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- NoamChimpsky, on 01/05/2009, -0/+23This ***** is ***** depressing. The two years aren't even close by comparison. 2008 is like a ***** kindergarten recorder concert against the 68 releases.
And the record labels want to blame the interwebs for spiraling music sales?
Start recording and PROMOTING some ***** worth listening to and maybe your industry will be relevant once more rather than a soulless, festering pop cesspool for the Hannah Montanas, 50 Cents, and Jonas Brothers of the world.
[Edit: Yeah, there's some good indie stuff/whatever, but you're not going to hear it pushed on the radio, or see it selling a million copies--that's a major difference.] - pstroll, on 01/05/2009, -2/+21The last 20 years of music has gone from mediocre to terrible.
- AmyVernon, on 01/05/2009, -0/+19Holy crap - I ddn't realize so many seminal works came out in one year, and so diverse - Jimi, Johnny, VU, Stones, Otis, Sly? Yeesh. That was one freakin' amazing year.
- AsSubtleAsABrik, on 01/05/2009, -1/+18No.. No it's not.
- AsSubtleAsABrik, on 01/05/2009, -1/+16Which of those came out in 1968 exactly?
- RealmDown, on 01/05/2009, -10/+25"2008 we voted our first African-American"
As long as this is distinction is noteworthy then racism is alive in the media. - jimhfisher, on 01/05/2009, -0/+15Buried for even dreaming to compare the likes of Hendrix to Coldplay.
- Fiestardi, on 01/05/2009, -0/+14number 9, number 9, number 9, number 9, number 9, number 9...
- MalarkeyPN, on 01/05/2009, -1/+15Stop listening to the radio.
- redwolfwalker, on 01/04/2009, -3/+16What are your favorites from this list, any others? JIMI HENDRIX "Electric Ladyland" ..JOHNNY CASH "Johnny Cash at Folsom Prison" ...VELVET UNDERGROUND "White Light, White Heat" ...BIG BROTHER & THE HOLDING COMPANY "Cheap Thrills"...ROLLING STONES "Beggars Banquet"....THE BEATLES "The Beatles" (The White Album) ...THE BAND "Music From Big Pink"....CREAM "Wheels of Fire"...ARETHA FRANKLIN "Lady Soul" ...MARVIN GAYE "I Heard It Through the Grapevine" .... and more
- Psamtik, on 01/04/2009, -1/+131968 reminded us of what we got, what we ought, and will never be forgot.
- dronkmunk, on 01/05/2009, -4/+16"2008 had some fine albums.."
Buried for inaccuracy. - Sonarion, on 01/05/2009, -1/+12Isn't Pink Floyd still essential after 40 years?
- inajeep, on 01/05/2009, -0/+9Let's see Brittney and boy bands hold up 40 years later.
I love the Beatles and Credance and most of them from the 70's and it reminds me of my childhood so it's even better than just being good music for me. - inactive, on 01/05/2009, -0/+7I gave up (mostly) on the whole African-American. I am just as Irish-American as African-American, but all I ever hear is the African-American.
I am black to outsiders. That is just the way it is. I use AA for online-writing, and when I am speaking at the Capitol building.
Telling people I think of myself more as Irish than Black doesn't mean jack ***** to them. They look at me, and their decision is made. No need to complicate things more, unless I feel like it ;-) - tj111, on 01/05/2009, -0/+7The Doors - Waiting for the Sun
Hendix - Electric Ladyland
Creedance Clearwater Revival - Creedance Clearwater Revival
Cream - Wheels of Fire
Some amazing albums. Man I wish I was alive back then. - inactive, on 01/05/2009, -1/+7The historical significance of this is enormous. Get off your pedestal and look back on what the country has been through.
If the 2nd black President gets the same treatment THEN you can bitch. - inactive, on 01/05/2009, -0/+6JFK was a ground breaker, as the first Irish Catholic President. When he was elected, they said there was no way the U.S. would elect an Irish Catholic. He had to go on TV, and give a whole press conference about how his religion would not rule his decisions. It was a HUGE deal then. Nowadays, I don't think any brings up the Catholic thing. The Congress is now mostly Catholic. More Catholics than any other religion.
