The 5 Worst Things That Ever Happened to Music

[@Timliu92]

I love your point about talent shows such as American Idol, The X-Factor, or equivalent. To me, they have always portrayed themselves as channels for musical appreciation but in reality are just nothing but popularity contests - everything is so prefabricated and manufactured (from the personality of every contestant, the judges' reactions, etc) in order to attract viewers. Not to mention that the winners or runners-up of these shows tend to produce rather lackluster music, except maybe Adam Lambert, Carrie Underwood or Kelly Clarkson, who are admittedly very talented singers. To quote Dave Grohl, it is 'destroying the next generation of musicians'.

[@TabithaReminiec3399]

How about price gouging , Tim? The day that someone in the music industry decided to raise the price on cds was the day tha I stopped buying cds ! The 2 cd package that I saw the price of $40.00 on was The Rolling Stones Hot Rocks...needless to say I took one look at it , put it back in the display & walked out of the records store without a cd or two that I had bought !

[@KlausBluetner]

corporate companies controlling music - can't get worse than that

[@spark300c]

+Klaus Bluetner wellcome to our dumb down culture where they expect music to be feed to them instead of them finding stuff.

[@TabithaReminiec3399]

@@spark300c I'm waiting for the day when price gouging will get to them as well

[@mrfole9723]

Who the fuck disliked this? Guy is telling the truth

[@BoUrnNe26]

I agree wholeheartedly. This is probably his best video.

[@mrfole9723]

***** it's not that i care about dislikes, it's that i just can't understand why someone would dislike this. It's not something to disagree about. I just find it really odd

[@aliyahthebunny2482]

Mrfole But rap isn't music, it's talking

[@AndriyVasylenko]

I agree with 90% of what you said. I believe that now is the time for reveling the power of individual musicians to gather people around it. Now we have everything for DIY. If we get enough of desire and not-giving-a-fuck, all should change. It has started charging! It's just a matter of time. The people who admire real music and culture do exist and they will be forever. They just have to find new ways to get together and kick ass

[@Veilings]

I hate torrenting music, and I hate buying music digitally (unless they don't have physicals) I would much rather buy a CD. Physical > digital, IMO

[@wahoo2782]

In 1999 there were over 30 platinum albums, many of the slightly smaller albums from that year like Slipknot's debut getting platinum in 2000. In 2014, there was one. And it was Taylor fucking swift. That says it all.

[@billybishop1997]

Taylor Swift is an idiot!

[@icywinter9553]

I actually want to share a personal experience I had with regards to American Idol. When I was in high school, there was this event that had a similar format to that of American Idol, and it was called 'Greenridge' Idol. It allowed people to participate with one condition: No Heavy Metal. The worst part about it was that it was done by the music teachers of the school I was in. Even though I was still new to the metal genre at that time (since I was big on A7X), I felt so bitter. I was asking myself "How can music teachers be so ignorant towards music? Shouldn't they be the ones to teach people to open their mind to the various styles of music that is has to offer?"

[@adamniccum8680]

Icy Winter hell yeah preach the truth and expose there ignorance

[@TabithaReminiec3399]

Choir directors are the same way towards music..at least the last show choir that I sang in..the director taught us to sing Broadway showtunes Such as " One " from A Chorus Line ...thank the gods he did that , because it made us better singers !

[@devinmccreery8003]

MY TOP 10 Worst Things That Ever Happened to Music 10. Edited for super stores 5. Auto tune 9. distribution 4. Singing talent Shows 8. Spotify 3. The P.M.R.C. rating system 7. The disney channel 2. KZbin stars 6. Producers writing the songs 1. Piracy

[@MrShalvayez]

Piracy is forgivable when you like the music of an artist who has questionable politics, such as Varg. Go ahead and rip off nazis.

[@llongone2]

The worst thing that ever happened to music was MTV. Video did indeed kill the radio star. Many bands that made it big in the 60s and 70s were ugly but had a lot of talent. But starting in the 80s, bands/artist also had to have a look that was marketable. This phenomenon just gained momentum until now bands/artists ONLY have a look (and often little or no talent). This was another thing that was appealing to me about metal when I was growing up: it was really the last musical "movement" to not rely on image. Most non-hair metal bands weren't played on MTV before midnight or the radio and instead won over fans by making good music. These bands mainly became successful by word of mouth (tape trading, etc.). I can remember liking bands and literally not knowing what they looked like AT ALL. If I copied the cassette, or their liner notes had no photo (or a small, grainy black & white pic), and I hadn't seen them live, I could've passed them on the street and not known them (despite being a fan).

