thirdtragedy said:

kanye west thinks he is the next led zeppelin...hahaha.

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Kanye West is a fucking hack...

Geomancer said:

Ahh, yes...indeed...spoken just like the average simpleton who gets all his current music from MTV/mainstream radio...  (even though you claimed you don't, your comments make it obvious that you do)


Seriously though, there is a TON of great music out there if you actually take the time to look instead of just accepting what MTV feeds you...maybe you should think for yourself and explore better music, eh?

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allhallows said:

Seriously, The Beatles, Pink Floyd, Hendrix, The Grateful Dead have no competition for the latest generation of musical genius's.

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The_Ghost said:

'What happened to MTV' should be the name of this thead.

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Dammit, that's what I was going to say!

Geomancer said:

I read what you wrote.

But why the fuck would you say something like "what happened to music" based purely off of what you saw on MTV though, if you didn't think that was the representation of all music these days?


Besides...mainstream music was just as gay 5 years ago as it is now.

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The_Ghost said:

'What happened to MTV' should be the name of this thead.

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The_Ghost said:

'What happened to MTV' should be the name of this thead.

Music is doing just fine.

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OneMoreRobot3021 said:

There is amazing new music coming out every single month of every year.

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allhallows said:

Rap - every fucking video is a bunch of guys jumping around their expensive cars holding their gold chains up to the camera everytime the camera focus's on them. And EVERY, and I mean EVERY rap video I've seen so far has them throwing money into the air like its pocket change. The worst part is that the songs don't even make sense. Its a bunch of random noises and the words money, baller, millionaire, and Benz repeated 50 times.

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omg this dude is so pissed and its hilarious.

pfxtc said:

My biggest problem is that nobody has ANY personality these days.

You look at Led Zeppelin and you'll get Bonzo up on stage doing a 20 minute drum solo,

Townshend smashing his guitar all over the god damn place,

Hendrix lighting shit on fire and fucking his amps,

and a ton of other things like that.

Nobody today has any soul. All the classic rock artists got inspiration from blues/jazz artists and portrayed it in their work.

Todays "artists" are just businessmen.

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Jufin said:

pfxtc said:

My biggest problem is that nobody has ANY personality these days.

You look at Led Zeppelin and you'll get Bonzo up on stage doing a 20 minute drum solo,

Townshend smashing his guitar all over the god damn place,

Hendrix lighting shit on fire and fucking his amps,

and a ton of other things like that.

Nobody today has any soul. All the classic rock artists got inspiration from blues/jazz artists and portrayed it in their work.

Todays "artists" are just businessmen.

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You're completely full of shit.  You need to hear more music.  Try The Mars Volta, Tool, Meshuggah, all bands with a ton of personality and passion, and sheer originality.  Music is dead? GTFO

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pfxtc said:

Tool is OK at best,

Meshuggah is garbage as is Mars Volta.

please.

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Quoted for agreement.

PF, you listen to any electronic music? Do you not like the synthetic sound? I didn't used to either but electronica is really where it's at right now. At least to my tastes.

Jufin said:

Clearly you just have a really shitty taste in music.  Go back to the 70s, fag. 

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Yes.

Mars Volta is clearly better then Zep. Meshuggah is WAY thrashier then Kill 'em All Metallica. And Tool is WAYYY more psychedelic then Pink Floyd.


PLEASE!

Don't get me wrong though,

there's a few good artists out there today

Tchan909 said:

Hey, you'll find something you like, it's not like good music can "die." It just gets bored of old sounds and moves on to new ones. Then the old sounds get taken over by filthy charlatans who piss on the graves of the gods that came before them.

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That's actually a great way to put it,

I just prefer the classic sound I guess

pfxtc said:

Jufin said:

Clearly you just have a really shitty taste in music.  Go back to the 70s, fag. 

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Yes.

Mars Volta is clearly better then Zep. Meshuggah is WAY thrashier then Kill 'em All Metallica. And Tool is WAYYY more psychedelic then Pink Floyd.

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Jufin said:

pfxtc said:

Jufin said:

Clearly you just have a really shitty taste in music.  Go back to the 70s, fag. 

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Yes.

Mars Volta is clearly better then Zep. Meshuggah is WAY thrashier then Kill 'em All Metallica. And Tool is WAYYY more psychedelic then Pink Floyd.

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Thrashier?  More Psychedelic?  What does that mean?  Are saying that the more extreme a genre the better it is?  You could say that Yes are more psychedelic that Pink Floyd, would that make them better? 

IMO Mars Volta are better than Zep, Meshuggah fucking shit all over Metallica, and Tool are better than Pink Floyd.  I'm not bagging any of those bands but I feel that music has evolved since then.

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Jufin said:

Tool are better than Pink Floyd.

