How would you like our culture, music to evolve?

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If you could change anything about our culture of the music today, what would it be?
Do you think there is something wrong with our culture, music, artistic interests?
Are you happy with the quality of life?
Are you not feeling bored with music that is new?
Are you excited about the radio?
Have you noticed any changes in our culture?
Do you like the changes? do you love todays music?And why?
I am not saying that you should love it, or not ..I just want to know what you think of the quality of things in today's world.

Tallis B

― Tallis, Friday, 12 August 2005 01:47 (twenty years ago)

A new Radiohead album would be nice.

― Voodoo Child, Friday, 12 August 2005 01:50 (twenty years ago)

What do you find different, exceptional and unique about them?
What excites you about them?
What do you like about them. Can you explain?
I don't know that much about Radiohead.
I am from a different country.
Are they different then let's say the Beatles? do they have a special sound, like no other?

― Tallis, Friday, 12 August 2005 01:51 (twenty years ago)

i would like to see more excessive use of reverb and echo

― jimmy glass (electricsound), Friday, 12 August 2005 01:52 (twenty years ago)

so what you are saying is that Radiohead is a fantastic band and interesting.
You saying that they are extremely creative and different?

― Tallis, Friday, 12 August 2005 01:53 (twenty years ago)

So what you are saying is that you love the new music today and think it is just as good as the oldies if not better?
You are satisfied and feel the new music is just as good?
Just curious?
do you think the people sound as good as the oldie stations?

― Tallis, Friday, 12 August 2005 01:55 (twenty years ago)

If you could change anything about our culture of the music today, what would it be?

people becoming less inhibited, less prone to being embarrassed for entertainers. more free love and drug anthems and freaks singing about sunsets and waterfalls and peace

Do you think there is something wrong with our culture, music, artistic interests?

not that much.

Are you happy with the quality of life?

could be happier, but not complaining.

Are you not feeling bored with music that is new?

no.

Are you excited about the radio?

no.

Have you noticed any changes in our culture?

yes. america under bush is like america under eisenhower.

― little bear, Friday, 12 August 2005 01:57 (twenty years ago)

more prancing, less dancing.

― strng hlkngtn, Friday, 12 August 2005 01:58 (twenty years ago)

So you are happy with the groups and the music and you feel it sounds just like the oldie stations? You feel there is no difference in quality, just different?
So you would change the radio and the new music if you could? You are completely happy with the new groups and music and feel that it is extremely high qualtiY?
Why don't you like Bush? Or do you?

― Tallis, Friday, 12 August 2005 02:00 (twenty years ago)

fremme neppa vennete

― strng hlkngtn, Friday, 12 August 2005 02:00 (twenty years ago)

I want to know? would you change the radio if you could?
Or do you feel they have the most interesting and incredible bands today?
Do you enjoy the new music as much as the oldie stations?

― Tallis, Friday, 12 August 2005 02:01 (twenty years ago)

I'd like to see Deerhoof at numero uno on the sales charts. This one adjustment would change the planet. DEERHOOF!!!!

― marybeth, Friday, 12 August 2005 02:02 (twenty years ago)

O.k, but you are not answering the question? why?
do you think that the new music today is as good and do you think the talent is as good ?
Do you think they are promoting great music today and what do you think of the oldie stations?

― Tallis, Friday, 12 August 2005 02:04 (twenty years ago)

Do you think the people have as much talent now on the radio as they do on the oldie stations. I am only 19. But I think I am curious to know what you think? do you think the people had more talent in the seventies on the radio then now?

― Tallis, Friday, 12 August 2005 02:05 (twenty years ago)

No, I'd like to see Deerhoof at number 3. Then people would get interested in them more and they'll become this really hot band. Then when the next album comes out, it'll be No. 1

― Voodoo Child, Friday, 12 August 2005 02:06 (twenty years ago)

Are you people real? you don't act like real people?
I asked a question?
Answer yes or no? do you think the people on the radio now are as talented as the people in the 70's?
Say yes or no.

― Tallis, Friday, 12 August 2005 02:07 (twenty years ago)

yes they are. more talented. possibly.

― jimmy glass (electricsound), Friday, 12 August 2005 02:08 (twenty years ago)

why do think this?
explain in detail.
why are there so many oldie stations ? there seems to be so many?
I live in the usa now, but the oldies stations are everywhere, even in the market they play oldies.
they have many oldie stations?
if the people out there now are more talented, why do they have so many oldie stations and why are so many people playing oldies everywhere I go?

― Tallis, Friday, 12 August 2005 02:11 (twenty years ago)

more hats!