[@christopherholzhauer3789]

Wrong. Image has been a part of music forever. And being "ugly" is an image, too.

[@defleppardsucks5189]

@@christopherholzhauer3789 The difference is music used to come first and image second, now it's the opposite. Because MTV sucks balls. I didn't even like 99% of Headbanger's Ball to be honest.

[@social191]

When I was 6 or 7 years old growing up in the mid-90’s, we had 2 popular music channels, Vh1 and MTV. Being that I grew up listening to classic rock from the 60’s and 70’s and metal, I really enjoyed watching Vh1 at the time. However, MTV was all about the trendy music. And I never enjoyed it. Now, MTV is just reality television, or RTV.

[@Huskers_fan99]

Well at least American Idol is dead. Now all we need to to do is get rid of the Voice and X Factor

[@rockgod6180]

thank god it's dead to be honest. What a shitty idea it was too, you can't even find that many good singers that came from American Idol

[@andrastereminiec7599]

we have to let both shows die a natural death.. Ie : the public stops watching the program

[@adamniccum8680]

Austin Smith CMT to

[@tommythecat7752]

But as soon as those die something else will come along fairly quickly. It's too popular for those TV stations to let the trend die. Unfortunately TV is a business and quality programs are ignored in favour of just whatever happens to be popular. That same reason is why those shows only have mainstream music and rarely any of the better bands from mainstream music

[@jamesklatt]

ABC resurrected that dinosaur this year.

[@austinbohlmann9859]

CKN, I hope you read this. I want to personally commend you for your outlooks and morals regarding music. The passion that you project in your voice, in your words, is not only admirable, but absolutely inspiring. I've been avidly following your channel for close to a year now, and have been nothing but pleased with the content you have provided. Thank you for everything that you do. I think I speak for the masses when I say that we appreciate what you do on your channel. We love you man.

[@Sohrab544]

CKN, as stupid and idiotic as Tipper Gore's campaign was, it actually did the exact opposite of what she wanted. Every time you see a parental advisory sticker now, you know the album is badass. Although I've seen one of those stickers on Cannibal Corpse's "Wretched Spawn", which was clearly unnecessary.

[@coverkillernation]

Sohrab544 it did, but the idea alone is a horrid thing that happened to music. It showed that if enough people complained or caused a stink, music could be censored or potentially manipulated in the future. It set a potential precedent that was unnecessary.

[@eviltoad746]

coverkillernation Several months ago I had to show my ID in a store when I tried to buy Gemini Syndrome's album "Lux." Which is something I'd never had to do before and haven't had to do since. I said out loud to the cashier as she checked my ID, I said "You know, I freaking drove myself to this store, and I have been for the past year and a half, so I don't know why the hell this is necessary." To which she told me to, and I quote "stop whining about it."

[@eviltoad746]

I then complained to the manager about her attitude. Haven't seen her since.

[@ryanbyrnes6669]

so shit hey!! when i was 17 i tried buying reign in blood but the store refused to sell it to me and couldnt even give me a reason why hahaha

[@Gregbaltzer]

Kind of half true. While it did make music more attractive to kids and probably helped that way, but big stores like Walmart refused to carry music with parental advisory, or they made bands censor their albums,which Nirvana, and 2liveCrew did. There's also the censored version of Anthrax's Attack of the Killer B's. In a lot of towns in America Walmart was the only place kids could get music, so they couldn't get the albums they wanted, or they could only get censored versions. Remember this was back in the days before the internet too, so to get albums you had to rely on cassette copies, or ordering from your favorite metal mag to find albums.

[@DukeoftheAges]

This is a depressing video but it's sadly true.

[@brentlarson6946]

CKN, this is by far one of the best videos that you have made. You are spot-on with your thoughts of the music industry! I hope the younger generation of people who are starting to get into music can watch this video and fully understand it. Keep up the good work!

[@nickwaters1701]

The two absolute worst things that ever happened to the music industry would be auto tune and part of the internet (trolling against amazing classical, flamenco, blues/jazz, and rock/metal musicians. Also illegal downloading). FUCK THEM FUCK THEM FUCK THEM FUCK THEM!!!!!!!!!!! 😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡 Coverkillernation, great point and high five. PS. I absolutely agree with you on technology(loudness wars, over-produced modern sounds of instruments) and shows like The Voice, American Idol, The X Factor, and shows exactly like them.

