The Official "Music Was So Much Better in the Glorious Days of Yore" Thread

[someonecompletelyrandom]

Originally Posted by amiey.d2010

We can't enjoy the true sounds of music until we here something thats for real not just made!!

What? So tell me, what is electronica? Is it fake? What is hip-hop? Fake?

Something doesn't have to be acoustic to be "real". It's about the sound of the music, not how the music was made (most of the time... Opera or other genres that pride themselves on the vocal talent of a person). Pop music isn't about whether or not they can really sing, which by the way, most can sing... maybe not as well as it comes off on record.

[Janszoon]

Originally Posted by lucifer_sam

Haha, this thread has been effective already.

It's all going according to plan. Muhahahahahaha!

[boo boo]

Musical instruments are fake too, only real music comes from the body, like farts.

Originally Posted by Neapolitan

Not necessarily true, I heard some new sounds being explored that were just plain awful. Know what I like better then new sounds being explored is old sounds being explored, like the Post Punk Revival and Garage Rock Revival.

Eh. Post Punk for me is either fantastic or overrated, unbearable racket.

I put Joy Division, The Cure, Wire, Gang of Four, Public Image Ltd and Killing Joke in the former, Ecco & The Bunneymen and Jesus and Mary Chain in the latter. I don't really have an opinion on The Fall. By far the worst band to ever come out of this movement though is The Raincoats, good holy god.

Most post punk revivalism I've heard is absolutely rancid. Please, SOMEBODY STOP BRANDON FLOWERS, BEFORE HE RECORDS AGAIN!!!

[mrguy]

I get sick of people in the older generation who hear a song on the radio and go "WTF? This is music? Ugh".
Personally, i hate 90+ percent of the mainstream radio crap, but they all liked the radio crap when they were young, and their parents would of said the exact same. Thankfully, i listen to a mix of old and new music so my parents don't get pissed off at it .
I just hope i don't become one of those people who say "Old is good. new is crap"

[Neapolitan]

Originally Posted by boo boo

Eh. Post Punk for me is either fantastic or overrated, unbearable racket.

That is so true about every type of music in every era - the good, the bad and the over-rated. What should happen hypothetically is the unbearable racket gets filtered out & forgotten and the cream of the crop gets saved & remembered. But sometimes that isn't the case.

Originally Posted by Janszoon

It's all going according to plan. Muhahahahahaha!

I hate to break it to you but the whole world thinks that way, that music was better back in the day, just read these testimonies and at the end if you are not convinced, then nothing will.

Originally Posted by Rubberchicken

Try before you buy exactly, it's not our fault that most music these days isn't worth buying..right. Well thats the excuse I use.

Originally Posted by johnanthonyp

Without sounding Narcissistic about ones own era, these were great days- you couldn't? predict music- It was planned from garages around the nation by a creative youth- not by controlling corporate pigs YouTube - x ray spex - world turned dayglo

Originally Posted by CMob09

The 90's revolution theme song ! The early 90's was a bit like the 60's glad to have been a teen gowing up through that time, feel sorry for the poor kids now who are growing up with all that? rap crap and knife stupidness ! YouTube - Soup Dragons - "I'm Free"

Originally Posted by ALEXTHECATYEAH

proper music when MUSIC was MUSIC? not skinny people u never heard of dancing around in a thong. GO MUSIC FROM 90s 80s 70s 60s¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬
YouTube - THE HOUSEMARTINS-Happy Hour

Originally Posted by ikheetkai

Why can't all the music be like this? Just pure. Now most of the time music is so fake, all computerwork.? I'm only 16 years old, but I love it!

Originally Posted by kelsmart

@ikheetkai Reading comments like yours makes me have some faith in humanity again. I'm 20 and usually feel utterly alienated from other people around my age because? I'd rather listen to Echo and the Bunneymen or X-ray Spex or the Buzz****s over Lady Gaga

Originally Posted by wobblydangly

i'm only 16 and? love this music. Why can't today's singers sing like this. Amazing esp 2.41
YouTube - The Buzz****s Ever fallen in love

Originally Posted by anonymous

anyway...their seems to be a lull in music these days maybe a new form of punk is needed again to stir things up!

[duga]

^

Wow, you put a lot of time into that. It doesn't change what I was arguing earlier. Everyone seems to be talking about what is popular.

I challenge every person on this planet to actually take some time, do some research, and look for music a little bit deeper. You will find music that is just as good as anything you may like from an earlier decade.

Please, I'm begging you to think stop thinking so narrowly. Imagine yourself in the 70's...no doubt what was popular then, in my opinion, is better than what is popular now. But there was still ****. There was still excellent excellent music no one even remembers. Either way you cut it, this argument will be true so if you were living in the 70's (or whatever decade you like the most), so you would probably be walking around saying the same stuff you are today.

[someonecompletelyrandom]

I got very pissed reading all of those... atleast they were all one post wonders anyway and will never be back again (hopefully).

[Nine Black Poppies]

Originally Posted by duga

Everyone seems to be talking about what is popular.

This is definitely an important distinction that doesn't seem to be being made much.

I mean, look at, say the Billboard charts for any given year and you'll find a hell of a lot of fluff--"Sugar, Sugar" by the Archies (1969), "Tonight's the Night" by Rod Stewart (1977), "To Sir With Love" by Lulu (1967) were all the #1 songs for their respective years--all music I'd wager that contemporary people complained about the same way we're all bitching now. And a large quantity of music considered the creme of the crop of their era was essentially unnoticed by popular consciousness at the time.

I've said it before and I'll say it again, the past dozen or so years have radically shifted the way music is released and absorbed, as well. There's SO MUCH out there now, so much easy access to such a mind-bending array of different musical ideas, that any generalization about the state of modern music, especially to bemoan it for a lack of... well, frankly, anything... just seems like laziness. And not just laziness, but laziness attempting to justify itself with a comfortable elitism.

I wouldn't get on such a high horse about that, except that that kind of negativity in an artistic community makes it that much harder for that community to thrive. If one assumes that good music (however one defines that) isn't being produced, it's that much more unlikely one will find it when it is, that music doesn't get supported and ultimately either flounders, continues to live in obscurity or changes into something else, leading to more people bitching about it not being out there.

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[Rickenbacker]

Originally Posted by Nine Black Poppies

"To Sir With Love" by Lulu (1967)

To Sir, With Love is one of the best pop songs ever.

[Nine Black Poppies]

I actually like that one quite a lot too (actually I kinda like all 3 of the songs I mentioned). But my point about it stands.