Okay, I fucking hate today’s music. The song that goes “When you turn around and I see that sexy body goin’ bump bump bump,” has to be the biggest piece of shit I have ever heard. No, I take that back its this one: “My neck, my back, lick my pussy and my crack…” What’s going on? Is it me, or is this stupid fucking music? I swear to god I am going to shoot somebody next time I hear that Justin Timbernuts song again, “cry me a river” or what the fuck ever. If that gets stuck in my head and I find my myself humming it again I will rip the fucking radio from the wall and beat the nearest human to a bloody fucking pulp. Perhaps I am being too harsh, I only hear it 4 times an hour when I am at work.
I don’t know about you but music has a definite calming effect for me… if it’s the right song. But songs like “Thong song,” “Ass and titties,” “Stompin’ in my ariforce one,” (or most Nelly songs for that matter, some of them are okay I guess) just seem so senseless that it enrages me. I think it’s absolutely crazy what people call good music today.
I know you are assuming at this point that I am not black. You assume correctly, but I am not prejudiced. I hate Fred Durst and all of his fucking Limp Bizkit pussy lackeys equally as much as Missy Elliot and her wanna-be following who insist on “singing” every annoying word as loud as they can at parties, with or without the song playing in the background. I also hate Creed and all of their “I’m so goddamned self righteous bullshit” and how he sings with that fake-ass voice. I used to like Creed. Their first album was the, using the parlance of our times… shiznit.
I would change the channel if I had a choice at work, but I don’t so don’t give me that argument.
Aha! What you really mean is, the music they play on the radio sucks. Specifically, the channel you listen to at work. Yes, the radio sucks. There’s decent music out there, but it ain’t on the radio.
I heartily agree with that statement and most of the OP. It seems like when I turn on the local Top 40 Station(yet another CC choice),all they play is hip-hop and rap with a little Britney and some other carbon-copied plastic pop divas or boy bands thrown in to keep the white folks happy. Is there no such thing as REAL music anymore?
I can’t think of the last time I heard a ‘modern’ song that made me cry…or think,FWIW.
Yeah, I had just gotten back from work so the ear-worm at the time was that “bump bump bump” song. I was a little upset. However, I do agree that there is good music out there. Scribble, I like Modest Mouse (not something you would hear on the radio around here (Mid-Missouri)), and System of a Down… hmmmm… a various multi-colored array of music really, so my mind is open. Anything from the Beatles to Dave Matthews Band to Static-X tickles my fancy.
I listen to oldies if I am in charge of the radio. There is nothing else around here. My favorite station that actually played some hard rock and alternative got kicked off of the air for doing something stupid. Can’t remember what. But they havent replaced it.
Hey, I heard an excellent song 2 summers ago, it’s called “The General” and its by Dispatch. A Grrrrreat song.
I dabble in making my own techno music, that’s what gets me out of “the music funk.” Granted it’s not very good, it makes me happy.
Actually, I guess my worst concern is this: Am I turning into my parents?!?!?! Did they go through this same stage in life where they hated everything new and changing?
I watch MTV and I feel like throwing the TV out the window! I watch BET for a good laugh every now and then… I am truly amazed that 2 live crew spin-offs are now what’s hot. I mean songs about licking pussy and “rough sex make it hurt, in the gravel or in the dirt” are okay, but not when every song is like that. I don’t argue for women’s rights much, however, those songs seem to objectify women a bit… wouldn’t you say. Are we backtracking in that area? Not my main point at all, but still worth looking at.
So, am I turning into my parents? … shudder I can hear myself now… Yelling at my kids to “turn that damned racket down! Those kids with their loud hip-hop music. Why don’t they listen to some normal music? Some nice Yanni.”
Definitelty stay away from that Top-40 hip-hop bullshit that those bowling pin-misusing frigblossoms at Clear Channel dare to even refer to in a hushed tone as “Music”.
On a lighter note, Steely Dan’s new album will be coming out in May! And, watch Austin City Limits or listen to NPR or similar stations for your music fix. Good stuff is abound, just not on most of the airwaves, thanks to the rapist-raping cat-felching camel booger fondue-ing group of fucktards that comprise the corporate staff at Clear Channel.
