Damn it! Gutted that Bristol is already SOLD OUT. Been waiting to see you play live for about 20 years!!

Yes.

Just bought my plane tickets, hotel, and concert tickets to see you in Denver in October. Can't wait!

Lovely. Ty❤

Australia needs The Darkness too. Bring The Darkness Down Under!

It's a bangle and I think it's from a cornish artist

It's an analogue auto-tuning fork.

I’ve always wondered that … is it just keeping the cable secure?

It’s a wave, that will crash. Guitars sell like mad still. The kids will always find a way to make it their own.

Are you familiar with a song called " six months in a leaky boat " ? Hmmmm . It is a melody I grew up with . Only to hear " shake it off " . Is she that creative ?

We're they accompanied by a policeman, a native American Indian, a cowboy and a leather-bound guy?

Agreed! Everytime I turn it on I turn it off within one song or less

That's interesting. In the UK I hear the gayest girly Pop muck being played by, well you know, men. It's fvcking bizarre.

Yeah haven't listened to the radio since I worked in a sheet metal shop, at work it gets to the point that I could usually predict the next 3 songs. Thankfully it was only 3 people and eventually I brought my stereo and showed them King Gizzard and they loved it. After that we all kept bringing in random stuff, lucky we all had similar taste.

I feel your pain. I worked in two factories as a teenager (chemical and chicken). The local radio was unspeakable, so I popped the Stone Roses debut on cassette. The workers were up in arms - what the fook is that shite? putfookinradiobackon Cannot remember what they went back to, 'chart dance', Technotronic, Snap, god knows. I think it was weirdly even worse, - the sort of shite they played at the local neon vomitbox nightclub, nth grade 'overground' "rave' ;areuarighthavinagoodtimesmokemachinewoot! Fuck me, still got PTSD

Ouch.

But it's awful.

It’s not awful. It’s terribly original. That’s the point.

@@jayboy2kay7 It's awful.

@@jayboy2kay7 Always sounds like Queen's Melancholy Blues to me. Not that that is a bad thing.

​​What are you? "King of opening theme music" or something?​@@brutallyremastered4255 yet it will continue to live in your head rent free...

The charts of the 1950s were even more similar because 12 bar blues was so common.

That dude is Beatles, Beatles, Beatles. If there's a miniscule resemblance to a two bar Beatles' phrase, then it's s#¡t hot.

His show is great! He is an extremely knowledgeable musician. In response to one of the other responses you received . Anyone who thinks the 12 bar blues constituted 1950’s music needs to do some research before they comment 😉

Modern music and modern music made for the charts are two entirely different things. There's an ocean of variety and experimentation out there. Late stage capitalism dictates all of our industries of culture will have homogeneity at the "top" whether thats movies, games, music or books. Dig beneath the corporate veneer and there is far more variety, innovation and timbre than there has ever been in music. Beato, like many of his generation, are incapable of doing that so they spend their time yelling at clouds which is ironic considering how derivative likes of Led Zeppelin, The Rolling Stones or Elvis Presley were.

@@jimmcdougall9973 a lot of early rock 'n' roll was essentially the same chords

Well done, my three boys all have a dislike for modern music as it’s so similar to itself. They like 70s 80s 90s, and not just one genre they listen to everything.it’s great for road trips as their is no whining about what’s on the radio.

Thank goodness that means at least one kid has been saved from a life of musical blandness😊

While it’s good to encourage kids to listen to old stuff, It’d be good to get them to also look into a lot of good contemporary music. Old music is outselling new music, by a huge amount, and there is legitimately so much good stuff coming out these days in every genre, but it seems like people just don’t have the stomach to search it out?

I'm 51 and have a 10 year old son that I've educated. I was that teen listening to Janis Joplin, The Doors, Jimi Hendrix, etc while my friends were listening to New Kids on the Block.

Good job fella!! There is hope!! 👍👍👍👍👏👏👏👏

They are the most amazing band in the world right now. I'm off to see them for the 3rd time in Manchester 2/9/23... Woooo

I´m seeing them tonight! I can not wait @@Freehardy

@@alejandralaguna3730 you're in for a treat. I nearly travelled to Spain this month to see them, then they announced the Manchester show in England. The only band I will cross borders to see live. I live in Edinburgh and so far seen them in Glasgow (2019) and London (2023)...enjoy

they're ok, sort of all things to all people

@@Freehardy I couldn't see them last year in Cologne because they cancelled the show, I think the lead singer was sick. Glad they're back 🙌 they're like a festival in a band, they just do whatever they want 👌

Yeah but then he ruined it all by being all humourless European and snide about Punk.

