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Prog isn't even my favorite music.
I didn't write any of that.
'tis mine. Though Yes only has a few good songs.
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Yes have only a small number of good songs, but timewise they're enough to make up several albums.
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I love Yes.
I think that may have something to do with my inability to notice if a song drags on too long.
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I love most songs that people complain about going on too long. Seriously, I take the message of The Fall's "Repetition" very much to heart.
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I freakin' love disco. Though that may have something to do with my parents being clubbers in the era where disco reigned supreme.
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Not a disco fan per se, but some of it is decent. Using it as an acceptable musical target is rather overdone at this point.
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The hatred of disco that remains is mostly from those who were there to experience it firsthand. I have to admit, some of the hype got out of hand, especially with the songs from Saturday Night Fever, which were everywhere circa 1978-79.
Arguably that was what extended disco, which had kind of played itself out when songs like this
and this started cropping up.
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Okay, I grant you that it got very corny, but I love corniness still. Hell, for a while this piece of crap was one of my favorite songs, and I still love it.
Either way, I will fully admit that if I had to make a top ten list of my favorite songs, "Stayin' Alive" would probably be in there somewhere.
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And it would deserve to be there. Now with the passage of time, and the hype having died down people can examine the music rationally and realize what should have been obvious all along: there’s good disco and there’s bad disco. Frankly, I even prefer mediocre disco to most latter-day “assembled on a laptop” dance music.
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Hell, at least with disco they had the luxury of having a full orchestra on most of the tracks. Anytime an orchestra can be integrated into pop music, I get all warm and fuzzy inside. Which is probably why I love Electric Light Orchestra so much.
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It also was a source of inspiration for all sorts of highly progressive electronic and experimental music, so there's always that.
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Disco may be dead but i find it awesome sometimes.
Disco is only dead to those who were around for when its sentence was pronounced. Unless you haven't noticed, there have been several generations born since who are still discovering disco, (and ripping bits out of it as samples for their hip-hop stuff as well)
And there are those, like me, who would much rather listen to the Bee Gees or Grace Jones or stuff like that than anything that that Cowell creature has brought upon us.
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Who?
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Simon Cowell...
I've been seeing this "new is shit, old is great" phrase thrown around a lot here lately. Does anyone actually think this makes them special?
edited 23rd Mar '12 10:36:43 AM by Litis
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I tend to listen to more old stuff than new stuff, but that's because the sorta music I listen to was more prevalent in the past than it is now.
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I'd argue that it changes in style, but hardly ever in quality, with few exceptions.
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@Post 95: What a load of bullshit.
the music of my adolescence I could not give less of a fuck about...it was grunge, I hated it then and I hate it only slightly less now. * I liked (and still like) stuff that was made when I was barely alive or not yet born; blues rock, classic rock, that kind of stuff.
The music of my REAL adolescence? Goth Rock, made by bands who burned/lamed out before I'd passed ten.
Yeah, I know by today's standards I sound like the biggest hipster ever. But kiddies, there was a time when liking music that was hard to find was actually cool, because finding said weird-ass music took work beyond typing shit into Google. You had to go into strange clubs and risk getting punched and stuff.
Anyhow, that guy is full of shit. Some generation's pop music is better than others. My parents scored the awesome pop generation, the one after that was pretty okay, mine was MEH, and this current one sucks some serious ass (except for Lady Ga Ga...she sucks both pussy and dick yet seems to get by okay).
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I'm not sure whether I agree or disagree here, in that I agree with the sentiment that not all eras have great music (subjectively), but I also feel that hindsight is extremely significant. That said... our current era is at once a great one and a freaking awful one for popular music. Upside? The wealth of accessible archival material and distributed means of production ensure that not only can music be produced cheaply and easily by those with the drive, but that it is much easier to distribute music of quality. Downside? This also applies to bad music, and current pop producers being the lazy bastards they are, it is easy not just to overproduce an album, but to overproduce it badly. In that ever-contentious flowering of pop that was the early 1980s, while many new technologies were appearing every day, many of them easy to use, not all of them were cheap, and few were easy to use well. Hence, you had a tiny, dedicated elite of über-producers who not only had the money and time to accumulate and master equipment but also, whether you liked them or not, were really good at their jobs. Take Martin Rushent's production of The Human League's Dare: On the surface it's all hooks and gloss, but beneath the surface there is a positively obsessive amount of musical and textural detail. Everything is orchestrated to the note, every echo and bend calculated for maximum impact. It is, quite simply, pop machinery. Outside of certain auteurs—Kanye West is one—there are very few such people out there anymore—it's too damn easy just to coast.
I think Otto Dix (the Russian darkwave band) has got some serious Tainted By The Fanbase issues, not helped by the very Narm lyrics.
They're quite popular in the "beginner goths" circles, which is a sizable amount of people... but hated by both non-goths and by actual goths who think their lyrics are really STUPID. (and boy, do they have a point)
I'm not there for the lyrics, I'm just there for the GLORIOUS keyboards. Their synth player is also the main composer of the band, and while their songs sometimes do sound a bit "samey", I don't have the heart to accuse him of recycling riffs and musical ideas over and over, because what he recycles is just so damn genius. If only the lyrics were better...
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But "vocal minorities disliking our favorite music gonna dislike our favorite music" ain't all that catchy.
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