What makes me happy - That some young people know pop music is shit.

[Rabrrrrrr]

And know that the entire music industry is corrupt and offering the world nothing but empty, vacuous, braindead shlock.

What makes me happy is that not every young person, or even older person, in this country is a fucking moron when it comes to "consuming" "music product", but that there are at least few who are protecting human development and evolution, and protecting what is good about the human spirit by refusing to dumb themselves down to ingesting American Idol level of "musical product".

I think especially of primate1, though I know there are others here on DU who also fit the bill.

To all of you young people who haven't bought into the bullshit, and still demand TALENT and MUSICIANSHIP and CREATIVITY from your music, and for your refusal to accept "musical product", and your refusal to "consume" music like it's some kind of fucking commodity, I salute you!

:patriot:

:yourock:

I might give Billy Joel a lot of shit, but I do have to give him credit for not using pitch shifters and other modifications to his music. He sucks, but at least he's real. Hell, even Kinkade still actually paints all his paintings, and doesn't just write a little algorithm and let the computer spit "art" out by formula, like the recording industry does.

We need something like the USDA labeling system, like "Prime" for music done by actual musicians who actually perform it, and "processed music" for shit like, well, I don't know, there have to be musicains at this level - maybe this is where Michael Bolton is at - and then "processed music product" for shit like what American Idol winners make, or Brittney, N'Sync, Tiffany, etc.

I think it's only fair - consumers have the right to know whether they're getting real music, or just "processed music product", just like they have a right to know whether they are getting "cheese" or "processed cheese" or "processed cheese food".

[QMPMom]

1. My son is one of the young people you'd like.

Look in his CD case and you will find the following:

The Rolling Stones (1960's releases only)
Frank Sinatra
Roy Orbison
The Righteous Brothers
Queen
The Who
The Forest Gump Soundtrack

And lots more that I can't remember, but none of it is anything his father and I don't like to listen to as well.

We knew we'd done a good job when he came to the living room and asked if we would buy him some 1960's Stones CDs.

[sakabatou]

2. I know that pop is shit

But some songs help me calm down.

[amitten]

3. Well jes' lookie here...

http://www.myfoxaustin.com/myfox/pages/Entertainment/Detail?contentId=2030921&version=1&locale=EN-US&layoutCode=VSTY&pageId=7.3.1

Click on the link above. A local band here in Austin doing a very nice anti-war/anti-Bush song. The lyrics are great...

[mark414]

4. there's a lot of us....

:thumbsup:

[Redstone]

5. Yes, I agree. And I STILL don't have an iPod.

Nor an ITunes account, or any of that other bullshit.

Redstone

[crim son]

6. You are not forced to download garbage on your iTunes or iPod.

I had no interest in having one of them newfangled things until my son saved his money for half a year and bought a shuffle. I tried it twice and I was totally hooked. AND I do not have a flatscreen t.v. or a nifty car or any other technologically nifty stuff. But I love music and the iPod is a reasonable way to carry it around with you.

[smtpgirl]

7. So is electronica in this genre?

Kraftwerk
Brian Eno
Mike Oldfield
Klaus Schulze
Visage
Human League
OMD
Art of Noise
Depeche Mode
New Order

Alot of this music was very cool, I still love Depeche Mode

I like all kinds of music, but basically what I like now is not played on the radio.

Yesterday & Today Records has some cool vinyl


http://www.yesterdayandtodayrecords.com/

Too bad they closed their bricks & mortar store in 2002, I loved that place