I watched a little documentary on the making of Bat Out of Hell, so I dug around in my music collection, found it, dusted it off and had a listen.
I slapped on the headphones, pressed play and WOW!
Now THAT’s music!
I sound like those young people who just discover the fantastic music we took for granted in the 60’s, 70’s and 80’s. I see them all the time on You Tube. As soon as our music starts their eyes pop and their mouths drop open. Wow! That can’t believe how rich the music is, that many of the songs tell stories. Powerful emotional, heartfelt music that guided us fortunate ones through our teenage minefield years.
Today it seems to me, the music nowadays is endless droning, repeating the same phrase over and over and over again until I want to scream shut that F*&!in stuff off! Or they take one of our songs and ‘remake it’ so that it is flatter than a pancake and as dull as watching paint dry.
When I listen to the music of my generation I am flooded with memories of my youth, there is so much emotion attached to those songs that I just could never see happening with modern music. Modern music is mostly one big, and I mean BIG yawn at best, and extremely annoying at worst.
There are exceptions, but rare.
I don’t care if you say I’m an old fart. Listen to some of those great songs of my day and try to tell me today’s music has as much to say, as much to feel. Modern music is satisfactory I suppose for spin class and Zumba, but not for the heart.
Just sayin’.
