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I Want You Back - Jackson 5. Great Fun!

[quote name='risingson' post='981645' date='Oct 8 2010, 02:48 PM']I partially agree but there IS always good music out there, you just need to look a little harder for it, and approach it with an open mind. There is still talent out there.[/quote] +1 Totally agree!

[quote name='risingson' post='981642' date='Oct 8 2010, 02:46 PM']What's your source on that?[/quote] [url="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/10201932"]http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/10201932[/url] The top 2 spaces are occuppied by The Beatles. I'm not rubbishing Ken in particular, I just don't like the myth that music was great at one time and it's not now. If that was the case then there would be no point playing anymore - just listen to old records.

[quote name='risingson' post='981490' date='Oct 8 2010, 12:35 PM']Even if you did list the Monkees, The Osmonds, The Jackson 5 or others, the writing of the songs was done by some of the absolute best. Now it seems like little to no effort is being made. Just look at the top 10 this week.[/quote] You need to look past the top 10 then - The second biggest selling artist in the UK of the 1960's was Ken Dodd - quality songwriting?????

[quote name='risingson' post='979988' date='Oct 6 2010, 10:30 PM']Miles Davis, The Beatles, Janis Joplin, The Rolling Stones, Bob Dylan, Fleetwood Mac, The Byrds, Jimi Hendrix, Genesis, James Brown, Stevie Wonder. Lady Gaga, The Killers, Tiny Tempah, Pixie Lott, Rihanna, Justin Beiber, Taylor Swift, David Guetta, the cast of Glee. The consumer has got lazy and considerably more people are willing to put their faith in some television based competition like X-Factor for their musical pleasure as opposed to actively seeking out new music, that's what's changed. Not that they have much choice in the matter anyway.[/quote] You could easily make the opposite point by listing the manufactured bands from the 60's and 70's (and even previous to that) and the great bands of today - and when I've got 5 minutes - I will! Older generations have always thought that the music of their youth was more relevant, mainly because it [b]reminds[/b] them of their youth. There are more people playing instruments and therefore more bands now than at any time since the 60's, and I suspect that there's even more now than then. A greater percentage are also writing original music compared to then because recording it is so accessible nowadays. True there is lazy, formulaic pap around, but there always was!

I thought this was okay....Then I watched his version of "Coffee Shop" - WOAHHHHHHH MAMMA!

Not a bassist but - I was told by a Beach Boys techie that Mike Love's son's amp only went through his monitor and not to the audience 'cos he was so awful but nobody ever told him. N.B to lawyers - ALLEGEDLY ALLEGEDLY ALLEGEDLY!!!!

Where's the evidence that music is dying? As far as I can see, there are new genres springing up weekly, more people are in bands, musical instrument sales are way up and there is almost unlimited choice in listening to music. Where I live, I have a choice of at least 5 or 6 live acts every night within a very short distance. Music is thriving!