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Today, electric guitar power chords signify conformity to grandpa’s musical traditions not youthful rebellion. Barbershop quartet would be more daring.
by brudgers 4y ago
Today, electric guitar power chords signify conformity to grandpa’s musical traditions not youthful rebellion.
Barbershop quartet would be more daring.
- agentwiggles 4y agomy mileage varies on this for sure. i take your point but idk. there's definitely a spectrum ranging from Greta Van Fleet to something like Black Midi (or insert other weird band I haven't heard of that makes the point)
- brudgers 4y agoBlack MIDI is post-punk since MIDI came in the 1980’s and Black MIDI only became possible years later when computers became much more powerful. And of course, Black MIDI has a formalism consistent with academic music and modernist composition of the 20th century. Which is to say, Black MIDI is avant-garde and insiders sitting at computer looking at notes on a screen. There’s no outrage and nothing outrageous.
- agentwiggles 4y agoI was referring to these guys (who I assume are named for the MIDI phenomenon you're referencing): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ebrpRKUMcss https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ebrpRKUMcss I get the sense that I won't be able to post something you won't manage to find derivative and un-punk, but these guys are among the more unique modern guitar driven music I know of. YMMV.
- brudgers 4y agoI just don’t think punk has been relevant after Thatcher and Regen, which means I am giving it more than a decade. Certainly by 1990, rappers had take the mantle of “that’s not music” outrage, and sampling was becoming what was considered the talentless noise not at all musical. I mean I know a few people who have been into punk for forty years. Some have grandkids. There’s nothing wrong with guitar driven music. It is just old fashioned.