Modern Music IS Sh!te | but this is what you can do about it
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😅 Andy's hilarious when he gets the rant on.
Definitely! Plus I always think that a rant in the Brummie accent always gives it that extra 'Je Ne Sais Quoi' !!!
Rant on You Crazy Diamond. 💎
Best comment of the day!
Also: Rant & Roll
On my daughter’s student party i had to sit and listen to that shite:).Eventually her friends wanted me to choose some dad-music.I played them Steve Hillage’s version of Hurdy Gurdy Man.They loved it!
Andy's "madder than mad Jack McMad, the winner of last years 'Mr Madman' competition.
I usually yell at clouds.
classic!
get off my lawn!
Here’s the thing, I’m 41 this year and the first Beatles album slaps harder than anything that has come out in the last 41 years. And that album was absolutely speaking to “younger” audiences.
Taylor Swift is a curated image of close media monitering to define her image. She is like an A1 creation in human form.
Swift is to Beyonce what the Osmonds were to the Jackson 5 -a white (and therefore potentially more money-making) facsimile of a black talent.
Pleased to say I can’t actually name a single one of her ‘songs’.
I read this comments minutes after putting A1 on my steak.
And swift wants us to look at her bottom because her music is shite
Tavistock/RAND organisation curated!
Robert Anton Wilson always said, we live on the Planet of the apes, looks like we will never overcome this.
Excellent rant maestro!!!!
If Taylor Swift had come out in the 80s she would probably be about as successful as Debbie Gibson.
...and how 'bout the '60s/'70s?
as a 26 year old, I agree
Beautiful! Love it. Cheers, Andy PL
Rant hits the spot! Shows great improv skills, yet another thing missing from modern music!
The first 7 minutes are GOLD 😂
Thanks for this Andy. Best damned rant I've heard in...ever. Outstanding job Andy. Sadly, try watching this independently and you'll want to put on a monster rant on the number of commercials that we have to suffer through in order to watch this amazing video.
There is a world of difference between "being older," which we are, and "being old," which we will never be.
We love the rants!
Paul Simon said it best - every generation sends a hero up the pop charts.
I love the way Andy can come on and speak off the top of his head like this.
I'm not even into most of the music Andy's into, so it says a lot about how interesting and fun I find him to watch and listen too.
@32:33 I’m a 65-year old white guy who came to the channel to learn more about Prog and Jazz. Here, I stumbled across KNOWER and Louis Cole which led me to Vulfpeck and Snarky Puppy…
… which led me to my newest passion, DOMi and J D BECK, two musical prodigies who play in the jazz/hip hop space.
And now I’m curious about hip hop.
I was never interested in hip hop because it had nothing to do with me but now it does because I had my ears open.
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Love the rant and following explanation, hilarious, inciteful, with many truths embedded.
Blimey mate! How's your blood pressure? 😆 Thanks for the shout out!
The USA gave us Jazz,Blues,Soul - and - identity politics. We need to know when to say "no thanks".
We got our identity politics from the French intellectuals. Same place your BBC got it.
@@CasperLCat yes, if you take it chrono-historically.. I assume he means the very "new" identity politics that even those historical figures who gave it would gasp at the current horribleness of it
@@CasperLCatDon't leave out the Frankfurt school.
@@TheeRobertPhoenix Yes, another hotbed of terrible ideas. As if Marxism had such a wonderful track record in the 20th Century, let’s inflict it on the world again, for the 21st !
I just subscribed Andy, as a thank you for Frequency. You're more convincing than a PBS pledge night! Come on, 30,000!!
I'm inspired by the rant!. Helps me get my work done here. Keep up the good work Andy
Rick Beato is right. AI music will be the norm in 3-5 years. .. and the musically apathetic masses will lap it up.
So what? Music is just a UA-camr catering to conservative rock fans who can barely form any cohesive argument other than rock is good all modern music is shit yet have barely listened through anything since the 90s
Yes, and you can guarantee that "AI tribute " of unauthorised albums for legendary artists like James Brown, Elvis, The Beatles will be created anywhere around the world. Bulgarian Pink Floyd or Philippino Leonard Cohen anyone!!!!!
Great stuff Andy!
Glad you enjoyed it
Part 2 was brilliant! 😂This was a really good one actually!
Love your rants Andy ❤
This is art
You managed to squeeze quite a bit of philosophy into your diatribe. Jolly good job (no English accent here). My husband and I thoroughly enjoyed listening over coffee this morning. Put us both in a good mood. Yes, we are old, but incredibly young at heart. You are a character 😂.
Good vid. Me being me, I want to do more than that. So here's another suggestion on support. Fan art.
This may be more a thing among certain communities, typical the anime gamers. Surprisingly, a good way to get the word out is to do some form of work influenced by the music. Of course, copyright laws do inhibit the arts. When there is no inhibition, there's a conversation. A conversation that can lead to people finding out about music they may never have heard of.
