Damon Albarn? I can't speak for other parts of the world, but he's virtually unknown here despite his illustrious career.
Today's music is garbage
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Damon Albarn? I can't speak for other parts of the world, but he's virtually unknown here despite his illustrious career.
Yeah, people know Gorillaz, maybe Blur, but if you say "Damon Albarn" I doubt most people will know who he is.
I don't mean to say that's an exclusive domain of old white guys to criticize all music that doesn't sound like the music they liked in college is garbage, but I don't think it's controversial to point out that the largest contingent doing this are older white guys who grew up on what's now "classic rock" and think any music not in that genre and/or made in the past 20 years that isn't from arists who were around prior is shit.
dantevsninjas
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Jeff Rosenstock and Red Dons would like a word with you.
TheRedSnifit
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Didn't they only have, like, two albums before Psalm 69? And one of them was a synthpop album that the frontman called "an abortion of an album"?
What are some good examples of garage rock bands that are out now?
I get it man, 90s pop was terrible as fuck. Actually, I'll even go so far as to agree that the big rap trends like trap and crunk have been a lot better than Spice Girls and Backstreet Boys and NSync. But they were not the whole decade, man. They were just the Justin Bieber and One Direction of back then. Electronic music started getting really good as sampling technology improved, the most gritty elements of rap and rock culture swept out the stupid shit that was running the charts in the 80s, the entire dance culture was born, the alternative rock movement was incredible... it was really awesome. Now there's access to more good music than ever and I love new stuff too, and I get you had to listen to some real bullshit that pales in comparison to what you can easily find these days, but saying "the 90's sucked" when a) you were simply too young when the cool stuff was popular/easy to find in the first half of the decade, and b) after that, you just didn't have the tools we have now for discovering music (Spotify apps and playlists are the shit) - that is really dismissive. Start on this list and work backwards and I guarantee you'll change your mind about how amazing that decade was for music fans.
http://pitchfork.com/features/staff-lists/5923-top-100-albums-of-the-1990s/10/
Yes! Very, very fair point -- but it all stayed way underground, really. (Well, as far as I know, I was a little kid in the 80s)
I was just comparing what the culture was generally doing in the 80s vs the 90s. Early 90s MTV was absolutely amazing - from there you could move on to Alternative Press, Spin, Flipside, Punk Planet (which I reviewed records for), MRR, etc. It wasn't hard to find the good stuff - it was like, laying around. That's why this film is called 1991: The Year Punk Broke!
What is the coolest song that even charted in the 80s? Have enjoyed your posts btw
This.
forgeforsaken
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Five if you include the live album.
With Sympathy (the synthpop album)
Twitch
The Land of Rape and Honey
The Mind is a Terrible Thing to Taste
In Case You Didn't Feel Like Showing Up (live)
AHA-Lambda
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Well the experience of growing up with it certainly always coloured it for me.
that statement doesn't even make sense. the generalization of "hipsters" are people that usually listen to new music (esp. super obscure bands) and reject a lot of classic stuff....
Machine
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Wikipedia tells me they had four albums before Psalm 69. I think the first one is the synthpop album. Their second album (Twitch) got a lot of play in my frat house back in 1986 when it came out.
Edit: I see somebody beat me to it...
equippedwithtowel
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I'm a recent convert to TOGETHER Pangaea, I'd put the new Parquet Courts in that territory as well and even if I wasn't as large a fan of their breakthrough as some people the new Orwells is apparently solid.
Oh man, there's so much good shit. Here, I made a playlist of 2008-2012 faves. I limited myself to one song by each artist. Ended up with 91 tracks! That's a lot of active, awesome artists making great music. If you like rock, you should check it out.
http://open.spotify.com/user/uncelestial/playlist/1iLt89pfJzrymji6ncICQX
My best of 2013 is here: http://open.spotify.com/user/uncelestial/playlist/0hbf7h6bFLodUW2C3TdKJP
Really, if you wanna get back into discovering new music, get into Spotify. Google Music is the best way to have a library of your favorite music, Spotify is the best was to discover new music - and it's free!
