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Thread: Songs that Need to Go Away
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05-14-08, 02:33 PM #22
Re: Songs that Need to Go Away
Anything on the "popular music" or "top 40" stations.
Anything by bands like Hinder, Saving Abel, Atreyu, Three Days Grace, 3 Doors Down... (it's a very, very long list.)
Really, anything made by people who don't know what music really is. I usually look for lyrical and musical complexity when I look for new bands - if they don't have it, I don't support them. If they don't know what notes they're playing, and state everything flat-out in their lyrics in every single song, I'm probably going to hate them. If they make frequent use of complex metaphors and other lyrical devices (similes are alright, but they tend to be very basic) and musical devices like syncopation, I'll probably at least enjoy listening to them.
Just seems to me that most people making what they think is music today are in it for the money more than the music. I'm not gonna say that's bad, because if I can make a hundred thousand a year playing the same three chords while some moron sings lyrics with all the complexity of a third-grader's poetry, I'd do it. I'd just hate myself while doing so.
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05-15-08, 07:38 AM #25
Re: Songs that Need to Go Away
Originally Posted by dex71
It's funny - when I was a kid, the music that was 20 or so years old was made in the 60's and my dad listened to it with me in the car....now a days, the music that is 20 years old was made in the 80's and in another 10 years when my daughter is 12, the music that will be 20 years old will be from the late 90's...I'll be listening to Nirvana or Metallica or Run DMC and they will be like "God, dad - you are so old!"
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05-15-08, 02:29 PM #28
Re: Songs that Need to Go Away
Just about any rap song that involves a superhero, drinking crystal, etc.
Not to say that I don't respect the rap genre, though, as there are some really talented people. I like music for the message/meaning it gives me, so I can respect people like Eminem, Fort Minor, some of Puff Daddy/Puffy/P-Diddy/Diddy/wtfever's stuff.
I do think it's a bit silly and ignorant to dismiss an entire genre though. You can love country all you want, that doesn't make Big and Rich, Cowboy Troy, Rodney Atkins, and Gretchen Wilson any better, though.
And lets be honest, Garth Brooks is the man. But unfortunately some of his most popular songs are also his worst, Friends in Low Places and Aint Goin' Down Till the Sun Comes Up just to name two. He's got some very awesome songs (Red Strokes, Shameless, Standing Outside the Fire, The Dance, and More Than a Memory (his best song imo)) but he's also got those afformentioned bad songs. The point I'm making is that you can't classify one genre or even one artist as purely good, or purely bad.
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