The Real Reason Why Music Is Getting Worse

[@RickBeato]

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[@suzyhakjes]

You're right Rick. Education is our only way out of this mess...

[@crookim]

unfortunately nowadays finding a record store is extremely hard, miss the old days.....

[@Blackkey034]

Reason why musics gone down the drain ia not just business etc. its cultural. People are losing their morals and becoming more entrenched in degeneracy, me included. So if we stop being so goofy we can make better stuff my son. Get some morals yo theyre dope as heck

[@seanjohnson7367]

Damnit Rick, I haven't even gotten past page 30 of TONAL HARMONY. Slow down.

[@seanjohnson7367]

@@elusivelectron Thank you!

[@Trebor_I]

I was working on a project at Ocean Way studios in Nashville. On the flight home I was reading Mix magazine and an older gentleman sitting next to me asked "Are you in the music business?" I replied "my accountant would argue otherwise, but yea." Well this gentleman was the engineer for Led Zeppelin, we had an amazing conversation and then he said something to me I never forgot. He said "As engineers and producers we used to capture performances now we create them."

[@csmecca]

That is profoundly sad.

[@adamrad2220]

That's actually a deep insight. And is tragic.

[@castorkat4868]

wow

[@nickmaddalena985]

Great insight!

[@SFDestiny]

@@adamrad2220 He said "create" not contrive or manufacture, even though I understand your point of view. We are blessed that performances have been captured! But I really cannot believe tech or business could interfere with the genius of a Jimmy Page.

[@plaxy]

music isn't getting worse, popular music is getting worse.

[@fredjones9750]

A very valid point.

[@brandongomesfernandes4828]

Fully agree

[@IvanPolyansky]

this.

[@MrGougui]

and how many top 10 songs from 50 years ago are completely forgotten?

[@Paul_Halicki]

The problem is with a new song coming out every second, popular music is losing its meaning. A popular song would rise through the ranks of the various countdowns and become part of pop culture. Now songs are far more ephemeral. They become all the rage until the next new song comes out and then they're quickly forgotten. There is still good music being made, but the most popular means of distributing music doesn't pay attention to them.

[@damianlarocca4359]

My wife and I will do a 1000 piece puzzle and listen to a whole album through, and discuss it as we work on the puzzle. It's become one of my favourite things to do.

[@lisahall1989]

I envy you both. Wishing you many more years of puzzle time & music.

[@TheHarryMoose]

This is brilliant. I feel a new date trend coming on for me and my wife.

[@blissjohnson4242]

That's really beautiful ❤

[@Compulsive-Elk7103]

Ok

[@j3ffn4v4rr0]

that sounds like an awesome way to connect with someone you love

[@lennyfederico960]

Rick you hit the target spot on. Dead center! Working hard as a young person, paper routes, working at my Father's TV store, mowing lawns etc. Taking the bus to down town San Jose to purchase Jimi Hendrix, Deep Purple, Elton John, Yes, Genesis, Pink Floyd, Led Zeppelin, Doobie Bros, on and on. There is NO sweat equity!! The best feeling is sharing the music with your friends. Having something tangible in your working hands to share. You would play side one and finish the story with side two. I started playing the ukulele at 3, violin at 8 years and guitar at 11 years of age. I learned by ear. However I purchased your Beato bundle because learning is endless! I love and appreciate all that you have done for the music community. God Bless you my dear friend , even though we have never met. Keep up the fantastic work! Sincerely, Lenny Federico

[@magiccruislng]

I'm a musician.I play in three bands, five nights a week. Our audiences love us and dance. We use small amps. The guitar players use a couple pedals. We have fun, the audiences have fun and the club owners make money. Real live music is still available, but just like when we were young, you got to work for it.

[@thecowgirlmermaid]

Are y’all primarily playing covers? Or able to also play originals that keep the crowds?

[@kevinwickerproductions3089]

Cool! Keep it up! If you are any good, your audience and income will grow. Then anything is possible.

[@icantchooseanamesoiwritethis]

That’s awesome to hear. Keep going!!

[@tonybarnes3858]

Thank you for your service. We have a military/veteran discount where I work. I'm going to suggest a pro musician discount.

[@ezrollerj]

Exactly music is about the moment... Not bottling it labeling and monopolizing for profit. That's what people spend money or time on it for, the moment...

[@SimonBishop779]

The paradox of having the world of music quite literally at your fingertips, yet being numb to it.

[@Dreyno]

This. I’ve noticed young people who don’t know even the most obvious music. They hadn’t heard of anyone. Or they say “OMG I looove Zeppelin, The Who, the Smiths etc. But when you talk to them it turns out they know one or two songs by them. They’re remarkably incurious.

[@vixo551]

@@Dreyno Do you know Car Seat Headrest? Alex G? Mitski? Men I Trust?Boygenius? Young people have never cared about musicians that are way older than them. Why would a kid born in 2000 care about a band that began 40 years before they even gained conscience? A b-side of Pavement, fucking Pavement went incredibly viral with young people. Just accept that the passage of time and juvenoia is kicking your ass

[@vixo551]

@@SimonBishop779 That sounds like depression my guy, are you feeling good? Genuinely asking.

[@Aveance94]

@@vixo551 Most of the music I listen to daily was written, recorded, and gained popularity before I was born. What the fuck are you on about bud?

[@vixo551]

@@Aveance94 Me too man, and so I know for experience, the average young people don't really care that much about music older than them.

[@thomasjohnson2435]

The best advice I ever received from anyone about music was from my dad. He said to listen to the entire album and appreciate it as a whole. I have found some of my favorite songs from this. There are so many songs that are great that never made the charts.

[@garyb6219]

I was a DJ at a bar for three years in the mid 80s. My philosophy was that when I played tracks off classic albums I wouldn't play the one or two that only the radio played. I'd play the others that you never heard on the radio but everyone knew because they had listened to the whole album many times.

[@kenbrunet6120]

I love finding amazing songs that never hit my ear because they didn't make it to charts. Any favorites you're willing to share?

[@kyledavis635]

@@kenbrunet6120 Along those lines, I would argue that there are numerous songs in a good band's catalogue that are better than those on the charts. Those on the charts are just catchier, easier to digest...

[@Hampton23]

Thank YOU Dad!

[@mihalyshilage5826]

Fantastic yet dated advice. I too have found some of my favourite tracks from listening to whole albums. However, increasingly, modern artists have adapted to streaming formats and are more and more making albums that are merely a collection of songs or single tracks aiming to get one of them to go viral rather than a full 40+ minute continuous composition.

[@Papierzeit]

And you know what's even worse? It affects so many other topics like movies, books, etc. It changes people dramatically...

[@briancolw]

This is a fantastic bit of social commentary. Speaks to something beyond just music. Our whole culture is increasingly 1) Easily produced, 2) Easily consumed, 3) Valued less.

[@beejls]

This goes right along with a discussion I had with a male friend earlier about how hard we both are finding it to find good quality trousers. Yup, everything out there is crap. Good and cheap, but garbage. And since neither of us want to shop online but want to go to stores it's even harder to find anything passible. That seems to be the world we're living in right now. We've been Walmart-ized. Everything is cheap and available but it's not worth much.

[@SarlasMusic]

Spot On.

[@ZenMorph]

4. Easily forgotten

[@maggiepeterson_]

👏 Yes!!!

[@55Porter]

Just replace all that with: fake

[@galahadthreepwood9394]

The irony for me is that having all music always available was the dream. Now that it’s here ….. “the only thing worse than not getting what you want, is getting what you want”. I must admit I’m very glad I have access to all of Bach’s music, it brings me so much comfort and joy.

[@yetiwestin]

Rick, make this a 90 minute documentary, with guest interviews, discussion about future of music, past of music. I would watch that 100%

[@RoyDontHugMeImScared]

Me three

[@TonySZL]

There's a documentary that came out around the beginning of the end. It was called "Press Pause Play"... check it out!

[@patolorde]

As he said, you vote with your attention and more complex topics will not be watched. He would best do a 10sec tiktok

[@adamrad2220]

Agreed!

[@-______-______-]

90 million? Why not 100 million?

[@janvondrak1641]

This is a great video, essentially a summary of what this whole channel is about… Really important points, and really sad how it’s completely lost on most people.

[@ct00001]

I remember the days of pouring over liner notes, knowing who produced and engineered the record, what studio it was recorded in, etc. Knowing and caring about these things really does bring the music alive on a whole other level

[@realityjunky]

Then cds came along and I had to get out the microscope. All that beautiful artwork shrunken, how would the artists have felt?

[@derrylallen]

i loooove album notes

[@TheEvolver311]

​@@realityjunkyhappy they got paid a decent commission

[@ParamotorSteve]

Ah yes! Loved reading the liner notes. Do record companies even make them anymore?

[@louise_rose]

Yep, as a huge Yes fan I remember being irritated because "Relayer" (at least the LP edition) said nothing about who the recording engineer/s was, or about what kind of keyboards and synths Patrick Moraz was using. I could hear that it was an outstanding feat of production, mixing and musicianship, even by Yes standards; it sounds really different from any other album with the band - but all the album said on production was "produced by Yes and Eddie Offord; tapes by Genaro Rippo" (a name I have never seen on any other album). :) It was a quarter of a century before I found out that most of the album had not even been recorded at Offord's Advision studios in London, but - in Chris Squire's basement! 😄 Which makes it even more impressive, even if it was actually mixed at Advision. :) And I still don't know who those sound engineers were...Offord was mostly sitting in a studio bus outside of Squire's home when they were recording the album.

[@ronhutcherson9845]

“That one was for free.” 😂 Priceless

[@JakMang]

Wait, maybe I can copyright that one if Rick doesn’t 😊

[@ScottsSynthStuff]

I actually laughed out loud at that

[@flash001USA]

Lol, Yeah I picked and commented on that too.

[@flash001USA]

@@JakMang Not if the Eagles sue Rick first.

[@Noxal99]

Let's all use this snare sample in our next production everyone, agreed? Rick Beato Free Snare Sample for the win.

[@therealcyberius]

I am 48 years old. When I listen to my vinyl collection THAT is all I am doing. I turn my phone and watch off. I just sit and listen. I have a group of friends that come over and that's all we do. Listen and talk about the music. We outlawed any conversation about anything else. It's all about the music and its fantastic! I think music should be a deliberate decision. It should require effort and purpose. We respect the music and show our appreciation.

