MUSIC VIDEOS RUINING MUSIC?

Yeah I remember a time when all you had to go by was the sound of the music...Had to use your imagination as to what the singer looked like and you related to the song from your own perspective... Maybe Im just getting old..lol... But I do like the older music alot better... IMO video did put an end to the heartfelt music that i remember.. You have to have a certain look now then be so-so talented and the promoters will do the rest... In the days of old...all you had to do was sound good..

Where does the music fit in?
It just seems to be put on the back burner while commercialism takes center stage..The record companies blame everything from p2p networks to cd burners for the loss in sales..

Do they not realize that most people are listening to the music in their cars,at work,relaxing outside ..etc..and it doesnt matter what visuals they add the only thing that we can see/hear at these times is the music...

I dont spend alot of time watching videos but i do spend ALOT of time doing the other things i just mentioned..

Look. I understand that the music business is just that...a business. With the  artist being a product but it seems to me that the emphasis nowadays is not on the actual quality of the music but the image of the artist.
It sometimes seems as if it doesn't matter how crappy you sing but do you  project the right marketable image.
So they have to market the artist where they are best...i.e. if they look good put them in as many videos as humanly possible and hope that nobody notices that they sound pretty lame.
Are the video's ruining music? I think they give too much exposure to mediocre artists who really can't compete with high quality artists in the field of actual music but look good enough to sell a few cd's before the bubble bursts.

I like seeing live performances of my favorite bands on tv.  But "real" live performances are rare.  Most vidoes are not recorded live.  I understand sound quality and all, but still.
When I hear an older song (before vidoes) I usually think about what I was doing when I first heard it.  Or my friends from back then.  Or a girl from back then.  But when I hear a newer song, I think of the video.  Heck, now yall got me thinking of girls from back then.  What were we talking about?   lol

Totally agree with most of you guys.  When I hear a song these days I think firstly of the video.  Like all of us I have seen a video and been captured by the 'clip'.  The music is almost irrelevent.  But having wrote that, I have also been pursuaded to buy music because the video clip is so good.  I have also heard some great songs with very average clips.  The worst videos are the ones that I just don't understand ???  Like there is abosolutely nothing to do with the song.
No matter how good the video is though, LIVE is the best.

I've hated music videos for as long as I can remember.  I've hated pretty much everything on TV for about that long, too, so it's not as if they're different somehow.

I just think trying to turn music into some visual dramatic thing is dumb.  I can tolerate the ones that are concert footage, but I just can't stand there watching musicians try to act.

When I'm watching a ball game I often like to turn the volume off to tune out the idiocy of the announcers.   With music videos, I wish I could do the same.  Turn off the tube so I don't have to watch.  Just listen.

Well done young Man!
It was worth the 3 hours UYK. love John Prine!

Old Doll.

That is one of the best videos I've seen, I could understand it.  Had everything.  Great stuff, loved it.

A couple of years ago a fine band of the 80's, The Alarm, put out a single. They realised that since they were all in their 40's it had not much chance of making an impact on the charts, so they hired a bunch of young good looking fellows to stand in for them in the video. Needless to say the single reached to top 30 singles chart (UK). After they revealed who they were, the music press realised they had been beat at their own game and duly got stuck into them. Not before The Alarm had made them all look like the phonies they are. The song was called 45RPM.
Proves a point I think.