Hey You, out there in the cold, getting lonely getting old..

[Greg]

Chrissy Amphlett.

She just died a few months ago. Breast cancer and complications from MS.

I read about that. RIP.

She may have been more than a little bit crazy, but she was quite the looker and much more (and more widely) talented than her one-hit-wonder status in the US would lead you to think.

[SoupOrMan]

I always listened to the world around me as a kid: jet engines, circular saws, lathes and drill presses, air drills and ratchets, helicopters, sirens, gunfire, baseball's crack of the bat and the sound of an earnest slapper off the glass. In my more quiet moments I'd fire up the scavenged shortwave that my uncles refurbished and tune into the atomic clock tone, imagining it to be the universe's heartbeat when I was in a space opera kind of mood.

It's probably why I'm mostly deaf and keep a mix of industrial and dubstep cranked up in the background these days.

[evan price]

It's almost like everything being made now that doesn't suck is just a continuation of something from the 80's.

Sorry, I can't seem to locate anything of which you speak.
I can't find any proof that music as it's commonly understood didn't die circa 1990.

Five Finger Death Punch
Arch Enemy
Dropkick Murphys
Muse
Red Fang

[free_me]

Comfortably numb (Is there anybody .... out there) still sends shivers down my spine. Still one of my favourite PF songs. Followed closely by Waters' solo "Southampton Dock" from the "Final Cut" album.

They disembarked in 45
And no one spoke
And no one smiled
There were too many spaces in the line
And gathered at the cenotaph
They all agreed with hand on heart
To sheath the sacrificial knives
But now
She stands upon Southampton dock
With her handkerchief
And her summer frock
Clings To her wet body in the rain
In quiet desperation
Knuckles white upon the slippery reins
She bravely waves the boys goodbye again

[mekender]

I went and saw the last US date for the Roger Waters The Wall Live tour last July. It was amazing.

[Aesop]

It's almost like everything being made now that doesn't suck is just a continuation of something from the 80's.

Sorry, I can't seem to locate anything of which you speak.
I can't find any proof that music as it's commonly understood didn't die circa 1990.

Five Finger Death Punch
Arch Enemy
Dropkick Murphys
Muse
Red Fang

Who...?
For that to count, you have to refute the point, not drive it home harder.
Muse at least isn't objectionable to listen too, if only Moby hadn't gotten there with that sound a few years ahead of them.
I'm not into metal, so I'll skip the others, but I suspect I'd need the Billboard Hot 50,000 to find any of their stuff charting on a radar screen.

[Jericho941]

Muse at least isn't objectionable to listen too, if only Moby hadn't gotten there with that sound a few years ahead of them.

ETA: Can't believe I missed this:

Right around the time music executives decided that census be damned, the entire population of the country must be illiterate crack fiends living in a racially monochromatic housing project.

Census my ass. What, you think country's original target demographic actually exists? 2% of the population is in agriculture, and that's about 1% too high. Factory workers? We've already talked at length on this forum about how US manufacturing is dead and not coming back, at least not like it used to be. America's working class is firmly suburban now, in dead-end low-wage jobs like retail. That brings a lot of cultural crossover; the kids who grew up with parents listening to country interact with the kids growing up on hip hop. The musical crossover to "hick hop" was inevitable. (Especially since much of country and rap songs have been about the same subjects like outlaws, working hard for honest but meager income, having one great comfort or possession that's really impressive, etc).

The lifestyle country singers write their odes to does not exist. If you have a big house out in the country, a new truck in high school, and go muddin' and ATV'in with your friends, and party at "the redneck yacht club," you "ain't real country," you're a rich kid with a regional accent and parents who could afford redneck affectations. Nothing more.

At this point both hip hop and country have gone full pop tard. The lyrics share slang, the songs have little meaning besides the singer bragging about what he's got, and it's all about the party scene.

[Frankingun]

Being that the title of this thread is a line from Pink Floyd, remember that Floyd keyboardist Richard Wright died on this day in 2008.

Now I'm starting to feel old...

[Aesop]

Jericho, take it easy, I think you missed a lot more than you thought.

I said the population of the country (that would be, y'know, the UNITED STATES, e.g. Maine, Hawaii, Alaska, Florida, everything in between...stop me if any of this rings a bell), not the population of country and western.

You're on a rant all by yourself, man, you're arguing both sides of it, and the best you can do that way is go 1-1 in the win/loss column.
Emily Litella called, said something about copyright infringement...

[Aglifter]

Just an FYI, very little country music - even Jimmy Rodgers Bob Wills and Hank Williams Sr- actually involves being on a farm.

Pop country tries to appeal to that, heavily - and there are some, passionate, environmental ballads in country, but that's about it.

It all tends toward incoherence, anger, lust, and a desire for acquisition, these days -IOW, the hippies have one, and people are acting like animals.

Wagner, Bach, and Mozart were, once, pop music.

So was Gerschwin and Monk.