[@Yshtola.]

regardless of the culture changes.. ill always love rock and metal

[@vejymonsta3006]

Thank god for Bandcamp. Thanks to that site, there is a sliver of hope for the industry.

[@OpusTheFox]

Cookie cutter carbon copy crap. Tongue twisters for days.

[@vgmastercleveland]

Finally I see someone addressing the atrocity of American Idol, that show makes me sick. Every once and a while someone good might show up, but the "experts" shoot down their originality and musicianship literally to sound more mainstream. They actually tell them to change their sound to be more "radio-friendly". And Keith Urban's main focus was to complain week after week that one contestant needed to lower his guitar strap so he would "look cooler", possibly the worst advice I have ever heard.

[@Timliu92]

Lol, American Idol, The X Factor or equivalent pretends to be about music appreciation but is all a popularity contest - having a 'unique personality ' such as looking cooler or 'cuter' (which is prefabricated and most of the time not even real) beats talent in these reality shows. Majority of the music produced by the winners of these shows are also lackluster except maybe Carrie Underwood, Adam Lambert or Kelly Clarkson who are admittedly really good singers. To me, they are just an accepted form of scam in my opinion.

[@rockgod6180]

thank god it's over now...I watched it like...once. Never again

[@LizzyVonBloom]

I swear, when you get pissed you're one of the most well spoken people on the planet.

[@ericthehighlander]

Autotune is the cancer of music. The idea of it puts me in a depression sometimes. Also I haven't bought an album off itunes in a year because it kills me not to have a physical copy. I also get that money is also a factor in this case, something I don't have a lot of so my CD collection is low. I will admit most albums I listen to are on you tube but hey, no body is perfect.

[@ELEcomments]

autotune , modern pop, drum machines, looping tracks, and are the worst things to happened to music, soon as they seen it was cheaper to produce like that, they dropped real artists and taken on shitty, cheaply prouduced pop and rap bullshit, and yet people buy into it and say its great to me, its like buying no name cheap foods from the store that taste like shit and saying its great even though you have the means and access to better brand name foods.

[@mangy2fly604]

I think artists and bands who make industrial music use drum machines to dehumanize the sound, and that goes well with the mechanical theme that theyre aiming for. There's a huge difference between a 909 or sampler, and a free program with midi presets. If drum machines are used by a modern po(o)p artist because they don't have any talent nor abiliy to get a human being to cooperate with them on a monthly basis, then i consider it to be production line garbage.

[@TheWolfgangGrimmer]

You hit the nail on the head with that whole "singles culture" thing. Personally, my portable music player (an 8-year-old Samsung device which can read a couple lossless compression file types) is always filled with nothing but full albums, as I have been doing ever since I got it and even earlier still. Also, I am one of those last few people who like to listen their albums raw, with no bass enhancement, 3D sound or other cheesy gimmicks like that. Your rant near the end almost inspired me to start my own extreme metal cd shop, if I didn't know this kind of project was doomed from the start, thanks to factors outlined in this video, the worldwide recession, and the fact no one here in France will lend you the money necessary to kick off anything, both out of fear and because the rules are way too complicated.

[@Rekko82]

I love to but CDs. I use Internet to search for the new artists and new albums from the artists I know. Without Internet, I probably would never had found band and artists like Nicole Atkins, Budgie, First Aid Kit, Believer, Emmylou Harris and many many more.

[@Xe4ro]

I've rarely seen those stickers over here in Europe. Mostly on CDs by N. American artists or pressings. But seeing as this whole affair eventually came back to bite her I wouldn't consider this the 5th worst thing :) (thinking of Jello vs Tipper)

[@Astronomater]

youtube needs to actually start paying their artists more than a fraction of a penny a play.

[@studiopapa5874]

"Here, you get one shiny penny a day!"

[@shspurs1342]

There is no way google will ever give the artists more money.

