"All new music sucks"

[Sunbourn]

I don't understand this. Why do people say all new music sucks, when they don't even bother to look past the mainstream charts? I find new stuff I like every day, and most of my favorite bands are from the 90's and 00's, and none of it is from the mainstream. People just aren't looking hard enough.

[MM]

Good post. People see the pop music bullshit on the radio and MTV and automatically think all of it sucks, when, while the pop music sucks cock, there are much, MUCH better bands/music that aren't getting the recognition they deserve, because they don't conform to the popular standards.

[Hanny]

YOUR FACE.

[Sunbourn]

Hikari Wrote:YOUR FACE.

Thank you for the intelligent reply.

[random_name]

i like new music - rock, pop and metal.

[classclown]

its mostly old folks who say that. at least here it is. which is funny cause lots of people get there inspiration from older music.

[Bob Dole]

Honestly, I kinda have to agree that a lot of the mainstream new music sucks. Though, I think that's mainly because of how tangled the music business is with the actual making of music, which is a goddamn mistake. Artists are the ones who are supposed to be creating music, not some goddamn record executive with only profit on their mind.

Another big thing I'm seeing is how record companies seem to like to choose completely cookie cutter music without any sort of message or innovation behind it. Rap, for example, is a fucking amazing medium for many artists expressing discontent with our current society and government. However, you never hear any of these artists unless you specifically seek them out. Record companies only sponsor rap artists who rap about the same goddamn things and manage to demean the genre as a whole, thus taking the sharp social criticism out of rap music. Honestly, there is shitloads of good music still coming out, it's just due to shitty businesses getting in our music that it sucks.

No doubt you've all heard of Lil' Wayne, but what about Sabac Red? Immortal Technique? A quick comparison.

Lil' Wayne:

Quote:[Lil' Wayne talking]
Py til I die,
just because,
pyru, b's up,
bitch I'm me

[chorus]
Young money is the label
Let us in the door,
comin in this bitch
all red to the floor
And I'm blooded soowoop
and I'm blooded soowoop
I got bloods on stage
bloods at my shows
Fuck with my bloods
got blood on your cloths
And I'm blooded soowoop (2x's)

Once again its on,
yea I'm back in the booth
Stand at the top
like a tac in the roof
Still on these hoes
like a mack in a suit
Still on my toes
not a crack in my shoe
Rappers talkin about me
but I don't give a hoot (fuck 'em!)
These niggas still lyin
I'm the muthafukin truth (fuck 'em!)
Talk tough till I knock off your kuff
And I own my team,
I'm like a Maloof
They hatin on me
I'm just tryin to be weezy
Just like young jeezy
in da lima bean Ghini
Smoked out my mind baby
and now I'm seein 3-D
Dope boy fresh from my fitted
to my DC
All red so these hoes know who we be
We B's Bloods we B's
Popeye flow yea ya'll niggas sweet peas
Gettin high on a yacht call it seaweed

[chorus]

Yea, I advance my flow
and they must like that
They like it so much,
they say they write that
Barkin at the dog,
but I don't bite back
I aint CPR
I aint bringin they life back
Black CVR
bad bitch on a bite back
Skittles on my wrist,
yea nigga the bright pack
Ima shine, I live where da light at
Airforce fly call me a nike check
Brand new coupe same color as the sky
The dash say 2, lord know I'm gon try
Cop pull me over lord know I'm gon lie
They go up in my trunk lord know I'm gon fry
Them niggas throwin salt all over my fries
So ima just walk all over them guys
Niggas throwin darts never hit the bullseye
Young money bitch new orleans east side

[chorus]

Yea, been around the world rep the same thang
Been around the world its the same gang
B's up B's up flame gang blaaat blaaat blaaat bang bang
I tol my homie streets can't sleep on life
So he popped the X pill and didn't sleep all night
I aint worried bout you I'm just tryin do me
Last album did 2 I'm just tryin do 3
I am wat every pair of eyes oughta see
Bitches just wish they could call and order me
My momma used to tell me just get a 9 to 5
Cash money made her say never mind I'm fine
(B's up!)

[chorus]

Sabac: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pU13xgSOH4w
(I couldn't find the lyrics, probably due to laziness).

Rap is the best example I can think of, but there are other genres this shit is happening in. There are still good artists, but they're being passed up for cookie cutter shit.

[MM]

THANK YOU. Mainstream hip-hop doesn't actually show how good rap really sounds. While it is slightly dying, there are artists you mentioned (Immortal Technique, along with many others) that make excellent music. People think, well, the rap I hear on MTV and the radio sucks dick. Well, that may be, but that doesn't mean every form of rap sucks dick.

The most talented artists (in any genre, really) are usually the ones under the radar and no one really knows about them.

[Jackass McAwesome]

Holy ass crack, dude. I'm listening to more of there songs as I type this. These guys very easily rap what we want to sew.

[MM]

Similar Hip-Hop:

Army Of The Pharaohs
Jedi Mind Tricks
Non-Phixion (Sabac Red was part of Non-Phixion)
Ill Bill
Goretex

[Trar]

MM Wrote:Good post. People see the pop music bullshit on the radio and MTV and automatically think all of it sucks, when, while the pop music sucks cock, there are much, MUCH better bands/music that aren't getting the recognition they deserve, because they don't conform to the popular standards.

[Freak]

I think it mainly has to do with the fact that most bands are very rock.
Rock has the biggest fan base, with the exception of Johnny Cash there are pretty much no huge major artist that you'll remember 30-40 years later unless their a rock band.