bjornpdx
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Drake beats Beatles Top 10 record
https://www.rollingstone....-top-10-record-745712/Guess I've heard of Drake, but I've never listened to his music. So I did and now I'm depressed. I am old and out of touch and I will never understand the appeal of Billboard Hot 100 music. Ranting about it goes nowhere. The beauty of the melody is gone. Bands actually playing instruments is gone. It's all about the video and not the song. And yadda yadda. Just accept it.
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jamesg1213
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Re: Drake beats Beatles Top 10 record
2018/10/28 16:35:41
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'Bands actually playing instruments' are everywhere Bjorn. Why do you care if they're in the top 100 or not?
Here's a nice melodic song to cheer you up.
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Wibbles
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Re: Drake beats Beatles Top 10 record
2018/10/28 16:53:28
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How many sales of each single were needed to reach the Top 10 in the Beatles' day were needed compared to now?
As for the "Bands actually playing instruments", that's a complaint I've been hearing for over 30 years ever since dance music (not EDM) started to dominate the charts (in the UK at least).
I'm off to see the Wibble, the wonderful Wibble of Wobble
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bjornpdx
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Re: Drake beats Beatles Top 10 record
2018/10/28 16:59:40
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Thanks James. That was really nice. (Really)
But where are all the young ladies shaking their behinds at the camera and the dude with all the naughty words?
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Wibbles
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Re: Drake beats Beatles Top 10 record
2018/10/28 17:10:56
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bjornpdx
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But where are all the young ladies shaking their behinds ... ?
That's what I've been asking most of my life
I'm off to see the Wibble, the wonderful Wibble of Wobble
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bdickens
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Re: Drake beats Beatles Top 10 record
2018/10/28 17:41:26
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Proof we are witnessing the end of civilization.
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Glyn Barnes
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Re: Drake beats Beatles Top 10 record
2018/10/28 17:50:00
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'Tis all about streaming, makes it possible to have lots of top ten songs at the same time, didn't Ed Shenan have all the top ten of the UK chart to himself at one point. There is great music if you look but sadly the bands don't make much from it. I am going to see this band this evening, http://www.lunarossa.co/
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Re: Drake beats Beatles Top 10 record
2018/10/28 18:34:25
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☄ Helpfulby jamesg1213 2018/10/28 18:41:47
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'Bands actually playing instruments' are everywhere Bjorn. Why do you care if they're in the top 100 or not?
Here's a nice melodic song to cheer you up.
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Kalle Rantaaho
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Re: Drake beats Beatles Top 10 record
2018/10/28 18:45:57
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Wibbles
How many sales of each single were needed to reach the Top 10 in the Beatles' day were needed compared to now?
Does that list include only physical record sales or dl and streaming as well? IMO more important would be to know how many households with how many devices for music listening. Today the two teenagers of an average family can easily consume 10-100 times more music (different songs, radio listening excluded) than in the 60's.
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Re: Drake beats Beatles Top 10 record
2018/10/28 22:44:42
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Physical death is looking better all the time. I'm ready for a new reality. This one has gone to hell.
And my groupies (both of them) aren't getting any younger. I'm not sure them "shaking" anything would be a pleasant experience for any us.
Bill
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Re: Drake beats Beatles Top 10 record
2018/10/29 00:23:34
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jamesg1213
'Bands actually playing instruments' are everywhere Bjorn. Why do you care if they're in the top 100 or not?
Here's a nice melodic song to cheer you up.
Naiz, berry naiz
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Glyn Barnes
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Re: Drake beats Beatles Top 10 record
2018/10/29 09:15:09
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Ironically as I become totally out of touch with "the charts" and much popular culture I am discovering more new music, buying more albums and going to more gigs than ever before. 2018 is turning out to be a vintage year so far.
post edited by Glyn Barnes - 2018/10/29 15:31:47
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Voda La Void
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Re: Drake beats Beatles Top 10 record
2018/10/29 13:38:46
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☄ Helpfulby bjornpdx 2018/10/29 14:51:52
Everything is just evolving to a different place. Musicianship and instrumentation has moved away from the attention of the pop world. Most, if not all, radio and streaming success is pop Walmart music. Metal, rock, country, all of it. I don't listen to hip-hop to know how it's been distilled into boring corporate profit music, but I'm sure it has as well. I think we've all seen the video on how pop music devolves into sameness, repetition and simplicity.
It's for youth, seems to me, and they aren't incredibly interested in complexity and have no patience to get deep into anything, really. Every teenager dreams of running their mouth over a microphone in some form or other, because it's the most easily and quickly accessible position in music, and while we see plenty of young, incredible musicians on Youtube, they are still a shrinking percentage of their population. Commercials, reality TV shows, all of it centers around the fantasy of mouthing into a microphone.
Maybe I don't get out much, but I never hear anyone complain about McDonald's selling more burgers than anyone else, without any appreciation for 'real' quality hamburgers, with cold veggies over thick Angus grilled and seasoned with a good quality bun. We just know if we want a real quality burger, we don't go to McDonald's. I think that's what has happened with our music.
Good news is there's plenty of people who love instrumentation and the complete package of song writing and performance. I'm always running into people who surprise me in their choices of what I'd consider quality music, including some young people. It's almost like they know pop music is silly, and it simply has its place in their life, like sitcoms vs movies. Sometimes they want an easy sitcom, sometimes they want to get a little deeper into a movie.
Don't be depressed. There's a whole world out there who loves our kind of music.
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