Was pop music always this bad?

illegal pants

i heart matchbox twenty

jackrabbit slim

the ruination of current music can be linked directly to timbaland. he is behind or responsible for most of the shitty music out there. i despise this man.

sj.brodie

gabers wrote:

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.

Break out your vinyl collection and always turn your radio dial to the left.

FinsburyParkCarrots

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w5ijgrZfvmc
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FVaBBljZuJ4&mode=related&search=
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZA82cKaUiSI&mode=related&search=


Etc.

gabers

FinsburyParkCarrots wrote:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w5ijgrZfvmc
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FVaBBljZuJ4&mode=related&search=
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZA82cKaUiSI&mode=related&search=


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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"

gabers

icarus wrote:

yea the beatles sucked

Speak for yourself. The Beatles were a 60's band.

FinsburyParkCarrots

gabers wrote:

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"

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.

glasshouse

icarus wrote:

yea the beatles sucked

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.

Alessiana

Pop music started sucking when corporate interests began to pay attention in different way. When they started buying up radio stations, they shut down the avenue many artists find to break out the general public.

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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FinsburyParkCarrots

Alessiana wrote:

Pop music started sucking when corporate interests began to pay attention in different way. When they started buying up radio stations, they shut down the avenue many artists find to break out the general public.


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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

muppet

Don't listen to much pop but Justin Timberlake is a great performer with some catchy songs. And some recent rap and hip hop - if you count that as pop, seeing as it's the most popular stuff on the charts - is great, like Kanye West and Timbaland. That guy has talent.

fada

FinsburyParkCarrots wrote:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w5ijgrZfvmc
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FVaBBljZuJ4&mode=related&search=
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZA82cKaUiSI&mode=related&search=


Etc.

I always thought that slade were a fine band

Drowned Out

Not always, IMO....and I'm sure this opinion will get flamed....but I remember a time in the late 80's that pop music did not suck....cause hair metal was pretty dominant, and hair metal rulz.
I remember reading the back pages of a Rolling Stone around 89, just after Crue put out Dr.Feelgood....and 6 of the top 10 albums were "metal"....say what you want about that era, but to have distorted guitars on 60% of the top 10 was pretty fackin cool in my books. I don't think that Grunge even had that kind of impact on the charts....but that was a decent time for "pop" as well....as long as you are defining pop as popular music, and not a genre unto itself.

FinsburyParkCarrots

fada wrote:

I always thought that slade were a fine band

I dunno. I love T Rex, and can even forgive Bolan's shite period, but Slade are a bit irritating.

AiCPearlJamWeen

I think rap music is worse than the pop music......I don't listen to any radio (besides Opie and Anthony on XM) because of the shit rap. What the fuck is this Soldier Boy song everyone keeps talking about..

But pop is almost equally as horrible.

Is it me or is all radio music today just the same verse and chorus OVER and OVER and OVER and OVER and OVER again?

catefrances

deadnote wrote:

you ever heard that song by snow patrol

yeah ive heard that song by snow patrol. :rolleyes:

Alessiana

FinsburyParkCarrots wrote:

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

Things were different in the US. I'm not saying I have all the answers but over here, one company controlling most of radio killed it. Music is just fine. Radio is dead.

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