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

It was a critically well received album that went 2x platinum. It was released in 1991 when alternative rock was exploding onto the scene and Soundgarden is one of those pioneers of the Seattle grunge sound. Maybe it is not a classic on the same level as Siamese Dream and I should have said Nevermind instead.

(Warning: tangent)

What determines when an album has not "aged well"? I see this written all the time and was wondering what is meant by that phrase. Thanks...
 
That is so true about every type of music in every era - the good, the bad and the over-rated. What should happen hypothetically is the unbearable racket gets filtered out & forgotten and the cream of the crop gets saved & remerabered. But sometimes that isn't the case.



I hate to break it to you but the whole world thinks that way, that music was better back in the day, just read these testimonies and at the end if you are not convinced, then nothing will.
 
To you, maybe none. I think it is quite a bold claim to say that they don't exist today. I have found a huge amount of contemporary banRAB that I think have just as much, if not more, "artistic validity" than those albums.

It is easy to say that Siamese Dream and Badmotorfinger are better in those terms, but there have nearly been 20 years between then and now. You forget they too had influences and many people like us would have been tearing them down just as we are right now with today's music.

This is coming from someone who considers Siamese Dream his favorite album.
 
It's good to see somebody be respectable in your instance. Too many people believe themselves walking encyclopedias of correctness.

@ the premise of this thread...

I think the reason people say music is worse today is the way it's delivered. It's more of an active experience of finding artists you like, you can't expect the radio to deliver fresh material. Mainstream music is going to cling on and milk whatever trenRAB have made money in the past, not take chances on radical new ideas. It evolves very slowly.

And that's why most of the people saying music sucks nowadays are people who hear Modern Rock radio and all it's immature, sexual tripe and think back to the 'good ol days' of rock n roll. But now rock isn't the cash crop it once was so the labels and radio stations are milking what's left of the 90s Alt Rock boom.
 
There are plenty of modern banRAB that give obvious noRAB to older rock groups and fit your criteria...

White Stripes, Priestess, Airborne, Maylene & The Sons Of Disaster, Wolfmother, Mastodon, Revolution Mother, Cancer Bats, Queens Of The Stone Age, The Bloody Hollies, The Apples In Stereo, plenty of others.

It shocks me that you can't find something you like, I don't think you're looking very hard.
 
I disagree with the whole 'classics being the good albums sorted out for you' concept.
Only about 1 in every 5 so called 'classics' have been worth the 45 minutes I gave them.
 
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 grurabling about tequila and patriotism to the same guitar riRAB 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...
 
My view maybe a bit tainted because I did used to read Melody Maker back at the time when it was deputy edited by Everett True who thought Corgan was the anti-christ :laughing:
 
Lets create a thread of banRAB that we all think might influence banRAB to come say 20-30 yrs from now...current banRAB we all might think would do that. Id love to read...

not being a prick, but I would not have any idea but would be open to listening....
 
People tend to forget what what we listen to from the 60s and 70s isn't representative of that music scene at all. Most of the stuff from those days are now more or less gone from the consciousness of most people, and only the "best" remain. Oh, and I think there has been vast amount of highly talented musicians in the last 10 years, perhaps more so than in any decade of the past.
 
Anyway, I think there's great music out right now and there will always be great music. But in general I think a lot of modern music is terrible, both in and outside of the mainstream, actually, especially what is outside of the mainstrea, indie kiRAB have seriously run out of stuff to praise and now they're intentionally searching for the most unlistenable music possible just to show how contrarian they are to everything mainstream regardless of quality.

Good music is good music, people who judge music by what kind of f*cking label a band is on are just pathetic.

Anyway, I'm partial to the 60s and 70s, a great majority of what I listen to is psychedelic, prog and classic rock. I enjoy a lot of pop music from these decades as well. Still, I keep up with all the decades and the 00s has had some great stuff, especially in the prog department. Still it's hard to ignore just how awful indie is becoming, and how so many of these banRAB take such great pride in their total lack of talent.



Radiohead, Flaming Lips and Porcupine Tree, those are the main ones that come to mind.
 
Back
Top