How Do People NOT Know This About Pop Music?

[Old Joad]

 

[Chaps]

I'm really out of touch with pop music because I've never heard of any of those songs. The only 'Manchild' song I know is 'Two-Bit Manchild' by Neil Diamond, which I played the heck out of on my guitar back in high school. Good times...

[Mr No Name]

Manchild -Nenah Cherry

[Xoo]

Moonchild - Fields of the Nephilim

Oh, sorry, not the Song Association Game thread 🙂

[Mr No Name]

 

[Rain]

This is a little off-topic but, brother... I just cannot stand the sound modern vocals. Even putting aside the whole vocal tuning debate and regardless of how talented the singer is. Two seconds and I feel like yelling "get off me". Generally speaking, there's just no room for the listener in modern music. 

But I'm an old geezer.




 

Edited June 28 by Rain

[Chaps]

18 minutes ago, Rain said:

This is a little off-topic but, brother... I just cannot stand the sound modern vocals. Even putting aside the whole vocal tuning debate and regardless of how talented the singer is. Two seconds and I feel like yelling "get off me". 

 

Ditto. Vocals sound so over-compressed that every little sound is exaggerated. No dynamics at all. I could listen to Eva Cassidy sing live with a cold all day. She sang from the heart and the recordings didn't get in the way.

 

 

[Wibbles]

From what I gather from this video, Rick is saying the pop music industry is the same as it was in the 1960s.

Albeit in the 60s you would frequently have the same song recorded by two different artists released at the same time.

[craigb]

Kind of like how Coca Cola and Pepsi now are owned by the same corporation? 😁

[craigb]

Just watched this today (which probably showed up in my YouBoob feed due to listening to M above! 😆).  It was pretty interesting!
 

 

[Starship Krupa]

It occurs to me that Tony Burrows is the perfect artist for Adam's schtick. "Professor Rock" seems to have a special place in his heart for one hit wonders and Burrows generated 5 of them.

The video for "Pop Muzik" is so great. Looking at it today, was Robin Scott like Nostradamus or something?

As for Rick Beato, I think even he gets that people are getting tired of his hating on the hits of the current day. I've never cared for it myself. Wow, he listens to the top 10 most popular songs of the day and concludes that they mostly suck. To use his own question: how can he not know that about pop music? At any given moment in the history of there being such a thing as top 10 songs, most of them will be forgettable, saccharine tripe. "Forgettable" being the operative word. We don't remember how crappy pop music of the past was because the songs themselves are not memorable.

[craigb]

Like soda, pop is bad for your health! 😁