Worst year ever for music?

Shannon757 wrote: »

Don't know that song, could you sing a few bars?

1977 - the year punk junk came along

Everything's ****e since Roy Orbison died

BuilderPlumber wrote: »

Great quote from 'The Commitments'. We badly need singers like Roy Orbison today. A real singer. The music singers like he did was unique and will always be remembered. When Roy did country music it was proper country music sang with feeling like 'I can't stop loving you', 'No one will ever know' or 'They'll be no teardrops tonight'. His hits like 'Blue bayou', 'Candy man', 'It's over' and 'Only the lonely' are unique and timeless classics that mix blues, country and rock 'n' roll.

hes not like todays computar generated vocalists. All these RNB and Pop artists today are mostly studio edited crap

I find SKA music to be the same old beat and can picture a load of fat badly lads who arrived in on there scooters dancing around the place

HensVassal wrote: »

1981 a year that will live in infamy when uber-anthem "Vienna" by Ultravox was kept off the number one spot by the cretinous gibberish "Shaddap You Face" by cretin Joe Dolce.

Whassa matter you, hey?

BuilderPlumber wrote: »

Today's music you notice use the old names like Rhythm & Blues (R&B) or country music but do not sound at all like real R&B and country music. Singers like Roy Orbison could sing proper R&B like 'Let the good times roll', 'Candy man' and 'What'd I say' and proper country music like the songs I mentioned earlier. That's because they were versatile and could do each genre as it should be done. The same is the case with Ska, Reggae, etc.

The modern stuff is not as good as the early music. It seems that poor modern music is made often with the aid of a computer and then marketed as R&B, country, reggae or whatever despite it being anything of the kind. A lot of this drivel is not even fit to be called Rap.

That's not really fair though BP, modern music has changed with the times the same way everything else has. When Sinatra was making records back in the day he never envisioned something like the internet changing the world he lived in. I know there is an unreal amount of modern rubbish being spewn out for the commercial market, but at the same time, real, actual modern artists, people that are not played on 2fm or todayfm are using the modern technology they can utilise to create modern music with just as much soul and spirit as Orbison or Sinatra utililised, just in a different way

1991 is hard to beat in relatively modern times for classic albums: Nevermind, Ten, Achtung baby, Use your illusion 1 and 2, Metallica (black album), Blood sugar sex magik, Death certificate, Gish, Screamadelica, Loveless, out of time, niggaz4life.

Figured I'd give this a little bump as today has been a bit hectic for new albums, some of the best this year coming out:

James Blake - The Colour In Anything
LUH - Spiritual Songs for Lovers to Sing
Death Grips - Bottomless Pit
Kaytranda - 99%
JMSN - It Is
Anohni - Hopelessness
Gregory Porter - Take Me to The Alley
Skepta - Konnichiwa
Dan Michaelson and The Coastguards - Memory
Juliana Barwick - Will

Not bad for a Friday in May. Been a pretty great year so far I think!

Last few years have been terrible. The countdown shows are gone, we only really have jools. All I'm hearing now is autopitch and chipmunk dance music.

ceegee wrote: »

1991 is hard to beat in relatively modern times for classic albums: Nevermind, Ten, Achtung baby, Use your illusion 1 and 2, Metallica (black album), Blood sugar sex magik, Death certificate, Gish, Screamadelica, Loveless, out of time, niggaz4life.

1994 was even better: The Holy Bible, The Downward Spiral, Illmatic, Ready To Die, Weezer's Blue Album, Definitely Maybe, Jar Of Flies, Teenager Of The Year, Grace, Let Love In, Bee Thousand, Diary, Live Through This, Nirvana's Unplugged In New York, Superunknown, Crooked Rain Crooked Rain, Dummy

Lyaiera wrote: »

The current year. Every year before was better. Back in my day you had real bands. Not today when you have kids being youthful and reminding me that I'm out of touch with everything.

This old chestnut again. Relativism at its finest. No room for cultural highs & lows? I certainly don't believe the music of my youth (80s) was the best ever, nor do I necessarily think that the music of today is the worst there'll ever be or has been but the reality is that there hasn't been any really groundbreaking stuff released in a good while.

Where's the 2016 equivalent of NWA, Kraftwerk, Nirvana, Chuck Berry, The Beatles' Revolver, The Stooges Raw Power, etc, etc? Bands & albums that really shook up the music scene, even if it wasn't completely understood at the time. While it's possible that right now a modern day version of The Velvet Underground (sold feck all albums at the time but ended up being hugely influential) is quietly putting out a release I'm highly sceptical.

Which is not to say there aren't extremely competent musicians out there & bands which are highly entertaining to see live, I just don't see anything earth shattering at the moment, there has indeed been better times for music.

Custardpi wrote: »

This old chestnut again. Relativism at its finest. No room for cultural highs & lows? I certainly don't believe the music of my youth (80s) was the best ever, nor do I necessarily think that the music of today is the worst there'll ever be or has been but the reality is that there hasn't been any really groundbreaking stuff released in a good while.

Where's the 2016 equivalent of NWA, Kraftwerk, Nirvana, Chuck Berry, The Beatles' Revolver, The Stooges Raw Power, etc, etc? Bands & albums that really shook up the music scene, even if it wasn't completely understood at the time. While it's possible that right now a modern day version of The Velvet Underground (sold feck all albums at the time but ended up being hugely influential) is quietly putting out a release I'm highly sceptical.

Which is not to say there aren't extremely competent musicians out there & bands which are highly entertaining to see live, I just don't see anything earth shattering at the moment, there has indeed been better times for music.

The entertainment industry rules the mainstream charts these days. Everything has become very processed, labels have songwriters on staff, the artist has very little input.

This is different from times past when the mainstream was bands and solo artists who wrote and performed their own material.

Great stuff is still being produced out there, you just won't hear on terrestrial radio.