Based on what?

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Don't take it personally.

Green Day is WAAAAAY too whiney.

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"Play until it hurts, then play until it hurts to not play."
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Dookie.

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Hawaii (fuck) You

The music, man.

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You do not talk to me like that! I work too hard to deal with this stuff! I work too hard! I'm an important member of the CSFMB! I drive a Dodge Stratus!

All punk rock is whiney but it's easier when you have actual reasons to whine.

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BRick is basically running around the music classroom with a 2' high dunce cap on but thinks it's a mortarboard.

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Power is always in the hands of the masses of men. What oppresses the masses is their own ignorance, their own short-sighted selfishness.
- Henry George

Yet I don't know anyone in the thread has actually said I'm wrong!

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This is wrong. On many levels.

Next?

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Well, if you basic point is that music has improved over the years in terms of quality I'd disagree with you completely.
If you mean the quality of the recordings has increased I would agree with you.
If you are telling me that overall todays music is better than the music from the recent past (the middle to end of the 20th century), I'd say you're out of your gourd.

Music has been terrible for like the last 15-20 years.

Course, everyone hates the next generation's music.

And the Beatles are a terrible example. They're not very good. PARTICULARLY the wanna hold your hand bubblegum shit they did. At least when they started doing some Dr. Robert they got more interesting.

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Welp, that's two.

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I'm saying your wrong ... your point isn't some profound statement, it's perfunctory observation at best.

You don't like music, you're in puppy love with the fidelity of more modern music.

You're free to do that of course. You're just not free to pretend to offer insightful music criticism. It's like somebody extolling the virtues of Arby's while shitting all over the concept of the five mother sauces and their actual importance to the culinary arts.

You can listen to all the Taylor Swift or Fallout Boy or whoever you want. Just don't try to argue that they're anything other than flash in the pan "blech" or, worse yet, somehow better than, say, Charlie Christian or even Chuck Berry for that matter.

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Power is always in the hands of the masses of men. What oppresses the masses is their own ignorance, their own short-sighted selfishness.
- Henry George

Hat trick!!

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I don't think music has been terrible for the last 15-20 years though I'm pretty partial to the music of my teenage years too.

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You do not talk to me like that! I work too hard to deal with this stuff! I work too hard! I'm an important member of the CSFMB! I drive a Dodge Stratus!

The Rolling Stones have been rocking for literally 52 years. Their tickets are impossible to get.
In 45 more years Taylor Swift would be lucky to be working the Holiday Inn.

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I didn't though. See, it would help if you actually try and understand the point before you make your insightful criticism.

I've made enough posts on here you don't have to make up stances of mine.

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You do not talk to me like that! I work too hard to deal with this stuff! I work too hard! I'm an important member of the CSFMB! I drive a Dodge Stratus!

The evolution of the Rolling Stones are actually a pretty good example of how music improves though. Though, obviously age caught up to them on the newer stuff.

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I agree, Led Zeppelin improved on the Stones.

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The Stones have been on a downhill slide since about 1972. That's a long fucking time.

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Reality is your friend, not your enemy. -- Seacrest

That also means they started at the top of a big-ass hill

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true!!

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Reality is your friend, not your enemy. -- Seacrest

They're still selling out 70,000 seat stadiums. Will Wilco or Fallout Boy do that in 2050?

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No. Only every single band that is making better music than them in 2050.

Did you know that if the Stones started making music right now nobody would listen to them? It's true. A "C&C Music Factory" historian I know said so.

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I think John Williams is very good.

Think Beethoven is just a little bit better.

I missed who is better than Ray Charles or John Coltrane. Please point me in the right direction.

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You know me like that.

Oh man, that... that's lovely.

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"Play until it hurts, then play until it hurts to not play."
http://soundcloud.com/darkside124 HOF 2013, MM Champion 2014

I'll take "People Unaware of 'Some Girls'" for $600, Alex.

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Power is always in the hands of the masses of men. What oppresses the masses is their own ignorance, their own short-sighted selfishness.
- Henry George

Dude, I saw the CSO do John Williams at Ravinia a couple years ago... was one of my favorite nights at Ravinia. Just splendid.
You are of course referring to the Hub Arkush looking John Williams of movie soundtracks fame, yes?

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"Play until it hurts, then play until it hurts to not play."
http://soundcloud.com/darkside124 HOF 2013, MM Champion 2014

Oh, I meant Paul Williams.

Never mind.

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You know me like that.

It's been downhill since Some Girls.

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Good people drink good beer - Hunter S. Thompson

<º)))><

Waiting for the time when I can finally say
That this has all been wonderful, but now I'm on my way

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Power is always in the hands of the masses of men. What oppresses the masses is their own ignorance, their own short-sighted selfishness.
- Henry George

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