Dear Folks,

Back in the day, music was fun.

Are you old enough to recall?

Where has fun gone?

And, where has the love gone?

Just asking.

Best regards,

Gamma

Not to mention.....

Edited June 6Jun 6 by GammaGlobulin

There were jokes about paying 20$ to see a rock band play in concert live, only to pay 200$ to see a computer play music in concerts 30 years later... But that's gone far further now. Like the attached video below:

The artist?

The music above was completely AI generated. The music, the lyrics, the voice, the instruments, the video clip... all of it.

Question is: Could you tell?

44 minutes ago, tomazbodner said:

Could you tell?

Absolutely, its completely soul drained garbage that drains the urge to live.

Edited June 6Jun 6 by Hamus Yaigh

2 hours ago, GammaGlobulin said:

Are you old enough to recall?

Are you too old to discover new songs being released?

Instead of being fixed in your ways like most people?

I never listen to the radio, but I had turned on the radio station I used to listen to when I was young a while back when I was home.

80% of the playlist hasn't changed in 25 years.

Nostalgia is pish nowadays

Yer dedonthair bytheway, Cowboy

Edited June 6Jun 6 by StreetCowboy
Interruption

Edited June 6Jun 6 by pgrahmm
Spreading the joy

3 hours ago, GammaGlobulin said:

Dear Folks,

Back in the day, music was fun.

Are you old enough to recall?

Where has fun gone?

And, where has the love gone?

Just asking.

Best regards,

Gamma

Not to mention.....

CCR singing a song about his woman p1551ng off without telling him isn't quite my idea of a fun songs. See my earlier post

1 hour ago, Hamus Yaigh said:

Absolutely, its completely soul drained garbage that drains the urge to live.

How is that different from the human made music of the last couple of decades?

1 hour ago, save the frogs said:

Are you too old to discover new songs being released?

Instead of being fixed in your ways like most people?

I never listen to the radio, but I had turned on the radio station I used to listen to when I was young a while back when I was home.

80% of the playlist hasn't changed in 25 years.

Lucky the same radio station is still going.

I have Caroline Flashback on most of the day, non-stop 60s,70s,80s with NO ADs, but turn off when the 'Presenters' start their waffling. Then it is Classic FM for me, all of which is much older than 25 years.

You must agree that so many classic pop songs were written in that time period.

John Fogarty just turned 80 & still rockin'.....

37 minutes ago, wil iam not said:

You must agree that so many classic pop songs were written in that time period.

A lot of the music I used to listen to I now consider crap.

Like The Rolling Stones.

There's a lot of good recent music.

There's a lot of good music I had to discover on my own, because it was never played on the radio stations. They tell you what to listen to, practically.

Like John Prine. Only discovered him a few years ago.

Edited June 6Jun 6 by save the frogs

Music is still great fun, but it's different from before. The old-time music from the 60s and early 70s was also different from the music in the 1910s and1920s. Evolution and progress...

I'm originating from the music business — and still in music publishing business — I began in the good old days when "music was fun". Music is memories — the songs we remember are often combined with good memories — 50-60 years from now somebody will probably ask: "Do you remember when music was fun"; referring to the 2020s.

Back around 1980 I bought old mastertapes of the so-called "rock and roll giants" to be released as budget-sale on cassette tapes. Among those were an album with legendary band "Johnny and the Hurricanes" famous for mainly the hit-song "Red River Rock". My major wholesaler pre-ordered several thousand unit. When I got the mastertape from US, it was so utterly bad that I thought, I'm not going to release it. We did one samle cassette and sent to the wholesaler — he had pre-ordered, but I didn't want several thousand music cassette tapes returned, because the quality was too bad — the next day he showed up holding the cassette in his hand and said: "It is just as I remember it from back when I met my wife, I'll like to double my order"...

So, music was also fun in 1959, just like in 1970 when Credence Clearwater Revival released their album "Cosmo's Factory"...

PS: It shall admit that some of the stuff I have a publisher's share in today, is not sounding that fun to me as music did before — however, my bank account don't mind receiving my share of the money — perhaps I'm after all beginning to get old...

44 minutes ago, wil iam not said:

Lucky the same radio station is still going.

Or here, listen to this.

He's playing his bass with a bow.

Jimi Hendrix makes my blood pressure go up.

This sounds nice.

