Cerberus Posted July 18, 2019 Share Posted July 18, 2019 Most music nowadays is shite. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bigmouth Strikes Again Posted July 18, 2019 Share Posted July 18, 2019 31 minutes ago, Cerberus said: Most music nowadays is shite. I gave up on it, about thirty years ago. Thank you. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dee Man Posted July 18, 2019 Share Posted July 18, 2019 On 07/07/2019 at 22:28, Silverton End said: Jeans with a zip fly are far preferable to button fly #arthriticfingers The one example I would use to disagree with that would be if you go on holiday and you have miscounted your underwear and find yourself short of boxers for the last day or two of your trip and you have to go commando. I wouldn't want a zip for fear of it working it's way down and exposing myself or for the obvious terrifying skin trapped in zipper scenario. This was basically me at Gatwick last week. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GordonD Posted July 18, 2019 Share Posted July 18, 2019 5 minutes ago, Dee Man said: The one example I would use to disagree with that would be if you go on holiday and you have miscounted your underwear and find yourself short of boxers for the last day or two of your trip and you have to go commando. I wouldn't want a zip for fear of it working it's way down and exposing myself or for the obvious terrifying skin trapped in zipper scenario. This was basically me at Gatwick last week. And that. m'lud, is the case for the defence. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Silverton End Posted July 18, 2019 Share Posted July 18, 2019 Oh oh 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cosmic Joe Posted July 18, 2019 Share Posted July 18, 2019 On 07/07/2019 at 15:28, Silverton End said: Jeans with a zip fly are far preferable to button fly #arthriticfingers Stating the bleeding obvious thread for this pish... 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bold Rover Posted July 18, 2019 Share Posted July 18, 2019 2 hours ago, Cerberus said: Most music nowadays is shite. Popular opinion but probably not true. It's that today's good music has to be searched for and we old duffers can't be bothered. My formative years were the 60s and 70s. There was plenty of dross then, too. But we had the energy and curiosity to seek and find the good stuff. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Malky3 Posted July 19, 2019 Share Posted July 19, 2019 20 hours ago, Bold Rover said: Popular opinion but probably not true. It's that today's good music has to be searched for and we old duffers can't be bothered. My formative years were the 60s and 70s. There was plenty of dross then, too. But we had the energy and curiosity to seek and find the good stuff. Nah I disagree. Music today is shite. On my Spotify I like to collate all the music I like from each year that i've been a subscriber into a new playlist. Every Friday that means trawling through the tunes on "New Music Friday" and listening to whats trending as well as what they have in their charts. This year the pickings have been extremely lean. Every other track appears to be yet another tuneless rap churned out by people who could be reading from a takeaway food menu for all I can make it out. My theory on it is that back in our day record companies had teams of experts ploughing through every track. They'd want at least 2 or 3 good tracks before signing off on an album and stuff that really missed the mark simply didn't make it out to the public. These days any old chump with a computer and the right software can put together a track and publish it on Spotify without any kind of filter. Live music isn't any better. Much of it has been dumbed down to people singing along to a sound track while kidding on they are playing their instruments. God I feel old. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Granny Danger Posted July 19, 2019 Share Posted July 19, 2019 22 hours ago, Bold Rover said: Popular opinion but probably not true. It's that today's good music has to be searched for and we old duffers can't be bothered. My formative years were the 60s and 70s. There was plenty of dross then, too. But we had the energy and curiosity to seek and find the good stuff. These were my formative decades too and it didn’t take a great deal of energy to find the good stuff. There was more of it proportionally and it easily outshone the crap. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark Connolly Posted July 19, 2019 Share Posted July 19, 2019 32 minutes ago, Granny Danger said: These were my formative decades too and it didn’t take a great deal of energy to find the good stuff. There was more of it proportionally and it easily outshone the crap. I was born in 1981, but the musical highlight of my week is always listening to Sounds of the 60s on Radio 2 on a Saturday morning 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bold Rover Posted July 19, 2019 Share Posted July 19, 2019 15 minutes ago, Mark Connolly said: I was born in 1981, but the musical highlight of my week is always listening to Sounds of the 60s on Radio 2 on a Saturday morning Try Johnnie Walker's seventies equivalent, Sundays at 3. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WeAreElgin Posted July 19, 2019 Share Posted July 19, 2019 Nah I disagree. Music today is shite. On my Spotify I like to collate all the music I like from each year that i've been a subscriber into a new playlist. Every Friday that means trawling through the tunes on "New Music Friday" and listening to whats trending as well as what they have in their charts. This year the pickings have been extremely lean. Every other track appears to be yet another tuneless rap churned out by people who could be reading from a takeaway food menu for all I can make it out. My theory on it is that back in our day record companies had teams of experts ploughing through every track. They'd want at least 2 or 3 good tracks before signing off on an album and stuff that really missed the mark simply didn't make it out to the public. These days any old chump with a computer and the right software can put together a track and publish it on Spotify without any kind of filter. Live music isn't any better. Much of it has been dumbed down to people singing along to a sound track while kidding on they are playing their instruments. God I feel old.I'm surprised a decrepit old b*****d like managed to create a Spotify account 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Silverton End Posted July 19, 2019 Share Posted July 19, 2019 2 hours ago, Bold Rover said: Try Johnnie Walker's seventies equivalent, Sundays at 3. Absolutely superb show. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cosmic Joe Posted July 19, 2019 Share Posted July 19, 2019 Nothing to beat the early 1980s with Simple Minds, The Teardrop Explodes, Talking Heads, The Fall etc in their pomp... 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shotgun Posted July 20, 2019 Share Posted July 20, 2019 5 hours ago, Angusfifer said: Nothing to beat the early 1980s with Simple Minds, The Teardrop Explodes, Talking Heads, The Fall etc in their pomp... I always have a little mental disconnect before I remember that the early 1980s were almost 40 years ago. I still think of 'old' music as 1960's or early 1970's. Anything prior to me getting my first tape recorder. And for the record; music has been shit ever since Stevie Ray Vaughan died. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dee Man Posted July 20, 2019 Share Posted July 20, 2019 If you are getting fed your music through radio stations then the music you are exposed to is for the most part going to be absolutely woeful. I've never heard the vast majority of my favourite songs on the radio. My advice is to go onto Spotify, type in a band you like, go through the top tunes of all the other bands in the 'Fans Also Like' section, and go on a wonderful musical adventure. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Raidernation Posted July 20, 2019 Share Posted July 20, 2019 WDRV “The Drive” in Chicago is pretty good. Plays a lot of what I like and full length versions too.For example the other morning all 11 minutes of George Thorogood’s version of “One Bourbon, One Scotch and One Beer” 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cerberus Posted July 20, 2019 Share Posted July 20, 2019 Most radio stations are terrible.I usually just go through a few YouTube playlists that I have when I’m in the car. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dee_62 Posted July 20, 2019 Share Posted July 20, 2019 Grammar and punctuation on emails and texts. Can’t stop myself. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
supermik Posted July 20, 2019 Share Posted July 20, 2019 20 hours ago, Shotgun said: I always have a little mental disconnect before I remember that the early 1980s were almost 40 years ago. I still think of 'old' music as 1960's or early 1970's. Anything prior to me getting my first tape recorder. And for the record; music has been shit ever since Stevie Ray Vaughan died. As said before, Madness song Baggy trousers was released closer to the Second World War than now!! 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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