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Signs of the apocalypse...
Bastardous Bassist:
If you like swing, you should definitely listen to the LCJO (Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra), if you don't already. "Live in Swing City" is a recording they made actualy playing for dancers. And it's all stuff by the Duke.
--- Quote from: karl gambolputty... ---The only place you'll ever hear good songs in the mainstream media is in ads. For an entire generation, Iggy Pop is that guy who does that cruise-line ad.
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Um... Or Kubrick movies. Seriously. Bartok, Lygeti and more! I'm not counting Strauss, because that's late Romantic.
Also, another sign is when the most famous composer of contemporary concert music claims that classical music will die, but he still writes at least one major compsition every year. They're neither adventurous nor innovative, but he's making a killing, and it's basically bubble gum concert music. If you have no idea to whom I'm refering, it's John Adams (not the second president of the USA).
Misereatur:
We all know that modern pop is pure and utter shit. So why are we wasting our time talking about it, when we should just ignore it?
Bastardous Bassist:
Because the modern avant garde isn't faring much better!
Rizzo:
--- Quote from: Bastardous Bassist ---Because the modern avant garde isn't faring much better!
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And this is the essence of the truth.
I personally love NIN but I know for certain that Bauhaus should never be the support band. EVER. Bauhaus are headliners.
How about Hawthorne Heights? MTV's self proclaimed saviours of modern music.
To be completely honest, there hasn't been a mainstream CD released in the last year that I've truly enjoyed with the exception of With Teeth by NIN. Sad isn't it?
karl gambolputty...:
--- Quote from: Bastardous Bassist ---
--- Quote from: karl gambolputty... ---The only place you'll ever hear good songs in the mainstream media is in ads. For an entire generation, Iggy Pop is that guy who does that cruise-line ad.
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Um... Or Kubrick movies.
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Last time I checked, Stan's been dead for 7 years, and we're talking about modern music. But I definitely agree that some movies have pretty killer soundtracks.
--- Quote from: tommydski ---
anyone who claims to like 'indie rock' or whatever the hell we are calling the non-mainstream music of today and doesn't have everything on dischord records, touch and go records, sst, k records and kill rock stars and yet still complains that they don't have good music to listen to is a fool. check out these labels and come back in ten years when you've realised how great music can be.
done here.
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Every one of those labels were at their peak 10 (or even 20) years ago. Out of all of them, I would argue that only kill rock stars has any of the old piss & vinegar. Fuck, when was the last time sst released an album?
I'm not saying there is no good music. I'm not even saying there's no good new music. I'm saying that the good new music is completely swamped by the bad new music, and that you really have to work hard to be exposed to the good old music.
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