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Post by Glitch on May 12, 2023 7:09:17 GMT -5
Back in my teen youth in the late 90s, the majority of the media you consumed was through TV and radio. There was of course physical media to buy, but as a teen you're money is limited. So if something was mainstream, you were gonna hear it whether you liked it or not. Don't like the Britney or Nsync? Too f***ing bad.
Now today everything is through the internet. If you don't want to hear something, you simply don't go to those spaces it occupies online. A teen can simply go to where the stuff they like is at and listen to it on their portable device (without the restrictions of buying CDs). As a metal-head in my teens, this would been heaven. It seems ridiculous now in this age to passionately hate pop music because it is extremely easily to avoid.
The idea to create this thread was spurred on because I was watching a twitch streamer who was surprised someone in chat didn't know who Bad Bunny was (the only reason I know who he is because guys in FB wrestling groups won't shut up about how much they hate him. lol ).
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Post by dirtyoldman on May 12, 2023 8:54:25 GMT -5
Kids have it so easy for just listening to new music or music in general. Wanna listen to the new fear factory album? Wait until you get your pocket money. I hear alot about this band ACDC but how can I explore and find out about them without breaking the law?
Of course, nobody gives a shit about having a music collection...
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Post by Push R Truth on May 12, 2023 9:14:03 GMT -5
It's hard to describe what it was like waiting for a song you liked to hit the radio and then trying to travel back in time 10 seconds to hit the record button on your tape recorder.
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Post by clifford on May 12, 2023 9:46:38 GMT -5
Me and my friends used to make lists of the all the albums we wanted to listen to, then divide up the list equally between us, and then each person would burn multiple copies of the albums they bought and distribute throughout the group. Very economical for the time. We were able to have Metallica's entire back catalogue between us within a week.
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Post by edgestar on May 12, 2023 9:47:52 GMT -5
It's had to describe what it was like waiting for a song you liked to hit the radio and then trying to travel back in time 10 seconds to hit the record button on your tape recorder. And when the end of the song would get talked over!!
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Post by Bo Rida on May 12, 2023 10:59:13 GMT -5
Not just the music but everything surrounding it too, history, info, lyrics, tour dates, guitar tab, interviews, merch, everything.
And then a load of suggestions of what to listen too next based of what you like.
It's all relatively cheap too. Couldn't afford many CDs so taking a risk on something was a bigger descion. In contrast I've been listening to Japense Jazz fusion and dwarf metal this afternoon.
Of course it's not just music that's any information or media just seconds away. We all take it for granted now even if we remember the olden times.
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Post by chrom on May 12, 2023 11:46:26 GMT -5
Young people would panic and have a heart attack if they found out you had to rewind the cassette tape if you wanted to hear the song again and risk the tape getting eaten up.
They probably also wonder what are those big things that black teens and adults would carry over their shoulders that have music coming out of them.
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Post by Stone Coke Miami Watson 🥃 on May 12, 2023 12:01:07 GMT -5
One thing that I do enjoy currently is having access to a majority of an artist's catalog without having to amass a collection of their CD's or cassettes.
It takes up memory on my phone, but I (and my wife) prefer that over having albums all over the house.
Now through streaming services, I can listen to everything from my favorite bands with no problem.
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Post by Jaws the Shark on May 12, 2023 16:34:30 GMT -5
I actually quite miss consuming music through radio and TV. Growing up there was a lot of music that I wouldn't necessarily have chosen to listen to, but which I can now hear and feel that it captured the cultural zeitgeist of that era in some way because it was so ubiquitous at that time, and it felt like a thing that was going on. Ever since streaming came along and that ended because people started only listening to what they choose to listen to, that's gone; if someone were to ask me as someone who was there what the sound of the 2010s/my twenties was, I'm not sure I could really tell them because it's too easy for me to ignore music I don't want to hear.
Douglas Coupland talked about this years ago, the death of the "shared cultural experience", because people now just experience things on their own terms rather than all together so you don't have as many wider cultural trends anymore that pervade all of pop culture.
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Post by Baldobomb-22-OH-MAN!!! on May 12, 2023 16:46:15 GMT -5
I actually quite miss consuming music through radio and TV. Growing up there was a lot of music that I wouldn't necessarily have chosen to listen to, but which I can now hear and feel that it captured the cultural zeitgeist of that era in some way because it was so ubiquitous at that time, and it felt like a thing that was going on. Ever since streaming came along and that ended because people started only listening to what they choose to listen to, that's gone; if someone were to ask me as someone who was there what the sound of the 2010s/my twenties was, I'm not sure I could really tell them because it's too easy for me to ignore music I don't want to hear. Douglas Coupland talked about this years ago, the death of the "shared cultural experience", because people now just experience things on their own terms rather than all together so you don't have as many wider cultural trends anymore that pervade all of pop culture. It truly is fascinating. You can have millions of fans and yet there will be just as many who haven't heard of you at all or at the very least have never heard your music.
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Post by Natural Born Farmer on May 12, 2023 17:05:23 GMT -5
Not having to pay $19 for a CD if you wanted to see what the band had to offer beyond the singles.
Not having to infect your computer with all sorts of shit if you wanted to download a song.
Truly believe that if the record industry’s pricing had been more reasonable, something like Napster may have never gotten off the ground, downloading may not have been such a common thing, and when streaming became a possibility they would’ve been in a much better place to deal with it.
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Post by Jaws the Shark on May 12, 2023 17:11:16 GMT -5
I actually quite miss consuming music through radio and TV. Growing up there was a lot of music that I wouldn't necessarily have chosen to listen to, but which I can now hear and feel that it captured the cultural zeitgeist of that era in some way because it was so ubiquitous at that time, and it felt like a thing that was going on. Ever since streaming came along and that ended because people started only listening to what they choose to listen to, that's gone; if someone were to ask me as someone who was there what the sound of the 2010s/my twenties was, I'm not sure I could really tell them because it's too easy for me to ignore music I don't want to hear. Douglas Coupland talked about this years ago, the death of the "shared cultural experience", because people now just experience things on their own terms rather than all together so you don't have as many wider cultural trends anymore that pervade all of pop culture. It truly is fascinating. You can have millions of fans and yet there will be just as many who haven't heard of you at all or at the very least have never heard your music. Yeah, and it's insane considering how important pop music used to be. Pretty much every post-war pop culture phenomenon began with pop music. If we take alternative rock or grunge or whatever you want to call it in the nineties for example, it all began with pop music and from there influenced pretty much all popular culture, and you had movies, TV shows, visual arts, sports, all riding off that culture created by the music. You could say the same about rock and roll, the British Invasion, disco, whatever; for us on this side of the Atlantic you had Britpop/Cool Britannia as the pervasive pop culture thing in the nineties; my granny wouldn't have listened to them, but she'll have known who Oasis were in 1996. Something like the Euro '96 football tournament was enormous because it came at the crest of that cultural wave that began with that movement in pop music.
And that'll never happen again, because you don't have thousands or even millions of people all sharing that experience anymore, you don't have movements because everything is now so splintered. And because of that you don't have things that are so ubiquitous that they define their era. Yeah, I'm avoiding a load of stuff I wouldn't consume by choice, but I also feel like I'm missing out because the world just feels less exciting. And I think that's pretty sad.
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Post by Triangle Lancer on May 12, 2023 17:55:08 GMT -5
It's had to describe what it was like waiting for a song you liked to hit the radio and then trying to travel back in time 10 seconds to hit the record button on your tape recorder. And when the end of the song would get talked over!! The entire instrumental lead-in was talked over, but you didn't wanna miss Amy Grant start off: "Let me speak what’s on my mind..."
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Post by Cranjis McBasketball on May 12, 2023 18:12:51 GMT -5
And when the end of the song would get talked over!! The entire instrumental lead-in was talked over, but you didn't wanna miss Amy Grant start off: "Let me speak what’s on my mind..." Amy Grant?? 🫤
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Post by Triangle Lancer on May 12, 2023 18:21:35 GMT -5
The entire instrumental lead-in was talked over, but you didn't wanna miss Amy Grant start off: "Let me speak what’s on my mind..." Amy Grant?? 🫤 "Hello sunshine, hello rain. Glad to see you either way. Hey hey, This is how we greet the day." Showing my age. I killed a car battery sitting in the car waiting for "Every Heartbeat" to play. Not my proudest moment, especially when my dad wondered what happened. But I'd do it again.
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Post by Cranjis McBasketball on May 12, 2023 18:37:27 GMT -5
"Hello sunshine, hello rain. Glad to see you either way. Hey hey, This is how we greet the day." Showing my age. I killed a car battery sitting in the car waiting for "Every Heartbeat" to play. Not my proudest moment, especially when my dad wondered what happened. But I'd do it again. Amy Grant?? 🫤
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Post by Triangle Lancer on May 12, 2023 18:47:13 GMT -5
"Hello sunshine, hello rain. Glad to see you either way. Hey hey, This is how we greet the day." Showing my age. I killed a car battery sitting in the car waiting for "Every Heartbeat" to play. Not my proudest moment, especially when my dad wondered what happened. But I'd do it again. Amy Grant?? 🫤 "Oh...how easy it would be To close the door and walk away I can't walk out when I believe You are my brother And we owe it to each other We've got to try Tho' we don't see eye to eye."
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Post by Ultimo Gallos on May 12, 2023 18:52:41 GMT -5
I am the oddball that outside of 89 thru about 93 never listened to the radio. Didn;t have cable until late 1990 so no MTV. Pretty much I discovered music thru either buddy of mine telling me about it,this one clerk at the Record Bar store in the mall and Rolling Stone magazine.
Now I can punch in the bands I like in whatever music app I use and it tells me of similar bands. Faster but also feels odd to me.
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Post by Terry McConkey on May 12, 2023 19:12:31 GMT -5
I'm 41 and still volunteer as a radio DJ on Sundays (14th year starting soon) and can remember when I first started and how we had to use CDs, cassettes and LPs. Nowadays, I just build a playlist of music in iTunes (all music I receive is digital) and plug my lightning adaptor and then the Aux cable and boom, I can easily play music over the air.
The downside is that I no longer want to bother with physical media. I still have it but don't use it.
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Post by schma on May 13, 2023 21:50:44 GMT -5
The one downside with music set up as it is, it's not as easy to discover new stuff unless you specifically decide that's your goal. Between older siblings, various music channels and radio, I was exposed to a lot of genres of music. If I had just been using spotify though, I might have found myself in one narrow lane unless I went out of my way to search for other stuff.
Streaming services in an effort to get you to listen more will just try to load up more of the same of what you play. Also, I might like an artist with say 10 albums and a ton of hits, bit spitify only ever plays maybe 2 or 3 of them unless I step in.
So, in some ways music is more accessible than ever, but just like social media, I can see how some people might get siloed because of algorithms.
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