A point I'd like to make about "terrible" modern music

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  1.  removeduser_4536284751384 said: December 11, 2010 04:35 PM

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    This forum has an awful lot of posts critisizing how awful music "is becoming".

    The fact is, most music has always been crap. It's not changing, it's staying the same. Only a small percentage of songs at any time are very good. Ask anyone over 60 and they will confirm this.

    Ok, maybe people are starting to like crap music more thanks to media brainwashing, but there has always been a lot of crap music. It's not like there isn't any good music at the moment. I like many songs that were released in 2010, although I despise more, and it has always been that way - this isn't a new phenomenon.
     

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    boofhead said: December 11, 2010 04:38 PM

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    As people get older they forget the crappier songs of their day, and only remember the good ones they still hear, or own, or remind them of personal times. Then they listen to the radio or whatever these days and think 'Jesus Christ what a load of !' because it isn't reduced to the classics yet.

    After all you never hear ''Top Ten Awful Songs of the 70s'', do you?
     

  3. Thorn777 said: December 11, 2010 06:03 PM

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    Randarkmaan said: December 11, 2010 06:14 PM

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    Agree. Just ranted in the 'dying music' thread.

    This is basically a repeat of the 60's parents who yell at their kids to keep that infernal noise down. Except it's now done by young people who have copied their parents' taste in music and yap at everything that came after as crap. Many adults (proper grown up adult that is) actually don't seem to be all that judgemental, but what do I know, I just listened to electronica with my dad yesterday, and his favourite music is 30's jazz and 60's/70's rock (as far as I have picked up)
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    The Million Dollar Prons said: December 11, 2010 08:44 PM

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    The problem is, we can look back at a particular decade and look past the junk.

    If you hear most people talk about the 1990s for example, you'd think it was 10 years of Alice in Chains, Metallica, White Zombie etc. When in reality Boyz II Men and TLC were topping the charts.

    20 years from now people will look back on this decade and remember the White Stripes, Weezer and so on, not so much Jojo.

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    Ulyaoth said: December 11, 2010 08:57 PM

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    Weezer and the white stripes are what I hate of this decade. The best new music is coming from the same good bands from the 90s, all the new ones suck.
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    EireEmerald said: December 12, 2010 05:16 AM

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    Quote Originally Posted by Ulyaoth View Post
    Weezer and the white stripes are what I hate of this decade. The best new music is coming from the same good bands from the 90s, all the new ones suck.

    There were some great bands in the 00s, stop making simplistic sweeping statements.
     

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    Ulyaoth said: December 12, 2010 11:42 AM

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    Quote Originally Posted by EireEmerald View Post
    There were some great bands in the 00s, stop making simplistic sweeping statements.
    There's not a single band that emerged in the 00s that was any good, it's not a simplistic sweeping statement, it's fact.
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  9. Thorn777 said: December 12, 2010 12:00 PM

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    Quote Originally Posted by Ulyaoth View Post
    There's not a single band that emerged in the 00s that was any good, it's not a simplistic sweeping statement, it's fact.
    Maybe turn of MTV and take walk in the liberal part of town.

    There is a tremendous amount of good old fashioned bands from rock'n roll to blues doing their thing, but not that well known, apart from the circuit doing gigs in front of 100 people etc and still selling tapes or CD's from their car-trunk.
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    chilon said: December 12, 2010 02:02 PM

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    Quote Originally Posted by Ulyaoth View Post
    There's not a single band that emerged in the 00s that was any good, it's not a simplistic sweeping statement, it's fact.

    "band" is fairly limited category in a day and age when many amazing musicians do not form "bands".

    There have been plenty of amazing musicians who emerged in the 00s from electronica producers to classical guitarists.
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    eric2min said: December 12, 2010 05:32 PM

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    Quote Originally Posted by Ulyaoth View Post
    There's not a single band that emerged in the 00s that was any good, it's not a simplistic sweeping statement, it's fact.
    the strokes, interpol, arcade fire? at least their debut albums.
     

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    Big War Bird said: December 12, 2010 06:52 AM

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    This decade and the next has Taylor Swift - therefore modern music is the best ever.




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    Katsumoto said: December 12, 2010 08:22 AM

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    I don't really understand the hate for 'Modern Music'. I don't really think the hate stems from the music actually being bad per se, since it still sounds pretty good/decent, I think it's just people disliking because, for example, their favourite band isn't as famous as, say, Justin Bieber, or maybe they just dislike the way a certain person behaves etc.
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    Dubh the dark said: December 12, 2010 08:35 AM

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    I think though a lot of bands, that are a little different, are not necessarily being picked up by labels due to declining profits. The labels are betting on what they feel will sell and that may stagnate music to a point, but the underground is thriving because equipment is cheaper, it's now easy to professionally home record and travel is so cheap, bands can tour anywhere. It's more an issue of promoting original music to people, that's where the major labels have the market cornered. People are just as creative as ever.
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    ♔Goodguy1066♔ said: December 12, 2010 11:56 AM

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    There are more bad songs on mainstream radio than there were in the 60's, and there are more people who enjoy these sorts of songs than there were in the 60's.
    Also, there are many good singers who don't get a chance because they aren't pretty enough for today's standards, and thus there are many bad singers who get too much fame because they are attractive.

    It's not that music is getting worse, it's that the good songs and bands are drowned in a sea of Lady Gaga and Justin Bieber and youths with baggy trousers and bizzare hairdos ordering you to go slaughter a goat.
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  16. removeduser_4536284751384 said: December 12, 2010 02:00 PM

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    Quote Originally Posted by ♔Goodguy1066♔ View Post
    It's not that music is getting worse, it's that the good songs and bands are drowned in a sea of Lady Gaga
    what's wrong with lady gaga?
     

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    ♔Goodguy1066♔ said: December 12, 2010 02:03 PM

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    Quote Originally Posted by irelandeb View Post
    what's wrong with lady gaga?
    What isn't wrong with Lady Gaga?
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    Walruses use their iconic long tusks for a variety of reasons, each of which makes their lives in the Arctic a bit easier. They use them to haul their enormous bodies out of frigid waters, thus their "tooth-walking" label, and to break breathing holes into ice from below. Their tusks, which are found on both males and females, can extend to about three feet (one meter), and are, in fact, large canine teeth, which grow throughout their lives. Male walruses, or bulls, also employ their tusks aggressively to maintain territory and, during mating season, to protect their harems of females, or cows.
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    Ulyaoth said: December 12, 2010 12:04 PM

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    No, all those bands suck too, I've heard plenty of them.
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  19. Thorn777 said: December 12, 2010 12:33 PM

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    Not possible.
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    Ulyaoth said: December 12, 2010 12:34 PM

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    I live in Brooklyn man, Williamsburg is the world capital of crappy indie music, I've seen plenty, and have yet to see any good.
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