The Real Reason Why Music Is Getting Worse
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- Опубликовано: 24 июн 2024
- In this episode, I discuss the crisis in music in two acts:
Act I - Music is too Easy to Make
Act II - Music is too Easy to Consume
...and their cumulative negative effect.
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You're right Rick. Education is our only way out of this mess...
unfortunately nowadays finding a record store is extremely hard, miss the old days.....
Reason why musics gone down the drain ia not just business etc. its cultural. People are losing their morals and becoming more entrenched in degeneracy, me included. So if we stop being so goofy we can make better stuff my son. Get some morals yo theyre dope as heck
Damnit Rick, I haven't even gotten past page 30 of TONAL HARMONY. Slow down.
@@elusivelectron Thank you!
The paradox of having the world of music quite literally at your fingertips, yet being numb to it.
This. I’ve noticed young people who don’t know even the most obvious music. They hadn’t heard of anyone. Or they say “OMG I looove Zeppelin, The Who, the Smiths etc. But when you talk to them it turns out they know one or two songs by them. They’re remarkably incurious.
@@Dreyno Do you know Car Seat Headrest? Alex G? Mitski? Men I Trust?Boygenius? Young people have never cared about musicians that are way older than them. Why would a kid born in 2000 care about a band that began 40 years before they even gained conscience?
A b-side of Pavement, fucking Pavement went incredibly viral with young people. Just accept that the passage of time and juvenoia is kicking your ass
@@SimonBishop779 That sounds like depression my guy, are you feeling good? Genuinely asking.
@@vixo551 Most of the music I listen to daily was written, recorded, and gained popularity before I was born. What the fuck are you on about bud?
@@Aveance94 Me too man, and so I know for experience, the average young people don't really care that much about music older than them.
“That one was for free.” 😂
Priceless
Wait, maybe I can copyright that one if Rick doesn’t 😊
I actually laughed out loud at that
Lol, Yeah I picked and commented on that too.
@@JakMang Not if the Eagles sue Rick first.
Let's all use this snare sample in our next production everyone, agreed? Rick Beato Free Snare Sample for the win.
Vangelis once said:
- If the music drives the composer, the result is honest.
- If composer drives music, the result is dishonest and record business.
This is amazing quote and really mind opening. Vangelis is easily my favorite composer. I watch all or almost all of his interviews. I didnt know this one. Thank you for sharing.
Most people don't know that Vangelis was offered huge amounts of movies to score but turned almost all of them down. He chose to score a small few and then stopped. He was also a prolific painter and never showed anyone until someone saw some and spent years persuading him to put a selection in an exhibit.
I suddenly have less respect for Vangelis
Did he? I'm not convinced, but if he did, Vangelis had poor grammar. He also had significant "record business," without which his music would have reached exactly none of us. So, there's that...
Ooh I like this one.
I’ve thought about this before. When I was a kid I would buy an album and listen to it over and over because a) I worked to get it and b) I didn’t have a crazy amount of choices. So I would deep dive into these albums, read the liner notes, lyrics, etc. as you mentioned, this resulted in a very deep connection to the music and the band. Nowadays, it’s a paradox of too many choices. I use Spotify, but I tend to use it meaningfully, I will take one artist, and listen to every album in chronological order. Things like that. It helps me see the progression of a musician, and find new (to me) music I enjoy.
I use Spotify music like that as well. I'm catching up on music I missed when life just got in the way, like my workplaces tended to disallow playing music or the choice of music, or my car stereo broke and I couldn't afford to replace it.
I do have to put some effort into active listening. It may sound lame, but I have to maintain a job, a home, and a computer with internet to do all that. No small feat nowadays. And of course, I try get out and experience live music. I simply can't afford today's ticket prices, so a big name concert is a once a year special event. But I can attend less popular artists and still get just as wonderful quality auditory bliss. Local bands are great, too!
This is a fantastic bit of social commentary. Speaks to something beyond just music. Our whole culture is increasingly 1) Easily produced, 2) Easily consumed, 3) Valued less.
This goes right along with a discussion I had with a male friend earlier about how hard we both are finding it to find good quality trousers. Yup, everything out there is crap. Good and cheap, but garbage. And since neither of us want to shop online but want to go to stores it's even harder to find anything passible.
That seems to be the world we're living in right now. We've been Walmart-ized. Everything is cheap and available but it's not worth much.
Spot On.
4. Easily forgotten
👏 Yes!!!
Just replace all that with: fake
"The enemy of art is the absence of limitations" - Orson Welles Pretty much sums it up.
That makes me think of the way the Hays codes forced movie script writers to get around them with some of the most brilliant examples of innuendo the world has ever seen. Today, with almost no limitations of obscene language and imagery, all of that is lost.
RUclips channel creators...
Truth! First time hearing that one, thanks. Right up there with “The great rule of art is complete unity in diversity.
Yes! The BBC once commissioned Benjamin Britten to write a piece for some occasion or another, and Britten asked how many horns he could use. The BBC answered, "Oh Mr Britten, you can have as many horns as you like!" But that wasn't what he wanted to hear. He always needed to work within set parameters.
@@pcno2832 I was thinking more budgetary, time and technological limitations, rather than censorship, although, censorship is a limitation that did provide for some creative writing.
Wow. I’m 60. The first LP I bought was Zeppelin Presence in 76. I was twelve working a paper route for the Detroit News. I was so proud of that and listened to every single song several times a day for a very long time. I have been trying to figure why music is so empty and soulless today. You did a great job of presenting a will thought out and presented perspective. I’m thankful I’ve raised my kids on the music I love and they love a lot of it. My grandkids are proving to be difficult in getting them hooked. We keep them off social media, cell phone use is limited to communication only and still, very hard to get them to identify with music.
I've always said that if you would have told me in 1984 that I could have access to any music I wanted instantly I would have lost my mind. But in reality, going to the record store on the weekend and digging through the import section was so great!
I wonder sometimes whether the same holds for Women . . .
I remember the days of pouring over liner notes, knowing who produced and engineered the record, what studio it was recorded in, etc. Knowing and caring about these things really does bring the music alive on a whole other level
Then cds came along and I had to get out the microscope. All that beautiful artwork shrunken, how would the artists have felt?
i loooove album notes
@@realityjunkyhappy they got paid a decent commission
Ah yes! Loved reading the liner notes. Do record companies even make them anymore?
Yep, as a huge Yes fan I remember being irritated because "Relayer" (at least the LP edition) said nothing about who the recording engineer/s was, or about what kind of keyboards and synths Patrick Moraz was using. I could hear that it was an outstanding feat of production, mixing and musicianship, even by Yes standards; it sounds really different from any other album with the band - but all the album said on production was "produced by Yes and Eddie Offord; tapes by Genaro Rippo" (a name I have never seen on any other album). :)
It was a quarter of a century before I found out that most of the album had not even been recorded at Offord's Advision studios in London, but - in Chris Squire's basement!