― scott seward (scott seward), Friday, 12 August 2005 02:11 (twenty years ago)

why are the new people in the music industry singing so many old songs and copying the mo town style?
why aren't they making up new songs? why are they singing songs from the seventies? why are they not writing new songs like this?
I have noticed so many radio stations playing oldies. Like about five stations.
I go to the supermarket and they play oldies. I go to the other store, they play oldies.
almost everyday, I hear oldies in stores, not new music.
I think more stores are playing oldies then new music.
Is it because the people are old, or what?
Why are there so many oldie stations now? My mom says it was like this in the seventies, they didn't play oldies alot.

― Tallis, Friday, 12 August 2005 02:15 (twenty years ago)

Is this for a school paper or something?

― van der who (van smack), Friday, 12 August 2005 02:19 (twenty years ago)

marissa!!!!!!!!!

― jmeister (jmeister), Friday, 12 August 2005 02:22 (twenty years ago)

I am in college now, I am not doing this for a paper. I want to know.
do you think you can explain why my mom said there were not many oldie stations like there is now?
She said in the seventies, they did not play oldies alot on the radio the way they do now, and they didn't have financial problems the way they do now.
If the talent is superior now, why are they not playing new music on all the stations and in most of the stores?
My mom thinks that there is something wrong with it.
What do you think?
Why do you think there are so many oldie stations now and there wasn't in the 70's
?

― Tallis, Friday, 12 August 2005 02:23 (twenty years ago)

I just read that some music people were sued for paying people to put their music on the radio?
why is this happening if people are happy with the artists and the talent? why are there so many people suing these people?

― Tallis, Friday, 12 August 2005 02:28 (twenty years ago)

There's more oldies stations now because a wider age group (50s - 90s, as opposed to 50s - 70s) means more demographics to market to. Simple!

People are just as talented now as they were in the 70s. But major labels are far less likely to take a chance on talent since they are so scared of losing money to downloading.

Um, also, more Deerhoof.

― Whiney G. Weingarten (whineyg), Friday, 12 August 2005 02:28 (twenty years ago)

My friend Rob, he is a English Lit Major. His cd collection is all oldies and he is 20 years old.
He owns no new music.
He sings Dylan songs in the pub down the road.
alot of my college friends are excited about collecting old music from the sixties and 70's.
My friends are all into old music, well most them are.
They are very young people , like 19 to 23.
My friends don't listen to new music.
I have met many kid my age who tell me they are not into the new people and prefer oldies to new music.
Rob just bought Miles Davis.
My friend Cassey, she just bought Rufus.
My other friend bought some classical record.
some of my friends are listening to Jolie Holland.
I don't know why.
She is not mainstream.
My friend Justine who is only 18, told me about Jolie Holland who is not in the new music scene, but sounds very oldie. and sings oldies.

― Tallis, Friday, 12 August 2005 02:33 (twenty years ago)

My friend Rob, he is a English Lit Major. His cd collection is all oldies and he is 20 years old.
He owns no new music.
He sings Dylan songs in the pub down the road.
alot of my college friends are excited about collecting old music from the sixties and 70's.
My friends are all into old music, well most them are
They are very young people , like 19 to 23.
My friends don't listen to new music.
I have met many kid my age who tell me they are not into the new people and prefer oldies to new music.
Rob just bought Miles Davis.
My friend Cassey, she just bought Rufus.
My other friend bought some classical record.
some of my friends are listening to Jolie Holland.
I don't know why.
She is not mainstream.
My friend Justine who is only 18, told me about Jolie Holland who is not in the new music scene, but sounds very oldie. and sings oldies.

― Tallis, Friday, 12 August 2005 02:34 (twenty years ago)

all my friends hate new music.
And they all college age.
They think it sucks.
If the majors are not taking chances on new talent, then can they make money?

― Tallis, Friday, 12 August 2005 02:35 (twenty years ago)

marissa?

― mike h. (mike h.), Friday, 12 August 2005 02:38 (twenty years ago)

tallis strikes me as marissa-like is all.

― jmeister (jmeister), Friday, 12 August 2005 02:46 (twenty years ago)

I talked to my mom. She laughed at what you said.
Older people do not want to listen to oldies.
who wants to hear the same music over and over and over again. If they want to appeal to different age groups, why not put on new music for older people. No one wants to listen to the same music for 30 years.
It makes no sense. People are tired of the same old music, unless they are very young and never heard it before. so that excuse doesn't go.
Older people are not happy listening to oldies. It is very boring. My mom is sick of the same old songs.

