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Officially an old fart
at 43.
Just looked at the Top 40 on the Radio 1 website and played the snippets. Out of the 40: I knew 8 of them plus another just because it's a cover of Let's Talk About Sex I liked 8 of them (including some I didn't know) Basically the singles charts are full of kids' rubbish with the odd exception. I hate all that affected singing particularly by female singers warbling and so on. So, I am officially my dad in 1988/89 asking when Top of the Pops was on "why are you listening to this rubbish"
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Just looked at the Top 40 on the Radio 1 website and played the snippets. Out of the 40: I knew 8 of them plus another just because it's a cover of Let's Talk About Sex I liked 8 of them (including some I didn't know) Basically the singles charts are full of kids' rubbish with the odd exception. I hate all that affected singing particularly by female singers warbling and so on. So, I am officially my dad in 1988/89 asking when Top of the Pops was on "why are you listening to this rubbish" ![]() You mention 1988/89. Although I don't think those 2 years were particularly great, charts-wise (too much Stock Aitken Waterman throwaway pop at that point) the charts then still had far more variety of musical styles and artists than today's charts. Today 98% of it is all the same kind of stuff. Just had a look at this same week in 1989 and in the UK top 40 singles chart (aside from the SAW stuff) were artists like: The Cult, Paul McCartney, The Stone Roses, Alice Cooper, The Primitives, Guns n' Roses, Inner City, Prince, Simple Minds, De La Soul, The Beautiful South, Michael jackson, Kirsty MacColl, Pet Shop Boys, Soul II Soul, Rufus & Chaka Khan and Gloria Estefan. Such a variety! For every Bros song or Jivebunny track there were many other good artists. Today it's nothing but "blah blah featuring so and so" a thousand times over. The same old generic rap, dance, rn'b by numbers. So whilst you might sound like your dad you have good reason to! The charts today really are rubbish! Incidently, from this week's UK Top 40 in 1989 I really like 17 of the tracks but I actually remember 29 of them. I'm just wondering how many of the songs in today's charts will be remembered in 27 years time?! |
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It's all those electronically-processed vocals that do my head in. It's a clichéd, dated gimmick that should have died the death ten years ago.
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I felt that way about 30 years ago about most popular stuff. That doesnt define me, just I hate POP in general (with a few exceptions).
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To be honest the endless "featuring" songs are annoying.
They always seemed to be the occasional song in the past but now seems to flood the charts. All just seems to be a gimmick to sell music. Like they're saying my record isn't great on its own but hey I've got Rihanna doing the vocals so now it's amazing, but honestly I'm not piggybacking on the other artists success. |
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The worst song in the world at the moment is that Drake and Rihanna one.
Absolute drivel. |
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I'm sure it's because I'm getting old but the big change for me is that chart songs are completely unmemorable now. The lyrics go in one ear and out the other, the tunes would never pass the Old Grey Whistle Test because you couldn't whistle them even if you had a grade 8 in whistling. if I put on Radio 1 in the car i don't dislike what I hear, but I've forgotten it by the time I've turned the engine off.
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The charts are a mess since streaming was added to be honest, its like nothing changes week on week.
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(too much Stock Aitken Waterman throwaway pop at that point) ?!
Though I didn't mind Bananarama or Rick Astley but they had fizzled a bit by this stage. |
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I'm 39 and you probably know more songs in the charts than I do.
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This thread reminds me of my history teacher at school when he said that as a youngster he would have the radio or his records playing and his father would shout 'turn that rubbish off/down', and now that he was an adult he found himself in the same situation with his own kids!
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They should have been hanged, drawn and quartered for what they did to the music industry. Absolute bilge. I hated everything by Sonia, Kylie Minogue, Jason Donovan, Sinitta etc. Total tommyrot.
Though I didn't mind Bananarama or Rick Astley but they had fizzled a bit by this stage. |
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The worst song in the world at the moment is that Drake and Rihanna one.
Absolute drivel. |
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This reminds me of an incident my late mother told me about many years ago.
My grandparents once caught her listening to Radio Luxembourg - a station that in their opinion played "dreadful music". She received a severe telling off. That was in 1937 or 1938. |
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Is this seen as some sign of being old here, only I’ve noticed people seem to think disillusionment/ dislike of the charts is some sort of sign of aging? I’ve not liked chart music since the time I first got into music and haven’t liked it since. Can you not be young and realise you can't stand most chart music?