As to whether the art in question is sketching, sculpture, performative dance, animation, or whichever, that I leave to the artists and how the music inspires them.
Andy, that certainly made me smile & entertained! Now I'm going for a lie down! 😂
Keep up the good work!
you’re a great man, you’re doing a good thing 🙏
I always like and comment on all kinds of music new and old. Especially the obscure stuff. There is so much wonderful music that virtually know one has heard and this goes for older music too.
Andy Python’s Flying Circus!! Loved the rant, you outdid yourself. You also had an important message to share, and a possible solution to the problem. Well done, Andy! 👍🥁🥁🥁🥁👌
Glad you enjoyed it!
Andy you’re the best!!!!
Thank you Andy! Part I = poetry; part II = prose; coda = silliness
I'm 7 minutes in, shy of the 'rant proper', and have already dug it. This is Andy the inimitable.
Thanks Andy, entertaining, interesting and insightful as ever.
and very funny!
great heart felt video
thank you!
This Is Bloody Fantastic.!!
"In my day, in my day, in my day...." Perfect Andy!!
I am 67 this year Andy and love black metal as well as prog rock, metal etc.
Always entertaining videos mate
Popular music is about fame and money. It is the opposite of "rebellion" against "the system" which is the source of fame and money.
Came for the rant. Stayed for the insight. (And a bag of spaghetti)
Superb.
Andy's new art form........SlamRant!.....Luv it!!
Genius.
Luv, ya -4-yer passion , brother !!!don’tgive up the fight-‘!!!!! Semper-fi
I've seen that Going for the One sleeve more times this week thanks to you than I have in the six months prior, and I own a copy of the record! 🤣
I choose to believe that there was somebody in that audience who actually DID come along hoping to see Rory Gallagher’s bottom, and went home bitterly disappointed.
Epic - a great voice!
I don't know about the rest of you but after working, sleeping, cooking and eating, walking the dog and reading I don't have much time left for listening to music.
So why would I risk wasting that valuable time exploring new stuff when I already have enough really enjoyable old stuff that I could easily go at least 6 months without repeating any?
Because it's fresh?
There’s good music everywhere..
Andy should tour this, spoken word with drum solos, and reasonably priced tickets. .Epic rant!
I do a bit of that myself, but I don’t have Andy’s glorious locks. Or smarts.
in the old days "new" music would challenge and sometimes offend the previous generations. They would say things like "what is this racket?" and "this isnt music!". These days my reaction to new music is just utter boredom.
Absolutely brilliant !!!! What a rant !!! By the way Andy ---- who the HELL ! is Taylor Swift ????
Some valid points there Andy, on point rants. I do think the chasing of Likes & Validation on social media by randoms is pointless bullshit. Lost interest in that. Just focusing on doing the creative stuff.
Yes, you are a great moaner and I love it brother!
Thank you kindly
definitely - in my book you are the best ! never met anyone else that loved MO as much As I do . 😊 Jan H - Billy C - ! 😊
Bang on Sir.
Musicians can help by stop using the streaming services!! You're not making money from streaming anyways!!
Some people do make money on streaming services. Artists need to know what is best for them.
True, Andy. Artists need to know the most profitable way to help them. There has to be a new streaming service that pays out fairly to artists, especially ones who don’t have the “popularity” of the larger artists. Also, there should be financial adjustments for the real musicians and songwriters, instead of the AI “music” that took ZERO talent. That’s the difference between “content” and music. Thank you Andy, for all you do, and your contribution to get the great music from our era to the world!!
Hi, just watched prog corner, very entertaining. Seems the experts have as many questions about 'what is prog' as I do? I'm late into it, loving it, except for some of the self-indulgent chaotic keyboard work, where melody loses out. A recent favourite is IQ... did you play on any of their albums?
Now I'm 50 minutes in. Andy you told about the place down the road from your house that brings in artists that normally wouldn't go out of the way to play a small venue. I'd like to give a shout out to a similar venue in my neck of the woods - Randy Wood's Pickin' Parlor in Bloomingdale GA, between where I live in Statesboro and Savannah. Randy is an old school luthier of primarily acoustic guitars and mandolins and he has a small room that for around $25 anyone can come see national and international high quality acoustic based acts. Some of the virtuosos who have graced that small stage (and continue to) include Tommy Emmanuel, Richard Smith, and Doyle Dykes. A fabulous place hosted by a maker of fine acoustic instruments.
Frog also rhymes with prog. 🙃 I loved the rant and it got me to laugh out loud!
