I posted this in the Karfagen thread that I seem to have killed:
This is what I don't understand about any popular music (and Prog is part of that crowd) that ends up being utterly unmemorable. If you go back in time, Bach knew how to write a hook. Mozart certainly knew how to write one. Beethoven as well. Wagner. Mahler. Tsiolkovsky. Rimsky-Korsakov. Stravinsky. Copland. They all knew how to do it and didn't reject the notion of doing so as beneath them.Either composers are not learning the basics of writing a good hook or are actively rejecting the idea of a song hook.
I mean, Mark Ronson may be a little too ubiquitous in the pop music world but the guy is a one-man Brill Building of hooks. Hell, if I were a band, I'd buy some of the cast-off hooks he hasn't used and build a song from that germ.
What the hell happened? Like I said, either artists are purposely not doing it or they're ignorant/incompetent and probably shouldn't be writing songs.
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