Like TheNWO says: let time take it's course before you bitch. - madpainter, on 01/05/2009, -0/+6If you are bemoaning the lack of great artists and music on the radio today, remember this. In 1968, in Philadelphia where I grew up there was only one FM station, WMMR playing this music, and their ratings weren't that great. The rest of the AM/FM dial was playing Herman's Hermits, the 1910 Fruit Gum Company, with the Beatles and an occasional Motown song thrown in. If you want great music, and there is some great music out there today, you have to go find it on your own.
- crunchyeyeball, on 01/05/2009, -1/+6I'm with MalarkeyPN and coldkill3r here.
Personally, I believe we are right in the middle of the golden age of music right now - The big problem is we are also in the middle of the extremely crappy age of lowest-common-denominator record labels, with business managers deciding which bands get constant full-media coverage, and which get sidelined as too "niche" for the mass-market music "consumer".
I promise you, the music that will change your life is out there, but you won't find it on MTV, you won't find it on the radio, and you won't find it in the charts.
Even something as simple as last.fm can open up new possibilities you may never have considered before - Honestly, just browsing the lists of "Similar Artists" to your current favourite bands can take you in all sorts of new directions. There is more music online than you could ever hope to listen to, so to write-off current music just because the handful of acts promoted by the major labels aren't to your liking seems short-sighted. - NoamChimpsky, on 01/05/2009, -0/+5Wait . . . You need to speak in Digg.
Is that: Hendrix > Coldplay
Or: Coldplay > Hendrix - MalarkeyPN, on 01/05/2009, -1/+6Now:
War in Iraq + Afghanistan
War in Gaza
Foreclosure crisis
Worldwide economic downturn
Multi-trillion dollar government bailouts
Worst president ever
New administration coming in
Franken v. Coleman
.... Personally I think the ***** going on today is pretty poignant. - coldkill3r, on 01/05/2009, -0/+5Start exploring with pandora and last.fm
- CoreyTamas, on 01/05/2009, -2/+7There's a lot of good music described in the article, but I get tired of the Baby Boomer philosophy that there will never be music which compares to their heyday. Most of Pink Floyd's best work was in the 70's. Most of Peter Gabriel's best work was in the 80's. As for the 90's... I think Pearl Jam and Nirvana were as definitive and important and worthwhile as Janis Joplin or the Allman Brothers... if not more.
So yeah, I get it that the late 60's were a revolutionary time, but I get tired of hearing about how history stopped as soon as Baby Boomer decided not to buy any more music. - petebot, on 01/05/2009, -0/+4The record industry has gotten really good at selling what it wants to sell to you, by which I mean it cultivates a marketable personality and image, and sells their music, written by hitmakers, to the consuming public.
Radio stations have tiny playlists these days, and of course give precedence to well-marketed major label records. (Even the rock stations—chicago’s loop, the classic rock station, still doesn’t deviate from the stuff they were playing when I was in high school—I think they just added early “grunge” stuff 5 years ago. The only new song I’ve heard has been the new Motley Crue stuff. Seriously.)
That said, you have to seek out music you would like. Even bigger, more mainstream-sounding indie label bands have a hard time getting played on the radio (Spoon, the Hold Steady, New Pornographers, etc...)
I agree with several posters here that we won’t get a good handle on what great music came out this year (or this decade) for some time. I mean *****, I’m still getting caught up on the 90s, and I’m still mad I didn’t buy Sonic Youth-”Dirty” (1992), Pixies--Trompe Le Monde (1991), and Pavement—Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain (1994) when they came out. Of course, I was only a kid then, so what the hell did I know? - Ukonu, on 01/05/2009, -0/+4From my recently experience, white people have make a bigger deal out of the distinction between "black" and "African-American" than any black people I know. Call us either one; we don't care. You think it's still a euphemism but at this point it's just a colloquial synonym. Nobody cares except some ultra politically correct white people and irrational black people. Do you really still want to remain in either one of those groups?
- inactive, on 01/05/2009, -0/+4How about I just go eat some hay? I can lay by the bay, make things out of clay, I just may, whaddya say?
- inactive, on 01/05/2009, -2/+6As long as the euphemism "African-American" is still around, racism is still alive. He's black.