[@klbax63]

Cool fact about auto tune is that If you apply it to a vocal track from somebody who can actually sing is the effect can almost not be heard

[@KrzysztofMularOlsen]

And the 90s were an extremely good decade as far as music is concerned. Metal artists were really making an effort to get attention. Bands like white zombie and Therapy played live (actually live) on the MTV music awards) And the 2000s were the biggest decline in music quality since he pussyfication of rock in the early 60s The crap that catered to idiots in the 90s was recycled over and over again. Aqua, Take that and Spice girls signaled what the mainstream crap of the 2000s would sound like

[@TacomaPaul]

The PMRC was the worst idea... but because of it's backfire it actually promoted First Amendment rights even further. Thanks Tipper ! But the WORST thing to happen to music ? mp3s. Holy crap.

[@defleppardsucks5189]

Totally. I miss having a great home stereo and cranking up the good shit. Now you have to get all tangled up in headphones. Can't fucking air guitar to that shit.

[@Goabnb94]

I can't stand your "you must buy the album and build up a collection." 1) I am poor and can't afford $20 for a shitty album when I want one good song. I won't listen to the rest of the album anyway, at least they get money from the single. Yeah, I buy my music if I can find a way in which the band gets the money 2) The records stores in my city are utter shit. You'd be lucky to find a Megadeth album in the metal section, so underground bands in another country, yeah, the internet helps me to buy their stuff, and download the music so I don't have to wait weeks to get a $50 package to ship the CD which might break 3) I don't have the space for a music collection 4) I rarely at home to listen to my collection, I prefer the MP3 version so I can listen to them in the car or anywhere, including the gym 5) I hate the idea of having to switch CD's each time I want to listen to something different. Its your opinion, but not everybody is going to hold it.

[@MrShotty7]

I mostly agree with your last point. I like making different playlists based on genres or similar bands, such as megadeth and 80s metallica. I dont want to have to switch between like 20 albums when i feel like listening to thrash when i can just make a large playlist

[@ivyssauro123]

Goabnb94 I agree with the first points, living in the third world myself, but the last two are sort of stupid.

[@Jack68676]

Goabnb94 It may be his opinion, but the fact is without sales your favorite bands can't keep touring and releasing material.

[@Goabnb94]

Jack Buddy I'm not suggesting pirating - unless you cannot actually buy the material anywhere, but is that really pirating? But he suggests that the internet is hurting music because people prefer downloading rather than buying physical formats. That in of itself is not hurting music.

[@Jack68676]

Goabnb94 The internet and buying digitally is hurting music in itself. Rather than get your attention caught by a catchy or memorable song, and buying the whole album and building an appreciation for the rest of the album, people buy a catchy song or two, adding pressure to write catchy songs instead of writing what an artist wants.

[@sarahstacy81]

I agree with you on American Idiot AKA Idol. I watched the first season of that show. And that's about all I could take. It got worse with subsequent seasons. It should have went bye bye long before now. All TV Talent shows for that matter,were instrumental in the destruction of music. What really killed music in my opinion,was the advent of MTV. With MTV,style was placed over substance. You had to have a certain look to get your music out there. And if you didn't look good,you weren't going to get airplay. Video killed the radio star and now it's the internet. Internet has killed the video star. Now,music is worse shape than it has ever been. Fans need to support the real musicians,no matter what genre. We should buy their albums and go to their concerts. And we should stop supporting crap music like Lil' Wayne and the like.

[@miusow]

If you want to read a book about the very early technical influence on arts, this book, released in 1936, is recommendation: en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Work_of_Art_in_the_Age_of_Mechanical_Reproduction

[@kekstone9419]

books sux, nurd

[@solarwinds5114]

The Rev dying.

[@yoantrendafilov1638]

1. Justin Gayber 2. Justin Gayber 3. Justin Gayber 4. Justin Gayber 5. Justin Gayber

[@Phoenix-hu1oo]

I think you missed Justin Gayber.

[@kupo871]

I'm going to argue that most of what CKN argues can apply to the rise of shit-tier post-hardcore and metal core. No ideas? Just copy Rise Records! How to write a song? Breakdown, auto tune chorus, same chord, repeat! It's rather disgusting.

[@spark300c]

you right about everything has to have that gloss even got listen who want in my music despite that I put punk in title. tone and production wise punk is raw and ruff. it not meant to sound like it been auto tune to death

[@Bricklinsv1970]

cassette tapes rule!

[@mrmorbidlives]

100% agree.

[@Misantroph0]

(Sub)Genre-Fascism, Elitism & Fan War. Worst Thing ever.

