i think music is DE-evolving

This album actually seems pretty good:

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Judging by the song titles I think they're GLP'ers.

nah, you just like to puss.

maybe it is evolving.. when something is dying it means it is about to be replaced with something brand nw.

music is going to become life. us.

TRUE music is life.

Not here (obviously which is why we need to be entertained by more external forms of music (noise).. entertainment.

But that is about to change. When everything around you is dancing with life in the most divine way. There is love. joy. bliss. music in the air. flowing through you. all around you.. the idea of music I have a feeling is going to be taking on a whole new meaning ;)

Yes, music (with the exception of classical) reached it's peak sometime in the 70's and has been slowly on the decline ever since with the true gems becoming rarer by the day.

I stopped listening to the radio a long time ago...

Yes it has.

I had to go backwards in time to find new music that moves me.

Stopped in the late sixties! :)

Remember this little old fella back here who had a Brian?
The whole idea of life is to understand that it is a sham.
Many think its a game but it is not.
Its serious.
Once you start seeing that everywhere you go, in everything you do every day, you are ready to leave.
The next place is even harder.

My demo songs are decently in the non-devolved classic pop style - good melody and harmony. SoundCloud link is in my signature. Free downloads, if interested. Currently working on some instrumentals that feature a lot more and better guitar (and bass guitar at all), and are more rock than pop overall.

i think you should walk into a high school band or school glee club or chorus program and tell them what you think about their abilities.

Music was devolving for a long time before you even came along. Your choices of "great bands" were devolved bands themselves.

Your comment shows your ignorance and lack of genre knowledge. Let us all hear a song that you have created, since you obviously are one of the last great composers of our time.

actual hiphop isn't on the radio, only mindless dribble that record labels are pushing on the mainstream, and well all that old music is just talking about booze and dope, its about as mindless and pointless as what you think of modern music. your parents can say the same about what you consider good music. so basically this is just your opinion

Amplified, recorded music devolves on its own - no matter what. Led Zeppelin and Beatles were great listening.. the first few hundred times, but nothing beats an acoustic jam in the woods or with a tombourine - depends on who is playing. Best music I have ever experienced - was never signed by a label or 'digitally remastered". Out in the woods where a few 'outlaws' live, they always tell visitors to 'turn that shit off' if they bring their iPhone and battery speakers to play 'pretty lights' techno music - they make it a point to always give 'real' music precedence, and are vocal about how much they dislike all recorded music. They not much into photography either - sometimes I feel the same way and I have even made money from photos.

You might look into Prog.
Ayreon
Big Big Train
Dream Theater
Frost
It Bites
Shadow Gallery
Spocks Beard
Transatlantic
RPWL
Riverside
Porcupine Tree

Satan is still making music. Right up until the collapse of the economy.

Nope, society is devolving, the music follows suit, as it is the expression of said society

I agree..there is still good music out there..you just have to look for it..mainstream music is awful..my 10 yr old grandson loves Layne Staley...so its up to us to teach good music to the young...

There was awesome music in the 60's, 70's, 80's and maybe early 90's. After 1995, most of it begun to suck.

this thread needs more devo

LOL!

Awesome.

Kick ass.

There's still some good rock. You don't have the drum/guitar solos and skill that people had in the past though... but not everybody had mad guitar skills.

AC-DC for example.. their music is good, but it's not particularly complex.. it's basically a lot of the same generic beats with different lyrics. (just being honest here)

I like disturbed, 5 finger death punch, three days grace, etc.

People say this song is a total joke... I say kill them and then fuck 'em in the butt.

This complaint is annoying and not true.

There is plenty of good music out there along with plenty of musicians that still honor and respect the golden age of music 60/70's.

Look elsewhere than mainstream and what the mass media is shoving down your throat.

If it has corporate sponsorship it's crap.

There are new bands who have produced outstanding music in 2014. The problem is that bad bands are pushed by the mainstream media and I am leaning towards the belief that many in the USA are simply deevolving. If you go to Barnes & Noble, Iron Fist features quality bands. Here are some quality songs from new bands from 2011-2014.

Stallion

Cauldron

RAM

Portrait

Myrkur

In Solitude in 2013 released an album in the vein of The Doors and Led Zep.

Are we not men? We are Devo. Are we NOT men? We are Devo1

You are right. The reason for the quality going down is because some of the youth did not listen to the mmusic we listened to as youth. I am 47, and I listened to easy rock,rock,Motown,jazz and New wave. Back then the music industry was very hard to get into.

Alot of entertainers are selected because of how they look,and not so much because of singing ability or being able to play an instrument really well. Studios want big sales and impulsive buying is King.

I just went to see Tears for Fears and Psychedelic Furs. They still sound awesome because they are real musicians. Back in the day,most groups had horn sections. The kids have been dumbed down. There are some new good groups out there. But if you are too good, you will not appeal to the biggest sector of music buyers, young people.

I had four years of some kind of music training in school. Music for the masses does not take that into consideration. Some of the artists do not know what C sharp or a D flat sounds like. Transposing music is not easy either. They pay people to do what they can't do. To make sales easier.

I really think it has also to do with ear bones and frequencies. If you listen to a certain style only,you grow accustomed to it. Music today is a science to make sales.