Originally Posted by ItsNick:
“When I say back then I mean back in the 80s.
You're in your 40s like me so I'm assuming you remember the 80s. I felt that as we got into the 90s music just seemed to lose something. I remember when I was about 17 I started going off chart music. This was about 1990/91. I was just getting less and less enjoyment listening to it. I didn't like the sound of the music or the look of the bands. Eight years before you'd have Howard Jones on TOTP or Level 42. Just bands that you recognised but in the early 90s you started getting all these faceless dance acts and the music slowly started to lose the verse chorus, verse chorus, middle bit final verse chorus.
You keep saying the songs I pick are average. If someone likes certain songs they're not average to them. There's been countless links to modern songs which are apparently great but in my opinion are way way below average. Bloody awful to be honest.”
“When I say back then I mean back in the 80s.
You're in your 40s like me so I'm assuming you remember the 80s. I felt that as we got into the 90s music just seemed to lose something. I remember when I was about 17 I started going off chart music. This was about 1990/91. I was just getting less and less enjoyment listening to it. I didn't like the sound of the music or the look of the bands. Eight years before you'd have Howard Jones on TOTP or Level 42. Just bands that you recognised but in the early 90s you started getting all these faceless dance acts and the music slowly started to lose the verse chorus, verse chorus, middle bit final verse chorus.
You keep saying the songs I pick are average. If someone likes certain songs they're not average to them. There's been countless links to modern songs which are apparently great but in my opinion are way way below average. Bloody awful to be honest.”
yep, i felt the same as the 60's gave way to the 70's..
what this highlights of course is the variety of styles there used to be. looking back 1960 (and before) - 2005 the charts were dominated with differing styles, several at any one time, but these styles came and went being replaced by new styles.
i reckon its these styles and the generation who made them their own , thats defined uk chart music. i think theres about 3 styles per decade from (at least) the 60's into the new millennium. early 60's had a different sound from the mid 60's, which in turn was different from the late. that can be applied to every decade upto the new millennium. todays music wouldnt sound out of place in comparison to music from 10 years ago... its all a bland generic mush.
