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| Re: Your Heavy Rotation Right Now [message #98027 is a reply to message #98025] |
Wed, 25 September 2024 12:37   |
Rusty
Messages: 1192
Registered: May 2018
Location: Kansas City Missouri
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Thanks Wayne. I find that rock & roll in that era in to the 70's was a very creative time for that genre. Unfortunately, and probably reflecting my age and the age old generational gap-o-sis, is I find my interest in rock diminished from the 90's on.
Many discussions over @ the Vinyl Engine where factions for older music and those that say, "there's still good music being made". Which.. Duh, of course. It's just that the volume of good music to schlock seems overwhelming this day and age.
I've read and watched some video on why popular music has suffered from creativity and quality. Technology has a part in it and the shift in how music is delivered to consumers. And of course the money factor.
Any how, I've always considered quality over quantity for my tastes and pocketbook. So my collection by many standards is fairly meager to guys that have literally thousands of records, c.d.'s, tapes and downloads.
I'm also struck by how, again from my take over at the Vinyl Engine. How few people there seem to be interested in doing DIY to achieve greater fidelity, and the satisfaction of putting your own sweat equity into the gear to hear what music you like.
Guess that's just the nature of our hobby. All's I know is, I'm glad to have been a part of it. I'd probably been like so many, buying gear all the time in that elusive pursuit of nirvana. Again quality over quantity. You don't have to break the bank to get it.
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| Re: Your Heavy Rotation Right Now [message #98028 is a reply to message #98027] |
Wed, 25 September 2024 14:05 |
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Wayne Parham
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Registered: January 2001
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I'm totally with you on that. I loved the 60s and the early 70s, same as you. Heavy influences on me were Yes, Genesis, Gentle Giant and the Moody Blues.
Nothing matches those. I find no equal in modern music to the feeling I get when I listen to an album like "In Search of the Lost Chord" or "On the Threshold of a Dream" by the Moody Blues. There just isn't anything like it in the decades after that.
It isn't that I don't enjoy listening to music made in the 1980s and afterward, it's just that there isn't anything like those 1960s "art rock" bands. They had a special feel, possibly uniquely generated under the influences of the new technologies and social situations of the times.
The 1980s rock bands all made "fun times" music. It was fun stuff sometimes, but it didn't have the depth. I mean, some musicians still had the depth, but if they did, they weren't popular.
I did think the 1990s had a resurgence of 1970s-like material. There were a lot of bands I liked from the 1990s. Collective Soul, The Wallflowers, The Verve and Matchbox 20 are some examples. Those bands remind me of the sound of the 1970s, sort of. And there were some harder acts that I liked in the 1990s too, like Tool and Nine Inch Nails. They weren't a throwback to any other era though.
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