What's up with modern music?
 

Have you noticed that modern music is kind of stuck? There are no (or very few) remarkable bands and most have fallen back to covers or commercial productions... not to mention the boom of dance and pop music. We might be standing before a turning point in music history, waiting for the great bands to make a breakthrough in the monotonous situation we are all going through, like bands such as guns n roses, pink floyd, the beatles, etc., did in their time. Think about it...

you just havent been listening to the right bands

Yeah there are plenty around, you just have to look hard enough. And as for the turning point in music history thing, I dont think the actual state of music is that much different, just the music.. If that makes sense to anyone apart from me.

I don't like old music.

good point Frost.

No

no. modern music has its bad bits and great bits just like every other era of music. white stripes, radiohead, brmc, 22/20s, mars volta, qotsa and rise against are all great modern bands to me. and theres in influx of solo artists coming through too, willy mason, elliot smith was great, jared cohen, joel wickering are all good if unknown artists. i must say, i do have a soft spot for the classic stuff and ultimately i do prefer it to modern stuff, but i still love a lot of new music. would you class the stone roses, oasis, blur, PJ harvey, nirvana and co as modern?

i agree with redbassgirl.

Oh yeah, since dance and pop music is a new thing...*cough, if the Beatles aren't pop, then what is?

I think that rock is allot more preffered than pop today. I just think its more diverse.
And when did the MODERN era begin. Id say the 80's cause thats the last time anything really different happened. (You wait for Urban Hatemonger to disagree) So if you look at modern music from the 80's its kinda cool: 2Pac. Queen, Ozzy, Nirvana, G 'n' R and so on. Todays music is okay. We've still got Ozzy, Manson, I think modern music is kinda cool. Its live any other music era, has highs and lows.

The only people who think music is stuck are people who complain that there are no 'huge' bands like the ones you mentioned.

Since when did someone have to sell 10-15 million records for it to be a good album?

I think some of the biggest selling records & bands are crap , I wouldn`t listen to Hotel ****ing California or anything by the Eagles if I was forced to at gunpoint.

So we don`t have the massive rock bands of old .....good , their time is in the 70s. Music & technology is evolving.Anyone can make music now , it keeps music fresh. I like the thought of people who 30 years ago wouldn`t have got a chance to sell music they`ve made can now do so. I`d much rather listen to them than some drug addled millioniare rock star who`s not had a dose of reality since his first album & who has absolutly nothing to say.