Today's music is such a let down... it's so depressing..

[Suspicious-Teach8788]

Coldplay destroys everything.

 

[OrByte]

Originally posted by: Inspector Jihad

Originally posted by: OrByte

Originally posted by: Inspector Jihad

Originally posted by: yosuke188
The new century marked the end of good music.

this thread is a congregation of idiots

see my sig to know all you need to know about todays music.
and yes, we are talking about the music you listen to. 🙂

lolzors, omg lol

I knew you would like that.

 

[Spamela]

Originally posted by: Sudheer Anne
Today's music is absolutely awful in comparison to the late 60's/70's. Floyd, Hendrix, Zepplin, Beatles, the list goes on and on. I rarely even listen to the radio these days, 99% of it is pure garbage. The problem with today's music isn't the lack of talent out there, it's the lack of creativity. Take Pink Floyd, for example, how many bands nowadays would have the balls to put up a 20-27 minute song? Nobody takes risks anymore because nobody cares about the music, it's all about making that $$$.

QFT

there was a lot of crap then, too (Iron Butterfly, anyone?),
but there seems to be a lot more of it now.

 

[Gunslinger08]

Probably 95% of people get stuck in the music they listened to as teenagers/early 20 somethings. They tend to dislike anything that comes after that, because it isn't exactly the same.

 

[cheesehead]

I am currently technically a teenager.
I like Steely Dan, Led Zepplin, and Coltrane.
I find modern music vile, with the exception of some rather bizzare Venesuelan dance music. (Los Amigos Invisibles.)

I also spent some time in Nashville. Half the people who write the music don't like what they write.

 

[13Gigatons]

Originally posted by: JLGatsby

Originally posted by: Rami7007
umm well im the same way as you but you are kinda wrong in my book... this generations music sucks but the generation you speak of as good is okay. not bad but okay... the real music comes from 1960s - 1980s with the Clash, Led Zep, and all the great classic rock and early punk rock bands (excluding the sex pistols)...
Funny thing is i should be listening to this generations music because im only 15 years old... I dont listen to anything current though!

When are we going to hear another "London Calling" anytime soon?

70s rock was absolutely terrible. LedZep, Pink Floyd, all those bands, terrible.

Punk? The Ramones? Absolutely terrible. I've listened to it all. Totally sucked beyond words.

80s American bands? Sucked! Van Halen, all of those mullet bands, sucked!

Good music to come from the 60s and 70s: Bill Withers, Beatles, Monkees, The Spinners, The Four Tops.

God of all music: 80s British New Wave and New Romantics. ABC, Culture Club, Human League, etc. And ofcourse...THE SMITHS.

All other music from the 60s - 80s blows.

HaHa Culture Club....big fat overweight guy dressed like a woman...Haha....you must be ***

 

[JLGatsby]

Originally posted by: 13Gigatons
HaHa Culture Club....big fat overweight guy dressed like a woman...Haha....you must be ***

Karma Chameleon = best selling single of the entire 1980s.

And Boy George was not fat in the early 80s, nor is he even that fat now.

And no I'm not gay, I just have good taste in music and clothes, like Martin Fry of ABC.

 

[tweakmm]

Dude, there has always been good music made and there will always be good music made. You just gotta find it.

 

[adrena]

you listed pretty poppy music, there's still emo music for you.

 

[skrilla]

Originally posted by: Inspector Jihad

Originally posted by: yosuke188
The new century marked the end of good music.

this thread is a congregation of idiots

Why don't you enlighten us instead of calling people ignorant, stupid etc. Do you have anything to bring to the table besides crapping on this thread?

Where is the good music?

 

[Inspector Jihad]

Originally posted by: skrilla507

Originally posted by: Inspector Jihad

Originally posted by: yosuke188
The new century marked the end of good music.

this thread is a congregation of idiots

Why don't you enlighten us instead of calling people ignorant, stupid etc. Do you have anything to bring to the table besides crapping on this thread?

Where is the good music?

around you...stop being a lazy prick and look for it

 

[Muadib]

Originally posted by: joshsquall
Probably 95% of people get stuck in the music they listened to as teenagers/early 20 somethings. They tend to dislike anything that comes after that, because it isn't exactly the same.