I think about that clip all the time.

​@@brutallyremastered4255Punk is crap anyway, prog is much better.

I saw that video too, Zappa was so clever, we need more Zappas and less Taylor Swifts.

I mean if you grew up and have consumed music in the last 50 years it is likely the music of your day that started this decline and your generation that profited the most off of the homogenization of music...

How does anyone profit from the homogenization of music? Except for some industrie CEOs?

@@refusederivedfuel6112 yes - apart from some massive industry, with billions of dorrar in the game, very few people profit from it. Wait what.

This is how I've felt for awhile. On top of feeling like I must be doing something wrong for not loving Taylor's music, or other popular songs within that genre, regardless of how many times I've actually tried liking them. But I've always had a sensitive ear, and have often disliked repetitiveness. I also listen to music with a lot of intention, and I'm learning that other people simply enjoy music differently. So it's nice to additionally know from videos like these that my preference for other types of music is not because I'm getting old or that I'm wrong somehow!

As long as you realize that it's a radio/mainstream thing. If you're one of those persons insisting that there's no good music anymore full stop, you probably _are_ turning into an old fart. 🙂

Don't forget about American musicals! Some of these are actually operas, re-branded as "musicals" because of stupid cultural preconceptions. Les Miserables, for example.

@@Bigandrewm Good point. I grew up with musicals, starting with Oliver! and Oklahoma, and Porgy & Bess Jazz version. My whole family support live theatre and musicals. They have become pretty boring in the past 20 years though, sad to say.

About 2 years ago I decided I would deep-dive into Classical. As you are well aware, I could dedicate my life to it and I would never stop learning. What I miss is having someone to chat about it with. So far, I am listening and reading. However, there is nothing like being able to sit and talk with someone with similar interest. Feel free to connect and share if you have anything I should be aware of.

​@@BigandrewmLes Mis is no more of an opera than Porgy and Bess is. Not saying they aren't great music but it isn't opera. They're musicals. The structure is different from Opera. The type of signing is different from Opera. Not to say they aren't even performed by opera companies. It's like saying that Bowie or the Beatles are symphonic music if performed by a symphony orchestra.

Classical is the only good station on radio. Period.

Raised him well indeed! Metallica and Megadeth are absolute rockers. Metal, Rock, Punk, forever 🤘🏻

What local stuff do you guys like?

legit

i feel the same but i likes some from 2000s.Modern radio makes me feel sick , it only a matter of time till i projectile all over the place

​@@brubeck1the 2000s weren't as bad because the 90s was still a great decade for music and there will also be some crossover from the previous decade at the beginning of the new decade. Music just abruptly change its sound at the start of a new decade.

The music/movie industry wants a guarantee not a gamble, that's why they keep doing sequels, prequels....all the music sounds the same.

Art is more interesting when the artists and producers take risks and push their creative and expressive boundaries.

@@common-girl Look at what happened this summer. Not even the “guarantees” are guaranteed. Movies that the studios geared tons of money into flopped or were disappointments at best. Indiana Jones, The Flash, Mission Impossible, Transformers, etc. People are having blockbuster fatigue which means that they are tired of these overinflated franchises delivering more of the same. Everything Everywhere All at Once succeeded because it gave audiences a heartfelt story and original ideas.

@@waverlyking6045 indeed, it's also a millennial problem, millennials don't have money but they have internet and they download everything for free. The reason for massive decline in attendance! The new generation is broke they don't drive cars, they stay at home, and most still live with there parents, and new normal living on technological devices. That's the reality of the new world order.

Ya, like Barbie.

Amen brother!!!

*YES* Thank you! 🙏

TRUE!

Ever since Stimpy left just hasn't been the same.

Pop music was starting to sound like phone ringtones now it's gone to sounding like doorbell tunes.

I disagree. 'There just isn't that variety today'??? I'm sorry, how closeminded can you be? It is so much easier now than it was in the 90s to find new music and new genres. Young people are exposed to music from all across the globe, not just what is on the radio. And u know this might sound completely bonkers, but, yes! There are still record shops!!!!! shocker.

There was some bloody awful 90s music, and around 1998 to 2003 was so, so bad for music.

My guess is you only listen to mainstream music. That would be your fault.

Give the record shop another go

the reason it sounds so predictable is probably because it's the same songwriters who writes pretty much all of the songs for the superstars.

@@bjarnyg Darn! You beat me to it. Lol It is so sad, really. Music has truly gotten so bad and I know it's not just "my age" as I see a lot of younger people listening to what I listened to 20-30 years ago. THEY don't even like today's music which is being "purchased" by bots or some friggin' AI bull💩 or something.

