Questions about music

**Janszoon** · 07-24-2016, 08:46 AM

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Originally Posted by Neapolitan

Q: Why is mainstream music considered (by some) worse than underground music?

A: Because it has less variety and often got popular by appealing to the lowest common denominator.

Q: Where do you personally draw the line between modern and pre-modern music and why?

**Frownland** · 07-24-2016, 08:58 AM

That's not really a term I use tbh. What first comes to mind is pre WWII music simply because of modern classical exploding after the war. I guess another good answer would be pre Internet music/music from before the time when computers were ubiquitous because that has really really changed things.

Which country's traditional folk music doesn't get enough recognition.

JGuy Grungeman · 07-24-2016, 09:30 AM

Israeli folk. Pretty much the same reasons other great musicians don't get recognized.

Do you think film score composers such as Jerry Goldsmith and John Williams are as essential to classical music as classical composers like Mozart or Stravinsky?

Blank. · 08-07-2016, 10:43 PM

To the history of film score they are. But to music itself? It's questionable. Like how much did they influence modern music? Can they're influence still be felt?

Rob Zombie said this, "In the '90s, when the grunge rock thing hit, with NIRVANA and all that, everybody thought it was cool to be anti-rock star. But in a way they sort of anti-rock starred themselves right out the door, because the rap guys came in and they said, '**** it. We'll be the rock stars then, if you guys are going to wear flannel shirts and stare at your feet.' And in the U.S., truthfully, rock music has never recovered from that. A whole generation of kids thought, '**** this! Rock music is boring. Let's go listen to rap music.' And it's never recovered. I mean, over [in the U.K.] it's different. You could never throw a festival like [Download] in the U.S. and get this many people, with just rock music. Never" Do you agree with this statement?

Tristan_Geoff · 08-07-2016, 11:17 PM

I agree but it isn't necessarily a bad thing. Rock certainly had it's time in the mainstream and a lot if it was not so good anyways.

Why do you think people are scared (for lack of better word) away from certain types of music or artists? Example: Old people from metal or hipsters from Top 40.

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Frownland SOPHIE FOREVER Join Date: Aug 2011 Location: East of the Southern North American West Posts: 35,548	That's not really a term I use tbh. What first comes to mind is pre WWII music simply because of modern classical exploding after the war. I guess another good answer would be pre Internet music/music from before the time when computers were ubiquitous because that has really really changed things. Which country's traditional folk music doesn't get enough recognition. __________________ Studies show that when a given norm is changed in the face of the unchanging, the remaining contradictions will parallel the truth. d e a f b o x

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JGuy Grungeman Primo Celebate Sexiness Join Date: Apr 2014 Posts: 2,662	Israeli folk. Pretty much the same reasons other great musicians don't get recognized. Do you think film score composers such as Jerry Goldsmith and John Williams are as essential to classical music as classical composers like Mozart or Stravinsky? __________________ I'm a pretty nice troll if you ask me.

08-07-2016, 10:43 PM	#14 (permalink)
Blank. Jacob Sartorius Join Date: May 2016 Location: Dank memes Posts: 4,034	To the history of film score they are. But to music itself? It's questionable. Like how much did they influence modern music? Can they're influence still be felt? Rob Zombie said this, "In the '90s, when the grunge rock thing hit, with NIRVANA and all that, everybody thought it was cool to be anti-rock star. But in a way they sort of anti-rock starred themselves right out the door, because the rap guys came in and they said, '** it. We'll be the rock stars then, if you guys are going to wear flannel shirts and stare at your feet.' And in the U.S., truthfully, rock music has never recovered from that. A whole generation of kids thought, '** this! Rock music is boring. Let's go listen to rap music.' And it's never recovered. I mean, over [in the U.K.] it's different. You could never throw a festival like [Download] in the U.S. and get this many people, with just rock music. Never" Do you agree with this statement?