Was pop music always this bad?
gabers
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Or am I just getting old and crotchety and out of touch with the kids these days? I tried listening to the local "top 40" station and I think I would have rather had my fingernails removed with pliers. And just looking at the most popular songs on iTunes, on yahoo, etc. I tried listening to a few and realized just how god-awful pop music is nowadays. Was it always this terrible? I need to expose my young son early and often to good music.
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The only reason i mention the 80's is Prince and Michael Jackson's stuff then were quite good pop melodies
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pop music sucks !
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a little bit of both.
hip-hop has had a pernicious effect upon youth culture in general, what in fuck kanye west is good for is beyond my sphere of thought. a veritable pool of piss the whole situation seems.......
y'gotta admit he is a lil bit of a TIT.
but honestly what right now in pop music will you remember? is there a J LO or Justin Timberlake song you will remember and want to hear in 10 years? of any other pop music from today?
great songs scattered everywhere and somehow they find a way to sound different
you ever heard that song by snow patrol
dreamer in my dream
we got the guns
i love you,but im..............callin out.........callin out
god's eyes are closed, just like yours
most of those bands are not Pop Music.
Pop music is short for Popular...and popular music gets radioplay...the whole point of it was that it would be on the top 40 lists...
and that means catchy with very little substance - something that people can sing along to absentmindedly...Pop is not Rock...so, to answer the question most pop music basically sucks in my opinion...and the current crop of pop music seems to be spawned from tv shows or movies...some celebrity singing into a machine that makes their voice sound like Madonna from 1982...and so, lately the music has even less validity...but, I am sure that the idea of catchy pop melodies wont be gone for good...
I just love the fact that I've spotted you mentioning Califone in two separate threads! They deserve all the attention they can get.
I haven't listened to the radio much in the last six years or so. There's really no reason to worry about the state of pop music when there's plenty of great music out there waiting to be discovered outside of the mainstream. Who needs radio when you have the internet to search out new bands?
And as to the question at hand, I know that when I was still listening to radio during the late '90's I though pop music was terrible, but now I look back fondly at some of the pop rock songs I remember. As others have already said, we tend to remember the decent music and block out the bad memories.
When I was in college, I read about a study that showed that most people stop being as open to new music when they are in their early to mid 20s as they were previously.
Pop music has always been the same. For every Michael Jackson or Prince song getting heavy rotation on the radio back in the mid-80s, there were dozens of other random "one hit wonders" getting just as much play. That's how it's always been.
Well, I like the new Justin Timberlake album. I think it will age better than its contemporaries. I listen to "BOB" radio station at work sometimes and they play pop hits from the 60s to today. I'm sure they leave out a lot of crap that got play through the years, but still play a lot of crap. I'd say no time can be worst for pop music than the 80s. What was wrong with everybody that decade???????
at least in other eras it relied more on the music itself. there is no way you can say today's pop has equivalently talented artists the likes of Michael Jackson and Prince.
There was a massive hit song her in Oz a littel while back, Crazy Frog, which was basically a phone ring tone, electronic noises made by a pseudo-frog. It was number one for a scary period of time.
I checked out some Opeth a couple of days ago, Blackwater Park, has been on high rotation in my car since. 10 min complex orchestral songs , which will NEVER make it onto radio.
Break out your vinyl collection and always turn your radio dial to the left.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FVaBBljZuJ4&mode=related&search=
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZA82cKaUiSI&mode=related&search=
Etc.
You might be on to something. The 70's may have the most awful pop music of all time, but it's close - damn close. Disco might just give the 70's the edge. And all the cheesy balladeering that went on. "shivers"
Speak for yourself. The Beatles were a 60's band.
Yep. People nostalgically assume the seventies were some glory era of music, and yes, there was a lot of great music in the album charts, but if we look at what was always in the singles charts (which mattered to young people more than most things, in those days), there was an enormous amount of shite around.
i think icarus is being sarcatic. Anyway ~ since the Beatles practcally re-invented pop music in the 60s the answer is most definitely NO.
i give you Beach Boys as well etc. but yes, to a great extend pop music today = dead.
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Music as music doesn't suck more now than it ever did. You just have to look for it in different places. There are some radio stations that don't follow corporate play lists. These are usually college radio stations. If you are lucky you live near one of the privately owned commercial stations.
Here's one and they stream ---> http://www.wrnr.com They are in Annapolis, MD but stream on the net too. These are the people who once owned the famous and now defunct WHFS back when it was a great station.
eMusic and "other band" boards such as this and the one on RM are great places to learn about what's out there, as well as exploring myspace etc.
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Tell them.
The problem started way before then. It started in 1967, when the BBC conspired with Wilson's British government to close down pirate broadcasters; they might have poached the great John Peel from Radio Caroline, to appease serious music fans, but Radio One, which started on September 30th 1967, was largely made up of as much bubblegum trash as it is today.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radio_Caroline