Since there is absolutely nothing going on in the tech world today (really, we checked the internet), we figured some off-topic lightness might be a good idea for this Saturday night (it's night already in The Netherlands). The question we pose to you today has absolutely nothing to do with operating systems, computers, or technology: what albums are you most looking forward to in the coming one, two years? I blogged about my five most-awaited albums for 2008/2009, and this is my list (all albums are yet to be named): Fiona Apple's 4th album (I kind of really like Fiona Apple), the 7th studio album by The Cardigans, Garbage's successor to "Bleed Like Me", A Camp's coming second album, and Garbage front-woman Shirley Manson's first solo album. Post your favourites in the comments!
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Member since:2006-02-05
I agree with you in general, but the difference between now and then is that pop was really good. EVERYONE listened to led zep, the beatles, and floyd. Nowadays, pop is based more on image and music videos, and the only real artists in the whole process are the producers.
Member since:2005-07-08
Well, I'm a bit afraid that in all times there may have been bad commercial hit music, but - thank God - nobody may remember the poorer pop music from earlier decades anymore... 
But you may be correct too. I often get a feeling (maybe I'm just old..?) that people may not remember or even want to remember most current top charts hit music after a few years (well, of course there may be some exceptions too).
Actually most new music I like to listen to may not even be pop or rock music these days. But as most other commentators here were just mentioning pop/rock albums and artists here, I didn't want to look like a snob and mention other kinds of music, like some world music, ethnic music or jazz...
Anyway, to emphasize what I think about pop music, I could say that to me rock and pop music are just sub genres of world music. I hope people could be more open-minded about music and would like to broaden their horizons more.
Member since:2008-03-16
..Led Zeppelin,The Beatles..Santana and others of that era have enormous "strength of material" and are genuine musicians rather then the canned formula synthetic facade that passes for talent/music now-a-days. It's worse yet with hiphop/rap with it's highly plagiarized formula scripts and electronic back beat fills. Anybody with a digital sampler and a beat box can defecate hiphop/rap.
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2005-07-08
I was going to agree, and say that I like classics too. But when I started to think about it, I think I do like many sorts of new creative music, to the point that one of my main hobbies is finding and listening to completely new music.
Also, a major reason that made some of those old classics mentioned above so great was that they were something completely new in their own times. In rock music artists like Led Zeppelin, Jimi Hendrix, Pink Floyd, Santana, Beatles in their later years too and others. That is always a good sign of creativity and true art.
The problem with many music artists is that it is easy to just follow certain musical cliches, take the safe route and do the same old stuff instead of trying something new, but then the whole thing may lose part of its taste, just like old coffee or tea.
Actually I tend to dislike all kinds of pop fashion, I mean music styles and bands that just follow some IMHO boring fashion cliches. Nothing wrong wth musical styles in themselves, but artists could still try to do something new instead of just copying themselves and others. No matter if it is blues, tango, electronic, heavy metal, jazz, film music, hymns, ethnic music, classical art music or what ever, as long as it is creative and offers me something new, I might be interested in it.
It would be hard for me to name any certain albums or artists here. Rather, I would like to find and listen to some completely new things.
Well, of course, only rather few top artists may actually have the high grade skills and gifts to create something very new that is also good and touching to others. I suppose that is why some old classics may still sound fresh unlike some new music.
Edited 2008-03-16 13:11 UTC