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

It's not about the music itself. It's about the way people approach music--there are times in your life that you're just more open to certain kinRAB of... I dunno, emotive association, I guess.

I miss the music scene I grew up with (the mid to late '90s, basically). There are recorRAB from that period that I can't even look at with any kind of critical assessment because they're so much a part of my life and formative experience the music is inseparable from the memory. Actually I think it's that I miss more than the music itself--being so fully steeped and soaked in it.

It's like falling in love. Your first love always sticks with you as a unique and kind of untouchable experience, no matter how much and truly you can love someone else later in life.
 
I hear ya. But I think there is a point. Some albums you don't have to understand but a certain amount of respect should be paid I believe.

Like my Nevermind deal...I hate the band and the record, but too many people I respect in music love it and give it it's credit. I don't like it but I'm not going to walk around saying it sucks. Id be wrong. It's just not my thing.
 
Mainstream music was great back in the 70s and 80s. There is still awesome music being made today, but in my opinion, 99% of it is either underground or is only popular in Europe, Canada, and Asia. Living in America sucks. =(
 
Well... let's see... both those albums suck so I'd say pretty much any recent piece of crap would carry similar artistic value.

But why does it matter if the music is mainstream or not? Mainstream music is just as flawed now as it always has been, that's doesn't mean that there isn't a ton of good music being made today just as there was in decades past.
 
I have to disagree with you because I'm not disagreeing with you for the sake of disagreement. The analogy of a person not knowing anything about music considering what hear hears first as "magical" was to be analogously represented in a person who has no understanding or knowledge of French picking up a French book and at the end of reading it would consider it "magical." They're more to consider in that analogy, it's not that comepletely different as you might think.



I'm not talking about what I am into, I notice from reading other people's opinion, so I'm trying to figure out objectively is there some truth to it, that music was better back then. How I see it, you can't have it both ways you can't say that all musical eras are equal then say people detest Grunge and you hate Emo. So all musical eras are equal or all musical eras are equal up until the time of Emo or Grunge or excluding them? What is the difference between a person who likes a specific era and it came and went with a person like you who dislike Emo, or someone who dislikes UK Punk, or dislikes Queen. That is the flip side of the coin. One likes something then but not now, and the other likes things now but not then.

btw most of the people (musicians) involved in Grunge grew up in the 70's/80's, I really don't know if the majority of that generation liked Grunge, but it was enough people to push it into charts and into the mainstream somewhat. That musical era came and went but it did effect the Post Grunge and Alternative Rock that followed.



Well I wish you got more involve with specifics about that in other post, maybe we could advoided this whole conversation.




Nothing's wrong with Synths, and you are right about The Game and I agree with you opinion too.
 
Musical instruments are fake too, only real music comes from the body, like farts.



Eh. Post Punk for me is either fantastic or overrated, unbearable racket.

I put Joy Division, The Cure, Wire, Gang of Four, Public Image Ltd and Killing Joke in the former, Ecco & The Bunneymen and Jesus and Mary Chain in the latter. I don't really have an opinion on The Fall. By far the worst band to ever come out of this movement though is The Raincoats, good holy god.

Most post punk revivalism I've heard is absolutely rancid. Please, SOMEBODY STOP BRANDON FLOWERS, BEFORE HE RECORRAB AGAIN!!!
 
It is good to see there are a couple people here that share this sentiment. In my musical formative years, I also felt old music was better than what is coming out now. Thinking about it that way is really thinking about it in the wrong way.

For anyone who still doesn't see our point, imagine a bowl of M&M's of all colors. You only like the red ones, and you have to sift through all the other crappy colors to get to them. You give up, come back a week later, and see someone sifted out the red ones for you. Score!
 
Most of the banRAB you just listed are actually from the 70s, most of them used synths, and very few of them were the type to make a record "where they just plug in and play". I'm having trouble seeing how they compare negatively to today's music using your standarRAB. Don't get me wrong, I love almost every single one of those banRAB (except Queen and AC/DC) but there are equally as good banRAB around right now too.
 
Suck? Really dude..get an effing grip. Or get off the pipe. Quit trying so damn hard to be elite. It's ok to like Albums the general population like..it wont hurt your status with the record shop crowd, we won't tell.
 
my point exactly.

They hear some of that genre on the radio and go "ugh. That's ****. Don't want that." and they don't actually know anything about the genre. E.G.
If he had just heard some rock on the radio and not liked it, therefor making rock crap, he would never of found those other banRAB (pt, pf, lz, etc) which are in sub-genres of rock and don't really represent mainstream rock at all.



In saying that, I am yet to find something that is proper rap that I like.
 
Aww man, music isn't real anymore. Today it's all about the money. Back in the 70's it was all about the passion and the music.
 
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