Does today's music suck or not?

[renard_ruse]

There seems to be a debate on this question, even among younger people. When you raise the issue on the internet as to there being no good music anymore, there will invariably be a counter poster saying that you're not looking in the right places, that music was never very good, or accusing you of being biased toward the music of your younger days.

Yet, if there's all this great music out there, why is it so hidden? Where are they hiding it? It shouldn't take a private detective to find it.

 

[renard_ruse]

In the 70s, 80s, and even to a lesser extent in the 90s, you couldn't get away from all the good music, and in many different genres. It was everywhere.

 

[Sean Renaud]

Go make friends with a youtube account. It's not hidden. If anything the problem is the same as it is for books and television. There is just so much of it in the modern world that you can get a little lost. If you're an idiot.

 

[renard_ruse]

Go make friends with a youtube account. It's not hidden. If anything the problem is the same as it is for books and television. There is just so much of it in the modern world that you can get a little lost. If you're an idiot.

Names of these great bands?

 

[IndieSnob]

There's only so much variety when it comes to white power music. It's either really awful folk or punk.

Sucks to be you, Rory.

 

[aye_H8_ewe]

Was talking to a 21 year old stripper last week who totally digs the Cure, Depeche Mode, and other music from the 80s.

 

[Aquagal]

I heard a new Black Sabbath song today that I liked.

 

[lovetoread]

Names of these great bands?

Mayday Parade
Sleeping with Sirens
Pierce the Veil
Disturbed

 

[gardenia19]

Names of these great bands?

There are plenty of great bands out there. I've found most of the bands I listen to from Pandora. Clutch is always a favorite. You might like The Sword. Red Fang's pretty good. You probably wouldn't like most of the other stuff I listen to though.

 

[doctor_insanus]

I've been hearing that my music sucks since I was a teenager. I still like the bands I listened to back then, but I've also embraced many new bands since then. Meanwhile, those people are still listening to the same crap they always did.

There will always be good music out there. I'm not going to tell you where to find it, because it's your responsibility.

 

[cjh]

Good music died with Color My World. Or, Billy, Don't Be A Hero. I cannot remember which.

 

[blackleggings]

There's only so much variety when it comes to white power music. It's either really awful folk or punk.

Sucks to be you, Rory.

Oh, that's me! I like awful folk and punk.

Bon Iver, Ben Howard, Yo La Tengo, Birdy, BOY, Flyleaf, The Lumineers (stop hatin), MS MR, A Day to Remember, Story of the Year, oh and um Green Day .

 

[cjh]

No one ever needs to apologize for Yo La Tengo.

 

[blackleggings]

Cold Specks too. I love this song:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_yLmWQT8Bag

 

[warrior queen]

The kind of music that teens [mostly] listen to these days sucks totally. It's mainly fluff played on commercial radio stations.
But if you listen to independent or underground radio then there are some really cool bands and tracks out there.
Stay away from commercial fluff and you might be surprised what you find.

 

[AllyRose]

There are some real gems out there, if you know where to look.

 

[MissMaidenMinx]

I have so much music I'm trying to catch up on that I didn't have time for, or access to when I was younger that new music has to be really good to grab my attention.

 

[Jani715]

I don't think so, but the amount of bad stuff being thrown at you is huge. Its just a matter of being curious and finding the right sources of music you like or people who have good points of view to follow.

 

[cj200267]

The kind of music that teens [mostly] listen to these days sucks totally. It's mainly fluff played on commercial radio stations.
But if you listen to independent or underground radio then there are some really cool bands and tracks out there.
Stay away from commercial fluff and you might be surprised what you find.

It's not like back in the day when we had bands like Foreigner, Air Supply and Flock of Seagulls filling our airwaves...wait they all sucked to. I guess it's all relative. Each era has its bands that make great music and then they have all the rest. As long as pay for play still exists (in whatever form it functions today), our airwaves will continue to be littered with trash.

 

[phrodeau]

It's not like back in the day when we had bands like Foreigner, Air Supply and Flock of Seagulls filling our airwaves...wait they all sucked to. I guess it's all relative. Each era has its bands that make great music and then they have all the rest. As long as pay for play still exists (in whatever form it functions today), our airwaves will continue to be littered with trash.

Radio is a lousy way to listen to music, and television and internet streams are worse. If you really want to hear good music, go to concerts. If you have a decent playback system, buy CD's.

 

[BotanyBoy]

Names of these great bands?

Pelican

Intervals

The Tony Danza Tapdance Extravaganza

Skinless

Thy Art Is Murder

Animals as Leaders

Gojira

Lamb of God

Through the Eyes of the Dead

Allegaeon

Jeff Loomis

Aborted

After the Burial

Abysmal Dawn

Arsonist Get all the Girls

Trigger the Bloodshed

Swashbuckle

Resist the Thought

Puscifer

Mindless Self Indulgence

High On Fire

IWRESTLEDABEARONCE

Mastadon

Gru

Devil Driver

Kataklysm

And Hell Followed With

Cannibal Corpse

Children of Bodom

Vader

Fleshgod Apocalypse

Here Comes The Kraken

The Bride

HORSE the Band

Born of Osiris

Austrian Death Machine

That's all I got off the top of my head....

 

[Aquagal]

Pelican

Intervals

The Tony Danza Tapdance Extravaganza

Skinless

Thy Art Is Murder

Animals as Leaders

Gojira

Lamb of God

Through the Eyes of the Dead

Allegaeon

Jeff Loomis

Aborted

After the Burial

Abysmal Dawn

Arsonist Get all the Girls

Trigger the Bloodshed

Swashbuckle

Resist the Thought

Puscifer

Mindless Self Indulgence

High On Fire

IWRESTLEDABEARONCE

Mastadon

Gru

Devil Driver

Kataklysm

And Hell Followed With

Cannibal Corpse

Children of Bodom

Vader

Fleshgod Apocalypse

Here Comes The Kraken

The Bride

HORSE the Band

Born of Osiris

Austrian Death Machine

That's all I got off the top of my head....

Puscifer. Heh.

 

[ImWrite]

Every decade had bad music mixed with good music. I recently had my TV tuned to the 80s music channel and my goodness most of it was just terrible. But there's plenty of great stuff as well.

The question to ask is in 2030 what music from this decade will classic music stations be playing?

 

[Boxlicker101]

Every decade had bad music mixed with good music. I recently had my TV tuned to the 80s music channel and my goodness most of it was just terrible. But there's plenty of great stuff as well.

The question to ask is in 2030 what music from this decade will classic music stations be playing?

Ever since music was invented, some of it has sucked and some has been good, and these distinctions were strictly matters of opinion. I often listen to the TV channel of music from the fifties and sixties. They have the Beatles and Elvis and Chuck Berry and the Platters and dozens more of that caliber of singers or bands.

 

[BotanyBoy]

Puscifer. Heh.

It's the only one of Maynard's projects I haven't seen live...hope to rectify that.