MAMEWorld Forums - The Loony Bin - Re: Does MTV2 even play music anymore? <Nt>

> Do any of the music channels play anything (decent) at all these days? The only thing
> that gets on screen are either pop songs with those awful sounding digitally modified
> vocals and talentless but rich pop 'stars' who have simply bought their place into
> music history rather than earning it (including those who won on Idol et al). Ask for
> The Wall video, and you get Justin Beiber instead because Pink Floyd is now 'whoa,
> too heavy, man' - just like asking a rock radio station to play something from
> Metallica that isn't Nothing Else Matters, Enter Sandman or anything else from the
> Black Album (so instead they play The Unforgiven from the same album anyway, or
> *shock horror* Turn The Page! Get a lottery ticket if the last one is chosen...).
>
> Someone bring back AC/DC rocking through the streets of Melbourne, and, keeping with
> the MTV subject, bring back Beavis and Butt-head episodes, dumbass!
>
> It's a long way, to the shop, if you wanna sausage roll!

Sadly that's like our grandfather asking for Charleston to come back. Let's get real, we consider that music great because we were teach it was great from a previous generation. The one or two before that still believe it's crap and don't give a damn for those "fabulous" guitar solos or strong vocals.

Sure it made a revolution, marked and era and precursed the music we know today. But just as videogames or anything lasting for a long time in society, it gets too cramped and reach to a point people forget what "the classics" mean. So they move to what they currently have and evolve to the new classics. Today there's so many music performers enclosed in every music genre that what marks a difference it's the looks. Today there's so many games you can't play all "the great ones" and we move to the next after like no tomorrow when we used to stick to one for months. It's a natural process.