An Infinite Number Of Things That Pisses Me Off About Music - Music Banter Music Banter

Go Back   Music Banter > The Music Forums > General Music
Register Blogging Today's Posts
Welcome to Music Banter Forum! Make sure to register - it's free and very quick! You have to register before you can post and participate in our discussions with over 70,000 other registered members. After you create your free account, you will be able to customize many options, you will have the full access to over 1,100,000 posts.

Reply
 
Thread Tools Display Modes
Old 10-23-2008, 10:50 AM   #1511 (permalink)
Mate, Spawn & Die
 
Janszoon's Avatar
 
Join Date: May 2007
Location: The Rapping Community
Posts: 24,593
Default

Quote:
Originally Posted by Zombeels View Post
Well I can see why people like shltty 80's music when they don't like 60's music.
I do like 60s music. I just thought your list didn't make a very convincing argument for the 60s being so amazing. As I said it seemed like a really generic list.

Quote:
Originally Posted by mr dave View Post
fair. i'm just trying to show why there will always be people who roll their eyes at the 80s. yeah there was LOTS of good music out there, but most people didn't really get a chance to enjoy it until the late 90s. i guess it's the difference of remembering the 80s for what they were at the time vs. looking back at the 80s through what has become available.
I first started buying music in the mid 80s and I certainly don't remember it being hard to find good music. It's true people back then didn't have the internet resources we have now (which of course was also true in the 70s, 60s, 50s, etc., even the most of the 90s) but college radio was a big source of music exposure for me as was the fairly wide variety of music magazines at the time. If you wanted something you didn't see on the shelves of your local music store, you just ordered it. It wasn't that hard. And keep in mind that there were actually more little local music stores back then than there are now, since MP3s have pretty much killed that industry.

Last edited by Janszoon; 10-23-2008 at 11:11 AM.
Janszoon is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 10-23-2008, 04:11 PM   #1512 (permalink)
nothing
 
mr dave's Avatar
 
Join Date: Mar 2008
Location: everywhere
Posts: 4,315
Default

Quote:
Originally Posted by Janszoon View Post

I first started buying music in the mid 80s and I certainly don't remember it being hard to find good music. It's true people back then didn't have the internet resources we have now (which of course was also true in the 70s, 60s, 50s, etc., even the most of the 90s) but college radio was a big source of music exposure for me as was the fairly wide variety of music magazines at the time. If you wanted something you didn't see on the shelves of your local music store, you just ordered it. It wasn't that hard. And keep in mind that there were actually more little local music stores back then than there are now, since MP3s have pretty much killed that industry.
right. but, if you weren't in a relatively urban area (or on its outskirts) you wouldn't have access to that college station. can't order what you don't know exists, and it's not like columbia house carried every label out there.

the small stores were great but they also had to turn a profit so they couldn't really just fill their shelves with whatever they thought was good instead of what they knew would sell, again it depends on the area.

the 80s weren't a total wasteland but i'm sure you'll agree where you lived played a far more significant factor in what you were able to hear than it does now.
__________________
i am the universe

Quote:
Originally Posted by bandteacher1 View Post
I type whicked fast,
mr dave is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 10-23-2008, 04:27 PM   #1513 (permalink)
Ba and Be.
 
jackhammer's Avatar
 
Join Date: May 2007
Location: This Is England
Posts: 17,331
Default

I guess because of the sheer size of America, it was a lot more difficult for bands to (metaphorically) spread their wings in the 80's. Although British radio was extremely limited in the 80's we had the luxury of John Peel and a smaller land mass so bands were more accessible to us. Not excessively so I hasten to add but the means were there if you cared to look.
__________________

“A cynic by experience, a romantic by inclination and now a hero by necessity.”
jackhammer is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 10-23-2008, 04:41 PM   #1514 (permalink)
Music Addict
 
Minstrel's Avatar
 
Join Date: Aug 2008
Posts: 436
Default

John Peel's DJing is something I, as an American, greatly envy in the UK. The idea of radio being a vehicle for a personality you cared about and an exploration of music, mainstream or underground, is almost alien to me.
__________________
"Blow your tuneless trumpet, the choice is yours / We don't want the glamour, the pomp and the drums / The Dublin messiah scattering crumbs"
Minstrel is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 10-23-2008, 07:21 PM   #1515 (permalink)
Music Addict
 
Zombeels's Avatar
 
Join Date: Mar 2008
Posts: 339
Default

Quote:
Originally Posted by Janszoon View Post
I do like 60s music. I just thought your list didn't make a very convincing argument for the 60s being so amazing. As I said it seemed like a really generic list.
Generic. I listed some really great artists from the 60's. Unlike the 80's you don't have to search for obscure or non mainstream acts to find good music from the 60's. I'm sure if I listed Rockadrome or Plastic Cloud, 99% of the people here would say who?
__________________
What It Is
Zombeels is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 10-24-2008, 12:02 AM   #1516 (permalink)
Mate, Spawn & Die
 
