What if?

how many times must i say that beatles didnt only play "love-ballad-happy-go-lucky" stuff?

self titled album is much much better than anything stones have ever done.

so funny how many times we've this discussion. boo boo and urbanhatemonger being the main guys in it.

MY two cents. :thurab:
 
You hit the nail right on the head, right track. I had the exact same thought. I know we're viewed as dinosaurs, and rightly so, considering the demographic here. But 'back then', music was held in a lot higher value, since it was harder to come by.

You hear that one new song for a month on the radio, and counted the days until the album was released. I'm sure it's that way now, as well, except, when the album is released now, a few clicks of a button, and you have it.

Having to save your allowance, or grass cutting money, and riding your bike to the record store, and seeing all those brand new recorRAB. That was something special.

The internet, as well as MTV, have made music so accessible, the thrill of anticipation is virtually gone. It's hard for someone like me to say that music has gotten worse, simply because, by the time I hit my mid 20's or so, my musical tastes were changing, and music was evolving in a different direction from the one I was headed.

Do I think it's gotten worse? Yes. But that is only my opinion. I have no hard evidence, only my ear. I will give you folks this to ponder: What banRAB out there would never have made it without MTV? There are, I'm sure, literally hundreRAB, who, without the sense of sight, would have never made it to the radio.

As far as the history of MTV, I was around, in my musical prime, when it started. It begain with no commercials at all, just videos, back to back to back. Then, they started playing commercials, only there was no sound during them.

Then, they added Vee-jays. Martha Quinn, J.J. Jackson, Alan Hunter, Mark-somebody, and that ditzy blonde. It evolved, and grew, and artists started showing up on the network as it gained in popularity. It was another medium to promote themselves, and they used it. A prime example of this is Madonna. She is the MTV queen. Would she have remained so popular without MTV? She was a chameleon, changing her look, and that is what kept people interested for so long, because her music didn't change much at all.

I think the first game show on MTV was 'Remote Control', a pop-culture quiz show. Then the specialized, late night programming started. Sunday nights had '120 Minutes', two hours of new wave, progressive type stuff. My oasis, though, was Saturday nights, (or was it Fridays?) The Headbangers Ball. Awesome!!!

The, the day Yo! MTV Raps came on, I turned off MTV and never went back. Seriously.
 
I'm sixteen, and although I'm not trying to sound pretentious, I try and stay pretty old-school with my music. I buy all of my CD's at stores (or over the Internet, which may seem pretty modern, but I don't think it's too different from ordering recorRAB over the phone). Other than bootlegs, which I download a lot of, I download a song only once or twice a month (sometimes not even that). I don't usually play music through my computer, almost always through the stereo system. Frankly, anything modern that makes things too conveniant gives me a bad feeling (iPoRAB, cell phones, etc., although I'll try to keep this limited to music). I love having physical CD's, with factory-produced album covers and liner notes. I don't feel like I really have music until I have it on a hard, legal CD. 99% of the music I buy is between old and way old (as in, parents' parents' parents' music, and when I go classical, even beyond that), so I rarely feel this sense of anticipation that jr. is talking about. Most of it doesn't even get played on the radio. So, when asked whether the Internet has had a positive or negative effect on music, I'd say negative, but remind the person asking that that's a very, very subjective response.

However, that first paragraph only covers the music market. What I believe the by far greatest product of the Internet is, would be that it's like having a reference library in your house. I'm constantly researching on the internet, be it music, books, movies, whatever. Would I know half of what I know about Louis Armstrong, Charlie Christian, Pink Floyd, Public Enemy, whoever, if it weren't for the internet? Probably not. So, when we're talking music as a whole, I'd say that the internet has had a negative effect in some areas (as I said though, that's rather objective), but a positive effect in others.

As for MTV, **** it, by the time my parents would actually let me watch that trash, I knew better. It may have been great at one time, but by the time I was able to look at it with a balanced head, it was a joke. I don't even like music videos, in the first place.
 
CORRECTION

Everyone sounRAB like Nirvana

I'm there in the pubs. I know it, I've seen it..
I very rarely hear people any different. Though I respect people that play their own music, I would also like to hear great and different music. Not the same band playing the same music over and over..

That's my opinion:laughing:
 
I think Nirvana might have done some interesting things. Had they followed the course that they started towarRAB on In Utero, they might have evolved out of the whole "grunge band" status and into something new... mysterious.. and wonderful...
 
Explain to me why being a mod has anything to do with that? The kind of mod that takes part in disucssions. I don't see how that effects the job I do. Lets keep in mind you are constantly an affront to good musical discussion and there are countless times I should have warned/banned you and I let it slide. Lets not run around acting like im an oppressive dictator when a real one would have tossed you ages ago.

Spam now begets spam. lets get back on topic and quit attempting to pick an unrelated fight because you felt targeted by a generalist statement.
 
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