― Tallis, Friday, 12 August 2005 02:48 (twenty years ago)

I think the reason they are playing oldies so much, is to make some money from the younger generations.
They can't sell the new records because the people just sound terrible most of the time, so they keep playing old music to sell those records. some of the people on David Letterman, just said that the music industry isn't doing well, and she had to go out and play with only one guitar player and they can't afford a concert hall? why is that if she is so talented?
Why are some of these people playing in highschools with one guitarist?

― Tallis, Friday, 12 August 2005 02:56 (twenty years ago)

Why do you think that Tallis is Marissa?
Do you think that Tallis posts in weird stilted style like Marissa?
Do you think no line breaks is better than weird line breaks?
Go back to your no line break propaganda music industry style.

― Hurting (Hurting), Friday, 12 August 2005 03:45 (twenty years ago)

exactly.

― jmeister (jmeister), Friday, 12 August 2005 03:50 (twenty years ago)

To honestly try to answer the questions at hand, some "oldies" are damn good. Trends and styles come and go, but some things stick with people and are latched onto by the youth. I think many kids go through a phase where they seek the "authenticity" of older music to contrast with the new music of the time. Something that's proven, that has some acclaim, to rub in someone's face when they mention something new and popular. Then there are the people who hit a point in life where they plateau and they feel no need to listen to new music or expand.

I was recently talking with my own mom about this sort of thing. She has absolutely no clue why anyone would pay to see Paul McCartney in concert. To her, his best days were a long time ago and she has no interest in his new material. I think she said she'd rather see Green Day. On the other hand, she was more than happy to pay good money to see James Taylor because she has a long-standing sentimental attachment to his music. On the other side, my dad actually could listen to 30 year old music and be fine. Most of the music he has been bought for him.

I'm interested in what you mean by evolution. Evolution is a gradual change over time, modifications over generations. If people are listening to what you term "oldies" and adding their own twist on it, then music is evolving. I have no clue what new records sound "terrible" and don't sell. Are you complaining about pop music? That seems to be selling fairly well, and if the issue is with indie-type music, then I'm not sure about your angle because it probably sounds terrible and sounds poorly, to your ear.

― mike h. (mike h.), Friday, 12 August 2005 05:15 (twenty years ago)

Why are you afraid to smell yourself?

― Marissa!!!! (Ian Christe), Friday, 12 August 2005 06:28 (twenty years ago)

If you could change anything about our culture of the music today, what would it be?

Less irony and fear of being sincere.

Are you excited about the radio?

The mp3 "revolution" or whatever this week's phrase is called is making radio stations open up their playlist. So yes. I think it will get better.

― Cunga (Cunga), Friday, 12 August 2005 09:18 (twenty years ago)

Fitter, happier, more productive,
comfortable,
not drinking too much,
regular exercise at the gym
(3 days a week),
getting on better with your associate employee contemporaries ,
at ease,
eating well
(no more microwave dinners and saturated fats),
a patient better driver,
a safer car
(baby smiling in back seat),
sleeping well
(no bad dreams),
no paranoia,
careful to all animals
(never washing spiders down the plughole),
keep in contact with old friends
(enjoy a drink now and then),
will frequently check credit at
(moral) bank (hole in the wall),
favors for favors,
fond but not in love,
charity standing orders,
on Sundays ring road supermarket
(no killing moths or putting boiling water on the ants),
car wash
(also on Sundays),
no longer afraid of the dark or midday shadows
nothing so ridiculously teenage and desperate,
nothing so childish - at a better pace,
slower and more calculated,
no chance of escape,
now self-employed,
concerned (but powerless),
an empowered and informed member of society
(pragmatism not idealism),
will not cry in public,
less chance of illness,
tires that grip in the wet
(shot of baby strapped in back seat),
a good memory,
still cries at a good film,
still kisses with saliva,
no longer empty and frantic
like a cat
tied to a stick,
that's driven into
frozen winter shit
(the ability to laugh at weakness),
calm,
fitter,
healthier and more productive
a pig
in a cage
on antibiotics.
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― bb (bbrz), Friday, 12 August 2005 12:57 (twenty years ago)

and for an honest answer:

the culture industry is such that marketing has come to dominate decisions on the production, delivery, and audience/consumer levels. the resulting neurosis is hard to look at sometimes.

but there are alternatives and those require some semblence of self-respect and active decision making.

culture is not better or worse, it is the result of social actions. if you find faults in what is presented, choose differently.

― bb (bbrz), Friday, 12 August 2005 13:01 (twenty years ago)

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