RJDG14

Ah. I have a couple of questions regarding your answer if that's okay.

First of all, what would you say the difference is between the 2000 and 2017 examples in your opinion?

Secondly, are any well known newer bands still producing music similar to the 2000 examples, and if not, why not?

Plus, what did you mean by "I feel like letting time sort out the mess works heavily in your favor"?

Frownland

*Convulsing

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OccultHawk

Interpol and Muse are bands that I respect.

Maybe they're winding down but The National maybe. If anyone more tuned into the pop side of things wants to please chime in. I think the National are worth listening to but their sound harkens further back. This next statement doesn't directly deal with your question but I think you'd do better to spend your time with Purity Ring.

You're 83 list demonstrates more sophistication in my opinion. For the recent stuff I think you're listening to the wrong stuff.

RJDG14

I took a musical preference test a few weeks back and got a higher score than about 90% of people in the unpretentious category, and a higher score than about 80% of people in the intense category. In your opinion does this reflect in the examples I gave in the 1983/2000 lists?

A modern exception would be that there's one recent band called Total Babes whose music almost completely fits in with the late 80s Dinosaur Jr and My Bloody Valentine stuff, in particular songs such as "We'll Come Around" (the keyboard sound even reminds me a little of some of the Husker Du keyboard).

Unfortunately I seem to be the only person I know my own age who likes the style of music I like. Virtually everybody else I know my age likes primarily mainstream 2010s pop or 2010s "alternative", which I find just as forgettable.

Frownland

Link? Because that sounds sketchy.

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RJDG14

I don't have the link but copied the text into MS Word:

Here are your musical preference scores:

Your preference score for Mellow music: 26 (High-average) (Soft rock etc; )

Your preference score for Unpretentious music 28 (Very high) (Folk and country)

Your preference score for Sophisticated music: 11 (Very low) (Classical, free-form jazz etc; )

Your preference score for Intense music: 32 (High) (Rock, indie, alternative)

Your preference score for Contemporary music: 13 (Quite low) (Dance, rap, 2010s pop etc; )

It was the test at this website:

http://www.musicaluniverse.org/

Frownland

I meant a link to the quiz, because I wonder how their scoring works.

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RJDG14

I've amended it .

OccultHawk

Yes. And I respect that you like what you like.

Dinosaur and MBV have such different sounds that a band that combines them should be reasonably unique. I wish more bands copied Dinosaur. Have you heard Deafcult? I'll be damned if they don't have the MBV thing down to the letter. Not an original bone in their bodies but absolutely fantastic at what they do.

RJDG14

I've even recorded a few demos of songs I wrote myself and other people said they reminded them far more of music from the 80s/90s (like the 1983/2000 examples I shared) than what's being released today. The thing is that I seem unable to write songs to the current taste - it's not what I'm suited to do.