- roebeet, on 01/05/2009, -1/+5I can't speak for 1968 (too young), but I can speak for the 1980's. Don't go by these "classic albums" lists - go by what was popular at the time ("Yummy Yummy Yummy", for example). Albums from the 1980's that are considered classic now were not necessarily popular when they came out.
I've been hearing the "modern music is crap" line ever since I was a teenager, some 25 years ago. Don't use Top 40 Radio / the Grammy's / iTunes as a gauge of the great music out there. - jimhfisher, on 01/05/2009, -0/+4Ah, of course. Hendrix is to God what Coldplay is to cockroaches.
- redwolfwalker, on 01/05/2009, -0/+4LOL
- inactive, on 01/05/2009, -0/+3I completely agree with all of the ones I've listened to that are on the list. White Light/White Heat is great. At least one song from Live at Folsom Prison shows up in my random playlist daily and it's always good. I never listened to the Rolling Stones until I heard Beggar's Banquet at a friend's house, and he let me borrow a couple of their albums and I've been hooked.
- porkdanish, on 01/05/2009, -0/+3You clearly have been listening to the wrong music.
Check out the "hits" of 1968: http://www.musicoutfitters.com/topsongs/1968.htm
There's a lot more crap in there than gold. - roebeet, on 01/05/2009, -0/+340 years from now, the "classic" music from 2008 isn't going to be what was in the Top 40.
- nesagwa, on 01/05/2009, -0/+3Oh, Shades of Deep Purple debuted in 68 also.
And The Kinks are The Village Green Preservation Society - itlnstln, on 01/05/2009, -0/+3Huge Hendrix fan here. Our High school band preformed Arethra Franklin's Think for the Steeler's pre-game show :D, so I became a huge fan after that. And it's impossible to really hate the Beatles or the Rolling Stones, so their on my list too.
- pbone, on 01/05/2009, -0/+3"after the gold rush" is still one of my favorite albums. one more year and it'll be 40.
- redwolfwalker, on 01/05/2009, -6/+9Now that is just silly statement, African Americans have a right to be proud of this, get back to the music
- Fleagleman, on 01/05/2009, -1/+4Nice try, but 2008 really doesn't hold a candle to what was happening in America in 1968. Just another example of sensasionalism to make the 'now' seem more poignant than it really is. Not saying that some significant things didn't happen in 2008, just saying that you can't really compare the two just because they both end in '8'.
- AHammer16, on 01/05/2009, -0/+3I kinda agree 2008 sucked!! Down with that Emo crap!!!
- CoreyTamas, on 01/05/2009, -0/+2That doesn't have to be true. I'm 40 now. It doesn't mean I listen to Whitesnake or Terrence Trent Darby. I listen to new music and I listen to music that was out before I was born. The only boundaries and borders are in your mind.
And yes, I do find that Baby Boomers, more than anyone else, give the "That was when rock and roll was still rock and roll" lecture fairly often. - banjom, on 01/06/2009, -0/+2Johnson didn't get dumped. He didn't even run.
- hfactor, on 01/05/2009, -0/+2Then you don't know much about 68.
- eanbowman, on 01/05/2009, -0/+2I think "still essential after 40 years" is right.
I know lots of people my age and younger who have these on their playlists. We weren't even born when this music was popular. :3
It's not just our parents' influence that may have done this, but it may have something to do with it. - santiago1, on 01/05/2009, -0/+2 Has nothing to do with the "Baby Boomers", It's about getting older and the change between the generations. When you get our age, you will be stating the same things as we and those in generations before us.
- seldon21, on 01/08/2009, -0/+2That was the 70's dude!
- inactive, on 01/05/2009, -2/+4cannibal corpse all the way
- Chewie67, on 01/06/2009, -0/+2Granted, they made a lot of good music before DSOTM, but there's a ton of great stuff afterward too. Animals could be their best work. Wish You Were Here and the Wall are amazing too.
I'd hardly say that Dark Side was their sell-out album. - inactive, on 01/05/2009, -0/+2Same here, man. Same here.
- MalarkeyPN, on 01/06/2009, -0/+2Yeah I guess today's crises just aren't cool enough.
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