[@andrewgrant6612]

My friends and I did this over a weekly zoom call as we all live far away from each other. Each person would present a song and then we would discuss it. Was always super fun

[@L1623VP]

I'm a bit older than you, and I've always said great music needs to be "attended" like you're sitting in a concert hall with no other distractions. To have the full experience, music requires (and deserves) your full attention. I refused to watch music videos growing up because 1.) they were far too weird and almost never had anything to do with the songs themselves, and 2.) they were nothing but distraction from the music itself. I also didn't want anyone telling me what a song meant for me. I wanted it to transport me via my own imagination. It was by listening to songs with no other distractions that I could concentrate closer on them and learn to harmonize vocals and other musical techniques. Music demands respect and shouldn't be relegated to the "background" music of our lives while we're doing other "more important" things.

[@gilbertsoupras5669]

I'm 71, and that's the way we used to do and still do, listening to the composition, and the quality of the sound

[@danielscarbrough4363]

Sounds like us in the 70's...good to hear that certain traditions can overlap decades!

[@keithmoran8004]

Can I stop by too? 😅

[@richardjordan5036]

There is no soul in music.the soul comes from the people who put blood,sweat and tears into there music that they write and play.

[@lefty7744]

There's still good music being made, you're just not looking past the top 10 billboards and think that this is representative of all the music made nowadays

[@dlariby]

They just play crappy music on the radio

[@spenzakwsx4430]

exactly. there is tons og great music out there

[@maxkproductions]

@@dlariby crappy music has always been on the radio. the best music of the 80s wasn't Bon Jovi.

[@tusp7892]

Thank you! Theres so much music about that it can make people think music in general is bad, theres so much great music if people just bother to look

[@nathanmitchell7961]

I feel like that's what the whole point of the "Music is too resy to consume" section of the video where he explains there is so much music and its so easy to consume that it results in this sort of outcome.

[@ninjer66]

I've always said that if you would have told me in 1984 that I could have access to any music I wanted instantly I would have lost my mind. But in reality, going to the record store on the weekend and digging through the import section was so great!

[@QED_]

I wonder sometimes whether the same holds for Women . . .

[@innercynic2784]

Many a Friday or Saturday night spent at the record store doing exactly that. I picked up so much import vinyl it was crazy. Good vibes and the constant pursuit.

[@Marchant2]

I miss that too.

[@NotTheStinkyCheese]

I miss going to real stores to buy stuff. It feels soulless. There's this lack of discovery. And worst of all : I don't get to own the music any more ... I got a thousand cd's I have bought (and digitized for easy consumption). And I'm only rarely adding new things when I see new bands at events in real life, because I simply can't buy the physical product. Never mind the ridiculously small amount of royalties that artists get when someone listens to their songs on a streaming service. Record companies were bad, but streaming services are even worse when it comes to exploiting artists.

[@marctowersap8018]

and I'd read music magazines, Kerrang, Creem, Rolling Stone, find out what they raved about, ooh, who is this Accept? Never heard of them. Bought Restless & Wild, thought it was a mistake when the start of Fast as a Shark came on, like, wtf? did they switch disks? then the Udo scream, ah, now that's better! one of my favorite disks now! Picked up Bad Brains, X, Tool, Skinny Puppy, and Godflesh among others based on magazine recommendations, until I found a good core of friends who we can talk music with as magazines died

[@MrTcamargo]

I'm 53 and this year my wife and i joined a choir (first time singing into a semi-pro fashion) there I met various youngsters (they are in their early 20's) and we became friends, and during the break on one of our rehearsals the kids started to talk about vinyls, and long story short we formed a "Vinyl club" where we meet at my house to play my vinyls!!! the greatest thing of all is their amazement listening to "new-old" music, and as you said here, I showed them the process, and how we used to enjoy it, told them that's the way we used to do it back in the day. That's why it was so important... but now it's just chewing gum

[@marikothecheetah9342]

kudos to them that they made the effort. And kudos to you you share your passion with them.

[@crazydigitalmusic]

Great story, my friend. Those were the days !

[@dionysusnow]

Shame on you for contributing to the delinquency of the youth.

[@EjayT06]

@@dionysusnow ?

[@saxmusicmail]

I've played saxophone for more than 60 years now. I've spent countless hours "woodshedding". I even have a couple of degrees in music. About 25 years ago I was called to come to a rehearsal with a '50's rock and roll band that had a good reputation in our area. Cool, it will be fun playing with them, I thought. They had a nice studio building on their property. We played half a dozen tunes, they liked what I was doing. I thought I'd be joining the band. Then I found out what they really wanted me there for. They wanted me to play some notes they could sample, then play it on the keyboard. They didn't want me, they just wanted my sound. But they found out it didn't really sound like me, didn't sound like a saxophone. There was a lot missing when the keyboard player tried to play a "sax" solo with the band. I packed up and left.

[@janvondrak1641]

That sounds really sad. It’s also pretty naive of them… There are high-quality saxophone samples available - better than what they could ever record on their own. Stitching them together still doesn’t sound like a real saxophone solo. A huge waste of time if this was their plan.

[@philz7227]

It still takes a saxophone player to emulate a sax with keys. Keyboard players don't breathe with their instrument like a horn player so the keyboard sounds more like an organ or a pad sound without the pauses, tempo or emphasis that any sax solo would have.

[@snaredude56]

"The enemy of art is the absence of limitations" - Orson Welles Pretty much sums it up.

[@pcno2832]

That makes me think of the way the Hays codes forced movie script writers to get around them with some of the most brilliant examples of innuendo the world has ever seen. Today, with almost no limitations of obscene language and imagery, all of that is lost.

[@ReglazeRX]

KZbin channel creators...

[@KurtWitowski]

Truth! First time hearing that one, thanks. Right up there with “The great rule of art is complete unity in diversity.

[@davidrobinson7684]

Yes! The BBC once commissioned Benjamin Britten to write a piece for some occasion or another, and Britten asked how many horns he could use. The BBC answered, "Oh Mr Britten, you can have as many horns as you like!" But that wasn't what he wanted to hear. He always needed to work within set parameters.

[@snaredude56]

@@pcno2832 I was thinking more budgetary, time and technological limitations, rather than censorship, although, censorship is a limitation that did provide for some creative writing.

[@christopherdelaney6263]

This will probably never get read by anyone, but I'm going to say it anyway. I started playing music when I was three. I went on to play in symphonies, orchestras, competition marching, garage rock, producing hip hop, touring the States in two post punk bands, to touring the world with some of the best people I have ever met. At all of those stages, I was a student. I will always be a student of music. Being a lifelong student made me a teacher. A better musician. A better person. It pains me to think that all of that hard work, rehearsing, recording, sleeping on floors after the concert, driving hundreds of thousands of miles, flying around the world, was all to just train a computer simulation. It really hits hard. One thing they will never own is my grandmother playing for me. Playing the piano or an enormous organ with a Leslie. Never recorded, except in my mind, in my memories, of why I started to play in the first place. They'll never own those moments. It's sad to think that no one will ever be able to experience that type of joy and dedication to honestly play. To have the "ah ha!" moments when you found the right combination to unlock a higher ability of sound. Music for me now is sitting alone in a room and playing the many, many instruments I endlessly practiced throughout my entire life. Putting on a pair of cans and listening to a vinyl record. Music is still alive in me. But, it comes with a price. I do it alone now. I do it where no one can ever take it away from me. I do it for me. I do it alone now.

[@melonhusk-kt5ys]

hey dude same for me man

[@lowmasscompanion]

Beautifully put. And you hit the nail on the head. Its those organic 'ah ha' moments that bring fulfilment. The buzz of accidents becoming triumphs. Pushing and pushing, repeating and reworking until it clicks. The feeling cannot be replicated. Dedication. Keep enjoying it.

[@christopherdelaney6263]

@@lowmasscompanion much love and respect to you. Keep your soul and passion alive.

[@christopherdelaney6263]

@@melonhusk-kt5ys much love and respect to you. Keep your soul and passion alive.

[@ianstuart5660]

Well said, friend. Very similar story to myself. There's not much more important to me than music and most people think I'm just weird!.. 😢😢

[@jeffoberleguitar]

I like Lemmy's explanation of this. He said back in the 70s and 80s and a bit of the 90s that people who worked in the music industry took more chances on bands that were unknown if they believed in them. And that people who work in the music industry now are all afraid of getting fired and afraid of thier own shadow like every other industry, and nobody will take chances anymore, so all we get is a bunch of generic pop music churned out of an industrial system.

[@W1LDTH1NG]

Absolutely agree. I’m tired of real artists being blamed for not getting ‘anywhere’ in their careers. There’s not really ‘anywhere’ to get to! I’m sure something will happen & things will change for the better

[@kareltracy]

The term "industrial music" seems to mean something along the lines of the heavy metal category. For several years I've thought that the term should be applied to something produced for profit rather than artistic creativity, i.e. a product of the music industry. Auto-tune, boy band and marketability would be relevant terms.

[@grimkahn3775]

​@@kareltracyWell yeah but what else am I supposed to call my medley composed entirely of steam valve hisses and hydraulic press noises?

[@travisvandermeer7436]

​@@kareltracy ha ha. Good point. And where would artists like Author and Punisher fit? Boom! Boom! Boom! "Arm Hammer Music"?

[@Foul_Quince]

Even before that, Frank Zappa said part of the reasons the 60's worked was that the old guys who ran the business had no idea about modern music and their attitude was "put it out. If it sells, we'll do it again. If it didn't sell, it wasn't a total tzores"

[@eliasvanschaik2134]

Wonderful video Rick! I am 69. My wife is 60 and we have a running commentary almost monthly on how music today has lost something important. The lack of real people playing real instruments and getting it right seems to have been lost on the newer generations. You’ve articulated how this is all come to be such a wonderful way. Thank you again. 🎉❤

[@ronrocker7131]

Not true. It only seems that way. There's still millions of people playing real instruments and, probably, there always will be. Take it from a musician. Just take a look around. Even here, on KZbin. There's plenty of us, young people, doing our thing, carrying the torch of rock'n'roll.

