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I agree. With One Direction, Justin Bieber, Miley Cyrus and The Wanted, the 2010s are sure shaping up to be one hell of a generation of music. I think I heard on the radio that One Direction is now bigger than The Beatles. And considering the number of Beliebers, one would think he's bigger now than Elvis ever was. Miley Cyrus and Lady GaGa have certainly eclipsed Madonna.

I will say the 2010s, when taken on the surface, appear to be worse than any other generation. However, a number of music acts are actually among the best ever. Bands like Arcade Fire and Black Keys are finding popularity. Kanye West is making the best reviewed hip hop records in history. Singer songwriters are popping up with better material than in the 2000s. There's a certain level of novelty from this decade that was missing in the previous decade. I think 2010s will be a better decade overall than the 2000s and the 1990s.
 
I will say the 2010s, when taken on the surface, appear to be worse than any other generation. However, a number of music acts are actually among the best ever. Bands like Arcade Fire and Black Keys are finding popularity. Kanye West is making the best reviewed hip hop records in history. Singer songwriters are popping up with better material than in the 2000s. There's a certain level of novelty from this decade that was missing in the previous decade. I think 2010s will be a better decade overall than the 2000s and the 1990s.
How many real singer songwriters do we have now. If you go back to the peak of the term in the 70s. Nothing now comes close.
 
Most would imply a majority and not an entirety. If in his opinion, which is solely his right, that rap, R&B, soul, jazz, pop, country, etc. of today's is horrible, then suggesting he check out Indie music and him liking it would merely validate that most of today's music is indeed crap in his opinion, but not all of it.
 
Most would imply a majority and not an entirety. If in his opinion, which is solely his right, that rap, R&B, soul, jazz, pop, country, etc. of today's is horrible, then suggesting he check out Indie music and him liking it would merely validate that most of today's music is indeed crap in his opinion, but not all of it.
So, at the very least, we can conclude that he would think most music of every generation sucks.
 
The 60's and 70's had to be the worst when it comes to music
*sorts iTunes library by date*

Art Blakey / Flamingos / John Coltrane / Johnny Cash / Miles Davis / Ray Charles / Bill Evans / Ornette Coleman / Beatles / Bob Dylan / Marvin Gaye / Randy Newman / Dusty Springfield / Thelonious Monk / Animals / Beach Boys / Chet Baker / Four Tops / Impressions / Kinks / Otis Redding / Shangri-Las / Simon and Garfunkel / Temptations / Them / Byrds / Cream / Desmond Dekker / Ethiopians / Mamas and Papas / Rolling Stones / Stevie Wonder / Tim Buckley / Who / Aretha Franklin / Glen Campbell / Jimi Hendrix Experience / Love / Scott Walker / Van Morrison / Velvet Underground / Delfonics / Flying Burrito Brothers / Small Faces / Toots and The Maytals / Captain Beefheart / Chi-Lites / David Bowie / Faces / Isaac Hayes / Jackson 5 / Jimmy Cliff / Led Zeppelin / Rod Stewart / Sly and The Family Stone / Cat Stevens / War with or without Eric Burdon / Neil Young / Bob Marley / Carol King / Curtis Mayfield / Genesis / Guess Who / Big Star / Doobie Brothers / Eagles / Lou Reed / Roxy Music / Steely Dan / Hall and Oates / Electric Light Orchestra / Gladys Knight / Pink Floyd / Sensational Alex Harvey Band / Tom Waits / Kraftwerk / Patti Smith / Suicide / Warren Zevon / Numbers Band / Buzzcocks / Culture / Elvis Costello / Ian Dury / Jam / Joy Division / Talking Heads / Television / Wire / The Band / Cabaret Voltaire / Devo / Kate Bush / Magazine / Mikey Dread / Pere Ubu / PIL / Fall / Japan / Simple Minds / Specials / Undertones

Yep.

Not one decent tune between 'em.
 
The 60's and 70's had to be the worst when it comes to music

Worst?

No.

While I don't doubt the existence of some dross, and some trite predictable rubbish, along with some eminently forgettable music, there was some outstanding music form that era.

And, a surprising number of groups - or angers - managed to produce one 'perfect' song, even though the remainder of there catalogue might have been mediocre to say the least.

*sorts iTunes library by date*

Art Blakey / Flamingos / John Coltrane / Johnny Cash / Miles Davis / Ray Charles / Bill Evans / Ornette Coleman / Beatles / Bob Dylan / Marvin Gaye / Randy Newman / Dusty Springfield / Thelonious Monk / Animals / Beach Boys / Chet Baker / Four Tops / Impressions / Kinks / Otis Redding / Shangri-Las / Simon and Garfunkel / Temptations / Them / Byrds / Cream / Desmond Dekker / Ethiopians / Mamas and Papas / Rolling Stones / Stevie Wonder / Tim Buckley / Who / Aretha Franklin / Glen Campbell / Jimi Hendrix Experience / Love / Scott Walker / Van Morrison / Velvet Underground / Delfonics / Flying Burrito Brothers / Small Faces / Toots and The Maytals / Captain Beefheart / Chi-Lites / David Bowie / Faces / Isaac Hayes / Jackson 5 / Jimmy Cliff / Led Zeppelin / Rod Stewart / Sly and The Family Stone / Cat Stevens / War with or without Eric Burdon / Neil Young / Bob Marley / Carol King / Curtis Mayfield / Genesis / Guess Who / Big Star / Doobie Brothers / Eagles / Lou Reed / Roxy Music / Steely Dan / Hall and Oates / Electric Light Orchestra / Gladys Knight / Pink Floyd / Sensational Alex Harvey Band / Tom Waits / Kraftwerk / Patti Smith / Suicide / Warren Zevon / Numbers Band / Buzzcocks / Culture / Elvis Costello / Ian Dury / Jam / Joy Division / Talking Heads / Television / Wire / The Band / Cabaret Voltaire / Devo / Kate Bush / Magazine / Mikey Dread / Pere Ubu / PIL / Fall / Japan / Simple Minds / Specials / Undertones

Yep.