😄 Which makes it even more impressive, even if it was actually mixed at Advision. :) And I still don't know who those sound engineers were...Offord was mostly sitting in a studio bus outside of Squire's home when they were recording the album.
I was working on a project at Ocean Way studios in Nashville. On the flight home I was reading Mix magazine and an older gentleman sitting next to me asked "Are you in the music business?" I replied "my accountant would argue otherwise, but yea." Well this gentleman was the engineer for Led Zeppelin, we had an amazing conversation and then he said something to me I never forgot. He said "As engineers and producers we used to capture performances now we create them."
That is profoundly sad.
That's actually a deep insight. And is tragic.
wow
Great insight!
@@adamrad2220 He said "create" not contrive or manufacture, even though I understand your point of view. We are blessed that performances have been captured! But I really cannot believe tech or business could interfere with the genius of a Jimmy Page.
40 years old man here and almost cryed at some point of the video realising that my son will never be able to experience the feeling I did when I bought my first album when I was 8.
What I gotta do is now is teach him in listening patiently to music of all genres, styles and artists and maybe, this way, he can enjoy it as a much I did back then.
The thing I absolutely hate the most is the Loudness War dynamic range compression.
I'm 34, born and raised in Iran, a restricted place from all planet. I've been dreaming to have my loved artists original cassettes and vinyls and now at this age since I am out of the place I born, I have the opportunity to collect all vinyls and cassettes and still enjoy the music.
Viva! Googoosh!
Congratulations on your freedom and I hope you're enjoying life now!
Congratulations on your newly found "freedom". I hope you won't be too disappointed by it.
Another great argument. Music was once known as the international language. People from all over the globe were brought together by international, regional, or popular music. We found things in common from liking a particular musician and their music -- not just their celebration of their own eras.
Great to hear. Questionable government to say the least, but every single Iranian I've met has been incredibly friendly.
I got the chills listening to you describe what it took to acquire music (an album), what it meant to you, adding it to your collection and sharing it. This is exactly how it was for me growing up in the'70s.
That's because, Rick is exactly right,... Now is too easy to steal a sample of real music, loop it, & make some rap (crap) out it,...
We used to have a record store called Wide World of Music and we called it Wild World.
They had a sale every month, any album $5.44 per disk. And they would play albums in the store during the day. That's one way we found new artists that weren't on the radio.
I can't imagine how people listen to music without the full context of the album, it's ludicrous if you ask me
I might be Gen Z but I've felt and heard Zep IV on a mint condition 70's pressing and it's magical. Love my Don Cab 2 vinyl in particular, that record just hits different in analogue
And adding to that - If you didn't enjoy what was popular/mainstream you either had to go to great lengths to find something different OR you created something yourself.
Now you just need to browse youtube for 20 minutes.
@@saulgoodman.exe_ Albums as such are rare today. They are usually a collection of unrelated, stand-alone objects - there is no theme any more. "Tommy" by The Who would be impossible today.
"Thinking". We used to do it a lot because it was really needed. Now things think for me and I don't think it's ok...
Maybe you're over-thinking this (?)
I can't remember hearing any new Rock or Metal band in the last 10 years that has made me say "I need to own that". Even my own MP3 collection has gone mostly unused in that time. Too many songs today are just one verse and one chorus repeated 10 times.
Chris Stapleton my friend, but he's a total rarity
Peach pit, the backseat lovers, and dirty honey are the only few I can think of in recent years.
Check out jrock & jmetal. Rock, Hard Rock and Metal are alive & well in Japan, led by the all- female bands.
I used to think similarly . . . and now I don't. I'm convinced there is all kinds of great music out there that I would like . . . but I just don't frequent places where I'm likely to encounter it.
I'm 53 and this year my wife and i joined a choir (first time singing into a semi-pro fashion) there I met various youngsters (they are in their early 20's) and we became friends, and during the break on one of our rehearsals the kids started to talk about vinyls, and long story short we formed a "Vinyl club" where we meet at my house to play my vinyls!!! the greatest thing of all is their amazement listening to "new-old" music, and as you said here, I showed them the process, and how we used to enjoy it, told them that's the way we used to do it back in the day. That's why it was so important... but now it's just chewing gum
kudos to them that they made the effort. And kudos to you you share your passion with them.
Great story, my friend. Those were the days !
Shame on you for contributing to the delinquency of the youth.
You're explaining exactly why programmes like Later with Jools Holland (UK) are so important. Real musicians playing their instruments and real singers singing their songs. Even if you don't like the particular genre you can appreciate the skill and artistry.
Recently I really liked beth gibbons Set in there, made me actually go watch her in concert
Yes, real musicians, real instruments, real talent
I might not like everything on Jools Holland, but from time to time you find an absolute gem from out of nowhere and it's worth it just for that moment.
yes i susbribe to bbc music gibbons moyet others have popped up recently
Would love to see any of you sit down and make a song in an electric genre... doubt you could because it takes practice and an ear for music to even begin... sounds like you're music huh? So what makes it different? 😂
Makes me think of NPR's Tiny Desk series. People doing their thing for real, up close, in a tiny ass room❤
I've been on the adventure of abandoning streaming music - and my digital library on my NAS/hard drives. Going back to CD and vinyl. Gotta love the used CD/Vinyl store.
CDs are digital. 😉
I truly agree with you on every word. In the 1990s I became friends with a record store owner. He sold new and second-hand records and CDs. The joy you had when you held the new D'Angelo, Erykah Badu or Prince in your hands, nothing could match that. You owned something from the artist. And you know what made you even happier? A hidden track. Sometimes when you played the record or CD until the end, you suddenly heard another song that was not on the list of songs on the back of the cover. Man. I miss those times.
Rick, make this a 90 minute documentary, with guest interviews, discussion about future of music, past of music. I would watch that 100%
Seconded! There's no more important subject in modern music right now than this.
There's one on Paramount+ called "How the Music Got Free" that came out 2 weeks ago that's about how music was first leaked to streaming in the late 90's that was exec produced by Eminem and his team and narrated by Method Man. It was really good; mostly about what Rick was saying in Act 2 of this video.
Rick is not an AI prompt ;-)
Totally agree
Get Eddie the shriller trunk as a guest ha.
I live in Toronto. One night in early 1997 I was driving home late from work. There was a massive snowstorm. My normal 25 minute commute turned into two hours. The DJ on my favourite station at the time came on and said that he knew a lot of us were stuck in our cars and that as a gift he was going to play Dark Side of the Moon in it’s entirety with no commercials. It was the best 42m50s I’ve ever spent in a car. It instantly transported me back to album listening sessions I had with friends in high school and university. Pouring over the cover art, the liner notes and anything else we could get our hands on….and had to expend energy to get.