QFT!! /Thread

 

[Fenixgoon]

Originally posted by: RyanSengara

Originally posted by: brxndxn
I just opened up my first directory of mp3s.. The directory where I downloaded the more than 1000 of them using a 28.8kbps modem... with a Pentium 100mhz.. where it would take nearly one hour to encode a single song at 128kbps.. And this is back when I would buy 2-5 cds/month and my friends and I would all share them..

So.. I'm playing Soundgarden - Black Hole Sun.. and it seems to remind me of the dissappoinment that is todays' music. WTF is this eminem sh1t? Where are the bands you can count on? Is Metallica gone now? Oh ya.. Nirvana is dead.. g0d dammit..

Is it just me, or would the 1990's have put an end to Britney Spears before she ever got recorded?

Hell, I wouldn't mind hearing more of the Cranberries, Smashing Pumpkins, Blind Melon (ya, I fvcking know that's impossible), etc..

wahh.. someone needs to take the music execs as of current and um... execute them.

Shut your face, there is good music out here. Maybe if you pulled your head out of your ass and didn't listen to pop radioi stations you might hear some of it.

well, we have our choice of (c)RAP, some whiny punka$$ teenager, or some whiny punka$$ teenager wooing women or whoring herself out... now that's what i call variety😉

/sarcasm

 

[SludgeFactory]

It all started slowly going downhill when videos began having more and more influence in the mid 80's and it became more about selling image. But people growing up in the MP3 era do have something I'm envious of -- you can and should be exposed to a huge variety of music before you're 21, and be able to read mountains of free information about bands and get connected to people with similar tastes.

You think it's bad now, imagine growing up in a world where Milli Vanilli and Paula Abdul were huge stars, without any internet, no cable TV at the house (oh the humanity), only 3 radio stations in town, where piracy was waiting an hour while your friend dubbed a cassette, having to go to the store and buy albums you never had heard before and hope you didn't just buy a total POS. 😛

 

[Gunslinger08]

Originally posted by: Fenixgoon

Originally posted by: RyanSengara

Originally posted by: brxndxn
I just opened up my first directory of mp3s.. The directory where I downloaded the more than 1000 of them using a 28.8kbps modem... with a Pentium 100mhz.. where it would take nearly one hour to encode a single song at 128kbps.. And this is back when I would buy 2-5 cds/month and my friends and I would all share them..

So.. I'm playing Soundgarden - Black Hole Sun.. and it seems to remind me of the dissappoinment that is todays' music. WTF is this eminem sh1t? Where are the bands you can count on? Is Metallica gone now? Oh ya.. Nirvana is dead.. g0d dammit..

Is it just me, or would the 1990's have put an end to Britney Spears before she ever got recorded?

Hell, I wouldn't mind hearing more of the Cranberries, Smashing Pumpkins, Blind Melon (ya, I fvcking know that's impossible), etc..

wahh.. someone needs to take the music execs as of current and um... execute them.

Shut your face, there is good music out here. Maybe if you pulled your head out of your ass and didn't listen to pop radioi stations you might hear some of it.

well, we have our choice of (c)RAP, some whiny punka$$ teenager, or some whiny punka$$ teenager wooing women or whoring herself out... now that's what i call variety😉

/sarcasm

MTV, VH1, and the hits radio stations don't exactly play everything there is to listen to.

 

[Slammy1]

Yeah, I'd say d/ls have seriously improved quality as they've improved taste. Don't focus on what's popular, there are lots of gems around. Popular music has sucked for every generation. In the 70s you think Floyd was played much outside prog rock stations? Or was disco the permeating theme of the decade?

 

[Dubb]

for op:

check out:

ted leo
brandon butler/canyon
brian jonestown massacre
dandy warhols
elf power
ocean colour scene

 

[xanis]

I agree. Today's musis getting worse, with a few exceptions. What ever happened to those old LPs of Led Zeppelin, Super Tramp, Queen, Warren Zevon, etc.? They've passed on, unless in my case where my dad's in the process of getting about 40 classic rock LPs to CD...man there's some good stuff in there... That reminds me, when some kid actually asked me the question, "Who's Led Zeppelin?" I almost had a hear attack...

 

[ntdz]

The 90's had some awesome rock music, one of the best rock decades there have been.

 

[Ornery]

Originally posted by: Slammy1

Yeah, I'd say d/ls have seriously improved quality as they've improved taste. Don't focus on what's popular, there are lots of gems around. Popular music has sucked for every generation. In the 70s you think Floyd was played much outside prog rock stations? Or was disco the permeating theme of the decade?

