stoken6 Posted June 2, 2018 Share Posted June 2, 2018 Thanks Mr Poser. I'm not a big Black Eyed Peas fan, but the narrative of Street Livin' is compelling. Cheers, Mike. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave Bryce Posted June 2, 2018 Share Posted June 2, 2018 I like this tune an awful lot. No Prince influence at all. I swear. [video:youtube] Warning - a bit NSFW. dB Quote ==> David Bryce Music • Funky Young Monks <== Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MAJUSCULE Posted June 3, 2018 Share Posted June 3, 2018 Learned about Afrikan Boy on some NPR radio show, he's got the goods IMO in lots of ways: [video:youtube]4ovtBmhw3M8 Most of his stuff is nice. Damn! You might also dig Pierre Kwenders. [video:youtube] [video:youtube] Quote Eric Website Gear page Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
poserp Posted June 4, 2018 Share Posted June 4, 2018 You might also dig Pierre Kwenders. [video:youtube] [video:youtube] Yes, this up my alley. I really ought to know more about African and African diaspora music, but alas I am not up on it. I imagine there are some killer bands, obscure or otherwise, who see the Bruno Mars thing and are like "and this is what happens when you turn it up to 11..." Quote My music http://www.cdbaby.com/Artist/Pk12 My Soundware (Kurzweil PC3)http://pksoundware.blogspot.com/ My Kurzweil PC3 Tutorials http://www.youtube.com/user/poserp. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Philip Clark Posted June 4, 2018 Share Posted June 4, 2018 I like this tune an awful lot. No Prince influence at all. I swear. [video:youtube] Warning - a bit NSFW. dB He did co-write it, after all. Quote Soul, R&B, Pop from Los Angeles http://philipclark.com Cannonball Gerald Albright Signature Alto, Yamaha YC73, Fender Rhodes, Roland Juno-106, Yamaha MX61, Roland VR-09, MicroKorg XL, Maschine Mikro, Yamaha Reface CP, Roland MKS-50 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Theo Verelst Posted June 5, 2018 Share Posted June 5, 2018 I could come up with some current music I find easily passable, probably even a thing or two I like. It's clear to a dreadfully unhip child with learning problems already without a doubt that the music ain't doing so good, and that all that new "sound" stuff just ain't cutting it. Yet ? Maybe you guys don't know, but even for easy going, simple people with no background in the wonderful music a lot here (including me) had on the hot 100 while growing up, let alone for upstanding new intellectuals it is perfectly clear there's a difference between a group of people trying out a program for scoring record sales, and serious artists with a capital A. So without "fearing" It, I got to say somehow, those guys and girls trying to prove to the world Idols and Glee and God knows what is the right way to the top aren't attracting me. As an experiment, "can the computer compose the perfect hit" it would still have a lacking presentation and what's the humanness in there? But grown man of preferably some life's experience running behind people hopping the hip or putting their ass forward in some rapperdeesh*t is disgusting, IMO. Sound mostly like "commies for treason" than most other associations, I cannot take that very seriously unless I feel coerced. T> Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Philip Clark Posted June 5, 2018 Share Posted June 5, 2018 Possibly relevant to the conversation. I'm sure we could site some Beato vids too. [video:youtube] Quote Soul, R&B, Pop from Los Angeles http://philipclark.com Cannonball Gerald Albright Signature Alto, Yamaha YC73, Fender Rhodes, Roland Juno-106, Yamaha MX61, Roland VR-09, MicroKorg XL, Maschine Mikro, Yamaha Reface CP, Roland MKS-50 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MathOfInsects Posted January 7, 2021 Author Share Posted January 7, 2021 Resurrecting this thread since we're in the midst of a new "the only good music was the music I liked when I was the age that young people are now" conversation. I am greatly enjoying Black Pumas right now. This particular track has a bit of a throwback vibe, so it might sneak in the back door for some of the "all new music sucks" contingent. I love the ragged-ass guitar solo that rages starting just after 2:15. Check out their song "Colors" too