Today's music is garbage
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wow. I am cringing so hard.
This is why whenever someone says 'today's music sucks' I kind of laugh. You can pull up some random shitty song from the past and say that era's music sucked, too.
'Today's music' is literally such a beast of a topic that you just can't compare it to anything. There are so many genres and sub-genres that people are exploring. If all you know of today's music is Justin Bieber and/or Rihanna (or pretty much any successful artist or band of the generation) then you have some exploring to do. The current market doesn't really support huge bands anymore like it used to. But instead of having a really well known band such as Led Zeppelin, you have 20 lesser known bands that all have their own sound and are worth listening to. Yeah, there is also a bunch of crap but there has always been crap music.
SuperEpicGuy
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The only thing that's garbage as far as I see is that video. Just because your musical tastes are different doesn't mean that you need to insult others' tastes. I don't give a shit about quality, to me if a pitbul song is catchy and I like it then I damn like it. While I mostly focus on alt. rock, I don't mind the occasional pop song and perhaps some trailer music and trance. But I mostly dislike old bands (1970's-1990's) even though I've given them many fair chances, it's not for my taste; simple as that. Oh, and I don't really give that much of a shit to lyrics either. I focus on the melody rather than the lyrics unless the lyrics are absolutely horrible which they rarely are.
Final thing, everyone remembers the past as having the best songs but the fact is that we only remember the good ones and the shit ones have been all forgotten but I'm sure there were plenty of terrible songs in the past.
Final thing, everyone remembers the past as having the best songs but the fact is that we only remember the good ones and the shit ones have been all forgotten but I'm sure there were plenty of terrible songs in the past.
Aaronology
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Yup. As far as I'm concerned this is a golden age of music, albeit not so much for mainstream fare (but who cares about that).
How do you even measure that?
I can see someone making such a claim for the Top 40 or something but for music in general I don't see how you could "measure" that?
Chainsawkitten
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Michael Gira's still going strong.
nabe_shogun
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There has always been terrible music. We just remember the good stuff from the past. People that say there isn't good music today need to look harder.
What new metal band today is as good as Metallica or Megadeth in their prime? How about as good as Tool in the 90s? I can't think of one new band from that last 10 years that comes even close.
By the virtue of its breadth. Even if you're not fond of the "Let me take a selfie" song, and put it forth as the prime example on why music today sucks, the larger democratization of the music creating process has made sure that there are more songs than ever to appeal to you, regardless of what music you like. And the way technology has progressed has made discovering that music easier.
That's my take on it.
Complex Shadow
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love dis music. juicy da best,
BrokenEchelon
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I forsee euphoria and hat tipping in his future.
We will get there again, its a cycle.
Chainsawkitten
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A. Why metal?
B. That's an entirely subjective statement. I could list tons of "better" metal bands since I'm a fan of neither Metallica, Megadeth nor Tool.
Twilight Gap
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There's plenty of good music around today, but there are definitely less influential and memorable new musicians IMO. The majority of my music (not including soundtracks) consists of songs released between 1970s to early 2000s. I still listen to stuff released recently, but I don't care for most of what's played on the radio.
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I'm just comparing bands in the same genre. Can people honestly say objectively that the new metal bands today are as good as Megadeth, Black Sabbath, Iron Maiden, Judas Priest, Metallica and Pantera? Musical taste is an opinion however it's clear that there are big named juggernauts from the past who are more or less universally liked by the community.
I just don't see anyone replacing them yet.
Circle Jerk
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If you want to talk about music objectively, you have missed the point of music
Chainsawkitten
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Why would they be replaced?
Just wait 20 years and we'll see what the well-regarded great metal bands of today were.
The torch needs to be passed eventually. I want to hear new sounds and for music to evolve.
Soon as he said "born in the wrong generation" i shut it down. Every little shit these days thinks they have better taste in whatever when they discover something "old" for the first time and wants to preach to everyone else about it. YAWN.... Yeah most mainstream stuff is shit these days , yet there is good music still being made some underground/independent and even a few mainstream acts. Support it, and listen to it. But for fuck sakes, i wish some people would just the fuck up about their supposed "superior taste" in movies/music/whatever. They're not impressing anyone.
Mars Volta, for me personally, outdoes Tool. Not necessarily in the live show department, but in the conceptual side of things. Omar is a beast of a guitarist. They are no longer together as Mars Volta but they have a new band called Antemasque.
MrCunningham
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The Beatles never turned themselves into marketing whores to sell Takis chips (which are rumored to cause ulcers in children) in the middle of music videos. Beiber has no integrity.
This is true. Though there were a lot of things that charted here in Canada when I was younger that probably went unnoticed in countries like the US. Some good,and quite a bit of bad too.
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Why? The kids is absolutely right! Music is such crap now-a-days. I listened to Beyonce's "Drunken Love", and I was in pain laughing..it sounds so horrible!
Mastodon is better than all those combined. And I don't even like metal.
Although I don't see Metallica having a prime. They had one good record, a couple that were listenable, and then more than 20 years and running of garbage. Judas Priest sucked too, don't know why you listed them.
Chainsawkitten
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I don't think the torch will be passed exactly because music evolves. We haven't replaced Mozart, we've complemented him. Metallica and Iron Maiden will always have the torch of 80s style heavy metal. But there will be new torches, the 2000s style atmospheric sludge metal torch will go to Neurosis and Isis (most likely).
not psycho
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Music has remained surprisingly consistent in quality over the years.
Top 3 albums of the 80s:
Frank's Wild Years
Swordfishtrombones
Rain Dogs
Top 3 albums of the 90s:
The Black Rider
Bone Machine
Mule Variations
Top 3 albums of the 00s:
Alice
Real Gone
Blood Money
It's too soon to talk about the 10s.
Top 3 albums of the 80s:
Frank's Wild Years
Swordfishtrombones
Rain Dogs
Top 3 albums of the 90s:
The Black Rider
Bone Machine
Mule Variations
Top 3 albums of the 00s:
Alice
Real Gone
Blood Money
It's too soon to talk about the 10s.
figadapaura
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Mucus are my favourite band.
Gonna be so good.
No, but seriously, music today wins by default just by the sheer diversity that is available to anyone willing to actually search for it.
Bubble Metropolis
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I love Metallica and Megadeth, absolutely, but if you're holding Megadeth (I'll accept Metallica) as being co-holder for THE bar of metal music, I don't think you're genuinely looking. I can list you at least a dozen more technical, emotive, and better written thrash bands that were contemporary to Megadeth, and even more that came after their period of seminal output until the present day. This is when restricting it to merely the subgenre of thrash. Including all of metal would explode the bar of Megadeth even further. No genre has ever "died," it just started to require more effort.
Woffls
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I used to think like this kid when I was like ten or whatever when I started listening to Black Sabbath's 'Dehumanizer' (which is fucking awesome btw) and AC/DC's 'For Those About to Rock'. It's perfectly understandable, and you have to latch onto some kind of identity at that age. If it's not what everyone else likes, then it's usually what everyone else doesn't like.
I don't know how the modern landscape of musical artistry compares to the way it was up to 50 years ago, but I'm certain that a lot of the awful stuff will have been filtered out and ignored through the ages.
Even if we had as much rubbish music now as we did back then, it would stick around thanks to the digital age meaning everything can be kept in one place and still available to everyone. So maybe we'll never be able to compare this decade to the 60s in that way.
That said, I don't think all genres are fairly represented. Some genres are really thriving at the moment, and that's a product of culture. This is as much the case now as it was 50 years ago and every decade in between.
For example, the only glam metal bands I can think of are Steel Panther and The Darkness - not to say that there isn't other stuff around, but that it's just nowhere near as pervasive as it used to be. Not because the music isn't good any more, but because it's just not what people are into.
However, this past ten years has given us four Protest the Hero albums, so everyone take a few minutes and be thankful.
Also the Scorpions are awesome.
I don't know how the modern landscape of musical artistry compares to the way it was up to 50 years ago, but I'm certain that a lot of the awful stuff will have been filtered out and ignored through the ages.
Even if we had as much rubbish music now as we did back then, it would stick around thanks to the digital age meaning everything can be kept in one place and still available to everyone. So maybe we'll never be able to compare this decade to the 60s in that way.
That said, I don't think all genres are fairly represented. Some genres are really thriving at the moment, and that's a product of culture. This is as much the case now as it was 50 years ago and every decade in between.
For example, the only glam metal bands I can think of are Steel Panther and The Darkness - not to say that there isn't other stuff around, but that it's just nowhere near as pervasive as it used to be. Not because the music isn't good any more, but because it's just not what people are into.
However, this past ten years has given us four Protest the Hero albums, so everyone take a few minutes and be thankful.
Also the Scorpions are awesome.
block tower
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lol i love how people hate on music every generation. most people who say "todays music is garbage" don't really listen to music. there's no possible way you could actually attempt to find music in the genres you like and not find good music. bullshit generalization is bullshit.
I'd take the euthanasia.
This looks fake. It reminds me of the ginger kid who trolled 4chan by saying something like 'I know there are trolls commenting on my videos and I, WILL NOT, HAVE IT!'
Nvm he wasn't a ginger. This is the kid
http://youtube.com/watch?v=N4P4KM0uDNM
Nvm he wasn't a ginger. This is the kid
http://youtube.com/watch?v=N4P4KM0uDNM
plasmawave
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I'm 42 years old and it's the same shit every ten years. People acclimate to whatever music they grew up with, then in the next decade get busy, stop trying to find music. Then they notice what's on the radio to freak out at what's currently popular. Because it's not what they grew up with.
For instance if you are an 80s kid and think that 80s new wave and electro pop is so great, and "everything sucks today" because Justin Bieber, you may have no idea a crazy electro revival is underway. One that is making music better than it was in the 80s.
If you actually care about music you can't just glance at the top 40 and walk away. Everything is out there. But it won't come to you just because you're salty about some annoying manufactured pop star.
I know. It's an odd phenomenon. There's hit music from ever decade that every Canadian knows, but virtually no one in the US knows.
There's plenty of good Canadian music today that goes unnoticed in the states.
The US tends to suffer from this attitude when it comes to Canada:
Plus, cancon laws and all that.
It is as stupid as saying music today sucks and X period is better.
There is no "better" music. Even during classical periods, there were loads of crappy music out there. Most of it did not survive.
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