Showbiz411 reports that nearly one-third — actually 28 — of the top 100 iTunes are oldies. Some aren’t even Golden Oldies. They want to know what gives.
The late great Ronnie Spector singing “Be My Baby” is back in the top 100, along with several tracks from Credence Clearwater Revival, including “Have You Ever Seen the Rain,” at number 17.
Some are from late 90s bands Nickelback and 3 Doors Down.
The strangest entry is the Edison Lighthouse single, “Love Grows Where My Rosemary Goes,” from 1970. That was a one off hit in bubblegum pop history.
Also floating around the top 100 are The Police’s “Every Breath You Take” and Bon Jovi’s “Livin on a Prayer.”
Adele’s new song is frozen at 18, and other new tunes aren’t catching on.
The Weeknd’s new music, released just a week ago. His single, “Sacrifice” is number 80. The album. “Dawn FM,” is falling out of the top 5. This is s shocking collapse after his monster hit, “After Hours,” ran the charts for months and months.
The authors ask what’s going on. Is it an iTunes promotion clogging the chart? Or a lack of interest in current music? Or both?
We’re hoping people are sick of the horrible music and will build on the old favorites. The new music mostly stinks, but that’s my opinion. What do you think?
When you listen to the opera for a while, pretty soon you really appreciate the difference between actual singing and shrieking into a mike while posing.
I grew up in the 60s (yeah, I’m old) listening to the Beatles like everyone else back then. So, for 25 years it was the rock that everyone knows from that period, but in the late eighties, rock was changing for the worse. There was heavy metal, hard rock, punk, disco crap, and rap. I hated it all. Started listening to classical on the radio on my daily commute just for the hell of it, and loved it, especially piano solos, and piano concertos. Classical is vastly more complex structure than pretty much all of what you hear today. About all you need to know now days is about 3 or 4 chords and a melody and your in business. Probably 90% of the last 20 years of “rock” use the same old chords. No creativity IMO. At all.
Amen!
I could not tell you why today’s music sucks. I don’t listen to any. I prefer the music from the 60’s thru the 90’s.
biggest oxymoron from this story is “today’s music”………….music? right.
Dignifying today’s trash with the title ‘music’ is a grave insult to actual music.
today’s music is “chanting” and monotone. no melody. voices are too breathy and juvenile.
Todays music sounds the same. ’60’s- ’80’s music was the best.
A few years ago, my wife threw me a massive Birthday Party complete with a Karaoke Stage. I spent much of the night singing songs from my High School band days. My youngest daughter was not only impressed with my singing, but songs from the 1960s and 1970s. Since then, she has not only discovered incredibly good music, but vinyl. She has fallen in love with my Half-speed mastered vinyl from the late 1970s and now only purchases premium vinyl and “no loss” Digital Recordings. A MP3 makes her cringe, she now knows the difference.
Modern Music is not only poor content, but the quality of the mastering sucks too. Modern Music is too dependent on the “video” to create sound stage instead of the sound mix. With a truly good recording you can close your eyes and see the performance in front of you. Still owning my 50 y/o JBL 4311 Studio Monitors helps too, since they were the Reference Monitor used to mix most of the late 1960s and 1970s music. They are powered through a high quality tube amp.
Another issue is most people don’t have a stereo or home entertainment system capable of quality audio. While my Home Office still has the 4311s, my Home Theater is Klipsch with a pair of Wharfedale 18″ sub-woofers and over 1500 watts of power. I have one of the few audio systems that can do justice to the Telarc 1812 Overture including a 45 y/o turntable capable of tracking the album. It doesn’t help that today’s music is being mixed to be played on an iPhone. We finally have Digital Quality Audio with high enough Resolution and Dynamic Range to compete with half-speed mastered vinyl and now playback music on handheld smart phones.
Today’s music points to a bigger problem. Today we have incredible technology and 99.999% of the people in the world don’t understand it and so misuse it. Much of the music of the late 50s, 60s, 70s, and even the 1980s worked because it was real. The artist had passion, the people in the studios were dedicated to quality, and the public didn’t settle for junk. There was a time when America had standards and understood quality. How many people have 45 and 50 y/o possessions anymore? Some of my vinyl is over 60 years old. I purchased it as a boy. Today it’s all about abusing technology, making a quick buck, but it is most certainly not about a quality musical experience! That is just one of many things that reflects on American Society today. Some of the music from the late 1960s is “uncomfortable”. My daughter was appalled by CSN&Y “4 Dead in Ohio”, but once she did some research, she understood some of the history behind it and sees the parallels with what’s happening today. The encouraging thing is that we only have to expose our children to History and the truth and they get it.
Longing for a time that wasn’t dystopian?
The only new stuff I listen to is foreign metal with no UPC codes and logos that look like hamburgers that you can’t even read.
I do love the Police and CCR as those have HDD space dedicated.
Skyfall is a fave Adele track.
Love Grows is on the Reservoir Dogs soundtrack with DJ Steven Wright intro!
Morale sessions include Mel Brooks with the Hitler rap, Where Eagles Dare main theme, The Ecstasy of Gold, 007 Theme, EFNY, and many more.
:Ahem. Some of us don’t wonder at all about the inclusion on the list of “Love Grows Where My Rosemary Goes.” It was then, and is now, one of my favorites. 😀
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