Do we need another Cold War in order for people to make Good Music again?

Back when we had that Cold War going on, music was excellent because the nuclear war could break out anytime so people wanted to make entertainment worth it.

Since the mid 90s music declined and now where at a bottom when it comes to the audiovisual arts.

Considering the options to make Music great again, we could do a purge (much like Stalin did) off all mainstream artists, then we have a void which will be filled with musical geniuses and from there on things would become excellent.

Also, we need to bring back Moog Synthesizers because they are rad!

Not all of the new music is bad

Just need to look a bit harder.
Maybe get a shovel so you can clear all the crap out of the way.

No offence, but most of the 80's sucked big time. And that's during the cold war.

Originally Posted by Manco

No offence, but most of the 80's sucked big time. And that's during the cold war.

Have to agree with you

Originally Posted by Manco

No offence, but some of the 80's sucked big time. And that's during the cold war.

Most of it was good and had good impact on the human mind, you cant however say that about todays music... which makes people very negative minded.

Originally Posted by Augment

Most of it was good and had good impact on the human mind, you cant however say that about todays music... which makes people very negative minded.

Seems to be a symptom of the human condition to consider things better in the past, there is allot of excellent music in the present. In fact if you been following the less mainstream areas of music i'd say 2005 - 2010 has been an incredibly fertile time for music in general. It been the 5 years in which people have finally begun to bridge the gap between traditional instruments and electronic instruments, it's been the years in which genre pigeon-holing is beginning to collapse in many areas.

That said it's also been the years in which N-Dubz and Soujaboy we're created.

Originally Posted by Augment

Most of it was good and had good impact on the human mind, you cant however say that about todays music... which makes people very negative minded.

no idea what ur talking about.

my main tastes tends to be in dnb and dubstep these days - and as ur bigging up the 70s (meh, 80s was mostly shite, some good rock ballads though and some other groovy stuff - hot tub time machine has helped repair my dislike for all things 80s), u will most likely despise both of the above genres and their many, many sub-genres and thus disregard them...but there's a hell of a lot of innovation in there.

other clubby-minded stuff as well that is not 'negative'...i mean wtf; where we u during the raving craze? House is nothing but positive!

Originally Posted by Manco

No offence, but most of the 80's sucked big time. And that's during the cold war.

Judas Priest, Iron Maiden, ACDC, Motorhead, Metallica
Your facts are wrong.

Originally Posted by saxdude

Judas Priest, Iron Maiden, ACDC, Motorhead, Metallica
Your facts are wrong.

Except for Motorhead I hate all those groups, and I don't like Motorhead that much either.
But I was thinking more of the awful pop music from the era.

I absolutely love Joy Division though.

how can anyone call label an entire decade of music good or bad?

It's ridiculous.

I mean obviously all Americans are idiots becase some of them are idiot enough to label entire decades bad.

Not all music Just look for the right bands and such

I think he means the New Wave music, Metalheads dont like New Wave because its sometimes too disco.

Im not sure if the term is too disco, its something alright though.

.............. to each his own then, i guess, but yeah i think we can all agree that 80 pop music sucked salty balls

New Wave changed the American culture too. It came from the hippie style of the 60s and the metal of the 70s into a style of glamor. Sure a lot of stuff was crap but we have people like

Genesis (and later Phil Collins solo)
Depeche Mode
Erasure
New Order
Eurythmics
Talking Heads
Gary Numan
Devo
Men At Work
Peter Gabriel
Tears for Fears
The Police
Duran Duran
R.E.M.
Blondie
Huey Lewis and the News

then of course the hair bands

All good stuff

the 80s had good music. Most people who think the 80s had terrible music hasn't listened to very much 80s music at all i had the same opinion of 80s music until i started listening to it.

The pop music of the 80s is just as bad as the pop music from any era. That is the most common music you will hear from any era.

Modern "rock" type music is terrible for the most part. It is mostly unskilled musicians singing in douchebag voices while smashing their instruments in unison such as this:



I know not all modern rock music is not like this obviously but this garbage is what is popular. Back in the day pop-rock type music would at least have people who had talent.

Originally Posted by Kanaric

the 80s had good music. Most people who think the 80s had terrible music hasn't listened to very much 80s music at all i had the same opinion of 80s music until i started listening to it.

The pop music of the 80s is just as bad as the pop music from any era. That is the most common music you will hear from any era.

Modern "rock" type music is terrible for the most part. It is mostly unskilled musicians singing in douchebag voices while smashing their instruments in unison such as this:



I know not all modern rock music is not like this obviously but this garbage is what is popular. Back in the day pop-rock type music would at least have people who had talent.

Your entire argument is invalidated by the fact you've used Arcade Fire as an example of bad music.

Originally Posted by Their Law

Your entire argument is invalidated by the fact you've used Arcade Fire as an example of bad music.

Hear hear, Arcade Fire is pretty awesome

Originally Posted by Kanaric

Modern "rock" type music is terrible for the most part. It is mostly unskilled musicians singing in douchebag voices while smashing their instruments in unison such as this:

1- Arcade Fire aren't rock, they've never claimed to be.

2- 80s music sucked big fat donkey balls.