Sadly, that song is one of the better ones these days 🙄

There is so much music, so I see it as there is something for everyone! I'm not a Taylor Swift fan either but I respect the way she makes her music, just like a respect others but therefore I don't "love" Miley Cyrus i do love , her lyrics & sound is more me 🤔 I also don't just love a type of music: from Nirvana to Metallica to The Cure, Depeche Mode, Spice Girls, Prince, .... But Beyonce is the only one who i'm a fan of since the beginning 💁🏻‍♀️ 🫶🏻🌸

It's unfortunate because she does have a nice voice

I'm 62 too (as of last weekend) and a songwriter as well, and I'm also not a great musician (does this sound familiar?) and if someone gave me "the formula" I'd have trashed it right away. (Also, almost no-one has heard my music - am I missing something?)

There are a lot of good news and different rock and metal bands out now...

Try out Ren - wildly diverse genre bending and fun

67 and I can tell you that there is lots of stuff out there.There are many many sub-scenes struggling below the homogenised garbage. The stats quoted here reflect the mainstream "pop" but who cares? Feel young and explore the reaches of "modern" music like when you were 25. PS: there was lots of garbage back in the day!

@@non-reflector7399 I have over 10k albums, music is life. The comment I made is a bit ambiguous. Yes there are new bands to discover but also a lot of generic vanilla.

I find a lot of new rock is ok until the vocals start. The lead singers tend to sound like they’re in a boyband. No character.

Umphrey’s McGee?!?

This is because Europeans are raised with classical, jazz, folk, blues etc. it shows up in progressive and symphonic metal

Rick Beato agrees.

Spot on with the article and your interpretation Justin.

But most modern prog, no matter how I like it myself, all sounds quite similar, highly compressed crisp recordings. Little real variation of timbre, melody, or harmony, and melodies are quite short and repetitive mostly with only some rhythmic variation nothing wrong with it, but it is bloody elitist to think it is so much better than pop in that regard.

Bring back the darkness

Of course!

But not many

The Warning (3 Mexican sisters) are doing it at muthf*ckin' Jedi levels 🤘

But the trouble are not the artists or musician, i think there will always people doing good things, the trouble is the behaviour of the industry. This is my conclusion of all this.

Same, and im 25

Put "Sierra Ferrell" in your searchbox and press the picture of the magnifying glass. They do.. 🤔

Peel was fantastic. Like a great, unorganised museum of a different era, not "curated" one was open to anything. He had great taste. Going from NZ Oi bands to The Four Brothers to Ivor Cutler - always interesting and inspiring. 👊🏾

I get what you're saying. To be fair, there's no MTV/ VH1. Sure there is the radio, but as we found out, most stations just play the same 10-20 songs over and over. Everything is set up in a way that makes it difficult for kids to discover music other than the billboard top 20

Dancing In The Moonlight is a great example. The 1970 original by King Harvest is sweet and lovely, the 2000 version by Toploader is pretty mid but you can tell they are trying. the 2018 dance version by Jubel ft. Neimy is unlistenable excrement.

Extremely interesting.

Thanks! I remember the original-I’ll have to check out the new ones and brace myself. I don’t remember what else King Harvest did, but now Muscrat Love is popping up in my brain-the brain often stores things in entertaining ways, lol.@@vurogj

You speak like Alan Partridge. Suscrrrribed

You could change this argument to the movie industry and it would match up. However, they (the ones with all the money and power) are also using both industries to push their agendas on and control us.

While the movie industry still has quite some influence (replace movie with video streaming btw). For music it's different even many kids don't follow what's given to them but rather pick whatever they like from what is already there.

How funny, I found the same three in the exact opposite order 😂 as the exact opposite of a muso, they have each given me a new and different appreciation of all sorts of music. Happy exploring!

Haha, I came across those three in the same way 😅 not sure who was first, but they're like a holy trinity of music and music industry knowledge.

Virgin Rock is very good, also.

We all are in the same circles so not too surprising hahah

Once in a lifetime talking heads / brown eyed girl come to mind for me

What a blast from the past ! I couldn't stop playing that great album . Even with songs like 'Moondance', there was this ethereal, time-lost quality of 'Stoned Me' which made it my favourite. Gotta go hunt for my old CD in the spare room ! Thanks for your comment !

