Fifty years from now, ....Audio?

Bob

I try almost daily to find that great "current" music of all genres you talk about, but so far haven't. My 24 year old step-daughter talks about it too. If you know where it is hiding please let me know. I am open to try it. I have over an hour and five miles every day to listen to it uninterrupted.
 
Bob

She keeps recommending artists and recordings so I download them. I listen to them intently for the hour and a half I am walking to make a judgment about whether to buy or not. In over 90% of the cases, I just delete it. An example is the newly released Ed Sheeran album. Highly rated on multiple sources. Downloaded and listened to. Verdict is rehashed Jason Mraz from years ago. Almost all of these new artists are rehashing the past and it can be done for next to nothing thanks to digital home recording studios.
 
NorthStar said:
I am sick of being stuck in the past; I need to get out and smell the freedom. :)
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Bob, what I enjoy is discovering new music, and that in fact can be a recording done a 100 years ago; so age doesn't come into it. The current music being recorded is a curate's egg, some of it is very interesting, but quite a bit is pretty disposable. On top, the recording techniques often require a system to be totally on their best behaviour, otherwise they're impossible to listen to, they highlight every shortcoming in the replay chain.

Modern Classical recordings is a bit of dead duck for me - they're overly obsessed with personalities at times it seems; and many of the recordings I've heard are done sloppily, they have fundamental flaws which irritate. Recent Blues are very good, and Avant Garde is usually very interesting, some highly creative people are around ...
 
Jack, we all have our developed music taste (genres) from our own personal musical journey, and from the emotional chords that are stricken with the biggest impact inside each one of us.

Me, I like Classical music; from Channel Classics, Reference Recordings, etc.
I like Jazz music from ECM, Concord Jazz, etc.
I like Blues music from APO, AudioQuest, etc.

And Andre (MrAcoustat), a member here; check out his New Age music selections; them too are part of my listening repertoire.

I also like International/World music, with its exotic beats and dancing trance enchantments.
Debbie (Wilson), she likes stuff that I like too; Modern, Avant Gardiste, with touches of sweet sounds from the underground and mixed with some tasteful electronic compositions.

You have underground and acid Jazz, traditional and progressive Blues, ...Cool Phive, ...

* Just start a thread about the New Today's Cool Music; you'll see, some cool music selections will start to appear; stuff you've never heard of before, and stuff you'll be real happy to discover, I guaranty it.
 
Bob

I am not a big classical person other than Cello music like Jacqueline Du Pre. As to the Jazz and Blues choices I am right with you. I worked in record stores for over 7 seven years in the 70's while I was in college and then even after I graduated and had a full time career I did shifts at Record Bar because I enjoyed the experience and got the 25% employee discount. I am open to any new music as long as it is in fact "new", the artist has actual talent and it is well produced and recorded. I find unfortunately that in most cases two out of three don't apply. Just my opinion and yours and others may differ.
 
Frank, if you like new Jazz music, ECM is always on the cutting edge of new artists.

Blues, is more slow I find in general; it is missing new creativity. ...It's more like back to memory lane, if you know what I mean.

Classical, too bad that you're still not into it; it is the Grand Master Daddy of all Music.

Do you like Flamenco, European New Age, Brazilian, Cuban, African, ...music? ...Me I love them all. ...Great for the summer nights and winter days.
 
It's my thread, and everything is just fine Mike. :) ...If Music is part of the discussion, then it is always on topic with Audio; today, yesterday, and tomorrow, and fifty years from now. This thread is universal, without beginning and end; infinity and beyond. ...General Audio Discussion

Take it, or leave it. :D
 
Mike

Other than not knowing who "Frank" is I don't know about "off the rails." Bob blues are always supposed to be about the same thing. Country music is the same way. All good Blues and Country songs are almost always about the same things. Chasing it, getting it and then losing it. "My Baby" is always a part of it!
 
Ok....carry on.....I was reading lots about musical likes and dislikes - which is great....but not much about what will happen in 50 years from now....but carry on.


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Jack said:
Bob

I am not a big classical person other than Cello music like Jacqueline Du Pre. As to the Jazz and Blues choices I am right with you. I worked in record stores for over 7 seven years in the 70's while I was in college and then even after I graduated and had a full time career I did shifts at Record Bar because I enjoyed the experience and got the 25% employee discount. I am open to any new music as long as it is in fact "new", the artist has actual talent and it is well produced and recorded. I find unfortunately that in most cases two out of three don't apply. Just my opinion and yours and others may differ.
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My first LPs ever were Classical music from all the great composers; all of them.
At college (I graduated from ART school) my main interest was Jazz, International, and Rock.

In the streets, at the bars, strip joints; BLUES.

