What ever happened to Music Eras
 

What ever happened to the era that would come into music every couple of years or so.

in the 60's we had the british invasion, psychedelical rock era
in the 70's we had the hard rock, glam rock, progressive,punk era's
in the 80's the new wave and hair band era's
in the 90's the grunge and britpop era.

this whole decade has been a decade of nothing, all the good bands have been pushed underground the same bands that would have been relvent in the 60's or 70's, while few have been able to remain commercial and be original. Record companies are in panic mode now, cd sales are decreasing every year and this is why they don't push talented artists like they do for there commercial crap.

Music will never be the same again and it sickens me.

welcome to the real age of DIY

if you don't like it. leave. hahaha

Even if this was true, you still have access to all the dynamite that came before. You don't have to follow the latest fad.

It's difficult to determine the era that we live in because we don't have the luxury of 20-30 years of dissection and analysis that allow us to define previous eras. The biggest challenge we face is deciding which trends are lasting and which are just fads. Give it a few decades and you'll get your label, even if it doesn't mean anything to people with a real love for music. Eras are idiotic in the first place, they place emphasis on one overreaching broad genre or movement while completely disregarding everything else that is going on throughout the music world as a whole.

Crap has always sold well and probably always will. Here's the best-selling albums in the US for each year of 1960s for example:

1960: The Sound of Music, Original Cast Recording.
1961: Camelot, Original Cast Recording.
1962: West Side Story Soundtrack.
1963: West Side Story Soundtrack.
1964: Hello, Dolly!, Original Cast Recording.
1965: Mary Poppins Soundtrack.
1966: Whipped Cream & Other Delights, by Herb Alpert & The Tijuana Brass.
1967: More of The Monkees, by The Monkees.
1968: Are You Experienced?, by The Jimi Hendrix Experience.
1969: In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida, by Iron Butterfly.

Note that 8 out of 10 of these are utter garbage.

Because music has become a huge combination of all the music era's. You've got bands combining genres to sound new and different. I think that alot of stuff is Indie now. We haven't seen many new and very popular bands come up in the past decade, and who knows what our new decade will bring?

If I see one more person in this thread sticking an apostrophe in the word "eras" I think I'm going to lose my marbles.

not a fan of musicals I see...

seems to me most of those eras also happen to be the defining element of the adolescent revolution of the day.

so... while my Strat is a teenager now, it doesn't talk. so what's the revolution now? the right to limitation free downloads of every form of media ever?

i was only half joking in my initial post. i really think the current musical Era will actually be far more significant than the teenaged revolutions that came before it. the internet is helping the Do It Yourself movement evolve into something more. the reduction in price of technology and the increase in means to acquire said technology also lowers the bar on who gets to make music. i don't think it's a bad thing.



and Herb Alpert kicks ass

:laughing:

You've missed a whole bunch of genres like

• 50's
  Doo-Wop
  Rock-a-billy
  
• 60's
  Bobby era (UK)
  Instrumental Rock
  Surf Rock
  Nashville Country
  Bakerfield Sound
  Acid Rock
  Garage Rock
  Soul
  
• 70's
  Soul
  Pub Rock
  Art Punk
  Post Punk
  New Wave
  No Wave
  Philly Soul
  Disco
  Southern Rock
  Soft Rock
  New Wave
  Dawg music
  
• 80's
  College (Radio) Rock
  New Jack Swing
  Shoegaze
  
• 90's
  Alternative
  Post Grunge
  Space Rock
  
• 00's
  Screamo (circa ?)
  Post Punk Revival

I give up too many to remember

• Heavy Metal
  Nu Metal
  Speed Metal
  Thrash Metal
  GLAM Metal (*** L A Metal)
  Industrial Metal
  Scandinavian Metal

wiki list about 19 subgenres

When I think of this era, I just think of a lot of crap Indie bands.

:(

I like some bands in the Garage-Rock Revival and Post-Punk Revival. I think one the most underrate and least appreciated music era was from about '77 to the early 80's.

