Larry Gude
Strung Out
I maintain it absolutely did.
Before MTV, each and every song you ever heard was YOURS as much as it was the artist. What you 'heard' what you felt, how you took the lyrics, the context you associated the music with, time, place, meaning. I contend that that meant that music needed to be GOOD to connect with listeners and, further, I contend music was MUCH more unifying before video. We had less genres and far more of what we would later think of as 'cross over' where a harder rock person would be exposed to and enjoy, say, Seals and Croft and vice versa. Certainly, people have had and would still have preference but, it would not be as distinctly categorized as it is now. I could listen to Sly and the Family Stone, Simon and Garfunkel, Procal Harum, Cream and Grand Funk Railroad and enjoy them all and be, at least, familiar, with them all; a common culture with many different flavors.
A contemporary contends she loves the video age in order to fully appreciate what the artist wants to convey. I get that but, I still prefer that a song used to belong to me and me alone one one level, all of us on another as the artist and they got to keep it all as private or public as they like.
Thoughts?
Before MTV, each and every song you ever heard was YOURS as much as it was the artist. What you 'heard' what you felt, how you took the lyrics, the context you associated the music with, time, place, meaning. I contend that that meant that music needed to be GOOD to connect with listeners and, further, I contend music was MUCH more unifying before video. We had less genres and far more of what we would later think of as 'cross over' where a harder rock person would be exposed to and enjoy, say, Seals and Croft and vice versa. Certainly, people have had and would still have preference but, it would not be as distinctly categorized as it is now. I could listen to Sly and the Family Stone, Simon and Garfunkel, Procal Harum, Cream and Grand Funk Railroad and enjoy them all and be, at least, familiar, with them all; a common culture with many different flavors.
A contemporary contends she loves the video age in order to fully appreciate what the artist wants to convey. I get that but, I still prefer that a song used to belong to me and me alone one one level, all of us on another as the artist and they got to keep it all as private or public as they like.
Thoughts?
Tilted needs to come out of hiding to a forum gathering! 
