Is Music Talent Getting Better or Worse?
456344
the industry is homogenized.  the real talent usually goes undiscovered and unappreciated.
815212
Yes!\n\nJudging from the new song off their new album that i heard them play at Download in June it is going to be loads better! \n\nNew guitar solo and everything. It was a lot more like their older stuff. \n\nPlus it wont take much for them to better St Anger, its their worst album.
1106080
Of course, if by "getting better" you mean cutting thousands of jobs, manipulating waiting lists and paying such low wages that they can't even keep hold of cleaning staff.\n\nOn the plus side... oh wait, there isn't one.\n\nI have recently been in hospital, and the service I received was fabulous.  The staff are clearly extremely dedicated and hardworking, but have to fight political battles every single day.
926311
Sorry no. But is their music quality good?
1035403
I think as a whole any new development or improvement in technology or methods of transmission and delivery of musical product is very good for music.  The internet specifically the use of computer files like mp3, wav and wma have allowed for a greater range of artists to get exposure... virtually ANYONE can be a star.  People also have opportunities to get exactly the music they want and not waste money on junk.  Internet has been really good for music as a whole.
303435
i heard many time that in the music industry, it is not how good you are but who you know.
676826
People still listen to those bands. \nThe question should be why don't people make good music like they used to!?
269054
I've found through personal experience that my more intelligent friends tend to search beyond the top 40 or what is hot right now.  They tend to be a little more dedicated to finding a suitable song or artist that fits their style, instead of just listening to whatever everybody else thinks is cool.  I would love to see a study conducted on this theory sometime.
970500
A bit repetitive, but then lots of songs are.\nIf you penned it, keep it up. Everyone starts somewhere.
428672
The music keeps getting worse...thus MTV keeps getting worse.  Most of the programming on MTV and VH1 has nothing to do with music anymore.\n\nFunny part is that (while I love the old MTV), MTV is the REASON for the downfall of music over the past decade.  They made music more about looks and marketing than musicianship and talent.
947410
Really, really bad right now.\nIt should start getting a lot better in about 8 weeks!
341205
No, but it's not a particularly imaginative genre, either.  While I'm blissfully ignorant of the current scene, the trend of "MOR" (middle of the road) acts that actually got play in the 80's and 90'on Christian Radio stations was to be musical milquetoast and about 5 years in arears of current forms.  Petra may have listened to Sting's albums, but they did precious little to become truly musically adventurous.  Add to that a general laziness of lyric writing, where long, a-rhytmic passages of theology are ripped from a King James Bible and shoehorned into a 4/4 backbeat.  There were exceptions, of course, but precious few.  Also add to that a theological content in the lyrics that's explicitly aimed at adolescents, and Christian Rock becomes something to grow out of(when I was a child, I listened to Christian Rock, but now that I have grown, I have set aside those childish things).  I refuse to "graduate" to the Gaiters or others of such ilk.
309276
No, not until now, but I have noticed most musicians have a heroin habit at some point in there career, oddly enough everyone you just listed did.
1137724
I could not agree with you more.  It seems as though there is this vapidness in the eyes of the newer musicians.  (either that or dollar signs)  It's as though there is nothing going on inside those pretty little heads.  Where is the passion?  Where is the intelligence?  Definitley not on MTV.  Or anywhere on tv for that matter.
620990
Every one of them is good by choice. They didn't release the same songs didn't they? So none of them is better. Depends on people's taste.
251766
:}\nSounds as if many could benefit:\nhttp://www.mastersmusic.com/bio.html
774247
not bad, but i think it still needs a little more work!  \n\nare you a professional singer or still an amateur?