The Pop of Today Vs Pop Of Yesterday

neardeathexperience · 06-14-2013, 06:22 AM

Today watered down and lack luster at every turn. Pop of yesterday fresh innovative and ever lasting. Please discuss the differences between the pop songs between 1990 to 2013 and 1960 to 1980........

Burning Down · 06-14-2013, 06:28 AM

If you're talking about the Top 40 radio stuff, yeah I'd agree that so much of it today is bland and terrible.

Urban Hat€monger ? · 06-14-2013, 06:30 AM

I posted somewhere a few months ago the top 20 now, the top 20 20 years ago and the top 20 40 years ago.

And guess what, all 3 were filled with crap.
You just forget the bad stuff.

There's probably a little more now but not much, and that's because only 4 companies control virtually everything to do with music.
It's not that music is getting worse it's because so few people control what gets heard.

Dark Horse · 06-16-2013, 07:53 AM

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Originally Posted by Urban Hat€monger ?

I posted somewhere a few months ago the top 20 now, the top 20 20 years ago and the top 20 40 years ago.

And guess what, all 3 were filled with crap.
You just forget the bad stuff.

There's probably a little more now but not much, and that's because only 4 companies control virtually everything to do with music.
It's not that music is getting worse it's because so few people control what gets heard.

Pretty much.

Remember the Archies, guys? No? Good.

DriveYourCarDownToTheSea · 06-16-2013, 07:53 PM

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Originally Posted by Dark Horse

Pretty much.

Remember the Archies, guys? No? Good.

Oh, come now! Even the bubble gum songs back then were pretty good! The Archies is a great example. You kinda sorta like this song and you know it! Don't deny it!!

galt54 · 12-22-2013, 05:44 PM

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Originally Posted by Dark Horse

Pretty much.

Remember the Archies, guys? No? Good.

But during the sixties there were so many good bands too! Are there any equivalents of The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, The Jimi Hendrix Experience, The Cream, Bob Dylan etc. nowadays? I think not!

galt54 · 12-22-2013, 05:46 PM

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Originally Posted by galt54

But during the sixties there were so many good bands too! Are there any equivalents of The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, The Jimi Hendrix Experience, The Cream, Bob Dylan etc. nowadays? I think not!

This post of mine was a comment to a comment to the effect that the former decades were not less good than the most recent ones - but that we have only forgotten all the crap of the earlier decades. Well there was quite a lot of crap during the sixties - but there was more really good stuff than there is today also!

Paedantic Basterd · 06-14-2013, 07:09 AM

I dunno, I have the distinct impression that structurally, today's hit songs are more ikea than they used to be, in the 90s and early 00s, mainly due to the trend of repeating one particular line as a chorus or verse.

Necromancer · 06-14-2013, 10:28 AM

Music from the 60s, 70s, and 80s was, for the most part, great. It had a freshness about it, especially when compared to the quality of today's modern pop. When one genre died out, there was always another to replace it. I wonder if the studios had something to do with that and with the quality, too.

djchameleon · 06-14-2013, 12:07 PM

This thread so far just seems like a bunch of people with their rose colored glasses on reminiscing about yesteryear excluding Urban's post which is right on the money and more or less what I was coming in here to post about.

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Urban Hat€monger ? The Sexual Intellectual Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: Somewhere cooler than you Posts: 18,626	I posted somewhere a few months ago the top 20 now, the top 20 20 years ago and the top 20 40 years ago. And guess what, all 3 were filled with crap. You just forget the bad stuff. There's probably a little more now but not much, and that's because only 4 companies control virtually everything to do with music. It's not that music is getting worse it's because so few people control what gets heard. __________________ Urb's RYM Stuff Most people sell their soul to the devil, but the devil sells his soul to Nick Cave.

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Burning Down The Music Guru. Join Date: Jun 2009 Location: Beyond the Wall Posts: 4,858	If you're talking about the Top 40 radio stuff, yeah I'd agree that so much of it today is bland and terrible.

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Paedantic Basterd Music Addict Join Date: Sep 2010 Posts: 5,184	I dunno, I have the distinct impression that structurally, today's hit songs are more ikea than they used to be, in the 90s and early 00s, mainly due to the trend of repeating one particular line as a chorus or verse.

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Necromancer Divination Join Date: Oct 2007 Posts: 2,655	Music from the 60s, 70s, and 80s was, for the most part, great. It had a freshness about it, especially when compared to the quality of today's modern pop. When one genre died out, there was always another to replace it. I wonder if the studios had something to do with that and with the quality, too.