That's my life musically, and now @ home it's EVERYTHING; all of the above included plus a whole lot more. I am lost in an ocean of great music.
The car I drove, the woman I share life with, the home where I live, the sound system that plays my music I love, everything is my life and I cannot recommend the same things in my life to others because everyone has his own life where he/she is comfortable in his/her own zone of equilibrium.

I can simply share my love, and express my opinion.

Ok, I'll start a NEW MUSIC thread eventually, but before that I have other great ideas that are coming real soon.
All related to the Beauty, the Arts, the Visuals, the Sounds, the Music...

Jack, let me asking you this: Name me five music selections that you truly adore (sweet music to your deep soul); only five.
 
Jack said:
Mike

Other than not knowing who "Frank" is I don't know about "off the rails." Bob blues are always supposed to be about the same thing. Country music is the same way. All good Blues and Country songs are almost always about the same things. Chasing it, getting it and then losing it. "My Baby" is always a part of it!
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...Or my horse.
 
NorthStar said:
Forget the past Frank; Led Zeppelin, AC/DC, etc., and concentrate on today's great music and well recorded; Classical, Jazz, Blues, World/International, New Age/Avant Garde, etc.

If we have to keep rearranging and remastering yesterday's music (The Beatles) over and over and over, then there is something very wrong in this world.

We live in the high resolution audio age, and with tones of great music from all genres; let's evolve with our times, and envision tomorrow with the very best of our intentions and from today's actions and lessons learned.

I am sick of being stuck in the past; I need to get out and smell the freedom. :)
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Unfortunately, lots of music is a direct reflection of the times and right now this world is in a very negative place and not getting any better. For the most part, music is worse also. Todays main stream music and female lip syncers who could not write the words to the songs they sing just plain suck. There is still some good Fusion, Jazz-Rock-Fusion happening today, but I much prefer to listen to Zep, Allman Bros, Uriah Heap, older Journey, Ozzie and the likes than any of the rock bands of today like the Chilli Peppers where every song sounds just like the last one.

I will stay stuck in the past until bands start playing music and learning how to sing and not scream or growl and when the words to songs start being more positive and tell a story. Yep, think Foxtrot or Trick of the Tail. Show me an album from the 80s to today that can beat that type of playing, song writing, and emotion.
 
Bob, I have no problem with Classical, it's just the latest recordings that I'm finding a turn off - because they're not as well done as those originating from, say, prior to 20 years ago. That said, I've heard quite a few recent BBC Music issues lately, and they're fine - I might just be having bad luck with some of the others recently tried: things like, inconsistency of tonal quality from one track to the next.

Frank
 
Shadowfax said:
Unfortunately, lots of music is a direct reflection of the times and right now this world is in a very negative place and not getting any better. For the most part, music is worse also. Todays main stream music and female lip syncers who could not write the words to the songs they sing just plain suck. There is still some good Fusion, Jazz-Rock-Fusion happening today, but I much prefer to listen to Zep, Allman Bros, Uriah Heap, older Journey, Ozzie and the likes than any of the rock bands of today like the Chilli Peppers where every song sounds just like the last one.

I will stay stuck in the past until bands start playing music and learning how to sing and not scream or growl and when the words to songs start being more positive and tell a story. Yep, think Foxtrot or Trick of the Tail. Show me an album from the 80s to today that can beat that type of playing, song writing, and emotion.
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That's pretty close to my music taste these days. Old classical rock, blues some Yo-Yo Ma, Bluegrass instrumentals plus at my old age I happen to enjoy smooth jazz.
 
CPP said:
That's pretty close to my music taste these days. Old classical rock, blues some Yo-Yo Ma, Bluegrass instrumentals plus at my old age I happen to enjoy smooth jazz.
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I have been working my way thru my old Smooth Jazz library and some of the GRP label disks are recorded so much better than today's disks. I like lots of music without vocals unless the vocals represent another instrument like old Collins, Greg Lake and the likes where there was emotion and conviction in what they did. Anyone can scream words to a 3 chord progression that's been done a million times.
 
Shadowfax said:
I have been working my way thru my old Smooth Jazz library and some of the GRP label disks are recorded so much better than today's disks. I like lots of music without vocals unless the vocals represent another instrument like old Collins, Greg Lake and the likes where there was emotion and conviction in what they did. Anyone can scream words to a 3 chord progression that's been done a million times.
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So much crap out there today our kids are listening to, but come to think of it, our parents said the same thing about our music. " I remember, turn that crap down (I was playing John Mayall and the BlueBreakers)

My GRP fav's , Lee Ritenour Earth Run , The Rippingtons, Acoustic Alchemy, Brecker Brothers and others

If you like piano give this lady a try, Keiko Matsui
 
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