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worst year of music?

megatronmegatron Posts: 3,420
edited November 2009 in Other Music
it was probably earlier but i'm sitting here watching video yearbook with my roommate. they play a block of videos from a certain year. its on fuse great show check it out.

we turned it on and it was the end of 96 which had a beck the new pollution video on. that was fine. fun to see.

then the next show starts. year 2001
first song: crazy town - butterfly
second: nickleback - how you remind me

this is torture but i'm waiting for the next song..
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  • dcfaithfuldcfaithful Posts: 13,076
    Dr. Dre's 2001....awesome...other than that, I would agree that 2001 really wasn't the greatest year for music.
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  • PearlOfAGirlPearlOfAGirl Posts: 15,993
    The 70's :o :roll: :thumbdown: :wtf: :yawn: :shock:

    Wish you were here...
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  • megatronmegatron Posts: 3,420
    dcfaithful wrote:
    Dr. Dre's 2001....awesome...other than that, I would agree that 2001 really wasn't the greatest year for music.
    i actually made the comment "i guess thats why i only listened to rap back then"
  • sickwilliesickwillie Posts: 178
    The irony, of course, being that Dr. Dre's 2001 was actually released in 1999.

    Still, 2001 had some good albums:
    Tool - Lateralus
    System of a Down - Toxicity
    Weezer - Green Album (aka their last good album)
    Incubus - Morning View
    Radiohead - Amnesiac
    The Strokes - Is This It

    and, to really bring out the Canadian in me:
    Matthew Good Band - The Audio of Being
    ...seriously one of my favourite albums ever.

    Granted, it was no 1994 (you wanna talk about a dearth of great albums, that's where to go), but worst year ever? Nah; I'm thinking that was probably, like, 1981.
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  • KloddzKloddz Posts: 2,573
    HeartShapedBox wrote:
    The 70's :o :roll: :thumbdown: :wtf: :yawn: :shock:
    Obviously, you're not a big Led Zeppelin fan...
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  • HeavyHandsHeavyHands Posts: 2,130
    There was a very short amount of time where these things were released instead of good/compelling music:

    Jimmy Ray - Are You Jimmy Ray?
    Smash Mouth - Fush Yu Meng
    Sugar Ray - Floored, 14:59
    Eagle Eye Cherry - Desireless
    Master P - Make Em Say Uunng
    Semisonic - Feeling Strangely Fine
    Celine Dion - Titanic Soundtrack
    Creed - My Own Prison
    Spice Girls - Spice World
    Brittany Spears - Baby One More Time
    Crazy Town - The Gift of Game
    Hanson - Middle of Nowhere
    Bone Thugs 'N Harmony - The Art of War
    Matchbox 20 - Yourself or Someone Like You
    Backstreet Boys - Backstreet Boys
    Chumbawamba - Tubthumper
    Savage Garden - Savage Garden
    Celine Dion - Let's Talk About Love
    Silkk Da Shocker - Charge it to Da Game


    I know it was not all in the same calendar year, but it came so closely lumped together (in the late 90's) that it's managed to blur together into one horrible awful memory. The sad thing is there was a lot more. Thankfully I've blocked most of it out.
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  • dcfaithfuldcfaithful Posts: 13,076
    sickwillie wrote:
    The irony, of course, being that Dr. Dre's 2001 was actually released in 1999.

    Still, 2001 had some good albums:
    Tool - Lateralus
    System of a Down - Toxicity
    Weezer - Green Album (aka their last good album)
    Incubus - Morning View
    Radiohead - Amnesiac
    The Strokes - Is This It

    and, to really bring out the Canadian in me:
    Matthew Good Band - The Audio of Being
    ...seriously one of my favourite albums ever.

    Granted, it was no 1994 (you wanna talk about a dearth of great albums, that's where to go), but worst year ever? Nah; I'm thinking that was probably, like, 1981.

    I take back my statement, becasue all the albums you listed are great...and yeah, it's odd that 2001 was released in 1999...but bythe year 2001, it was still getting played like crazy if I remember right...
    7/2/06 - Denver, CO
    6/12/08 - Tampa, FL
    8/23/09 - Chicago, IL
    9/28/09 - Salt Lake City, UT (11 years too long!!!)
    9/03/11 - East Troy, WI - PJ20 - Night 1
    9/04/11 - East Troy, WI - PJ20 - Night 2
  • Evacuation RulesEvacuation Rules Posts: 2,162
    HeartShapedBox wrote:
    The 70's :o :roll: :thumbdown: :wtf: :yawn: :shock:

    You can't seriously think today's music is better than music from the 70's.
  • Who PrincessWho Princess out here in the fields Posts: 7,305
    Evacuation Rules wrote:
    HeartShapedBox wrote:
    The 70's :o :roll: :thumbdown: :wtf: :yawn: :shock:

    You can't seriously think today's music is better than music from the 70's.
    Um, having lived through the 70s I wouldn't say that today's music is necessarily better but HeartShapedBox has a point. The first half of the 70s had some of the most amazing music ever produced. But by about '77, everything was starting to sound like the same old Fleetwood Mac/Pablo Cruise/Little River Band crap. In other words, seriously lame. :thumbdown: :sick: :shock: :roll: :? :problem:
    Or disco. :wtf: :crazy:
    And for the person who mentioned Led Zep, well, I just never was a fan. :yawn:
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  • megatronmegatron Posts: 3,420
    maybe i should have said..turning point towards the worst music?..dunno. it was a bad time on mtv apparantly :D
  • PearlOfAGirlPearlOfAGirl Posts: 15,993
    Kloddz wrote:
    HeartShapedBox wrote:
    The 70's :o :roll: :thumbdown: :wtf: :yawn: :shock:
    Obviously, you're not a big Led Zeppelin fan...
    Your wrong there, I am a BIG LED ZEPPELIN FAN!!! :thumbup: :mrgreen: :wave:

    Wish you were here...
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  • PearlOfAGirlPearlOfAGirl Posts: 15,993
    Evacuation Rules wrote:
    HeartShapedBox wrote:
    The 70's :o :roll: :thumbdown: :wtf: :yawn: :shock:

    You can't seriously think today's music is better than music from the 70's.
    That wasn't the question... I think the 60's and the 90's were the best years of music...
    :thumbup: :clap::clap::mrgreen::clap::clap: :wave:

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  • keeponrockinkeeponrockin Posts: 7,446
    Evacuation Rules wrote:
    HeartShapedBox wrote:
    The 70's :o :roll: :thumbdown: :wtf: :yawn: :shock:

    You can't seriously think today's music is better than music from the 70's.
    I could certainly make the argument.
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  • CosmoCosmo Posts: 12,225
    whoprincess wrote:
    Um, having lived through the 70s I wouldn't say that today's music is necessarily better but HeartShapedBox has a point. The first half of the 70s had some of the most amazing music ever produced. But by about '77, everything was starting to sound like the same old Fleetwood Mac/Pablo Cruise/Little River Band crap. In other words, seriously lame. :thumbdown: :sick: :shock: :roll: :? :problem:
    Or disco. :wtf: :crazy:
    And for the person who mentioned Led Zep, well, I just never was a fan. :yawn:
    ...
    It all depends on where you were and what you were listening to...
    1976, 1977 saw the appearance of the Ramones, The Sex Pistols, The Clash, The Jam, The Talking Heads, Elvis Costello and The Attractions, The Police, DEVO, Blondie, Van Halen, The Cars, Cheap Trick and a host of other new music. The established bands put out some pretty good stuff, too. Neil Young came out with 'Like a Hurricane' from 'American Stars and Bars' and later, 'Rust Never Sleeps'. Pink Floyd came out with 'Animals' and 'The Wall' and Bowie did those amazing records with Brian Eno in Berlin... and Springsteen was coming of age.
    Yeah... the 70s were crap... as far as popular music goes, but isn't that the same... always? Popular music is popular for a reason... because it sucks and people have bad taste.
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  • Who PrincessWho Princess out here in the fields Posts: 7,305
    Cosmo wrote:
    Yeah... the 70s were crap... as far as popular music goes, but isn't that the same... always? Popular music is popular for a reason... because it sucks and people have bad taste.
    Well, I have this discussion a lot when people tell me they wish they could have lived during the 60s and 70s, which was when I was in high school. I always say that yeah, there was a lot of phenomenal music, but it was often hard to find. :x A lot of popular music in the 60s and 70s was just awful but nobody ever seems to remember that! :roll:

    Going into the 70s there was less difference between "popular" music and what was called "underground" (what we'd probably think of as indie, I guess), because artists were trying to be successful and because there were so few ways to get their music featured. Cars had AM radios and kids didn't always own stereos with FM radios where they could hear longer tracks that would make them want to buy the albums. When people stopped buying singles and started buying albums, music changed a lot and that change was really happening by the 70s.

    As for the punk and New Wave bands of the late 70s, much of that was in reaction to the truly mediocre stuff of the mid 70s. But the 70s started off with some truly creative stuff, like Who's Next and Spirit's Twelve Dreams of Dr. Sardonicus (still one of my favorite albums :thumbup: but it seems like no one's even heard of it nowadays), then just went stale really fast. :(
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  • CosmoCosmo Posts: 12,225
    whoprincess wrote:
    Cosmo wrote:
    Yeah... the 70s were crap... as far as popular music goes, but isn't that the same... always? Popular music is popular for a reason... because it sucks and people have bad taste.
    Well, I have this discussion a lot when people tell me they wish they could have lived during the 60s and 70s, which was when I was in high school. I always say that yeah, there was a lot of phenomenal music, but it was often hard to find. :x A lot of popular music in the 60s and 70s was just awful but nobody ever seems to remember that! :roll:

    Going into the 70s there was less difference between "popular" music and what was called "underground" (what we'd probably think of as indie, I guess), because artists were trying to be successful and because there were so few ways to get their music featured. Cars had AM radios and kids didn't always own stereos with FM radios where they could hear longer tracks that would make them want to buy the albums. When people stopped buying singles and started buying albums, music changed a lot and that change was really happening by the 70s.

    As for the punk and New Wave bands of the late 70s, much of that was in reaction to the truly mediocre stuff of the mid 70s. But the 70s started off with some truly creative stuff, like Who's Next and Spirit's Twelve Dreams of Dr. Sardonicus (still one of my favorite albums :thumbup: but it seems like no one's even heard of it nowadays), then just went stale really fast. :(
    ...
    All right... someone else here who has lived through it. "IT" being Disco.
    And yeah, the 70s wasn't all about listening to Led Zeppelin, The Who, Pink Floyd and Deep purple on the radio... it was playing on the 8-Tracks and cassettes in the kid's cars. FM picked it up... but, they also picked up stuff, such a Journey, Forigner, Sytx and Kansas... popular with some of my friends... just too corporate driven pop to fill football stadiums for my tastes. I was more Sabbath, than Styx... more Floyd, than Kansas. Probably due to the pot.
    And Punk Rock 1976,77 was like a lifeline. I wasn't finding celestrial soujourns to find unicorns pissing rainbows... I was living in asphalt and concrete... a.k.a Reality. Punk Rock was real shit... not spaceships.
    ....
    Bottom line... every decade is the same... great music buried in a giant pile of shit... even the 90's. It's there... the good music. You just need to get past the shit to get it.
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  • dcfaithfuldcfaithful Posts: 13,076
    Kloddz wrote:
    HeartShapedBox wrote:
    The 70's :o :roll: :thumbdown: :wtf: :yawn: :shock:
    Obviously, you're not a big Led Zeppelin fan...

    ...or Sabbath
    ...or The Who
    ...or The Rolling Stones
    ...or The Allman Brothers

    the 70's = The myriad of classic rock (and the 60's of course)
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    6/12/08 - Tampa, FL
    8/23/09 - Chicago, IL
    9/28/09 - Salt Lake City, UT (11 years too long!!!)
    9/03/11 - East Troy, WI - PJ20 - Night 1
    9/04/11 - East Troy, WI - PJ20 - Night 2
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