Okay, this is me bored, talking about music. If you don't like this sort of post, or my opinions, or taste in music, go suck a bag of... :)
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To set the ambiance, listen to Saturday's Sensual Saucy Salacious Super Sexy Sade, while reading. Or not. Off topic, stupid time change happens tonight. Set your clocks back one hour. No, that does *not* mean you are one hour younger...you Supercilious Snarky Psychos. :)
Music is, and always has been, a huge part of my life. I've mentioned this before, but the last year of so I've grown fascinated with YouTube "Reaction" videos. Yea, its just people watching. The modern day digital version of hanging out at the beach, the club or the park, being "voyeuristic" of sorts.
Sometimes the reactions bring about great alacrity and I love seeing people discover some unknown, to them, music or artist and seeing the joy on their faces, but I've also noticed, with some level of surprise and even sorrow, how so many of the younger generation, are, how do I put this politely...musically stunted, deprived, even ignorant (not meant in a pejorative manner) of recent era musicians and all that entails. And its not their fault...in so many ways.
Rock's origins started in the late 1940s when country music, maybe a little jazz and blues blended into a new sound with electric guitars and a steady drumbeat, according to some. From that, other genres branched out into harder rock, Pop, Hip-Hop and so on. MTV was a thing for some time, but then stopped playing music, radio somewhat died, Rap entered the scene, and point blank, I am *not* a fan of Rap and I blame it partially for the musical "stunting" of todays "Yutes".
For example (I'm not drawing attention to any specific channel as I'm not trying to call out anyone) if you look at most U.S.A. For Africa - "We Are The World" reaction videos, most are first time listeners, they've never even heard of this, and what is alarming to me is they don't seem to know most of the singers that are performing. Okay, a lot of these channels are owned/run by youngish black people, and more power to them for doing it as, when a channel gets enough hits and traffic they get paid a percent of the ad money so...good for them. And not that just because someone is black they should know any/all black singers, but people do tend to sort of listen to what their parents listened to when growing up, country people listen to country music, classical music fans kids will be raised on that partially and so on, so one would presume that youngish people would have at least *some* idea who the artists and musicians were from their parents age, meaning mostly the 80s and 90s right?
Wrong. When most of the people doing the reaction videos have no idea who all or most of the singers are, Quincy Jones, Lionel Richie, Stevie Wonder, Paul Simon, Kenny Rogers, Tina Turner, Billy Joel, Michael Jackson (okay everyone knows Michael, but not most of his siblings), Diana Ross, Dionne Warwick, Willie Nelson, Bruce Springsteen, Kenny Loggins, Steve Perry, Daryl Hall, John Oates (Hall and Oates), Huey Lewis, Cyndi Lauper, Bob Dylan, Ray Charles, Waylon Jennings, Bette Midler, The Pointer Sisters, Smokey Robinson and others...that's unfortunate.
My point here is, going back to the infancy of "modern day music" in the 40s, that's not that long ago. From there we jumped to the 60s, the Hippies, Woodstock, psychedelic rock, Led Zeppelin, Disco, the 80's and 90's...music shapes our lives. Its used in TV commercial jingles, movie soundtracks, cultural references, it creates moods, tone, marks unique times and experiences in our lives. You lost your viginity to some song, jammed out to some favorite tune when you got your first drivers licence, had your favorite sounds on when you worked out, jogged, sat around getting high, parties, laying on the beach, music that tied in with whatever large events that happened during your formative years.
Some stick to one genre, some are more diverse. There are eclectic bands, exotic bands, generic bands, esoterical singers and groups like Frank Zappa, The Sex Pistols, Vinnie Spit (Vicente Expectoration? Giggling at my own inside joke.) and then those that are better known (but not necessarily better musicians) like KISS, Bon Jovi, MC Hammer and on and on. But I can't imagine not knowing the cultural importance and relevance of (like them or not) Don Henley's "Boys of Summer" or Bryan Adams' "Summer of 69", or epics like "Faithfully" by Journey or "Stairway to Heaven" by Led Zeppelin.
Alright, I think I had a point here somewhere, but lost it. As usual, I start babbling and lose focus, forget what the hell I was rambling about. But, go watch the reaction channels, support them, make suggestions, it helps them make money, times have been tough, help them out.
Oh, and if you want to hear the best band ever, (ever, hands down, full stop, indisputable, ever, in the history of the world) with the best guitarist, the best bassist, the best percussionist who also happens to be the greatest lyricist, try this on for size.
And if you dispute my assertion about the greatest band ever, you can just go reacquaint yourself with that lovely Bag-O-Dicks mentioned above. Okay, I need to go do something productive. So, I think I'll strip down and take a nap while I contemplate this "productive" notion. Strip down, you say? Yea, I am, after all, wearing panties and a bra.
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ReplyDeleteTo borrow from a one hit wonder from 1980 by The Buggles, video killed the radio star. Prior to that, nobody knew what the artists looked like or for that matter, cared. Black folks could be surprised that it was a hairy white Welsh guy named Tom Jones singing soulfully, and chubby folks like Bachman Turner Overdrive and Aretha Franklin could be signed to recording contracts because they had talent as performers and songwriters.
Video killed all that so that the emphasis is all visual. One need not even sing live in concert anymore, even after the scandals of Milli Vanilli's or Ashley Simpson's lip synching being exposed. Britney Spears lip synchs as does Brianna, Mariah Carey, Meagan Thee Stallion and others.
It used to be that AM radio would play everything by everyone, but as specialized formats and FM radio came into being, music became much more pigeon-holed. If an artist like Steve Earle blurred musical genres, the radio formats being combined often ignored the artist. Earle was lucky because enough country and rock radio stations in Canada and the American Midwest heard enough of what they thought listeners wanted and took a chance on airing his music from the get-go.
Hope all is well.
CollierRouge
You hit on something I've found amusing...how many people (sans video) assumed the Bee-Gee's, Righteous Brothers, Chris Stapleton and a list of others were black, based on the "soul" of the music, the overall vibe, and so on, and were stunned when they found out otherwise. :)
ReplyDeleteLiving in a very white part of the world with folks who only listened to local commercial radio, and even then only in the car, I didn't have much idea of what any musicians looked like until my teens, beyond the musicians who had truly iconic images (Madonna, Bowie, KISS, Cyndi Lauper, Michael Jackson...) and largely still don't. I never thought much about what a musician would look like. I remember being surprised Q Lazarus was a woman, and probably wasn't expecting her to be black either, not that I cared... I just loved doing the Buffalo Bill dance!
DeleteIt is interesting though, how some people just assume that a certain sound, voice or genre must go with a certain race or ethnicity.
DeleteI was hoping you were thinking of Rush based on your description, and was not disappointed! I don't know why they were doing their laundry on stage though? Being their roadie must be tough enough given there's a sixty piece drum kit to set up, and then they decide they want to have white goods on stage as well!
ReplyDeleteIncidentally, their "Spirit of the Radio" isn't a bad introduction to about half a dozen different musical styles!
They also have a vending machine. And on a different tour, they have an industrial chicken rotisserie cooker on stage, some guy comes out and bastes in the middle of the concert. I presume they feed themselves and the crew after the concert. :)
DeleteThat's... the second most punk rock thing I've ever heard, the first being when Daphne and Celeste had a wheelchair thrown at the when they played the Reading Festival.
DeleteEccentric people with a sense of humor, and a lot of money. And sometimes, they're just fucking nuts. :)
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