Music Banter - View Single Post - What do you think of this generation of music?

Neapolitan · 06-29-2012, 09:58 PM

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Originally Posted by Screen13

It's a good time to be creating, though. The Pop Scene will always be the Pop Scene, although I do have to say that on the plus side of the stuff I don't listen to unless I catch it by You Tube or Accident is that there's more beats and attitude to it now despite the abundance of soft music still being played in some areas of the Industry. I don't know if any one of you would like to go back when The Carpenters were all aroundthe charts with their safer than safe sounds or when FM radio played it too safe with it's Styx/Journey overkill when it turned into a business in The US. As for the so-called Magical 60's that did have a lot of great stuff achieving success in an era when the industry was far from it's mega-million dollar world, there was a lot of crap to rebel against as well, trust me.

I'm of a few generations ago, but I do still have some interest in the more underground areas that are still happening now.

Are you talking about the Pop Charts or all music in general? You said "when" not their style of music, so I looked up when their active years were, it was 1969 to 1983 according to wiki. A lot can happen in music in one or two years let alone 15 years and a lot did happen. Just think about the amount of music coming from Soul, Funk, Prog, Techno, Hard Rock, Disco, Punk, New Wave etc. t hat can be found between '69 - '83. A lot of that was innovative for their time. They were the formative years for hip-hop and Heavy Metal. There was as well some bad and mediocre stuff too. But in general they was a lot of good music recorded and people still talking about music made then. I can't see the point of what you said, unless you where talking about the Pop charts, still you can't dismiss those years on a few example of bad chart hits or bands from that era.