Another 80's?

[ekahob]

I think the college kids are adventurous and on the forefront of what's happening in music just like my friends and I were back in the day. They have they time and the opportunities to find new music. I think that they are listening to so many different types of music that there isn't enough momentum to push any of the genres into national attention and become a movement.

[devildog]

[quote]Originally posted by ekahob
[br]I think the college kids are adventurous and on the forefront of what's happening in music just like my friends and I were back in the day. They have they time and the opportunities to find new music. I think that they are listening to so many different types of music that there isn't enough momentum to push any of the genres into national attention and become a movement.
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Yeah, you are right. I should not pigeon hole every college kid as being this way. However, it just makes me cringe when I see kids and older college kids trying to imitate Eminem's (or whatever rap thug's) mannerisms, dress, and speech. Or I hear on the news about girls having plastic surgery so they can look like Britney. How ridiculous is that?

[newwavr176209]

[quote]Originally posted by devildog
[br][quote]Originally posted by ekahob
[br]I think the college kids are adventurous and on the forefront of what's happening in music just like my friends and I were back in the day. They have they time and the opportunities to find new music. I think that they are listening to so many different types of music that there isn't enough momentum to push any of the genres into national attention and become a movement.
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Yeah, you are right. I should not pigeon hole every college kid as being this way. However, it just makes me cringe when I see kids and older college kids trying to imitate Eminem's (or whatever rap thug's) mannerisms, dress, and speech. Or I hear on the news about girls having plastic surgery so they can look like Britney. How ridiculous is that?
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Plastic surgery to look like Britney?? I thought it was bad enough when little girls were trying to dress like her. But something as permanent as plastic surgery?? Good grief. She isn't even that great looking anyway. [xx(]

[KYYX4ever]

no, i do not think so. even thought there is so much more "freedom" today, it doesn't translate into better music. today's music is crap, force-fed by the corporate schmucks at Clear Channel. In ABQ, as is the case in many other markets, it seems that CC runs/owns nearly all the stations.

you all had very salient points. i agree with all of your positions. the early 80's was the last of the really GOOD music, TRUE exploration and creativity and MUSICIANSHIP. sure, there was MTV and posturing and the "look", but today's music is all about the IDEA of being a musician, not making good music.

[phillyidol]

You caught my attention with the words clear channel. You know what they did with howard stern? Like him or hate him, he is a radio person and clear ch. took him off all their stations due to "PRESSURE" from the gvt.(their freinds)Not to go on a different thread but I also hate clear chan.!

[JohnPaulGeorgeRingo]

NO!!!


Keep your feet on the ground and keep reaching for the stars.

[getyourbootson]

I can’t say yes or no on if there will be another style that will “surpass” the 80’s/New Wave, but I definitely think it’s possible. Also, I do agree that it was the instruments and technology that made the 80’s music scene happen.

Now, if you think about it, there could be new instruments created in the future that will be completely different from anything we know. I know this is a kind of a lame example, but there is an instrument that you play by moving your hands to alter a certain frequency of sound. I’m sure you’ve all seen this in a movie or something. I’m not saying that that will be the instrument that will change the way music sounds, but maybe something just as different as that. We don’t know what it will be.

Think about it. In the fifties, did people actually think ahead and predict synthesizers? No. They had no clue. The same might be for us. It may take a little longer. Maybe it might even take a hundred years, but something different will come around eventually and change the face of music completely, and start a whole new genre. I just can’t say when that will be. It’s already been twenty years since the eighties, so I don’t really see anything happening like that soon, but I definitly think it will happen.

[geoffolehane]

It's good that someone dug out this thread from the archives. It's very interesting reading everyone's thoughts on the subject.

You had to be there to appreciate the impact 80's New Wave had on the culture and the music industry in general. Songs were fun to listen to and dance to again.

The problem with disco in the 70's is that you had to learn the dance moves if you wanted to fit in. And in general, disco wasn't very creative. A lot of it was centered around stupid lyrics and people belting out "Whoop...whoop...whoop."

In some respects I think the 60's psychedelic phase was incredibly important to the the future of rock. Until then people were still doing your basic three chord rock and roll songs. With psychedelic...it showed that rock music could be artistic and creative....not just a bunch of rhyming love songs.

I was still in diapers when 50's rock & roll was king. But my older friends who lived through that thought it was an important period too. Before that it was all big bands and crooners. The guitar was only a background instrument. Rock & Roll changed attitudes and music.

But I still prefer the 80's.