What Bob Dylan says about modern music (I hope he's not including Pearl Jam)

Cropduster84

Pearl Jam and toast wrote:

finally someone doesn't skip over me :rolleyes:

Hahaha, know how you feel.

But yeah the point you made about the drums and bass in modern rock is what caught my attention, you're dead right. Thats why, for me at least, bands like Incubus and RHCP are a breath of fresh air...

So many bands sound the same to me...Bands like the Smiths or The Cure will live on so much longer...love them or hate them they have a distinct one off sound...

Just like the mighty Tom Waits....

suffragette

I miss vinyl. I miss being able to see how long a song was. I miss jumping up to turn the record over. I miss slow sides and fast sides. I miss looking at the area around the label to see if there was a message scratched in, like on Joe Walsh and Eagles records. I still remember which songs started side two.

enharmonic

16-bit, 44.1 does sound like ass.

24-bit, 96k however does not.

Pearl Jam and toast

Cropduster84 wrote:

Hahaha, know how you feel.

But yeah the point you made about the drums and bass in modern rock is what caught my attention, you're dead right. Thats why, for me at least, bands like Incubus and RHCP are a breath of fresh air...

So many bands sound the same to me...Bands like the Smiths or The Cure will live on so much longer...love them or hate them they have a distinct one off sound...

Just like the mighty Tom Waits....

Incubus really is a breath of fresh air.. even though they've been around ahwile..

There's a band who's fairly unique and just keeps changing and getting better every release.

Evacuation Rules

Here is Bob's *complete* quote...and for you dumbfucks who were offended...he was criticizing modern recording technology and even his own new record...he says nothing about "modern music" or any "modern bands"...He only uses the word RECORDS throughout the quote...

"The records I used to listen to and still love, you can't make a record that sounds that way. Brian Wilson, he made all his records with four tracks, but you couldn't make his records if you had a hundred tracks today. We all like records that are played on record players, but let's face it, those days are gon-n-n-e. You do the best you can, you fight that technology in all kinds of ways, but I don't know anybody who's made a record that sounds decent in the past twenty years, really. You listen to these modern records, they're atrocious, they have sound all over them. There's no definition of nothing, no vocal, no nothing, just like -- static. Even these songs probably sounded ten times better in the studio when we recorded 'em. CDs are small. There's no stature to it. I remember when that Napster guy came up across, it was like, 'Everybody's gettin' music for free.' I was like, 'Well, why not? It ain't worth nothing anyway.' "

reeferchief

FinsburyParkCarrots wrote:

Yep, and back in the old days, artists really thought about what would make a great end to side one of an LP (say, on Dylan's "Highway 61 Revisited", "Ballad of a Thin Man") and a good beginning to side two ("Queen Jane Approximately"). If they could convince their record companies on the aesthetics of a good running order, then they could produce an album as a great, varied piece of work, with two decided moods. With the CD, records became more of an homogenous stodge or blob. Maybe "Ten" was one of the very last LPs, that had a great end of side one ("Jeremy") and a powerful beginning of side two ("Oceans"). Now, there doesn't seem to be as much thought put into the running order of albums; there isn't that sense of an album having two moods that there used to be.

Foo Fighters - In Your Honour, had two moods ending on one disc and starting on the next, maybe not as powerfull as the classics you mention but still.

FinsburyParkCarrots

Man, I'm listening to "When the Deal Goes Down", from the new album. Even on a crappy old mp3, it's the most sublime song I've heard ... ever.

likepilateihaveadog

FinsburyParkCarrots wrote:

Man, I'm listening to "When the Deal Goes Down", from the new album. Even on a crappy old mp3, it's the most sublime song I've heard ... ever.

yeah, I can't wait to hear this...gonna go buy it Tuesday.

Just saw him Wednesday night in Reading...
infuckingcredible.