music

Lets talk about music, or the state of music today.
I’m sick of hearing BBC’s Radio One constantly backslapping itself for giving us all the new music and the charts. Has anyone noticed that all the music sounds the same now, as if we have heard it all before somehow? I found that when Corinne Bailey Rae released her “girl put your record on” cliché earlier this year. I found myself thinking “have I heard this before, I couldn’t have it has only just been released”

Indie music isn’t the answer anymore either as a lot of the indie bands sound the same. I thought when Keane first burst on to the music scene that it was Travis, back and with some more upsetting sounds.

Rock bands waste time by clever writing lyrics only to drown them out with the same power chords that the bands that they would only refer to as “influences” chugged out before them.

The last couple of years saw some good tunes released by the Darkness the Kaiser Chiefs and Razorlight. But unfortunately these songs were over played by the radio stations and were ruined like a child with a new toy.
Everyone loved the Darkness and fans eagerly awaited their second album only to find out that they had gotten bored with their sound and the album was a flop. Lead singer then goes in to a clinic for his drug abuse and subsequently leaves the band that needs him; I doubt the darkness will survive for very long without Justin Hawkins.
How long before the same happens to the latest blue eyed boys of the music scene the Keiser Chiefs, will their second album be called “unemployment” and be sitting in a bargain bin of your local H.M.V next to a copy the Darkness’s last album “permission to disband”. It’s such a shame for these bands. Anything new gets destroyed and everything else gets re hashed into a new form. Bands get one chance from these record companies and if they fail after their first album, they can be dropped and the company can still make money off the first albums royalties.

The future lies with underground groups with strong fan bases like my favourite band the Levellers. Who continue to use everything they can to keep their fans informed about what they are doing. They use the Internet well has sites on myspace and actually post live acts on youtube for free. Collaborators like the Gorillaz are going to have a good future too as they have taken an average of all music, and have almost produced a definition of music by doing so. They will continue to make music regardless of what the audience wants.

What the hell are these “Cover” versions about? Now called “an artist’s interpretation of a song”. What artist will allow his work to be bastardised by some fraudster claiming intellectual property off your work? Do you realise that all memories of your efforts making that great music and the emotions that song produced for the audience all those years ago are gone and forgotten because some else wants to make money?

I want to release a single containing the “brown noise”. My plan is to put it to car advert where the car turns into a transformer and then proceeds to walk the family dog or something dafter than ice-skating (you know what advert I mean). Then Radio One will play this song constantly as if they are getting bribes from the car company to do so. Then the story ends by millions of fickle and fake music lovers shitting themselves.

I purposely omitted references to boy bands and girl groups, as they will have post all to themselves really soon.

Leave music making to the true artists.