Not one decent tune between 'em.

Well said.
 
*sorts iTunes library by date*

Art Blakey / Flamingos / John Coltrane / Johnny Cash / Miles Davis / Ray Charles / Bill Evans / Ornette Coleman / Beatles / Bob Dylan / Marvin Gaye / Randy Newman / Dusty Springfield / Thelonious Monk / Animals / Beach Boys / Chet Baker / Four Tops / Impressions / Kinks / Otis Redding / Shangri-Las / Simon and Garfunkel / Temptations / Them / Byrds / Cream / Desmond Dekker / Ethiopians / Mamas and Papas / Rolling Stones / Stevie Wonder / Tim Buckley / Who / Aretha Franklin / Glen Campbell / Jimi Hendrix Experience / Love / Scott Walker / Van Morrison / Velvet Underground / Delfonics / Flying Burrito Brothers / Small Faces / Toots and The Maytals / Captain Beefheart / Chi-Lites / David Bowie / Faces / Isaac Hayes / Jackson 5 / Jimmy Cliff / Led Zeppelin / Rod Stewart / Sly and The Family Stone / Cat Stevens / War with or without Eric Burdon / Neil Young / Bob Marley / Carol King / Curtis Mayfield / Genesis / Guess Who / Big Star / Doobie Brothers / Eagles / Lou Reed / Roxy Music / Steely Dan / Hall and Oates / Electric Light Orchestra / Gladys Knight / Pink Floyd / Sensational Alex Harvey Band / Tom Waits / Kraftwerk / Patti Smith / Suicide / Warren Zevon / Numbers Band / Buzzcocks / Culture / Elvis Costello / Ian Dury / Jam / Joy Division / Talking Heads / Television / Wire / The Band / Cabaret Voltaire / Devo / Kate Bush / Magazine / Mikey Dread / Pere Ubu / PIL / Fall / Japan / Simple Minds / Specials / Undertones

Yep.

Not one decent tune between 'em.

Worst?

No.

While I don't doubt the existence of some dross, and some trite predictable rubbish, along with some eminently forgettable music, there was some outstanding music form that era.

And, a surprising number of groups - or angers - managed to produce one 'perfect' song, even though the remainder of there catalogue might have been mediocre to say the least.



Well said.

You can find good music in any year or decade but in general yes it was the worst.

I think myself and @Huntn have been down this road
 
Mama let that boy play some rock and roll
Jazz is much too crazy, he can play it when he's old
He's too young for the blues, he's still inside his first pair of shoes
He's just a baby

Give that boy some freedom, let him move around
Don't get in his way, you'll only bring him down
Mama won't you let him, let him play some rock and roll, yeah
Let him play some rock and roll
Let him play some rock and roll
Let him play some rock and roll
Oh yeah...

Jerry Doucette . Mama Let Him Play
http://www.lyricsmode.com/lyrics/j/jerry_doucette/

 
Modern music is bad!! Its all computerised!!
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They are the best era's for music. After the 70s, music went downhill!!

Hm.

Are the exclamation marks an ironic postscript, or merely to stress just exactly how strongly you feel about this subject matter?

Anyway, as long as a decent sense of melody is evident, computerised music can also be extremely good.
 
I was always partial to the organ notes or pieces from the late 60s and early 1970s. The latter half of the decade provided a more electric noise that was common in the 1980s.
 
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I've found that I tend to like different music across the years. There are favorites I'll always have from my youth, but I've also picked up on good music from each decade. Also, music from other lands opens up some nice sounds.
 
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I was a teen when bands like the Bee Gees, Pink Floyd, Led Zeppelin, Supertramp, Genesis, Alice Cooper, Black Sabbath, David Bowie, Iron Maiden and Ted Nugent. I got to see all these bands live several times, except for Led Zeppelin and because I got to see these bands live, it seemed like that time period was unlike any other and could never be matched.

I graduated in 1982 and seriously enjoyed so much of the music that came out in that decade. 90s wasn't so bad but there was a time when I kind of lost touch with what was coming out in the late 90s into the 2000s.

For me:

70s
80s
90s
60s
2006-current

I've gotten into some music in the last decade. When my mom passed away in 2006, I was really searching for music that had a lot of meaning and got into folk music and alternative country such as Ray Wylie Hubbard and Steve Earle.
 
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It's over compressed but like all of todays over processed music, This is one reason music of the 60/70s sounded better. It was all on reel to reel before digital and the engineers were told to make it louder.
 
How much of this is digital?

I've always loved the sound to this.



Including:




The sounds of my childhood and even toddler years even though it was way before my time. This sound will always be how I vision America. Motown?

 
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How much of this is digital?

I've always loved the sound to this.



Including:




The sounds of my childhood and even toddler years even though it was way before my time. This sound will always be how I vision America. Motown?

All 3 would be reel to reel tape.

Well when was the GM recorded.
 
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