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by Corrian » Mon Dec 10, 2018 7:38 pm
by Ghost Land » Tue Dec 11, 2018 5:25 am
Corrian wrote:The vast majority of all music in any decade is either generic and uninspiring or straight up trash.
Also when you're referring to "2018, 70% is crap and 30% is meh", I hope you just mean the radio play stuff, because if you mean everything, you're just not even trying to find anything good. We're in one of the best musical periods in existence if you bother looking.
by Corrian » Tue Dec 11, 2018 9:11 am
Ghost Land wrote:Corrian wrote:The vast majority of all music in any decade is either generic and uninspiring or straight up trash.
Also when you're referring to "2018, 70% is crap and 30% is meh", I hope you just mean the radio play stuff, because if you mean everything, you're just not even trying to find anything good. We're in one of the best musical periods in existence if you bother looking.
My response to comments like this is always as follows:
Could you cite an example?
by Cadonica » Tue Dec 11, 2018 9:12 am
Ghost Land wrote:In 2018, 70% of music is crap and 30% is "meh" at best.
Corrian wrote:What type of music do you like?
by Corrian » Tue Dec 11, 2018 9:15 am
by Corrian » Tue Dec 11, 2018 10:59 am
by Ghost Land » Tue Dec 11, 2018 3:26 pm
by Corrian » Tue Dec 11, 2018 3:49 pm
Ghost Land wrote:Corrian wrote:What type of music do you like?
New wave (authentic stuff from about 1978-1987, not half-assed revivals) is my favourite genre; I also like a good deal of 80s rock (Sammy Hagar and Tom Petty being two perennial favourites) and even mainstream pop of that time period. I like some 70s classic rock, though not all, and I like quite a bit of 90s rock too (the "radio rock" as it's sometimes pejoratively called, such as Matchbox Twenty and Third Eye Blind; not really a grunge fan), in addition to mid-60s psychedelic pop and some 70s disco. "Real" R&B from the 60s/70s I can listen to happily, though contemporary R&B gives off a sleazy vibe to me. I dislike/hate hip hop with literally only a handful of songs as exceptions, in addition to overly sappy ballads and excessively "dirty" or sexual songs. My favourite album would be Sammy Hagar's VOA (1984), and my favourite artist would be the Cars.
by Cosumar » Sat Dec 15, 2018 3:01 pm
Corrian wrote:Ghost Land wrote:New wave (authentic stuff from about 1978-1987, not half-assed revivals) is my favourite genre; I also like a good deal of 80s rock (Sammy Hagar and Tom Petty being two perennial favourites) and even mainstream pop of that time period. I like some 70s classic rock, though not all, and I like quite a bit of 90s rock too (the "radio rock" as it's sometimes pejoratively called, such as Matchbox Twenty and Third Eye Blind; not really a grunge fan), in addition to mid-60s psychedelic pop and some 70s disco. "Real" R&B from the 60s/70s I can listen to happily, though contemporary R&B gives off a sleazy vibe to me. I dislike/hate hip hop with literally only a handful of songs as exceptions, in addition to overly sappy ballads and excessively "dirty" or sexual songs. My favourite album would be Sammy Hagar's VOA (1984), and my favourite artist would be the Cars.
Have you ever listened to The Black Keys?
And in psychedelic realms, Tame Impala has an old school psychedelic vibe to them
MGMT has always kind of had a retro 70's psychedelic pop vibe, and there's even a feel of that in their new album. I would also say this one is new wave-esque.
Ariel Pink is a bit of a weirder one but it still kinda works
The War on Drugs and Kurt Vile have an old school feel as well and they're both decently big right now.
If you want straight up 70's worship, there is Greta Van Fleet, but they're so straight up Led Zeppelin worship they actually bother me.
And just for a bit of hip-hop stuff, these two are some of my favorite recent hip-hop songs.
Sorry for the long list, more came to mind as I typed
by Awesome Dudes and Dudettes » Fri Dec 21, 2018 11:56 am
Ghost Land wrote:Cadonica wrote:The only reason is that it was 35 years ago, all the mainstream shit has faded and only the best are remembered
Just look back at 2018 in 2050s and you'll think "Man, the mainstream was great". Living experience right here, I pretty much hated all the popular songs from the turn of the millenium back then. But the other day I listened to Blue Da Ba Dee and thought it wasn't half bad even though I despised it back then.
