Fri Jan 09, 2004 3:47 am
Music tended to be better then....
Has anyone noticed that with a few exceptions, music has gone downhill since 1980? OK, there was a slight elevation of quality in the mid-90's, but even so!!!
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Music tended to be better then....
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Fri Jan 09, 2004 4:20 am
depends on your music taste really.
The 80s to me screams The Smiths, Talk Talk, Psychadelic Furs, My Bloody Valentine, The Ramones....all top stuff.
The 90s had its moments with Nirvana, Screaming Trees, Soundgarden, Smashing Pumpkins, Pearl Jam, Jeff Buckley, Massive Attack, Air and so on and so forth.
But on the other hand if you were looking at/talking about pop music...then yes, it was all steaming poo....especially with this new horrific onslaught of "R&B" (I still resent these @**holes using that name)....and the 90s "DJ Culture" which was just a pathetic excuse for useless pikeys to make money without having to do "real jobs".
The 80s to me screams The Smiths, Talk Talk, Psychadelic Furs, My Bloody Valentine, The Ramones....all top stuff.
The 90s had its moments with Nirvana, Screaming Trees, Soundgarden, Smashing Pumpkins, Pearl Jam, Jeff Buckley, Massive Attack, Air and so on and so forth.
But on the other hand if you were looking at/talking about pop music...then yes, it was all steaming poo....especially with this new horrific onslaught of "R&B" (I still resent these @**holes using that name)....and the 90s "DJ Culture" which was just a pathetic excuse for useless pikeys to make money without having to do "real jobs".
Fri Jan 09, 2004 4:29 am
especially with this new horrific onslaught of "R&B"
Ahmen, I nearly cry everytime I see the charts and it's packed to the gills with trashy "R&B hits". Talk about your mass produced music, today's R&B defines mass production. Another thing that pisses me off is they way they always have a feature performer, it's never just DJ KnobJockey, it's DJ KnobJokey feat. SkankyTart or SkankyTart feat. Flavour of the Week Rapper.
Fri Jan 09, 2004 4:30 am
yay! the Smiths!
"I am the son and the heir, of a shyness that it criminally vulgar
I am the son and heir, of nothing in particular
you shut your mouth, how can you say, i go about things the wrong way?
I'm human and I need to be loved, just like everybody else does."
bejasus I love that guy, he's still a musical genius and no-one writes lyrics like Morrissey. I was a big OMD and Gary Numan fan as well. the fonkness set in with Stock Aitken and Waterman i reckon, and the start of the boy bands with Take That was the last nail in the coffin of pop i reckon.
is it true Gary Barlow lives in a bedsit in Oldham being horrible to Howard and puts pins in his Robbie Williams voodoo doll?
"I am the son and the heir, of a shyness that it criminally vulgar
I am the son and heir, of nothing in particular
you shut your mouth, how can you say, i go about things the wrong way?
I'm human and I need to be loved, just like everybody else does."
bejasus I love that guy, he's still a musical genius and no-one writes lyrics like Morrissey. I was a big OMD and Gary Numan fan as well. the fonkness set in with Stock Aitken and Waterman i reckon, and the start of the boy bands with Take That was the last nail in the coffin of pop i reckon.
is it true Gary Barlow lives in a bedsit in Oldham being horrible to Howard and puts pins in his Robbie Williams voodoo doll?
Fri Jan 09, 2004 7:16 am
Guys, I have two words for you that define the current crop of patheticity (Darkness and Evanescence excluded) and that is MANUFACTURED POP
Shot them all, Westlife, Alex Parks, Lemarr, Will Young and Gareth Gates. Bring the good 'ole stuff, Black Sabbath, Led Zeppelin, Deep Purple, Whitesnake, Metallica, Judas Priest, Rainbow, Motorhead, Thin Lizzy, Pink Floyd and add them to that list.
the 90's had the BritPop revolution and Grunge to keep it alive, we are now down to two or three outstanding band, a few more superb and a ton of average which is almost drown in this manufactured sh*t and R&B and a few pointless hip-hop acts.
Shot them all, Westlife, Alex Parks, Lemarr, Will Young and Gareth Gates. Bring the good 'ole stuff, Black Sabbath, Led Zeppelin, Deep Purple, Whitesnake, Metallica, Judas Priest, Rainbow, Motorhead, Thin Lizzy, Pink Floyd and add them to that list.
the 90's had the BritPop revolution and Grunge to keep it alive, we are now down to two or three outstanding band, a few more superb and a ton of average which is almost drown in this manufactured sh*t and R&B and a few pointless hip-hop acts.
