How is our decade so far music wise?

The better the technology gets the less creative it also gets.Bigboi500

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[QUOTE="LJS9502_basic"]Some catchy songs I enjoy but no band has made me take notice of them in a good way. As far as the last three decades go...80's > 90's > 00's.gasmaskman

imo it seems like the music industry as a whole gets worse as each decade passes by... you could really go back 6 decades and it would go like this (quality of music per decade as a whole) 50's>60's>70's>80's>90's>00's. if we have poo bands like nickelback, blue october, seether, puddle of mud, etc. (and this is just alternative music) in the 00's i'm terrified of the crap i'm going to hear on the radio in the 10's.. your thoughts?

My thoughts are that you have to go back in time and look at the really bad stuff. You can't just look at bands like Jimi Hendrix and The Beatles and think that's how the past always was... It's not like in 20 years people are going to be listening to Soulja Boy.

like i said in my earlier post, if you look at the music industry as a whole it seems like it gets worse as each decade passes by. when i say music industry "as a whole" i'm talking about the all the different genres of music in the decade, the good and bad music in the decade, and the quality of the good music and the how crappy the bad music was in the decade...

That's mostly the fault of record companies banking on easier-to-make music selling, because it does. I don't think it has anything to do really with music being worse, it just has to do with record labels pushing bad artists, because for some reason they sell :(

i completely agree with you... and don't get me wrong, there are bands that put out new albums and songs to this day that i love as much as the stuff from the 50's, 60's, 70's, etc... but like you said a lot of record companies are pushing bad artists because they sell, and that's why the music industry is getting worse as each decade passes by...

Most of the bands I listen to span several decades, 80s, 90s, and the 00s. Some even further back. It seems the mode average, though, is definitely the 2000s. Here's the number of albums per decade on this computer, I have more elsewhere but this gives you an idea:

1950s - 12

1960s - 25

1970s - 25

1980s - 20

1990s - 45

2000s - 84

As you can see, the 90s and this decade have most of my albums. And no, there's no mainstream, MTV garbage as far as I know. This is all music I've accumulated by listening to music and finding similair bands, no outside suggestion. The dominant genre is jazz, even the stuff from the 2000s.

I think as a whole it's terrible. The only time mainstream music was worse was the 80s. At least the 90s had grunge.SuperVegeta518

Agreed, I'd say late 60's and the 70's was the best. This decade has had it moments but it's been fairly weak. Music has become much more disposable of late.

It's funny though had i been a teen/early 20's in the 80's I probably would have been a new wave fan, it's some of the more intersting styles in the last 30 years. THat being said the 80's was mostly rubbish.

I have a tendancy to lean towards bands that try to do different things myself, such as the Beatles, Mars Volta, Fantomas et al.