What ever happened to Music Eras
 

What ever happened to the era that would come into music every couple of years or so.

in the 60's we had the british invasion, psychedelical rock era
in the 70's we had the hard rock, glam rock, progressive,punk era's
in the 80's the new wave and hair band era's
in the 90's the grunge and britpop era.

this whole decade has been a decade of nothing, all the good bands have been pushed underground the same bands that would have been relvent in the 60's or 70's, while few have been able to remain commercial and be original. Record companies are in panic mode now, cd sales are decreasing every year and this is why they don't push talented artists like they do for there commercial crap.

Music will never be the same again and it sickens me.

welcome to the real age of DIY

if you don't like it. leave. hahaha

Even if this was true, you still have access to all the dynamite that came before. You don't have to follow the latest fad.

It's difficult to determine the era that we live in because we don't have the luxury of 20-30 years of dissection and analysis that allow us to define previous eras. The biggest challenge we face is deciding which trends are lasting and which are just fads. Give it a few decades and you'll get your label, even if it doesn't mean anything to people with a real love for music. Eras are idiotic in the first place, they place emphasis on one overreaching broad genre or movement while completely disregarding everything else that is going on throughout the music world as a whole.

Crap has always sold well and probably always will. Here's the best-selling albums in the US for each year of 1960s for example:

1960: The Sound of Music, Original Cast Recording.
1961: Camelot, Original Cast Recording.
1962: West Side Story Soundtrack.
1963: West Side Story Soundtrack.
1964: Hello, Dolly!, Original Cast Recording.
1965: Mary Poppins Soundtrack.
1966: Whipped Cream & Other Delights, by Herb Alpert & The Tijuana Brass.
1967: More of The Monkees, by The Monkees.
1968: Are You Experienced?, by The Jimi Hendrix Experience.
1969: In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida, by Iron Butterfly.

Note that 8 out of 10 of these are utter garbage.

Because music has become a huge combination of all the music era's. You've got bands combining genres to sound new and different. I think that alot of stuff is Indie now. We haven't seen many new and very popular bands come up in the past decade, and who knows what our new decade will bring?

If I see one more person in this thread sticking an apostrophe in the word "eras" I think I'm going to lose my marbles.

not a fan of musicals I see...

seems to me most of those eras also happen to be the defining element of the adolescent revolution of the day.

so... while my Strat is a teenager now, it doesn't talk. so what's the revolution now? the right to limitation free downloads of every form of media ever?

i was only half joking in my initial post. i really think the current musical Era will actually be far more significant than the teenaged revolutions that came before it. the internet is helping the Do It Yourself movement evolve into something more. the reduction in price of technology and the increase in means to acquire said technology also lowers the bar on who gets to make music. i don't think it's a bad thing.



and Herb Alpert kicks ass

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