[@SomeCanine]

We're experiencing this all over society. Abundance has destroyed our sense of value in everything. Even if something is very difficult to do, we don't value it because there are a million things that seem almost equally valuable that take almost no effort.

[@kaasmeester5903]

I don't know if that's right. We certainly have abundance in this day and age, it has never been easier to publish a book, make your opinion known, broadcast a video or release an album. I think that's great in itself. But that also means that the poor quality stuff that got rejected by editors and recording studios is now mixed in with the good stuff, and we have to filter it ourselves. That takes an effort. Worse: in many cases the garbage gets pushed to the top of our recommendations by some algorithm. But is it really destroying our sense of value? Most people might be lazy and listen to whatever hits their recommended list: easy to consume middle of the road stuff. But that's hardly any different than 50 years ago. It'll always only be a relatively small group of people who take the time to find and appreciate quality content. I think it's not abundance, but the "too easy to consume" part that is a greater danger. Music and films used to be something that we cherished, not just the content itself but our personal collections. You had to put down real money for any particular album or DVD, buying one album meant you couldn't listen to the other. Watching a movie meant going to the video store and renting one. Listening was a commitment as well: nowadays you can zap around and skip the songs that don't take your fancy, back then you put on a record or a CD and basically listen to the whole thing, or you'd have to get up all the time. Our "collections" have become more ephemeral as well: my playlists on Spotify frequently develop gaps, when the service can't be bothered to pay the rights holder anymore. Easy come, easy go. I think that is what is eroding our appreciation of music.

[@ColonelSandersLite]

@@kaasmeester5903 "But that's hardly any different than 50 years ago." Yup. Case in point - Disco. It was bad. Real bad. People lapped it up because that's what the 1970s equivalent of the recommended list was pushing. I think the too easy to consume thing is BS too. People still have their favorites. If anything, it's easier than ever to find and connect with some artist that really speaks to your being. The honest truth is - The reason why music is getting worse? You're getting old and you're saying the same crap that old people have always said. And yeah, that applies to me too. I don't care what genre/era/subculture/whatever of music someone cares to bring up, it's always the same story - an incredibly small percentage of it is good enough to endure the test of time.

[@jacksmith-mu3ee]

Music isn't getting worse Japan, China , India , Latin music has beaten English music . Easy

[@jayme3181]

@@kaasmeester5903 "....poor quality stuff that got rejected by editors .....in many cases the garbage gets pushed to the top of our recommendations by some algorithm." You are making a leap of faith there.

[@t-man5196]

@@ColonelSandersLite a cartoonishly simplistic take

[@unstablesun8179]

When I was a kid, I saved up, my dad drove me to the record store and I bought the White Album by the Beatles. It was a huge event in my life. Today I still cherish it!

[@canadagood]

I walked into a church basement that was doing some sort of after-school teen hangout thing. Somebody put on the White Album and played the entire thing thing loud on big speakers. It had just been released and we were eager to listen. It builds and builds with all those sweet little songs and then erupts into the frightening and magnificent Revolution Number 9. Every song is a solid gem but together they all build something so much bigger.

[@damianpimpinella977]

I’m 23 and when I listen to music, it’s the entire album not a playlist cause it feels like a more cohesive experience. The artist spent so much time on the track listing to make sure it flows well and that gets lost in the Playlist era.

[@Blaatann53]

I’m 20, and I do the same. Also, when I turn on music, it is to experience it intentionally.

[@NickGodwin]

Some progressive bands run one track into another. Spotify or iTunes splits them so you don't get the chance to hear what the band created. E.g. Can - Future Days or Ege Bamyasi

[@shawkorror]

Been saying this for years. Compare Pearl Jam's "Ten" or Alice in Chains "Dirt" to anything from the past 20 years.

[@Century_Road_Official]

You might be in the minority, but you are appreciated! You’re also watching Rick’s channel so you most likely appreciate music more than your average 20 something, but that’s the point. Appreciation for what music is and can be.

[@dennismetzger9287]

I'm 26 and have just recently started just putting whole albums on

[@jukesjointOG]

Remember Rick- “Tops Supermarkets have people, so you don’t have to talk to yourself!”

[@everydayeverything]

My son is a young 20s something up & coming musician, extremely talented (not just saying that because he's my son) and I'm in my mid 50s. I have Spotify and make playlists and sometimes listen to the Spotify recommended playlists. My son challenged me recently to only listen to an album. 1 album only, all the way through, not these silly mixed playlists. He's a kid and gets it. I have to say I was brought back to my childhood sitting in my parents living room holding Rush Farewell to Kings, and listening to it all the way through. We used to do that! It took my son to remind me. I'm forever grateful to him!

[@marikothecheetah9342]

People don't listen to albums anymore? It's the only way I listen to my music... I do have some mixes but then extend them to mixes of albums, i.e. a couple of albums of artist X then artist Y etc... Not using shuffle.

[@wuokawuoka]

People are using Spotify wrong. They should treat it like being at night at the record store: rummaging through the albums, looking for new artist.

[@jacks5463]

I’m 22 and routinely listen to albums. Recently listened to Hold Hold Your fire by Rush. Had to comment because I saw Rush!

[@tooluser]

Not to be overly cynical, but part of the reason you (and I, I'm 59) did that was because that's the way the music industry was structured. It was limited by the technology of the time, and was kept that way to maximize profits for a cabal of ultra-powerful music labels. You may also be nostalgic about making mixtapes for your crush in the early 80s like i did . . . yet at the time, THAT was the technology that was disrupting the music industry business model and playing it's part in destroying the album-format of music production. Overall I think any fan of Ricks channel can agree that we should actively listen to music to better appreciate its magic.

[@everydayeverything]

@@jacks5463 Great album!

[@beanobanelli]

Excellent Rick, you nailed this. I'm 59 and you brought back the day Van Halen's 1st album was released. My buddies and I prepared for a week, we all cut lawns, pooled our money together, got the album and listened to it forever. There is Nothing like the Anticipation feeling we had back then. Thank you!

[@Mark-fx6gl]

I'm young (20), and I grew up listening to albums start to finish on car rides with my dad. It seemed cut and dry even at a young age; this was what the artist intended me to hear. Once I got to high school and started talking to people about music (even the few people my age who listened to rock or grunge), almost none of them sat through an album if they didn't have to. So many songs are good on their own, but become masterpieces in context with their album. I once had to explain to a friend that he needed to sit through "Moby Dick" to get the full experience of "Bring It On Home". Instant gratification loses like 40% of the potential impact that a song can have, and people seem to choose instant gratification every time.

[@Yesica1993]

You give me hope. (And cheers to your dad for doing that for you!)

[@bluesrocker91]

I'm 33 and I've thought like that ever since I became really musically aware in my teens... It is exceptionally rare for me to skip a track on an album, even if I don't particularly like it, it's part of the experience. If have to really hate a song to want to skip to the next one, and I genuinely can't think of any examples off hand... I also hate it when an album gets interrupted, or I have to leave it half way through. Once it's playing, I like it to play continuously to the end.

[@brando3009]

i mentioned this band on a comment i left here, but if you like a proper album experience you should check out Datura by Bostan Manor. album has a really cool vibe. I even got it on a red vinyl. Looks dope asf sitting on the record player ( im 20 too btw )

[@quakers200]

Mick Jagger can't sign any more. He just sort f speaks the words in tune because he is old. Yet there he is packing them in because there is no new group that can do what they did. Live music isn't live any more. Another ten years and it will all be gone, the live bands. Fine by me because I won't be around to hear this crap. Then again one never knows what great thing might come. Perhaps AI will create brand new Bach or Beethoven as good or better than the original. Music based on all music in history!!

[@kathleencove]

What’s sad is people aren’t making concept albums anymore. I want to so badly, screw what anyone thinks of it.

[@marcuspatton3921]

I grew up in a house with a piano in the living room. Both of my parents played. My dad grew up in the era of swing and be-bop, and he played saxophone and clarinet as well. He also had a set of vibes in his study that I rarely heard him play, but I had a great time with them. My mom was in the church choir, and so my sisters and I were in the children's choir from a young age. Our standard prayer before family meals was a song that we sang together. I was surrounded as a child by music, and everyone in the family was a musician - in some form or another. Of course we had the radio and records, and my dad still had a large collection of 78s, and I began a record collection myself that now numbers in the several hundreds - on LP, CD, and cassette. My instrument was the guitar, and although I never applied the discipline to get very good at it, I am competent enough to have written a few songs I am not embarrassed to play for friends. From my perspective, music is not something you just listen to passively, it is a way to express something that exists in your very being. It is composed of breath and blood and physical strength and dexterity. And it doesn't have to be good to be -- real. AI or any kind of machine can't make music, it can only make a bloodless, breathless imitation. I am eternally grateful to my parents for making music an integral part of my world. I think music is part of what makes us human.

[@NathKlein]

I'm an English teacher in Brazil. It breaks my heart when I ask my students what kind of music they like, they give me a genre (it's already hard for some of them) and when I ask which artist, they don't know. They only type a genre on spotify and listen to a playlist. Music is such a big part of my personality, the artist I've listened to shaped me as a human being, that when I see there lack of interest on music I get sad. Enjoying music is an important part of learning a second language. Students who listen to songs in English have more vocabulary, better grammar and pronunciation.

[@Rhamirezz85]

What the hell? That is just sad :( I can't imagine doing that! I can't decide about witch album is my favorite of my favorite artist, and those kids listen to whole genre... :/

[@tw.267]

Wow, I didn't realize this problem could be happening worldwide until I read your comment (and it makes sense!!). That is heartbreaking that students aren't experiencing the massive joy and inspiration of knowing the artists they're listening to. But I'm so glad you're a teacher!! Maybe you can influence your students to enjoy music the way you have. Perhaps bring music into your class if you can, and turn it into some sort of English exercise/activity. I used to be an ESL teacher, and I created entire classes that would teach English through a specific subject matter, like film, or graphics. Maybe you can do that with music, and bring in music that the students might not be very exposed to, like classical, musicals, Queen, The Doors, Whitney Houston, Billy Joel, anything that isn't currently getting tons of media attention but is outstanding and foundational.

[@NathKlein]

@Rhamirezz85 It's awful to see it. I told a class of teenagers today that I listen to entire albums everyday and they were shocked.

[@NathKlein]

@cristinaw.267 Unfortunately it is. Spotify has completely change the way youth listen to music.

