Sex Drugs and Rock n' Roll ....... Or Was it?

Put on the radio here at any point during the day and you will hear the latest music, as I did today. The usual slogan "You are listening to AT 40 with Ryan Seacrest" , at this point you are probably saying "please some one shoot me" well after what I heard today my sentiments are the same. In my humble opinion - that will receive solid backlash once I post this - Radio is dead, as a matter of fact music is dead. Its not like i'm not trying to find that new sound that moves me, it's just not out there. 

Woodstock 1969

People say I'm a prude and I don't listen to any new artists but the fact remains they will never be more than a fad and stuff, which is the truth! One that most people are hiding from today. Music in this day and age has become superficial, the lyrics have become superficial. 

Okay maybe I pushed it a little too far there and yes there are musicians and bands actually trying to make good music  Foo Fighter (Cause they are just incredible musicians but they have been for ages -Yes I will be a groupie- and their music matters, Death Cab for Cutie (though the last album in my opinion left a little to be desired, plus kinda hurt they did music for a crap movie like Twilight), One Republic to a certain extent still impresses me with what they have to say (though this electrical sound they have has to go) , Coldplay (Old Coldplay not the New Crap..... Sellouts)!!!, Seether, Rise Against, hey! and after what I just heard on a Beyonce track I'll give her props too just for that one song "Pretty Hurts". 

PEACE LOVE AND MUSIC

So Maybe I pushed it by saying music is dead, Lets just say it has decayed from what it use to be. If you don't agree with me some put on any Led Zeppelin (Led Zeppelin IV) , Pink Floyd (The Wall), U2 (Achtung Baby) -yes I have included my recommendations cause well it's my blog - album and then put on, oh I don't know the latest party song or "Popular Song "that is playing god knows what it is and tell me which one moves you more ? I do understand that each person's tastes differ and not everyone likes the same thing but these people were real musicians they didn't need gimmicks (Gaga) , They didn't need a computer and no crazy idiots (their idiots were different, it was a Mosh Pit), their music didn't need any controlled substances people took those on their own, cause well it was the 60's and 70's folks comes on! The harms of those drugs were not yet as well known as today. You just needed Jimmy Page or Eric Clapton with a Guitar or Eddie Vedder just going acoustic and we were graced with brilliance. 

The Picture added to this post if you haven't guessed are from Woodstock 1969 still one of the greatest music festivals that has ever happened. as a child of the 80's and 90's I regret that I missed the opportunity to see it even though it was attempted in the 90's without the same effect. These days all I hear about is this thing called tomorrow land or tomorrow world sounds like an amusement park. Its like we are in a generation that forgot what this music did. Its goal was to bring peace through music, bring people together and it did. All tomorrow land is for people to get drunk, do drugs and just be morons cause hey that's how superficial we have become. Where are the real artist? the ones who want to show us what is wrong with the world, the ones who want us to change it, the ones who are in it for more than just the money and fame. Yes it was Sex, Drugs and Rock and Roll back then but it was also "I get by with a little help from my friends", "Fortunate Son", "Another Brick in the Wall", "Hotel California",  "Kashmir", "The Wasp". People will now always post "yeah! you crib about all of this but you listen to Hip and Pop Music of this day and age also" and Yes! I will admit to that that the beat has been catchy and that is more to the producer than the artist. I highly doubt event the strongest debater can defend Lyrics such as "I started at the bottom now I'm here" or "Dali! Mr Worldwide". Well to End this all I can say is that folk just think about the next song you listen to. Is it for the reason that it makes you feel something or just cause it sounds good. Does it make you think about what the artist is trying to say or is it just nonsense spewed to sell albums cause hey! "lets get fucked".

On this note I will end with a song that actually speaks about something, the Eagles wrote this song to describe the harmful effects of Cocaine something Many in today's day and age have forgotten.

"Last thing I remember, I was running for the door, 

I had to find the passage back to the place I was before, 

"Relax," said the night man, "We are programmed to receive, 

You can check out anytime you like... but you can never leave"