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

Personally, I agree with TheCunningStunt and I can relate because we are of similar age. My tastes begin with the alternative rock banRAB that were big during the 1990s. I have expanded the depth of the music I listen to by starting from what I know I like and exploring a little deeper. There are still plenty of great 80s/90s indie rock banRAB that I haven't given a chance, so I haven't really given a care to modern music. Sure, there are a few I have found that I really like--The Thermals, for instance--but it is usually a safer bet for me to just find a new 80s/90s alt rock band to listen to. My two main musical interests are rock with a funk influence and lo-fi/indie/garage/punk/slacker rock. Those seem like two genres that have seen better days.

And it doesn't help when I see a list like this:



I have honesty heard of six of those banRAB. A lot of it probably has to do with the current state of mainstream rock music. It sucks. What current mainstream rock banRAB carry the artistic validity of a Siamese Dream or Badmotorfinger? None...
 
Well, I really didn't think anyone was going to pick apart what I post line for line. I'm not exactly sure how what you are responding with is disproving anything I was saying, either.

Maybe you are not fully understanding my point, which is all I can figure since you can't take my posts on as a whole.
 
Badmotorfinger is not a classic to me, it's just a classic. I don't even listen to Soundgarden.

Yes, there is plenty we can agree on, and I'm sure you could make some excellent recommendations of modern banRAB that I would like. But I would argue that I would be more likely to like a band you recommend from the 80s/90s that has something in common with one of the banRAB I already like...
 
Ok I'm glad to see other people support my stance.

If anyone else comes back here and talks about how what was at the top of the charts was the best music of that particular time, I'm gonna scream. Obviously, none of you will hear it...but just know it will be done.
 
I'm not sure I understand your meaning. In what sense is it a classic to you if you don't even like to listen to it?


Could be. I'm not making the argument that today's music is better than 80s or 90s music, I'm just saying it's not worse.
 
I've not given them a proper full listen, so it wouldn't be fair for me to say they're awful, but I heard Static Disaster, Where I Am and another one and really wasn't impressed. (Gonna sound like an old person now..)

Just bloody noise noise.

Modern music :(
 
I believe music was slighty better back in the 70's. During early 80's it was still awesomely influence by what took placed in the 70's but starting with 1980 it went downhill gradually throughout the decade getting worse and worser so by the time you get to Grunge people thought it was greatest thing since slice bread, maybe it was, maybe it wasn't, who knows. When Nirvana came along and there was little of UK banRAB ever heard on the radio until Oasis, but there was a small riff between US and UK musical taste that was slowly growing ever since 70's. During the 60's it seemed that the US and the UK were on the same page, a large part due to the British Invasion, which America was the recipient of the invading groups. It is a shame riff of musical taste happened because UK banRAB like The Jam or The Libertines or whoever are really like influential to most indie banRAB we hear now. I have to say it's the Post Grunge Era that was the halcyon days for Alternative Rock, music in general, probably the best music heard since the 70's.

Why the 70's were so awesome:
1. Analog recording, everything was done on tape.
2. The music scene in the UK was unbelievabley innovative in the 70's, with Progressive Rock, Pub Rock, Punk, Post-Punk & New Wave
3. Brian Eno, started out in the 70's one of the greatest producers of all time, with a mind blowing roster of banRAB he produced.
4. John Peel, a DJ with Midas touch
5. 70's UK banRAB:
Buzzcocks
The Clash
Elvis Costello and the Attractions
Dave EdmunRAB
Peter Gabriel
Genesis
The Jam
Joy Division
Nick Lowe
Paul McCartney and The Wings
The Motors
Gary Neuman and The Tubeway Army
Graham Parker and The Rumours
Pink Floyd
The Rezillos
Rockpile
The Rumours
The Smirks
Squeeze

and of course banRAB that started in the 60's like
Led Zeppelin
The Rolling Stones
Traffic
Yes

UK turned out some great banRAB in the 80's too like
The Cure
Duran Duran
Def Leppard
The Fixx
New Order
The Psychedelic Furs
The Smiths

But it wasn't the same since the 70's. I know a lot of Bob Dylan and Lady Ga Ga fans are thinking "what are you talking about?" Music rules in the 60's/00's respectively, well that's just my opinion.
 
Wrong on all counts. You do realise Appetite For Destruction was in the 80s right? And AC/DC had Back in Black and Queen had The Game so it wasn't all bad for them in that decade, at least they had a good start. And Van Halen f*cking ruled in the early 80s, 1984 is awesome, shut yo mouth.
 
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 :D.
I just hope i don't become one of those people who say "Old is good. new is crap"
 
Please read other posts. I'm not the only one. It must be hard to argue about a band you have no clue about. Ignorant really.



I do agree about time affecting the classic label. Or knowing the level of influence the music has had. Joy Division for example.
 
is it really the music that got big? or the continual decrease in costs involved in recording and broadcasting the music that made it easier to spread around?

is it really the music that 'freed' people in the 60s? or the fact that most of their families had been broken / were recovering from the effects of that big war that ended at the end of the 40s. what was it called again? the one with Hitler. the patriarchal authority figure was no longer such a dominant effect on family and in turn society 'freeing' the kiRAB to do whatever they wanted and to point their dirty fingers to 'the man' when they didn't want to have to get jobs after high school.

was it really a ballsy move to fuzz out a piano? or just a screw up by some burnout who connected the cables incorrectly? John Lennon gets credited for creating the 'backwarRAB' guitar solo, he credits weed for being so wasted he put the tape in wrong prior to playback.
 
I guess I wasn't meant to like modern music if you do, because those two are classics, even if I'm not a regular listener of Soundgarden...
 
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