Originally posted by Thecakeisalie


Basically all I heard was the sound of a dozen fax machines vomiting to the beat of a drum machine.

Brilliant! This made my day.
As a fellow guitarist, (I play bass) I could not agree more with your thread. The day the music died? The day they invented auto tune! Kill me now......

The main thing that happened to music is that you no longer need to be able to sing a note, develop the skill to play an instrument, impress a record company or have any talent to speak of whatsoever in order to have your computer-generated creations reach millions and become successful. Any checks and balances that existed to help the good rise to the top and the bad sink to the bottom are gone. It's a tsunami of sound and your chance of finding a truly inspired, brilliant spot of talent in it is now as unlikely and rare as stumbling across an exposed pearl washed up on the shore.

Audiences now fill arenas to watch individuals stand on stage and play mp3s off their Macbook Pros. Remember when you used to sit in your room and work your stereo, placing records on the player, selecting the proper input and adjusting the volume? Now that activity is what makes you a rock star. You should have kept with it! The furry-booted beauties in their fluffy cat-ear hats could be bouncing in front of your record player instead of someone else's!

I know different generations always disagree about music, but todays stuff has no creativity.
And Skrillex is just horrible. In fact, I am amazed how these "DJ's" are considered so talented.

I also think music decline is bad as well,some of it may be age.There seems like no real good new artist or new kind of music being made.Country music has also been ruined which is what I listen to mostly.
There is no new types of music coming out much either.
I like older music that I never grew up with and heard when I was young.Just more evidence of some kind of decline going on.

The energy you get from Electronic Dance Music or Dubstep concerts is just PHENOMENAL. I've been to Deadmau5, Skrillex, Porter Robinson, Pretty Lights, Skrillex and Deadmau5 again, KOAN Sound, M Machine, Diplo, and many many more. But I have also been to John Mayer, Kings of Leon, Underoath, and a bunch of other rock/indie concerts and nothing compares to the energy at an EDM/Dubstep concert. Two of the concerts were 100,000 WATT Sound system and let me tell you, I was spiritually and physically moved. The music takes over and I can just be me and dance my problems away.

So what if it's just a compilation of sounds? Is that not what all music is? Lyrics are not always needed. A beat, bassline, suspense, and a drop is components of all music is it not? The connection you get between the people and the artists just through music is really a beautiful thing for someone to experience. You can feel the bass move your every molecule and it is just an experience everybody should have. The fact that these artists can get people to move, dance, be happy, and get goosebumps over their music is incredible. They deserve all the credit they can get because I don't see everybody doing it if it's just as easy as "pressing buttons on their laptops."

I know when I was a kid and played a lot of Rolling Stones I and forced my parents out to go fishing cause we had a band

I remember their music ( I was about 10). I look back at their music - Glen Miller, Montovani and it keeps me grounded.

Because though I love good rock music, I think beautiful music that is like Theme From a Summer Place etc will never be played on major radio stations which I think is the biggest sin that current radio has manage to wipe out.
Probably most of ATS don't have a clue on how good that music was. But again, real beautiful music that doesn't even have to have a bouncy beat to truly make it great.

That is why I thought Gordon Lightfoot was so special, with hits like "The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald" or IF You Could Read My Mind". Tou don't always need drums to make a hit record.

It truly sad how every radio station has to have drums for everything thing they play. When you pick chocolates, you don't always have to have the same thing all the time. When you eat food it doesn't always have to be the same dinner year after year - percussion - is fine but RADIO STATIONS should have a soul a SOULD FOR VARIATION! Come on radio stations wake up and listen to some of us nobodies that have something to offer has well.

But I do have to credit places like Blue Bird Cafe in Nashville for letting a lot of good musicians get heard. There needs to be more places like that. It is always crowed, elbow to elbow and is not ruined by the glamor of country and pop music.

Anyone saying dubstep is not Main Stream is out of touch with the main stream.


Heard any comercials lately? they ALL have dubstep tracks