[@tw.267]

@@NathKlein WOW!! oh man that is so sad.

[@danaaxelson6200]

As older,70, former professional musician, you are absolutely right. At 15, I saved up money to buy my first album. The experience of opening the album cover, after studying the cover for a long time, pulling the record sleeve slowly and removing the vinyl and getting that smell. It made your connection with what you were about to hear so special. Nothing like it. That ritual was so special.

[@dcostello1976]

Albums are things to own and treasure whereas streamed is throwaway. You are also more likely to listen to the whole thing and let it grow on you, rather than skipping stuff that doesn't have that instant hook.

[@denisblack9897]

Pretty same with video games for me. I got tons of pleasure out of searching for a worthy game, saving up, anticipating the day i’ll finally buy it, installing… Now you can install thousand of shitty free games and get zero pleasure out of them and even get scammed into paying for quest rewards 😅

[@oldskoolmusicnostalgia]

I'm glad I never gave in to the streaming trend even if it was supposed to be my generation's thing. Still got my collection of CDs and I save the songs I love most on various devices to listen to. Streaming, never.

[@tysfalsehood]

@@dcostello1976 For most young music fans, we don’t skip tracks, even on streaming. Bridges still exist, you know?

[@Rojave]

Funny you mention the smell. At the time we discovered different labels had slightly different vinyl smells. We used to play a quiz-like game by guessing albums blind-folded, without sound. So much fun we had, back in the 80's.

[@strangeitude1]

The flip side of streaming is that if you really love music, you will discover, experience and enjoy 1000% more music that only would have purchased and listened if you were a millionare. I still collect cds, but not purchasing as many as in the old days. With my friends who also love music I share the album links and personal playlists, it is another experience. With that said, I sympathize totally with Rick on this matter.

[@Drstrange3000]

I think this is why I like streaming despite it being looked down upon. Especially, as someone who didn't always gel with the music from my country. Even as a kid I didn't get to connect with friends through music since my tastes were different. I was able to listen to and discover so many gems through streaming.

[@GTX1123]

"the love of money is the root of all evil". Truer words were never spoken. Gordon Gekko had it all wrong. Greed IS NOT good. I've worked in corporate America for the past 24 years (Telecom Industry) and can attest to this. When greed becomes an obssession it destroys everything; creativity, integrity and a passion for excellence all become its victims. The solution is to create an alternative music industry that focuses on substance over style & integrity over image.

[@TucsonBillD]

I just realized why I like listening to records again is that with a record you pull it out of the sleeve, clean it, drop the needle and just listen. And it doesn’t matter which style it is… it’s music… it’s magic.

[@woopimagpie]

Playing records is like cooking a meal or making a pot of tea. It's not just about the destination, it's a ritual journey. The entire process brings pleasure, not just the end result. People who love vinyl know this. If you get it, you get it. Like you say, it's magic.

[@Steven-em5if]

I just had this conversation with my 18 year old daughter. I couldn’t put it in words how I felt about music when I was her age. You put it so well, I am going to share this with her.

[@NathanMason-r4s]

Don't. This guy is 100% wrong.

[@lessismore8533]

@@NathanMason-r4sno he ain’t..

[@kyrilson71]

I’ve thought about this before. When I was a kid I would buy an album and listen to it over and over because a) I worked to get it and b) I didn’t have a crazy amount of choices. So I would deep dive into these albums, read the liner notes, lyrics, etc. as you mentioned, this resulted in a very deep connection to the music and the band. Nowadays, it’s a paradox of too many choices. I use Spotify, but I tend to use it meaningfully, I will take one artist, and listen to every album in chronological order. Things like that. It helps me see the progression of a musician, and find new (to me) music I enjoy.

[@immozelle]

I use Spotify music like that as well. I'm catching up on music I missed when life just got in the way, like my workplaces tended to disallow playing music or the choice of music, or my car stereo broke and I couldn't afford to replace it. I do have to put some effort into active listening. It may sound lame, but I have to maintain a job, a home, and a computer with internet to do all that. No small feat nowadays. And of course, I try get out and experience live music. I simply can't afford today's ticket prices, so a big name concert is a once a year special event. But I can attend less popular artists and still get just as wonderful quality auditory bliss. Local bands are great, too!

[@Bigfoot-px9gj]

I've been collecting CDs since the format was first introduced, and I have somewhere near 1,500 CDs. I used to buy every album by bands I like, even if I didn't like every song on the albums. I stopped doing that when streaming mp3s came along. Now I bookmark bands I listen to on Spotify and or Tidal (Tidal has better sound, Spotify has more stuff I like) and that also had the extra benefit of making my wife happy. She used to tell me to get a room for all of my CDs... So I told her to be happy I didn't collect LPs, they take up a lot more room. Those comments were rewarded with a blank stare that said in no uncertain terms "Are you crazy?" Then I started collecting DVDs and BRDs. I bet you can guess how well _that_ went over...

[@maxlevy1716]

The worth of any one song, is the experience of listening to it, physically feeling it, and emotionally being moved by it.

[@kenny_numbers]

I got the chills listening to you describe what it took to acquire music (an album), what it meant to you, adding it to your collection and sharing it. This is exactly how it was for me growing up in the'70s.

[@XTRMJ]

That's because, Rick is exactly right,... Now is too easy to steal a sample of real music, loop it, & make some rap (crap) out it,...

[@a9ball1]

We used to have a record store called Wide World of Music and we called it Wild World. They had a sale every month, any album $5.44 per disk. And they would play albums in the store during the day. That's one way we found new artists that weren't on the radio.

[@saulgoodman.exe_]

I can't imagine how people listen to music without the full context of the album, it's ludicrous if you ask me I might be Gen Z but I've felt and heard Zep IV on a mint condition 70's pressing and it's magical. Love my Don Cab 2 vinyl in particular, that record just hits different in analogue

[@CB018332]

And adding to that - If you didn't enjoy what was popular/mainstream you either had to go to great lengths to find something different OR you created something yourself. Now you just need to browse youtube for 20 minutes.

[@davidshanahan5134]

@@saulgoodman.exe_ Albums as such are rare today. They are usually a collection of unrelated, stand-alone objects - there is no theme any more. "Tommy" by The Who would be impossible today.

[@GlennJackson-t3t]

As a 71 year old life long musician, this made me want to cry. Every point you make here is dead on. I'm glad I was alive and aware when music had value. I don't know if there's any way to get it back. Thank you, Rick, for everything you do. You are a voice crying out in the wilderness, but there are some of us who still hear you.

[@orangefacedbuddah1776]

cry no more,it will return,quality never dies,mozart and beethoven have been dead forever,but there music hasnt died.

[@mow_cat]

​@@orangefacedbuddah1776 as more and more music releases, it gets harder and harder to find the old music which often has higher standards of quality. especially if you don't know that it's out there, and that you should look for it. eventually it will be so hard to find the good old music that everyone will have no choice but to listen to just the new stuff.

[@NBZW]

Every major society in history had the same complaint, as they failed.

[@MrMelonsz]

I promise you there are still great musicians, songs and bands. They’re just harder to find when everyone’s making music.

[@ronaldjones743]

I hear him too it's really sad it's come to this. Reminds of a line in a CW McCall song. "There won't be no country music there won't be no rock and roll because when they take away our country they'll take away our soul"

[@lifeisagift.cherisheverymoment]

"The best way to counteract this alarming trend is by educating yourself and becoming a more knowledgeable musician so that great music can make a return." Educating yourself and becoming a more knowledgeable person... applies to every aspect of life, not just music. Beautiful video, beautiful essay. Thank you.

[@RICKONORATO]

It's the same situation with filmmaking. David Lynch has bemoaned the death of arthouse films ages ago. The world is drowning in content at this point, and it's only getting worse. To find anything of quality is like searching for a needle in a haystack the size of Mount Everest

[@tommykawasaki9676]

I was taught to value music. Buying an album, was buying artwork. Albums were to be treasured & cared for, handled gently & stored properly. My parents were in tune to new music, encouraged buying albums & often gave them as gifts. An artist chose to share what they had to say & they went through a great amount of work & expense to make it available to you at such a fair price. Respect the artists talent, thoughts, time & effort. They are sharing their perspective with you & enriching yours.

[@orlandoguitarist]

Well said!

[@bettyparker3317]

So right, and so well said. As Rick,said, we used to just sit and listen, comb through liner notes maybe, but basically just listening. Most of my friends think it’s weird for me to be “just sitting there listening.” And it’s the whole album. Yea, I play the whole thing.

[@orlandoguitarist]

@@bettyparker3317 I actually remember having music class for several years at elementary school. No students had cell phones back then and nobody uttered a word as the teacher played records to analyze. That was a long time ago, but I do remember hearing the rock opera, Tommy, by The Who and The Long and Winding Road by The Beatles for the first time.

[@tysfalsehood]

The thing is, even though the material components are different, so many young people still do this. Music lovers will always do this. What, do you think that when Travis Scott's 'Utopia' came out his fans didn't 'sit and listen'? Of course they did! The whole album! You can hate the guy and his music if you please, but like many contemporary artists, you're dealing with long-form, conceptual LPs that are marketed as a whole package. They're 'rap operas', if you will. I really do think a lot of this thinking is just a kind of blind nostalgia. It's not really at all sensitive to how young music fans today are actually appreciating music.

[@bobma62]

Perfectly said Rick. I’ve been in the industry my entire life and now at 70 I feel blessed to have lived in a time when music had value and meaning

[@6idangle]

Agreed, I’m born 92 and I’m lucky I got to experience a world of more music choices and risks. This isn’t just “kids these days suck” stuff, this isn’t just nostalgia this is a corporatized world with no art anymore. You guys had the perfect mix of access and creativity and I saw it in my early days but it’s sadly now gone.

[@Netunoblu]

Honestly, I wish I got to live through these times too... I hate that these days its more about "content creation" and marketing rather than making timeless and original art.

[@cynthiak3376]

I'm 76 and I fully concur - I'm an old analog gal in a digital world, and I like it that way. Joe Walsh (also our age) wrote a great song "Analog Man" You should get that album and give it a listen (In analog of course!) LoL💗

[@geesehoward700]

wtf is all this bs? mainstream music has always been populist trash. go listen to stuff like jinjer and tell me nothing is good.

