Music; where did it all go wrong?

After approximately 1940 it went downhill until it reached an all time low at present.

Music is entirely subjective though, so this is my personal opinion.
 
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There's always been rubbish music but music is a lot more commercialized now and marketed. Even though there always has been people just performing to be famous, the charts used to be varied and have a handful of brilliant musicians. Nowadays, the charts is mostly the same song repeated and as for modern rock, all bands sound the same computerized and polished. People are over using technology nowdays when they don't need too, ironic though that despite a underground music and some mainstream rock acts, for me drum 'n bass and dubstep has the most punch and soul nowadays.

It's just a question of putting the feel into it, and in rock/pop it's been synthersized, commercialized and packaged to the max now but there are plenty of indie and underground bands who still record on tape and write brilliant music it's just a case of leaving N Dubz and Cher Lloyd to luddites with no music interest and when your hammered in nightclubs to pick up birds...it's all they're good for.
 
Also, there's a lot of underground bands who don't want part of that anymore. I mean I kinda like sometimes when my favorite band isn't in my face all the time. I'm not one of these people who accuses anyone in the NME a 'sell out' but It's nice to see some acts not be interested in FM radio and MTV, with the internet you can make a decent living of being on a small or even home label doing tours with your buddies in a van. It's a great time for music really, it's just nowadays you have to look further to find it.
 
What I want to know is why people, members of the public, actually go in to a shop and exchange their money for rubbish the OP is on about. Somebody must pay for it or they wouldn't keep making it!
 
Begbie said:
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Haha that's funny.

Some interesting replies. A few people in this thread have said that you tend to hang on to the music in your teens and I suppose that is kind of right. But in my case that would make 80's music something I would hang on to. But I love a lot of 60's, 70's, 80's and 90's. Even some early 2000's. So I do like a wide range of music. But I just find that the last few years it has been total dross (in most cases - there are always a few good bands out there). I agree though, it's down to money and the risk of not following the current trend.
 
phil675 said:
What I want to know is why people, members of the public, actually go in to a shop and exchange their money for rubbish the OP is on about. Somebody must pay for it or they wouldn't keep making it!
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Define rubbish.
I have no doubt that 99.9% of the public would define my music taste has rubbish but I can't get enough of metal.

I can't stand music Nazi's who think their taste is sooooo much better than anyone elses.
 
dmpoole said:
Define rubbish.
I have no doubt that 99.9% of the public would define my music taste has rubbish but I can't get enough of metal.

I can't stand music Nazi's who think their taste is sooooo much better than anyone elses.
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Lots of pop music is designed to be rubbish.

3 minute songs, catchy chorus which is repeated about 6 times. Kids go out and buy the singles (or download them these days), get bored of them pretty quickly, and then move onto the next catchy song. It's disposable music, designed to be thrown away once it's worth has been consumed so you're free to spend money on more of it. Most of it is written by employee's of record companies and then attached to whichever "artist" they think will make the most money from it.
 
jimbob27 said:
Lots of pop music is designed to be rubbish.
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I can't disagree more.
So are you actually saying that the music you prefer is designed to last longer?

So back in the 70s when I was buying my "3 minute songs, catchy chorus which is repeated about 6 times" by Slade, T.Rex and The Sweet that I shouldn't have been because they were made to be rubbish?
Or perhaps in the early 90's when I was buying Britpop with "3 minute songs, catchy chorus which is repeated about 6 times" that they were also made to be rubbish?
What about late 70s / early 80s when Saxon, Iron Maiden, Rainbow, Van Halen and a load of others were writing their "3 minute songs, catchy chorus which is repeated about 6 times", so they were wrote to be rubbish?

Sounds to me that what you wrote is rubbish.

Music Nazi's, don't you just love them?
 
dmpoole said:
I can't disagree more.
So are you actually saying that the music you prefer is designed to last longer?

So back in the 70s when I was buying my "3 minute songs, catchy chorus which is repeated about 6 times" by Slade, T.Rex and The Sweet that I shouldn't have been because they were made to be rubbish?
Or perhaps in the early 90's when I was buying Britpop with "3 minute songs, catchy chorus which is repeated about 6 times" that they were also made to be rubbish?
What about late 70s / early 80s when Saxon, Iron Maiden, Rainbow, Van Halen and a load of others were writing their "3 minute songs, catchy chorus which is repeated about 6 times", so they were wrote to be rubbish?

Sounds to me that what you wrote is rubbish.

Music Nazi's, don't you just love them?
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So you hold the "bob the builder" song in the same regard as Mozart or Beethoven? You (or people like you) will be keeping that song alive for the next 300 years? No.... you won't. It's disposable. It's creation had nothing to do with musical expression.... it's purpose was to make money..... and once something disposable has served it's purpose, it gets classified as rubbish.
 
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