Most people are deep within a cave, chained into place so that they can only stare at one cave wall…and there’s this great big fire behind them, and behind the fire there are record company executives who carry around objects that cast images onto the wall. The cave people see these images of Fred Durst and N’Sync, and they buy into these images. The cave people don’t know that they are being indoctrinated. Some of them even think that the stuff that plays on TRL every day is revolutionary, one-of-a-kind, ground breaking material.
Once in a while, a prisoner breaks free and ascends out of the cave, and comes to wisdom. In the sunlight, the emancipated philosopher comes to discern true talent from pop culture cliches.
Incidentally, I was listening to NPR the other day (or surfing the site – I forget which) and I came across some Canadian folksinger playing her latest, One More Song That Radio Won’t Like.
And, as has been noted before here and elsewhere, country radio has banned Murder on Music Row, a song that poetically describes this current media travesty.
In the history of music, there has always been more bad stuff than good stuff. But there is good stuff out there, but you have to put a little effort into finding it. The stuff that comes to you is usually just the heaily marketed crap.
Believe it or not, I saw an ad a few days ago claiming that 2 Live Crew was going to be opening for Insane Clown Posse over in Winston-Salem. Man, am I ever gonna stay home that night.
Her name is Kathleen Edwards, and her album is wonderful. It’s being buzzed to death, purportedly because she included small bottles of Maker’s Mark along with the promo copies. Be that as it may, she deserves the hype she’s getting.
I was all ready to come in here and tell you “Silly old person, you are only listening to the radio, but there is plenty of music out there if you’re willing to look for it.”
But then, oh lamentable day, it turns out that you’ve already done that. You like Modest Mouse. You do know that there is great music around today.
But then, oh lamentable day, it turns out that the song you are complaining about is one the few good pop-rap songs on the radio today. I mean, dammit, Missy rocks! I hate Nelly and all as much as any indie snob, but Missy Elliot is good. Just… just… stop the Missy hating, ay?
And I’m really surprised you don’t (appear) to like any hip-hop. Just think of the beauty in the rhythms of the techno music you make or in a Modest Mouse song such as ‘Tiny Cities Made of Ashes’ and find that same beauty in a song such as Blackalicious’ ‘Make You Feel That Way.’ Listen to the way the bass and the beats form that strong beautiful undercurrent in ‘Dirty Fingernails’ and then try The Roots’ ‘You Got Me’ and experience beats and vocals to use rhythm the same way, but to create an entirely different piece of music. Trust me, there is no such thing as a bad genre of music, only bad songs. You most certainly wouldn’t like rock if you’d only heard Creed and for the same reason you have no hope of liking rap if you’ve only heard Nelly.
But shit, Missy Elliot is great party music. How you can hate that, I cannot understand.
Philosophocles … and when he returns with his enlightened views they beat him to death. Good call.
Anywho, Deathstatic, I fully agree with your wonderful thread. I don’t really “get” music anymore, either.
I’m one of the lame folks who listens to the radio. I like classic rock and oldies. I like me some classical and I was thinking just the other day about posting in Cafe asking about where I could find some good jazz.
I like some other stuff - Garbage, for instance. I will listen to punk, though I will not go out of my way to get it.
I cannot stand rap and pop for the most part.
I know I’m not turning into my parents because they do listen to Yanni.
A few years ago I was playing poker with some of my high school buddies when the “old man” coversation started. “What the hell music are kids listening to nowadays? They don’t even know who Foreigner is!”
I said I liked a lot of new music. It got me a lot of stares. They all knew I went for off the wall stuff in the '80’s so why should now be any different.
Fact is most people latch onto the music that is popular when they are 16 to 24 years old and listen to that for the rest of their lives.
Since I hated most popular music in the '80s (Journey, Boston, Wham!, Madonna, etc…) I was maybe in a better position to keep listening to the kind of thing I like without worrying about pop crap like Limp Bizkit or Miss E (sorry).
So for what it’s worth, I recommend The Magnetic Fields, Beck, Belle & Sebastian, PJ Harvey, Apples In Stereo, Flaming Lips, Aimee Mann, Radiohead, The White Stripes and Super Furry Animals as some of the many current bands that are worth giving a listen to.