The Best Era Ever for New Music is... Right Now.

Well I for one am looking forward to the new doors reissues. Not this years ones or the year after that, but the following years.

 

I like a lot of new music, but I agree about Parquet Courts. They're just bad.

 

It's an informed opinion and I'm at least proud of that. I'm not discussing something I know nothing about.
To each their own, but the last 15 years at least has found Rock music in general in a limp and lame state and no one can prove me wrong it seems.

 

yes, no one can prove you wrong. you are so awesome.

 

It's an opinion. Nothing more. Nobody is going to prove you wrong because you've made up your mind.

 

You know....you're right. I wanna be just like you.

 

What I mean is that every time someone gives me an example of some 'new' music by a young artist or band to check out, I'm disappointed in it.
I'm done believing the next Kurt Cobain is going to come along. He's had enough time to show himself and he hasn't yet.
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Jack White is the last true rock hero IMO.
He's 39.

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This forum is a funny place. One is encouraged to give their opinion and discuss it and when you do you get slammed for it. You can't win in these threads about new music.

 

I value my time so I think the amount of time I invest in searching for new music. I think it's just as valid as the amount of leg work I did in the past. Although I never did a 1500 mile road trip looking for music. 50 yes, 1500 no. Most weeks, I spend 20 - 30 hours checking out music, some old, but most new. That's easily as much time as I ever spent searching for music and a lot more productive. Every time I go to a thrift store, I go through the CDs and if my wife is not with me, the LPs.

You are probably a few years older than me since I was 12 when Honky Chateau came out and not really that aware of music. By the time I really got in to music, in the late 70s, I to hated commercialism and still do. I've always wanted complete control over what I listened to because 1) I didn't like what was played on the radio and 2) I generally didn't like much of the punk/post-punk/new wave that my friends loved. I still want to control what I listen to. I'd say the vast majority of the people on this forum do.

I really hate filler on albums and few or none of the albums I buy have it. A lot of what I listen to has been pared down to make an album Dawn of Midi pared down 150 recordings to produce their album.

I'm not a musician, but I can understand why some would consider the time spent mixing, mastering, editing, etc, a big part of the creative process. Quite a few musicians in the past did it, Zappa, Yes, Hendrix. As for promotion, I'm pretty sure even the biggest artists had to do a lot of self promotion before they got big. I'm sure a lot of them hated it because it's a whole different type of creativity. I got to imagine some bands got sick of playing the same songs over and over and over again on tour, which for the most bands were to promote album sales.

I personally don't have the same hits on replay and I'm pretty sure

Without doing other stuff, next to none, the same as in the 70s, 80s and 90s. I've rarely sat down and listened to music without doing something else. Although I did last night with the Dawn of Midi album. I pulled it up on Soundcloud looking for a link to when I was in the middle of writing a post and the post wasn't finished for 45 minutes. But that's been the exception for me for 40 years. Concerts are really just about the only time.

You never were so excited about a new musical discovery that you didn't try to turn your friends on to it. I'm glad people did it for me when I was first being exposed to a wide variety of music and I've been returning the favor since the early 80s. I lend out at least one CD a week at work. Some are the SW remasters that a couple of people are really interested in, but most are new discoveries

 

just because you don't like it doesn't mean it's not good. i'm starting to think the opposite, actually.

and why do we need another kurt cobain anyway? we already had one! if the "next cobain" came along you'd just say he was derivative.

 

I tend to agree, but I thought the same thing in the 90s when Kurt Cobain was around. There's more to music than rock. I've been a fan of only a little bit of rock past the mid 70s.

Edit: very strange how the quote changed the format of your post.

 

Not slamming you at all. You have an opinion that isn't likely to be swayed. Even though I disagree I'm not trying to change your mind.

 

yeah, except you also like to point out that you're smarter than everybody else because of your "years of experience" or whatever. and, of course, the fact that NO ONE CAN PROVE YOU WRONG.

 

No one can prove you wrong because it's subjective. That's what people can't seem to understand around here. "My opinion/personal reality = fact in the real world" constantly at this forum.

 

Or "too different" and "not musical" enough or something.

 

Sorry, but you have misunderstood my post. I should have been more clear in stating "It was very late/early in the morning when I wrote that post," referring to the reply to Mr DeVoe. I wasn't suggesting that you didn't do the same thing as the rest of us music freaks do...

We are the same age to the year. Like you, punk/new wave didn't do a lot for me. I pursued jazz and folk when MTV took over music.

Good for Midi, I'm not really into that kind of music, at least what I've heard, Dysnomia. I dig smooth jazz, but avant-garde I have to be in the mood for or it can get a little nerve wracking...

I would say some musicians participated in mixing & mastering, but I rarely see them credited with it on albums...

Again I was not saying that you listened to radio hits, but that's what radio stations started dishing out when DJ's became extinct. [This is a joke, I'm just suggesting that DJ's are not as prevalent as they once were...]

 

Of all the frequently expressed opinions hereabouts, I think I find this one the most puzzling. How much time do y'all think we spend finding these new bands? Because I assure you, it doesn't take me any longer to find a new record to buy, or to listen to, than it did when I first started buying records as a little kid in the 70s.

In fact, to my mind, the absolute best part of the vinyl revival is that it means many bands have gone back to making good, concise 36-minute records again.

 

This forum is relatively tame on that point, I can assure you.

Spend some time in the stereogum forums and be amazed at all the "scene-sters" debating which record is "album of the year". Every new release by every hyped artist is AOTY until the next supplants it.

 

I got pretty heavily into world music in the 80s. I also find a lot of avant-garde stuff soothing and just puts a smile on my face. Not all of it, but enough.

 

Since when was it the norm for people to just sit and listen in a darkened room with candles lit and total fixation on their stereo lights?

 

No way, they aren't even a 1 star band.

 

It's a listening session mate, not a coven meeting.

 

It wasn't always a darkened room, but we did it a lot in the 70's... Too bad things like responsibility and hunger got in the way...

 

Did you ever read liner notes and examine the album art while listening? Because that's doing "other stuff" too.

 

True, but it wasn't watching TV, gaming, texting, etc, that impedes or divides your attention. Don't get me wrong I jam all the time while killing orcs with a baseball game on in the background and an occasional text coming through, but I'm also not devoting my attention to the music. However, I did spend last Friday night rattling the windows in 5.1. Wish I had more of those days and nights!