Confessions

[Orphic]

I think my dad is ****ing with me.

He told me to move ~200 pounds of wood from our living room to the patio. Later he told me to move that to the side of the house. Now he tells me he wants the wood back in the living room.

-_-

[Soroboru]

Maybe it's hearing a ton of annoying choir kids singing their songs or maybe it's the over hype about Freddie Mercury, but they've never really appealed to me too much. They're good but I could never take anyone seriously who said they're their FAVORITE band or that they enjoy every song by them, they just haven't branched out enough it would seem.
We have a lot of great music these days too. I hate when people only look at what's on the radio or what the hipsters are listening to when it comes to modern music, there is much more than that.
There were thousands of bands that got forgotten over the years.
I just read a Rolling Stone magazine that put Jay-Z on the top of live performances and said he'd go down as the next Beatles or whatnot, and I believe it. It's just popular, and that's what the music is. The Beatles are good but just because they knew how to make trillions of radio #1 hits doesn't mean they're amazing musicians.
There were better and worse bands in that time and there are better and worse bands now.

[Gabrantus]

this is bait

Yes. No one can say that seriously.

[Orphic]

Maybe it's hearing a ton of annoying choir kids singing their songs or maybe it's the over hype about Freddie Mercury, but they've never really appealed to me too much. They're good but I could never take anyone seriously who said they're their FAVORITE band or that they enjoy every song by them, they just haven't branched out enough it would seem.
We have a lot of great music these days too. I hate when people only look at what's on the radio or what the hipsters are listening to when it comes to modern music, there is much more than that.
There were thousands of bands that got forgotten over the years.
I just read a Rolling Stone magazine that put Jay-Z on the top of live performances and said he'd go down as the next Beatles or whatnot, and I believe it. It's just popular, and that's what the music is. The Beatles are good but just because they knew how to make trillions of radio #1 hits doesn't mean they're amazing musicians.
There were better and worse bands in that time and there are better and worse bands now.

Who are you to say they aren't lol?

[Gabrantus]

Who are you to say they aren't lol?

Don't bite, baka!

Quality of music is subjective.

[Orphic]

Don't bite, baka!

Quality of music is subjective.

I can't help but bite.

I know it is.

I'm just irritable after my dad's wood-moving fun time.

[Soroboru]

I think most teens just like 2-3 songs and then stand by them religiously to mask their 'bad' taste which they shouldn't even be ashamed of.
You ask most any person that's all "Freddie Mercury<33333" what songs they like and they'll just spit out Bohemian Rhapsody, One Vision, Bicycle Race, Don't Stop Me Now, maybe the occasional Brighton Rock.
It's the same with most 80's music. We all know most of it's overly synthesized and painful to listen to, but people think it makes them look like distinguished partygoers if they listen to that instead of Deadmau5 or something.
Human ears adapt and evolve... I love bands like Yes, Heart, King Crimson, Gentle Giant, Wishbone Ash, Boston, etc, then the old metal like Testament, Iron Maiden, and Judas Priest too, several plenty songs by them, but that's like being one of the hipsters to only appreciate classical music. Yeah it's all very fancy but it's systematic and had little freedom until the end, near Beethoven and the more serial/20th century, it evolved to that, and then it became more personal with lyrics and inflections on vocals.
That seems great, people's parents listen to it and they feel if they listen to that they won't look like a moron stereotypical kid with bad music taste. But bands keep trying and they've tried to evolve further and expand on music, whether it's your post-hardcore which is mixing your generic metal with some more emotion to really bring out the power in the instruments which was only being used to be like YAH \m/ ROCK ON YO
80's synth junk evolved into more electronic music which is nearly endless, and prog like Yes and Pink Floyd started mixing with metal and bringing us bands like Dream Theater and Fates Warning.
You start getting punk like The Clash and Dead Kennedies going further into what would start stemming out Grunge which gave us alternative, it just keeps going and people are making more and more unique music, there are so many genres now that most bands won't go about saying 'oh I'm this genre' like they used to, they're making more and more their own sound, and it really bothers me when people refuse to listen to it and just call it trash because it's not all 'sophisticated' or some junk. I mean branch out ffs.
There ARE horrible bands now but there were back then too, that's why you don't hear them anymore.


