uh.  wow.

 
And let that be a ******* lesson for both of you.

Yeah!!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ajHs8tCWew

  Sure, we all think we're musically hip, but the reality is that the vast majority of people are too busy multi-tasking to focus on listening, really listening, to the music.  Do you remember how we used to sit alone in a dark room, with no distractions, as the music filled up the space around us, pouring into our ears, seeping into our pores until it was the only thing in our universe?  No one does that anymore.

well said bubba-we did a quick mix of a new song and sat in the car for a listen and everyone remembered this is what we used to do-park somewhere and listen to a cassette or two-just listening and smoking......

webbs hill studio

  Sure, we all think we're musically hip, but the reality is that the vast majority of people are too busy multi-tasking to focus on listening, really listening, to the music.  Do you remember how we used to sit alone in a dark room, with no distractions, as the music filled up the space around us, pouring into our ears, seeping into our pores until it was the only thing in our universe?  No one does that anymore.

well said bubba-we did a quick mix of a new song and sat in the car for a listen and everyone remembered this is what we used to do-park somewhere and listen to a cassette or two-just listening and smoking......

I don't know whether 'nobody' does that anymore..I know a lot of kids around here do just that..listening to only music.


I think there is way too much generalizing going on about this.

What I think some of our "younger folk" may not remember...and, who knows, may better off for it...is that in the "early days" there was very little "youth music" on the radio or elsewhere and that there weren't Guitar Centers or Musicians Friends or record shops in every city or town and that getting to listen to "your" music was not only a priviledge and an "awaited occurance" it was, for many of us, a downright chore to accomplish.  I used to have to wait until everyone in the house was asleep and then use the primitive mono earphone bud on my "crystal" radio to tune in and listen to "Stans Record Review from Shreveport Louisiana" from midnight until 6am...I'd generally fall asleep around 3am on a weekend night.  On a school night my grandmom...who raised me...would confiscate my radio after 10pm.  Our music was precious.  Important.  Life altering.  It sometimes still is.  But now it is so ubiquitous that everyone of all ages takes it for granted.  More's the pity.  I actually pity you fartheads that don't have a clue as to what you're missing.  I feel sorry for you.  I honestly do.  YMMV.

I listened to CHLO in StThomas or CKOX in Woodstock ON around midnight for their programs...of course I was under the comforter then as well...with dad's ham radio headset...he was always wondering where it went...

Here's a different list.

Old55


Here's a different list.

No, HERE'S a different list!
 

yorolpal


What I think some of our "younger folk" may not remember...and, who knows, may better off for it...is that in the "early days" there was very little "youth music" on the radio or elsewhere and that there weren't Guitar Centers or Musicians Friends or record shops in every city or town and that getting to listen to "your" music was not only a priviledge and an "awaited occurance" it was, for many of us, a downright chore to accomplish.  I used to have to wait until everyone in the house was asleep and then use the primitive mono earphone bud on my "crystal" radio to tune in and listen to "Stans Record Review from Shreveport Louisiana" from midnight until 6am...I'd generally fall asleep around 3am on a weekend night.  On a school night my grandmom...who raised me...would confiscate my radio after 10pm.  Our music was precious.  Important.  Life altering.  It sometimes still is.  But now it is so ubiquitous that everyone of all ages takes it for granted.  More's the pity.  I actually pity you fartheads that don't have a clue as to what you're missing.  I feel sorry for you.  I honestly do.  YMMV.

+many yorolpal. I'm sure some other similar aged to me, UK forumites will remember having a single speaker tranny radio pressed to one ear trying to stay tuned to Radio Luxembourg to catch plays of the latest tunes. I seem to recall most of my early musical influences were heard that way as I was supposed to be going to sleep. One of the AM radio stations with a meandering broadcast wavelength IIRC

That's the UK version of your post.

I believe it's also the huge number of published albums that makes it harder to get these multimillionsellers. The buying is inevitably spread between so many products.
In the old days there were 2-4 really hot names in about three or four categories, something like "pop", "rock", "progressive" and "BLACK music" (:o/) that were ruling the charts.

A related phenomenon: In Finland there's normally not one foreign album in the yearly top ten, because the foreign offering is so vast. The buying is so much more concentrated in the domestic field, that foreign artist make it only occasionally to top ten.

jamesg1213


The thing is, that most fans here, are strictly song oriented, 3 to 4 minute people that could not do anything beyond that.

I think that people that can only do "songs" and pieces about that girl yet again, are the ones that do not like longer things and will criticize Tales from Topographic Oceans and Close to the Edge, or The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway as "pretentious", when in the end, these are the massive "operas" of the time and place that we were lucky enough to hear and see.

That's what I think.


Or is it?

I don't disagree on this in its entirety.
 
(And apologies if it looked like my previous comment was offensive!)
 
But the perception is that everyone is not intelligent enough to know the hit, or you have to listen to what the DJ is giving you, including the crass comments and the lines for the girls. You and I are way beyond that and know way better!
 
In my days in Santa Barbara, the DJ Guy Guyden of Space Pirate Radio fame used to play things sight unseen and long cuts left and right ... so the Golden Earring's Moontan album is out (Guy deserved the Gold record for it!), and Guy is playing "Are You Receiving Me? ... to which the other guy yapping with Guy said ... "it's not rock'n'roll" ... and Guy slowed the record to a total stop (a la Echoes in the PF movie) and then said ... "who cares! It's great music!"
 
This is ALL I'm wanting to say about the music. Not that 3 minutes is not as good as Manuel Gottsching doing a 45 minute solo with Klaus Schulze (In Blue), which you will never hear ... they can both be good ... but they are very different feeling wise and such ... and if you are strictly listening to music because it is 3 or 4 or 5 minutes, and not because of the "experience", I am pretty sure you are missing out on what music is, and above all, was designed to be!
 
If there is no soul, or spirt, behind it, what's the point? And the length won't matter. But then, if it has massive soul and spirit, the length doesn't matter either, and I think this is the part that you are not familiar with.
 
There is more music out there ... and I did not say it was better than what you know. You inferred that! I did say it was vastly different! But to "find" the other music, and different things, you have to let go, of all the things you know ... and some folks are scared to do that, by thinking that they will lose everything they know. Which is not true at all ... !!!