[@defleppardsucks5189]

Yes, while rock fans fight amongst themselves rap and hip hop have been allowed to dominate for decades. I think it's by design and I think it's SJW bullshit. Good black music like Blues, Jazz, R&B, Motown, Funk, Soul, etc also all got F'd in the A. Between all of that and the fact that rock was also very diverse, that's a lot of good quality music that got shit canned for some political agenda.

[@VinylTV33]

Vinyl brings back the "album" experience, the artwork and the dedication to the piece of art. Unfortunately, it's not big enough. Kids listen to shit music through a mono phone speaker, and don't really know the real experience of hi-fi music. Even the ear buds suck. Who do we blame? Sony? Apple? Playing vinyl forces people to turn on a "stereo". Who has one of those these days? I hope that the vinyl comback keeps up, because that will bring on higher quality listening environments and hopefully the plastic music will die. Good video buddy. Cheers!

[@studiopapa5874]

Vinyl TV "haha, those post-millennials who must be so stupid because they dare take the convenient route, right? And surely, it must only be post-millennials doing this."

[@oniricPrj]

I loved this rant and I agree with most of what you say. As a song writer I've had a hard time making myself heard. It's probably because my music is not very easy-listening or well crafted. Still I think it's also because of the direction music is taking in these past years. I think what we have here is what most people want. Music today is the answer to people's problems and nowadays frustrations. Let's face it: we live in pretty screwed up times. There's no security in a job, wars are raging everywhere, technology gives us headaches...with so many worries one wants "stupid music". I should know something about it: I'm from Italy. And I do crossover prog...either you know people and get your stuff in the right circles or you can pretty much shoot yourself in the balls if you're trying to get somewhere. But that's not my point. What I meant to say is I agree with most of what you said, except with the last point. I know you actually said that internet was sort of a good thing too, but Your point is it's been bad. Well I don't agree. I think crap music existed in the ninetees too. Hell the eightees were full of crap music. Internet might have caused markets to change, true. But I actually think that, if this stupid transition phase passes, markets might even start to make sense, now. God I'd know half of the music...what am I saying...one tenth of the music I know if I didn't have Internet. As soon as I knew about Napster...bam! I was there! We're talking about hours watching the damn download bar for one song (ok I was little creepy). So no, I'm sorry but I don't "fully" agree. What I can tell you, as a web designer, is I think the problem is "how people use the internet". For if you use it just for amusement you won't expand your knowledge and that's too bad. peace, man :) Walter

[@juanpablovivanco9254]

Very inspired, CKN. Well said.

[@mktucker4118]

Autotune can honestly be a great tool, but it is too fucking often abused for me to disagree with you. For example, Kanye West's album 808's and Heartbreak was a break from his rapping and he wanted to show the darkness and depression he encountered when his fiance left him and his mother died. Without autotune, a lot of the power behind the production wouldn't be powerful enough to convey these emotions. Frankly, I'd rather there not be autotune, because of how misused it is, but its intent is all fine and dandy

[@MrCookie31c]

I get your point concerning the internet, but to be honest, without the internet, I probably wouldn't even be a music fan or musician

[@ck-one4172]

Agree 100%

[@Nic214E]

I sincerely thank you for this video. You really made some great points there.

[@j.d.thompson2697]

What people don't realize is that the PMRC in their own inadvertent way did more to HELP rock music than to harm it. Young people bought the records that were deemed objectionable out of curiosity and in many cases stayed fans when they found out that groups such as Slayer and Megadeth are actually very, very good musicians on top of their "offensive" lyrics. What you should have had at number 5 was eMpTyV. What they did to rock music in the 1990s and how it stacks up next to the PMRC is like comparing the Tsar Bomba to a car backfiring.

[@patrickray744]

Still watching...but I'm hoping that #1 is radio station's decade obsession with Nickelback

[@PhoKingNick]

Is there going to be a review for Kamelot's new album "Haven" anytime soon?

[@ryanbollinger1759]

whenever I buy music digitally, I get the whole album and then have the vinyl record shipped to me😊

[@christopherhickman2764]

Nu-Metal. Basically "Grunge Metal with Rap".

[@juliussw9153]

If you dont want people to listen to your music digitally, then dont release it digitally.

[@thunderhorse6666]

Nah, I would have to say the tipper sticker was one of the best things to happen. At least we got a clue of what we were buying back then. We couldn't sample or check it out on KZbin before buying it, instead we looked for the tipper sticker and the album artwork.