Music is still alive.

https://www.google.com/search?q=john+farnham+help&rlz=1C1YVBP_enTH1204AU1204&oq=john+farnham+help&gs_lcrp=EgZjaHJvbWUqCggAEAAY4wIYgAQyCggAEAAY4wIYgAQyBwgBEC4YgAQyBwgCEAAYgAQyBwgDEAAYgAQyBwgEEAAYgAQyBwgFEAAYgAQyBwgGEAAYgAQyBwgHEAAYgAQyBwgIEAAYgAQyBwgJEAAYgATSAQg3NTUyajBqN6gCALACAA&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8#fpstate=ive&vld=cid:4070d857,vid:dv54giOSRKs,st:0

My mom actually bought my first cassette for me, Cream- Disraeli gears (she knew), but CCR was my favorite band before that, (she also liked them). Now there are many southern and roots rock bands still coming out with great music.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z2xLW7ES7zU&list=RDZ2xLW7ES7zU&start_radio=1 Look up Robert Jon & The Wreck, Georgia Thunderbolts, The Steel Woods, Blackberry Smoke The Red Clay Strays, The Vegabonds, and Them Dirty Roses. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T80B7s7ekGo&list=RDT80B7s7ekGo&start_radio=1You won't hear a lot of the best music around unless you research and watch a lot of videos, and see what's recommended Still fun, and great musicianship.............................https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ddk9fRDyY24.

Edited June 6Jun 6 by fredwiggy

2 hours ago, save the frogs said:

A lot of the music I used to listen to I now consider crap.

Like The Rolling Stones.

There's a lot of good recent music.

There's a lot of good music I had to discover on my own, because it was never played on the radio stations. They tell you what to listen to, practically.

Like John Prine. Only discovered him a few years ago.

Not the most inspiring, dynamic performance.

Give me bass, drums, and a Gibson SG through a Marshall stack.

If I had a Time Machine I would go back to 1978. This is when Foreigner (with the great Lou Gramm and Mick Jones) got big and I must have played that LP a 1000 times. Yes an actual record that needed a needle to played. "Feels Like the First Time" will always be playing in my head.

C+C Music Factory and Gonna Make You Sweat.

Absolute belter, damn those times were fun, great house music great drugs.

This may be a new trend.

Take someone famous, create AI video and voiceover, and really stupid lyrics.

Trump has a new single.

Edit culture has a lot of fun stuff

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FpnhB-eiE2I&list=RDFpnhB-eiE2I&start_radio=1

Jazzy Jeff x AOR is pretty fun

https://www.mixcloud.com/thecapts/club-yacht-rock-on-siriusxm-dj-jazzy-jeff-2025/

9 hours ago, GammaGlobulin said:

Dear Folks,

Back in the day, music was fun.

Are you old enough to recall?

Where has fun gone?

And, where has the love gone?

Just asking.

Best regards,

Gamma

Not to mention.....

Yeah, I listen to that too and enjoy. However, nothing has disappeared, but rather evolved. You seem to be stucj in the past.

Skeleton and the roundabout ,by the Idle race , 60 's song

that was a fun song ,missed it for many years ,then found

it on some Russian MP 3 website and downloaded it .

Just Googled it and there's quite a bit about now ,

Cops and Robbers by The Downliners Sect was another

favourite of mine from same era. like the line in the song

"were going to put him so far back in jail were going to

have to pump air into him"

regards Worgeordie

2 hours ago, save the frogs said:

This may be a new trend.

Take someone famous, create AI video and voiceover, and really stupid lyrics.

Trump has a new single.

Too funny ... does point out, unless you see it for yourself, you really can't trust or believe anything any more.

Today not only music is still far more fun but anybody with no music knowledge can make music at home with a computer and a Midi Keyboard an a multiple array of other electronic instruments. I very much like Logic Pro X for instance...coupled with a load of VsTi's...

9 hours ago, save the frogs said:

Are you too old to discover new songs being released?

Instead of being fixed in your ways like most people?

I never listen to the radio, but I had turned on the radio station I used to listen to when I was young a while back when I was home.

80% of the playlist hasn't changed in 25 years.

This might be because those who listen to radio, these days, are so old that they have 1.5 feet in the grave.

Thai music never boring, unless plunge string

I remember when rock was young.

Me and Suzie had so much fun.