[Vision2020] The times they are a changin'....and Dylan don't likeit

[Dick Sherwin]

I regret to say I agree with Bob Dylan, at least for the most part.  

Today's musicians are like foreign car styles, unless you can read the name on the label you can't tell one from the other.  Music has degenerated into punk rock bands, who can all play each other's music and no one can tell the difference, to even worse... rap crap.  (I still refuse to call it music.)

There are still a few good county and western artists out there, and, even a few good country rock artists.  Of course, classical has not changed, except for the medium it is delivered on.  Rock and roll, for the most part, does not even exist any longer.  It has mostly turned into a group of idiots who only sing political protest verses that, by elimination, only appeal to no more than 50% of the listening audience.  Even to those to whom it has appeal, the lyrics are not enjoyable or worth listening too.  They emphasize politics far more than they strive to be musically creative.

I have a tin ear when it comes to background noise and wow, flutter and all that other stuff, so the medium the music is delivered through does not affect me as much as the content (or lack thereof) of modern day verse. 

Of course, this is just my opinion.  I suppose a lot of people like to listen to so-called-artists scream out political protest lines in the name of music, or talk about hoes, cop killing, racial degradation, murder and other crimes to the savage beat of some pagan culture from a third world nation.  

Everyone to their own taste, I suppose.  Personally, I refuse to let political correctness dictate my artistic tastes and preferences.  If this is the only music left to listen too I say, turn up the wow and flutter and add a few scratches here and there, who would know the difference?  It may even be an imporvment.

Dick S.

  


  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Tim Lohrmann 
  To: vision2020 at moscow.com 
  Cc: aerial at uidaho.edu 
  Sent: Tuesday, August 22, 2006 9:17 AM
  Subject: [Vision2020] The times they are a changin'....and Dylan don't likeit


  It just ain't like it was back in the good ole days.
  Gee, and I bet ole Bob had to walk 10 miles to the recording studio too....uphill both ways.....in the snow....barefoot!


       
       
         Bob Dylan says modern music is worthless 
        Tue Aug 22, 2006 11:22 AM ET


        LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Bob Dylan says modern recordings sound "atrocious," and even the songs on his new album sounded much better in the studio than on disc.

        "I don't know anybody who's made a record that sounds decent in the past twenty years, really," the 65-year-old rocker said in an interview with Rolling Stone magazine.
        Dylan, who released eight studio albums in that time, returns with his first recording in five years, "Modern Times," next Tuesday.

        Noting the music industry's complaints that illegal downloading means people are getting their music for free, he said, "Well, why not? It ain't worth nothing anyway."
        "You listen to these modern records, they're atrocious, they have sound all over them," he added. "There's no definition of nothing, no vocal, no nothing, just like ... static."

        Dylan said he does his best to fight technology, but it's a losing battle.
        "Even these songs probably sounded ten times better in the studio when we recorded 'em. CDs are small. There's no stature to it."
        Reuters 
       
       
       
       




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