Alternative Rock Riot!

I WISH TO STRESS THAT I DON'T MAKE ANY MONEY FROM UPLOADING VIDEOS. THESE VIDEOS ARE NOT OF MY PROPERTY. And also, the Riot is not against record companies and associations like VEVO, Parlophone, EMI etc. (I am actually favourable to a VEVO site working worldwide). The Riot is against stupid people claiming themselves artists and bitching around the world with their unsignificant and forgettable songs.

Artists:
A Camp; AIR; Alanis Morissette; Angelfish; Beck; Bjork; Blur; The Breeders; The Cardigans; Courtney Love; The Dandy Warhols; Elastica; Fiona Apple; Garbage; Gorillaz; La Roux; Metric; MGMT; Nina Persson; Nine Inch Nails; Nirvana; No Doubt; Portishead; Radiohead; Shirley Manson; Soundgarden; Sia; The Smashing Pumpkins; The Ting Tings; Tori Amos; Yeah Yeah Yeahs and others.




What we often forget is that music is Art and so we end up under-appreciating it, taking it as a non-productive activity, not searching for the best of it, not making a distinction between true art and fake acting.

This is why we all think that good music died after the 90s and that all we can listen to is shit now.

It's not true. Music is still a form of art, and the Art never really dies.
Good music is everywhere for people to find it, it's easy to admit that the 90s were better, this way you are actually pointing out that you are lazy, close-minded and you don't really understand the concept of art.
In the 90s good music was famous and so thrown up in the faces of all the people that used to listen to the radios and watch music tv channels.
Now they don't throw good music to our faces anymore.
But what kind of art is that, if to be appreciated IT HAS to be thrown to our faces?
Isn't it a better, much more artistical and inspired activity to actually go and search for good music on our own?
Yes. Of course it is.
Internet makes it available for everyone.
Youtube is a fantastic platform. And here I am posting videos, making it easy for other people to find the real music in this very little place.

But this could arouse two important questions:
1) Who am I, as an almost countless individual, to think that what I listen to and what I post on my YouTube channels is good music?
2) How can one distinguish wether a song is a piece of art or well a piece of "something else" so to speak?

1) I am sure that all I post on this channel is art, I am sure it is good, I am sure it is real.
I cannot guarantee you'll like it.
But I can guarantee that this is the real deal. This doesn't mean that this is the only good music. I'm just saying that this is the little I know of music, and there's so much more to find. Finding good new music is such a precious and delightful process. Don't underestimate it.

2) I don't know much of visual art and paintings. But let's assume Picasso was a great painter and that his work can be considered as art.
Now why is that?
Picasso surely gathered what he needed to do his art and chose the paint and the sheets on his own.
Then he did a sketch with the pencil of the whole picture. Then he modified it and as he started painting he kept on modifying the picture and erased the particulars he didn't like, and kept what he liked.
Maybe people would not think that his work was good but we're sure that it was art because it was the expression of that individual, of Picasso, that did most of the work on his own.
Now what I'm trying to say is...
Let's assume that the painter is a musician, the paint and the sheets are the instruments, the sketch is the song just written, we can call it demo, and then the full picture is the fully completed song.
A musician is an artist when he does his work, when he writes the songs, the lyrics, when he really does it for love and not for making people "happy" or even worse for money.
An artist can collaborate with other people sharing ideas in the creative process.
But just singing the song is not enough. It's not even enough just singing the song and writing the lyrics.
An artist is considered to be an artist when he takes part to the full process of making the art, when he really knows what it is about.

Another important subject:
THE AGE OF THE ARTIST.
It's a really important matter and people tend to make confusion so easily.
Maybe millions of people love Miley Cyrus because she's young and so they think that she's a prodigy, that she's talented "for her age", that she is promising.
Sorry but that is so SICK to me. I can't stand it.
Fiona Apple started WRITING her own songs when she was 17 and her work asides from being considered ART, is much more profound than worksof other people like Britney, which is not even art.

So I hope that I cleared it up for you. I tried to remain as more objective as possible but many of you may just consider it as my point of view.
It's ok :)

Thank you so much for checking my channel, hope you'll have a great time discovering new artists and listening to the Music, which is a DIVINE ACTIVITY!

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