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Tchan909 said:

Jufin said:

Tool are better than Pink Floyd.

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So tempted to give you a 0-shroom rating for this most heinous of fabrications. Soooo... tempted.

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Tchan909 said:

Tool is great and all but their sound is so narrow compared to the wide range of sonic territory explored by Floyd. Compare Piper at the Gates of Dawn to The Wall, then compare Undertow to 10,000 days.

I enjoy variety and ongoing development of musical technique. Tool apparently doesn't.

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My opinion is that Tool is kind of like "a child" learning the ropes of psychedelic rock,

and Pink Floyd is the creator

but I'm slightly biased.

Jufin said:

Tool's idea of music is more perfecting a certain sound rather than experimenting, even though they do experiment, just not as much as Pink Floyd.  I personally prefer the intensity, feel, and lyrics of Tool than Pink Floyd.

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Tool's sound is quite unique. Don't get me wrong, I actually kind of just discovered them and have been enjoying them a fair bit. I just really enjoy the open-ended experimentation of Floyd. I also thought that was what the "progressive" genre was all about, but I could be wrong.

sam420 said:

I think good bands don't get recognised as easily today.  Floyd would have got their break and got into a mainstream media channel such as radio, and then got huge.  Now the primary media channel is the internet people have so much choice available to them that bands don't stand out and grow as explosively.  Which means you have to look for good music and not just complain about the mainstream being shit when all the mainstream caters to is 12 year old girls.

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Jufin said:

I really like Piper at the Gates of Dawn, easily my favorite one.  DSOTM is good as well, but I never really got into the others.  They just don't do it for me like Tool do...

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Anyone who likes Piper is cool in my book

Most say they don't like Pink Floyd after listening to The Wall once or twice (I can't stand that album btw) and blow them off, when their best material is DSOTM, Piper, Wish You Were Here, and others..

Tool just seems a little too dark for me, don't really dig the vibes that much. Pink Floyd's music always had a secondary meaning to it in my eyes, DSOTM especially. Very spiritual feeling to it. IMO

pfxtc said:

Very very true,

like I said in my first post ( I think ), the Internet is a reason why the emergence of could-be great bands is limited.

hopefully things don't stay this way,

but they're gonna get worse

fuck technology.

sort of.

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sam420 said:

pfxtc said:

Very very true,

like I said in my first post ( I think ), the Internet is a reason why the emergence of could-be great bands is limited.

hopefully things don't stay this way,

but they're gonna get worse

fuck technology.

sort of.

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you're missing the point.  things are great.  all you have to do is turn off your tv and download some great music.  there's way more choice available to us now, it's total musical freedom.  in the 60's you had to listen to what capitalism provided you with.

if i LOVE listening to people meowing like a cat and playing the harp, if that's my bag i could probably find it on the internet

if i love a tiny tiny subgenre of a genre, i can explore it in detail

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haha, I have 15 gigs of music and I'm an avid Dead Kennedys fan (GET OFF THE AIR MTV!)

idk, I have a hard time finding music that I like nowadays, it just really doesn't compare in my eyes.

but I'm very very very picky

Jufin said:

Yes

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wildchild68 said:

Jufin said:

Yes

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Yes!

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Tchan909 said:

I honestly like almost all of Floyd's albums, even The Final Cut (which is really Pink Floyd in name only, but I think it's decent). In fact, the only Floyd album I honestly can't stand is A Momentary Lapse of Reason - Roger Waters already made this joke, but they really couldn't have named that one better. Fucking sucks. Division Bell is decent though.

I'd be hard pressed to pick a favorite, though. Their sound progresses (get it? PROGRESSIVE? Take notes here, folks) so much from the start to the finish that I can't even comfortably divide their catalogue up into eras where individual albums stand out.

Piper is some of the best psychedelic music I've heard, Meddle broke the ground that DSOTM stood tall on, Wish You Were Here is beautiful, Animals is underrated but wonderfully melodic, The Wall is downright operatic... et cetera. They all have their own strengths.

I admit it: I'm a total Pink Floyd fanboy. I would blow every current and former member of that band, living or dead.

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I'm not really a huge fan of anything after Animals (I can't fucking stand the progressive rock sound overload, the psychedelic stuff is way better) but each of the "newer" albums definetely have their bright sides.

And my favorite Pink Floyd song is Astronomy Domine off Piper, and my favorite album has gotta be Wish You Were Here followed by DSOTM.

Hell, I even listen to the members' solo albums, listening to THE MADCAP LAUGHS right now

I never thought I would have liked these guys, but I have been listening to them for a little over a year now. In my eyes they are THE most creative band in all of music. Nobody can put me in the same  head space like Pink Floyd can, they're rivaled only by Led Zeppelin in my eyes.

And I'd totally go gay for them all too don't worry, LOL.