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Edwird -> RE: Music of the 1960s What a pity we we not yet born. What a time we missed for sure. (8/15/2016 1:47:38 PM)
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ORIGINAL: WhoreMods
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ORIGINAL: Edwird
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And on another point; computer chips are not musical instruments.
But that's at least 80% of what's on the airwaves that I hear next to me at the traffic lights. What horrendous sonic torture to anyone not being born half deaf.
Computer chip 'percussion' and auto-tune 'singing' is what's being foisted upon us now, without relent.
My ears can't handle that sort of sonic fingernail/chalkboard onslaught from the outset, so pardon me for not being able to get to such apparently lesser considerations in the matter as musical merit.
Because, of course, Kraftwerk, The White Noise, Weather Report, Gary Numan, Magazine, Laurie Anderson, Front 242, Isao Tomita, Wendy Carlos, Edgar Winter, The Who, Nine Inch Nails, Pink Floyd, Mahavishnu Orchestra, Alice Cooper, Cher, Donna Summer, John Carpenter, The Cure, George Clinton, Hawkwind, and anybody else who's ever used an synthesiser or an electronically treated vocal on a record or on stage have only ever recoded worthless shit?
(Seriously, don't talk such bollocks.)
If you cannot hear the difference between "Here Comes The Sun" and whatever crap is blasted upon us nowadays while sitting at the red light in traffic, then congratulations to you for both lack of musical sensitivity and half deaf ears.
And perhaps you missed out on the 'computer percussion' part. How many of the bands you mention used computer chip 'percussion'?
And no, auto tune was not in existence at the time for any of the bands you mention, and no, none of those artistic efforts came anywhere close to the sonic abomination of auto tune.
In any case, Kraftwerk still made some musical sense of it, having the self-granted granted license of it just being 'dance music' whereby musical over simplification is a welcome thing. Not any great stretch to extend the over simplification further.
But what I say is not 'bollocks,' just opinion. And my overly sensitive ears.
The point that you missed, by a mile, is that what was once in service to the music is now the cultural tail wagging the dog.
Seriously, if you can't tell the difference between how electronics were merely invoked for occasional artistic purpose 30 years ago vs how computer chips have become the basis for anything over the airwaves now ...
Just stop and quit being an idiot.
The computer chip and its horrendous noise is the new 'culture.' And that's the point.
What used to be inserted for artistic purpose in 5% of the production (except for Kraftwerk) is now 95% of the production, good luck to anything else.
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