Well for one thing most music is a product of its time, and very rarely stays relevant for much longer than a few years. Why isn't ragtime piano music or 1920's organ music still popular on the radio today?
Some music just tends to get used more because it was just that good and enough people heard it, so it sticks around. A lot of it to me is luck as much it is composition prowess.
Posted by Sa'eed (Member # 12368) on :
But the sheer glamor of 80s music...it's so baroque and ridiculous and lovable.
Posted by TomDavidson (Member # 124) on :
I would say that '80s music is pretty popular, especially with people that were alive at the time.
Posted by SoaPiNuReYe (Member # 9144) on :
Most of the stuff you hear on the radio nowadays are just rehashes of popular 80s music with modern twists.
Posted by Raventhief (Member # 9002) on :
Still like the '80s music. The hair... not so much.
Posted by Orincoro (Member # 8854) on :
quote:Originally posted by BlackBlade: Some music just tends to get used more because it was just that good and enough people heard it, so it sticks around. A lot of it to me is luck as much it is composition prowess.
Meh, neither. People want to believe it's luck because they don't understand why music that is demonstrably good is forgotten, and the obviously bad is sometimes remembered. But it's mostly marketing- nothing to do with luck really. If there was one factor in the music business that I would say is the *least* relevant, it's luck. Nobody at the top of the game is lucky- not in the sense I think you mean.
Posted by Nighthawk (Member # 4176) on :
Frontiers was the first vinyl album I ever bought with my own money.
I was such a fan of Journey that I created a party in Wizardry: Proving Grounds of the Mad Overlord using the band member's names. Yes, there were only five... it wasn't easy to beat the game a player short, but I did! Posted by TomDavidson (Member # 124) on :
Sheesh! You could at the least have added a fictional roadie named David.
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