Does the music of this decade suck?

I don't care about the music on the bestselling charts, but thanks to Internet and sites like www.melodicrock.com I can often find new bands playing the music I like. The only thing that sucks today is that I think many bands doesn't get the attention they deserve, because they play "wrong" music.

I think you have a good point. I think the music industry itself is more controlling now than what it was, so the industry only pushes music that is acceptable for a mainstream pallette.
 
You know what I hate? That I'm a black guy who listens to Jet, and yet I can't talk about it with one of my friends because all of the rock bands he listens to sound like Fall Out Boy. He even went as far as to say he can't stand Jet. Jet!

Being a black kid who dabbled into pop-rock during the 90s was fun. You had your ska-influenced rock with Sugar Ray and No Doubt (not this trash Gwen has been peddling out solo). The Presidents of the United States were good, if only because they were fun to listen to. There were those first few albums by the Foo Fighters. And dear god, when did the Red Hot Chili Peppers start to get boring?

Then you've got your hip-hop/rap scene. I was never a fan of gangsta rap, so I loved those lulls during the 90s where we'd get a good party/club anthem. Gangsta rap always got the same dull reaction: look as hard as possible while only nodding your head. But the house party songs? Those always made everyone stand up and go "ahhhhhhh!!!" In that respect, I think I miss the 80s even more... and I was born in 1984.

Today? If it's not the crunk songs, it's the hyphie songs. And I live in the San Francisco area, so we basically started the hyphie movement. There's nothing quite like music that sounds like it was made for drunken dudes on E to dance to.

R&B is on the up, though. We no longer have men who cry/whine their way through every damn song, like Keith Sweat or Wanya from Boyz II Men. We seem to have traded in Jon B for Robin Thicke as our obligatory white boy, so I can live with that. And that Neo-Soul movement that D'Angelo and Maxwell made popular in the 90s is continuing on through Musiq Soulchild and Jill Scott. The only downside is the lack of Babyface, but he was a crook, anyway.

I'm getting to be such a crotchety old man, and I'm only 22.

You kids go on and listen to your Fall Out Boys and your Lil Jons. I'll be on the sofa, watchin' my stories.
 
I haven't heard of about half of those. I like what I've heard of Bloc Party. Maybe I'll give the rest a listen.

I am a really big music fan and go to a lot of gigs and festivals. There are good bands out thre but some times you have to look for them. Every music artist has to start somewhere so more people should check out their local music scene. I live in the suburbs of south london and I'm lucky cause I can go into the city any given night and see a really good singer or band play.

The sunshine undergroud has the greatest cowbell playing I've seen since Will Farrell :woot:
 
today's mainstream sucks, i'm not one for pussycat dolls and stuff and that's all you hear in most clubs. It makes me want to kill people :(
 
In all fairness...

Pussycat Dolls = Spice Girls
 
Every decade has its crappy bubblegum pop. When Madonna first came out, she was no different from Britney Spears or Jessica Simpson. We had some of the first boy bands, like Menudo. We had Cindy Lauper and Nina Hagen, for Chrissakes...


PRINCE
MICHAEL JACKSON
LIONEL RITCHIE
SADE
DURAN DURAN
THE FIX
GEORGE MICHAEL
CAMEO
GAP BAND
LEVEL 42
JOAN JETT
SPRINGSTEEN
DAVID BOWIE
PUBLIC ENEMY
LL COOL J
GUY (NEW JACK SWING)
TONY TONI TONE
RUN DMC
AEROSMITH
POISON
MOTLEY CRUE
VAN HALEN
WHODINI
MORRIS DAY & THE TIME
RICK "FRIKKIN' JAMES
LUTHER VANDROSS
STEVIE WONDER

And I could keep going...
Most of those are headed for the Hall of Fame or are already there. Music wasn't all computerized like it is now. Almost everything is a sample.

LONG LIVE THE 80'S.....
 
spice girls were better, they were british
True, but at least the Pussycat Dolls don't spit semi-feminist platitudes like "girl power" while they dance around like ****es. The Dolls know they're ho's. They used to dance for cash.
 
I´m gonna say what I can´t stand anymore... Looks like every song on the current top ten is people bragging about how hot and sexy they are - all right Fergie, you´re a hot chick, we get the frikking message - and rappers glorifying the same capitalist system that keeps most of their brothers in poverty - I don´t have a Lamborghini Gallardo and I don´t give a **** that you rappers do...
 
MANIC: Then you've got your hip-hop/rap scene. I was never a fan of gangsta rap, so I loved those lulls during the 90s where we'd get a good party/club anthem. Gangsta rap always got the same dull reaction: look as hard as possible while only nodding your head. But the house party songs? Those always made everyone stand up and go "ahhhhhhh!!!" In that respect, I think I miss the 80s even more... and I was born in 1984.



:woot: :woot: :woot: LOL
 
PRINCE
MICHAEL JACKSON
LIONEL RITCHIE
SADE
DURAN DURAN
THE FIX
GEORGE MICHAEL
CAMEO
GAP BAND
LEVEL 42
JOAN JETT
SPRINGSTEEN
DAVID BOWIE
PUBLIC ENEMY
LL COOL J
GUY (NEW JACK SWING)
TONY TONI TONE
RUN DMC
AEROSMITH
POISON
MOTLEY CRUE
VAN HALEN
WHODINI
MORRIS DAY & THE TIME
RICK "FRIKKIN' JAMES
LUTHER VANDROSS
STEVIE WONDER

And I could keep going...
Most of those are headed for the Hall of Fame or are already there. Music wasn't all computerized like it is now. Almost everything is a sample.

LONG LIVE THE 80'S.....

are you joking. pretty much everything had a synthaersizer in the 80's
 
True, but at least the Pussycat Dolls don't spit semi-feminist platitudes like "girl power" while they dance around like ****es. The Dolls know they're ho's. They used to dance for cash.

Yeah, and I distinctly remember advertising and media comparing them and N´Sync to Beatles which is the musical equivalent to comparing Hitler to Ghandi...
 
so, mainstream usually equals crap, that's all, just lissen to what people don't lissen and it's allright
 
so, mainstream usually equals crap, that's all, just lissen to what people don't lissen and it's allright

Kinda, usually there´s one or two good songs on the top 40. The rest is unbearable.
 
The 70's were the golden era of music, in all forms. It's all about money now.
 
I can only think of one great rock band and thats the Arcade Fire,

We need the old Guns N Roses back.
 
True, but at least the Pussycat Dolls don't spit semi-feminist platitudes like "girl power" while they dance around like ****es. The Dolls know they're ho's. They used to dance for cash.

LOL

:woot:
 
This was the decade of Justified and FutureSex/LoveSounds, so no. I disagree.
 

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