[78-L] How Bing Crosby morphed into Frank Sinatra.!!!!!! [FWD]

[bradc944 at comcast.net]

my USD$0.02....

Yes, 'popular' music in the US has declined to a point which I will NOT even listen to any kind of commercial radio for my musical needs.  This goes exponential for any 'urban' formatting music... and, yes, 'urban' is STILL in use as a radio AND music format.  The closest thing I listen to that would be considered 'popular' music would be the morning and mid-morning programs on BBC Radio 2.  I have heard a few things I like (Lily Allen, and, for some unknown reason, Paolo Nutini, amongst others), but I have also heard some great piles of poo.  Needless to say, Radio 1 is right out... except for some of the dance/techno programs.  Now THAT has been an interesting voyage into form-and-style metamorphosis, if one cared to do the research.

But I digress.

I listen to everything from musica antiqua (including performance of Gregorian Chant) to extremely cutting-edge punk, ska, even giving avant-garde music a try (which is how I have become enamored with Conlon Nancarrow, and managed to find THREE LPs of his works!).  Conlon takes a VERY acquired taste, let me assure you!

The trick to enjoying this hobby (IMnsHO) is coming at music with a somewhat open mind to new stylings and settings, then being able to relate them to something you've heard that was recorded 80-90 years ago, to see how music has meandered from Point A to Point B... and being able to enjoy not only the end-points, but at least a part of the journey along the way.

Enough of my blatherings. My ears work juuuust fine, thank you.  Enough of the poo, life's too short.

Brad

----- Original Message -----
From: martha 
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Sent: Wed, 2 Jun 2010 08:00:41 +0000 (UTC)
Subject: Re: [78-L] How Bing Crosby morphed into Frank Sinatra.!!!!!! [FWD]

 Nice little PC commentary, but "here we go again" like Hell !    Too "old"? 
"Don't know how?" Since WHEN do ears forget "how" to listen, or the brain to 
appreciate?  You, in fact, are the spectacularly, stupidly wrong one.   The 
making and appreciation of popular music has been declining, if not already 
dead, for decades.  The cr*p being foisted on everyone today is nothing but 
ignorant garbage, and utterly devoid of culture, history, sensitivity, and 
education.  It IS bad, and it IS trash .




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>>
>> Here we go again. Your value judgement (no good music today) is 
>> ludicrous,
>> and your factual statement (everything today is 1962 James Brown) is not
>> just wrong but spectacularly and stupidly wrong. James Brown's 1962 riffs
>> etc. are not even particularly evident today, though you'll occasionally
>> hear some of his 1972 ones. But not that often.
>>
>> Just because you're old and don't know how to listen to modern music or
>> even where to find it doesn't mean it's bad. "Urban dance" as a category
>> description is about 25 years out of date, and apparently so are you.
>>
>> It does the appreciation of older music no favors to denigrate the new.

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