What happened to music nowadays?

90's is where it turned bad, early 90's good but you will find most polls show the 80's won best music era.

I liked 60-80's some 90's.

Sure you still get some good songs in every era and its not just due to peeps being older not liking todays crap, many clued up younger peeps say it every day in the comments section of classic songs on Youtube.
 
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I grew up in the 70's and there was an unbelievable amount of rubbish in the charts but it was also a fantastic time for rock bands, many of which are still going strong now. The rubbish acts have their turn in the spotlight and are tossed aside and forgotten, while those with actual talent are remembered for decades.
I avoid chart music like the plague that it is but there is so much brilliant music around these days it's hard to keep up. If the OP is missing bands like Def Leppard and The Black Crowes, then go listen to The Black Keys, Joe Bonamassa and anything involving Jack White.
 
I wanna know what happened to the early to mid 2000's popular rock (not emo, metal, metalcore just ROCK) music bands like A, Your Codename is Milo, The Mars Volta, The Vines, Feeder, My Vitriol, Vex Red...need I continue.

Ok some or maybe a lot of those bands are still going but they don't seem to be popular anymore. OK I don't watch MTV 2 anymore but this is the impression I get.
 
I think it's quite odd that boy bands have made a comeback.

I think there's a huge over abundance of female solo artists in pop at the moment. Just an observation.
 
Eames said:
I wanna know what happened to the early to mid 2000's popular rock (not emo, metal, metalcore just ROCK) music bands like A, Your Codename is Milo, The Mars Volta, The Vines, Feeder, My Vitriol, Vex Red...need I continue.

Ok some or maybe a lot of those bands are still going but they don't seem to be popular anymore. OK I don't watch MTV 2 anymore but this is the impression I get.
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Define 'popular' :p

I've only ever heard of Feeder and My Vitriol, and whilst I don't follow rock, I also don't like under a rock.
 
I do agree that it is a truism that each generation says their era of music was better than the present. But I also think autotune has ruined music. In the 70s to 80s, and part of the 90s, you needed bands that could actually play and more importantly sing. Listen to the voices of the 70s and 80s and conpare them to todays popular singers and there is little comparison. Now post production means any good looking band can be pushed to the front and looks are more important than their sound, which can be 'fixed' afterwards.
 
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But I also think autotune has ruined music.
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It is not just autotune that has done it. Protools has a lot to answer for in how watered down popular music is these days.
Even 15 years ago, bands and artists had to pay and go to a studio to record a album. These days, people can sit in their living room and pay about cutting and pasting until they have something which sounds passable.

Recording studios would have used high quality tape masters from which you can reproduce high resolution versions, whereas Protools will mostly compress at lower bitrate leaving you with low fidelity mush.
This may not produce worse music than in previous generations, but it certainly will reduce the audible quality of a lot of it.
 
The music industry is better than it has ever been. The barrier to entry (both in creating and distributing music) is lower than it has ever been and it's easier to get your music out to the people you want to get it to.

Frankly anyone complaining that there is no good music out there isn't looking hard enough.
 
In no particular order:


1) The OP is not comparing like with like: the bands that he lists are/were all essentially "niche", not "popular" in the accepted sense of that word at the time they were at their height.

2) The OP is getting old, as several people have already pointed out. In general your musical taste is set by the time you are twenty and never really changes after that. But music does. So odds are, you'll drift away from the music scene with time. It happens to everyone. Yes, you'll find new bands that you like now and again, but you'll keep going back to the music of your teens.

3) "I don't like" is not the same as "bad".

4) Again as other have said, rose-tinted glasses. Because another fault in the comparison is that the OP is comparing the handful of bands from all of his youth that he likes most with a selection of all bands from today. But time is a filter, with the bad/unliked bands being forgotten, leaving just the good/liked ones. But that filter hasn't touched today's music, where the good, bad and comical still have to be winnowed. It's like these people who compare all the great sitcoms of the (say) 1980s to what was on TV last Saturday.
 
