The Music Industry

[Ardiles]

There is still great music being written and performed.  The X Factor is simply this generation's equivalent of the Edwardian music hall.  It's low-brow, cheap & cheerful entertainment for the masses.  Nothing more than that.  It exists alongside a thriving quality music industry, just as it always has done.

In future, I don't think Justin Bieber will any more be compared to the Beetles than George Formby is now compared to Mozart.

[Batch]

, brought together (mostly by drugs) that could have cared less whether or not the public liked them. 

American? sorry (skipast the ads)

[jonny72]

It's total bollocks to say manufactured artists have fucked up music. Sure they might have taken over the charts but there is still plenty of decent stuff out there. If anything it is better than ever as music is more accessible than it ever has been before due to the internet, so there's a far bigger range within reach and it ain't all crap.

Not even sure there is more manufactured artists than before, it's just than Cowell has perfected the form on TV. It's also helped in some ways, as song writers who can write great songs but can't sing now have a better outlet for their wares.

Plus you can't have a discussion about manufactured artists without including Motown who did it to levels that even Cowell will never reach. You don't hear anyone criticizing them for it, why single out Cowell?

[Lumps]

Anyone that thinks we've reached some kind of nadir for popular music wants to have a look at

http://www.wwwk.co.uk/music/hit-singles/70s.htm

1972's a cracker, with classics from Chicory Tip, Lieutenant Pigeon, David Cassidy, Gilbert O'Sullivan, Little Jimmy Osmond, Donny Osmond, New Seekers, and The Pipes & Drums & Military Band of The Royal Scots Dragoon Guards.

Fuck even the Chuck Berry No.1 from that year was "My ding a ling"!

[chalkies_shorts]

Anyone that thinsk we've reached some kind of nadir for popular music wants to have a look at

http://www.wwwk.co.uk/music/hit-singles/70s.htm

1972's a cracker, with classics from Chicory Tip, Lieutenant Pigeon, David Cassidy, Gilbert O'Sullivan, Little Jimmy Osmond, Donny Osmond, New Seekers, and The Pipes & Drums & Military Band of The Royal Scots Dragoon Guards.

Fuck even the Chuck Berry No.1 from that year was "My ding a ling"!

Leave our Gilbert out of it. One of Swindon's finest from Frobisher Drive.

[Simon Pieman]

I also think it is easier to look back on music from other eras and cherry pick the best music, perhaps unwittingly so. People forget the shit in time, or at least it is easily ignored.

[Lumps]

I also think it is easier to look back on music from other eras and cherry pick the best music, perhaps unwittingly so. People forget the shit in time, or at least it is easily ignored.

That was kind of what I was driving at.

[Simon Pieman]

Yeah I didn't want to quote myself though.

[Phil_S]

As a fully qualified oldie I guess, (who was convinced I would never last beyond 40), I've got to say that every era has it's classics & dross. If you think back to crap like the birdy song, in the past.
I've got to say that I have only in the last decade "discovered" glastonbury, & love nothing better than listening to a lot of todays music there as well as some of the past greats like Neil Young, Roger Walters etc etc.
I do not dislike X factor. At least some of them can sing. Some manufactured acts in the past couldn't. What does amuse me tho is the protest groups who vote for someone who can't sing, in order to spite simon Cowell, seemingly not realising that every vote is money into his pocket. Then there is the rage against the machine which in my opinion was dross itself, & then that idiotic 4 mins of silence.

[Bogus Dave]

What annoys me is that a crap cover of a good song got to number one, whilst the original was only number 4 or 5. That tells me all I need to know about the record buying public - most of them are a bunch of window licking retards.

What do we do when we run out of songs to cover? X-factor will die on its arse

[donkey]

There has always been shit music, but Simon fucking Cowell does not help the situation.  Odorous git.  We need a new John Peel.

[Reg Smeeton]

 If music be the food of love.... play on.

[donkey]

If music be the food of love.... play on.

If music be the food of love...stand by for a good rogering.

[Benzel]

Deadmau5 will go down as one of the modern great entertainers. I'll look back on plenty of metal bands too.

[Saxondale]

For fucks sake B3nny.  We get it.  You like Deadmau5.