[@zenos.5315]

Myself included, playing albums in my friends basement,having a few beers,was pure magic

[@RyansCustomShopandGearOutlet]

I loved your story of buying an album. I used to skip lunch in junior high and high school to save up money to buy an album. I would listen to the album while reading the lyrics on the album cover over and over and over. To this day, I can sing along with albums I bought in my youth without missing a lyric.

[@PrincetonTV]

COLUMBIA RECORD HOUSE - 20 albums for a penny, and never buy another one.

[@joyfulyes]

This! The liner notes are so important. They are a deeper dive into the music and the artist. Streaming is convenient but we miss all that content! With some artists, there are whole stories in the liner notes. Thinking of Loreena McKennitt or Secret Garden.

[@MonsieurTarzan-g3m]

One time when I got really depressed I would hook up headphones to my stereo, sit in a chair, close my eyes and listen to Coltrane's "A Love Supreme". I let that album seep into my brain over and over, and it was like medicine.

[@Mikefngarage]

goes to the whole society like California New agenda. Making more stuff free. Which has no value when you dont work for it. Then we all end up paying the government and never knowing what it is all for.

[@RyansCustomShopandGearOutlet]

@@MonsieurTarzan-g3m I'll have to find that one on vinyl. I could use some musical therapy.

[@spandawaves]

We all deserve a listening room in our homes. Music - and sound that deserves to be called so - is an internal psychosomatic experience. But guess what? You've gotta put the work into it. You've gotta want it. I will never forget my old friend Piero from Italy. He would put on an album.on wax and we were just sitting in our recliners, closing our eyes and go for a ride in this simple yet beautiful room surrounded by cork soundproof walls. Thank you Rick. Amazing content. You deserve your success.

[@peternelson3862]

You're spot on Rick. I was a research and practicing psychologist for 55 years. I think there has been a loss of the knowhow of using attention. Not only have we lost the capacity to deeply listen to music, we've lost the ability. to listen to each other--music is just one symptom.

[@MOONSHINEPLACEPRODUCTIONS]

Peter, this horrible trend of people unable to "lock in" to any endeavor is horrible alarming. Obviously a byproduct of electronic technologies (aside from video games and a few other meaningless "entertain me now" pastimes that seem to be the only time people "lock in", we are reaping the results of short sightedness commerce. Yes while it's partially true that the smart phones, computers and other devices have helped us in certain ways, we are only seeing the beginning of the damage being created through these media methods. While my statements may sound more like an old timer the truth remains, next time you're with a teenager have them shut off their phone and ask them to describe in detail what they hear, see, smell and feel in the moment and see how in depth their answers are..

[@Fred-oh9vl]

​@user-kg6di5vf9x Very true, and if you're a young person starting out in a career this can be used to your advantage. I taught my children to be the young person that shows up, pays attention, and keeps focus until the task is completed. This has paid off in a big way for them.....because to your point, they're in a sought-after minority.

[@straymusictracksfromdavoro6510]

Yes, it not just music, its "everything". There is now very little critical thinking and/or intellectual curiosity taking place, we seem, as a race, to have adopted such a lazy approach to everything we encounter that we would rather have a set of algorithms do our thinking for us and we just skim everything - news articles, informative television programs and ultimately our greatest creation - music. Digital manipulation and AI are creating a world where we don't know what is real or true and so we now mistrust everything, just so sad.

[@jet251]

@@straymusictracksfromdavoro6510 I think this is just another step in evolution, and a greater divide between parts of the species is being made. We still have great scientists that think deeply (Higgs Boson and CERN for example in 2012 or The James Webb), but I cannot think of any recent creativity that would match. Maybe Kush the painter, or Billie Eilish come close for me. I still wonder where evolution is taking us, we definitely are not driving this bus.

[@nemanjastankovic4439]

@@jet251 Is it really progress ? Evolution can make you go back if it helps your survival right ? So if everyone will forever use AI to make songs in 100 years we will lose ability to play instruments and why would we need them anyway if AI is doing the job.

[@MrSilentYYC]

"You get out of music what you put into it" to paraphrase a common quote. I knew a jazz master who grew up in the 40's, and 50's. At the time, sheet music was hard to come by, so if someone got a score for a piece, he would borrow it, and copy it onto staff paper, a phrase at a time. The hours of scribing was really intricately studying all the melodies, base lines, harmonies etc. of the artists of the day. He credited this with being able to jump in and play bass for any band after listening to a few notes.

[@randallkomisarek2875]

And there were fake books that charted chords and melody lines. Any good nightclub piano player coul play any song at the drop of a hat embelishing with chords and arpeggios because they understood music.

[@pirojfmifhghek566]

I know a lot of people look down on musicians who went to school, but man I gotta say it was invaluable that they drilled this stuff into me. In the beginning students always complained about having to write stuff on staff paper when they had laptops and notation software at their disposal, but after a few years of it, it became a lot quicker than using the software. When you're desperately trying to transcribe a new melody or idea before it evaporates from your mind, these skills really matter. Also being able to transpose keys on the fly is a skill that plays directly into how a person performs and writes music once they've used it enough. These are muscles that must be exercised and built up through practice or you just won't have em, even if you know the theory.

[@leemundy1613]

Love this deep dive down the music industry rabbit hole, where we get a history lesson and the evolution of how we got to where we are today...Fantastico!

[@jiunjuan]

"Just listen to the music." Perfectly said. Just sitting with music is such a beautiful experience.

[@TheTrock121]

45 years ago, we would listen to entire albums and go on a journey w/ the artists. Music took you to mystical realms or to old familiar places. Those were good times.

[@maggoty]

I used to do that in the late 80's early 90's. Put a tape on and listen to the whole thing reading along with the lyrics and stuff in my bedroom uninterrupted. I doubt many teenagers do that these days.

[@monohedron9633]

@@maggoty I wouldn't focus on what the teens are doing. If you think these journeys were worthwhile - just keep doing it! The kids will see you doing it will be more inspiring to them than anything you can say.

[@nikolaopacic8482]

It still does, you are just too old to connect to what 20 year olds are creating today. That’s not a dig, that’s just the law of nature. As a 20-something, I assure you we still value music lmao.

[@BrandonCousino]

It's still out there. Hard to find, but it's there.

[@mikemartinmusic704]

Man, I am in so much agreement with you Rick. I'm 30 but I don't stream. I started buying cassettes when I was 7 with birthday/Christmas money, I started buying CD's when I was 10 when I finally bought a Discman. I listened to the albums and read the liner notes. I have a massive CD collection, and a small cassette and vinyl collection. I got into playing music when I was 22. I do it for part time work now. That money made largely goes into gear. I record my own music in my house - real drums, real guitars and amps, real microphones. No samples, no autotune, no backing tracks, a basic DAW. Music has been such a massive part of my life, and you have been a massive inspiration for me. Thank you for keeping music real and meaningful, some of us are trying to do the same.

[@KurtHaldeman]

Thank you for this Rick! I agree with you - music has become way too commoditized across the board. Keep preaching, brother! People need to understand this!

[@TrentFuehrer]

My kids basically multi-task music into their day. It just plays while they do other things. I remember when listening to music was an activity. Bringing an album/tape/CD home from the store; pulling off the shrink wrap; sniffing the tray card; and reading through all the lyrics while I sat on my bed and listened to the album in its entirety. The world has definitely changed.

[@ellam3nno]

"sniffing the tray card" 🤣🤣🤣Me too!

[@jakubchrobry3701]

Experiencing music live has always been the best way to enjoy music and have lifelong memories. In the 1980s an Ozzy concert would be $10 to $15. Do your children have enough access to wealth to even attend a concert today? If so, they are more fortunate than most. Talking about the costs of recorded music without bringing up the cost of live music shows the extreme bias of Rick Beato.

[@-sturmfalke-]

My father has a lot of CDs, and some of the best ones I actually listen to without doing anything else. It feels kinda weird doing just one thing at a time, only one sense. Of course this doesn't work with every song, but I find that a lot of new ones are not deep enough to achieve complete attention. There are, als always, lots of exceptions though. Adele, Gorillaz and a good amount of rock songs examples for that, though I'm not really following any artist so this could be completely bs I'm talking, I just find a higher density of good music there.

[@robertm5957]

This is one of the cool things about vinyl coming back. You’re not just skipping songs. You’re committed (mostly) to listening to the whole thing.

[@gtvon2556]

Vinyl never left, it's always been an option.

[@gerrypalmer9404]

Yeah, and if a song you didn't like was cut three you just kept listening to it until you got to cut four. And sometimes, amazingly, after a few more plays you decided it wasn't that bad after all. Vinyl had a way of subtly expanding our horizons.

[@jdraven0890]

I'm also discovering artists I don't know existed, and the connections between them (who got their start in who's band). You'd think that would be way easier with everything available on the Internet, but collecting has been a way better experience for me

[@BryceDriesenga]

​@@gtvon2556Sorta true, but there was a long period where new music wasn't coming out on vinyl really and it was much harder to have music on vinyl as a smaller artist

[@Nebula37]

Vinyl is NOT coming back. Maybe for about 1% of people, if that.

[@CSProduction12]

I remember buying CDs in the 90s and knowing every song on every album by heart. The art of deep tracks is long gone.

[@foto21]

Amazing that the music industry couldn't see this coming and did nothing to prevent it.

[@scottcurtin2598]

I’m 55. Total Rush nerd. As a kid I could not wait for the next Rush album to be released. The anticipation of what they would come up with and finally getting the album was such a great experience. Permanent waves,moving pictures,signals,grace under pressure. I miss musicianship and real music. Think I’m gonna go play limelight on the guitar right now.

[@patmcgroin6916]

I think I came to love Rush because I had bought the albums and darn it, I was going to get some enjoyment out of it! At first Rush would...intrigue me, but...not immediately grab hold. I would have to listen over and over and at some point... Everything clicked in place! Saw Primus recently where they did the Rush tribute. At first I was skeptical, the two are quite different beasts, lol. But my appreciation for Les Claypool and company, their talent, rose immensely. Until Claypool's voice finally dropped a fraction of an octave near the end of the set from the stress, if I closed my eyes, I was listening to Rush reborn. It was as if I got 2 concerts in one. Live.

