80's comeback?

sidewinder · 11-19-2009, 01:13 PM

You're right, there's a bit of 60s, 70s, 80s and 90s (because it hasn't left yet) in new music today. Current metal, prog and psychedelic/experimental bands are hugely influenced by the 70s. As you said garage rock but also a lot of indie rock/indie pop is influenced by the 60s. Punk, hardcore, post-punk, electro/techno, pop etc. are influenced by the 80s...and so on. It's all happening at once. Some say because people have run out of ideas. That may be true for bands that sound like replicas of bands passed, but I think in general it's only natural to be influenced by music of the past to some extent. Everyone has their musical idols.

music_phantom13 · 11-19-2009, 05:05 PM

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Originally Posted by sidewinder

It's all happening at once. Some say because people have run out of ideas. That may be true for bands that sound like replicas of bands passed, but I think in general it's only natural to be influenced by music of the past to some extent. Everyone has their musical idols.

Yeah you know I phrased that kind of weird... I think it's that music is just much more readily available today and it's so easy to find all sorts of obscure music that there's more artists with hugely eclectic lists of influences than before. And the ones that don't look up the older stuff are in turned influenced by other newer bands that do in an endless cycle of influence

Something like that is what I meant to say.

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