You're reminding me more and more of Eric Idle's rants on the old Monty Python shows Andy. But there was definitely a lot of truth in this video.👍
In general those streaming services are only really lucrative for the major artists that have a large slice of the finite "pie" and, for many platforms, the shareholders. About 95% of the music I listen to is by artists out of the mainstream. Because I like to support the artists, and because I prefer LPs and CDs (with the artwork, liner notes/recording & personnel info/better sound quality) and because I can afford it, my living room is crowded with shelves reflecting a lifetime of collecting LPs, CDs and 45s. I doubt I will ever join a streaming service. I do however use UA-cam to get an initial listen of something that someone suggests.
Greatest rant of all time so great, a bad flu and mine patio door while I was watching. He’s a small bag he doesn’t appear didn’t mean any harm. I think the rent disturb his sonar capabilities
What does it mean to take the Mick out of something?
Love the rant! I've always preferred instrumental music to pop with mostly silly lyrics so I'd rather watch some guys in jeans and t shirts play their instruments competently instead of a bunch of dancers in Broadway costumes with flashpots going off and laser lights all over the place. The corporate class co-opts subcultural art forms and commodifies them into "popular art" forms such as pop music that's what they told me in (postmodernist) art school 😆
Epic Pythonesque rant. Like Eric Idle in the travel agent sketch.
Since you were 7 in 1975, I find it unlikely that you saw Zep in concert that year... 😁
Modern rap lives rent free in Andy's rant
It's a breath of fresh air when I'm at the cafe and a classically tuneful pop song by the likes of Lady Gaga or even Katy Perry comes on.
great rant 👍
this is some kind of beautiful avant garde performance art
The greatest rant on UA-cam .
Yeah, go Andy!!
For those about to rock - we salute you, Andy ... keep ranting ... but don't call us old !!
What an interesting video. The issue I have with a lot of modern music is that it is computer generated and the vocals sound robotic, which for me, takes away the emotional element. Personally, I would rather hear the occasional fault in someone’s voice as this is what makes it human. With regard to supporting artists, I typically buy digital downloads after listening to an album on the same streaming service from where the album can be purchased. Many of the bands are not well known so I have no issue with paying the equivalent cost of a CD. I also like the option of being able to pay more when downloading music from Bandcamp, which I do occasionally.
What's cool about the rant part, aside for it being funny, is you know something clever is coming afterwards.
There is still hope for pop music.
Check out Aurora.
Her collab with Brian Eno is a good start.(A soul with no King)
All her albums are consept albums
My first year at university a professor asked a bunch of us students to his house. He played Frank Sinatra. I thought it was garbage and thought myself far more advanced because I loved King Crimson. Part of it is just the continual change of taste and the fact that we get fixated in the music of our youth.
Jim Morrison once told a reviewer that he learned about vocal phrasing by listening to Sinatra. Listen carefully to The Doors and you’ll realize he was right.
@danielschaeffer1294 - Sinatra was a living and current artist when Morrison discovered him as a influence. Part of the problem now is that there aren’t new artists who will have the same influence on artists as Sinatra did. I don’t think anyone is listening to someone like Taylor Swift and saying “Wow, I want to sing like her”
What pub are we at and do they have snacks?
As a fellow boomer, I completely agree. The exception is the artist REN. Check out ‘Hi Ren’. He’s a throwback to talented artists of the last century. You won’t be sorry.
Love your RANTS and Begging . When is the next Patreon Zoom ? Looking forward to getting my 2 cents in . Finally you mentioned RORY today - I knew you like any music that is good like that - Have you heard the ZAC SCHULZE GANG - ? A Youthful POWER TRIO - along the lines of RORY - I'll send you info - on your G mail - Keep on Keeping on ! Cheers Mate
I played with Gwyn Ashton...does that give me any Rory points?
Radiohead released In Rainbows in 2007 using the ' pay what you want' strategy. It turns out it was still very profitable for them because many people paid a ' fair price' for the album. And the people who couldn't afford to pay much could still listen to the album for nothing. Win-win there. But Lily Allen had a point when she said that the band could make that move because they didn't risk as much as an up and coming artist or band, who doesn't have the fan base and financial ease yet.
“Prog dog investigative hobbits” - love it.
Very funny rant Andy, but there's some truth in it as well. That's why Sleaford Mods resonate with a lot of people. We can all shout at clouds and feel impotent about things, but every generation needs something or someone to articulate those feelings. First time I heard Jason Williamson was like when I first heard Chuck D back in the day and as a 63 year old it was thrilling to hear the same sort of righteous anger that first inspired me back in the day with punk. Also I've been encouraged by the amount of young people at their gigs, I thought it wold be full of old gits like me. The success of Ren has also been encouraging. Crucially as well as being a huge talent, he understands you tube. A lot of his success has been built on reactors, crucially he doesn't block them. It's how I discovered him. Some of these reactors are fake, irritating and the pausing with some of them can drive you mad admittedly although I understand why they have to do it. There are some really good ones out there though who've introduced me to stuff. I honestly think some of the artists miss a trick although often it's the record companies that block rather than the artist. Watching some young kid react to something old that you might have heard a thousand times before can be a beautiful thing. It reminds you how you felt the first time you heard it, we tend to get jaded as we get older. Watched a coupl've kids the other day reacting to Gimme Shelter and their excitement was a joy to behold. If you really like something buy the physical product. Popular wisdom would have it no ones buying cds/records but I want something tangible I can hold in my hands.
