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Current Music, Just Isn’t The Same 

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How do people listen to auto-tuned junk 

Rather than the protest of hardcore punk

Or George Clinton and his Parliament funk

Modern music, far too easy to debunk.

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What would the youngsters do or say 

If they heard all the music I had to play

With unaided singer’s, all out on display

Non computerized instruments at the fray.

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Probably, they’d find me crazy but I’m not 

Just using these enormous ears I’ve got 

Knowing a difference between art and rot

It’s just the weirdo that I am believe it or not.

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Your music brain needs more to eat

Than loud bass and persistent beat 

Those songs feed my rapid retreat

Into my own music then I’m compete.

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Don’t give me static when I cringe and frown 

When I hear overuse of bass going down 

I’ll wear my headphones like my crown

Playing the best music that can be found…

-AAA 11/17/2024

10 thoughts on “Current Music, Just Isn’t The Same ”

  2. Too much bass, drum machines instead of the creativity of a good drummer, too much repetition. I got to sing a jazz piece today, Jon Henderson’s lyrics to Miles Davis’ Four. There is nothing comparable being written today, not just the music, but lyrics that have so much meaning.

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  4. Every so often I do say that, but, I’ve been thinking about the topic a lot lately, and it’s just different. It’s like listening to the Rolling Stones’ Sticky Fingers on vinyl or CD or digital…yes, I find the vinyl sounds warmer, but better?…..and now, we have so many choices, the only thing is I miss, not as many places to go and hear live music as in the 80s, 90s….a lot of places I used to go have lost out to high rises…..

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