Author Topic: Anthony Fantano takes on PJW's "The Truth on Popular Culture"  (Read 6661 times)

fukan counterculture nerds

didn't notice you quoted that. i was absolutely talking about late 50s/early 60s beach boys. i love the beach boys, though, older and newer, but their early stuff was manufactured pop music.



Are you friends ready for some of that YouTube Drama?

Apart from balding, they're pretty much the same


why haven't I heard of it then
you think that this exciting new music would be talked about but all I know is that is exciting
I don't know what genre it is, who made it, how much of it there is, and that's disregarding the fact that I may not like it

by all means if you want to show me some of this then go ahead
but the fact that I haven't heard of it until now is indicative that music has gone downhill, because when pop got bad back then you knew about all the alternatives
the fact that you haven't heard any new good music recently says more that you're not looking for, or not receptive to new good music, rather than there's none of it being made. I mean.. come on. Show you any new good music made in the last 15 years? Even if i gave you a list of 1000 good songs it wouldn't change your mind.

Also, i disagree about the latter statement, because i don't think you were alive back in this time you're speaking of, because if you were, you'd realize that pop music was far more inescapable back then. There was the radio, CD stores, and like... MTV. That's how you discovered music, unless you had your finger on the pulse. I haven't heard a single pop song i didn't want to hear in the last 5 years, whereas when i was a kid, i'd hear them every day on loop.

Give me some decent songs and music from the past few years.

Partly because I want to see if it's any good and partly because I really need to build up my music library

blast some mf'in kero kero bonito

Give me some decent songs and music from the past few years.

Partly because I want to see if it's any good and partly because I really need to build up my music library

Just some artists off the top of my head with no rhyme or reason that could be considered decently popular are Broken Bells, Kishi Bashi, Miike Snow, Tame Impala, Two Door Cinema Club, Jamiroquai, Mac DeMarco, The Heavy, Weezer, Breakbot and MGMT.

blast some mf'in kero kero bonito
this guy knows what's up

blast some mf'in kero kero bonito

CIA was right. The West must be purged

Just some artists off the top of my head with no rhyme or reason that could be considered decently popular are Broken Bells, Kishi Bashi, Miike Snow, Tame Impala, Two Door Cinema Club, Jamiroquai, Mac DeMarco, The Heavy, Weezer, Breakbot and MGMT.
These are pretty good if you just want some inoffensive pop rock. Some of these artists are actually quite stuff but they were my stepping stone into modern music too, so it's not a bad place to start.