The Mighty Musical Observations Thread

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matedog wrote:
06 Dec 2022, 11:41am
Silent Majority wrote:
06 Dec 2022, 10:49am
In the office for the new job and the lady on the radio said, after playing the immortal and ever-groovy Jingle Bell Rock, "That is the only time you'll hear something from the 1950s on this station!" which explains, at least partially, their insistence on calling every song from more than the last three months "a throwback." Puke. God forbid we hear exciting music that isn't re-fried dance versions of songs from twenty years ago which are now about being in the clurrrrb and how that is the only acceptable avenue of escape from the constant doldrums of life and society.

Anyway, I'm a cantankerous freak in this context and I'm happy that's the case. Happy that's the case here because I get the previous 100 years of recorded sound to bring me comfort and joy and advertisers don't like that shit at all. But I wonder if some of the enduring love for Christmas music comes from people who are systematically denied hearing that great old stuff otherwise. When else do you get a glam stomp in the mainstream now away from Slade & Wizzard surrounded by falling fake snow? When else do you get a glimpse of swing, blues, soul, or all that other great stuff? Is Fairytale of New York the most folk music that ever gets played?

Of course, I know I can't expect to hear Charlie Christian followed by JID followed by Ewan MacColl anywhere in a row apart from my own iPod and that a radio station has to please its office sitting demographics by taking the least objectionable path. But it all feels a little more... constricted these days than it did even when I was a kid.
Part of me wants to defend the idea of pushing new music, but the dismissal of "old music" is dumb.
Yeah, and to be clear, if that's the station's reason for being, I'm all for it. I love hearing cutting edge stuff but this is a place that programs an awful lot of Mr. Brightsides and the like. As I write now, Without Me by Eminem is playing. What's the cut off?
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Silent Majority wrote:
06 Dec 2022, 12:15pm
matedog wrote:
06 Dec 2022, 11:41am
Silent Majority wrote:
06 Dec 2022, 10:49am
In the office for the new job and the lady on the radio said, after playing the immortal and ever-groovy Jingle Bell Rock, "That is the only time you'll hear something from the 1950s on this station!" which explains, at least partially, their insistence on calling every song from more than the last three months "a throwback." Puke. God forbid we hear exciting music that isn't re-fried dance versions of songs from twenty years ago which are now about being in the clurrrrb and how that is the only acceptable avenue of escape from the constant doldrums of life and society.

Anyway, I'm a cantankerous freak in this context and I'm happy that's the case. Happy that's the case here because I get the previous 100 years of recorded sound to bring me comfort and joy and advertisers don't like that shit at all. But I wonder if some of the enduring love for Christmas music comes from people who are systematically denied hearing that great old stuff otherwise. When else do you get a glam stomp in the mainstream now away from Slade & Wizzard surrounded by falling fake snow? When else do you get a glimpse of swing, blues, soul, or all that other great stuff? Is Fairytale of New York the most folk music that ever gets played?

Of course, I know I can't expect to hear Charlie Christian followed by JID followed by Ewan MacColl anywhere in a row apart from my own iPod and that a radio station has to please its office sitting demographics by taking the least objectionable path. But it all feels a little more... constricted these days than it did even when I was a kid.
Part of me wants to defend the idea of pushing new music, but the dismissal of "old music" is dumb.
Yeah, and to be clear, if that's the station's reason for being, I'm all for it. I love hearing cutting edge stuff but this is a place that programs an awful lot of Mr. Brightsides and the like. As I write now, Without Me by Eminem is playing. What's the cut off?
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matedog wrote:
06 Dec 2022, 11:41am
Silent Majority wrote:
06 Dec 2022, 10:49am
In the office for the new job and the lady on the radio said, after playing the immortal and ever-groovy Jingle Bell Rock, "That is the only time you'll hear something from the 1950s on this station!" which explains, at least partially, their insistence on calling every song from more than the last three months "a throwback." Puke. God forbid we hear exciting music that isn't re-fried dance versions of songs from twenty years ago which are now about being in the clurrrrb and how that is the only acceptable avenue of escape from the constant doldrums of life and society.

Anyway, I'm a cantankerous freak in this context and I'm happy that's the case. Happy that's the case here because I get the previous 100 years of recorded sound to bring me comfort and joy and advertisers don't like that shit at all. But I wonder if some of the enduring love for Christmas music comes from people who are systematically denied hearing that great old stuff otherwise. When else do you get a glam stomp in the mainstream now away from Slade & Wizzard surrounded by falling fake snow? When else do you get a glimpse of swing, blues, soul, or all that other great stuff? Is Fairytale of New York the most folk music that ever gets played?

Of course, I know I can't expect to hear Charlie Christian followed by JID followed by Ewan MacColl anywhere in a row apart from my own iPod and that a radio station has to please its office sitting demographics by taking the least objectionable path. But it all feels a little more... constricted these days than it did even when I was a kid.
Part of me wants to defend the idea of pushing new music, but the dismissal of "old music" is dumb.
It’s an expression or variation of the idea that history began the moment I was born. If it’s dumb for Boomers (and, increasingly, Xers) to yammer on about how all the good music was from their youth and what comes out now is garbage, it’s just as stupid to think anything from the 20th century is antediluvian.
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I often have a similar thought whenever I see a new remaster come out.
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Kory wrote:
08 Dec 2022, 2:27pm
I often have a similar thought whenever I see a new remaster come out.
I'll be thinking this now whenever Marky drops a new set of goodies on us. :lol:
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revbob wrote:
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Dr. Medulla wrote:
08 Dec 2022, 3:48pm
Kory wrote:
08 Dec 2022, 2:27pm
I often have a similar thought whenever I see a new remaster come out.
I'll be thinking this now whenever Marky drops a new set of goodies on us. :lol:
I always respect the original remaster. I respect the fact that it'll never be as good as mine. 🤣
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Marky Dread wrote:
10 Dec 2022, 1:33pm
Dr. Medulla wrote:
08 Dec 2022, 3:48pm
Kory wrote:
08 Dec 2022, 2:27pm
I often have a similar thought whenever I see a new remaster come out.
I'll be thinking this now whenever Marky drops a new set of goodies on us. :lol:
I always respect the original remaster. I respect the fact that it'll never be as good as mine. 🤣
LOL, I'll second that, kinda goes without saying, right?
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revbob wrote:
11 Dec 2022, 4:29pm
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I think I'm on her side here
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Flex wrote:
11 Dec 2022, 4:42pm
revbob wrote:
11 Dec 2022, 4:29pm
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I think I'm on her side here
Just one though? He did say please.

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