Something you’d never get in the radio today or listening to Spotify. Just sitting there and letting the music wash over you. Listening to the lyrics, the bass line, the drum fills, and all the little intricate details that make music such and engaging art form.
But Rick’s right. We vote with our actions. How will you vote ?
I vote for Dark Side of the Moon...
Sounds like a top night 👍🏻🤘🏻
I've found artists on Spotify that I've then gone looking for. I've watched every interview. I've gone to their Bandcamp page and paid for their music. That still exists for those of us that care. The vast majority of people just want generic songs they can listen to while they clean their house 🤣 That's their choice.
I’m from Toronto, was it 97.3?
This is why Im not worried about AI ruining the visual arts...AI art is not real art. Never will be. This tech will PREVENT hacks from having hits because they will give in to temptation.
This was a profound explanation of how we have taken many steps forward technologically but FAR more backward creatively. We would literally wait for hours for a few songs to come on the radio, because they actually were worth it, they meant something. It was great music to be savored and shared with your friends.
You NAILED it! I tell young people about great bands like Yes and ELP. And if -IF!- they listen to any of it, they say, "Yeah, that was cool"... and then they never listen to it again. They have NO CONCEPT of what it's like to have $9.37 in your pocket and stand there in a record store having to decide between Jethro Tull and Gentle Giant - 'cause you can only afford one! So we only dug bands that could make THE WHOLE ALBUM EXCELLENT!
And physical objects made sharing it with someone MEANINGFUL. My first year of high school a new friend loaned me "Sgt. Pepper" and Al Stewart's "Past, Present & Future." Those two albums changed my life!
"What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly: it is dearness only that gives every thing its value." - Thomas Paine
I wish I could like this more than once.
Hell ya
T. Paine
@@MisterMoccasin LOL, the *real* T. Paine. 😆🇺🇸
Capitalism ruins everything
As older,70, former professional musician, you are absolutely right. At 15, I saved up money to buy my first album. The experience of opening the album cover, after studying the cover for a long time, pulling the record sleeve slowly and removing the vinyl and getting that smell. It made your connection with what you were about to hear so special. Nothing like it. That ritual was so special.
Albums are things to own and treasure whereas streamed is throwaway.
You are also more likely to listen to the whole thing and let it grow on you, rather than skipping stuff that doesn't have that instant hook.
Pretty same with video games for me. I got tons of pleasure out of searching for a worthy game, saving up, anticipating the day i’ll finally buy it, installing…
Now you can install thousand of shitty free games and get zero pleasure out of them and even get scammed into paying for quest rewards 😅
I'm glad I never gave in to the streaming trend even if it was supposed to be my generation's thing. Still got my collection of CDs and I save the songs I love most on various devices to listen to. Streaming, never.
@@dcostello1976 For most young music fans, we don’t skip tracks, even on streaming. Bridges still exist, you know?
Funny you mention the smell. At the time we discovered different labels had slightly different vinyl smells. We used to play a quiz-like game by guessing albums blind-folded, without sound. So much fun we had, back in the 80's.
Your talk is deeper than what it seems, it's about a full shift, everything is in the brink of whatever is about to come
45 years ago, we would listen to entire albums and go on a journey w/ the artists. Music took you to mystical realms or to old familiar places. Those were good times.
There is a quote by Paulo Coehlo that sums up modern society: “the happier people can be, the unhappier they are.”
I am 48 years old. When I listen to my vinyl collection THAT is all I am doing. I turn my phone and watch off. I just sit and listen. I have a group of friends that come over and that's all we do. Listen and talk about the music. We outlawed any conversation about anything else. It's all about the music and its fantastic!
I think music should be a deliberate decision. It should require effort and purpose. We respect the music and show our appreciation.
My friends and I did this over a weekly zoom call as we all live far away from each other. Each person would present a song and then we would discuss it. Was always super fun
I'm a bit older than you, and I've always said great music needs to be "attended" like you're sitting in a concert hall with no other distractions. To have the full experience, music requires (and deserves) your full attention. I refused to watch music videos growing up because 1.) they were far too weird and almost never had anything to do with the songs themselves, and 2.) they were nothing but distraction from the music itself. I also didn't want anyone telling me what a song meant for me. I wanted it to transport me via my own imagination. It was by listening to songs with no other distractions that I could concentrate closer on them and learn to harmonize vocals and other musical techniques. Music demands respect and shouldn't be relegated to the "background" music of our lives while we're doing other "more important" things.
I'm 71, and that's the way we used to do and still do, listening to the composition, and the quality of the sound
Sounds like us in the 70's...good to hear that certain traditions can overlap decades!
Can I stop by too? 😅
I think this is absolutely SPOT-ON! Music used to be art. These days, it's become simply a product. Another example of the double edged sword that technology is.
Man this was very well done and I think you’ve hit on something beyond music but socially as well. This needs to be expanded into a full documentary
I’m 23 and when I listen to music, it’s the entire album not a playlist cause it feels like a more cohesive experience. The artist spent so much time on the track listing to make sure it flows well and that gets lost in the Playlist era.
I’m 20, and I do the same. Also, when I turn on music, it is to experience it intentionally.
Some progressive bands run one track into another. Spotify or iTunes splits them so you don't get the chance to hear what the band created. E.g. Can - Future Days or Ege Bamyasi
Been saying this for years. Compare Pearl Jam's "Ten" or Alice in Chains "Dirt" to anything from the past 20 years.
You might be in the minority, but you are appreciated! You’re also watching Rick’s channel so you most likely appreciate music more than your average 20 something, but that’s the point. Appreciation for what music is and can be.
I'm 26 and have just recently started just putting whole albums on
“You Vote With Your Attention” what a great quote Rick. As a Music teacher of primary school aged students I get them to listen to one song at the start of my lesson to set up my intention to get their attention and watching their expressions when they come across a bridge or a chord change in a song is wonderful because they than question can songs do that!
you should go through anime music then. Things what Japanese can do with pentatonic scale is crazy. They change tempo, rhythm but so cohesively you still know this is one piece of music. You can start with a bit of jazz: Tank! from Cowboy Bebop for example. Or OST to Macross Do You Remember Love? Both OSTs are by the one and only Yoko Kanno, known to switch genres like it's nothing.
From classical music - Litvinovsky is a good choice - his pieces aren't complicated but have enough variety to them to spot them easily. And they are just good pieces to listen to.
And, of course - traditional music. My fav go to album is Rhythms of the Pridelands - never gets boring. For that Asian vibe I like: erhu, gu zheng, taiko drums, shamisen, shakuhachi... And enka for singing.
I've often had similar thoughts. The same goes for movies. I also think we used to give songs and albums much more of a chance, because it was such a bummer to have invested your money in that one album if you didn't like it. Today, I catch myself going "nah... next!" way too fast all the time.