[@jimscott2560]

Best band ever 👍🇨🇦

[@Rush-Fan2112]

I totally agree. I'm 57.

[@JRDiaz-tn5kb]

Play La Villa Strangiato instead, so much talent!

[@coyoteeffect]

define "real music" because there were people in the 1920s saying the same about jazz

[@flddoc2]

Wow. I’m 60. The first LP I bought was Zeppelin Presence in 76. I was twelve working a paper route for the Detroit News. I was so proud of that and listened to every single song several times a day for a very long time. I have been trying to figure why music is so empty and soulless today. You did a great job of presenting a well thought out and presented perspective. I’m thankful I’ve raised my kids on the music I love and they love a lot of it. My grandkids are proving to be difficult in getting them hooked. We keep them off social media, cell phone use is limited to communication only and still, very hard to get them to identify with music.

[@glennjones6004]

As a teen, I used to ride a bike six miles each way to my farm job in the rolling hills of Western Pennsylvania. I got paid forty bucks a week, which afforded me record albums, concert tickets, and groovy clothes. It gave me an appreciation for the value of work and a dollar. I lived close enough to Pittsburgh to take in most of the great bands of that era. Life was good.

[@majr-qp7fb]

that was cool to read. i’m 24, and spent a lot of my life so far biking to & from work in south central Pennsylvania, to afford the same pleasures as you!

[@ernestoalcantara4061]

Wow! Out of all your great content this has been so much thought provoking and impactful. I will share this with my teenage kids and will support my daughters new found love of LP records. Perhaps she will start to appreciate music in a different way.

[@rickbelden2319]

Owning physical media is starting to become popular again with the next generation. My daughter is 15 and her favorite thing in the world is to go to our local record store and pick up a few albums. It’s something we can do together and I can tell her about the “old days” when we used to go to the record store and pick up albums and enjoy the album art while we were listening to the album.

[@lostmycat5671]

I'm happy to hear it is becoming more popular nowadays, think it's fairly popular among gen z despite the perception tbh, I feel like I missed a lot by not being "into" music until later in life, which means I missed out on the difficulty of acquiring and listening to new music

[@judyg9889]

Yes! None of my grown children have devices for playing DVD's or CD's; they stream everything. But they now also all own record players...LOL!

[@MrSonicAlchemy]

It's great to hear stories like that about the resurgence of vinyl and getting back to listening to whole albums rather than just single tracks.

[@geraniumblue]

i'm 17 and i know so many people like your daughter, myself included, people still love vinyl and music in general :)

[@rodolfo9876a]

I have to say you have inspired me to do the same...

[@dougsheridanmusic]

Hats off to Rick and his team for this video. This is NOT old man shouting at cloud stuff. It’s stark reality. Really not sure what music lovers can do about it other than notice it happening. Young people are not going to miss what they never knew

[@bcjammer]

try to research bands that write and play their own music with no autotune and no extra writers. f off everyone else. if it’s a pop culture success it’s a guaranteed fakery of talent/skill sadly

[@antons368]

I’m a Drummer/Bassist/Guitarist/Percussionist/Producer. I’ve been an active musician for 45 years. IMHO there’s still too many people just reiterating how great it was back in the day 50/60 years ago. I’m 57 and I’m considered to be a boomer by some! Boomers haven’t moved forwards from the nostalgia of the past. Boomers hold onto the past so fervently they become moaning old codgers. No one wants to listen to how bad everything is in the music industry. There’s an infinite mount of FANTASTIC music being created and produced every single day. Fortunately I don’t have the mindset of a boomer. Music is music is music is music….. there’s no such thing as real music! open you mind and JUST ENJOY THE MUSIC.❤

[@williamnother8066]

@@antons368 I agree with this too much. I'm so tired of the entire group of people like Rick just screaming to the clouds that "music is over, nothing's good anymore, omg we're dying". There are plenty of bands that I love to death that are still out there, making music that's right up my alley. The only thing that ticks me off is that I have to actively search for them among the sea of music that doesn't speak to me and crappy ultra-insistent spotify recommendations...but that's probably a really good problem to have. There's a case for saying that mainstream "Pop" music is getting worse/lower quality..but I honestly don't know anybody who actually even keeps up with that stuff. I checked out from Pop/Radio music back in college when Muse's "The 2nd Law" album came out and I was treated to listening to m-m-m-m-madness 3 times per commercial break lol (good song, just not good after hearing it for the 23rd time today), or when Free Bird came over the radio and for the first time in my life instead of thinking "Oh hell yea Free Bird let's go" I just sat back in my seat and dejectedly said out loud ".....again?"

[@eroccha]

@@williamnother8066 He is not saying this about all music today. There is no doubt the majority of mainstream music is getting worse.

[@eroccha]

@@PFB1994 Is this supposed to address something I said?

[@micktek]

I have plenty of playlists that I made for myself on Spotify, and hit the shuffle button, like so many people out there. But when I am listening to a specific ALBUM, I always listen from Track 1, no shuffle, no skipping. That's how the artist and producer intended the album to be played, so that's how I listen to it.

[@jasonvaralta5221]

Album inserts, credits and photos ment everything, a huge part of why I learned to play music

[@MrJurgen]

15 year old here. I feel real bad when I hear this. I see this happening with all of my friends! They don't understand the value music brings and what it can do to you. I always always appreciate ''talanted'' musicians, those who actually KNOW things.

[@cyclethelock]

Optimistically speaking, it could just be your circle of friends aren’t into music. Some folks just aren’t-as befuddling as that is to folks (like us) that are. That was the case 30-40 years ago, too. And it might be the quality of and access to contemporary music (as RB is pointing out) has changed, and those changes have caused a cultural ripple, but I feel very confident in saying: there are definitely folks out there, your age and younger, that LOVE music. You, yourself, are proof of that. Those people, for lack of a more potent societal driver, likely have parents that are into it, play stuff at home, are imprinting and passing along their love to their children. And it could be most of the non-musical people you mention don’t have that, or if they do have it just don’t resonate with that (same as non-musical people coming from musical households 30+ years ago). Also, the social element of music has undoubtedly changed; you probably don’t regularly see peers rocking band or concert shirts at school like I did. But I maintain: music has been with us for thousands of years, and has been important to us-some of us very deeply-for as long. While connecting with music peers might be trickier or different than it was in generations past, they’re out there. You’ll find em!

[@bforbes1]

you are the future. be the change you want to see in the world. don't mind your friends. we were all surrounded by sub-par friends in high school.

[@frankmarsh1159]

@@cyclethelock I grew up in the 1970's and everybody I knew was into music. Just about everybody had record collections. Some people had just a few while other people had hundreds. Most people I knew went to concerts... I bought my first album - Led Zeppelin II when I was 11 years old...My first concert was Pink Floyd at the Atlanta Stadium when I was 15...I camped out for Led Zeppelin tickets when I was 17. Music was a big deal for my generation and it still is. Many of us still go to concerts and still go out to hear local live music...Young people can't possibly understand how much music meant to the fans back in the day... It was a big deal for us ...But it was a different time. If what I hear in the checkout line and the coffee shops these days is representative of today's music then I can understand why young people might not be "into it" .

[@josd6387]

lol! Hey 15 years, go start a band.

[@tobewanad]

20 years ago when I was about your age things weren't that different -- look for kids with t-shirts of bands you like, maybe get into band or theater and you'll find your group 👍

[@Gilandune]

This is why I love singing along to my favorite tunes despite being a terrible singer, it helps me connect with that music at a deeper level, relate it to situations in my life past and present. Music is not just background noise to drown my inner voice, its a gift to enhance it

[@kswannie]

Very insightful and well-put!

[@DankoGreene]

This video made me smile. In the early 1970's I didn't have much money from my paper route so I could only afford 45's. What I did have though, was 4 older siblings who loved the music as much as I did and who all had their own small collection of albums. I have numerous memories of sitting down to listen to a new album. Your focus was on the music, the album art and lyric sheet if it included one. Sometimes if the album hit you right you'd invite your buddies over with the promise of "You've got to hear this!". They would come and bring their own version of "You've got to hear this". This is how I developed my love of music, by taking the time to listen.

[@ArlenWilliams]

Similar memories. I had older brothers with very good taste. I finally bought my first single: Revolution on the B side (notice, I said that first) and Hey Jude on A. On from there...

[@SkiBumMSP]

Same memories here as well. I still remember one time just coming home from school and one of my friends that lived across the street came running to me and saying, "You got to hear this new record I just got! It is awesome!". So I went over to his house with him, he queues up the record on his record player and it was "Another One Bites the Dust" by Queen!

[@hazzytunes-markhasbrouck2947]

This is ABSOLUTELY BRILLIANT! Please teach your children to not follow the lost leaders of "Popular music!"

[@stevebot]

This is one symptom of mass production, mass merchandising, etc. Drive across the country, every exit to a populated area has the same stores, restaurants, gas stations all in approximately the same relative place to one another. Convenient? Yes. Boring, flavorless and no character? Yes. You are spot on, the digital manipulation to formulaic perfection ruins things.

[@bchristian85]

It wasn't that long ago that it was always fun to go to other cities and hear slightly different pop music or hip-hop on their stations. It's not that way anymore.

[@sobaentertainment6580]

I agree with you 100%

[@stopthephilosophicalzombie9017]

Everything we are hurtling towards (the Hive Mind Singularity) is the inevitable result of industrialization, automation, and ultimately computerization and now AI. In many ways, Ted Kaczynski was right.

[@tonedowne]

Yeah, to make anything truly mass market, you have to take out all the things people might not like. So everything ends up bland.

[@richardmurphy3025]

when I was a truckdriver driving thru all the different cities i would forget what city i was in because they all started to look the same lol

[@markpage5760]

I'm 70 years old and experienced listening to music the way Rick described: working hard to earn the money to purchase albums , reading the album covers while I absorbed the music. During my adult life when family and work became the focus of my life, music listening wasn't the priority it was as when I was younger. But now being retired I normally end my evenings with about 2 hours of serious music listening and it has brought back the joy of enjoying great music and musicians. I kept my album collection of jazz, rock, R&B, classical, soundtracks and a little early hip-hop. My children are adults now but were brought up listening to my collection and have a deep appreciation for all types of music. Really appreciated the video and I totally agree with your assessment!

