And suddenly we identify that we are missing another Metal sub-genre.
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Forgot to include The SBYM
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The whole series is a fantastic listen
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I’ve got up to date now, just finished the Beach Boys/Charles Manson marathon. That was heavy going for him and he seems to be taking a while recovering from it.
If he continues to expand the scope of each episode, it’s hard to see him getting to the end of the project. He’s got Led Zeppelin, Bowie, Punk, Nirvana etc still to cover and a lot more besides.
I wish him well, but it’s a mammoth task.
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A song here excoriating the impotence of the French judicial system in tackling violence against women. 140 women were murdered by their partners last year. A woman is raped every two minutes in France.
Featured in this video is one of the women who have accused Gerard Depardieu of rape. President Macron has since mounted a staunch defense of Depardieu, who was once one of France’s most prominent and prolific leading men. Macron said that Depardieu “makes France proud” and castigated an “era of suspicion” against prominent artistic or cultural figures.
“One thing you’ll never see me in is a manhunt,” Macron said.
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General question. Do you feel like musical diversity is much less prevalent nowadays? I don’t listen to much popular music lately so I am not in a position to comment. It just feels like the popular music I loved from the 80s and 90s is far more unique compared to most stuff I’ve heard since. Then again, this might be because I’m stuck in my own streaming bubble.
Not talking about metal here because metal is more diverse than it has ever been.
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Not sure I can answer your question but like you I’m typically in my good old days bubble of Manchester sound and classic heavy stuff.
But always on the lookout for newish rock bands and new guitar heroes.
Best atm is The Struts and Luke Spiller is legit rock star.
And talking about 80’s sound have a listen to the new Ghost album. Was expecting big prog heavyness and it sounds like Leppard/Journey. Brilliant.
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I suspect that there is huge musical diversity out there, but we get to hear very little of it culturally. I don’t hear new music in shops any more, and there are fewer general entertainment programmes to set the general zeitgeist (I maintain that the charts stopped counting once Top Of The Pops was cancelled).
What I do hear is typically computer generated Autotune shite, and I know there is much more to modern popular music than that.
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I believe that the current development of technology enables people to make their music heard and in that aspect, there’s more diverse music available.
However, in terms of quality, I’ve never been as disappointed with mainstream music and I suspect it will only get worse. You get a lot of overproduced crap for the masses with no real quality. I sometimes put on MTV 80s on TV (I know, I know…) and marvel at the quality of popular music from that era, regardless of genre. I wonder if there were people disappointed with the quality of popular music in those days, haha!
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In a word, yes! I did a hospital radio slot in the 1980s and we had a lot of requests for music from the 1950s and 60s. There were some real gems there, but once you got past the golden oldies, you would find some utter dross.
The trick with oldies channels is that only the good stuff ever gets shown. It always amuses me, that when you exclude The Beatles, the biggest selling single of the 1960s was Ken Dodd!
If you ever recorded the top 40 off the radio in the 1980s you would remember sitting impatiently through whatever the A&R guys had been plugging that week to get to your favourite which, inevitably, Simon “Bloody” Bates would talk over.
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I probably stopped listening to new ‘popular’ music around the millenium. The whole Britpop thing left me cold and I still maintain that Oasis are one of the worst bands I’ve ever heard. Like lots of others I got heavily into electronic music and the underground dance / techno scene. Nowadays looking for new stuff invariably means listening to lots of old stuff. Finding things that sound like nothing you’ve ever heard before is a very rewarding pastime to have.
Here’s my current fave ;
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Thanks for the recommendation. Will check em out.
Mind you, I think there’s some amazing new metal music coming out, both in the UK and the US. Metal in general is super interesting now and in a very good place.
But I’m also into EDM, just pop in general, some hip hop (the danceable kind). And rock music in general of course.
I have no issues with today’s metal albums, I just wish there were more of them! I was talking about mainstream or popular music, whatever you like to call it. Of those metal bands that I consider mainstream or popular, only Judas Priest are releasing albums that are, in my opinion, top quality.
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Pop music has always had its share of shite. It’s just that when we think of the seventies we think of Bowie and T.Rex and forget the Osmonds and Chirpy Cheep Cheep.
There’s a lot of great music being made all the time and it’s accessible if you’re willing to look around, especially away from the US/UK axis.
That being said, there’s so much great music from the past that you could spend a lifetime listening to just that and never exhaust the supply.
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I’m going to take this thread in a completely different direction:
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Well, for me this is the best new release by a big “mainstream” metal band in recent times
https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLxJJcP5YX06eRTArCQ7tXWUGvEQvfruVh&si=MBbJdvdzlGNRrRbX
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