I'm not saying Queen is bad or not deserving up being up there with the Beatles today but I think a lot of people like them for the wrong reason. Not saying that in some sort of contrarian way or hipster, like I just need to dislike it because it's popular, but I went through a queen phase too, probably would have given them the same credit lots of people do, but you kind of realize it wasn't incredible, it was real good though, but not like medal-worthy.

[Mahati]

I only like 1 single song of Freddie Mercury.

[Illlllll]

Who wants to live forever is what got me listening to foremost Freddie's songs. Queen as a quartet/band was epic, or so I've been told. I'm not all snowed in on them, just mentioned them as an example. Other great bands like Erasure, Alphaville, Orchestral Maneuvers in the dark, ELO, Yazoo etc. are also reasons I wished to have been born earlier. Though O.M.D still performs and does so very good (seen em 3 times).

I bet there is good (and I do like some) new music. But since I'm an all-eater when it comes to music a lot of the new stuff is ruined for me by the fact I recognize parts of lyrics or tunes from 60'-70's and 80's songs I thoroughly enjoy and find already perfect.

Below is an example of a song who in my opinion has been slaughtered royally by rapping pricks, techno muppets and hardstyle jerkoffs.

[YT]OJdRw6VCWyA[/YT]

[Soroboru]

That's why I just ignore sampled music. It's awful when big songs get big with the entire instrumental portion sampled out of another song. I mean there's a little merit in including them if the songs had personal connection, it's a little creative, but most of the time it's not, it's just 'whoa thumpin beat, hey homes, talk them up, gimme rights to that sample dawg, that's sick"

Even Yes isn't my favorite, I love all of the album Fragile but not all their music appeals to me, and they're great instrumentally, vocally, and lyrically but they still can lack some feeling that for example Pink Floyd would have.
I don't think I could ever deem one time a golden age for music, except always maybe. There's always some new thing going on which is interesting, and people aren't just going to stop being human, there's always going to be really deep meaningful music from any decade, and you can't take away from that by saying another decade was 'better'. idk I like all years of music. The only kiiind of music I don't really like is rap, and even the 'non mainstream' which is apparently all mature doesn't really get to me. Which is kind of funny because drums are my favorite instrument I think sometimes, beat, dynamics, and rhythm are great and can be so expressive, and even though drums and strings and stuff are their main instrument it just isn't original, it sounds half assed like a Roger Water's solo album filled with 40 10 second sounds.
I like hip hop though.

[Lawl]

Maybe it's hearing a ton of annoying choir kids singing their songs or maybe it's the over hype about Freddie Mercury, but they've never really appealed to me too much. They're good but I could never take anyone seriously who said they're their FAVORITE band or that they enjoy every song by them, they just haven't branched out enough it would seem.
We have a lot of great music these days too. I hate when people only look at what's on the radio or what the hipsters are listening to when it comes to modern music, there is much more than that.
There were thousands of bands that got forgotten over the years.
I just read a Rolling Stone magazine that put Jay-Z on the top of live performances and said he'd go down as the next Beatles or whatnot, and I believe it. It's just popular, and that's what the music is. The Beatles are good but just because they knew how to make trillions of radio #1 hits doesn't mean they're amazing musicians.
There were better and worse bands in that time and there are better and worse bands now.

I can agree with this. Also, the big reason why The Beatles are so popular is mainly because they were inspirational. I'm sorry but they were just decent musicians. They weren't gods at their instruments and they didn't write the most complex or most beautiful music. At least in my opinion.

But they were incredibly inspirational.

I'm also exhausted and I haven't read the other stuff you've posted Soro but I'll get to it (if I have to/want to c: ).

[Antalar]

the forums seems dead, or everyone are at midnight watching the moon falling.....

[Mahati]

I'm here, but if no one says anything, then I got nothing new to talk about.

[Lawl]

Morning errybudy c:

[Grymninja]

Morning errybudy c:

Good night, sunshine.