Evolution Of Music (40000 BC - 2020)

[Uncle Joe]

[rog]

1. By the end of the video ...

... I found myself longing for the Neanderthal Bone Flute.

Interesting project, but hard to do. Music has too many threads to follow. To be accurate, you'd have to follow each genre to its logical successor, and this didn't really do that. For example, you can't really go from Classical music to Pop, Rock, Country, etc. i.e., There was popular and folk music going on at the same time as Bach, Brahms, Mozart, et al.

Still, interesting until it branched off into the really annoying hard rock and beyond mode. Not that there's anything wrong with that, just that there's so much other stuff going on at the same time.

For example, no Charlie Parker, no Keith Jarrett, no John Coltrane, no Native American music, no work songs, Appalachian music, field hollers, or blues ... matter of fact, no African, Oriental, Caribbean, etc music.

That's what makes this so difficult.

Thanks for the video, though ... it was cool.

.rog.

[Uncle Joe]

3. I just thought it was a nice sociological illustration

of increasing human stress.

P.S. I do agree with you in regards to they did miss several genres of important historical music.

I thought they were short on the early 20th century country music, bluegrass and jazz genres among a few others but I was looking more at the long term sociological implications.

[rog]

4. No criticism intended!

It was a cool video, and I did make it to the end. I just don't care for pain all that much, and the last few clips were a little on the harsh side!

When I was in music school, the music history class was one of the most interesting to me, unlike many of my classmates. And they did start with percussion on rocks and logs, but it took 2 semesters to cover the topic, and we didn't even make it to the present, even though they pretty much stuck to the European Classical thread!

Thanks again.

.rog.

[Hugh_Lebowski]

2. Haddaway for 1993? Please ...

That was the year of In Utero, Siamese Dream, Vs, Pablo Honey, Doggystyle, and Undertow to name the ones I can think of offhand.

Radiohead - Creep, Smashing Pumpkins - Today, or Tool - Sober would've been VASTLY better/more emblematic choices.

Also leaving out Sugarhill Gang - Rappers Delight, with as influential as that song was ... is a fail. As is choosing How Deep is your Love over Stayin Alive for 1977.

Still fun though, thanks