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So what about the groups like U2, The Rolling Stones, Bon Jovi, and Aerosmith?
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I doubt most kids in 2025 will know musical composition or be able to read music. Musical education is not as important as it once was.
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Maybe my point was lost, I referrrred to newark's partly true (to my taste) opinion about the music a quarter decade ago, meaning I hope the kids of 2025 won't hold Creed and Linkin Park in the same regard as we did Led Zeppelin, Deep Purple and Black Sabbath.
Of course, mommy nature teaches that there are NO recurring cycles and there are ONLY recurring cycles.
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I doubt that it will happpen... by that time most teenagers wouldn't know who you are talking about to compare Newark. It's just like pop music... do we still hold New Kids on the Block in the same esteem as Michelle Branch?
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You know you're getting old when you start being amusingly snobberish about current artists.
quote:Originally posted by newark: I doubt most kids in 2025 will know musical composition or be able to read music. Musical education is not as important as it once was.
Compared to today, when any kid worth his salt knows a B minor from an F sharp diminished chord. Let's all jam!
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I believe the urge by schools to get their students prepared for these scholastic tests are actually causing damage. By the year 2025, most students will be taught only what is required to pass the tests and very little less. I believe students are helped immensely by a well-rounded education. Long ago, students were taught how to debate, how to read and appreciate music, how to read another language, and so on. Now, only the more well-funded schools are equiped for these tasks. The poorer schools are doing far less and the students are suffering. The music of today reflects this sad fact. With the few exceptions not heard on radio and tv, most music is lacking in sophiscation or style.
My understanding is that some of the best rock singers and writers of the past were actually educated at musical academies or classes or by mentors who passed their knowledge down. I don't see many of the newer rock singers and writers having this same sort of background. They seemed to be selected not on talent, but rather on looks and appeal.
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No, they were overrated.
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quote: I believe the urge by schools to get their students prepared for these scholastic tests are actually causing damage. By the year 2025, most students will be taught only what is required to pass the tests and very little less.
too late. Believe me I know. The exams now in the UK:
Year 2 (7Yrs): KS1 SATs Year 6 (11 Yrs): KS2 SATs Year 7 (12 Yrs): CATS Year 9 (14Yrs): KS3 SATs Year 10 (15Yrs): Some GCSE modualar exams. Year 11 (16Yrs): GCSEs Lower 6th (17Yrs): A/S levels Upper 6th (18Yrs): A levels
There literally isn't enough time to teach anything that isn't likely to be on the exam; the teachers agree that the obsession with examinations and league tables is damaging to education.
I'm doing A/S levels at the moment BTW; they are possibly the worst and most pointless of them all.
And on the music subject; I feel that, on the whole music 15-20 years ago was better than the newer stuff (which isn't too say there wasn't crap around then or good music being produced now).
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No. It simply means that all the shit produced 15-20 years ago has long been forgotten, while the quality stuff (and some not-so-quality) was popular enough to survive. Exactly as will happen again now, and in 15 years hence.
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So we can expect to see Gareth Gates consigned to oblivion, doomed to spend all eternity actually trying to say the words "consigned to oblivion?" 8)
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I bought the Gareth Gates CD......I am disturbed and have no taste....
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quote:Originally posted by Vogon Poet: So we can expect to see Gareth Gates consigned to oblivion, doomed to spend all eternity actually trying to say the words "consigned to oblivion?" 8)
If we are fortunate enough for this to happen, ITV would probably end up making a reality TV show about it.
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