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[lxskllr]

I will say though that I'm enjoying the democratization of modern music in the past decade. Everyone wails about how horrible the big label productions are these days, without realizing that they're slowly becoming irrelevant. It no longer costs much to get excellent quality recordings, and you don't need a massive distribution system, so you're seeing a flood of fantastic small-label music.

I think most of it is disappointment in main/midstream radio. While there's great indie music out there, you never hear it "around". You have to seek it out in the dark corners of the web, and you lose a bit of the shared experience. On the whole I think it's a positive, but something's definitely been lost in the transition.

 

[HamburgerBoy]

Doesn't that mostly confirm it? Certainly there are chunks of nostalgics, whether you call them hipsters, hippies, revivalists, traditionalists, retro, or whatever, but even in those cases, it was often the music they listened to as teenagers that they continue to adore.

Personally, I think every era has it's good stuff, and don't see much point in limiting myself to any particular part. I will say though that I'm enjoying the democratization of modern music in the past decade. Everyone wails about how horrible the big label productions are these days, without realizing that they're slowly becoming irrelevant. It no longer costs much to get excellent quality recordings, and you don't need a massive distribution system, so you're seeing a flood of fantastic small-label music.

The bazillion thumbs ups and dittos means no. Granted, in the grand scheme of things they are a minority, but it's not a trivial one. Plenty of people listen to music outside of what they listened to as teens.

 

[crashtestdummy]

I think most of it is disappointment in main/midstream radio. While there's great indie music out there, you never hear it "around". You have to seek it out in the dark corners of the web, and you lose a bit of the shared experience. On the whole I think it's a positive, but something's definitely been lost in the transition.

There's definitely some lag, but part of it is that the baby boomers are still the dominating market, and will be for another decade. Stores want to play what appeals to their biggest customers, and the 20-somethings aren't that yet (except in bars, where you're starting to see more interesting music). Similarly, young folks don't listen to as much radio as earlier generations. If we want music, we just plug our mp3 players into our car stereos.

 

[darkswordsman17]

"Bleak" 80s??? I think you got that reversed. Without commenting on what decade is better, it's hard to ignore that 90s pop music brought in more introspective, melodramatic, wrist-splitting lyrics mainstream. This was further reinforced when its most iconic frontman blew his brain out.

I been to a lot of restaurants and what I usually hear playing are 80s pop because they are more upbeat. 90s pop are just flat out depressing.

I don't consider grunge to be pop. When I think of 90s pop I think boy bands, spice girls, hanson, and stuff like the OP. There were also the really really annoying Macarena and other shit like that too. I get your point though, as there was quite a bit of depressing mainstream stuff. I think that was part of the problem, the 90s split the silly/fun part off from the serious insight/messages, so it feels very bipolar.

I personally like 80s music across the board better than 90s music, although I don't hate 90s music (actually like quite a bit of 90s music). 80s is actually probably my favorite decade for music overall, but, I like a fair amount of music from the 90s, 70s, 60s, and 50s (and other eras too).

Its the late 90s and 2000s to now that I really don't like, as its like they took the worst parts of other decades and then tried to coalesce it into one horrible mess. Even the listenable stuff gets old to me quickly. Doesn't help that a lot of that it is nowhere close to being the amazing unique masterpieces people I know pretend it is. It sounds like stuff that was being done in the 80s and I think were done better back then, a lot of this stuff now seems very monotone and similar to others in the genre.

 

[darkswordsman17]

I think most of it is disappointment in main/midstream radio. While there's great indie music out there, you never hear it "around". You have to seek it out in the dark corners of the web, and you lose a bit of the shared experience. On the whole I think it's a positive, but something's definitely been lost in the transition.

I think what's holding back those is that the indie scene fans act like its the best music ever, when a lot of it is derivative as hell and is just the same old messages. It is still enjoyable, but hardly the epiphany that some people act like it is. When it hits a larger populace, people just go, what's the fuss about? That and it actually sounds very commercialized as companies like Apple use it in their marketing campaigns.

 

[Farang]

Not really true. 90's had a lot of crap but the good stuff was better than the good stuff of other decades. It's definitely a "when you came of age" thing but still, today's kids have some bad music overall.

There is a ton of really great music today, not sure what you're talking about. With everything going digital it has opened the door to music being more accessible, and there being a much better selection. This wider selection also leads to bands becoming popular organically, from word of mouth, so popular bands end up being better than they used to be (not being cherrypicked by a few executives).

I think of how I find new bands these days and it just wasn't possible in the 90s. In the 90s you listened to what was on the radio and picked your favorites to go buy.

<--'came of age' in the 90s/00s

 

[ultimatebob]

I just realized that almost all pop songs sound alike nowadays... they all have a beat generated by a drum machine, synthesized instruments, and vocals that been tweaked by autotune. Worse yet, it's been that way for at least the last 15 years... probably more if you take autotune out of the equation.

It makes me miss rock tunes from the 60's and 70's... most of them had REAL drums, REAL guitars, and actual singing.

 

[PingviN]

I don't know. In Flames released Clayman in 2000 and Against Me! dropped Reinventing Axl Rose 2002; the two of them makes up for all the shit played on the radio.

 

[jhansman]

I wish I died on 12/31/99. Nothing's been good since.

You still can, you know. Me? I'll take the 80s.

 

[ViperXX]

The 70's and 80's absolutely destroys the 90's. The 90's sucked ass.

The 80's? You can't be serious.

 

[darkewaffle]

Look it's another thread where people like the music they grew up with/feel ownership of and everything after that isn't worth listening to because all they hear is the radio which fucking blows no matter what decade you're in.

 

[ultimatebob]

Look it's another thread where people like the music they grew up with/feel ownership of and everything after that isn't worth listening to because all they hear is the radio which fucking blows no matter what decade you're in.

Hey now... I grew up with 90's pop music, and I still think that most of it sucked.

 

[Ichinisan]

I loved a lot of 90s music...but couldn't stand most of OP's songs.

 

[Joseph F]

I think that Tool, KMFDM, Green Day, Foo Fighters and Rammstein make the '90s the best decade of music for me.
Also, I think that Pink Floyd, Queen, Jethro Tull and The Who make the '70s a very close runner-up, in my opinion.

 

[skyking]

If I had to pick an era, I'd say the 60s. Pop music really expanded during that time, and bands were open to influences from outside their genre. Everybody played together, and the music was better for it.

There was a great deal of collaboration that got started in the 60's, for sure.
I was listening to the B-side of Stephen Stills solo album, and Hendrix played on one cut, and Clapton on the next. Stills was no slouch on the guitar either.