I'm about to turn 47. And I've found that a great way for me to *really" just get into an album - yes, full albums! - is by playing them in my headphones while playing video games. As a kid, I used to read or draw while I listened to music, so it's really not that different. Sitting in that little happy bubble, I just feel like I focus on the music in a whole different way, while being too busy with my hands to even consider skipping a song.
This is one of my favorite episodes you may have ever posted, very insightful. I'm going to share this with everyone
Perfectly said Rick. I’ve been in the industry my entire life and now at 70 I feel blessed to have lived in a time when music had value and meaning
Agreed, I’m born 92 and I’m lucky I got to experience a world of more music choices and risks.
This isn’t just “kids these days suck” stuff, this isn’t just nostalgia this is a corporatized world with no art anymore.
You guys had the perfect mix of access and creativity and I saw it in my early days but it’s sadly now gone.
Honestly, I wish I got to live through these times too... I hate that these days its more about "content creation" and marketing rather than making timeless and original art.
I'm 76 and I fully concur - I'm an old analog gal in a digital world, and I like it that way. Joe Walsh (also our age) wrote a great song "Analog Man" You should get that album and give it a listen (In analog of course!) LoL💗
wtf is all this bs? mainstream music has always been populist trash. go listen to stuff like jinjer and tell me nothing is good.
Myself included, playing albums in my friends basement,having a few beers,was pure magic
I think another thing is that we’ve lowered our expectations. So now you listen on Spotify or Apple Music or RUclips often over your phone instead of putting a CD or a record on a stereo system that fills the room.
Remember get the sound up loud or pointing the speakers just right to get the stereo mix….!
It doesn’t help that the music studios hardly make CDs anymore.
I could be wrong but I don’t remember the last time I saw a CD out in the wild.
@@NathanCassidy721 Just got the brand-new live ZZ Top CD.
Use headphones or earbuds.
@@joelbrooks3198 Music sounds best on big speakers.
Truth. Thank you for taking the time to put this together. :)
There is a ton of amazing current music coming out now. Black Midi, Water From Your Eyes, Geese, Feeble Little Horse. Prog and experimental genres are flourishing but Rick seems to overlook this
buying a record, reading the lyrics, credits, and the admiration of the cover art and sharing it with your dear friends and family. That was magical!
I real feel for young people. This uber-connection via the phone is the worst form of alienation. They miss out on so much and it's no wonder that their mental health suffers.
Even the SMELL was magical. I still remember cherishing the smell of a new cassette for an album I had just bought!
And sometimes the lyrics weren’t written. It was fun trying to write them down yourself and often we’d be totally wrong, which was hilarious sometimes.
Yes, I agree with that but are you demeaning what others that came after us experience with their music ?
@@annstevens6223 when we would try to cover a song in the 70s, since the vocal was mixed loudest, we would turn the record way down, almost to inaudible, and put our ear against the speaker, to figure out what the lyrics were.
Beautifully put. There’s really nothing to add or take away from this video. I love humans making music. May we never stop.
The exit statement was beautiful. 90s teenager here, and there was something about lying on your bed with the discman and headphones in the dark and just letting the album soak
This is exactly what I did last night and I wrote my kids about it before I went to bed... Also 90s teenager here.
2010s teenager here. We still do it. I do it with vinyl. Stop boomer-posting. People who care for music this much were always in the minority.
00's baby here, i do this every night, except with tidal ofc
Was a "Walkman"during my era...the 80"s.Could not believe the depth of sound stage coming out of that little genius invention.
lucky. I never got a cd player until grade 10. I fully exploited Columbia house for tapes though. lol
I travelled to France, The UK and US to obtain certain hiphop records that were hard to get in my country. I remember going to these stores and getting excited checking out the vinyl section.
No streaming service can replace the memories. Today i still buy vinyl but mostly online.
Excellent commentary and analysis Rick. As musician who was raised on classical piano and spent my whole life songwriting, I can relate. Recently produced and performed a show of all original songs in a local theatre. Very hard to get young people to come along. Most live music venues in my area ( Scotland ) have closed since lockdowns and may never come back. Funny story: I work as a tour guide for Cruiseships and was dockside loading Germans on to a Coach. A young German from the ship asked if I knew any "up and coming acts". I gave him my name ( Innis MacK). He punched it into his phone and the next thing my songs are playing through a wireless sound system on the dock and hundreds of Germans are instantly listening to my songs. Technology made me famous for 60 seconds!
If only life were so easy . . . more of the time.
I'm young (20), and I grew up listening to albums start to finish on car rides with my dad. It seemed cut and dry even at a young age; this was what the artist intended me to hear. Once I got to high school and started talking to people about music (even the few people my age who listened to rock or grunge), almost none of them sat through an album if they didn't have to. So many songs are good on their own, but become masterpieces in context with their album. I once had to explain to a friend that he needed to sit through "Moby Dick" to get the full experience of "Bring It On Home". Instant gratification loses like 40% of the potential impact that a song can have, and people seem to choose instant gratification every time.
You give me hope. (And cheers to your dad for doing that for you!)
I'm 33 and I've thought like that ever since I became really musically aware in my teens... It is exceptionally rare for me to skip a track on an album, even if I don't particularly like it, it's part of the experience. If have to really hate a song to want to skip to the next one, and I genuinely can't think of any examples off hand...
I also hate it when an album gets interrupted, or I have to leave it half way through. Once it's playing, I like it to play continuously to the end.
i mentioned this band on a comment i left here, but if you like a proper album experience you should check out Datura by Bostan Manor. album has a really cool vibe. I even got it on a red vinyl. Looks dope asf sitting on the record player ( im 20 too btw )
Listen to the Pearl Jam album Ten all the way through. I wore my parents cassette out playing it on the way to middle school every morning. When I finally got an iPod, iTunes used to have a feature for songs that run into one another to create seamless play. That’s back when you could rip your own music since computers had disc readers, or ya know maybe your friend had a cd you liked. iTunes aka Apple Music is a complete trash music app now. It used to be one of the best programs created to organize your own music library to sync to your iPod (before Apple started selling digitally locked songs through iTunes roughly 20 years ago). Now the whole program is nothing but a bloated ad to sell their monthly service.
Mick Jagger can't sign any more. He just sort f speaks the words in tune because he is old. Yet there he is packing them in because there is no new group that can do what they did. Live music isn't live any more. Another ten years and it will all be gone, the live bands. Fine by me because I won't be around to hear this crap. Then again one never knows what great thing might come. Perhaps AI will create brand new Bach or Beethoven as good or better than the original. Music based on all music in history!!
“We’ve taken care of everything, the words you hear the songs you sing” and “It’s got wires that vibrate and give music, what can this thing be that I’ve found ? “. Rush 2112.
RUSH - love them
@@tokskallez and it’s coming true…it’s like the industry has killed off the guitar and brainwashed the people into listening to crap.
Epic!!