[@petset77]

Working hard to listen to many genres was certainly a task. Imagine how much effort was required to then self teach an instrument or two (or more) to actually PLAY music. It gave us understanding, so taught us that it will take some extra focus to come up with something new.

[@luiscostaalves8849]

i see myself in your words.

[@quake1792]

I still have and grow my CD collection (I get more excitement about opening a CD than I do new drum gear lol). Without me even trying, my 17 son now has the vinyl bug and has done those very things Rick talks about. He even has found things that I now like.

[@lavillenouvelle]

I'm 45. I grew up with bootlegs and mixtapes. Our joy comes not just from listening to music, but from remixing that music. We learned to make our own playlists, to recreate new albums, to take whatever the music industry threw at us and make our own version of it. And for us, our current times are a blessing: lots of music to take inspiration from, lots of tools to write and play music, lots of places to publish our creations. Music has never been better!

[@letthywillbedone]

I’m forty and I swear to God that is how I will enjoy my retirement.

[@user-og6hl6lv7p]

I have noticed that people don't let songs finish. It usually reaches the end 20-30 seconds and they move on to the next track. I really don't like that because it's the equivalent of reading through a book and then putting it down once you reach the last 20-30 pages. It's like people just want the juicy parts of the story and are not at all interested in the complete work.

[@trevortamboline279]

YES! I love the ebbs and flows of music! The slow building... the transitions. It's the journey itself that's special, and the best musicians lead us on magical sonic adventures.

[@davidr2704]

I agree. It makes sense (since the opportunity is there) to listen to part of a song the first time just to see if you like it, but it does seem odd to already like a song and then not listen to the whole thing. Yet even though I say that, I've done exactly what you described, many times. In me it's a symptom of sometimes using music as a sort of drug for mental stimulation, or for distraction, instead of as actual music. Listening as actual music is better, and I like it, but the other thing does happen. (Recreational abuse of music is less dangerous than a lot of other things 😁) I think it's also something like the difference in sports between watching the whole game vs. watching a Plays Of The Week highlight reel - I love music and it feels kind of wrong listening to just part of something, but I'm really not a sports fan, so if I only watch those incredible catches and dramatic moments it seems fine to me.

[@derekwhite9932]

When people do that with the Beatles, she's so heavy, the ending is my favorite part.

[@GerardMcwilliams-k4l]

This is a great clip. Part musicologist, part educator, part solemn obituary writer ...lol and I mean that w affection, because I feel your pain on this one, what was lost, and if one was there, one knows by comparison through experience. A 27 year old listening to Ten years gone or Sheep or Close to the edge or Unforgettable Fire is experiencing it in a completely different way than we did.

[@sarahsander785]

"You vote with your attention" is possibly the best quote I've ever heard. We need this on T-Shirts and posters everywhere.

[@megandd1797]

Just make sure Trump doesn't have his face on that T

[@pcopeland15]

I agree

[@internetphia]

+@@megandd1797 This is so random haha, why'd you say this?

[@nemanjastankovic4439]

Maybe define attention. Listening to whole album is one thing looking at girl model singing someone else music will draw visual attention even more from both young girls an boys.

[@markuscampos8293]

@@megandd1797 why did you even say this

[@KrystofDreamJourney]

OK. So, as a professional pianist I have been feeling this exact same vibe since at least 2000 or even slightly before. When CDs burning became the norm, people already stopped buying music, gradually one-by-one. They just copied. Then the internet took over, Spotify etc. We used to sell our albums after the concerts, and people valued this a lot. We signed our CDs, engaged in in-person chats with our fans (sometimes staying for an extra hour in the lobby or longer after the concert) and so on... Back then we all already knew, we all felt - this is the end. Fortunately people still come to listen to live performances, although selling any merchandise is tricky. We can still play though ! Well, after the Chinese AI companies release their "musicians-robots", the corporate guys will lay the human musicians off and replace them with "playing machines" because... it's cheaper, and the future listeners won't care anyway. I see it in the theme parks on daily basis (Orlando) : parents, grandparents etc. love the live music, live shows, attractions. Their Kids and grandkids ? Well...- they all are glued to their smartphones, unable to focus on anything for more than 20 seconds (no matter how good or exciting), completely ignoring the world around them. It's psychological at this point. It goes deeper and deeper every year ! I know what you are trying to say, Rick, but trust me : it's getting more and more hopeless every passing season. Peace Bro ! Greetings from Florida.

[@faaip]

The exit statement was beautiful. 90s teenager here, and there was something about lying on your bed with the discman and headphones in the dark and just letting the album soak

[@buffalohigh1397]

This is exactly what I did last night and I wrote my kids about it before I went to bed... Also 90s teenager here.

[@dashtojtakoeto]

2010s teenager here. We still do it. I do it with vinyl. Stop boomer-posting. People who care for music this much were always in the minority.

[@Luftmysza.]

00's baby here, i do this every night, except with tidal ofc

[@spandel100]

Was a "Walkman"during my era...the 80"s.Could not believe the depth of sound stage coming out of that little genius invention.

[@maluorno]

lucky. I never got a cd player until grade 10. I fully exploited Columbia house for tapes though. lol

[@nadyaedwards]

I think about this all the time, and what does music mean to kids who grow up with everything at their fingertips. I remember wen I first time got my apple subscription. Play whatever I want?? I was overwhelmed. I guess that's why mixed tapes were so important to our generation. It took time & effort to make those tapes, and decades later when I play them as a playlist, it brings back such memories. Another thing I thing about it parental influence, especially in the car. I was stuck listening to my dad's music - thank goodness, because he introduced me to everything from the Everly Brothers to The Merrymen. Kids with their headphones on in the car is such a missed opportunity.

[@eppsteacher]

I think another thing is that we’ve lowered our expectations. So now you listen on Spotify or Apple Music or KZbin often over your phone instead of putting a CD or a record on a stereo system that fills the room.

[@eppsteacher]

Remember get the sound up loud or pointing the speakers just right to get the stereo mix….!

[@NathanCassidy721]

It doesn’t help that the music studios hardly make CDs anymore. I could be wrong but I don’t remember the last time I saw a CD out in the wild.

[@RideAcrossTheRiver]

@@NathanCassidy721 Just got the brand-new live ZZ Top CD.

[@joelbrooks3198]

Use headphones or earbuds.

[@RideAcrossTheRiver]

@@joelbrooks3198 Music sounds best on big speakers.

[@Radical_Middle]

I am a composer, yesterday I went to my friend's shop as I heard he is preparing a commercial for his business, so I proposed making music for that. He looked at me and said - man, I have it already. took me a minute to make.

[@rabb1tjones921]

It probably sounded like it too.

[@billyvitale8994]

Sad...even sick...but you know something the real stuff will end up being valued and the rest is soulless garbage...if mankind looses the ability to recognize this...we also will be as worthless and artificial as the music that is generated by emotionless machines.

[@hereq]

Well, that’s example who will be victims of AI in creative fields. „utility music” like elevator, commercials will be generated by AI (as other forms of art).

[@LaplacianDalembertian]

@@hereq YEP, we will have new "punks" who gonna reject the rules. Sex Pistols v2.0. And we gonna get into wave of "elite music" written and performed "by Humans only" with real instruments. Nobody needs a guitar these days. Who cares when there is virtual guitar. And virtual voice emulation, which you can fit to your own voice with samples.

[@MichaelABolton]

What does your friend do in *his* business?

[@thedamianpetrus]

As a music teacher your massage at the end is one of the most important ones I’ve been teaching my students. When we listen to music in class it’s the only thing we focus on, and afterwards we start a discussion on what makes it beautiful (or not so beautiful). I hope they keep listening to music properly outside of my classes as well.

[@stefanp2883]

Sound like a good Idea to me! When I remember the music lessons at my time at school we mostly listened to classic music and had to remember when the artist lived and so on. Mostly dates of birth and death. Now i'm 38 and I know that it is or should be interesting how music was made in the beginning because that music influences music until now, but it would also have been pretty cool to listen to current music, which genres exists, what makes them special and what they have in common. I regret not to be able to play an instrument (I learned accordeon when I was around 10 for about a year or so but didn't like it really much), but I plan to start learning to play guitar soon. I would really like not to only listen to but also being able to play music myself.

[@the_real_boulder]

Beautiful, Amen

[@pelerinc]

Wait, there was a massage at the end? Thank god, because this video needed a happy ending.

[@s_oh]

One of the best Beato videos I've experienced. Thank you for reminding us what music is and how we can listen to it.

[@NinerFourWhiskey]

Through most of history, music was a rare treat, it could only be experienced live, in person, directly experiencing the performance. Today, music is like wallpaper, it's everywhere and taken for granted.

[@MrkB-gt5tv]

YES - as technology progresses, it allows for the *commodification* of products. You can take something that formerly required talent, skill, and craft and reduce it to a product that requires none of that - technology allows you to mass produce at scale and it no longer requires musicians who practice their instruments, singers who practice, learn, and hone their talent, and recording engineers who practice and perfect their craft and skill. You just need a computer and software and - nowadays - a little artificial intelligence. No human musical talent required. That's commodification enabled by technology. And we refer to this as "innovation."

[@indiananimestv]

So you mean it shouldn't be like that??? People should not be allowed to listen to music whenever, wherever they want??

[@judgedread-q4t]

The days of hearing a great new song on the radio for the first time and getting really excited are pretty much over. Hearing something new on social media and saving it to a playlist with 1000 other songs isn't quite the same.

[@brianfinley6798]

I remember hearing the Jimi Hendrix Experience "All Along The Watchtower" when I was 12, at about 1:AM when I was supposed to be asleep on a school night. It was thrilling and terrifying, in the way that new and strange and miraculous things can be. I stayed up late every night for weeks hoping to hear that song again, because it was not getting any airplay in the daytime. Needless to say, 7th grade was not a high point in my scholastic career, but I did get to hear Hendrix on WNCR in Cleveland. You had to pay attention, and you had to put in the work.

[@stopthephilosophicalzombie9017]

The last song I heard on the radio which really made the hair on my arms and neck stand up that I can remember was RHCP's Scar Tissue. I can remember exactly where I was and when I heard it. Utterly bizarre how today's music doesn't do it for me anymore.

[@Hogboy345]

How about hearing a song somewhere and having no idea how to find it other than listening to a ton of records and maybe getting lucky? When you finally found that song it was the greatest feeling, a feeling you EARNED.

