Taste in Music

[Aussie Mark]

Most old stuff sucked too.

Case in point - A few months ago my Stones tribute did a gig to coincide with the launch of the remastered Exile CD.  Sam Cutler came to our gig.  Sam was the Stones' tour manager for their 1969 US tour, and was also the main organiser of the Concert in Hyde Park the same year.  He was later involved in organising the Festival Express tour and became tour manager for the Grateful Dead.

Anyway, Sam lives in Australia these days and came to our show.  I was chatting with Sam over a drink while one of the support bands was on stage.  They were an original "mod" style band who were obviously heavily influenced by the likes of the early Who and the Kinks.  Sam leaned over to me and shouted in my ear "this music was shit in the sixties, and it's still shit now!"

I asked him what he meant and he said that most of the bands in the 1960s WERE shit, and there were only a handful of good ones.

[nofi]

that is why writer theodore sturgeon's quote rings so true. and i paraphrase, "ninty five percent of everything is crap".

[Freuds_Cat]

Reminds me of David Gilmours quote during an interview where he says that Pink Floyd only got a record contract in the 60's because the Record company exces in the UK had told their A&R guys to go out and sign up any group of young men playing music as long as they had long hair.

[uwe]

Most old stuff sucked too. You just remember what you liked best.

I go the other way, if you like music in general you can find something to appreciate with any type of music, old or new. And sometimes even bad music is entertaining to dissect.

[Dave W]

I go the other way, if you like music in general you can find something to appreciate with any type of music, old or new. And sometimes even bad music is entertaining to dissect.

That's not what I meant.

If you go to one of those sites where you can see the Billboard Top 100 for a given year, you'll see that a lot of the songs were ones you probably though were crap at the time, and there will be others you can't even remember. And that's just the top 100, not every song that landed in top100. Then think about all the songs that didn't even get that high.

We filter out most of what we didn't like back then and remember the best. Then we long for the good old days that weren't.

[gweimer]

I wrote record reviews for The Illinois Entertainer for about 4 years.  You have no idea how much really bad metal came out of the '80s that you never heard.  For every "Good Vibrations" that The Beach Boys did, there were at least 5 or 6 really bad songs also recorded.  Anyone remember their follow-up to "409", "Ten Little Indians"?

[Pilgrim]

I was a DJ in the 60's and 70's.  The number of 45's that came through was considerable, and probably less than one in 25 was worth airplay.  The amount of chaff to be sorted through before finding a grain of wheat was incredible.

I'm sure it's no different today - except now the crappy artists have the Internet to spread their work.

[Freuds_Cat]

I'm sure it's no different today - except now the crappy artists have the Internet to spread their work.

Hey! you leave us crappy artists alone! Remember one mans chaf is another mans Golden Cob