Neil Peart was a great lyricist and the difference he brought to Rush is one of the reasons I love that band. The first album was awesome, but after Neil joined the band they really went up a notch in my book anyway.
@@joey49501 The first one I heard and bought was Hemispheres and it just blew my mind. They were the best.
There is a huge and thriving community of folk artists all over the world. How is this so easily overlooked?
Well said, Rick. Having worked in the field my entire life, I now consider myself fortunate to have been alive while music had significance and worth. I am seventy years old.
I am a composer, yesterday I went to my friend's shop as I heard he is preparing a commercial for his business, so I proposed making music for that. He looked at me and said - man, I have it already. took me a minute to make.
It probably sounded like it too.
Sad...even sick...but you know something the real stuff will end up being valued and the rest is soulless garbage...if mankind looses the ability to recognize this...we also will be as worthless and artificial as the music that is generated by emotionless machines.
Well, that’s example who will be victims of AI in creative fields. „utility music” like elevator, commercials will be generated by AI (as other forms of art).
@@hereq YEP, we will have new "punks" who gonna reject the rules. Sex Pistols v2.0. And we gonna get into wave of "elite music" written and performed "by Humans only" with real instruments. Nobody needs a guitar these days. Who cares when there is virtual guitar. And virtual voice emulation, which you can fit to your own voice with samples.
What does your friend do in *his* business?
It gets worse. Now the cover band trend is to have pre-recorded tracks of 150 songs mashed together in 10 to 15 seconds segmentes non-stop. You go out looking for live music and end up listening to midnight ticktock scrolling... just louder than your phone. It is awful!
This trend absolutely kills me.
"I can't write music or have much creativity but if I mash together a bunch of songs a bunch of people already made I can tell people I'm smart" yeah, you just took 3/4 of a song from the 70s and added a new hook to it.
Fuck. Right. Off.
Pre recorded tracks and vocals and people paid for this crap
Thankfully I haven't heard that yet. Do you mean that's their set? Just cueing up some song clips and gyrating a bit?
Seriously? Thank God Im old and dont need to anymore.
@@paulwilson6357 yep. They just play guitar bass drums and sing over moshup tracks.
I am so happy that I am eighty-two years old, that I can still sing more than well enough for choir, that I grew up at a time when everyone sang, and that I am kumpis with dozens of fellow musicians and singers, young and old, who love to perform together, and that none of us knows how to "compose" in the deathspace you're talking about.
I know unanimity can mean lack of critical thinking, but, in this particular case, I have to agree with absolutely every single word Beato has said.
This is why I love singing along to my favorite tunes despite being a terrible singer, it helps me connect with that music at a deeper level, relate it to situations in my life past and present. Music is not just background noise to drown my inner voice, its a gift to enhance it
Very insightful and well-put!
As a music teacher your massage at the end is one of the most important ones I’ve been teaching my students. When we listen to music in class it’s the only thing we focus on, and afterwards we start a discussion on what makes it beautiful (or not so beautiful). I hope they keep listening to music properly outside of my classes as well.
Sound like a good Idea to me!
When I remember the music lessons at my time at school we mostly listened to classic music and had to remember when the artist lived and so on. Mostly dates of birth and death.
Now i'm 38 and I know that it is or should be interesting how music was made in the beginning because that music influences music until now, but it would also have been pretty cool to listen to current music, which genres exists, what makes them special and what they have in common.
I regret not to be able to play an instrument (I learned accordeon when I was around 10 for about a year or so but didn't like it really much), but I plan to start learning to play guitar soon. I would really like not to only listen to but also being able to play music myself.
Beautiful, Amen
Hello Mr. Beato. Cicero/Berwyn Boomer here. This is my first time listening to your wisdom. As a person who "donated" a large slice of my young life "working road" for a Union Booking Agency, I cannot agree with you more. THANK YOU for putting into succinct words my feelings.
Every point you make is spot on. As a visual artist every single point you make applies to visual imagery too. We are losing skills and we are flooded by terrible images and few can do the fundamentals. Its so sad.
SO well said. I'm a professional musician and retired middle school band/orchestra teacher. I've been doing this my whole life and you just distilled everything I've been saying and thinking into a clear and concise 12 minute video. Well done, Rick. Bravo.
"Just listen to the music."
Perfectly said. Just sitting with music is such a beautiful experience.
Oftentimes, before I go to sleep, I lay in bed, turn my playlist on, and just listen to music. I do it on road trips too. Sometimes I try listening in to the theory of the song, sometimes I try air drumming it, and sometimes, I just feel the music and lyrics. I suppose this video makes a valid point in that the ready accessibility of music causes society to value it less, but music is truly valuable to me. When I listen to it, I think of the people who made it. A bunch of guys or girls just jamming in the studio, doing what they love, and having it turn into something so beautiful. It’s amazing to think about, and I say this as a young person.
(I mainly listen to 90s rock)
Counterpoint: there's always been bad music. We just only remember the good music. There's more music now than anytime before in history. Some of it is great and some of it is trash.
Absolutely, it is unfair to compare average music from today to the outliers from the past that are still popular decades later. Of course two things can be true at once but it's very important to consider survivorship bias.
I'm 58, and grew up with LZ, Pink Floyd, The Doors, Fleetwood Mac, Tom Petty, etc. I still listen to music in the same way. I mostly listen to albums, and i'll have sessions of what I call "active listening", where I put on headphones and just kick back and do nothing except listen to a single album. No phone, no TV, no talking, just the music.
I am 47 and do this
I too am 58 and did the same
Wheres Taylor Swifts band?????
36 and same
Yes - me -too (excuse the pun - not intended)
"Sweat Equity" is such a great term. The details are lost, washed away, by constant distraction, whether it's listening to music, engaging in the experience of a concert, or simply enjoying a meal or conversation with friends. We've lost so much 😢.
I was a stage rat/tech for local venues for a number of years 10 years ago or so. Even then I was kind of aghast at how many people I started seeing trying to record the concert with their phones and all that like anyone is going to care, and will look/sound terrible. I was like "You all paid $50 a head to see this through your phone?". Weird, and obnoxious. When did the point of doing things become getting attention from strangers for it and not the event itself. Like Ghostland Observatory brought a $5 Million laser light show, maybe just experience it
I think of that Porcupine Tree song: "The Sound of Muzak"
One of the wonders of the world is going down
It's going down, I know
It's one of the blunders of the world that no one cares
No one cares enough
Like teardrops, in the rain.
It's not even about any of that really. Nor something new. This was a issue decades ago ...
1) I refuse to pay for anything today considering people spam AI generated art and music among other stuff. Plenty of online people are fake, they are AI driven nobodies ... I am not funding ANY OF THAT NOR HAVE INTEREST IN!!!