In fairness, this could be said of any time since the 50s, from which you can trace the roots of all genres in all decades up until the time that pop died in the 21st century.

these days the top 10 or 40 is made up of new stuff and old songs. old songs that were last in the charts 30 or 40 years ago, but appeared on a tv show or tiktok video

@@samsara3694wrong. I knew which songs were hits of the past even as a 9 year old.

@@zeejay4458 ? Maybe you're read something into my reply that isn't there, as I can't make sense of your comment, and I don't mean that impolitely.

@@samsara3694 I misinterpreted your comment

HAHA - our neighbour just had some scaffolders around, and we said exactly the same. They seem to have their own language.

5:38 😊 5:38 😅 😅😅😅

​@@MarkHarropthere are 2 types of scaffolders. Guys who could have an advanced degree but don't fit in school , maybe 20% the majority however struggle with velcro

@@jamescameron6819 My Dad was a scaffolder in the 70's and 80's, he went back to school and got some more qualifications, and moved on. He did take me and my brother on various building site, and very tall buildings in London. I loved it! And it got me over my fear of heights

I worked in an office across a corridor from a factory floor. They had R2 on all day. It was horrific. I had to buy ear plugs or go mad.

❤

I think everyone that follows justin knows about Radiohead. Im gona recommend something completely different. TOE - Goodbye__check our ther live version, its one of the most incredible musical performances i have ever seen.

@@VonRibbitt Yes I'm sure they do. I'll stick with my recommendation though thanks

Can it be said the rise of hip hop has had a negative effect on music overall. It made a performing art much less than and turned it into a reactionary art. Not so much enjoying the music itself into only reacting to beats and rhythms and in turn made it less diverse and more homogenized. Any music without a rhythm is discarded but many pieces that are famous and loved songs would be discarded. It has limited that which had a lot of different genres. Now music is background because it isn't important to listen too and go on a journey with. Its just a rhythm that either carries one up or down. Either energized or relaxed. But of itself it isn't that different in make and texture. Using the same two or three instruments and timed rhythms. There can be no Captain Beefheart or the Moody Blues in hip hop. There is no room for the offbeat and varied array of music. And that which isn't open to being varied limits itself to a sameness that makes it bland and easy to disregard.

My teenage daughter hates most modern music, and love classical. Not because I encouraged it, but because I exposed her to great music across genres and eras. She found some of the best and latched on.

@@TheEWFX29 I don't think Hip Hop can be blamed. If anything Hip Hop expanded my very narrow minded view of music into something much much broader. Hip Hop is a vast genre and what you hear in the charts is usually the tip of the iceberg and usually focused upon a particular trend of the times. The one thing that's great about Hip Hop is that producers are always striving to find that thing that separates them from the rest of the pack be it a sound in the samples, a new piece of technology such as synthesis or a new rhythm entirely. Learning how to produce 30 years ago had me digging in the record crates and listening to all sorts of music that I would never have listened too without it. And of the two things you mentioned I know for a fact that the former Captain Beefheart has been sampled by many Hip Hop artists and the moody blues have also been covered along with every other genre possible. There is a plethora of Hip Hop that never makes it anywhere near the top 40. Hip. Hop is celebrating 50 years this year but the truth is it's probably much older than that and it's style has changed so many times throughout the decades. I agree that what ends up in the charts can often seem basic and lacking in any type of musical depth because the stuff that ends up In the charts is often loop based or instantly recognisable due to a simple hook or likewise. Can you blame the production or is it the simple fact that the average fan of music likes to latch onto the simple catchy sounds that plague the entirety of modern popular music today and for the last few decades even. I remember my parents saying that all music sounds the same when I was growing up and Hip Hop wasn't the main genre that I listened to back then either. The Hip Hop that I did like back then was pre gangster rap and I liked it not for the beats but more for the conscious story telling aspect of the lyrics that were prevelant at the time with groups like Arrested Development being at the forefront. Also Hip Hop was the first genre that I ever heard move away from the simple 4/4 drum pattern that plagues most industry laden music. It taught me about off beat rhythms, slowing the drums down or speeding them up by playing slightly outside of the time signatures to create a different sounds. Playing 8ths, 3rds etc all of this I learned without any formal music education and because I was trying to figure out what it was that certain producers were doing. I still have every little talent when it comes to playing real musical instruments but when I am making my mixes I place the sounds as though they were being played live on a stage from a band for example the bass player and his speakers may be off to the left of stage with the lead being on the right. Things like leaving distortion in the mix. There are so many elements that add to a song sonically and we're it not for the depth of Hip Hop and it's influences ai doubt I would have ever have learned about them without a formal education. I don't think it's the genres themselves that have made the music industry lack diversity of sound. I think it's the average human ears and the marketing departments ability to figure out what does best. The industry is bout making money. It's a business model and if a simple 3 chord sound is what makes money then that is what is going to get promoted.