Janszoon's Avatar
 
Join Date: May 2007
Location: The Rapping Community
Posts: 24,593
Default

Quote:
Originally Posted by mr dave View Post
right. but, if you weren't in a relatively urban area (or on its outskirts) you wouldn't have access to that college station. can't order what you don't know exists, and it's not like columbia house carried every label out there.

the small stores were great but they also had to turn a profit so they couldn't really just fill their shelves with whatever they thought was good instead of what they knew would sell, again it depends on the area.
That's where ordering albums comes in. I didn't live in an urban area growing up, I lived in the suburbs, but I was still able to find good stuff. And even if you lived out in the sticks somewhere I'm sure you could find albums by the likes of the Pixies or Jane's Addiction or Talking Heads or Love and Rockets at the local mall.

Quote:
the 80s weren't a total wasteland but i'm sure you'll agree where you lived played a far more significant factor in what you were able to hear than it does now.
Let's keep in mind that the 80s are being contrasted here with Zombeels' 60s. Do you really think it was easier to find cool obscure stuff in the 60s than it was in the 80s?

Quote:
Originally Posted by Zombeels View Post
Generic. I listed some really great artists from the 60's.
Like Cream? Are you kidding me?

Quote:
Originally Posted by Zombeels View Post
Unlike the 80's you don't have to search for obscure or non mainstream acts to find good music from the 60's.
I would say it's about the same. The 60s had some good pop music: the Beach Boys, the Zombies, Dick Dale. The 80s had some good pop music: REM, New Order, the Smiths. But in both decades the best stuff flew in a bit under the radar.
Janszoon is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 10-24-2008, 02:04 PM   #1517 (permalink)
This Space for Rent
 
Brad Stengel's Avatar
 
Join Date: Aug 2008
Location: Boston, MA
Posts: 815
Default

Quote:
Originally Posted by Zombeels View Post
Generic. I listed some really great artists from the 60's. Unlike the 80's you don't have to search for obscure or non mainstream acts to find good music from the 60's. I'm sure if I listed Rockadrome or Plastic Cloud, 99% of the people here would say who?
Yeah but that has absolutely nothing to do with the argument. The issue is over quality of music, which has nothing to do with availability. Now if we were discussing the quality of mainstream music, then I would agree, the sixties were far superior. Although we have to keep in mind, what gets played on the radio from the sixties now is very different from what was played back then. Jimi Hendrix, for example, wasn't all that popular back then compared to what he's grown to today. And bands that may seem somewhat mainstream now, or at least very close to the surface of the underground, like The Velvet Underground, were very unpopular at the time.

In conclusion, timeframes are moot. Every decade has its fair share of great music, and shit. And in 50 years, on a forum just like this, ALL of our opinions will be obsolete, because fans of music from the 2030's will be arguing with people who thought the last good record ever made was "The Future" by the band ROBOTS, made in 2016.
__________________
These is the musics I own:
http://rateyourmusic.com/collection/BradStengel/oo
Brad Stengel is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 10-24-2008, 02:10 PM   #1518 (permalink)
____
 
FaSho's Avatar
 
Join Date: Jul 2008
Location: NC
Posts: 5,279
Default

I love you Wayfarer.
__________________
Quote:
Originally Posted by Janszoon View Post
What? No. No. No. No no no.
FaSho is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 10-24-2008, 02:12 PM   #1519 (permalink)
This Space for Rent
 
Brad Stengel's Avatar
 
Join Date: Aug 2008
Location: Boston, MA
Posts: 815
Default

Quote:
Originally Posted by Wayfarer View Post
who fucking cares?

seriously.

NO WAI THE '80S WERE SO MUCH BETTER
NO THE '60S WERE OMG

shut the fuck up already. you come into this thread to read some humorous rants and all you get is a bunch of ego-tripping pricks bickering over which decade of music was superior.
If you actually read my post, you would see that I was saying the same thing you are. Arguing over which decades have higher quality is pointless.

But instead let's bitch about people bitching in a thread where the entire point is to bitch about things, seeing as the title is "Things that piss me off about music".
__________________
These is the musics I own:
http://rateyourmusic.com/collection/BradStengel/oo
Brad Stengel is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 10-24-2008, 02:14 PM   #1520 (permalink)
____
 
FaSho's Avatar
 
Join Date: Jul 2008
Location: NC
Posts: 5,279
Default

Well you have to consider the arguement had almost nothing to do with an item on the list.
__________________
Quote:
Originally Posted by Janszoon View Post
What? No. No. No. No no no.
FaSho is offline   Reply With Quote
Reply


Similar Threads



© 2003-2024 Advameg, Inc.