2) I am broke and there is no going out of it any time soon. Due to many things but I use to be an artist and musician too and quit it ages ago because there was no market for it even back then, it was overrun with cheap labor. Because there was always someone who was doing graphic design for just a dollar ... makes you a music track for a dollar etc among other stuff, these are now replaced with AI ... So I had to look into other ways of making a living.
3) Currently I am in the business of reselling since that is the only thing I can do so instead of collecting physical media as I use to that I enjoyed now I have to hoard literal garbage that I will slowly resell ... (yes because all things today are just that, pointless garbage that some people magically buy)
We can't have nice things OR ANYTHING AT ALL anymore because we live in the mentally and politically dark ages.
Collecting vinyl records I somewhat see fitting since they include big artworks also you get a download of Flac and Wav files of the record too (often). So if you have the space and option support your fav artist with that, also there are donations and direct subs to streamers who do original music or remixes, that is also a nice way to support your fav artist. I see zero other ways anymore.
Most of people just like me quit day by day ...
The difference is that I quit it decade+ ago because I can't make a living from it nor afford to buy other peoples art or music as a result. Nobody helped me years ago so why should I bother to help someone today when it's far too late for ANY OF IT AT ALL!!!!
I am barely alive even. Not only I had hard times make a living ever since I am alive I also inherited my father's debts that I am legally forced to pay and I am talking millions ... so in this day and age HOW THE F CK WILL I HAVE MONEY FOR ANYTHING WHEN I DONT HAVE MONEY FOR LIFE AND THERE ARE BILLIONS OF PEOPLE LIKE ME STRUGGLING ON THE STREETS WTF ABOUT THEM?!?!
@@adamkares7549 You should watch concerts from Asia - you will see none of the phone stupidity, and only the pure living in the moment. Sure they have phones, sure they will snap a photo, or two, but most of all - they have fun.
Every creative person ever to have lived can also "be seen as sophisticated plagiarism [organisms], as they do not produce genuinely original content but rather emulate and modify existing works".
I won’t deny I am a regular Spotify user and I realize that the act of listening to music is being made more and more convenient, which is not really good. But THANK YOU!!! I deeply support your view of being more devoted to actually STUDYING music and not just consuming it like fast food. I am sure that by using your platform to spread these words you bring a lot of people who value art and craftsmanship reassurance and comfort!
Love it. Everything is available for nothing but you will never value it the same and appreciate it like we did. You will never experience the feeling of "getting used" to an album and then it becomes you favourite.
THIS. So many times I've scoffed at musical things along the way only to revisit them in a different context, then they become like warm blanket.
Which of course reduces music to cheap hooks, much like video content must now catch people's attention in less than 5 seconds. When people bought albums, they invested in them and gave them time to grow.
Streaming is one step too far removed from the optimal functioning of our minds. Technology has jumped the shark. It peaked in the late 90s and has gotten worse since.
Everybody knows the songs on Dark Side of the Moon, but listening to the entire album allows a much deeper connection to the music. The songs are scenes in a movie. Every time I hear a PF track or Zeppelin or Yes I start thinking about the track that comes after it on the album.
My son is a young 20s something up & coming musician, extremely talented (not just saying that because he's my son) and I'm in my mid 50s. I have Spotify and make playlists and sometimes listen to the Spotify recommended playlists. My son challenged me recently to only listen to an album. 1 album only, all the way through, not these silly mixed playlists. He's a kid and gets it. I have to say I was brought back to my childhood sitting in my parents living room holding Rush Farewell to Kings, and listening to it all the way through. We used to do that! It took my son to remind me. I'm forever grateful to him!
People don't listen to albums anymore? It's the only way I listen to my music... I do have some mixes but then extend them to mixes of albums, i.e. a couple of albums of artist X then artist Y etc... Not using shuffle.
People are using Spotify wrong. They should treat it like being at night at the record store: rummaging through the albums, looking for new artist.
I’m 22 and routinely listen to albums. Recently listened to Hold Hold Your fire by Rush. Had to comment because I saw Rush!
Not to be overly cynical, but part of the reason you (and I, I'm 59) did that was because that's the way the music industry was structured. It was limited by the technology of the time, and was kept that way to maximize profits for a cabal of ultra-powerful music labels.
You may also be nostalgic about making mixtapes for your crush in the early 80s like i did . . . yet at the time, THAT was the technology that was disrupting the music industry business model and playing it's part in destroying the album-format of music production.
Overall I think any fan of Ricks channel can agree that we should actively listen to music to better appreciate its magic.
@@jacks5463 Great album!
As a kid born in the 90s, I have to agree with this sentiment wholeheartedly. I never really spent much on music, but the act of finding music that I enjoyed was more than just having some algorithm analyze what I listened to and my skipping habits. I listened to the radio a ton. Tuning the radio, figuring out which stations played more stuff I was into, figuring out what song and artist it was and going to the library to check out more from that band. My effort put toward developing my music taste was a lot less than people born in the 80s and earlier, but there was a lot more to it than just pressing a few buttons on something I have with me all the time with virtually unlimited content.
it's sad how devalued music is as an art form. i miss those days when i was excited about a release and would come home from school and put it on and stare at the ceiling - no cell phone, no youtube, no internet - nothing but me in my own world while taken on a ride by an entire record. i miss how interesting the 80's was - especially all that music that came out of the uk.
You should have been there in the 60s and 70s, even better.
Thankfully there are messages like this one in Rick's video to help us wake up. Even if only a little, paying attention on a regular basis might help us work our way through this new phase of "art" with AI. For me, it gets even scarier when I think about what our leaders (political and corporate) are doing with these tools.
Definitely devalued, even from being a kid. I live near a primary school and back in the 80s every kid in the UK would be going with a violin case or a recorder, now I don't recall seeing anything like that for years.
What's stopping you from doing that now?
I know hundreds of people who still do this.
It goes beyond music too. There will come a point in the not too distant future where it’s recognized and accepted that having an endless stream of everything and anything pumped into your brain is the worst thing we could do to our brains.
This is profound and so true. I’m in my late 30s and I don’t listen to any music that was produced after 2000.
Bingo. The age of profound apathy is coming.
Absolutely..great observation!
I still buy my music, because licensing agreements can change, and there is no guarantee that any particular song will always be available on the streaming platform - or that the song won’t be edited. And once I’ve bought something, I get to continue enjoying it regardless of what may happen to my budget in the future.
Spot on, Rick. Making and selling real music, as per the 70s - 80s, could be a unique approach. "Real" could be a selling point.
So what can we do?
I'd call this "why the quantity of bad/generic/boring music is so damn high"
I find so much new great music on a daily basis, really
Exactly, much easier to find music of any quality
Exactly, good music is still being made "underneath" the mainstream.
There's a new band called The Dream Machine who are about as good as anyone I've ever heard.
The problem isn't the availability of good new music, it's that the biggest music is no longer the best music as it once was (and should be).