@@whatwhatyep Very well put and shows what the non mainstream is in that genre. I have always like R&B and Soul music as a child of the 70s there was so much greatness that couldn't be ignored. And I don't hate Rap or Hip Hop I want to make it clear. I think punk rock helped homogenize rock music and feel the same as I do about hip hop and punk. But see the good in both. But just think they were the tools that made it easy to marginalize music. But I am one man who doesn't pretend to be the be all end all about anything. I loved the big Arrested Development album. Great songs on that. Of course one of the songs that affected me as a kid was Rappers Delight as its newness as to everything else around. And I enjoyed Dr Dre's Chronic album and the first Snoop Dogg album as great pieces of music. I am glad it took you out of a spot and broaden you, that is what art is supposed to do. It leads you on your own journey that makes you appreciate art and music more than just a backdrop. This was a nice talk and I am glad I had it. It helped me understand a enthusiasts insights into the music itself outside the image. Thank you for explaining your story and journey. It made me think about and understand things that can be over generalized at times. And see someone who studied something beyond the base knowledge. Hope you have a great day.

@@TheEWFX29 Thanks. Appreciate your comment. I too have a love of punk, particularly independent bands that do low numbers but have enough of a following to be able to tour the country at small festivals and music venues. I agree that there are similarities between the two but having grown up in England feel Punk has more in common with Reggae and Ska as the two genres would often be billed in the same venues at the same time. When it comes to my narrow mindedness that was my teenage Drum n Bass era. If it wasn't underground DnB I wasn't interested for a few years but the truth is I grew up on 50s,60s and 70s music via my parents and that was through the 80s and into the 90s. Musically and technology wise I was fortunate enough to have been born as the last of gen x so have lived both analog and digital eras. It has been a blessing. I haven't really got more to add. I just wanted to say thanks for the compliment. You have a good day too. As Nardwaur would say. Keep on rocking in the free world and doot doot da loot doo, doot doot yeayahhh.

ha, I am gonna steal that! Great stuff, sheitgeist! SHITEGEIST!

Shite-geist! LOL! Nail on the head.

On the flip side, if people enjoy it then what's the harm?

@@sc2057l You've obviously never worked in retail. That's like what leads to the setting of almost every dystopian sci-fi movie/twilight zone episode ever made.

Feel the same.

@@nunyabusiness6691 could be worse. Could be those retail covers of pop songs.

I think a lot of this can be contributed by the quality of speakers now vs older speakers. I was trying to wrap my head around why almost no album sounds like it did even as far back 2000s. I learned speakers have been streamlined with cheaper materials and doesn't have the same quality as speakers that used more power to operate. These $300 to $500 speakers are low end.

1966 here, the young gen need to treat the DAW (laptop) as a tape machine. Create in the room, learn basic mic frequency responses and placement. The depth you mentioned is in the recording space , not in the box. ✌️

In the US, a major shift came when Clear Channel started buying up the radio stations. The number of rock/alt stations in a given area were cut by 1/3 to 1/2. What was left was ruled by the same policies of "repeat the favorites" as the stations of other genres. It's why we heard the theme to Pearl Harbor on both pop and rock stations all day long.

Tune in to Dublin Radio Nova and you will hear all the greats. Queen,Zep,Purple,Lizzy.....

Polyphia: Playing God Oh sorry. You probably like "Come on Eileen" and think it's a masterpiece.

I disagree, and he also has skills beyond rapping - his vocals and guitar playing are really good. To pigeonhole him as merely a rapper is a grave injustice to his talents.

Dig a little deeper into Ren's catalog, he is definitely more than rapper.

REN is a musical artist that can rap.

There's so much great music happening every year, just cause you're not aware doesn't mean it's not there.

We actually had better music variety on WLS back in the day. Never thought I’d say that.

As a lover of Floyd, Zep and Tull I can assure you, you will absolutely adore King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard. Greatest rock band of the last decade or so by far.

The stuff 20 years from now may be so bad that today’s garbage may be considered good then

You're so lucky.

So, in terms of self-expression, we don't want the bland, repetitive music, but we do want bland repetitive speech? And you don't see the hypocrisy in that? Just because it isn't the most efficient doesn't mean it shouldn't exist.

Have a fun rest of week!😀Many thanks to Justin for sharing, for joyful conversation and for the smiles brought to the whole lot of us who love to smile!👍🏼😊

@@Shelly-op1kx coward.