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i promised some time back to make a small or large or whatever you want essay or post regarding music. i believe the time is now. no i havent been preparing it, merely waiting for my brain to say ok the time is now. basically this is part music, part life. i mean at least for me, my wife and my music = my life.
as rennie has on his nickname "music is the only proof that god exists" if there even is one.
joey or carl, i dont know who posted and too lazy to read said that life is at a point where you are like wtf, where do i go now, no one prepares you for this type of shit that you will eventually encounter in life. needless to say, i believe that this crisis hits us all with the same ferocity.
i am currently listening to iron maiden, and earlier i was listening to the velvet underground accompanied by a previous jamming to some ...and you will know us by the trail of dead. now i look up and try to understand what fosters our inability to enjoy life for what it is, i mean we make money, have gf's or a wife that support us, but still there us this huge empty void lacking something.
i feel music and words fill it all the time, specially the bands i grew up with like maiden, sabbath, zeppelin (how i love those guys), queen, etc and i feel like at my mid 20's there used to be a better time. nowadays if i want to listen to something with quality (being words or music) i just cant other than harrasing my friends over here in nm who actually use their brain. i feel there is a lack of culture all over this country, i feel bored because tv tells me i have to become an idiot to be happy.
there is a lack of people who voice an opinion that is taken into matter by any ring in society. there are no countercultures, the one that teenagers feel they are part of is fueled by puma, gap, and other brands that are expecting us to fall into a category. and thus the corporations make us fit into a scheme where we are part of a collective.
music and art have lost their meaning, there can be no proof of a god when the music that is created means nothing regardless on how the artist feels he is apart from the mainstream media and the corporations. music is a lost art form.
back in the day and i mean back in the day of the velvet underground, their music was an expression of the soul and the angst of being a drunk or drug addict per se. nowadays i turn on music on tv and it is crap. music not only that is lacking any artistry or meaning, but music that requires you to be mentally devoid of rationality in order to succeed. case and point...
...can you not tell me that art is lost. if music is the only proof that god exists, then i believe that god is dead and is no more than a great memory locked in some box in a dirty attic. granted there are some that try to find it.
cheers
ps
this is quality
when art triggered a reaction from the mind, provoked inspiration and made it possible to believe in something.
as rennie has on his nickname "music is the only proof that god exists" if there even is one.
joey or carl, i dont know who posted and too lazy to read said that life is at a point where you are like wtf, where do i go now, no one prepares you for this type of shit that you will eventually encounter in life. needless to say, i believe that this crisis hits us all with the same ferocity.
i am currently listening to iron maiden, and earlier i was listening to the velvet underground accompanied by a previous jamming to some ...and you will know us by the trail of dead. now i look up and try to understand what fosters our inability to enjoy life for what it is, i mean we make money, have gf's or a wife that support us, but still there us this huge empty void lacking something.
i feel music and words fill it all the time, specially the bands i grew up with like maiden, sabbath, zeppelin (how i love those guys), queen, etc and i feel like at my mid 20's there used to be a better time. nowadays if i want to listen to something with quality (being words or music) i just cant other than harrasing my friends over here in nm who actually use their brain. i feel there is a lack of culture all over this country, i feel bored because tv tells me i have to become an idiot to be happy.
there is a lack of people who voice an opinion that is taken into matter by any ring in society. there are no countercultures, the one that teenagers feel they are part of is fueled by puma, gap, and other brands that are expecting us to fall into a category. and thus the corporations make us fit into a scheme where we are part of a collective.
music and art have lost their meaning, there can be no proof of a god when the music that is created means nothing regardless on how the artist feels he is apart from the mainstream media and the corporations. music is a lost art form.
back in the day and i mean back in the day of the velvet underground, their music was an expression of the soul and the angst of being a drunk or drug addict per se. nowadays i turn on music on tv and it is crap. music not only that is lacking any artistry or meaning, but music that requires you to be mentally devoid of rationality in order to succeed. case and point...
...can you not tell me that art is lost. if music is the only proof that god exists, then i believe that god is dead and is no more than a great memory locked in some box in a dirty attic. granted there are some that try to find it.
cheers
ps
this is quality
when art triggered a reaction from the mind, provoked inspiration and made it possible to believe in something.
posted by evil ferret of doom at 3:35 PM
2 Comments:
[i]"There is no good or evil but thinking makes it so."[/i] Shakespeare
I agree with this to a point, but believe the truth is farther apart then then the symptom.
TV, Radio, music producers have taken control of music the same way they had before the Vietnam war. They all produce the same un-imaginative crap, because taking a chance on something different will never produce consistent profit margins.
We aren't in a different age, we're repeating the 1950's with Internet.
The rapid rise of the Religious Right, the stale music, books, art, and mind numbing, blatantly bought out news are all the same as they were back then. This isn't a new age, like everything else on TV - it's a re-make.
As far as what's missing?
That's simple. Purpose.
Music was a call to arms of sorts in the Vietnam era. It drove people, motivated people, it was more then a punk kid working for some suits and singing lyrics an under-paid writer gave him. The musicians of the 60's were driven - they had 'Purpose.'
[i]"An artist is a creature driven by demons. He doesn't know why they choose him and he's usually too busy to wonder why."[/i] William Faulkner
As a Non-believer of the Jesus I have to say that I stole the "music is my only proof that God Exists" line from Kurt Vonnegut. He was a great inspiration to me. He was the one that taught me about Secular Humanism. And taught me about a technocratic world driven by the Ph.D.´s and the Engineers still could be flawed. But anyway, On to music. I'm sorry to say that if Music IS the only proof that this "God" exists. Then God would very much be alive today. Because music hits every one of us differently and uniquely whether we hate it, love it, or just don't care about it. There is a single tune out there with our name on it, and we can´t help but dance to it. Again whether its tap our feet, bob our heads, or mosh the shit out of each other. But that song, that note, reacts in our brain a certain way that we can´t help but dance.
Today`s mainstream music may not be the best thing in the world, but again, that is because music producers call out to shitty snot-nosed teens. Those of us on the outside of course are going to have to look somewhere else. You mentioned the Counterculture, and how they too don't produce anything good because the corporations have also taken control of that. That is the fault of the counterculture. Today the American scene wants to "be a part of something" before it will even listen to a band. So they won't even go out to the bars and pay attention to the struggling bands out there. Good bands die, copy-cats make it for a little while, and shit gets made.
On to Purpose, so what purpose do we lovers of music have? We want to find good music. Well I still find good music in punk rock, on occasion. It takes a lot of digging, but I look at a lot of other genres as well. Lately I've been listening to a lot of blues, and classical, and jazz. I still go back to Punk Rock when I can, whenever I find that special band that is trying. It´s just hard to dig through all the mind numbing stale crap.
Also if you have a hard time finding anything good, then visit a museum, or read a good book. Sacrilege, I am going to have to disagree with one point where you said the books and art are declining in quality. In fact having just read two really good books I would say people should really pick up a book once in a while because they are missing out on some excellent writers of our time.
-Ingenium
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