In the late 60's, early 70's, you could select from radio stations with hard rock, progressive rock, pop and underground college stations. Later, disco was played on the pop stations, so you didn't have to listen to that crap if you didn't want to. Today, I can listen to classic rock and even oldies from the late 50's to early 60's. If SNL is any indication of what music has come to, then brxndxn is correct!

 

[IGBT]

..no doubt rap is downtrodden sorry crap that has greatly benefited the funeral biz.

 

[Slammy1]

In the era of HDTV and P2P, how we receive music is different. If you focus on the strategies of prior generations, you'll come up lacking for sure. Plus you were generally stuck in a demographic of music, how many times can you listen to Hendrix without sticking sharpened obejects in your ears. A more recent example. A friend of mine was telling me about this great band he'd discovered called Rob Zombie that no one else listened to. He was shocked to find out he was in a another band before that.

Wasn't early seventies really light rock as opposed to the psychodelic sounds of the better groups from that era? Anne Murray -- makes me want to slice my wrists just thinking about it.

 

[SludgeFactory]

Originally posted by: Slammy1
I probably did mis-represent what I was trying to say, which was that the engineering is better. The music produced in the 60s and 70s was really designed more for analog, which arguably is a better format (less interperative than digital). I'd really hate to measure modern product quality against SoaD, there are better engineered albums out there. I think they did a better job with the Floyd remasters, though they did do a great job with the Beatles remasters and I'm not sure how muched they remixed them with all the various compilations that have been released for them. The Wall on headphones is impressive, but I'm more of a speaker person than headphones and perhaps that's part of my bias.

The state of modern pop/rock music production is abysmal, and it's entirely deliberate. It's so awful that in my mind it contributes to the disposable quality of most of today's music. What they do to music now completely squashes all the dynamics out of it and makes it physically fatiguing to listen to. There is no good explanation other than "everybody else is doing it." It's just disgusting, and it's been going on like this for nearly 10 years! WTF!!!

BTW, the Beatles catalog on CD is a mess sonically, was thrown together for the CD transfer in '87 and no-noised to death, and has yet to be remastered. (And if the inevitable "remastering" when they decide to cash in on the Beatles again is going to mean compressing the life out of the music and having the levels dancing in the red like it has for so many "remastered" albums, then no thanks.) If anybody's frame of reference for the Beatles is their EMI CD catalog only, it's an eye-opening experience to hear any of the homebrew CD transfers from MFSL vinyl, like the Dr. Ebbetts releases. You will literally hear things in Beatles songs that you never heard before, because there isn't a heavy-handed use of no-noise there to mask the music. I used to think the people saying this were the types that bought $10,000 cables, but the difference is real and it's like night and day even on cheap equipment.

Older music has the advantage of perspective in that we can look at the titles that survived the test of time for comparison. Every new generation of music is a mix of good and bad.

True. The less-than-memorable stuff of the past has a way of being completely forgotten.

 

[Slammy1]

Definitely, the digital era is an interperatation of music, not the music itself. There's some good interperation in the live acts, but then again it is mixed and such. Think about how much alterration they applied to U2, or Robert Plant for that matter. I guess I've never heard the analog mixes of the Beatles outside of vinyl/cassette, which have their own limitations especially on digital receivers or older equipment.

 

[cavemanmoron]

Originally posted by: brxndxn
I just opened up my first directory of mp3s.. The directory where I downloaded the more than 1000 of them using a 28.8kbps modem... with a Pentium 100mhz.. where it would take nearly one hour to encode a single song at 128kbps.. And this is back when I would buy 2-5 cds/month and my friends and I would all share them..

So.. I'm playing Soundgarden - Black Hole Sun.. and it seems to remind me of the dissappoinment that is todays' music. WTF is this eminem sh1t? Where are the bands you can count on? Is Metallica gone now? Oh ya.. Nirvana is dead.. g0d dammit..

Is it just me, or would the 1990's have put an end to Britney Spears before she ever got recorded?

Hell, I wouldn't mind hearing more of the Cranberries, Smashing Pumpkins, Blind Melon (ya, I fvcking know that's impossible), etc..

wahh.. someone needs to take the music execs as of current and um... execute them.

Originally posted by: Syringer
Cry me a river.

cry me a river Aerosmith does a Great version of that old Ella Fitzgerald tune. 🙂