Agree or Disagree: Popular Music was mostly better around 10 years ago

[Bombtrack]

Poll question: Agree or Disagree: Popular Music was mostly better around 10 years ago

than what's mostly popular today?

Mid 90's vs. mid 00's?

[Spinzonner]

1. Nonsense. It started sucking back in the 80's.

[Bombtrack]

2. It's called a choice.

[NashVegas]

6. If you Think 80s Music Sucked

It's not my fault you were listening to Whitesnake and Phil Collins.

*smooches*

[Cheswick2.0]

12. I agree

Music was much better in the 60s and 70s. But I did like some stuff in the 80s. Everything since then has been pretty bad with the exception of the female folk resurgence.

[Stocat]

3. 90s was so much better

Pearl Jam
Beck
Chilli Peppars
Nirvana
Aerosmith (ok they sucked compared to their early stuff)
STP
Sound Garden


Is so much better than what exists today

Teenie bopper crap.

[LiberalVoice]

4. Mid 90's sucked but not like today.

The top radio stations in every city play absolute shit. I can't listen to it anymore it makes me nautious.

[NashVegas]

5. Early '90s Was Better

Before the labels needed to sign up 30k Nirvana/Soundgarden/PJ/STP clones.

[Waverley_Hills_Hiker]

7. lotsa good stuff in the early 90s....

I think the mid 90s...started to go downhill.

Totally shit now. I listen to alt.country or that newer folky stuff....

[Lady Effingbroke]

8. Early to mid-90s music is better

once Hanson and 'the Macarena' hit the scene, it was all over.

[rogerashton]

9. Make that 60 years ago.

Benny Goodman. Lionel Hampton. Duke Ellington. Glenn Miller. And all that jazz.

And no, I wasn't listening to music then. Well, unless the phonygraf was next to my crib.

[HughBeaumont]

10. Popular music stopped being good around 1993

No small wonder I haven't had a car antenna since 1997. Mainstream labels and radio conglomerates don't care about creativity, they want dollars and nothing but. And if that means appealing to the lowest common denominator to do it while giving the middle finger to artistry, so be it.

[Beware the Beast Man]

11. The 00's are by far

The worst decade for popular music in my lifetime. As I posted a few weeks ago, I think the 00's all in all are the worst decade for pop culture.

[Magrittes Pipe]

13. You left off "equally bad."

N*Sync may suck, but they're no worse than Gin Blossoms.

[mac56]

15. Bullshit.

The Gin Blossoms were an amazingly talented band. Anyone who would stoop to equate them with N*Sync has clearly never listened to anything but their stuff that the radio plays.

[Magrittes Pipe]

16. Funniest. Post. Ever.

:D

[mac56]

17. When will I learn?

Sucked in again to a "your favorite band sucks" thread.

Don't know why I keep doing this. Maybe it's because every music thread is doomed to become one within 20 posts.

Someday I'll wise up.

[mac56]

14. Blame radio.

Music isn't any worse than it was back then. There was crap back then, and now too. There was quality stuff back then, and now too. Radio programmers play the crap. They did back then too, but more so now.

[AngryAmish]

18. This is very age-Dependant

I graduated from HS in 86. Music of that era and through 93 is the music I grew up with and it meant to most to me. The music on the radio SUCKED then, just as music on the radio sucks now. There was quality music, just not on the radio.

I am sure that there are many new talented artists, but I do not hear them because I do not go to shows twice a week anymore and do not spend all my time listening to new music. (Plus corporate radio and especially MTV has really killed any sort of diversification of music.)

So my point to my fellow geezers is to lighten up and let the kids listen to what they want to. They will anyway.

[BlueJazz]

19. There still is a large amount of great players around.....

....unfortunitly, Radio and record producers, by and large, ignore them.
I've sang this old song before but I personally miss the era of popular songs that had a Guitar or Sax Break (ride) in them:
AKA: Van Halen on "Jump" or Phil Wood's Alto Sax Solo on "Just the way you are". There were of course, a lot more but nowadays popular stuff is ...well...just plain ...Boring...