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Do you lads post on the appropriate music thread? There must be a 'Rock music died at the end of the 80's' thread, just as I reckon the classical music died out with the domination of atonality. Now we are just musical museum -visitors... And maybe, so are you.
Oh yeah, I'm a fossil. Doesn't bother me much. After all, as the bumper sticker says - I saw all the great rock bands!
On a serious note - there's a lot of things that trouble me about modern culture, but IMO, readily available music is one of the things that we got absolutely right. On my iPod you will find classic rock. You will also find american roots music, jazz, classical, celtic, world folk, and goddess knows what else. Often I'll scroll through just so I run into the stuff I forgot I had!
One of my favorite playlists pairs australian didgeridoo with tibetan dungchen. These kinds of horns may be the oldest kinds of non percussion instruments on the face of the planet. Very primal...
In 1978, I was 31. 97% of the really great rock music had already been done.
Blues of course went on being really great... But YMCA had nothing to do with that.
Yes but YMCA isn't rock music, it's pop.
Rock music is an entity of it's own. There are lots of other great genre's.
Every once in a while you get someone really great and unique coming forward.
I'm not exactly a spring chicken myself but I like to keep an open mind on this stuff.
Have you heard of Billie Eilish for example?
I think she's still only 18 but was homeschooled and her mother gave her free reign to just play around and make music from a very young age. Extremely talented young lady in my view.
In 1978, I was 31. 97% of the really great rock music had already been done.
Blues of course went on being really great... But YMCA had nothing to do with that.
I'm a little older than you, born in '51. An older cousin got me into Pop-Rock in the late 50s and early 60s - Elvis, Fats Domino, Carl Perkins. The 60s has to vie with the 70s as the greatest decade for rock. The Brit Invasion in the mid-60s revitalized the genre - ironically by introducing North America to some of its own music. The Yardbirds and Stones and Beatles et al charted with tunes written by American black bluesmen decades earlier.
Technological improvements - better instruments, sound systems, recording studios - really helped fuel the explosion of great music in the 70s.
The 80s had about 7 good songs.
The 90s and 00s picked things up some but mostly for roots music, as far as stuff I care for. Not a fan of hip hop, rap, death metal, urban synth etc.
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Reason: ETA: Math was never my strong suit. You're 4 years older. ;)
Oh yeah, I'm a fossil. Doesn't bother me much. After all, as the bumper sticker says - I saw all the great rock bands!
On a serious note - there's a lot of things that trouble me about modern culture, but IMO, readily available music is one of the things that we got absolutely right. On my iPod you will find classic rock. You will also find american roots music, jazz, classical, celtic, world folk, and goddess knows what else. Often I'll scroll through just so I run into the stuff I forgot I had!
One of my favorite playlists pairs australian didgeridoo with tibetan dungchen. These kinds of horns may be the oldest kinds of non percussion instruments on the face of the planet. Very primal...
That sounds good...but maybe one for the 'Chat about anything' thread.
God rest ye merry, atheists, let nothing you dismay;
Remember there's no evidence there was a Christmas Day;
When Christ was born is just not known, no matter what they say,
O, Tidings of reason and fact, reason and fact,
Glad tidings of reason and fact.
There was no star of Bethlehem, there was no angels' song;
There could have been no wise men for the trip would take too long.
The stories in the Bible are historically wrong,
O, Tidings of reason and fact, reason and fact,
Glad tidings of reason and fact!
Our current Christmas customs come from Persia and from Greece,
From solstice celebrations of the ancient Middle East.
We know our so-called holy day is just a pagan feast,
O, Tidings of reason and fact, reason and fact,
Glad tidings of reason and fact.
What happened to the picture upload icon and the web link icons?
the format is all screwed up lately
You've finally gone far enough to really P*** Off God Sam and he's shut the cartoon posting capability down...
I think I heard something from the heavens sounding like "If Sam's gonna mock me, he's gonna have to at least post something "home made" or original"....
Word is he won't lift the ban till it's done...
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And maybe, so are you. 