"Truth is important"--Andy Edwards 2024. Let's hope that is not all he is remembered for having said!
I just had a revelation just now Andy. That 'the Mickey' seems to come from an old bit of Cockney rhyming slang, which substitutes Mickey Bliss' for 'the piss'. Now life makes sense. If only I could just figure where the piss goes once it's been removed?
We mustn't confuse "genetic" with "congenital". The way our genes express is congenital, it's developmental. This is why twins are never identical despite having identical genes. It's why siblings can be radically different despite shared genetic inheritance. Etc...
And of course that Temu ad came on in the middle of the greatest rant in history. You are making Scott (The Prog Corner) sound like he might be on Prozac.
Andy's ramped it up to rant factor 11 for this one....look out Jonathan Pie your crown is about to be stolen!
When I first moved to Austin in 88 was easy to support band. It was a live music capital of the world. Minimal cover to get in anywhere in South by Southwest was just getting started. probably 500 bands playing every night. In the city of 600,000. . There were thousands of songwriters here .Aqua fest was a big festival. I played drums in a loud Irish band play there. Imagine that now.
If you like the band, then you bought the cassette and later their CD and spread it among your friends. Even though our music was much better than in Nashville, they were based on publishing and we were based on performance, so we shriveled and died.
Covering George Floyd were the last nail in our coffin.
Aqua fest is gone. SXSW is all commercial. And based on identity politics
You captured me. Sorry it has to be the free patreon membership but my partner and me are 'living' on half a single pension ... plus my Spotify royalties from the 10 or so streams I get per month :)
RANTOMON. the serious art foam at the mouth spittle upon the edge of reason.
Totally agree!.. Billy Laurence and Michael League(english ARTISTS)are proving that modern music can be BLOODY GOOD.....but you know that anyway!
Again, great One Andy!!
I'm always trying to find new music, so thanks for giving examples.
'He looks like a happy man and he's got two saxophones'.
Interesting side note in regards to the man you mentioned who contacted kkk members.
His name is Daryl Davis. He was an old friend of a girl I was dating back in the early 1980’s.
He asked us to come and check out his band that was playing at a small club nearby.
It was a cover band of Chuck Berry and Elvis. Daryl did all the Chuck Berry covers and he had another singer who was basically an Elvis impersonator.
A bit odd you would think, but they were actually very good. Very fun and funny. At one point they offered to play any song of choice for a birthday girl. She said she didn’t have a favorite. They pressed a bit more, and she said “I don’t know who these people are “ . Ha!
We hung out with Daryl before and after his gig. He was very chill and interesting but our conversation was short because he was getting ready to go on and then he had to pack up.
Short while later he calls and offers free tickets to Chuck Berry at the Baltimore amphitheater. Too cool ! We had second row seats and Daryl was playing piano in Chuck’s band. I was not completely clear with how he got the gig playing in Berry’s band but it something to do with a connection when Daryl was a teenager and he could play keyboards whenever Chuck was in the Baltimore/ Washington area.
After the show Daryl came and brought us back stage. Back stage was a crew breaking down the stage and one small trailer. It was a bit uncomfortable in that Daryl wanted us to have a meet and handshake. But it quickly became clear Mr. Berry was not coming out and Daryl was not welcome inside. A bit later two autographs were passed out of the trailer.
Was a bit awkward, I felt bad at the time feeling Daryl was snubbed by the musician he based everything on. Looking back I think that even though Daryl was an adult, Chuck had some things he didn’t want Daryl to know about.
Daryl Davis was a very good guitar player, piano player and singer. He was also very intelligent, interesting and a solid guy. A good Man.
This is all a true story.
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I had no clue bedazzled one piece swimsuits were ever going to be fashionable, so it's safe to say I don't have my finger on the pulse of what the kids like. This generational shift is interesting, in so far as humanity has never been stable enough to allow people in their 50's/60's to observe their entertainment trends being transmogrified in ways we're doing now- what was edgy for the purposes of annoying normal people is in a different spot now- like normal is edgy or something? And with AI, who knows where this all goes. Pop music is an interesting social phenomenon, too bad the music it's self isn't there at this point. (I work with people who turn on teenie bop radio- I know what's going on again.. gah)
A lot of it has to do with production techniques specifically. Nowadays there is much less: 1. live bands recording rhythm tracks (and often, full songs) 2. Analog keyboards generally
Love the Brecht reference