Zyrada

I've been seeing that article all over the place. Mostly spread around by people you'd expect to be gloating about this sort of thing. As much as "the true music lovers" hate to admit it, the homogenization of pop really does make sense from a business standpoint. The general public is going to expect consistency, not mind-bending innovation. That sameness in pop music exists because people want it.

Neapolitan

Well when people same nearly the same thing on a subject then to me yeah there must be some truth to it since there is nearly the same thing being said. I recall David Burns from the Talking Heards (he's no longer with them and is vehemently opposed to reforming or reuniting with his former band mates. Chris Frantz tried to email David Burns but the latter rejected the whole idea of reuniting with the Talking Heads) had a lecture where he explain how the enivorement affects music and probably how it is produce too. If modern music is louder or is made to appear to be louder at low level (which is hard for me to understand because I thought a decibel = a decibel) is because it is being tailored made in the recording process to the main audio device being used today which is the iPod. Since it is being heard through earbuds the music is tailored that listening experience David said music today is highly compressed and doesn't have dynamics like it once did when recorded music was being heard on a different audio equipment - a stereo system that played vynil LPs.

I always thought that, that is one quality I thought that seperates Pop music from underground music in the past like Prog from the 70s vs. or minimal wave of the early 80s. I thought the analogue Synth used were much more better sounding than digital Synth used in pop music. Now technology is catching up to and there are now hybrid analogue/digital synth now.

SRV (I know he doesn't get no respect round here) but he is a good example along with Dick Dale, both of them use the heaviest gauge string possible (and still be able play guitar) to get the best sound possible. Not to knock Heavy Metal but imo it wouldn't matter if they were playing on a fifty dollar pawn shop Silvertones or a ten thousand dollar Gibson Les Paul it would ound all the same with how the signal is heavily distorted by their distortion pedals.

I don't know I thought you would know where to start that's why I asked.

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OccultHawk

Here's some resources for good music from 2011

ihatemusic • View topic - Wire Magazine Records of the Year 2011 (Spoilers)


Staff Lists: The Top 50 Albums of 2011 | Features | Pitchfork


25 Essential Echoes CDs for 2011 « The Echoes Blog

Key

I generally choose not to go by lists that tell em what the best albums were, because than it just leads to disappointment when I realize that some of the albums I really like didn't make the list. It also takes the freedom away of enjoying what you want to enjoy. Lists like that just make it seem like you're trying to live up to something by listening to the albums on the list instead of listening to stuff you like.

Ravenheart

Easy, fella. Let's not bruise anyone's ego by using common sense.

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Last.fm

Janszoon

"9. LOU REED & METALLICA - LULU"

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A Night in the Life of the Invisible Man

Time & Place

25 Albums You Should Hear Before the Moon Crashes into the Earth and We All Die

last.fm

Ravenheart

iI AM THE TABLE

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Paedantic Basterd

You can't look at them as concrete though, more as a pool of suggestions to pick from.

Key

Well yeah. They are great for reference, definitely. It could just be me personally, but i've never really looked at a list and went "hey, I should check that album out". Not so much for the fact that I didn't want to, more for the fact that I just have too many other albums to pick up that it'd get a bit overwhelming. I always tend to look at lists in a concrete manner though, which could be my problem.

Zyrada

Whoops, sorry! I meant... oh yeah, no, the music industry is a total quagmire of industry profiteering and all label executives are Satan incarnate.