Quote from: Jessica_K on January 19, 2024, 01:35:57 AMSo I expect you like Joe Bonamassa?
The Smiths however and Morrissey I find too depressing lol?
What about thrash or death metal anyone?
I loved punk in its day. To me there were 3 major jumps in "pop" music.
The 1960's with the Mersey beat, Beatles etc they blew away the stuffy post war easy listening (helped by the previous decade Rock and Roll and all based on Blues)
1970's punk. So radically different to anything else.
1980's what I call CD pop, I believe that the emergence of simple un cluttered music of the 80's was a ploy by record companies to promote the change over to CD, "listen how much better and cleaner it is" listen to the silence"
Still waiting for the next. Ok I am not a stuck in the mud, but I see today's music as just a gradual shift not a radical change. More emphasis on the words of life experience perhaps in that respect going back to the roots of the blues.
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I have been to 3 Joe Bonamassa concerts. He's fantastic. Beth Hart complements him well. "Sloe Gin" amazes me.
https://youtu.be/pvvgZMGp5Uo?si=es8hfjLDggoCOFawI see it all somewhat different on the breakdown. The 60's were a fantastic time for music. Soul/R&B was in its golden age. Rock was exploding into novel, generally blues inspired walls of sound. The Beatles are recognized as the inspiration of most of the music that followed them (up until lately anyway), but Hendrix influenced the future of music as much as anyone, and still does today.
For me, the 70's was a big empty space. There are notable things, some of them a carryover of the 60's. Punk was part of the 60's rock innovation.
I don't really know how to define punk. I am told that some things are punk that sound pretty pop to me. What would you say the first punk rock song was? "Just like Me" by Paul Revere and the Raiders back in 66? Or, Them? Was "Louie Louie" punk? I don't know where exactly to draw the line. But, the Kinks and the Clash are quintessential punk to me.
The most notable new music of the 70's was New Wave. And, while it had some influence on the future, it was pretty short lived on its own.
The early 80's didn't have much going on either. But, for me that changed in the mid 80's with bands emerging like REM, The Cure and The Smiths, U2. They grew in popularity in the 90's. I would often hear called "progressive" or "alternative" rock.
The 90's were my favorite decade of music of all time. The things I liked from the 80's were maturing, and Grunge became a thing. The 90's seemed to spill over into the 2k's, but somewhere around 2010 things were... different. I lost significant interest in most new music.
I find myself listening to more music from before 2010 than after it. I guess I am getting old. I don't like most hip hop, nor most rap. Live music seems to be dying. People don't want to pay cover charges to hear bands. Karaoke is cheaper.
Most of the live music where I live is a couple of guys with acoustic guitars playing stuff from the 90's-2ks for people close to my age.
I think a big reason music is dying is that it has all become quantized. There's no groove to it. No ebb and flow. Everything is done to a click, and then computers realigned it to be perfectly, mechanically on beat. Vocals are pitch corrected.
And, the move away from blues as a rooting element is killing rock. Blue and rock were successful because they made you feel something in your soul. Quantized music made in a box is dead and robotic to me. It has no feeling, and it neither inspires me nor touches me.