The Orwells are one of the most disgusting, terrible bands I've ever had the misfortune of seeing.
The new Parquet Corts is v. good though. I would say their an exception, not the rule though.
equippedwithtowel
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At most I'd give their debut a meh/10 but im willing to give their new LP a shot. It's a sound that has a small barrier between great and terrible for me.
Edit: plus other albums like the new Cloud Nothings are taking cues from that 90's sound.
Screaming Meat
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I can appreciate that. I grew up in the 80s. I thought everything was shit, until I grew up and found all kinds of awesome music (Birthday Party, Joy Division, Pixies, Sonic Youth etc.)
Branding a whole decade as shit because all you listened to was the radio is cray cray!
I saw them like two months ago and watched their pasty, Chris Farley-with-a-wig esque lead singer put his hands down his pants and then proceed to grab onto underage girls in the audience
equippedwithtowel
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Well that hadn't crossed my radar.
Shit.
Ah well they were just going to tide me over until Spoon's new album drops.
Can anyone think of a worse song that hit #1 on the charts and got non-stop radio play?
I'm trying really hard and I can't. Even Spice Girls is better than this shit.
I'm trying really hard and I can't. Even Spice Girls is better than this shit.
forgeforsaken
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as well as Yuck, Joanna Gruesome, The Cheatahs, Speedy Ortiz all come to mind as others.
Joanna Gruesome are awesome.
It's 2014, grouping genres in specific groups like these is irrelevant because they're are so many sub-genres and overlaps. And even if this wasn't true, what metric could you based this on? Unless you've listened to every album in that genre in every decade, you're really just looking at trends. And really that could be marked down as a criticism of modern day media and hype more than the quality of the music itself.
Ranking music by decade always struck me as baseless pop-culture nostalgia than music criticism. Judging a piece of a media on it's time period alone is a vapid criticism, let alone the entirety of music in that decade.
equippedwithtowel
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Great group of bands there. I was gonna mention Speedy Ortiz and Joanna Gruesome but felt like keeping it to 2014.
I haven't checked out The Cheetahs yet, next on my list for sure.
edit: How the fuck could I forget about Thee Oh Sees, they may have been kicking around for a while but Floating Coffin and Drop are standouts for me.
forgeforsaken
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Probably help if I spelt their name right, it's the Cheatahs, a lot of Ride and Swervedriver to them.
Where the hell is R.E.M. AKA probably one of the most influential and greatest American rock bands in the last...30 years?
SMH at the lack of respect those guys get on the internet when people talk about great 80d/90s rock albums.
Screaming Meat
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Yes! Very, very fair point -- but it all stayed way underground, really. (Well, as far as I know, I was a little kid in the 80s)
I was just comparing what the culture was generally doing in the 80s vs the 90s. Early 90s MTV was absolutely amazing - from there you could move on to Alternative Press, Spin, Flipside, Punk Planet (which I reviewed records for), MRR, etc. It wasn't hard to find the good stuff - it was like, laying around. That's why this film is called 1991: The Year Punk Broke!
Have enjoyed your posts btw
That's a great documentary, man. That's basically ground zero for my musical tastes.
Certainly, the alternative scene exploded in the early nineties and had a stranglehold on the mainstream for the better part of the nineties in one form or other, but it all has it's roots in stuff bubbling in the 80s Underground (well, it had it's beginnings even further back with things like the No Wave, Post Punk and, even earlier with bands like The Stooges and MC5, but... forget that for a minute, alright?! XD)
It's funny that you chose 1991 because Sonic Youth are an alternative band that broke the charts in the 80s. Sonic Youth's big breakthrough and arguably quintessential album is Daydream Nation, released in 1988. Google tells me that the single, Teenage Riot, was in the Billboard Top 20 the year of release. It was 20, but still, that's a pretty damn cool song.
