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the age of a great lack of good music!
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I know i have very diserning musical tastes, but i do like things from all genres (oh someone told me that wasn't a word the other day 
) for example, from NIN, SOAD and prodigy to john martyn, patti smith and billi holiday...
but i really dislike all the new rave stuff, emo (crap!), and the singer song writers that the brit academy and shoreditch are churning out....
i'm a sucker for a good tune, but there are very few bands i see having much longevity, and a lot of them are very meloncolic...
something big needs to come a long and kick the music industry up the arse...
does anyone else feel the same?
) for example, from NIN, SOAD and prodigy to john martyn, patti smith and billi holiday...but i really dislike all the new rave stuff, emo (crap!), and the singer song writers that the brit academy and shoreditch are churning out....
i'm a sucker for a good tune, but there are very few bands i see having much longevity, and a lot of them are very meloncolic...
something big needs to come a long and kick the music industry up the arse...
does anyone else feel the same?
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or am i the only person that doesn't search for bands?
I really like the horrors, but maybe thats because they are a college mate's brothers band...but i don't hear of many new bands by word of mouth right now. nothing of any merit is getting signed atm, and even the gig scene in london seems quite stade
NME and Kerrang were always commercial. What's been shit about music this past 10 or years is that pretty much all commercial music is shite, too much fake gangster hip hop/rap, shitty indie music as well as pop music which has always been there.
I think you'll find there are greater rewards for searching for new music rather than just waiting to see what the magazines, TV Channels and Charts tell you what to listen to.
Internet is quite easy for this, download a few tunes from a recommended act and buy their album on the net at the same time or download it. Hey presto you have a new act! :thumb:
plus i can't download anything cos this is a shared connection, and not my computer...
MIA is ok, but very odd...not that that's a bad thing...
peter, bjorn and john is very samey
amy winehouse has talent but is washing it down the drain with heroin and wine
Arcade fire are very commercial
LCD soundsystem are too new rave
i've heard the majority of those, and nothing makes me go wow...
maybe it is me rather than the music...
I listen to radio six (or whatever it's called) a lot and they have a lot of non commercial stuff, but the only stuff that i've really thought was good of recent was the new siouxsie sioux single and some other ancient archive stuff...
Future Of The Left
DARTZ!
A couple of bands worth checking out there. Hot Club De Paris are alright too.
Oh and what about Arcade Fire being commercial? What are you, some emo kid who likes a band until they become popular, then denies ever liking them at all. I haven't heard Arcade Fire's new album, but I thought their first one was brilliant.
There's plenty of good stuff about, you just need to look for it, as always. It depends on your taste, though; I'm a folkie at heart and folk music hasn't been so strong for years.
new albums from Modest Mouse, The Shins, Minus The Bear, Future Of The Left, Free Diamonds, Clorox Girls, Menomena, of Montreal, The New Pornographers, Caribou, Shellac to mention but a few.
i normally look at Pitchfork, Drowned In Sound, Stylus, Stereogum and to mates with good tastes for my recommendations.
too right. new FOTL is probably my favourite album of the year. i loved McLusky, and this is just as good. i'm just gutted i'm missed their tour with Against Me! because of a holiday
The so called 'Nu Rave' is nothing but shit Indie music with a synth and glowsticks. But yeah I agree, I can't fucking stand that shit or any other Indie/Emo crap.
What? All of it?
There has been crap during every era of music. Even in the 60's which have strangely taken on this immortal quality to them as the time when every person who picked up an instrument was a genius, had more than its fair share of crappy music. The fact that nowadays all we hear about the sixties is good, is because all the crap has been filtered out. Call it the natural selection of music. The same way the only stuff that survives from 200 years ago is genius stuff like Beethoven, Brahms et al.
There are great bands around these days as there have always been. The problem is that we're living during this period rather than after it. We're inundated with the crap more than the good stuff as the crap has yet to be filtered out. I'm sure people will look upon this era as favourably as any other given 20-30 years once all the manufactured pop shite (a 60s invention incidentally) has been forgotten like it should be.
In essence, with music as with any culture, the good will out and great music will survive no matter how much crap it's put up against. I know how people love nostalgia and love to bang on about how the past is so much better than the present for every conceivable reason but it's simply not true. This period of music is as valid as any and good music will stand the test of time as good music written long ago has.
So get off your high horses and get over yourselves.
The common thing used to be (as far as I know) people remembering the music of when they were young as great and thinking that what the new generation calls "music" is crap. Nowadays I notice people of my generation calling the current music "crap" and thinking that their parents' generation's music was better. Is that a new phenomenon?
Woah woah woaaaaah there, NELLY!
Arcade Fire are very commercial? Are they chooky, they've made the entire thing themselves, manage themselves, produce themselves so on and so forth. Not one penny from their profit goes to anyone but themselves (sense a theme?).
Tell me one other band who are as successful as them at the moment who've done that. They're as far away from commercial as you can get.
And LCD Soundsystem isn't nu-rave at all. You're speaking in tongues missy!
James Murphy is a braw producer and one third of DFA Records who give you the lovely Hot Chip who are equally top form.
Go to www.isohunt.com and type in 'Indie Playlist September' - their site updates with the best torrents for new music and you will find some wee gems in there, trust me.
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especially Of Montreal.
and for the record Arcade Fire are a rare band. how can a band that have 7 members, and make use of instruments like the piano, violin, viola, cello, double bass, xylophone, keyboard, French horn, accordion, hurdy gurdy, harp and mandolin; as well as have songs against the dictatorship of Haiti, ever be considered commercial.
they were pretty much broken through by Pitchfork before nme and mtv jumping in on it.
great band.
edit. the most ironic thing about the original post is that since posting Radiohead have released details on their upcoming 7th album and Oceansize released their 3rd album today.