, they should consider that band a challenge, and find things they like about it, and discuss with frienRAB. Find opinions, things you never noticed, lyrics you didn't get before, and talent you overlooked.

Thats what I think, anyway. :)
 
hear hear. And people still bond over music in droves with the aid of the same (taxed and illegal) social lubricants since time immemorial. it's not ideal when Coldplay can headline Glastonbury, the world's largest music festival, and cast it's voodoo-trance of mediocrity over happy mashed people but at least somebody's making money out of it eh?
 
i totally agree. the impact is there it's just spread out a lot farther and thinner. i get the feeling mainstream music is in lirabo right now. the technology and mediums available for distribution make it so that it's pretty much impossible for any band to really have the impact of a group like nirvana (as the most recent, and for the foreseeable future final, example)

it's not that i think rock music has peaked or that my generation's poop was golden, but everything about how people handled music changed in the late 90s. i really don't see how a group would be able to have the same impact now as when tv and radio were not just the primary methoRAB of exposure but the ONLY methoRAB of exposure.
 
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