I heard that when I was growing up in the 1970s. Back then of course, all the old codgers were yip-yapping about how any music made after 1950 was crap and went on about the Andrew Sisters and Benny Goodman and how THAT...was music.
Posted on 04/26/2014 3:28:35 PM PDT by nickcarraway
There was very little good music after 1955.
Those songs could be used by the CIA to torture terrorists.
I heard that when I was growing up in the 1970s. Back then of course, all the old codgers were yip-yapping about how any music made after 1950 was crap and went on about the Andrew Sisters and Benny Goodman and how THAT...was music.
Go listen to Dubstep and get back to me on today’s ‘music’ ;)
/Normie: 80s kid
I have a somewhat eclectic taste in music.I like at least some bits of every conceivable genre...from Italian Opera..to folk...to country...to jazz...to "easy listening"...to pop...to rock and to *head banging* rock.Hell,I even like one or two rap songs.Huge hit or incredibly obscure...if I like it,I like it.
"Cradle"? No thanks
"Pie"? Quite good
"Leroy"? Nope
Remember,I said *almost* devoid...not *completely*.
I think that also music companies used to invest in groups and help them find their sound. Most bands that hit it big have been playing for a good ten years or more before they are discovered.
Now, music companies are using their own musicians to write the music and paying a voice to sing their songs or it is rap.
The days of finding unknowns in dingy bars and helping them hit it big seem to be, for the most part, over.
Yep. These songs suck.. period, end of story.
Sounds like a good station.However,thanks to the magic of CD burners and great public libraries I have a fantastic music collection of almost 5,000 songs,about 2,500 of which are stored on my car's hard drive and about 4,000 of which are stored on my phone.And at home I listen to them in full CD quality sound.
Yea, the find a band and develop it era is gone. today it’s Platinum or no second album. Literally. Even gold is no guarantee anymore.
I do electronic music as a hobby and follow the biz side a little. Everything I read is that it is hosed. Almost all the big studios are gone, killed by the home studio and the refusal of the record companies to spend like they used to.
Some still exist but they are huge bucks to record in. and of course live acts pay venues to play now unless they have somewhat of a following. It is nuts.
Heh, back then, we all sang those lines from Like a virgin, but used a different word for “touched” in the line, “Like a virgin, touched for the very first time.”
And yes, everyone I knew said Madonna was a tramp from her first big hit, Borderline.
Give me the 60’s and 70’s over the 80’s any day...
Gladly. Take them FAR away please ;)
yup...
And the 50’s, of course. The video’s for those hits of the 80’s were mostly what sold them. Not as much substance in the 80’s as the three previous decades that I’ve listed.
The 50s stuff and the Sinatra style stuff was good/great. But the hippie/peace train 60s....a few choice songs. Most of it I can’t deal with. But to each their own!
“All you old codgers jaw-boning about how music was so much better “back in your day” and how all music from today is crap. “
“It’s not that I’m old, your music really does suck. And pull up your pants!”
Phil Collins = Great
Against All Odds = SUCKED. I have broken knobs off the radio turning this whiny, annoying piece of crap song off. And the movie was even worse. I want that two hours of my life back.
I Just Called To Say I Love You by Stevie Wonder
I'm sorry, but I hate everything Stevie Wonder ever did. I like to say that the real tragedy of Stevie Wonder was that he was born blind and not deaf.
Like A Virgin by Madonna
I don't really have to comment on this, do I?
Whichever of you said that the music of the 60's was classic, meh, OK; absolutely correct that the music of the 70's was AWFUL, trending to better in the late 70's; really good in the 80's and 90's, and back to OK in the 2000's.
Of course, as you've guessed by now, all of the above is JMHO. Except the part about Stevie Wonder (I will concede on "Signed, Sealed and Delivered", if you insist).
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