Who's at the top of the list now?

[swift6]

Okay, I recognized four of those groups. Definitely has an indie preference as those groups are not currently on the top 40 lists. A lot of youth today does seem to be much more indie oriented than before with access to all new music on almost a daily basis, bands don't even need to release a physical album, they release through music sharing sites and social media instead. Essentially direct marketing to the youth crowd.

The top 40 pop stuff is more like Usher, Lady GaGa, Cee-Lo Green, Bruno Mars, Rhiana, Katy Perry, Enrique Iglesias etc...

 

[JPSmit]

Okay, I recognized four of those groups. Definitely has an indie preference as those groups are not currently on the top 40 lists.

absolutely. Interesting story, a couple years ago RIM (Blackberry RIM) rented the Air Canada centre for a "thank you" concert for 15000 of their nearest and dearest. Bands were Tragically Hip and Van Halen - we were given 4 tickets, called my son and asked, "do you want to go?" his answer. "No." The band wintersleep above (Indie band from Halifax) were playing that night and he wanted to see them with 250 of his nearest and dearest. AND he had already seen them twice that week. Turned out he couldn't get tickets and came with us instead but, there is a completely different attitude to music and slick, professionally produced big "events" in favour of intimate raw (and therefore presumed more "real") experiences. It is generational and it is even manifesting itself in the church where his generation (if they are going to church at all) are less impressed with the big professional mega church experience and more into the intimate coffee house experience.

 

[NutmegCT]

J-P: "... less impressed with the big professional mega church experience and more into the intimate coffee house experience."

If he's in a Christian group, sounds like they might be returning to the oldest form of the church. That is *very* interesting.

On a different tack: I remember back in the early 1960s, I got home from school and Mom told me the local radio station had called earlier. Said she'd won four tickets to the Beatles concert in Dallas. She told them "I wouldn't take those tickets if you paid me to do it!"

<faint>

Times change; people don't.

Tom

 

[JPSmit]

J-P: "... less impressed with the big professional mega church experience and more into the intimate coffee house experience."

If he's in a Christian group, sounds like they might be returning to the oldest form of the church. That is *very* interesting.

On a different tack: I remember back in the early 1960s, I got home from school and Mom told me the local radio station had called earlier. Said she'd won four tickets to the Beatles concert in Dallas. She told them "I wouldn't take those tickets if you paid me to do it!"

<faint>

Times change; people don't.

Tom

refuse Beatles tickets <ack!>

in terms of the Christian stuff - google New Monasticism - very interesting stuff.

 

[Andrew Mace]

On a different tack: I remember back in the early 1960s, I got home from school and Mom told me the local radio station had called earlier. Said she'd won four tickets to the Beatles concert in Dallas. She told them "I wouldn't take those tickets if you paid me to do it!"

Just think if she'd accepted the tickets and then stuck them away in a drawer or shoebox or scrapbook. Imagine what four unused Beatles tickets might sell for now.... :banana: