Today's music is garbage

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The only constant in life is new generations of people insisting that modern music is garbage, and that 'their music' is the only real music.

The music isn't getting worse, we're just getting old. 99% of music has always sucked; we just don't remember the shit from our days all that well (probably because it was shit). I'm 35 and not a week goes by that I don't find a new song to put in my rotation, and the vast majority of those additions are songs made in the last couple of years.
 
IMO ~88 to ~98 is pretty much the worst decade in music history, and this is supposed to be the time that I have the most nostalgia for. Music today is the best it's been for about a decade. There's a lot of great stuff happening right now, even if it may be a little aimless.
 
Music these days is just souless autotuned crap.

I bet a lot of these modern singers don't even write their own garbage.

I'm old.
 
I spent my teenage years listening to Rap, UK Garage, Dubstep, and Grime. Oh, and 80s music, too. Vice City gave me an entire decade. Garage was a dead scene, so it was already back catalogue listening. Dubstep turned into...well, what most of you know it to be. Grime's not what it used to be either, so that's dead to me too. So that leaves Hip Hop.

Hip Hop became focused on slow/southern shit, so I've spent the last few years listening to (mostly 90s) New York stuff. Wu-Tang. Nas. Biggie. Gangstarr. None of that is matched by anything I've heard in the last ten years. Even if we move away from New York, there's still nothing up there with the greats. Jay-Z turned to shit. I've not liked anything past Kanye's 2nd album. Eminem has turned to shit. Even Run The Jewels, which everyone seems to love, did nothing for me. Part of it is the productions. They just don't make 'em like they used to. Now, of course you're going to say there is stuff out there if you go looking, but I don't know where to start anymore. I'm too disconnected from it all.

So outside of Hip Hop, what have I been buying in the last year? On Google Play, some of what I've bought:
Al Green
Blackstreet
Barry White
Eryka Badu
Prince
Guns N' Roses
Kiss
Iron Maiden

There's one album from 2009 (Badu), but most of of that dates back several decades. I really haven't found any new artists that I like. I go through the previews on Google Play from time to time, listening to popular albums and new releases, and it doesn't do anything for me. Pretty much everything I hear on the radio or elsewhere is indie-esque band music, which has never done anything for me; shit new Dubstep, or bollocks dance music.

I love the disco stuff from the 70s. That's proper dancing music. I will dance to something like Blame It On The Boogie every time. I can't dance to new dance music. I hate it.

I love the 80s sounds. That synthesiser sound took over, and that's great. Even the other stuff is great. Vice City made me appreciate genres across the board. Admittedly I tend to listen to more compilations than albums, but that's the decade that Thriller was released in. So, yeah.

The 90s had that New Jack Swing sound. RnB did very well there. Hip Hop gave us its best material, as I've already covered.

Some 00s stuff was okay, but not quite as much as the previous decades. And the 10s so far? I have nothing positive to say.

I'm 25.
 
Unless you believe that music is 100% subjective, and that there is no such thing as "good" or "bad" music, then it's absurd to think that every decade would have exactly the same amount of good and bad music or that every generation produced exactly the same number of gifted musicians (and gifted to exactly the same degree) or that exactly the same number of exactly equally gifted musicians would be have the exact same opportunities to get their music out to the public in every decade or generation. So unless you're a complete subjectivist, then of course today's music is either better or worse than 90's music.
 
linkboy said:
There's great music out there, you just have to search for it.
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You don't really even have to put that much effort into searching great new music. It's all there in the open and you just need to be in the mood to experience all of it.

And to the OP, no, today's music doesn't suck any more or less than it sucked at any point in the past. That's one of the silliest & worst arguments you can make. If anything, it's much better than ever before, since the costs involved in recording music etc. is low (this brings out a lot of shit, but also more talented people as they don't necessarily need too much resources to get their cool stuff out there).
 
There are countless great indie bands that continue a tradition of great and fun music. Entertaining music hasnt stopped!

Now I will admit to being exceptionally biased because these two are local bands to Louisiana but theyre both really fun, especially live, and reflect the world festival atmosphere that happens here every year.

The Givers
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NqsV0l5xtiA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RbJFl8usXq8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P7ijrbZdTUo

Royal Teeth
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hhK3HaviHMw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y7-3PR1gmDA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_S17hmuqS2I
 
i used to be a like him, but then i stopped being 12 and started looking for new and better music while still listening to Croce, Queen etc..
 
Yet again, someone focuses on the biggest mainstream hits to call music garbage. He's a kid so I'll let it pass.

But considering the amount of great music that came out last year, the year before, and every year really. Any adult who goes on ranting about music today while calling music when he was young and "hip" the best period needs a slap in the face.
 
The greatest band of all time.
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Well the video is stupid but music is garbage now compared to the 90/80/etc (doesn't mean there is 0 good new music, just the majority sucks)
 
Booty Patrol said:
So you agree with the stupid video?

Ok.
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lol, you know what i meant.

who is the new MJ for this generation, JB? just an example of how stupid is the popular music nowadays compered to back then, in fact even some of my favorite bands latest albums sucks hard compared to their early albums so i don't know what happened exactly
 
Ziltoidia 9 said:
Devin Townsend makes me optimistic for music at least.
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mmmmmm yeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeessssssss

dude could do every album ever, he's so stupidly talented.

I also disagree that today's music is garbage. I am finding new holes to sink into genre-wise daily and thanks to bandcamp/soundcloud or other easy to access music streaming services there's no real limit to what I can find and listen to whenever I wish. I think there just has to be a time where one person accepts that music is entirely something that hinges on personal taste and what works for them.

I will listen to any genre or band I feel like, "As long as it is good, it's good."

deli2000 said:
Has this been posted yet?
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Most likely not due to its use of a slur. I'd recommend removing it to be on the safe side, even if it is kinda funny.
 
That image is pretty true despite the awful rage faces.

I mean obviously new music is not worse than old music and that's all subjective and shit. I would honestly say that it doesn't matter who or what thinks that way. At the end of the day good music is still out there and dustheads young and old don't matter when it's a discussion of music.
 
J10 said:
Older music only seems better because it's already been curated. When you have a culture that's become used to having access to everything in an instant, it seems like everything is mediocre because we haven't sorted through it all yet. Truth is there is more amazing music out there than any of us will ever have time to listen to.
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brilliant post
 
I remember when I was young and thought the same as that kid. How wrong I was. Music today is amazing. Just the pure variety that is available is absolutely astounding. The digital age has brought about a golden age in music.

However, I do understand the hatred pointed towards people that just listen to whatever is "popular" at the time. Honestly, I get sick of songs when they end up on the radio, which is a large contributor into my no longer listening in.

deli2000 said:
Has this been posted yet?
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All of the music on there is great. I am definitely glad that The Sword made it on there. That band doesn't get enough love.
 
Depends on the genre of your preference. I for one am incredibly grateful to live in an era of amazing electronic music. The advances in technology made music production both more complex and more accessible resulting in a massive stream of new producers and mindblowing music.
 
No it isn't. Music scene is better than it has even been. Technology had given far more people the opportunity to show their talent. The variety and quality is incredible.
 
I don't know why you'd link a video of some random kid talking about this and create a thread about it.

I just don't get it.
 
this kid has it all figured out

there has always been garbage music

and lol @ the only people making good music still being avenged sevenfold and metallica

avenged sevenfold have been shit for years now and metallica have been shit since the black album

seriously all he has to say is "this music is garbage" ad nauseum
 
J10 said:
Older music only seems better because it's already been curated. When you have a culture that's become used to having access to everything in an instant, it seems like everything is mediocre because we haven't sorted through it all yet. Truth is there is more amazing music out there than any of us will ever have time to listen to.
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Definitely the truth

There's lots of fantastic music today in every genre but there is also a lot of crap, but every other decade was the same except no one remembers most of the crap from the past
 
This thread has me thinking about the old days. 2003 was pretty great:

Radiohead - Hail to the Thief
The Shins - Chutes Too Narrow
Lightning Bolt - Wonderful Rainbow
Sufjan Stevens - Michigan
Sun Kil Moon - Ghosts of the Great Highway
Beulah - Yoko
Broadcast - Haha Sound
The Postal Service - Give Up
The Notwist – Neon Golden
Dressy Bessy - Dressy Bessy

Melt-Banana - Cell-Scape
Deerhoof - Apple O'
M. Ward - Transfiguration of Vincent
The Exploding Hearts - Guitar Romantic
Angels of Light - Everything Is Good Here/Please Come Home
Explosions in the Sky - The Earth Is Not a Cold Dead Place
Songs: Ohia - Magnolia Electric Co.
Cat Power - You Are Free
M83 - Dead Cities, Red Seas & Lost Ghosts
Four Tet - Rounds

One thing I miss is the Elephant 6. I want my Neutral Milk Hotel and Beulah!
 
leroidys said:
I mean stuff like this, Milli Vanilli, INXS etc. are all guilty pleasures, but the fact that they were so big kind of proves my point, underlining the fact of how little talent was required to go multiplatinum at that point.
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you better not be talking shit about faith no more sonny
 
It's greater than ever, just gotta look more for it now. Today really anyone can record their music and put it online, so it makes for a lot more shit to go through, but also the chance to find music that wasn't possible before. You won't get this when opening up youtubes front page or tuning into MTV, but there's more quality stuff out there than ever before.
 
Crumpet Trumpet said:
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I bet there are people who agree with this, but also love "Around The World".

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I like the song, but I'm pointing out that it's a stupid argument and the people who make the argument are hypocritical.
 
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