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The sleep of reasoner breeds monsters. (sic)
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« Reply #15 on: September 30, 2023, 09:01:56 AM » |
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I been mostly using this thread for blindfolded stabs at satire, but for once I will offer legit thoughts on music.
I often harp about how much bad music has taken over the charts in this century, and do believe that. I try to filter it through the lens of me being in a different generation, different values, but the problem with that is I love a lot of music written well before I was born, and recognize quality output from musicians born long after me, so I don't think that's it.
I truly do think we are going through a decades-long desert wherein bad music prevails, and bear with me, I bring new evidence.
I know the Rev suggested a counterpoint some months back by posting the top songs from past years and showing how much vanilla existed at any given point, but to that I'd offer this....
Pick a year, any year in the 1960s, the 1970s, the 1980s, even across the 1990s, and amid the bubblegum on the charts you'll find great bands. There'd be Elvis, The Beatles, The Who, Led Zeppelin, Pink Floyd, Queen, Dire Straits, Genesis, Foo Fighters, Smashing Pumpkins, Journey, The Ramones, Bruce Springsteen, there'd be The Cure, The Cars, The Police, Van Halen, Nirvana, Eminem. Even in the second tier you'd have talented people cranking out great songs. The Pet Shop Boys, Depeche Mode, R.E.M., The Cars, Weezer, RHCP, Green Day, Pixies, Sublime. And even the one-hit wonders gave us many great songs.
Where are the great bands today to balance out the embracing of mediocrity?
Think as long as you like, except for great old bands hanging around, there aren't any. Who has come out in the last twenty years that is equal to the great bands of the twenty years that came before that, let alone the fifty years?
We are living in, hopefully passing through, a wasteland in which the talentless prevail, and I think the case is made.
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