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I like the original in all it's natural 60s campyness better :)

 

 

France Gall, one of the "It Girls" of the 60's, pased over earlier this year.   My fave song of hers, Ella Elle L'a:

 

Edited September 6, 2018 by ByeByeBye

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-gKpcj1N6ec

 

Luv u mod for editing my Post -_-  <_<

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yoYZf-lBF_U

 

That is some real Music!!!

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Randy Newman, another one of those very underrated poet/songsmiths.  He has made quite a few humorous songs (this offering is not one of the funny variety) and that tends to be the kiss off death in pop music.

 

If you are a "click through" listener, make sure you hit the chorus at 1:26.  The entire intro builds to this massive climatic hook.  There is 2nd chorus at 2:31 that adds strings in the build up.  A very dramatic and catchy pop piece with poignant and evocative lyrics.

 

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The title should read "why modern music _sounds_ so bad"..

 

If your maximum attention span still allows you watch some information for 20 min, then enjoy this little insight.

While the effect of overdoing dynamic compression have been noted around here already a couple of times, there was a lot of info there that I never heard of before:

 

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0:30 is the good part

: 3 listen to my favourite utuber when studying or doing uni hwk

 

Edited September 7, 2018 by Heles

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Steely Dan, my favorite band of all time...by far.  Any song, any album.  The music is so tight it is seemless.  Walter Becker, half of the Dan, passed on last year.  Fagen continues to perform and seems to be having a good time in his elder years.  Their likes will never be seen again...true greats of the 70s, 80s, and 90s.  

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tT0D1K8quV4

 

live version

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5JpzX7Grk7k

 

The Dukes of September (a contemporary grandpa version live) 

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The title should read "why modern music _sounds_ so bad"..

 

If your maximum attention span still allows you watch some information for 20 min, then enjoy this little insight.

While the effect of overdoing dynamic compression have been noted around here already a couple of times, there was a lot of info there that I never heard of before:

 

 

 

While I agree with 99% of what he says, I strongly disagree with his rather grim conclusion. 

 

The brainwashing he is talking about has been going on pretty much forever.  In the 60s and 70s radio inundated you with whatever the days current pop bubble gum piece was which the record machine was flogging at the time.  Every pop/rock station, while still independent, thwanged you with the top 10 constantly...sometime you would hear the number 1 song two or three times in an hour!  Burning a groove to death is nothing new and it is certainly how much of the beloved trove of old dino rock got ingrained into our nostalgic conscientiousness.

 

He goes on to talk about how most talented musicians will never be signed by a record label.  This is also something that is not new in the industry and is actually an industry cliche...the mediocre rise to the top while the gifted and creative must be satisfied with the creation alone...art for art's sake.

 

He actually says, qoute: "Music as an art form is dying.  It's being replaced by music which is a disposable product designed to sell but not to inspire.  So we shouldn't be so complacent in allowing systematic, cold, factory produced music to dominate, or else".....blah, blah, blah 

 

In every decade since the 50s, it has always been this way.  I know, I was there...bubble gum music...chew it up, spit it out.  The Music has never died...it got kinda sick in the early 90s and hiphopped in the early 00s, but it has NEVER BEEN STRONGER than now. There is currently a revolution going on in pop music...a creative explosion that the world has never been witness to.  Access to magic equipment and wizard programs are easy to acquire for anyone with even a modicum of desire.  This revolution in how we create music goes hand in hand with how we now listen to music....enter YouTube, SoundCloud, Spotify, I-Tunes, etc.  We have the choice to listen to whatever we wish whenever we wish unlike in past decades where you got what was on the radio...period...unless you put in a lot of effort to find "underground music".

 

With these new listening venues musicians have a FREE way of getting exposure for their tunes...flippin' FREE!...and they don't even have to spend their nights in smoky bars or being forced to play music they don't like just to pay the bills.  Get enough listeners and you start to make money, maybe even a record deal.  And if you don't hit it big, you still get to have your creations heard and this is the real pay off anyway.

 

Because of these two factors, easier access to music processing for everyone and access to exposure venues, pop music is going nuts by comparison to previous decades.  The creative juices are squirting out all over the 10s culture..and everywhere in the world. (Another factor in the rise of pop quotient...much larger worldwide audience...with a much larger population)  We are getting tons more high quality, diverse, and creative music than ever before...by a friggin' mile! 

 

We are currently in the most dynamic time for music in the entire history of the world...any decade, any century, any epoch (that history is aware of).  And I personally believe that we are only on the doorstep to this new musical revolution.  It is going to get so easy to access tech-magical programs that anyone that hums a tune will be able to bring into being and orchestrate whatever pops into their heads.  You favorite music may very well be your own music.  The possibilities are mind boggling and if you don't have melodies bouncing around in your own head there will be literally millions of people that will love for you to listen to theirs.

 

The future (and now) is so bright for pop, it's gotta wear shades.

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oh yes a bit of thrash metal

this will clear your head out lol

 

 

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Heh :D

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When you connect with a song so much ...

 

 

 

 

Amazing Song :D

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Since tanker's day celebration wasn't that good, i'm waiting so hard for Christmas.  :lol: