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Posted: 4/30/2017 12:20:31 PM EDT
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I think we're in a downcgcle right now. Last year was better, thanks to the musical stylings of Bieber and Selena Gomez, of all things. Say what you will, but "Too late now to say sorry", etc are pretty melodic. Current top stuff is weak except for Ed Sheeren. Selena Gomez has one that I liked better before I found out it was her singing it.
Wait 6 months until The Chainsmokers go back under the rock they came from and some fresh stuff comes out. |
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Posted: 4/30/2017 12:20:47 PM EDT
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imagine what people in their 40's back in the 80's thought of Poison,White Snake etc... It's all relative |
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Posted: 4/30/2017 12:21:31 PM EDT
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Rap isn't music. ... I hope someday the black community rediscover their talented musical past... |
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Posted: 4/30/2017 12:22:25 PM EDT
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Today's music is discusting.
I am 58, music that I grew up with and still listen to today: Marshal Tucker Allman Brothers Fleetwood Mac Pink Floyd Led Zephlin Doobies The Band Could go on Watch an Eric Clapton video and then watch a Bieber. You will throw up. 77 |
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Posted: 4/30/2017 12:23:12 PM EDT
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You're old* and it's crap. I clicked on all those "hits" you linked and couldn't make it through more than a few seconds of each. It's not that I hate rap or anything. I liked "Straight Outta Compton" and some Public Enemy stuff. But that current stuff is awful. Here's a good song  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mcMh6GZoFC8
*I'm your age Thanks for posting |
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Posted: 4/30/2017 12:24:18 PM EDT
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I'm 28, and I agree that most of the top 10 stuff is pretty terrible right now. Particularly anything with rap in it. The pop/edm stuff can at least be a little catchy and fun to listen to a few times. The rap has little redeeming value of any kind IMO. There is still some good new music coming out though. You just won't find it in 'top ten' lists and such. You gotta look through the more obscure stuff, and try listening to European rock/metal groups to see if you like any of them.
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Posted: 4/30/2017 12:24:25 PM EDT
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There's no comparison between the peak of western civilization music ( 18 piece big band, where each member has over 10K hours of individual practice time) and a stoned, low-IQ wannabe rapper mumbling into an expensive microphone feeding into autotune. Even the work that went into a BOSTON song is epic compared to most pop garbage today. My opinion is based on being a music teacher, not nostalgia Barn Burner Big Band Jazz |
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Posted: 4/30/2017 12:25:22 PM EDT
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Today's music is discusting. I am 58, music that I grew up with and still listen to today: Marshal Tucker Allman Brothers Fleetwood Mac Pink Floyd Led Zephlin Doobies The Band Could go on Watch an Eric Clapton video and then watch a Bieber. You will throw up. 77  Old Hippie - Bellamy Brothers Everybody claims to hate The Bieber but everybody listens, THEN complains. The little dude can sing. |
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Posted: 4/30/2017 12:28:00 PM EDT
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My 36 yr. old asked about my 70s and mid 80s albums in deep storage last week , maybe 400 or so...im 64 in july
Go for it he was told...his 30 year old gf said she had no idea of how cool I was ..ha...they told me that all they hear now just plain sucks Sent him home with 300 lbs. of great rock and they are going thru it... 
I would rather listen to total silence than todays crap...back in 68 I was 15 and bought a album a week at $6 average...thought I was gonna have to toss them |
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Posted: 4/30/2017 12:30:22 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryI know right? This total crap gets 900M views, while legitimately good new stuff coming out gets nowhere near the recognition.
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Posted: 4/30/2017 12:31:01 PM EDT
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I'm 37 and like Hermans Hermits and the Seekers.
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Posted: 4/30/2017 12:35:02 PM EDT
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I know right? This total crap gets 900M views, while legitimately good new stuff coming out gets nowhere near the recognition.  ED SHEERAN - Shape Of You | Kyle Hanagami Choreography |
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Posted: 4/30/2017 12:36:01 PM EDT
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Oh there's definitely good music out there, I agree. I just cant believe the rubbish that is actually charting. What young people are listening to and requesting... it defies explanation.
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Posted: 4/30/2017 12:36:02 PM EDT
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I am going on 47, so I'm an 80's kid. My parents liked my music back then. Not the hard rock stuff, but the pop music. Are there any parents that like their kids' music today? Just for fun last night my wife and I listened to the top 10, and it did not go well at all. Most of the music isn't music at all, it's wretched rap crap. But even the music that's isn't entirely rap 'features' rappers, which have apparently replaced the venerable guitar solo of my day. And the names of some of these rappers are fucking retarded. Here is your top ten. Enjoy! 1. Kendrick Lamar - Humble 2. Ed Sheerhan - Shape of You 3. Bruno Mars - That's What I Like 4. Kendrick Lamar - DNA 5. Future - Mask Off 6. KYLE featuring Lil' Yachty - iSpy (Music is terrible, but this video LOL) 7. Zedd & Alessia Cara - Stay 8. The Chainsmokers and Coldplay - Something Just Like This 9. Luis Fonzi & Daddy Yankee featuring Justin Bieber - Despacito 10. Lil' Uzi Vert - XO TOUR Lif3 (No typos there) Am I getting old, or is this all just really bad? Jesus, fuck that's bad! It seems the goal of ratings is to be the most eclectic and not the best. There is a lot of faggotry in that list. Can't have too much electric guitar anymore, but voice sythesizers and auto tune are okay. Can't have good drums anymore but electronic beats are okay, and not so much the cool ones like Run DMC and all 99's rappers used, but some weak ass shit. Fuck Kendrick Lamar. |
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Posted: 4/30/2017 12:38:27 PM EDT
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You're doing it wrong. Watch the first part of this and imagine being able to disappoint those first 3 girls. Damn, they can move... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kl5B6MBAntIalso a good song haters |
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Posted: 4/30/2017 12:41:15 PM EDT
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A lot of it isn't very good, no, but artists are also catering to the masses as well. The masses are probably just as much to blame for shit music as the artists are, if not more so.
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Posted: 4/30/2017 12:41:53 PM EDT
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I was in my teens/twenties in the 80's and thought Pison, Whitesnake, Motley, Ratt, etc. sucked 
OP there is good music (as stated earlier) you just need to look for it. This was a group (mellow stuff) that I discovered recently re-watching "The Secret Life of Walter Mitty" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pq-G3EWO9XM
Which led me down the rabbit hole to this (kinda Grungy) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7uI9ucHpxgY
Never heard of either of them But yeah, the crap that is 'Pop' these days is downright garbage for the most part |
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Posted: 4/30/2017 12:44:39 PM EDT
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A lot of it isn't very good, no, but artists are also catering to the masses as well. The masses are probably just as much to blame for shit music as the artists are, if not more so. |
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Posted: 4/30/2017 12:44:49 PM EDT
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There is some good music out there today. It is just harder to find than it was between the years of 1965 and 1995.
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Posted: 4/30/2017 12:46:16 PM EDT
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There is awesome music in lots of genre being produced right now. It's not on the radio. I hated most of the music from the 70's (high school and college years). Loved punk and new wave in the 80's. Hated alternative/hip-hop/grunge of the 90's. Loved post-modern hard rock after 2000. But even decades ago, the best music was not found on lowest-common-denominator radio. Pop music and Top Ten is for the uneducated masses. There are lots of ways to find truly great music and great artists. Go explore them. |
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Posted: 4/30/2017 12:48:23 PM EDT
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I am going on 47, so I'm an 80's kid. My parents liked my music back then. Not the hard rock stuff, but the pop music. Are there any parents that like their kids' music today? Just for fun last night my wife and I listened to the top 10, and it did not go well at all. Most of the music isn't music at all, it's wretched rap crap. But even the music that's isn't entirely rap 'features' rappers, which have apparently replaced the venerable guitar solo of my day. And the names of some of these rappers are fucking retarded. Here is your top ten. Enjoy! 1. Kendrick Lamar - Humble 2. Ed Sheerhan - Shape of You 3. Bruno Mars - That's What I Like 4. Kendrick Lamar - DNA 5. Future - Mask Off 6. KYLE featuring Lil' Yachty - iSpy (Music is terrible, but this video LOL) 7. Zedd & Alessia Cara - Stay 8. The Chainsmokers and Coldplay - Something Just Like This 9. Luis Fonzi & Daddy Yankee featuring Justin Bieber - Despacito 10. Lil' Uzi Vert - XO TOUR Lif3 (No typos there) Am I getting old, or is this all just really bad? Everything by every "artist" in that list is fucking garbage that doesn't deserve so much as being wiped on my ass. Yes, mainstream "pop", rap, and whatever the fuck you call people like The Chainsmokers and Ed Sheerhan is shit. 
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Posted: 4/30/2017 12:49:54 PM EDT
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Same thing happened to country. Good music ended about the turn of the century.
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Posted: 4/30/2017 12:52:38 PM EDT
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I was in my teens/twenties in the 80's and thought Pison, Whitesnake, Motley, Ratt, etc. sucked
OP there is good music (as stated earlier) you just need to look for it. This was a group (mellow stuff) that I discovered recently re-watching "The Secret Life of Walter Mitty" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pq-G3EWO9XM
Which led me down the rabbit hole to this (kinda Grungy) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7uI9ucHpxgY
Never heard of either of them But yeah, the crap that is 'Pop' these days is downright garbage for the most part Biffy Clyro  Biffy Clyro - Booooom, Blast and Ruin (Official Music Video) Kitten - there is a para FAL in this video  Kitten - G# [Official Video] The Joy Formidable  The Joy Formidable - This Ladder Is Ours [Official Music Video] The Yeah Yeah Yeahs  Yeah Yeah Yeahs-Dull Life It's more electro-pop than rock but really love this album and they were amazing live in a club  Haelos - Pray |
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Posted: 4/30/2017 12:55:02 PM EDT
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I'm 24. If you were to break into my truck, you'd find a lot of
CDs in the console. Rush, Zeppelin, Yes, Deff Leppard, Eagles, Tom Petty, Metallica, Journey, Bob Seger, Lynrd Skynrd, DIO, CCR.... 
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Posted: 4/30/2017 12:55:34 PM EDT
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imagine what people in their 40's back in the 80's thought of Poison,White Snake etc... It's all relative A little "bubble-gummy" as far as looks go. 
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Posted: 4/30/2017 1:00:11 PM EDT
[#26]
No, you're not wrong, (for the most part.)
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Posted: 4/30/2017 1:01:05 PM EDT
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I'm 24. If you were to break into my truck, you'd find a lot of CDs in the console. Rush, Zeppelin, Yes, Deff Leppard, Eagles, Tom Petty, Metallica, Journey, Bob Seger, Lynrd Skynrd, DIO, CCR.... My brother listens to all this random rap shit and I'm like 
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Posted: 4/30/2017 1:09:19 PM EDT
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You're not just old. The new stuff really is crap. Less and less emphasis on musician, more on "entertainer." |
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Posted: 4/30/2017 1:11:20 PM EDT
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I'm 44 and I can't stand most of the shit that is passed off as "music" these days. Then again, I never was into much of the popular music scene, even when I DJed from 1993 to 2001. Sure I had the popular music to play at gigs, but I sure as hell couldn't stand it back then either.
Personally, I'm more into Electronic, Alternative, Classic Rock, Metal, Classical, and Jazz. In other words, I'm an odd duck when it comes to music. |
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Posted: 4/30/2017 1:15:19 PM EDT
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I'm 31, I think I've heard of two of those "bands", and I'd certainly never listen to any of those voluntary.
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Posted: 4/30/2017 1:16:54 PM EDT
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You're not just old. The new stuff really is crap. Less and less emphasis on musician, more on "entertainer." |
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Posted: 4/30/2017 1:18:55 PM EDT
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You're doing it wrong. Watch the first part of this and imagine being able to disappoint those first 3 girls. Damn, they can move... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kl5B6MBAntI" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kl5B6MBAntIQuote HistoryQuoted:
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I know right? This total crap gets 900M views, while legitimately good new stuff coming out gets nowhere near the recognition. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kl5B6MBAntI" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kl5B6MBAntI
It is a catchy tune; I kinda' like it more now but maybe it's just watching the girls, the way Chet Faker's hypnotize me. 
 Chet Faker - Gold (Official Music Video) |
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Posted: 4/30/2017 1:19:14 PM EDT
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There is some good music out there today. It is just harder to find than it was between the years of 1965 and 1995. |
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Posted: 4/30/2017 1:21:23 PM EDT
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I have posted Wolf Alice videos here quite a few times,Lisbon is my favorite song of theirs. You may or may not want to try a bunch of other current artists like Biffy Clyro https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UwrVA4nRBv4
Kitten - there is a para FAL in this video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5y8dk24OPwk
The Joy Formidable https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y_t4s-HX3z0
The Yeah Yeah Yeahs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JGKefxnyT6E
It's more electro-pop than rock but really love this album and they were amazing live in a club https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vKakNhz2ToAWas introduced to the Yeah Yeah Yeahs from watching "Rescue Me" on TV. The show's music director discovered incredible music and gave those bands their first exposure on that show. An easy, but not free, way to find music you like is to subscribe to Amazon Prime and then download the Amazon Music app. They have billions of tracking points of "people who buy X also buy Y" and use that data to create channels. For example, I'm a big Halestorm fan (saw them live/met the band three times in the past year) so I subscribed to the Halestorm Channel. It had some artists I already liked, but it introduced me to a bunch more who I've never heard before. Then I started downloading shitloads of MP3 files. Being eclectic, I also like 19th century British Isles folk music/sea shanties/murder ballads, etc. Amazon music helped me find a ton of elusive music going back to the 18th century -- stuff that George and Martha Washington rocked out on. Now that I have a Bluetooth stereo in the truck, I just put those songs into a playlist instead of buying the MP3 files, and then stream it from my cell phone to my truck's stereo. I'm finding more music than I have time to listen. |
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Posted: 4/30/2017 1:23:10 PM EDT
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pop music is, always has been and always will be fucking garbage.
lots of new music in this thread. http://www.ar15.com/forums/t_1_5/1954107_Anyone-listen-to-Stoner-Rock-.html |
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Posted: 4/30/2017 1:24:37 PM EDT
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Whiney women, WTF ever is rap and pretty boy country is what we are stuck with here. First of the year the only 60s, 70s, 80s oldies FM station changed formats. Yeah, I'm old. Oldies rock n roll and pre-80s country would be nice.
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Posted: 4/30/2017 1:27:52 PM EDT
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The downhill slide started here: http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-EPng_Gvqcss/T-wsADk0baI/AAAAAAAADPI/DfAdO2iOB6c/s1600/The+Beatles+(3).jpg 
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Posted: 4/30/2017 1:30:19 PM EDT
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Oh there's definitely good music out there, I agree. I just cant believe the rubbish that is actually charting. What young people are listening to and requesting... it defies explanation. These so called 'artists' are hand selected by those in power, to make those in power butt-loads of money. We just need a 'Trump' to shake up the music industry now |
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Posted: 4/30/2017 1:34:31 PM EDT
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Quoted again for emphasis. Any music style you "used to like" when younger can be found replicated by new artists on youtube. For example: is it 1975, 1995, or 2008? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=01VjnTfpOC8
Like John Hughes movies? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n5cgzcjqOtE
How about Missing Persons? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ciJDA0tcQfs |
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Posted: 4/30/2017 1:42:09 PM EDT
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I am older and can always find some good music even current artist.
So much of what I hear today is just shit. |
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Posted: 4/30/2017 1:47:10 PM EDT
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It's all fucking terrible. I can't even listen to the country music stations anymore.
I was stuck with a rental car that only had a radio, and I found myself listing to the Mexican Mariachi music, because it was the only thing that resembled music. I don't even speak Spanish. |
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Posted: 4/30/2017 2:07:17 PM EDT
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If I had kids they'd be your age.
That said all top anything from any time frame was and is dance club drivel aimed at 14 year old girls. After a night of ultra violence only the GLORIOUS 9th can soothe. |
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Posted: 4/30/2017 2:21:06 PM EDT
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 Failed To Load Title I got some strange looks yesterday afternoon after dropping my daughter off at work, as I was driving home blasting this out of the open windows. *I'm 46 going on 75, if you look at the x-rays of my knees..* |
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Posted: 4/30/2017 2:37:01 PM EDT
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The downhill slide started here: http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-EPng_Gvqcss/T-wsADk0baI/AAAAAAAADPI/DfAdO2iOB6c/s1600/The+Beatles+(3).jpg |
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Posted: 4/30/2017 3:45:30 PM EDT
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There was truly bad music being made back in the 60's, 70's and 80's, this is nothing new. The difference is the amount and quality of what passes for songwriting and musicianship today. There isn't anything being passed off as "pop" music consumed by today's children that is even remotely "good".
Good, quality music is still being made by those who care. It's still not "popular". That changed 40+ years ago. |
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Posted: 4/30/2017 4:00:04 PM EDT
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I am going on 47, so I'm an 80's kid. My parents liked my music back then. Not the hard rock stuff, but the pop music. Are there any parents that like their kids' music today? Just for fun last night my wife and I listened to the top 10, and it did not go well at all. Most of the music isn't music at all, it's wretched rap crap. But even the music that's isn't entirely rap 'features' rappers, which have apparently replaced the venerable guitar solo of my day. And the names of some of these rappers are fucking retarded. Here is your top ten. Enjoy! 1. Kendrick Lamar - Humble 2. Ed Sheerhan - Shape of You 3. Bruno Mars - That's What I Like 4. Kendrick Lamar - DNA 5. Future - Mask Off 6. KYLE featuring Lil' Yachty - iSpy (Music is terrible, but this video LOL) 7. Zedd & Alessia Cara - Stay 8. The Chainsmokers and Coldplay - Something Just Like This 9. Luis Fonzi & Daddy Yankee featuring Justin Bieber - Despacito 10. Lil' Uzi Vert - XO TOUR Lif3 (No typos there) Am I getting old, or is this all just really bad? If you actually pay attention to "HawkSlayer48's Rules of Life"; you'll be okay. Take my "Rule of Life #6", for instance. "Any song or artist is going to be a fucking shitshow that has the word "featuring" in it. The word 'featuring' should be fucking banned from song titles or descriptions." |
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Posted: 4/30/2017 4:52:32 PM EDT
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Today's music is discusting. I am 58, music that I grew up with and still listen to today: Marshal Tucker Allman Brothers Fleetwood Mac Pink Floyd Led Zephlin Doobies The Band Could go on Watch an Eric Clapton video and then watch a Bieber. You will throw up. 77 Airbourne if you are an AC/DC fan. |
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Posted: 4/30/2017 4:57:08 PM EDT
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I'm 36 and I think most music coming out now sucks. The only new music I seem to like is music being put out by bands that have been around for at least 5 years. I'm going to see Tool in 20-something days so at least great music is still to be heard.
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Posted: 4/30/2017 4:58:40 PM EDT
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I've come to the conclusion that most music sucks, regardless of time period. Some of you old farts ought to Google the top ten from whatever year it was that you think music was so great. |
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Posted: 4/30/2017 4:59:17 PM EDT
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There is awesome music in lots of genre being produced right now. It's not on the radio. I have never understood why people are eager to allow a corporate hireling to select their music, or why they are disappointed when the hireling's selections suck. |
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