[@RealHomeRecording]

@@brianfinley6798 funnily enough, my local big rock station does the same thing to this day. They play a lot of new music in the middle of the night that is not heard during daylight hours. Must be a contract thing or the overnight DJ has free reign? Who knows...

[@SerpMolot]

A couple weeks ago I heard "I like the way you kiss me" by Artemas on the radio without knowing a single thing about the song/artist. I found the post-punk/new wave sound on the radio refreshing. Of course he's no Robert Smith and the music/singing was a bit generic but it still stood out from the heaps of garbage you hear on many radio stations.

[@Hedgenic]

Decades ago, a friend invited me over to listen to a new record with him. It was 'In A Gadda Da Vida'. He played that one track off the album and we just sat there and listened. Didn't speak, didn't look at each other, just listened. It was magic. Bought the album next day and then bought the subsequent cd when it came out. But I've never forgotten that one moment when the music was all and everything to both of us.

[@majstor76]

yeah,i have cd and LP,one of greatest rock songs

[@louise_rose]

I remember the first time/s I heard some album or sngle much the same way, and the moment it jelled for me. :)

[@notachannel7495]

I remember getting the Led Zep box set in 1990 for Christmas. Heaven! I was wearing-out my mom's vinyl, which was already not in great shape. I was also just getting into guitar. That box set, and later when I bought The Song Remains the Same double-CD with my own money, spent endless hours being played and played along with. There was nothing disposable about it; I would have assaulted anyone who scratched one of those discs. To this day, I highly value that music, and am glad Zep has fiercely protected it. Once they move along, though, there will be a cash grab around their library that will be terrible to see, because the industry values money, not music.

[@jundah1]

I was told not long ago, in my case learning to play an acoustic guitar, I began at 61, uses a different part of the brain which helps to keep focused and sharp a doctor said. and when I do practise which is every day for 1/2 hour, I found my concentration has improved immensely, chords only I might add, but extremely satisfying pastime. worth a try, paid off for me. But hey, happiness comes in all forms, sorry to bore you. 🎶🎵🎸🎸🎵

[@StefanVale]

Excellent summary on how public appreciation for music has so drastically changed over the years. There's nothing more pure, organic, and human than live acoustic music. When the internet & power grid goes out, live acoustic music will become very valuable and even essential.

[@hh5200]

Live performance is where it’s at. You don’t make any money, it’s a lot of work, but it’s rewarding for me. I write songs, sometimes I hire ‘hired guns’, I rent space for a couple of hours, rehearse, play the gig. Amazingly more gigs follow. No Spotify, no instagram, just live performances. Word of mouth, words get around. I’m happy with this way.😊

[@mr.butterworth]

I would think live performance is where the money is mainly for most musicians today.

[@hh5200]

@@mr.butterworth I’m in San Francisco, Bay Area. Lots of musicians so price competition comes into the equation. I’ve had some luck with having a promoter hear my stuff and then getting an opening gig. That pays better.

[@willing2live]

How do you afford to hire "hired guns" and keep doing the live gigs if "You don't make any money, it's a lot of work...." What do you do to make money?

[@jonathanbarkins8480]

@@willing2live he likely means that the earnings aren't nearly enough to bring food to the table. That doesn't necessarily mean he can't break even.

[@quarterswede]

Funnily, this is where the future is honestly.

[@MookieMaroni]

Just as this video finished, my 18yo walked in the door from his job at a golf course. He went directly to the basement to play his drums. There is hope.

[@fuzzyloveworms]

exactly, everyone claims its dead. THE MUSIC NEVER STOPS

[@SneedBass]

I wouldn't call everything listed in the video as a negative, sure if people are only listening to the music without any investment then fine but all of these music streaming platforms give musicians ease of access to learn to play their favorite songs and better practice tools. Sure I didn't start learning music during the vinyl era, I used cds and while it is annoying that music is on the decline, I still think good things can come out of newer technologies, it just takes talented people with great understanding to incorporate it.

[@emiliogarcia5343]

Fuck yea .... 😎

[@ronanocallaghan]

@@SneedBass yes, the technology isn't going to go away unless we have armageddon. Meanwhile as a 70 year old music teacher and pianist I'm very happy to make use of Apple Music and my AirPods - I can listen to any of my old record collection when I'm out for a walk or explore my curiosity about Messiaen or that Donald Fagan record I didn't buy at the time. Meanwhile a son of mine is earning his living making soundtracks for tv and film in his home studio. He couldn't do it without Logic and other digital paraphernalia but he also uses his own voice, his wife's soprano, his son's cello and a bunch of analogue synths and old Revox tape machines. His music is emotional and human sounding. I'm sure Rick (whose videos I love) appreciates that his channel could not exist without the technological developments which make it possible.

[@ronanocallaghan]

@@joehigashi3584 😂 That’s sweet.

[@stevebeshaykis5238]

I’m about your age and you are spot on with your assessment of modern music. There’s so much out there and it’s so easily available. It’s like music ADD for kids. They have a hard time listening through the whole song.

[@garymilligan4662]

Rick, oh my God you so nailed it. Thank you for this. I am 68 years old. I remember my kid brother and I riding our bikes together when I was like 10 years old in Evanston IL to buy the latest Beatles album (Revolver, Rubber Soul--can't remember which one) from the local record store with allowance money (had to do our chores) we saved up (or begged or stole from our parents). Those albums with the cover art, the feel, the record, stayed with me for many years. Your challenge at the end of your video is pure gold.

[@alexandremello6913]

This is probably your deepest, most important video so far. I am 57 and I have a huge vinyl collection. I listened to LP records at my friends' all the time. Back covers and lyrics meant a lot. We knew the musicians and we followed them. Most of us played an instrument (I play the drums). I can relate to everything you say here, and your diagnosis is perfect. Thank you.

[@mikaelgballou]

THIS IS THE MOST IMPORTANT VIDEO ABOUT MUSIC IN GENERAL… I’ve never been that happy about somebody sharing and put words into a feeling I had. And happy that he experienced what was listening music back then. Thank you RICK BEATO

[@blakehourigan6149]

This is such a great video. I was born in 1990, i remember cassettes and cd's and how much more special music seemed. I have blue bossa by Joe Henderson on vinyl and have listened to it at a mates place (wanting to get a record player). When you play a piece of music that you own on a record player, it's special. It feels like an occasion, and the band feels like they're in the room with you. Music from streaming services today is so accessible that the novelty of it is stripped away and there's no value like there used to be. It's always there, everywhere you go. This video really helped to reset my perspective of how numb i was from everything being so accessible nowadays. This goes for relationships, and media, everything that is completely accessible instantly today.

[@pgo301]

It's not that there is NO good music out there, it's just that the good music is being suppressed. I can list a few artists that I've unearthed in the last year and recommend them forward to people that actually love good music.

[@berniescott4014]

Exactly and I'll put Angelina Jordan up amonngst the very best to ever sing a note.

[@angelatester-cf9yp]

I put Katie Melua at the top of my list

[@jefferyschmitz3009]

check out SLIFT from France if you wanna be blown away

[@corezone4250]

I absolutely agree. I don't listen to whatever's on the radio, I dig for my own stuff. There's so many talented artists to discover around the net!

[@Matt-kl6bw]

You are no smart

[@brianfinley6798]

I'm a 68 year old record store clerk. I'll just let that sink in for a few moments.........and I've been listening intently to music since I was a little kid, and playing guitars since I was in junior high school; we didn't have middle schools back then, that's how long ago this was. We had electricity, running water, and sometimes a guy would bring bottles of milk to our house...it was crazy. The first record I bought with my own money was The Beatles 7-inch 45 "I Want To Hold Your Hand/She Loves You", which I bought with my own money after I saw them on The Ed Sullivan Show in February of '64. I was thunderstruck; it was like Moses getting the tablets from the big fella up on Mt. Sinai; there was simply nothing in life that I wanted other than to play the guitar, and hopefully, with a lot of hard work and study and maybe a little dumb luck, the four mop-tops would hear the tales of my burgeoning prowess at playing the guitar whilst dancing on my moms' sofa and ask me to join their band. Well, I never got the call from Epstein or whoever arranged auditions for prospective new hires, and it was a few years before I actually got a guitar. But the dye was cast, the damage done, and I was doomed. While other kids my age were out playing ball, chasing girls, stealing hubcaps...I have no f---ing idea what they were doing, I was down in the basement listening to records and trying to conquer barre chords on a little Japanese guitar from the Western Auto store; it was a knock-off of a Teisco, that's how crappy it was; the string height at the 12th fret was easily 7/8". I had a few other gnomish, misguided friends who would gather around our moldy and mildewed old phonograph in the basement with me, a stack of pennies scotch-taped to the tonearm so the needle would track the deeply furrowed grooves. It...was...heaven. I can't recall at any point thinking: "boy, I wish this was less inconvenient".

[@TarzanHedgepeth]

You are a good writer.

[@markharding9263]

@@TarzanHedgepeth He is indeed, and nice to see friendly positivity on KZbin, thank you for that!

[@3cardmonty602]

And then answering machines came around

[@GonzoJohn733]

Boy is it ever nice to see someone using proper grammar, puncuation, and a good use of sentence structure. Reading your words reminded me a bit of Hunter S. Thompson. And that is an unbelieveably cool story. I started playing guitar in 1991, so didn't get the same impact as you. But it's fun either way.

[@vinylsurfer2155]

Pennies 😅 Not to brag..but I used dimes. 😅

[@devlynhukowich1249]

I cannot express how much I feel that Rick is correct about this. The noise has overwhelmed the signal in the music industry. Greed has amplified the noise to the point where finding the gems is almost impossible.

[@trojanthedog]

A bit like modern food.

[@lira8058]

Disagree, finding the gems it's easier than ever, people just don't want to search

[@patrickm3981]

Music has entered the age of mass production. Like any other good this leads to a huge reduction in price but comes at the cost that everything gets standardized.

[@frag4007]

No hes wrong hes comparing music that stood the test of time to music that did not lets compare the forgettable music to todays music. Notice how he never talks bad about a 12 bar blues even though its just a loop.

[@durango8882]

Rap

[@gregknight3485]

In 1984 George Orwell called it the “music machine”.