The Official "Music Was So Much Better in the Glorious Days of Yore" Thread

[AndrewZealand]

I used to listen to whatever was current, but around 2000 I sort of reacted to my dissatisfaction with music by picking up a lot of old bands that I hadn't listened to for a long time and started preferring a lot of stuff from the the '70s and '80s.
Whenever I try to listen to post-2000 music.......there still seems a sharp contrast between it and the stuff before it. Other than that, I think I fear that that I'm going to start preferring the post-2000 stuff and that it's going to change me as a person. I realize that today's music still has the "mainstream and alternatives" i.e if you don't like the mainstream you can listen to the alternatives like the "indie" bands. However I still feel that all post-2000 music tends to have a common theme. Maybe there is still good music somewhere, stuff that still has the feel of pre-2000 music, it's just much harder to find.

[Janszoon]

Originally Posted by AndrewZealand

I used to listen to whatever was current, but around 2000 I sort of reacted to my dissatisfaction with music by picking up a lot of old bands that I hadn't listened to for a long time and started preferring a lot of stuff from the the '70s and '80s.
Whenever I try to listen to post-2000 music.......there still seems a sharp contrast between it and the stuff before it. Other than that, I think I fear that that I'm going to start preferring the post-2000 stuff and that it's going to change me as a person. I realize that today's music still has the "mainstream and alternatives" i.e if you don't like the mainstream you can listen to the alternatives like the "indie" bands. However I still feel that all post-2000 music tends to have a common theme. Maybe there is still good music somewhere, stuff that still has the feel of pre-2000 music, it's just much harder to find.

What do you feel is is the common theme of post-2000 music?

[Neapolitan]

Originally Posted by Janszoon

What do you feel is is the common theme of post-2000 music?

I know that question was directed at someone else but I would have to say pre-1990's music!?

[The Batlord]

Originally Posted by AndrewZealand

I used to listen to whatever was current, but around 2000 I sort of reacted to my dissatisfaction with music by picking up a lot of old bands that I hadn't listened to for a long time and started preferring a lot of stuff from the the '70s and '80s.
Whenever I try to listen to post-2000 music.......there still seems a sharp contrast between it and the stuff before it. Other than that, I think I fear that that I'm going to start preferring the post-2000 stuff and that it's going to change me as a person. I realize that today's music still has the "mainstream and alternatives" i.e if you don't like the mainstream you can listen to the alternatives like the "indie" bands. However I still feel that all post-2000 music tends to have a common theme. Maybe there is still good music somewhere, stuff that still has the feel of pre-2000 music, it's just much harder to find.

Why would it change you as a person? It's music, not the death of a family member.

[DeadChannel]

Originally Posted by BBHoop

90s hiphop!

Have you ever made a post longer than six words?

[The Anonymous Groupie]

what happened to the days of great music. I’m not talking about well produced, full sounding pieces of EDM ****. I’m talking about the real stuff. I’m a 94 kid, lucky to be born passed the times when the world was facing it’s real problems but unlucky to be born after the time when music was a great guitar solo, a singer’s crackling howl or the Smashing Pumpkins 1979.

Apparently people are saying that Tame Impala is the world’s last mega rock band, but to me that is the twist of the knife to my heat. No more originals by Bill Corgan, no more Anthony Kiedis losing his **** on stage, and perhaps the last greatest artist, Amy Winehouse. No more jazz, instead more “techno”, more of that “doof door” **** and more of that music that no one could ever really appreciate because it was never really great… unless played in a club with a bunch of kids either high, drunk or tripping of too many "MD’s" / "mollys" / "ecstactcy" / whatever it's called these days.

It’s sad to say, but it’s true. I wish I was born a generation earlier, perhaps even three or four so that I could have been born in time to see Jimmy Hendrix and the Gypsies let lose. A time when I may have had to face the real problems of the world but could have at least got lost in the real music of the world. Today my only connection to that world of music and time of life is martin scorseses’ Vinyl. Even the foo fighters have thrown in the towel, but we won’t go there, considering that they still may be one of my favourite bands. The fact that they came to SA and played with a random motor cyclist that they met is enough to have me sold.

Gone are the days of Kurt Cobain saying “I’m not gay, but I wish I were to piss off homophobes.” Now are the days of kids like Justin Bieber making headlines, Kanye & Kim’s wedding breaking the news & worst of all, Justin Bieber’s sorry topping Adele (right now on the billboard 100).

If I had a final wish it would be to see Oasis back in action, beating out Cigarettes & Alcohol & not giving a **** about the media or what anyone else said. Gone are the days of people like Amy Winehouse being quoted to say “all the instrumentation is completely live. I wouldn’t have any fake horns on my record. I think they put fake strings on Take The Box, but I wasn’t part of that.”

Maybe I’m nostalgic, maybe I’m snobbish, maybe I could be categorised as an "audiophile" but in all honestly, the best musicians seem to be the most troubled musicians (barring Dave Groll). But if I had one final wish, it would be to see these artists live, in all their glory.

Please, anyone out there who is half good at guitar, vocals and can strum a chorus, put your music out there, show me the light and for **** sakes, let’s pray that music isn’t dead.

"People have this obsession. They want you to be like you were in 1969. They want you to, because otherwise their youth goes with you. It's very selfish, but it's understandable.” - Mick Jagger

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To be honest, I have no idea how reddit works but I hope this gets to the people who are interested.

[Frownland]

Originally Posted by The Anonymous Groupie

Jimmy Hendrix and the Gypsies

This says it all.

[Ol’ Qwerty Bastard]

I can't believe people actually think that way. Just because 90's alt-rock ended in the 90's, doesn't mean that there isn't a world full of music to explore (literally.)

[Neapolitan]

Originally Posted by Frownland

This says it all.

Yeah, cause he should know the band was called The Gypsy Hendrix Experience.

[SuperSymmetry]

@The Anonymous Groupie:

It looks like your only exposure to modern music is what's in the mainstream. How do you expect to make a fair judgement of it when you've only been exposed to a very small fraction of it?