Why do people get so upset when you point out there's no good music being made today...

anybody going to see this on Thursday?

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Case in point, zoomer meme response with fedora.

>1979
>peak of humanity
??????

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Ah yes I would so want to live in Lithua--I mean the Lithuanian SSR in 1979.

early 90s america was unironically the peak of humanity from a comfiness perspective. sometimes i can't even believe i lived in such a beautiful time. it's sad that most of this board will never experience anything remotely like that

Why when talking about good music did you use a Cure photo?

he thinks the 80s were the best time for music probs

>recession
>crack wars
>all-time high national murder rate

>Peak of humanity
>No cell phones, no Internet, no laptops, no free music
What the fuck are you talking about

Best pasta ever

Humanity is getting better with every year, the earth however its getting worse.

We peaked in the late 70s/early 80s. A lot of what we have now (Netflix, Spotify, PornHub) is a continuation of what was available then (Video rental stores, mixtapes, porn compilation videos)
And society declined when gangsta rap and grunge became a fully mainstream phenomenon circa 1992.

Yes there was a lot of shit back then I'm not denying that, but what on the radio today will be remembered in 10 years? I tune into my city's stations from time to time and literally everything sounds the same. It's all overproduced R&B and trap with the odd limp-wristed Ed Sheeran singer/songwriter types. There's no variety at all. All anyone writes songs about now is love, heartbreak, or partying. No creativity.
Because Lovesong, while having been overplayed as fuck, is still a genuinely great single and managed to reach #2 on Billboard Top 100. No music in the past 10 years that's charted that high has come close to the quality of that song. I'm not a Cure fanboy either I'm just using them as an example. Tons of #1 hits from that era are still remembered will be remembered for decades to come.

>We peaked in the late 70s/early 80s.

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As a kid, the 90s were probably the best. Sega Genesis, Jurassic Park, great music, truly a magical time. All the best shit happened when I was at the perfect age for it.

^This. Good times.

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2 solid albums, and a discography of disappointment; that's The Cure's legacy and it will always be that
Airtime in the mainstream and popularity doesn't make stuff good y'know

No one cares what Third Worlders were doing back then.

>he thinks top 40 was ever good

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You mean eighty years ago

now look at 1994, there's some real music

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Why did you have to subject me to this?

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I think you mean 140 years ago

that's a whole lotta great songs right there. way better than the 2019 version for damn sure

Then just say "there's no good mainstream music being made today" instead. Shouldn't be too hard.

>shooting all those Zulus
Good times!

Recently I was working my way through the 1997 Top 100 list and found about 5-6 songs total that were any good some of which I already knew.

1, 2, 3, 6, 9, 10, 15

all timeless classics

>Every Rose Has It's Thorn
>Wind Beneath My Wings
>Baby, I Love Your Way/Freebird Medley
>not good
I'm sorry that you hate fun, user
Absolutely disgusting!

>Wind Beneath My Wings
For a moment I thought this guy was being serious.

Top 40 is boring by design, it's meant to be inoffensive background music you play over the sound system at the mall.

Honestly a great song, but I prefer Gary Morris

youtube.com/watch?v=6IGv_WtwWiE

My 70 year old great aunt used to like that song. It sucks and Bette Midler sucks.

Bobby Based Brown.

>Technology is better now so everything else is magically better too
I'm so tired of this boomer mentality.

1989 was a pretty bad year all-around but 94 had some killer rock, lots of really heavy and dark stuff that year. All of which wasn't played on the radio next to all those Mariah Carey and Ace of Base songs.

Found the racist

>anything I dont like is zoomer
Typical zoomer response. Ancient copypasta persists because it resonates to multiple generations. Perhaps imgur is more your style.

m'lady

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MUH JOOOOOOOOSSSSSS!!!!!!!!

Out of all that trash there is one great song there.

And it sure ain't Richard Marx.

what the fuck all those songs suck shit

Jews are people too

Definitely not

it's definitely roxette

youtube.com/watch?v=LlVI7ZNiFlI

>peak of college rock
>bad year

no way bro

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Hell no

most of the 60s and 70s «popular bands» you know today were not what was aired on the radio actually
the top charts at that time were filled with people we forgot after 10 years

Wannabe is the one knockout classic here.