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In general your musical taste is set by the time you are twenty and never really changes after that.
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This I can't understand. I love discovering something I haven't heard before. I go through periods were I listen to particular styles and genres, but I'm always looking for something that makes me stop and go "woah" and then I'm off on a binge of that style or genre. I've got CDs from Appalachian mountain music to Zydeco and everything in between. This morning I got a load of dubstep and drum and bass on vinyl in the post.

Also, the frequency with which I can switch what I'm listening to is stupid sometimes. A minute ago I was listening to Slayer and now it's Chet Baker.
 
Exactly, OhEsEcks. I would never have thought I would have gotten into Country, New Age, Chill Out Dreams or some specific Classical.

Though, I don't have a specific category. I'm pretty much adaptable for most music. Except growling shouting thump thump bang bang music.
I really prefer elegant music, harmony, things that are catchy and fidelity. The richness in voices and instruments.
 
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3) "I don't like" is not the same as "bad".
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Nail. Head.

A lot of the stuff mentioned I wouldn't give any time to listen to as in my opinion it's ****. Is it really though?, no idea ... But I, personally, don't like it so to me it's no good. In the same way as people wouldn't like what I listen too.

4) Again as other have said, rose-tinted glasses. Because another fault in the comparison is that the OP is comparing the handful of bands from all of his youth that he likes most with a selection of all bands from today. But time is a filter, with the bad/unliked bands being forgotten, leaving just the good/liked ones. But that filter hasn't touched today's music, where the good, bad and comical still have to be winnowed. It's like these people who compare all the great sitcoms of the (say) 1980s to what was on TV last Saturday.
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This too ... There was a lot, a reeeeaaaalllyyyy lot, of complete dross put out in the 80s, 90s, 00s but time is an excellent filter so that you remember the things you thought were really good (and/or really bad).
 
This discussion has been had for decades - people likely said those bands were a load of rubbish when they were in the charts.

The difference is nowadays thanks to the internet it is MUCH easier to explore strange new music, to seek out new artists and new genres, to boldly go where no radio station has gone before. You aren't just stuck with the mainstream and have freedom of choice.
 
I have just been listening to Led Zeppelin, Black Sabbath, Deep Purple, Uriah Heep and Budgie.

These were bands producing good music with skilled musicians that could actually play instruments.

Now we have groups like Blind Melon, Crash Test Dummies, Def Leppard(bit older), Pearl Jam, Black Crowes.

What the hell happened to music?
 
Music changes through the ages. Things get popular and things "die out" there is still plenty, in fact an absolutely **** ton of music out there now you just need to search for it. The main genre that always seems to keep going is Metal. You can't kill the Metal ! There is loads of Metal still being produced by some really talented musicians. Bluesy Rock also seems to always churn out some amazing musicians too. They just are not classed as "popular".

Grunge was popular for quite a while - that died down. "New Rave" was popular for a while - that died down. Hip hop you don't stop was popular - that died down :p

I'm a 90's kid so sure I like a fair amount of music from that era as I grew up around it. But nostalgia play's tricks on your mind.

1996 - Spice girls - Wannabe - this was popular music..

1997 - Will Smith Miami - this was popular music
Let me recite some of the lyrics:

Yeah Yeah Yeah Yeah
Miami, uh, uh
Southbeach, bringin the heat, uh
Haha, can y'all feel that
Can y'all feel that
Jig it out, uh

Here I am in the place where I come let go
Miami the base and the sunset glow
Everyday like a mardi gras, everybody party all day
No work all play, okay
So we sip a little something, lay to rest the spill
Me an Charlie at the bar runnin up a high bill
Nothin less than ill, when we dress to kill
Everytime the ladies pass, they be like (Hi Will)
Can y'all feel me, all ages and races
Real sweet faces
Every different nation, Spanish, Hatian, Indian, Jamaican
Black, White, Cuban, and Asian
I only came for two days of playing
But everytime I come I always wind up stayin
This the type of town I could spend a few days in
Miami the city that keeps the roof blazin

Party in the city where the heat is on
All night, on the beach till the break of dawn
Welcome to Miami
Buenvenidos a Miami
Bouncin in the club where the heat is on
All night, on the beach till the break of dawn
I'm goin to Miami
Welcome to Miami

Ps: I admit I liked Will Smith as a kid lol :p
 
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