Exactly. Spotify, for all its faults, allows me to find new music that I really love all the time. As a former 80s synth kid, I've been turned on to fabulous new artists like Abul Mogard and Craven Faults that make sounds and styles I've never heard before... often using a DAW.
BRAT by Charli XCX just dropped this month and is absolutely amazing. takes autotune and pushes and makes it something new and creative to elevate her art. currently highest rated album of the year on metacritic too at 95.
You interviewed Eric Johnson and he observed that the ‘function’ of music has changed. We do not BUY music and we have nothing invested in it. He is absolutely correct. When we bought albums with our hard earned money we actually listened to them. Remember devouring an entire album with headphones on while looking at the album cover?
I still do it as I still buy albums, vinyl and cds.
Agree. Playing a new album was a sensory experience!
I checked the replies first, " MUSIC WAS WORTH LISTENING TO BACK THEN " you get a rare 1 out of a thousand today that you may like, (AT LEAST FOR ME) I always say about 1989 good music was coming to an end for my taste
And thank you YOU TUBE, I can still find the GOOD music here, Your favorite songs from when music was listenable JUST TYPE THEM IN
Yup, I remember getting hooked on Rush in the late 70’s. Went and bought all their albums as I could afford them. They were MY band and I felt a personal connection to the music. Then Moving Pictures came out, and they were EVERYONES band 😂. Good times.
A single song can change your life. It's happened to me, and I've been fortunate enough to be able to write songs that have meant a lot to other people. The business of making one popular or not popular and force-feeding the public songs the way it's done is a shame.
Nothing makes music more genuine than putting it together unquantized. Even in sampling (I have used MPCs since '97), manually cutting, chopping, sequencing, and playing sounds in never gets old. It's a paradox bc yes it's sampling, but the ability to reinvent other wheels to create different wheels is priceless and fun. So true music is so robotic I would rather make instrumentals with no voices (or autotune) interference.
Just as this video finished, my 18yo walked in the door from his job at a golf course. He went directly to the basement to play his drums. There is hope.
exactly, everyone claims its dead. THE MUSIC NEVER STOPS
I wouldn't call everything listed in the video as a negative, sure if people are only listening to the music without any investment then fine but all of these music streaming platforms give musicians ease of access to learn to play their favorite songs and better practice tools. Sure I didn't start learning music during the vinyl era, I used cds and while it is annoying that music is on the decline, I still think good things can come out of newer technologies, it just takes talented people with great understanding to incorporate it.
Fuck yea .... 😎
@@SneedBass yes, the technology isn't going to go away unless we have armageddon. Meanwhile as a 70 year old music teacher and pianist I'm very happy to make use of Apple Music and my AirPods - I can listen to any of my old record collection when I'm out for a walk or explore my curiosity about Messiaen or that Donald Fagan record I didn't buy at the time. Meanwhile a son of mine is earning his living making soundtracks for tv and film in his home studio. He couldn't do it without Logic and other digital paraphernalia but he also uses his own voice, his wife's soprano, his son's cello and a bunch of analogue synths and old Revox tape machines. His music is emotional and human sounding. I'm sure Rick (whose videos I love) appreciates that his channel could not exist without the technological developments which make it possible.
@@joehigashi3584 😂 That’s sweet.
Through most of history, music was a rare treat, it could only be experienced live, in person, directly experiencing the performance. Today, music is like wallpaper, it's everywhere and taken for granted.
YES - as technology progresses, it allows for the *commodification* of products. You can take something that formerly required talent, skill, and craft and reduce it to a product that requires none of that - technology allows you to mass produce at scale and it no longer requires musicians who practice their instruments, singers who practice, learn, and hone their talent, and recording engineers who practice and perfect their craft and skill. You just need a computer and software and - nowadays - a little artificial intelligence. No human musical talent required. That's commodification enabled by technology. And we refer to this as "innovation."
On a recent flight I thought back to my youth and how, instead of a smartphone crammed with videos, I would have had a walkman or a discman and simply sat and digested music. I knew every single note of my favorite albums. My kids will never know that level of connection with an album or artist.
I really appreciate how concise and to-the-point this video is.
You're spot on Rick. I was a research and practicing psychologist for 55 years. I think there has been a loss of the knowhow of using attention. Not only have we lost the capacity to deeply listen to music, we've lost the ability. to listen to each other--music is just one symptom.
Peter, this horrible trend of people unable to "lock in" to any endeavor is horrible alarming. Obviously a byproduct of electronic technologies (aside from video games and a few other meaningless "entertain me now" pastimes that seem to be the only time people "lock in", we are reaping the results of short sightedness commerce. Yes while it's partially true that the smart phones, computers and other devices have helped us in certain ways, we are only seeing the beginning of the damage being created through these media methods. While my statements may sound more like an old timer the truth remains, next time you're with a teenager have them shut off their phone and ask them to describe in detail what they hear, see, smell and feel in the moment and see how in depth their answers are..
@user-kg6di5vf9x Very true, and if you're a young person starting out in a career this can be used to your advantage. I taught my children to be the young person that shows up, pays attention, and keeps focus until the task is completed. This has paid off in a big way for them.....because to your point, they're in a sought-after minority.
Yes, it not just music, its "everything". There is now very little critical thinking and/or intellectual curiosity taking place, we seem, as a race, to have adopted such a lazy approach to everything we encounter that we would rather have a set of algorithms do our thinking for us and we just skim everything - news articles, informative television programs and ultimately our greatest creation - music. Digital manipulation and AI are creating a world where we don't know what is real or true and so we now mistrust everything, just so sad.
I had a buddy hand me a cassette tape of a local midwest emo band. I checked out the album art, who was in it and I was fortunate enough to see them preform. All of this breathes so much more life into the experience. He's got a point, working to hear music makes it more satisfying.
When I was in HS, in the 70’s, I got my allowance and I rode my bike downtown and bought the new “Rolling Stone” (on newsprint, folded) and then I rode my bike home and poured over the record reviews… when I saw something that I liked, I got on my bike and rode back to the record store and bought the record, rode back, and read and re-read the album, liner notes, and I played it over and over until I understood that I was listening to… I am so grateful that I had those experiences. Thank you Rick!
I agree 100%. I'm grateful to have grown up in the 60's & 70's to appreciate every second of every tune. Plus I know what it's like to practice my craft & play & listen to music from the heart.
Talk about hitting the nail on the head with this video. You’ve perfectly explained how music has been trivialized to nothing, that is such a sad, sad thing
I’m 58 and my Dad took me to see The Who when I was 10 and taking drum lessons in school. Changed my life in a profound way, In that music became so important to me. This video reinforces my take on what I’ve seen over the years.
Music is another reason I wish we had a Time Machine
There is a time machine only, unfortunately you have to depart this dimension in order to travel in time to any which way you like.