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2, 9, 21, 25

all great songs

haha fucking epic user!

Like come on, you think they were playing Black Sabbath on AM radio in 1971?

Foolish Games actually makes me nauseated with how smarmy she is. That song is just dreadful.

This view only makes sense if you've never heard of the internet. Theres a term in Philosophy called the "Moral Demand" which is the amount of moral requirements your moral theory demands of people to adhere to it, and depending on how outside the natural domain of normal human behavior that requisite is the less tenable that ethical/economic system is. The opposite is true with music. The Internet completely destroys all prior systems of music tastes. Whatever YOUR specific taste is, you can find it with EASE. It's not hard at all to explore the genre/artist you like, and it's so easy to explore musicians like them. If you cant find music you like you're literally just a lazy piece of shit, because at ALL TIMES all that separates you from music you like is maybe 10-15 button presses on your phone

Good songs here are 10, 25, 27, and sort of 15.

>the best time was by coincidence, when I was a kid
Although I feel the same, it's obvious this is why we all think this. Nostalgia wouldn't exist otherwise, people that were 40 in the 90s aren't looking back now going 'wow the 90s were so comfy'

There's a lot of shitty stuff that happened in my childhood I'd rather not remember. And no I wasn't beaten or molested or anything like that.

It takes years before an artist or album can be appreciated fully and its impact understood. For example, the early 2010s (10-13) is just long enough ago by now that we can start to piece that era of music together and understand exactly what it did and what it influenced.

I mean I was a little kid when SNES came out which was probably the biggest revolution in gaming. Seeing Super Mario blew my tiny mind. And then being like 10 and seeing Jurassic Park and Batman Forever at the drive-in. I was in junior high when The Matrix came out which was insane. Then when I was in high school, cell phones and high-speed internet became a thing, all of a sudden you can download music. So many profound changes 90s kids lived through. What changes have kids today really seen, besides the rise of SJWs? They already had iphones and fast internet, the music hasn't really changed much. It doesn't seem like they're gonna have anything to look back on and say 'I was there for that'.

I agree and I've started to see some people express nostalgia for that period.

>the music hasn't really changed much
What music hasn't changed much?

In the 90s, everyone knew at the time that it was a great era. People didn't whine that the 80s were better, we loved the music, we loved the movies, that's how you know it really was that good and not just a case of nostalgia.

cope zoom zoom, you can't hide behind your precious memes and irony forever

>it's another thread where sheltered suburban Americans think the whole world revolves around them
the 90s in my country wasn't something I'd want to relive

>People didn't whine that the 80s were better

Only an underage person would say this and yes people very much did claim the 80s were better.

it's because rock isn't popular anymore boomer, sorry you're too much of a pleb to look for good music

>it's because kid rock isn't popular anymore
ftfy

I think you somewhat overestimate the extent to which the bands of the past we consider amazing were mainstream in their day.

What a faggy post.

>mfw this infuriates the zoomer

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>we live in the worst time to be alive in human history
Mega giga ultra cringe

as a very young person, i feel absolutely 0 nostalgia for the pop culture of my childhood and adolescence in the 2000s and 2010s.

You have no idea what you're talking about.

nobody from our age group does

>he didn’t see the thread full of cringy faggots reminiscing about late 00s/early 10s pop

I see people your age making nostalgia threads for shit like pop punk and jackass all the time, which is unfortunate since there were some genuinely good music and shows from that era, just not for kids though.

The thing is, I was on Yea Forums back in 2010-13 and back then we actually knew that we were in a good period for new music. Obviously there were some wrong generation kids around still but in general the board was a lot more positive about contemporary music. Not like now, where I reckon most of us would agree this has been an exceptionally weak year

No Diggity is the best track on there

>shit that never happened.jpg
lole

Late gen-xer here. The 80s were the peak.
Thinking you could be nuked at any moment was kino as fuck.
I grew up with 1981-1983 MTV. 80% new wave, new romantic WHITE music AWESOME for a kindergartner+. MJ became popular around late 83. Shit pop metal became popular around 1985. Started collecting X-Men comics and garbage pail kids instead of listening to music, GI JOE and Transformers became a thing in late 83 and early 84, dove hardcore into that. New ESB and ROTJ toys + GI Joe and Transformers and TMNT towards the end, made my childhood a billion times better than any millennial or fucking zoomer.
The 90s was a pale shadow of the 80s. In the 80s, even with Reagan in charge, no one gave a fuck about politics, seriously. Watch a carson or letterman monologue from the 80s, you'll be lucky to hear one joke about american politics.
The 90s were when people started thinking politics were important (they're not)

>t. another retard who considers his "growing up years" to be ~4 years old
Why do only millennials do this?