Granted, the odd song now and again isn’t bad, and with some of it, I can at least see why it’s popular, but I was listening to capital the other day (not through choice), and if I had to say what my least favourite type of music was, I’d point people to that, whatever it is. That Drake song that’s been number 1 for weeks (and was played about 4 times in the space of 2 hours), is atrocious. The guy manages to sound out of tune, even with auto tune. Just listening to his voice made me want to repeatedly punch him in the head, and before you say that’s worrying, I’d have to agree, I’m not a violent person, so for a song to make me want to punch things shows it must indeed be the devils work or something… |
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I didn't know any of them, and wasn't tempted to listen in full to any.
I was particularly disappointed in 'Don't Let Me Down' by The Chainsmokers, which was not at all what I was expecting. ![]() Was also let down by 'We Don't Talk Anymore' not being a cover of Cliff's only decent song. Never mind, I have plenty to listen to without all that generic tripe. |
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I didn't know any of them, and wasn't tempted to listen in full to any.
I was particularly disappointed in 'Don't Let Me Down' by The Chainsmokers, which was not at all what I was expecting. - Was also let down by 'We Don't Talk Anymore' not being a cover of Cliff's only decent song. Never mind, I have plenty to listen to without all that generic tripe. I think I may have heard 'Lush Life' in a shop? Can't listen now at the moment |
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Lush Life was a Donna Summer track from her Quincy Jones-produced album.
No doubt this will be another imposter. |
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I'm 35 and you know more than me. I'm just not into chart music and never (intentionally) have been, it's never bothered me whether something I like is in the charts or not, they're totally insignificant to me. I love plenty of new music and go to lots of gigs, it's just the stuff I like doesn't often do well in the charts. As long as the artists I like continue making music then I'm not bothered.
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I'm also 35 and music is subjective.
Granted I don't think 2016 has been a vintage year for pop compared to 2015 but again that's my own preference. That said, I thought 2014 was a horrendous year for chart music so in that respect, I've found 2016 to be better. 2013 remains by far my favourite year so far this decade for chart music. |
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As someone who listens to non chart and chart new and old. The charts have got worst
It's not a age thing it's just filled with poor songs The now compilations are getting less and less good songs on them But all this is due to streaming social media x factor etc. A good example is Taylor swift her album has 1 good song and that is very immature . Where does the love come from . |
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I have made a promise to myself that even if I do hate music that my kids listen to, I'm not going to criticise it in front of them and make fun of them for liking it, because that was something my own parents did to me excessively and it used to make me feel very small.
Charts aren't necessarily my cup of tea now but hey, they're also not as important as they used to be I think. They used to be a place that reflected what was most popular in the country, but there wasn't as much range back then, so less things would be popular. I would be interested to see something like a top 500 nowadays; I bet that would show a lot more diversity. In the saturated market we have nowadays, the majority of what hits the top 40 (out of hundreds and hundreds of songs) as opposed to the top 40 (of maybe a hundred songs on sale that week, as it was in the past) are songs that are pushed hard by record companies and huge marketing budgets, which is why it all sounds similar. |
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the singles charts have been full of crap for decades. it's shite now and it was shite in 88/89, and just look back at the 70s for shite like chirpy cheap cheep and the brotherhood of man
the charts are simply a guide to the most popular music that people are listening to in that particular sales period/week, it's not a list of the best music around, and now free online streams count to the sales so 9 year old kids repeating the same crap on tablet computers counts towards the charts if you genuinely like music, the best two things to do is ignore the charts and don't listen to the radio, and look for other ways to find music you may like. i've been doing that for decades and it's far easier to do now that you can sit on your arse at home and play with spotify or youtube and google |
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the singles charts have been full of crap for decades. it's shite now and it was shite in 88/89, and just look back at the 70s for shite like chirpy cheap cheep and the brotherhood of man
wheres the singles today of the quality of 'dead end street', 'down in the tubestation at midnight' , 'army dreamers', 'hit me with your rhythm stick' , 'belfast child', and many many more? all these were mainstream too. |
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