Time changes people's views on music in two ways: 1) Crap fades away and only the best remain, so the old times look better than they really were and 2) When the songs aren't overplayed to death people might start to enjoy them once again.
Now, I might be totally wrong and mainstream of '18 will still be viewed as shit in the new 50s but if the past is anything to go by then no.
TL;DR old music is good because no one remembers the bad songs.
Okay, don't get me wrong, I know there was a lot of crap back then. "Escape" (1979) by Rupert Holmes is just as bad as anything coming out now, and bands like REO Speedwagon and Chicago stunk up the 80s with sappy ballad after sappy ballad after sappy ballad too. Heck, 1982 is also the year that produced "Sexual Healing" *barfs*.
Here's the thing though: in 1983, 70% of music was crap and 30% ranged from good to downright awesome. In 2018, 70% of music is crap and 30% is "meh" at best. And there are quite a few 70s and 80s songs I could do without hearing for several years due to having them blasted everywhere, including commonly-cited classics such as "Take On Me", "1999", and "September".
by Ghost Land » Fri Dec 21, 2018 2:57 pm
Awesome Dudes and Dudettes wrote:Ghost Land wrote:Okay, don't get me wrong, I know there was a lot of crap back then. "Escape" (1979) by Rupert Holmes is just as bad as anything coming out now, and bands like REO Speedwagon and Chicago stunk up the 80s with sappy ballad after sappy ballad after sappy ballad too. Heck, 1982 is also the year that produced "Sexual Healing" *barfs*.
Here's the thing though: in 1983, 70% of music was crap and 30% ranged from good to downright awesome. In 2018, 70% of music is crap and 30% is "meh" at best. And there are quite a few 70s and 80s songs I could do without hearing for several years due to having them blasted everywhere, including commonly-cited classics such as "Take On Me", "1999", and "September".
>"good songs"
>two are meme songs. One meme song is by a one-hit wonder
by Conoga » Fri Dec 21, 2018 5:26 pm
Partners in Crime is a solid 19/20, "Answering Machine" is nothing but a classic, hit me as hard as you can.Ghost Land wrote: "Escape" (1979) by Rupert Holmes is just as bad as anything coming out now,
by Ghost Land » Fri Dec 21, 2018 6:07 pm
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by Corrian » Wed Dec 26, 2018 8:16 pm
by Ghost Land » Thu Dec 27, 2018 5:46 am
Corrian wrote:I honestly don't understand a lot of electronic genres. There are quite a lot of them but I haven't listened to them enough to know what the fuck is UK Bass, Wonky, Deconstructed Club, 2-Step, Grime, and so on. Like I honestly don't know what defines any of those as different by ear yet.
by Corrian » Thu Dec 27, 2018 1:24 pm
Ghost Land wrote:Corrian wrote:I honestly don't understand a lot of electronic genres. There are quite a lot of them but I haven't listened to them enough to know what the fuck is UK Bass, Wonky, Deconstructed Club, 2-Step, Grime, and so on. Like I honestly don't know what defines any of those as different by ear yet.
Honestly to me it's all just electronic music, and that isn't a genre I'm particularly interested in or a fan of anyway, hence why I don't listen to much of it.
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by Bodobol » Mon Dec 31, 2018 2:02 am
by Cadonica » Mon Dec 31, 2018 6:11 am
Bodobol wrote:Anyone else have instrumental albums that came out this year they'd like to recommend?
by Corrian » Wed Jan 02, 2019 1:46 am
by Cosumar » Fri Jan 04, 2019 10:17 pm
Corrian wrote:My finalized album of the year list. I haven't actually listened to as much as I would have liked to this year.
by Corrian » Sat Jan 05, 2019 9:12 am
Cosumar wrote:Corrian wrote:My finalized album of the year list. I haven't actually listened to as much as I would have liked to this year.
Same. Progress in my personal life came at the expense of time for music. I did an especially bad job of branching out and exploring non-rock/metal genres this year. It's the first year-end list I've done that's all rock/metal.
We had the same #1 though! Here's my finished list.
by Revanchism » Sat Jan 05, 2019 11:47 am
Cosumar wrote:Corrian wrote:My finalized album of the year list. I haven't actually listened to as much as I would have liked to this year.
Same. Progress in my personal life came at the expense of time for music. I did an especially bad job of branching out and exploring non-rock/metal genres this year. It's the first year-end list I've done that's all rock/metal.
We had the same #1 though! Here's my finished list.
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