Anyway, have some nice rock music for no reason:
Escucha, Kong and Oxbow.
lmao this song owns whenever it comes on in a club
My central taste are primarily rooted in the 90's, but there has been tons of great that has come out since. Sometimes in the same scenes that haven't died and are still innovating in amazing ways. But even still tons of great new music. I think just want to drop an edgy selfdefining stance and don't really know how to move beyond that external perception to really better the place where they stand.
It's certainly no easy task finding it all, I waste more time than I'd like to admit. It's the one thing I spend more time on than gaf asides from sleeping.
It is time for you to understand what true suffering is.</pinhead>
Rick Dees & His Cast Of Idiots - Disco Duck (Part 1)
Meco - Star Wars Theme
Barbra Streisand and Neil Diamond - You Don't Bring Me Flowers (can you make it past sixty seconds?)
Toni Basil - Mickey
Billy Idol - Mony Mony
Tiffany - Could've Been
Paula Abdul - Cold Hearted
Mr. Big - To Be With You
Los del Rio - Macarena
Aerosmith - I Don't Wanna Miss a Thing
Cher - Believe
Creed - With Arms Wide Open
Nickelback - How You Remind Me
Daniel Powter-Bad Day
Beyoncé - Single Ladies (Put a Ring on It)
equippedwithtowel
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James Blunt - You're Beautiful
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oofSnsGkops
^ I hate this song so much I literally make a fist when I hear it.
It didn't hit #1 or anything, but I'd rather listen to a recording of my family burning to death than ukulele twee shit like this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xv2UUcXCo9g
Stupid ill-informed opinions are stupid, ill-informed opinions no matter the age of who speaks them.
Messofanego
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But it's so easy, don't have to make much of an effort!
There are still some good stations like Zane Lowe's stuff on BBC Radio. Heard quite a few good bands from there, and he's always so hype about most good music. This is an example that I heard from his show:
Pale King - An Airing
They don't reject old stuff, at all. In fact, they dress in 90s clothing and listen to 90s music.
kitchenmotors
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lmao
Sorry, I don't listen to R.E.M. so I can't speak for them being the most influential rock band in the last 30 years.
I just listed albums off the top of my head of stuff I listened to growing up in the 90s. Don't take it personal that I didn't list your favorite band.
I can.
friskykillface
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Hall & Oates set the bar to high, nothing comes close to them B^)
meh music today is decent, got a lot to listen too
everyone go listen to "the majestic" , heard it on american dad and that song was amazing
meh music today is decent, got a lot to listen too
everyone go listen to "the majestic" , heard it on american dad and that song was amazing
rudieboy77
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You mean everything before Psalm 69. I remember listening to that cassette the day it came out and being disappointed. "In case you didn't feel like showing up" is one of the best live albums ever.
What's wrong with modern indie? It's certainly the most successful it's ever been, with Arcade Fire, the Decemberists, and Vampire Weekend topping the charts with their albums.
rudieboy77
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Tainted Love, Soft Cell
How Soon Is Now, The Smiths
I've Been Thinking About You, London Beat
Wishing Well, Terence Trent D'Arby
A shit ton of Morris Day, Michael Jackson and Prince songs....
forgeforsaken
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If you go here and look at their best of for each year you'll see there's quite a lot of good music from the 80s
http://www.slicingupeyeballs.com/category/best-of-the-80s/
And how does the guy above me with the Depeche Mode avatar not mention Depeche Mode?
http://www.slicingupeyeballs.com/category/best-of-the-80s/
And how does the guy above me with the Depeche Mode avatar not mention Depeche Mode?
rudieboy77
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1989 is absolutely the best year for music and in my life 1987 thru 1992 was the best time period.
forgeforsaken
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Yeah 89 was an amazing year. I mean I know I just linked the master page, but look at this list!
http://www.slicingupeyeballs.com/2013/11/25/best-albums-of-1989/
rudieboy77
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