Preferences re: tone controls, EQ, etc.

[davedotco]

My view is this, I feel that there is a huge devide in popular music.

On one side the music matters, I may not like it but that is not the point, others do and it means something to the artist.

On the other side it is simply a device to manipulate popular 'culture' and make money. As in the example you brought up.

I find the distinction clear and unambiguous, I choose not to waste my time on the later and find it odd that some people seem to have a problem with that.

In this context, One Direction isn't just a spade, it's a bl**dy shovel.

One thing worse than a snob is a backpedalling snob.

How is that backpeddling?

I talked about 'predigested pop pap' that you decided refered to all popular music. Just making myself clear.

If you choose to consider everything produced during '50 years of popular music' to be of equal merit, I guess that is up to you.

I do not.

 

[davedotco]

So just how does "Pre digested pop pap" become "popular music"?

By selling more copies than other music?

You do know what the "pop" in "pop music" is short for don't you?

It's a difficult term. I could say 'contempory music' but even that is not precise. I tried to discriminate by using words that, by popular usage, mean different things.

I do not think that 'pop music' and 'popular music', despite the derivation, mean the same thing. Maybe I'm wrong....*unknw*

 

[davedotco]

Someone obviously likes/liked it and is buying/bought the music in the past so it has some worth to somebody (mainly kids - but that is their choice isn't it ? ) .

That horse you are riding ddc is extremeley high - most of your posts are usually well thought out etc but sometimes you just have a tendency to be just plain rude and arrogant - it's a shame -

tonky

Genuinely trying hard not to be rude Tonky, the rest I will live with.

Just one point, I do not consider the merit of a piece of music to have any relationship to it's popularity.

 

[Vladimir]

One thing worse than a snob is a backpedalling snob.

... on a unicycle.

Seriosly though. I bet Dave enjoys old italodisco chrome cassettes of Valerie Dore in his private time. He is just trying to be contraversial, taking the charitable role of a forum defibrillator.

Shitty pop sucks? OMG! The contraversy of the very concept!

 

[davedotco]

One thing worse than a snob is a backpedalling snob.

... on a unicycle.

Seriosly though. I bet Dave enjoys old italodisco chrome cassettes of Valerie Dore in his private time. He is just trying to be contraversial, taking the charitable role of a forum defibrillator.

Shitty pop sucks? OMG! The contraversy of the very concept!

I never really did disco, much too tied up with the punk/new wave thing from the mid 70s to the mid 80s. After Live Aid Mrs DDC and I went to live in Sydney for a while, I paid my clubbing dues in the rave/dance scene (89-92) when we returned.

 

[chebby]

After Live Aid Mrs DDC and I went to live in Sydney for a while ...

It was for charity. There was no need to flee to another hemisphere.

 

[davedotco]

After Live Aid Mrs DDC and I went to live in Sydney for a while ...

It was for charity. There was no need to flee to another hemisphere.

*biggrin*

I promised Mrs DDC that I would give up live sound work after that gig. She took me to Sydney to avoid temptation.