All the money I spent on records since 1958 (and coming home finding out there was only one good song on the album) - I prefer having music access it in today's concept.
No truer words have ever been recorded. It is so sad and it will never go back, it will only get further removed from we knew 50 years ago.
As a teenager, after I got my paycheck every other Friday, I would go to the local record store, go through all the bins from A-Z until the store closed (I eventually worked there on the closing shift); I'd buy a few records, go home and put the records on, lay on my bed and spend the night getting lost listening to new music, all while looking at the album art and artist photos, reading the lyrics and liner notes (extra excitement if it was a double album). Then I'd make cassette copies (remember TDK SA90's, you could fit an album on each side back then), keeping the vinyl as a "master copy" in a plastic sleeve. And one of my primary recreational activities with my best friends was driving to an out of the way spot, chilling in my car, lay the seats back, popping the cassettes in my pioneer car stereo and rockin' out to our favorite bands and music ...there may have been some herbage involved. We called it "Music Appreciation"...ahh, those were the days! 😎🎧🎸🎶🤘
Would have loved to be a part of that.
@@villehytonen7279 You can! Record stores are still around. Old and new music is available
"Those were the days my friend, We thought they'd never end."
Well now I can download 30 albums in 60 seconds and I don't have to look at artwork or lyrics or anything
That was the way... Great times.
I like this conversation. I had gotten into that habit of attending concerts and recording a lot, which really takes you out of the whole experience. But what changed my mindset and behavior was recently attending a Coldplay concert in Oct, 2023. Lead singer Chris Martin was so amazing. During one song, he asked the fans "for this one song, can I just ask you to put your phones in your pocket and hands in the air." We did. And that moment was so special because we were all present in the moment and really listening and feeling the song. He knew what he was doing. He could not force us to put our phones away. He wanted that connection and after the song, their were fireworks. we did not record that because our phones were in our pockets. Great lesson!!!
I have been trying to teach this lesson my entire life. I have traveled the world (80+ countries) without a camera or fancy phone. As I tell the grandkids, you are either living your life, or filming it. Can't do both, as the process of "capturing the moment" removes you completely from the moment.
I hear you. But Coldplay were kind of one of those bands .... the beginning of the end. A carbon copy of better bands. A safe act for people who rejected Radiohead and other more technically proficient English acts. The good thing is that after two or three records, Coldplay went through the growing pains other bands already had. They reformed themselves into something people either liked or didn't. That was smart. Remember them performing with Beyonce at the Superbowl?
@@warrendavis6023 yes very true. I do remember that. But they didn’t make an impact on my mindset to stop and really listen to music without videos, etc. but the biggest influence has been my 13-year-old niece .. I took her to see her very first live concert. She likes K-pop. I don’t understand it even though I’m half Korean, but her she wanted to experience the music without any recording of anything. She said to me, please stop recording. I don’t want you to send me any recordings if you do because I want to have my own experience and remember the music in my mind. I was blown away. But yes, I do hear what you’re saying about the carbon bands. I grew up with an uncle who was in the record business in the 1970’s… He made sure that we be exposed to all genres of music. When they first came out with CDs and CD players, he was really upset while we the teenagers were so excited to try something new… my first live concert was The Turtles. I remember seeing them live and I still listen to them on my own when no one’s around because I get judged🤣
@@dos-fslady3140yes it sure does!!
@@warrendavis6023 I’d completely disagree that Coldplay is a “safe act” for those who rejected Radiohead…it’s simply just fine to NOT worship at the feet of bands like Radiohead…nothing wrong with them but so many RH fans somehow think it’s “higher, deeper” songwriting. It’s not. It’s possible some musicians think maybe it’s sometimes just boring, not musically superior. I DO like Radiohead in smallish doses but there’s definitely a snob aspect to the fan base…as if they’re the epoch of musicianship. Nobody can equal them. Ok, whatever…Coldplay is not lesser…Oasis is not lesser. Sometimes people just enjoy actual memorable melodies. And loving Radiohead is fine, and I really love some of their stuff. But they’re not necessarily special…so very special…to everyone. 😬😅😂🤣
We have the same problem of oversaturation with film and TV, sexuality and in some places even with food. It is a strange time when some people have everything and yet do not live a happy life.
One of your best videos. Loved it. You've pretty summed up the reasons why I basically don't use Spotify or other streaming services and why I still buy albums. I love staring at my wall, seeing my thousands of cds, having one catch my eye, and play it while I browse through the booklet. Just a couple of days ago did it with my first print 1994 Pearl Jam Vitalogy CD I bought 30 years ago, and what a thrill it was to listen to that amazing album and experiencing that groundbreaking packaging all over again. I'm 42 and reconnected with me at 12 discovering that record and how wonderfully weird it was to first browse through those pages while listening to music that blew (and still does) my mind. Great video!
I remember buying CDs in the 90s and knowing every song on every album by heart. The art of deep tracks is long gone.
I have plenty of playlists that I made for myself on Spotify, and hit the shuffle button, like so many people out there. But when I am listening to a specific ALBUM, I always listen from Track 1, no shuffle, no skipping. That's how the artist and producer intended the album to be played, so that's how I listen to it.
I'm 38. Grew up with Vinyl, Tapes, and CDs. Then I was there for the beginning of file sharing which was the first time I was able to just go find anything online. I personally love that I can go on Spotify and find whatever I'm in the mood for. And if anything I think it's made it easier to find new music. I still get lost in the music quite often with spotify. There's still nothing like putting on a record but I still don't have a hard time at all connecting with music on whatever other platform they come up with. 8 tracks, Vinyl, Tapes, CDs, MP3, Streaming it's all just music in my mind and I enjoy all of it.
I’ve listened to Led Zeppelin and everything from that time up until now… and I think there’s a lot more interesting music today than ever. Seems like people have difficulties finding it…
When I was a kid, I saved up, my dad drove me to the record store and I bought the White Album by the Beatles. It was a huge event in my life. Today I still cherish it!
I walked into a church basement that was doing some sort of after-school teen hangout thing. Somebody put on the White Album and played the entire thing thing loud on big speakers. It had just been released and we were eager to listen. It builds and builds with all those sweet little songs and then erupts into the frightening and magnificent Revolution Number 9.
Every song is a solid gem but together they all build something so much bigger.
The part on voting with your attention is so important. Equally important as vote with your dollar. Pay attention to what you spend time and money on, and if you don't like those things, then stop. If you don't, then what are you doing?
It's "hate listening" (similar to "hate watching" as I call it). Someone, I won't say who, needs to get out of their echo chamber, go to a record store and ask for some recommendations and realize that there's an entire universe of good, new, modern stuff that doesn't get filtered through algorithms.
@@jasonbaldwin184Just start listening to good college radio stations.
Rick, love the moving around to different locations. Your production touches are getting great!
Excellent video Rick, you got a lot of content in there and it was really well put together.