[@samanthageso6887]

You speak the truth, CKN!

[@bloodvile]

Less places to buy albums being released & my car acts up Everytime I need to drive 15 or more miles and back such inconvenience .

[@Wolfman9999WWE]

Autotune is terrible. However, it is not recent. It was first used in 1967 on the "Their Satanic Majesties Request" Album by the Rolling Stones on one track, "In Another Land" (Tk. 3). Mick Jagger, the innovater of autotune, sounded just as terrible singing that way as, say, Lil Wayne, does using it today. If Jagger, one of the best singers of all times, couldn't pull autotune off, then other singers of lesser skill then he should avoid it like the plague.

[@lilbigmick2004]

The genres I listen to include Hip Hop, Rock, Metal, Country, Blues, Jazz, EDM, & R&B as well as some other genres

[@HwoarangCCC]

I will never stop loving music. Nothing, and I fucking mean nothing can take it away from me.

[@trent3902]

HwoarangCCC Except someone ripping you ears off............... :3

[@romulanrancor6387]

trent sayers ...and death O_o...

[@HwoarangCCC]

Romulan Rancor I think even in death, I would still listen to music!! \m/

[@HwoarangCCC]

trent sayers I'd just grab someone else's ears then :)

[@romulanrancor6387]

HwoarangCCC thats metal dude xD

[@derek92ful]

All the pop musicians from the late 90s ruined music in my opinion

[@Ukeepthelies8471]

Coverkillernation, agree with your 5 of the worst things to music. It is all hip-hop, rap, boring pop songs, people haven't been buying it. They killed our so called "Hair Metal", Dokken, Stryper, Helix, Motley Crue, the others, some bands called Melodic rock- I'm still a fan of a Canadian rock group called Honeymoon Suite. Melodic rock today, in newer bands, "Ghost" is about it, as close as it gets. Someone tell Beiber Elton John rocks harder than he does, Justin can't rap either.What you said on this video needs to be said Thank you.

[@pushon10]

That was a fabulous video. So much raw passion!

[@brettrussell1]

hey ckn love the video you really opened my eyes about the bad things about music!! just wanted to say that the five finger death punch melt down was because the band was frustrated cause the instruments weren't playing or something like that but the band isn't breaking up!!!

[@9jay10]

I'm just throwing this out as an alternate perspective, sometimes I'll buy one song and like it so much I want to hear the rest of the album, in fact that's how I got into Iron Maiden, and now between physical copies and iTunes purchases, I have collected all of Maiden's studio albums and the live albums that are not out of print, they are easily my favorite band

[@chemicalmercury]

Autotune can be cool as a vocal effect though. I think the general population doesn't care much for music or art the way some people (like me) might do. But i think that's okay, since i have the freedom now to listen to whatever i want to listen to. And i also think that it is a good thing that it's more difficult for heavier or more experimental artists (or any artist in general) to earn money, since then money won't be the focus. The art itself will be the focus. That's what i think atleast.

[@brianfuller5868]

I am with you on PMRC. I also feel that technology has been both positive and negative. Talent shows were part of TV from the first and they only sell crap. They don't sell quality or distinct artists. AUTOTUNE NEEDS TO DIE. Internet should have made music better but we're on a worst place. It's harder even for established musicians to make money or produce quality. Even established musicians had to sell out.

[@altratronic]

The process for recording and mastering music has become so technologically refined that all major artists within any genre now sound like they were produced by the same studio. The sound du jour is crisp, clean, flawless and sterile. The new Megadeth album is unfortunately in line with this convention.

[@altratronic]

+HellBent ...but the absolute worst thing to happen to music has to be the invention of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.

[@joeknightguitar]

As a consumer and listener of music I love spotify. $10 a month and I can listen to anything I want. I can put slayer, megadeth and pantera on the same playlist. There was a time I was spending hundreds a month on cds. It doesn't seem like a great deal for the artists though. I'm not sure why they agreed on such little money. There were hold outs like Tool, but they eventually caved since everything else was on streaming.

[@zoelewis1]

I could not agree more, especially with the point made in reference to talent shows. The music scene has become far too saturated with artists! Fame is intended to differentiate the mediocre from the exceptional,but talent shows have made it far to accessible and almost trivial,it saddens me to say but I think good music is in its final throws, and shows such as American idol and the X factor are to blame!