Politics became important when Slick Willys dick was getting sucked by an intern, the media was bound and determined that the news was to become little more than tabloid sensationalism. This marked the beginning of their decline as far as trust went with the American people.

not a fucking millenial, sperg.

Damn this video is pretty great

Also Marie Frederiksson is a goddess

Nobody wants to admit it user but we passed the peak of this civilisation around the 1980s mark. 1960s-1990s was our golden period culturally. We won't see another period like it in our lifetimes, probably not for another couple of centuries after the current West + China hegemony collapses under environmental strain and population displacement and whatever society takes its place finds a stable footing.

And I know the /pol/ posters here won't like it, but neoliberalism taking hold in the 1980s is at least a major part of what is to blame. An atheistic conservative movement that strives only for short-term gain and doesn't believe in a future beyond its investors' lifetimes was always destined to bleed the planet dry and destabilise both the natural world and international politics, because GDP is the new God.

> Good creative music received regular airplay on mainstream radio stations

There are no mainstream radio stations anymore. Music that gets played on the radio has little to do with the music that's actually popular.

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My god. If you'd actually been around in the 60's 70's, 80's, and 90's you'd have known that there was an amazing amount of crap being broadcast at the time. What you hear today of those times is what survived the years, while the rest is forgotten. You've always had to dig. You just use a different shovel now.

people say this like it takes years to find decent music. it doesn’t. you have so many tools at your disposal for searching that you couldn’t even dream of in the ‘80s – I’d say it’s easier to stumble upon good music today than even 15 years ago, when really the only thing you could do is listen to the radio or just read music magazines hoping to find something good, eventually.
If you are not willing to spend literally 5 minutes to look for something you actually enjoy listening, then fuck you.

One of the clearest memories I have is hearing the Verve's "On Your Own" from A Northern Soul playing on the radio in 1995 for the first time. This was years before Bitter Sweet Symphony. They played all kind of weird shit on the radio before Clear Channel: Skunk Anansie, Ruby, Poe, the list goes on and on. They even played washed up shit like Killing Joke when they released Pandemonium. The first time I ever heard Rabbit in the Moon and Front 242 was on the radio in the early 90s. And this was in a little podunk town in northern Florida.

You weren't alive then and you're full of shit.

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Humanity peaked in 3500BC

Since when do people on /pol/ like neoliberalism? I thought they were all fascists/traditionalists etc.

SHAKEDOWN

take the real redpill: dance music and its consequences have been a disaster for popular song

the "disco sucks" people were right about everything

The ones I've interacted with tend to take any criticism of the right wing as a tacit endorsement of full-on NWO state communism

I imagine they would say that neoliberalism is not actually right-wing, just as most socialists will say that SJWs are not actually left-wing.

I know. It pisses me off. People just regurgitate that same shit, "You just have to look for it". What people need to stop doing is bashing any band that gets mainstream success. All the greats were mainstream. Be happy for them.

Wannabe
Return of the Mack
Semi-Charmed Life
No Diggity

BASED

Nah, popular music was always dance oriented. Disco has aged better than prog.

>tfw 30 year old boomer waiting on next tool album

>tfw the first time I heard the “there’s is old music being today you just have to look for it and it’s Xiu Xiu and Neutral Milk Hotel and Slint and Mogwai and GYBE to be fair in one instance Japanese hardcore” was back in 2004 on GameFAQs music board and all indications suggested it came directly from Pitchfork which obviously was a massive meme by then

your nose is showing

music just to be so good *sip*

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You had a cool radio station to listen to. Lucky bastard. Here in Philly only the soul stations were consistently good.

Free music is cancer for music vitality. Accessibility was a mistake, too much shit is being made today and too many people accept it as valid indiscriminately

>I thought they were all fascists/traditionalists etc.
That was three years ago. Now they're 70% trolls and 40% clueless idiots. For those that don't know their math, that means there is 10% who are both.

