Has the music died?

[lightstalker]

I think Don McLean should rewrite "American Pie" . and this time he should dedicate the song to Britney Spears instead of Buddy Holly. It was about the time that Britney came on the scene that the music really started to die...

In the 60s we had the Beatles, the Rolling Stones, the Who and Elvis.
In the 70's we had Pink Floyd, Led Zepplin, Black Sabbath and ABBA.
In the 80's we had Queen, Michael Jackson (yeah, he was a fuck up but credit where its due) U2, Guns and Roses , R.E.M etc...
In the 90s we had Nirvana, Red Hot Chilli peppers, Radiohead and the Seattle grunge scene with the likes of Pearl Jam and Sound Garden etc.etc..

Now look what we've got. Miley Cyrus?.. Lady Gaga?... and er..that spotty faced kid Justin Bieber ......My question is; where did it all go wrong?

[Fenrisco]

My question is; where did it all go wrong?

It went wrong when the mainstream music biz's profit margin declined to the level that they would only back dead certs; no more taking chances on acts that 12-year old girls (the core market) might not buy.

[coldharvest]

Which is why I download shit that I don't even fuckin' listen to.

[el3so]

shit that I don't even fuckin' listen to

35.5GB worth of it, 8986 files of which 10 or so get regular play.
I too blame marketeers and lawyers for taking the fun out of the rock 'n roll business. Same goes for motion pictures btw.

[Sri Lanky]

Kids are too busy on the 'net plus it takes real work to become a musician and in this age of instant gratification it just doesn't jive,man. We have a couple of university stations here that play some good underground hip-hop and this is where the best artists are involved. Yes,hipitty-hopitty. It's those third-world conditions that are creating the best stuff and not only from American cities but from places like Havana and Lagos.

Where's Friendlyskies? I'm sure she would have some kind of interesting insight on Lady Caca.

...and thank God the Melvins are still in existence. Everything else is designed to extract money out of fourteen year-olds.

[Fenrisco]

"Little Fyodor" is unquestionably the least commercial musical act ever to crawl this benighted earth. As such, he is a miner's canary; as long as he continues to scratch some sort of meagre living from the fickle public's underbelly there is nothing to worry about.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=whIVkHR1rUI

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rvammw8LSh0

http://www.littlefyodor.com/

[Royal]

[michelle in alaska]

It was about the time that Britney came on the scene that the music really started to die...

leave britney alone.
she's an artist.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rMqayQ-U74s&has_verified=1

[SRR]

Megacorp muzak is all about ROI, ROE, IRR, and a few other three-and-four-letter acronyms you can google. So what? The good shit nowadays is all local and free, generally way more awesome, and staying far away from the major labels. That's kinda the problem - they're all doing amazing shit and doing it outside the Megacorp's rules, so it's harder to find. But it's out there.

[Mikethehack]

where did it all go wrong?

It all went wrong after people stopped paying attention to artists such as George Jones, Porter Wagoner, Loretta Lynn, Cliff Carlisle, Riley Puckett, Don Richardson, Fiddlin' John Carson, Al Hopkins, Ernest V. Stoneman, Charlie Poole and the North Carolina Ramblers, The Skillet Lickers, Ernest Tubb, Ted Daffan, Floyd Tillman, the Maddox Brothers and Rose, Lefty Frizzell, Hank Williams, Patsy Cline, Jim Reeves, Eddy Arnold, Tammy Wynette, Charlie Rich, Buck Owens, Merle Haggard, Tommy Collins, Dwight Yoakam, Wynn Stewart, Hank Williams, Jr, Willie Nelson, Waylon Jennings, David Allan Coe, Billy Joe Shaver, Gary Stewart and Townes Van Zandt.

[Sri Lanky]

SRR has got it right. The good stuff is all underground. I don't even bother caring what the artists and bands are called.

[lightstalker]

Too bad the kiddies these days will never get to see stuff like this