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

[Alfred]

^Pretty solid list! I have a bunch of favorites as well that are fairly exclusive to my personal taste within the realm of this forum

[The Bullet]

Music has not gotten worse over time
Mainstreem music has

[Janszoon]

Originally Posted by The Bullet

Music has not gotten worse over time
Mainstreem music has

Did you know that Pat Boone was one of the biggest American pop stars of the 50s and 60s? True story.

[SlyStone63]

Originally Posted by The Bullet

Music has not gotten worse over time
Mainstreem music has

Perfect answer, the early 90s kick started that decline

Originally Posted by djchameleon

no way....the 90s R&B was pretty awesome

What you are calling R&B from pre-70s was pretty much just Soul imo.

90s rhythm and Blues was awesome?

The 60s-70s were golden era, how old are you?

Originally Posted by blastingas10

Im not sure. I kind of think the last era of good music was the 90s and everything from the 21st century has been crap. Im sure someone is going to say that its just an opinion and there is no such thing as good or bad music. That is true, but for the sake of the conversation, what do you guys think?

The 90s were terrible for music what are you taking?The 80s were the last great era if you ask me

Originally Posted by blastingas10

No i wasnt there but luckily I can still listen to the music. Im sure there are, but Traditional music isnt as strong as it use to be. Musicians were walking down the same traditional path for a while until the revolutionaries of the late 50s and 60s came along. It was those people who broke that traditional boundary and set off a creative revolution who really opened up that artistic freedom for music ever since. How can anyone deny that artists like The Velvet Underground, The Beatles, Jimi Hendrix, The Doors and Led Zeppelin, just to name a few, didnt change things? They certainly did, and their music remains very unique and creative to this day. They continue to inspire and they always will. I dont think many bands will ever be able to match the influence that bands like that had on music.



My parents lived through the sixties as well, and they think that the music was highly revolutionary. The sixties were a wild time and that had its affect on the music.

You weren't even alive in the 60s, stop talking about this revolutionary nonsense as if you lived it

[noise]

lots of old farts in this thread...

i was born in 78. perhaps this has something to do with the fact that i don't care for most music prior to about 1985. in fact, around half of my 150gb collection comes from the last decade. there is a tremendous amount of very good modern music out there.

modern jazz and funk, hip hop, trip hop, downbeat electronic, post rock... all infinitely better than the scream-in-your-ear uk garage punk garbage, or tripping balls love your neighbor 70s pop. and most especially that so called 'classic rock' which consists mostly of obnoxious chainsmokers grumbling about tequila and patriotism to the same guitar riffs over and over.

the variety of styles available today is absolutely astonishing. take some time and learn to appreciate something other than guitars with drums...

[Neapolitan]

Originally Posted by noise

i was born in 1878. perhaps this has something to do with the fact that i don't care for most music prior to about 1985. in fact, around half of my 150gb collection comes from the last decade. there is a tremendous amount of very good modern music out there.

modern jazz and funk, hip hop, trip hop, downbeat electronic, post rock... all infinitely better than the scream-in-your-ear uk garage punk garbage, or tripping balls love your neighbor 70s pop. and most especially that so called 'classic rock' which consists mostly of obnoxious chainsmokers grumbling about tequila and patriotism to the same guitar riffs over and over.

the variety of styles available today is absolutely astonishing. take some time and learn to appreciate something other than guitars with drums...

Garage Rock happened in the 60's* and Punk was a genre that started in the 70's, and Garbage was an Alternative Rock band in the 90's.

Originally Posted by *wiki

Garage rock is a raw form of rock and roll that was first popular in the United States and Canada from about 1963 to 1967.

It seems like you have this hostile attitude towards good music.

[duga]

This is all psychological. If you had never heard music before and started listening to stuff that is being put out now, you will think it is ****ing magical. Then, once you crave something new, you will inevitably look to the past for music you have never heard before. It has nothing to do with one decade being better than another, just what your personal tastes happen to be at the time. There was no one period of time where the musicians were much better than the best musicians of today.

[Janszoon]

Originally Posted by duga

This is all psychological. If you had never heard music before and started listening to stuff that is being put out now, you will think it is ****ing magical. Then, once you crave something new, you will inevitably look to the past for music you have never heard before. It has nothing to do with one decade being better than another, just what your personal tastes happen to be at the time. There was no one period of time where the musicians were much better than the best musicians of today.

Bingo!

[Neapolitan]

Originally Posted by duga

This is all psychological. If you had never heard music before and started listening to stuff that is being put out now, you will think it is ****ing magical.

That is not true, that is like saying if you never read French before when you pick up a French Novel it would magical - I doubt it. It's like a Catch-22 for music to sound magical you have to have some frame of reference, you had to hear music before, and develope your own musicality & critea of listening to music. A magical song only comes when you can compare it to other songs you heard before, and it blows your socks off because it sounds better.

Originally Posted by duga

Then, once you crave something new, you will inevitably look to the past for music you have never heard before.

I can't blindly agree with you like some people. There is two train of thoughts, one is delving into the past to learn about the history of music; the other is to stay with current music and ignore the past.

Originally Posted by duga

It has nothing to do with one decade being better than another, just what your personal tastes happen to be at the time. There was no one period of time where the musicians were much better than the best musicians of today.

Decade isn't really a good way to catagorize muisc, the end of one decade is entirely different then it's beginning, even from a economical, political or historical perspective. I think there are some periods that can be better then others, esp, when the period of time is known for a genre. That is because the continuity of musical ideas flow from one genre to the next, from one genreation to the next, each developing the some aspect of it through time. And there are like a nexus in musical history when everything clicks and it take on epic proportions, and the bands involve become stuff of legends. It happens all the time and most the time thats all people want to talk about is a band everyone heard; not a band like Pram or the Snowponies that no one heard about. But you have to admit some artist/bands that are called great in MB are not so great, like Michael Jackson or Bob Dylan or Lady Ga Ga or John Mayer - anyone saying those guys are good is blowing smoke up your ass. You can't cherry pick artist like say top artist in todays music are great because of Lady Ga Ga and John Mayer you have to go in the past and listen to all the bands together then realize yeah the 70's or the 80's were really awesome.

[duga]

^

Are you just trying to disagree with me? You reading so much into my post tells me you are.

Maybe to you a decade/point in time could be considered better than another because it is known for a certain genre of music you enjoy. We can all look back in awe at grunge, but I promise you the majority of people who grew up in the 70s/80s probably detested it (much like how I feel about emo these days).

But that is neither here nor there. I used the example of someone who had never heard music before listening to today's music as a simple frame of reference. Obviously, I didn't mean this applies to every human. For all we know, he could hate music in general. I also didn't feel the need to go into specifics about his musical journey, which I would assume would involve more discovery than just popping on the radio. Once he found the music he likes, he would find it magical, new, and totally original. Then, guess what? He wants a different band. Maybe something similar, maybe something totally different. After exhausting all his options on modern music, where to go? The past.

And your French analogy was horrendous. Learning a language and indulging in something so universal as music are two completely different things.