Where the hell is hip hop?

Are you talking about ol' school hip hop back in your good old days?

Well since the topic focuses on eras of music I at least expect to see hip hop mentioned in the 90s.

What ever happened to good grammar and the proper use of apostrophes?

oh, it's this time of the month again? i was wondering when the next idiot would bring this dull argument into fruition again.

fuck your good old days.

Thank you for correcting that misplaced apostrophe, it was really pissing me off. (I bolded your italic since quoting automatically italicizes text)

Sorry for the OT post (especially since it's top of page!) but peoples got some terrible grammar skillz on da interwebs, and these apostrophes in plural words have got to stop!!!

:p:

A quest'ion Iv'e Ask'd my'self a'lot!

no worries haha i can handle misused apostrophes but what really irks me is when someone tries playing Grammar Police and spells it with an effing E...

grammer? :D

It's simple - the internet happened.

Well, I think this is the era of hermaphrodites.
Lady Gaga, 303, and whiny *** boys that cut their bangs and their wrists because their daddy's never loved them.

Thank God for booze, narcotics, and garage bands,
because that's all we've got left.

lol :thumb:

Hahaha best post i've read in a long time :De

I think we need to wait a few more years for the 00's to refine itself. In my own opinion it will be the era of the post-punk revival (as somebody mentioned already), emo, reality-tv garbage music, and as a great era for indie music.

I agree with you Zero, in 30 years we will look back and know what musical era was going on in the 2000s. But its too hard to tell now since we are still in the midst of it.

Well, the garage rock and post-punk revivals happened this decade, I would say that's pretty big (and great).

Hopefully all the great music that was released this decade won't be forgotten about in 10 or 20 years time. I don't want this decade to be remembered for all the wrong reasons.

Right now, and for the last 8-9 years (at least in the United States anyway) we've been in the hip hop/wigger era, but soon we'll be entering the electronic era. :cool:

what does this have to do with musical era's?

Nu Rave
Alt Country
Grime
Dubstep
New Weird America

Yeah you're right, nothing new has really rose to prominence in the last 10/15 years or so. :rolleyes:

I'm actually dreading the electronica era, if it gets really really huge. Mainly because I've been listening to electronic music for so long, a huge upsurge in popularity can only lead to cheese, over-saturation and watering down of the music. In the mainstream, at least. There's enough cheese as it is, truthfully.

Eras! Eras!!! :bringit: :mad: Bloody hell.

I'm still betting on another golden age of prog. personally, but the Electronic Age certainly seems like a more likely bet..all things considered.

..or perhaps today's political and cultural hierarchies will collapse and we'll go back to the days of wandering minstrels! :thumb:

I feel your pain. And it is 1960s not 1960's, and CDs, not CD's.
:soapbox:

Well first of all, an era is not a genre, it's a period of history. In the case of music sometimes a particular musical style or genre is so prevalent that it is used to define a period of history, that is where we get phrases such as The big band era, which is probably the most common use of the term as it regards music. Eras are pretty much defined after we've moved past a particular period of history. No one was defining the 30's as the The Big Band Era until long after it's popularity had waned, and only because of the impact that it had on the culture at large, and because it reflected the zeitgeist of the emerging culture.

Also, there are too many diverse and different genres in the 21st century to really, at this point, designate this period of history as being defined by any one of them. Maybe we'll be able to look back at some point and see some common denominatorin music that defined this present historical period were in, but the sheer density of media that we're currently inundated with makes that highly unlikely.

^well said. i'm thinking the most defining factor of the current era will be the lack of a clear common denominator. it'll go down as the undefined / transitional era between major movements.

Eh, at least the music will be played more often at clubs, bars, and house parties where there are plenty of good looking females instead of all of this pop rap and pseudo-hardcore garbage that's popular nowadays. Not that I like real hardcore anyway, because I'm certainly not fond of it at all.