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

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when ever i cant find anymore music i want... i generally just go outside and hack a body part off. im a uniballer now... wanna see? 🙂
 
Originally posted by: Slammy1
Why all the fascination with the 70's? Now, I'd say it was a better era for musicianship, but song writing was not quite as good (perhaps just can't relate) and production quality was much far worse.
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If anything, production quality is worse now. Everything is Protooled to the point of the life being squeezed out of it. No band just gets in a studio and jams out anymore. It's all clinical and steril, playing to click tracks then cut and pasting the results. Then everything is loaded with effects a compressed to death. After the mix is done it goes into mastering where it is further compressed. The new System of a Down CD ships with digitial distortion in some parts because the mastering engineers decided to try and push the envelope to get the tracks as loud as possible.

Throw The Beatles Abbey Road on a good set of headphones. It was recorded on 4-track machines with very little overdubbing -- You'll hear what good production quality is. Today's music can't compare.

 
The 1990s was the absolutely worst time for music in America.

The "Nirvana," "Guns and Roses" like bands were just a waste of human life.

Only good music to come out of the 1990s was Morrissey's solo career and Euro techno dance.
 
Originally posted by: JLGatsby
The 1990s was the absolutely worst time for music in America.

The "Nirvana," "Guns and Roses" like bands were just a waste of human life.

Only good music to come out of the 1990s was Morrissey's solo career and Euro techno dance.
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AHAHAHAHAHA!! Morrissey? Euro techno dance? You're kidding, right?
 
Originally posted by: JLGatsby
The 1990s was the absolutely worst time for music in America.

The "Nirvana," "Guns and Roses" like bands were just a waste of human life.

Only good music to come out of the 1990s was Morrissey's solo career and Euro techno dance.
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i think thats possibily the funniest thing i have read this year
 
Originally posted by: Triumph
Originally posted by: JLGatsby
The 1990s was the absolutely worst time for music in America.

The "Nirvana," "Guns and Roses" like bands were just a waste of human life.

Only good music to come out of the 1990s was Morrissey's solo career and Euro techno dance.
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AHAHAHAHAHA!! Morrissey? Euro techno dance? You're kidding, right?
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I would have aked the same thing to someone who said those 1990s stoner bands were the best.
 
Originally posted by: dwell
Originally posted by: Slammy1
If anything, production quality is worse now. Everything is Protooled to the point of the life being squeezed out of it. No band just gets in a studio and jams out anymore. It's all clinical and steril, playing to click tracks then cut and pasting the results. Then everything is loaded with effects a compressed to death. After the mix is done it goes into mastering where it is further compressed. The new System of a Down CD ships with digitial distortion in some parts because the mastering engineers decided to try and push the envelope to get the tracks as loud as possible.

Throw The Beatles Abbey Road on a good set of headphones. It was recorded on 4-track machines with very little overdubbing -- You'll hear what good production quality is. Today's music can't compare.
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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.

I really like most types of music, and I think if you want to judge modern music against what's being pushed by the record companies you probably will be disappointed. 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, and until you've heard that song 100 times you don't know what will be considered good down the road. Chances are, it won't be the chart toppers either.
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Originally posted by: 13Gigatons
90's music sucks...the 70's was the best.

70's:

Black Sabbath
Led Zeppelin
Judas Priest
Deep Purple
Pink Floyd
Lynrd Skynrd
Queen
Van Halen


90's:

Metallica
Smashing Pumpkins
Blind Melon
Guns and Roses

Ever notice that their lead singers can't really sing compared to the 70's bands.
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Metallica was primarly 80s, since most things since then have sucked.
 
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?
 
have you ever heard of audioslave?

there is good music out there...not much though...and NOTHIGN like the oldies (van halen, led zeppelin, guns n roses.... 🙁 )
 
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?
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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.
 
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?
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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.
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BAN! The Monkeys are better than Pink Floyd? You have horrible taste in music. Go away, please.
 
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 $$$.
 
Bummer. Some of the artists I listened to 30+ years ago are STILL touring! Aerosmith, Blondie, Bowie, Clapton, Eagles, Eno, Floyd, Iggy, Ozzy, Roxy, Stones... 🙂
 
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 $$$.
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wow, i've never met someone who has listened to every piece of recorded music. But since you seem to have such a firm grasp on what is good and when it was good, i'm assuming you have.
 
Originally posted by: Inspector Jihad
Originally posted by: yosuke188
The new century marked the end of good music.
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this thread is a congregation of idiots
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see my sig to know all you need to know about todays music.
and yes, we are talking about the music you listen to. 🙂
 
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