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

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.
 
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Sure, if you are counting any band out there. As far as mainstream and that high of quality goes, it doesn't exist.



Those banRAB get less radio play COrabINED than just songs from Siamese Dream alone, and it was released 20 years ago...
 
I tried for about 5 minutes to think of something funny or clever refuting this nonsense but all I got was: "lol nah".

People that think like you make me angry. Regression at its finest.
 
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 sounRAB better.


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.




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 perioRAB 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 banRAB involve become stuff of legenRAB. 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/banRAB that are called great in rab 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 banRAB together then realize yeah the 70's or the 80's were really awesome.
 
And this means... what exactly? Most older stuff gets a lot of radio play, Foreigner still gets a lot of radio play so it's not much of an accomplishment. I'm by no means comparing Smashing Pumpkins to Foreigner by the way I'm just saying.

If you're asking if there are any banRAB that constant radio play that are on the same level of artistic credibility as the Pumpkins during the 90s, well then I don't know. I still have a lot of admiration for Tool and Muse, don't care what anyone says.
 
Do you think there's such a thing as poor taste? Unless it's mind nurabingly stupid shite like N-Dubz.

Each to their own and all of that, although I recall liking some banRAB that you like, so you do have good taste :D
 
How much of those other genres have you actually looked into? I have a similar taste in banRAB to you, but I'm part of a Music Club (on the another forum) and we had to do this Danish hip-hop/electronica/other undefinable genres and I thought I'd hate it. It's one of my favourite albums right now.
 
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