Will the 00's be remembered fondly?

I think I phrased that wrong. because upon rereading that I sound ridiculous; of course that's true for any decade. I'm having some difficulty finding the right worRAB. I guess what I meant is that we have nothing that stanRAB out as something I'll think of as uniquely a 2000 thing, whereas when I think of past decades very distinct and concrete genres come to mind. This is probably an oversight on my part, as really, it does all overlap.
 
Yeah that was pretty much me realizing you were right as I typed, I couldn't think of much that's really new outside of what I listed and that's still mostly just corabining genres in a way that hasn't been done. And i'm not sure what you mean by music being safe... I've found plenty of things that go outside the box and shy away from things that have really been done before.

Oh and Tore I'll just ask about it here, if I start posting reviews again in my journal will you approve them? I figure you didn't yet to wait and see if I was gonna put up anything worthwhile.
 
I actually agree with you there. I don't think there are no styles left that people haven't tried, and no more original music can be made, I just think that it seems like so many banRAB today are just copying the styles of other people from before this time. Which doesn't make the music bad, just less original.

So it's not that there is no original music left to be made, it's just that many people aren't making an effort to make it
 
Which of these were radio hits again? I mean, lets be fair if we are going to label radio hits from the 90's. (ACTUAL radio hits, not alternative radio hits)
Backstreet Boys, Michael Bolton, Boyzone, Cher, Late Phil Collins, Celine fucking Dion, HANSON, Jewel, Madonna, RICKY FUCKING MARTIN, George Michael, Shania Twain, Paula Abdul, Aqua, Mariah Carey, Janet Jackson, Jennifer Lopez, NSYNC, Spice Girls, Bryan Adams, Aerosmith, Blink 182, Bon Jovi, Counting Crows, Def Leppard, Foo Fighters, late Genesis, Hootie & the Blowfish, Lenny Kravitz, Matchbox 20, Meat Loaf, ORABpring, Tom Petty etc etc etc. All of a sudden looks like a pretty lousy decade to me.

PS - Not having a go at you, just using your post to demonstrate my point.

I mean, doesn't this happen every decade? Disco was the popular music of the 70's, and its hardly looked on favourably. Sure, there were a lot of banRAB that we're mainstream hits, but in the same regard its not like these banRAB were actually all popular in their day. 80's, erabarrassing synth-pop stuff that is only listened to nowadays for laughs and glam metal. 90's, contemporary RnB that didn't deserve to be called RnB, the mainstreaming of Hip Hop/Rap, a lot of which was uninspiring, Nu-Metal (The less said the better). The 2000s have the same sort of crap with the occasional album that games mainstream popularity that eventually comes to define a decade (Sometimes for better sometimes for worse).

A lot of revisionist history comes about when it comes to music. Unless you've lived it, chances are you have no idea what it was actually like.

For what its worth, this decade has most definitely been my favourite. I personally have only been into music for maybe 2 years, yet I harbour no false ideas about what previous decades were like. They have their great banRAB, they have their **** banRAB, they have their good movements, and they have their bad ones.

Funny time for the thread to pop up though, given I planned to start a thread devoted to the 2000's this evening.
 
Kurt Cobain admitted to stealing the loud quite technique that is prevalent in most pixies songs.

For example, let's take a popular upbeat Nirvana song:

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The verse being very mellow and quite and then once the "Yeahs" come in it is much louder and the guitar is more distorted.

Let's take a look at these popular Pixies song as well:

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Although they might not sound similar what with Cobains style of singing and such, they are pretty similar.
Nirvana's In Bloom comes across as a heavy song but people tend to not realize how upbeat and pop-like it is, almost like power pop.
 
The people that want to find this or any other decade as bad will do so no matter what we say. Some people are just extremely close minded. This, just like every other decade, has it's highs and lows. Admittedly the mainstream has gotten worse, but anyone that bases their opinion on the mainstream is an idiot to begin with.
 
Well, I know I've heard that Francis said Husker Du, Iggy Pop (good call Janszoon), and Captain Beefheart were the main things he listened to when starting the Pixies. He's said Cars and The Beatles were big influences as well. When they were looking for a bassist, they asked for someone that listened to Husker Du and Peter, Paul, & Mary, so I guess they'd be one too. Personally, I haven't heard this anywhere, but I'd imagine The Cramps to be a big influence. They were sort of in the punk scene, used lots of horror and b-movie lyrics and themes, and played a genre of surf punk.

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Obviously they were much more influenced by Rockabilly and Blues, but I still hear a lot of their sound in The Pixies.
 
Well technically, Golden Earring is the most influential rock band of all time...as they've been on tour and doing albums since 1961!! :thurab:
 
I think it will most definitely be easier to see in 5 or 10 years. To me it seems like music is just as fresh and unique (and derivative and backward-looking) as it has been in previous decades.
 
I've heard as much before, but to be honest, I'm not that familiar with the Pixies' discography and the only songs that pop out are the poppy-dancey stuff, like Debaser and Here comes your man, which seem pretty far from the brooding darkness of Nirvana. But again, I is the suckage at comparing shit.
 
First of all, I disagree, and secondly, I don't think they were specifically an influence on The Pixies. I still hold and always will, like I posted in most influential rock artists, that Chuck Berry and Little Richard turned blues into the rock that most of the 60s and 70s artists further evolved.
 
yeah, they tried covering 21st Century Schizoid Man but for some reason it still came out sounding like Killing Joke's Eighties.
 
i'm pretty sure this conversation happened the same way in previous decades. people would moan and wheedle about music not being nearly as good as it once was and how the newest generation was just a commercial shitfest. look at the garbage that sold well during the seventies -- Bee Gees, Bette Midler, Billy Joel...for fuck's sake, it's always sucked.

personally i feel in ten years time, cult favorites will emerge from the underground, in much the same way as the early indie artists did following Nirvana's blowup. and then people will be bitching and whining about how terrible the '10s are.
 
Rippin' on the 70s?

Well.



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These are list made up from several chart nr. 1s - source

Anyways, pop or not, I'll take the 70s list over the 00 one any day :p: I don't agree that pop was always ****. I think much of it has been rather brilliant. For example there was a time when even the classic prog banRAB like Yes and Genesis brushed mainstream fame. ;)
 
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