[@andrewvanhalen1984]

I love music and I'll listen to anything that sounds good to my ears, I'll open up to any band or musical group.

[@mommysangelish]

Quite honestly, I agree to all points you've made except for some minor details when it comes to the entry of technology. I, being an avid music enthusiast and in the situation(I do not have the time to go into why, but lets just say I'm unable to work, finish school, meet people or even go outside for the most part) where I have to rely on music alone for intellectual and spiritual stimuli. If the technology for easy access didn't exist, I would be unable to obtain this stimuli, and before I began to listen to music daily my mind was never focused, I was literally going progressively more insane. I have tried reading, I have tried conversing with people, but nothing helps except for music. The point I'm going to make is that I, myself do not have the money to afford buying even as little as 1 CD per year. So, with this easy free access, even people like me, living in a fairly isolated location with no money to buy music, can enjoy what it has to offer. I might have slightly missed your point, but hopefully it doesn't sound too ignorant.

[@jamesdragonforce]

If you consider Bach, Beethoven, and Mozart great music, then music most certainly did NOT begin with recording! I probably wasn't supposed to take that too seriously, considering you later made the case that the idea of music is that i is an art of sound that touches your soul.

[@Astronomater]

MP3 format ruined music. people accept low fidelity because it is cheap or free and now there is no money for artists.

[@atruescotsmanuth2481]

BuddyJesusSmokes Bands earn most of their money from shows and merch, not overpriced vinyls and cds(Cds arent overpriced). Also, unless you are an expert that works with audio quality, you probably cant tell a difference between cd quality and a high quality mp3.

[@Astronomater]

I can easily in my monitor headphones, let alone my KRK rokits. I am not a pro but produce my own stuff so I have a bit of ear training but never had a lesson FWIW.

[@kekstone9419]

Pfft MP3 peasants

[@adepressedjumpingspider168]

High fidelity mp3 formats actually sound really close to CD and lossless quality. What we need to change is the loudness war. If you don't know about it, look it up. It's proven to be pointless, and engineers pointlessly destroy the sound quality of music with ludicrous amounts of compression, removing impact as well as balance (which can ruin a quality mix and production).

[@Astronomater]

yup, the over compression to my knowledge was started with Oasis and never stopped. I disagree with it being CD quality which is 44k bps and the best mp3 quality I have seen is still is chopped. Some MP3s are better than others clearly, but they lack IMO. Just an opinion though. Winamp is a good program for finding out what bitrate your files are.

[@isangfortheswans1578]

Gotta give props to the guy that sung necrophagist stabwound on the voice

[@aWorkInProgress11]

I think maybe you were a Pentecostal preacher in a former life.

[@fabiogoncalves2454]

The whole world should listen to this, great job man

[@jonesy2111]

Rap- hip hop is definitely the worst thing that happened to music

[@defleppardsucks5189]

MTV really ruined everything because music took a backseat to image. And because MTV started reality tv.

[@marko111ism]

If there is any record store in my area i would buy every album of artist i like. Atleast i am starting to collect "legendary" albums from all genres.

[@KrzysztofMularOlsen]

The PMRC did get their filthy fifteen bands a huge increase in record sales. Thankfully vinyl only have sticker on the shrink wrap. A big parental advisory printed on a vinyl would fuck up the pleasure of having big cover art.

[@j7ndominica051]

I'm not from America and I've never heard of the Parents Music Resource Center, and thought the advisory rectangle was a type of promotional label for violent hip-hop music. The singles culture and loudness war has emerged due to the short attention span of modern people, for which indeed technology and permanent online presence is a cause. Many albums today feel more like compilations written by a committee. Classic albums with segued tracks are cut up before sale on digital services to fit shuffle playback. The sale of individual songs was a mistake; they should have sold full albums for a lower price considering that there are no manufacturing costs. Autotune is bad. I can't stand the gliding pitch that sounds like doppler effect in a racing game, and unnatural jumps like bad edits. That is worse than not hitting the note, which I wouldn't notice on vocals. There are surprisingly crude edits too, like in the Adele album. And apart from autotune, the level of distortion and digital frequency domain gimmicks, like harmonizers, make current pop/rnb singers and also rappers sound like robots. They should make instrumental music on synthesizers, to get perfect notes and play the pitch wheel. I really like pop music without words arranged for orchestra or synths, with tonal complexity revealed without language perception taking priority. There is a lack of good melodic pop music in the last two decades that could actually be arranged on real instruments.

