This week is designated as a classics week at the Dutch radio station I’m mostly listening to, 3fm. Therefore, all week they’re playing music and requests that are made before the year 2000, and the music is just plain awesome. I’m really enjoying the music and listening to the radio all day. Probably heard me ranting about this before, but it seems nothing with real impact has been made after 2000. Already at the end of the 90s I had the idea that musical quality was degrading, but where are the bands that have major impact like for example Oasis, Nirvana, Guns ‘n’ Roses, Metallica, Queen…name me one band after 2000 that has? Don’t get me wrong, there’s still some good music being produced but most of it just doesn’t seem to touch me, as if all emotion has been erased of it and it has to adhere to a general standards of boringness. Maybe that’s also why I’m recently going more into the direction of alternative kinds of music, countryish, folkish, electronic music, indie music…even some classical music. Especially independent music seems not to bother too much about the general public, but it’s again about the fun of making music, getting together and recording…Maybe that’s it…lack of fun?
10th Mar, 2008