Exactly in those decades the good stuff was easily found in the mainstream and in mtv and shit. Nowadays anything good I hear I Shazam it and it’s often something I never heard of and I look it up and it’s a band nobody has heard with almost no info on only played by some underground indie station. Only in the 90s would cool alternate rock (I guess it’s all called indie rock now) be found easily on mtv 24 hours a day

>hoes mad
lol

based

I don’t really mind that really good music is super underground. It’s a good normie filter and it means that some of the best acts right now are doing it for the passion of it not the money. Things will change it’s just been a weak 5 or so years for music

>wanting any random retard to be able to contact you no matter where you are
Crinfe

based retard

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Based.

this but unironically

Because there is still good music coming out but you gotta dig for it.

This is copypasted from a Youtube comment section.

If you dig through the record bins at Salvation Army, you'll see just what normalfags were actually listening to and it leans a lot more in the direction of Herb Alpert and the Carpenters than David Bowie or whatever.

>Not like now, where I reckon most of us would agree this has been an exceptionally weak year
>most notable things are new Springsteen and Madonna in 2019

Since 2015 yes it's been very weak, anyone could agree on that.

>All anyone writes songs about now is love, heartbreak, or partying. No creativity.
>implying the Top 40 wasn't always full of that

shut up

The phenomenon you describe is the reason there's no good mainstream music. It became much easier to listen to anything you want, so the mainstream channels are just for people who don't care or don't know better. Nobody listens to the radio or watches MTV if they want good music, why would they? The way it was in the 90s can't compare to the amount of stuff available online so it would be pointless to try.

>Good creative music received regular airplay on mainstream radio stations.

"Good creative music" was about as well-represented in basic bitch pop culture in the 1980s/90s as it is now.
Whatever 80s/90s alternative rock you fetishize, The Cure, the Banshees, R.E.M., The Jesus & Mary Chain, whatever, none of it got anywhere as much mainstream attention as you think. These bands did great on college radio and certain left-field radio stations, as well as obviously shows like 120 Minutes. That's it. You weren't hearing them squeezed in between Don Henley, Belinda Carlisle and Van Halen on mainstream radio(no discrespect meant to Belinda Carlisle, she's pretty legit).

This was a massive precedent.

youtube.com/watch?v=_MtzeWkEZys

You think Hole, Korn, and Manson were on the radio back then?

coping zoomer. imagine being canceled, top kek

>thinking those are remotely good and not just time-sucks that waste your entire life without you realizing it
kys

based and correct. the fashion, the movies, the music, all of the cool toys and mtx-free vidya designed for kids, absolute peak nickelodeon, zero sjw's, no identity politics dominating every single facet of public discourse, no internet culture or cringe internet slang, still a healthy book culture, being able to just disappear and not have people texting you 24/7, no fucking normie IG or YT culture and vapid zoomers using each other to get more followers and likes in an endless cycle that goes fucking nowhere and does fucking nothing other than steal years from your life... i genuinely can't believe i lived in an era where none of this existed at all, it was paradise

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>zero sjw's, no identity politics dominating every single facet of public discourse
>these did not exist in the 90s
This is how I know you were born in 1998.

what's interesting is i'm seeing a shitload less rap being discussed on Yea Forums the past 6 months. like 80% less than this time last year

>This is how I know you were born in 1998.
try '85 faggot, i didn't start getting shit for being a privileged cis white male until trayvon martin, unironically the true beginning of the end for western culture because it coincided with twatter and every (((victimized)) retard with a phone suddenly getting a platform

when i went to college in the mid-2000s we studied white fucking males and no one challenged that at all and they threw in a tiny section a semester for emily dickinson or whomever. sure there were maybe 1 or 2 crazy feminist bitches out of a thousand but they stayed in their fucking lane, wasn't different from any other post-60s era. comparing the 90s to now is a completely different universe don't try to act like they are remotely the same kike

They get upset because you're ignorant and don't know what you're on about. Popular music has always been the blandest part of the scene. Go look at the billboard 200 archives.

^This. Political correctness and identity politics were a huge plague in the Clinton years and there wasn't really an Internet or alternative media yet to fight back.