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This has been going on for decades in IT. I was told in 1999 to train an Indian replacement who was in Bangalore, and who had zero experience in what I was supporting then and very low knowledge.

My office HERE in the US is basically completely Indian now, too. I'm the only non Indian on most calls I'm on. They are good folks, and most are more competent now than that 25 years ago. But it's still very disconcerting and at times upsetting to walk in that door and feel like I moved to another country. Musk and others have used H1B as an exploitative loophole for their benefit to bring in lower paid workers who owe their existence to the company b/c it controls their visa.

As others have said, way too subjective. Lots of fantastic musicians out there and many mentioned already.

Just to throw out a name I think is underrated but always impresses me with his creativity and just sheer joy of making music:

Adrian Belew

Heart Of Glass:

Either/Orchestra, "Red" by King Crimson is a favorite of mine.

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Opeth

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frick yes. They should be my #1. New record coming and Mike is back to growling and playing heavier.

Zebra is/was fantastic.

If you haven't seen it, Randy & Zebra did a concert with the Acadiana Symphony Orchestra a few years back. Here is "Take Your Fingers From My Hair" - it is PHENOMENAL.

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"eco-metal"?

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Well, kinda?

Definitely a fan of the content on AppleTV but agreed with a few who mentioned the interface isn't good. (Assumption: I'm watching on the Apple TV streaming box hardware; I don't know if everyone else is watching AppleTV+ in that way.) Apple did a major tvOS update a few months ago that smashed together the Movies & TV apps and it made both much worse. It's an attempt to be everything to everyone, as it hooks into several other streaming services too in order to show all of your "up next" or "queue" or whatnot in one place.

That's actually a spin on the original AppleTV goal of bringing all the cable and other content into one place, that they gave up on. And with the plethora of streaming services in different apps, that's a pretty useful idea. It just isn't implemented very well right now.

Oh - one other thing. I really wanted to see if they would find a way to "coalesce" the multiple versions and probabilities, which would fit with the show and the first episode where they talk about the observer being inherently part of the experiment in quantum physics.

In a nutshell, Beato is saying that music is inherently less creative and more homogenized because of the plethora of easy to use tools/apps etc that are available now, and mostly not used with any real depth. This is parallel to his comments that once you use computers to make music (starting with sampling decades ago), computers are inherently going to be better at that.

On a pop music level, from the little I see, this seems to be true. It's not necessarily true in various niche genres but they certainly aren't immune to it. A lot of this is objectively true, not just old farts doing the usual complaining. Actual analyses of harmonic / rhythmic differences in top tracks across the last several decades have shown a significant decline in the last couple of decades. (It was already falling but got a lot more homogenized in this century.)

Something else that he didn't mention that I think is a factor, and was alluded to in this thread - people don't actively listen to music as a primary activity much any more. Due to the convenience of accessing it now - almost everyone has a vast music library in the palm of their hand - a lot of music listening is background "mood" soundtrack. That means the lack of nuances and creativity are much less noticed.