When did music start to suck?

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This and this. Especially today more than ever, music is completely disposable. People don't want to buy CDs anymore, they don't even want to buy MP3s, they just want to stream the latest hit songs, or whatever "classic hits" Pandora spoonfeeds them. There's a lot less money for artists and record producers to make, so they're more content with taking the path of least resistance and rehashing the same-old, same-old every year.

Even the real music fans are disappearing. Concerts are still doing okay it seems, but local shows, you'll be lucky if it's more than just the bands who are playing and their girlfriends. I remember in highschool (2002ish) the local punk shows used to be pretty packed. Nowadays, a good turnout is pretty rare.


I was going to say something along the same lines. I listen to WGVU's Oldies station on the AM a lot, and for as many great songs as they play, there's still plenty of stinkers that I would rather forget. Even some bands I really love had a song or two that I just can't stand.

I'd say around 1991, when grunge came on the scene.

Mainstream music has sucked for a while...I prefer to direct my searching elsewhere. There is certainly some good music out there, it just doesn't come on the radio.

it always did, radio was always on in the sixties, there was for ex. a childstar always on singing about how he loved his mother, or his grandmother, or his father or his grandfather
as a child it was unpleasant to hear that sentimental hypocrisy

and turns out a lot of said child stars didn't turn out so well.

90% of everything is crap.

This is also why I don't really listen to the radio, unless KONO 101.1 is on. (It is a radio station that is located in Helotes, Texas, and plays oldies music.)

And whenever I am not listening to the radio, I just look hard for some 1970's, 80's, and 90's music on YouTube that match my taste, both popular and less-known tracks.

Again music that is amazing is being released every day, you just have to actually work at finding it.

Ouch

Around 2005 when electro pop and dirty south rap started blowing up.

There was good music then, and there is still good music now. I can always spot a fake music fan, as they'll say some BS like "music these days isn't as good!"

No, actually, its the fact that over time, the terrible music of the past has been lost to time, and now only the best of the best survives. In 25 years, all the bad music of today will be gone, and only the good stuff will still be listened to. This much should be obvious.

Music is also not bad because it talks about vices and other "bad stuff", nor did music suddenly become "oversexualised".

For instance, three songs I'm listening to right now:
"Stranger Things" by Kygo and One Republic. Released 2018. Is a beautiful, sweeping song about two young people in love. Very evidently based off of the TV show and the relationship that develops on there (won't spoil it for those who haven't seen it). It is a gorgeous song, and I want it played at my wedding, lol.

"Fu-Gee-La" by The Fugees, released in 1996. A rap song that talks about the band members personal struggles as well as what they value.

"Happiness Is A Warm Gun" by the Beatles, released in 1968. I don't need to tell you what this song is about - the title says it all!

So, yeah, I don't really get it when people say music is oversexualised "these days" when The Beatles were using a thinly veiled euphemism for their penises and singing about "getting their finger on a girl's 'trigger'" fifty years ago. And its a great song, don't get me wrong, but people have ALWAYS sung about sex.

When I was in high school, the bus driver would always play stupid top 40 music by people like Lady Gaga, Justin Beiber, etc. And for some reason, she would always turn it off when "I'm Sexy and I Know It" came on, even though that song was in PG-rated kids cartoons like Madagascar 3 and Hotel Transylvania!

that's when I think music started to suck, was when I was first exposed to Top 40 music back then.

The LINK 'Historically When Did Music Start to Go Downhill?' does a good job of discussing why junk has spiked since the late 1970s - early 1980s.

I sense that much of the "hard rock music" (of at least okay quality) before the late 1970s seemed to have an "enjoyable pattern of sorts." For a time, 'The Beatles' boosted the "bar of quality music!"

LINK: https://answers.yahoo.com/question/inde ... 309AAWF4WM

Rock started to get lame after the 90s cuz grunge, punk, & ska started fading away. Pop started getting lame after the 90s too cuz they got away from boy bands & girl groups & pop also started crossing over into country & rap more.

Most mainstream artist hardly release full albums these days, they just dump out single after single and then decide to make it an album. It ruins the meaning of albums to me since an album is like a story that each song tells a part of.