Does music really change over time?

Alan Rudd · Post by **Alan Rudd** » 27 Dec 2006 8:39 pm

In my honest opinion and belief, music is the carrier of the spiritual content of its writers and obviously many of the genres of music that our younger generation listen to today are written by some people that are pretty disturbed. Those who listen to it open their soul up to some of the same stuff by entertaining their spirits with it. The eyes and ears are the gateway to the soul. Even much of the traditional country music that we all love so much is full of a lot of messed up situations that involve some pretty messed up people, but it is very real. My teenage daughter prefers much of the rock music of the 70's which has its own level of mess in it as well, but most of it is some of the same stuff I listened to as well with the exception of some of it. She digs most of the music I listened to then and is sometimes surprised to find out that some of the remakes of todays artists were hits in the 70's. Can't help but love it, but there's a lot of "crap" being fed to us even in those songs we love and believe are great! Anyway, my two cents!

David L. Donald · Post by **David L. Donald** » 27 Dec 2006 11:29 pm

Just as the music of a period is the
'carrier of the spiritual content of its writers',

but also the young of a generation hitch
their spiritual wagon to,
a writer who THEY can identify with.

It is rarely the writers of their parents generations.

The expirences have just changed a lot,
and the amount of information the young deal with,
is also greater for the last 4 generations each time around.
As well as the huge strides in information delivery in the last 100 years.

What your grand dad dealt with has very little to do with what your grand children
are dealing with.

And music is a reflection of each new generations
hopes fears, and boogiemen in the closet.

A very few writers create songs that traverse
all the human condition in a seamless manner.

Marlin Smoot · Post by **Marlin Smoot** » 27 Dec 2006 11:39 pm

Least we forget...Disco music from the 1970's ALMOST killed off every type of music on the planet. The "disco' sound creeped into almost all popular music of that time period.
Even country music.

With only so many notes on the staff and so many chord progressions, so many tempos to use...we may be reaching the end of songs with melody's that will stand the test of time. I'm usually wrong about issues like this...

David L. Donald · Post by **David L. Donald** » 28 Dec 2006 7:29 am

Not a lot of 9/8 happening any more,
It used to be called the perfect meter.
1 2 3 1 2 3 1 2 3

Many dances done in this style.
I suspect most of us here have never more than tried it.
I have done whole evenings of mostly 9/8,
it grows on you.

Alan Rudd · Post by **Alan Rudd** » 28 Dec 2006 8:08 am

Another thing I've noticed. A lot of the older country music was dance music. Very few of the things I hear today are what I would consider dance music. I think country music needs a turn back to being danceable. I guess today's music is selling more than ever, but the only reason is it crosses over more than ever before because it is so pop.[This message was edited by Alan Rudd on 28 December 2006 at 08:09 AM.][This message was edited by Alan Rudd on 28 December 2006 at 08:10 AM.]

Charles Davidson · Post by **Charles Davidson** » 30 Dec 2006 10:03 am

Al,I bet Bird would have made a great steel player,but I'm glad he played the horn,I have always been a sucker for the Alto sax,IMO he was THE man.I was raised on a Ga farm wayyyy out in the sticks the only entertainment we had was a radio,in the forties you had two choices,Jazz,and big band or country[It was call hillybilly music then]My mother loved the big bands,my grand father love the hillybilly,I was exposed to both and LOVED it all.

Charles Davidson · Post by **Charles Davidson** » 30 Dec 2006 12:45 pm

By the way,speaking of disco,even tho it IMO it really hurt a LOT of us working musicions[but not as much as this kareoke crap] but a lot of it such as the Bee Gees was light years ahead and a lot more pleasent to listen to than the ^&%# thats out today!This so-called country today I think is a very POOR feeble attempt at 70's rock.

Al Collinsworth · Post by **Al Collinsworth** » 30 Dec 2006 7:02 pm

Thank you, Charles.

Al Collinsworth · Post by **Al Collinsworth** » 30 Dec 2006 7:28 pm

Gary C. Dygert · Post by **Gary C. Dygert** » 3 Jan 2007 11:03 am

Just a thought--songs we now consider classics were big hits at one time. Hits used to last longer on the airwaves than they do now. Hits don't last long enough to become classics. For example, Iris DeMent has some good songs, but they won't become classics, because only a few people hear her music, and she's not commercial enough to have a hit.