Fri Jan 09, 2004 7:30 am
Yeah, but have you heard the breakbeat thats out today....my GOD thats some good stuff. DJ music has constantly inproved since the get go. Ok, except for music like R&B where its still manufactured. Basic rule of thumb:
If it involves people singing AND you cant see the instruments....somethings up.
As for Rock, i dont really have the problem of having to listen to crap, i love Radiohead, Counting Crows, REM, Foo Fighters, Red Hot Chili Peppers (although the latest Foo & Chili albums have been god AWFUL), The Stone Roses, Coldplay. Theres always back catalogues to listen to as well.
"Something wicked this way comes"
If it involves people singing AND you cant see the instruments....somethings up.
As for Rock, i dont really have the problem of having to listen to crap, i love Radiohead, Counting Crows, REM, Foo Fighters, Red Hot Chili Peppers (although the latest Foo & Chili albums have been god AWFUL), The Stone Roses, Coldplay. Theres always back catalogues to listen to as well.
"Something wicked this way comes"
Fri Jan 09, 2004 8:24 am
I have to say for those that think "the man" is taking over the music industry.
You cannot invade your own backyard. The man has given you ALL of the music there is since day one of radio. He owns it.
MANUFACTURED POP.....your right.....but it was always manufactured pop. it just happens that we had a breif period of music in the sixties and seventies that wasn't totally corupted.....that is they probably wrote their own music....but even this "revolutionary era" was not immune to the corporate boogie man ruining music.
As far as the eighties is concerned (actually I'd say the most craptastic era was pretty much mid 70's to mid 90's) yeah I can't say the man really screwed that up so much as cocaine screwed that up, I mean come on who else but a coke head would sign "Nelson". Truly I'm a fan of Disco and Funk, but I can't say the general wardrobe didn't look like someone's drug blitzed nightmare. Punk rock had a brief stint of great music, loud, mean, and heavy. but look at the state of punk rock now......If it ain't put out by the man.....it ain't gonna last. thems the breaks kids. Nowadays I try to stick to the heaviest metal I can find.....so that even if they are just a corporate sell out shoving an image down my throat....at least its an image of skulls and blood and violence set to power chords.
and now a list of favorites (yeah like you care) Deicide, Napalm Death, Cryptopsy, Hatebreed, Sepultura, Soulfly, Cannibal Corpse, Pantera.
also here are some new guys that ain't too bad IMHO, Korn, Disturbed, Tool, Rob Zombie, Deftones.
there's lots of other music I like, but I try to keep my ears filled with the stuff above.....keeps my head on crooked.
Good?....Bad?......I'm the guy with the gun.
You cannot invade your own backyard. The man has given you ALL of the music there is since day one of radio. He owns it.
MANUFACTURED POP.....your right.....but it was always manufactured pop. it just happens that we had a breif period of music in the sixties and seventies that wasn't totally corupted.....that is they probably wrote their own music....but even this "revolutionary era" was not immune to the corporate boogie man ruining music.
As far as the eighties is concerned (actually I'd say the most craptastic era was pretty much mid 70's to mid 90's) yeah I can't say the man really screwed that up so much as cocaine screwed that up, I mean come on who else but a coke head would sign "Nelson". Truly I'm a fan of Disco and Funk, but I can't say the general wardrobe didn't look like someone's drug blitzed nightmare. Punk rock had a brief stint of great music, loud, mean, and heavy. but look at the state of punk rock now......If it ain't put out by the man.....it ain't gonna last. thems the breaks kids. Nowadays I try to stick to the heaviest metal I can find.....so that even if they are just a corporate sell out shoving an image down my throat....at least its an image of skulls and blood and violence set to power chords.
and now a list of favorites (yeah like you care) Deicide, Napalm Death, Cryptopsy, Hatebreed, Sepultura, Soulfly, Cannibal Corpse, Pantera.
also here are some new guys that ain't too bad IMHO, Korn, Disturbed, Tool, Rob Zombie, Deftones.
there's lots of other music I like, but I try to keep my ears filled with the stuff above.....keeps my head on crooked.
Good?....Bad?......I'm the guy with the gun.
Fri Jan 09, 2004 8:28 am
@Vektrix, well I hated all the music from Mid-60's to the mid-80's, so I'd disagree with you there.
Although I too hate the current Rap/R&B feces that's being thrown at us these days.
I prefer classical music and opera, they never go out of style, they're just never popular.
Sir S
Although I too hate the current Rap/R&B feces that's being thrown at us these days.
I prefer classical music and opera, they never go out of style, they're just never popular.
Sir S
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