is it just me, or is most modern music crap?

Banjo String

Today's music for the most part seems to be full of manufactured pop groups, all pumping out the same cheesy trash.


We need a new guitar based rock band revolution.

Can anyone recommend me a band that have emerged in the last few years to listen to?

I'm convinced talent has dried up :mad:

crazyderk

Oh someones gotten old!

melekalikimaka

SamHall wrote: »

Today's music for the most part seems to be full of manufactured pop groups, all pumping out the same cheesy trash.


We need a new guitar based rock band revolution.

Can anyone recommend me a band that have emerged in the last few years to listen to?

I'm convinced talent has dried up :mad:

suburban legends
sonic boom six
Bandits Of the Acoustic Revolution

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Mushy

No its just harder to find stuff you like amidst all the manufactured stuff.

Talent most certainly hasnt dried up.

wobbles-grogan

Just listen to some alternative stuff that isnt on the useless radio stations.

There's loads of good music out nowadays, its just that its hard to find amidst all the surage!

telekon

Its not there's not talent out there, its just that they don't get any airtime. However, I do agree that the charts at the moment are the worst they ever have been. Awful sh*te.

SunnyDub1

Not everyone has the same taste of music.

Personally I prefer cheesy trash then some guitar based rock group.

Shenshen

I think most music has been crap for quite a long time, it's just that we had more good music in the "past" because the "past" usually refers to a few decades, whereas "now" refers just to the last year or so.

So obviously we assume that there was more good music in the past, we simply don't realise that is was just as thin on the ground back then, it just becomes more when looked at as a "best of" of the last few decades.

That said, I find myself listening mostly to classical these days. I seem to have somewhat lost my taste for contemporary music

hoodwinked

op i thought the same,

listening to olly murs last night and i thought "oh dear god im liking this music i must be getting old...."

then i thought, "nah.....im not old until i class the Foo Fighters as 'noise' and i still Love their music, so im ok..."


close call though

smash

Every generation thinks the following generation's music is crap.

melekalikimaka

after the ska punk wave of the mid 90's, everything thing is different shades of grey to me now :-(

wobbles-grogan

smash wrote: »

Every generation thinks the following generation's music is crap.

Thats cos the following generation's music IS crap!

Ihatecuddles-old

How did Bressie get to no.1?

I have to mute it when he sings, he's absolutely crap!

seamus

You're just getting old.

To a certain extent it can appear on the surface that the proliferation of pop is getting worse, but it's not actually the case. The issue is that mainstream radio stations are "encouraged" by the major labels to include their pop acts in playlists.

Independent labels and smaller groups don't have the influence to do this, so they're dependent on the musically-minded DJs who build their own playlists rather than the usual DJs who just press play on the pre-arranged playlist given to them. If it's a show that's more about entertainment than music (like a breakfast show) then you're only going to hear crap. If it's a show about music, you'll hear music.

This doesn't mean though that there's less good music out there, you just have to work a little harder to hear it.

Worth noting that the big companies' profits have been consistently dropping year on year - singles sales are high, but album sales are dropping.

This is nothing to do with downloading, it's down to the simple fact that the people/children who buy pop music tend to buy singles, not albums. And singles aren't very profitable.

hoodwinked

smash wrote: »

Every generation thinks the following generation's music is crap.

Nah im a 90's teen, and i LOVE music from the 70's 80's.... two of the best decades out there for music...everything after is diamonds in the rough...

Ihatecuddles-old

hoodwinked wrote: »

Nah im a 90's-00's teen, and i LOVE music from the 70's 80's.... two of the best decades out there for music...

He said following generation, not previous.

Bajingo

You need to get yourself into the music world OP, there's tonnes of incredible bands and DJs out there today, find a decent music blog and ignore the radio!

hoodwinked

Ihatecuddles wrote: »

He said following generation, not previous.

hit post before i finished typing edited it there :pac:

Banjo String

crazyderk wrote: »

Oh someones gotten old!

Possibly.


I'm still in my early thirties tbh. I've been listening to rock from way before my time though since I was in my teens.

jaffacakesyum

God I hate people who do the whole "music is crap these days" hipster thing.

And this is coming from someone who's favourite bands are the oldies.

But there is plenty of good music out there but people will just go on about the One Direction types. Give me any decade and I'll find you crap cheesy chart music like that.

Cosmic Maybe

SamHall wrote: »

We need a new guitar based rock band revolution........

I'm convinced talent has dried up :mad:

Nothing wrong with a bit of cheese

Generally not into guitar based rock bands myself but I'm sure there's plenty out there. It just involves a bit of effort on your part to read up on them on music sites and blogs or have a root on the likes of Youtube or Spotify. The talent has definitely not dried up!!!

donegal.

i'd say you've got a bit older ? maybe late 30s ? if so then you are probably listening to too much daytime radio (which is utterly ****e).
The last 30 or 40 years has been full of manufactured pop groups, all pumping out the same cheesy trash from the eagles right up to calvin harris. The only thing thats changed is where you hear of new music. The brilliant music you listened to 20 years ago wasn't played on the radio either.

Banjo String

The brilliant music you listened to 20 years ago wasn't played on the radio either.

Actually, that's a more than fair point I suppose.

Celly Smunt

Here's an album to look forward to

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oc6zXSdYXm8

Alpha Dog 1

I think the real question is why do mainstream radio stations continue to play the same pop shiite?

Links234

Protip: if you think music is bad today, you're not looking hard enough

but here's some music I'm sure everyone'll hate

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GclKDei5hHU

smash

Links234 wrote: »

but here's some music I'm sure everyone'll hate

Yep. That is absolute crap! :P

anncoates

When I was young, decent bands making it into the mainstream meant a lot more because it was so much harder to find alternative music back then.

Now, you can near-instantly find more new music than you could ever hope to listen to, so why bother if they get featured in the media or not?

That said, maybe I'm biased but the quality of mainstream pop music is definitely objectively worse than 20 years ago but overall, good music is made in any era.

Links234

smash wrote: »

Yep. That is absolute crap! :P

try this instead, might be a bit more palatable

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pQHeRlFAAGs

hoodwinked

smash wrote: »

Yep. That is absolute crap! :P

i feared it would be worse tbh,.... Rebecca black's Friday on a monday is just... *shudder*

For Forks Sake

Links234 wrote: »

but here's some music I'm sure everyone'll hate

That would absolutely walk the Eurovision.