[@Malik_Hoff]

🔥🔥🔥 appreciate your views & insights

[@siemprecansado8418]

This video pretty much sums up why I subscribed to you. Great video

[@miusow]

one of your best! thanks CKN!

[@tubadude07]

Love the passion in your vids lately, you've been too calm for my taste XD Preach brotha!

[@BlindBabeBeth]

I agree with your second point absolutely.

[@williamturner84]

Love your passion. Nice to see someone so into music

[@Potconundrum]

I go to the record store at least 2 times a month. I go there. talk to my friend who works there, and buy some shit, talk to my friend again and listen to the music playing in the store. im in there a good hour and a half. and its 1000000000000000000000000x more fun then clicking buy for .99 dollars on a device. I wish that more people bought vinyl and cds and not digital. while having music digitaly is very helpful sometimes, I think pshycal copies are better!

[@TabithaReminiec3399]

Autotune is one of them! The PMRC was started when Tipper Gore didn't listen to the song " Darling Nicki" with her daughter.. & misunderstood the lyrics

[@dakatalatle7360]

so much soul

[@spark300c]

I think parent adversity befits the consumer. with some consumer they do not have guess that album has content they do not want support, so they do not buy it. all with artist there things that artist forget that people do not support. it reason why I never buy Enama of state by blink 186.

[@andrastereminiec7599]

Cover, how about the greediness of the music business itself? the day that they raised the price of a cd from $8.98 ,or 9.98 fro a single cd,to a $ 40.00 price tag for a double cd package....was the day that the record stores started going belly up !

[@JLJhippotype]

The positives of technology by far out weigh the negatives.

[@obsession5534]

I think you overdid the whole rant at the end a little bit. You made plenty of good points, but I also think that you're focusing on the economy a bit too much. Yeah, a lot of people nowadays just download 1 song by an artist and that's it, but with the internet, it has given plenty of artists that platform they needed to get their material out. I think that that is perhaps more important than a loss of sales. People who just download 1 song and never support the artists aren't worth the support anyway.

[@kekstone9419]

the humanity and the soul man the soul man don't forget the soul

[@bryanbaez4412]

So what's your opinion on Underoath?

[@TheDecline99]

5. Nickleback 4.Nickleback 3.Nickleback 2.Nickleback 1.Nickleback Honourable mention. Nickleback

[@maxscardanelli6185]

Well said CKN!!! Every point that you've made throughout this video is bang on!!! It's people these days are to stupid enough to realise that it's true. But then again, they're the ones that listen to chart/mainstream music after all.

[@alacard4075]

I have a news paper from the day George Harrison from the Beatles the died in a glass frame on my wall.

[@somps33]

+alacard40 Dear Dracula, happened in the end of 2001, a pretty shitty year.

[@annaleebliss4618]

I agree with all 5 pionts 100% especially audio tune boy i miss the 90s new music constantly being released i didnt realize how lucky i was 🤑🤐🤔🤗🤤

[@williamturner84]

Love your channel man

[@ThrashIsBack100]

ill argue that technology is the best thing that has ever happened to music. Drums are technology, a guitar or a bass is technology. If you have ever investigated how man invented how to record music , youll realize that it was also an extreme advance in technology. These things may not be the most advanced form of technology we see. But for their time, fuck yea they were. I just feel that was a very very dull "worse thing" that happened to music.

[@ximontrespalacios1257]

ThrashIsBack100 I believe he used the word technology in a colloquial way (referring to the modern digital technology) Also, ever since the appearance of a new technology regarding music recording or a new media, the ones who always get pissed and are the first to be against it are the musicians (History of Music and Music Industry 101). At the beginning, even before Vinyls, before metal discs, there where recordings on cylinders, and when this appeared, musicians (classical orchestras and jazz orchestras) where against it, because they wouldn't be contracted to play on a reunion/party. Radio came, the same shit, everyone will listen to us perform for free (this is before recordings came to be mass produced). Oh! online distribution (you might know the Napster v. Lars shit). And know, Streaming (Spotify, Deezer, GrooveShark, etc.). We musicians (as a generalization), have to be aware of the constant changes in Music Industry, and go with it, try to take advantage from it. For me and my band mates, and our contemporaries, it's hard because we are in the middle of a change from the industry and the media (from online purchase/download, to streaming).