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View Poll Results: Favorite era of music
1957-1963 1 2.33%
1964-1969 8 18.60%
1970-1976 8 18.60%
1977-1983 6 13.95%
1983-1989 3 6.98%
1990-1996 7 16.28%
1997-2003 8 18.60%
2004-Present 1 2.33%
None of the bove 1 2.33%
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Old 10-10-2008, 06:19 PM   #31 (permalink)
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Mainstream eighties music sucked, that's for sure. Glam metal, cheesy synth pop and horrible albums made by aging classic rockers really weren't too appealing. But thrash metal came into its own as well as alternative (and I mean real alternative) rock and plenty of other genres (cough*hip-hop*cough).

I do have to say, I'm particularly disappointed with the quality of jazz albums after 1963. It's like they stopped trying...
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Old 10-10-2008, 06:22 PM   #32 (permalink)
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Mainstream eighties music sucked, that's for sure. Glam metal, cheesy synth pop and horrible albums made by aging classic rockers really weren't too appealing. But thrash metal came into its own as well as alternative (and I mean real alternative) rock and plenty of other genres (cough*hip-hop*cough).

I do have to say, I'm particularly disappointed with the quality of jazz albums after 1963. It's like they stopped trying...
Weather Report? John Zorn?
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Old 10-10-2008, 06:44 PM   #33 (permalink)
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I'm familiar with both. Neither represent to me what the jazz greats of the forties and fifties accomplished. Jazz took on a new identity after 1967 and became a characteristically different genre than its early predecessors. I guess people got bored with the improvisational style of jazz legends, maybe not, but jazz albums are too tightly structured nowadays.

I'm not suggesting it was a decline in jazz composers; Miles Davis, John Coltrane and Charles Mingus composed through the sixties. But their later compositions mimicked the structures and chord progressions of jazz rock fusion instead of delivering it raw and unadulterated.

I don't want to seem like a purist, but great jazz albums nowadays are few and far between. There's just not enough interest for jazz.
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Old 10-10-2008, 06:52 PM   #34 (permalink)
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I'm familiar with both. Neither represent to me what the jazz greats of the forties and fifties accomplished. Jazz took on a new identity after 1967 and became a characteristically different genre than its early predecessors. I guess people got bored with the improvisational style of jazz legends, maybe not, but jazz albums are too tightly structured nowadays.

I'm not suggesting it was a decline in jazz composers; Miles Davis, John Coltrane and Charles Mingus composed through the sixties. But their later compositions mimicked the structures and chord progressions of jazz rock fusion instead of delivering it raw and unadulterated.

I don't want to seem like a purist, but great jazz albums nowadays are few and far between. There's just not enough interest for jazz.
That could be argued for many genres. Punk albums are generally crap these days. Why? Because it was a musical reaction and not a genre.

Metallica release 'Death Magnetic' and get many negative reviews for making music that is twenty years old.

Jazz albums are released and barely hold a candle to previous releases. Of course they won't. The genre has been explored and mutated. At least Zorn et al are creating a different spin on a typical base.
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Old 10-10-2008, 07:04 PM   #35 (permalink)
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I understand what you mean. But jazz has been dead for so long.

I've been trying so hard to get a hold of a jazz album I read about, Aaron Parks' Invisible Cinema. It got decent reviews, I'm hoping it'll at least revive a little interest in jazz.
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Old 10-10-2008, 09:01 PM   #36 (permalink)
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simply because of the Velvets The Beatles
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Old 10-11-2008, 11:32 AM   #37 (permalink)
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Old 10-11-2008, 11:48 AM   #38 (permalink)
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voted 97-03
77-83 wouldve been the second choice
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Old 10-11-2008, 03:10 PM   #39 (permalink)
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Not to slam on the 80s but albums were really good in 83-89? I barely have any full albums from the 80s. I guess...Sonic Youth, The Smiths, Nick Cave? But I don't even listen to those guys too much.
Sya what?! Eighties had alot of my favorite bands/albums:

Violent Femmes
The Fall
Pixies
Dinosaur Jr.
Magazine
X
Mission of Burma
Feelies
Big Black
Killing Joke
Richard Hell
Lyres
Dogmatics
Flipper
Bad Brains
New Order
My Bloody Valentine
OMD
Husker Du
Replacements
good REM
Lydia Lunch
Soft Boys
The Bevis Frond
XTC
Meat Puppets
Beat Happening
The Vaselines
Jesus & Mary Chain
Black Flog
Go-Betweens
The dB's
Cramps
Talking Heads
Echo & the Bunnymen
Robyn Hitch****
Gang of Four
Happy Mondays
Pogues
Cocteau Twins


Just to name a few. If you ask me the 80's were just as musically rich as the 60's, if not moreso.
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Old 10-12-2008, 02:11 AM   #40 (permalink)
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There is a truckload of **** released in every decade
We've forgotten about all the **** of the 60's
We havent forgotten about the **** of the 80s yet
theres your diff
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