for some nice vintage-keyboard spotlights. [video:youtube] Quote Now out! "Mind the Gap," a 24-song album of new material. www.joshweinstein.com Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MathOfInsects Posted January 7, 2021 Author Share Posted January 7, 2021 I started a minor flame war on my social media account by saying nice things about Taylor Swift. But she's the real deal IMO, and songs like this show she has grown WAY past her Disney princess days. Her lyrics stand above most of her peers, and this song has a gritty vibe that I see as a shot across the bow that she's not going to be dismissed as easily as the old-dude crowd might like. [video:youtube] Quote Now out! "Mind the Gap," a 24-song album of new material. www.joshweinstein.com Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MAJUSCULE Posted January 7, 2021 Share Posted January 7, 2021 [video:youtube] Quote Eric Website Gear page Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
johnchop Posted January 7, 2021 Share Posted January 7, 2021 I've got both feet planted squarely in mid-life, and I've only yelled at kids on my lawn once ('cause they were dropping the hard "R" n-word and cussing up a storm for some reason... does that make me old?) So that said, for pure pop, Dua Lipa's "Don't Start Now" is just groovy as hell. But I often like my pop with moodiness whisked in, so The Japanese House has been worthwhile. [video:youtube] [video:youtube] Quote I make software noises. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mighty Motif Max Posted January 8, 2021 Share Posted January 8, 2021 I've got both feet planted squarely in mid-life, and I've only yelled at kids on my lawn once ('cause they were dropping the hard "R" n-word and cussing up a storm for some reason... does that make me old?) So that said, for pure pop, Dua Lipa's "Don't Start Now" is just groovy as hell. But I often like my pop with moodiness whisked in, so The Japanese House has been worthwhile. [video:youtube] ... Don't Start Now is good, but this version is the best one IMO. [video:youtube] Quote Yamaha: Motif XF8, MODX7, YS200, CVP-305, CLP-130, YPG-235, PSR-295, PSS-470 | Roland: Fantom 7, JV-1000 Kurzweil: PC3-76, PC4 (88) | Hammond: SK Pro 73 | Korg: Triton LE 76, N1R, X5DR | Emu: Proteus/1 | Casio: CT-370 | Novation: Launchkey 37 MK3 | Technics: WSA1R Former: Emu Proformance Plus & Mo'Phatt, Korg Krome 61, Roland Fantom XR & JV-1010, Yamaha MX61, Behringer CAT Assorted electric & acoustic guitars and electric basses | Roland TD-17 KVX | Alesis SamplePad Pro | Assorted organs, accordions, other instruments Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ed A. Posted January 9, 2021 Share Posted January 9, 2021 [video:youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k2bIS1GZsAo [video:youtube] Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
elsongs Posted January 9, 2021 Share Posted January 9, 2021 Possibly relevant to the conversation. I'm sure we could site some Beato vids too. Rick Beato: "This modern song seems to have a guitar in it. IT'S A GOOD SONG!" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
elsongs Posted January 9, 2021 Share Posted January 9, 2021 I can't STAND any modern song that has the I-V-vi-IV progression or a trap beat (even worse if it had both), but some songs released within the past couple of years I consider good: - Recent Taylor Swift: I haven't heard "Evermore" yet, but I dig a lot of the songs from the "Folklore" and "Lover" albums. The title track from "Lover" is a sweet haunting ballad in 6/8: [video:youtube] I have a teenage niece who's an aspiring singer-songwriter (this uncle even gave her some support a few years back by buying her a microphone and a USB audio interface to improve the quality of her recordings) and Taylor Swift is to her what Stevie Wonder is to me. She did a livestream Facebook acoustic performance a few weeks ago and I asked her to do a cover of "Lover." She did a wonderful rendition of it that made me proud. - The Weeknd's synthwavey "Blinding Lights" is an amalgam of 1980s Giorgio Moroder, Rod Stewart's "Young Turks" and a-Ha's "Take On Me": [video:youtube] - Also second the motion of Dua Lipa. "Levitating" is another funky track that I enjoy playing bass to: [video:youtube] - I'm no huge K-Pop fan, but I can't resist the catchiness of BTS' "Dynamite" (Look ma, it modulates towards the end!): [video:youtube] - Speaking of catchy, Doja Cat's "Say So" became an earworm for me this past Summer: [video:youtube] Guess it bears mentioning that the last three all have some very obvious disco/funk influences, rather than depend on 21st-century compositional cliches. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mighty Motif Max Posted January 9, 2021 Share Posted January 9, 2021 Here are a few recent pop songs I've taken a liking to. Dua Lipa - Break My Heart. This one is the real star of the Future Nostalgia album in my opinion. Don't Start Now (particularly the Live in LA version) is good, but this one is better yet IMO. It hasn't been as heavily promoted in the US for whatever reason. A good modern Disco/funk song. [video:youtube] Emily Bear - I'm Not Alone. This one hasn't taken off it seems but for a kind of modern mellow song with electronic rhythms I think it's pretty good. Emily Bear of course is a very skilled young jazz pianist and artist, but this is in a different genre, sort of a mellow hip-hop thing. [video:youtube] Quote Yamaha: Motif XF8, MODX7, YS200, CVP-305, CLP-130, YPG-235, PSR-295, PSS-470 | Roland: Fantom 7, JV-1000 Kurzweil: PC3-76, PC4 (88) | Hammond: SK Pro 73 | Korg: Triton LE 76, N1R, X5DR | Emu: Proteus/1 | Casio: CT-370 | Novation: Launchkey 37 MK3 | Technics: WSA1R Former: Emu Proformance Plus & Mo'Phatt, Korg Krome 61, Roland Fantom XR & JV-1010, Yamaha MX61, Behringer CAT Assorted electric & acoustic guitars and electric basses | Roland TD-17 KVX | Alesis SamplePad Pro | Assorted organs, accordions, other instruments Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Docbop Posted January 9, 2021 Share Posted January 9, 2021 Okay I'll play.... [video:youtube] Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David Emm Posted January 10, 2021 Share Posted January 10, 2021 This is so NSFW, even posting the title makes me feel like the group's "filth elder." Men Of A Certain Age will get the joke(s) readily. I enjoy Posehn a lot, including his "Big Bang Theory" appearances and bit roles in trashy-fun movies here & there. I'm with him more than not. In the 70s and 80s, the bands sounded wildly *different* from one another. Remember that? So yep, been there, smelled that. Quote "I like that rapper with the bullet in his nose!" "Yeah, Bulletnose! One sneeze and the whole place goes up!" ~ "King of the Hill" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nursers Posted January 10, 2021 Share Posted January 10, 2021 Although I disagree with the central premise of the POSEHN video, it's brilliant. So well done and the Weird Al cameo tops it off. Quote The Keyboard Chronicles Podcast Check out your fellow forumites in an Apple Music playlist Check out your fellow forumites in a Spotify playlist My Music: Stainless Fields Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dr88s Posted January 10, 2021 Share Posted January 10, 2021 I have listened to more pop music in the last year than I have in the last decade combined, because my kids are getting to the age where they want to choose the music in the car. I find most of it generic and unimpressive but I Panic! At The Disco is a big standout, like MOI posted above. Brendon Urie is incredibly talented. Then, there"s this one. You all probably know it unless you hid under a rock or were in quarantine last year or something... [video:youtube] Edit: Sorry, only after I posted did I see elsongs had posted it above... Quote Nord Stage 2 Compact, Yamaha MODX8 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ross Ward Posted January 11, 2021 Share Posted January 11, 2021 I like pretty much all of Betty Who's entire catalogue. This is a current favorite. [video:youtube] Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MathOfInsects Posted January 22, 2021 Author Share Posted January 22, 2021 The Norwegian singer-songwriter Aurora has had some occasional success here, including being in Frozen 2. This song is produced beautifully, and makes my ears happy. Quote Now out! "Mind the Gap," a 24-song album of new material. www.joshweinstein.com Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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