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Old 10-04-2003, 17:22
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What do you think personnaly i think today music today is pretty average.
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Old 10-04-2003, 17:40
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Impossible to say - some is better some is worse.

Being 40 and still buying many CD's I like to find new bands.
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Old 11-04-2003, 10:20
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"ROFL"

Modern day music doesn't compare to music from the past, in my eyes.
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Old 11-04-2003, 15:39
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Modern day music doesn't compare to music from the past, in my eyes.
Why? The 70's had good bands and artists, sure, but it also had the Bay City Rollers, Showaddywaddy and the Wombles.

Same as today. On the face of it, the top 40 is chock full of rubbish, but scrape the surface and you get all manner of innovative and original music being made. You just have to look for it and not accept what's given to you on a plate.

I don't think any decade is "better" than the other. There's good music and bad music, and it's just up to the listener to decide which is which.
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Old 11-04-2003, 16:19
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It just feels like there are too many groups doing cover versions in the charts today :yawn: . There are plently of bands and singers who are developing their own music and sound, it's just not always easy to find them amongst the "rip offs" unless you know where to look.
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Old 11-04-2003, 16:24
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I'll agree that the charts today are as bad as at any time I can remember. There's still plenty of good music out there though, but an awful lot of it is outside the charts.

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Old 11-04-2003, 16:54
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Personally I can't seem to get enthused about new music today. Even bands i've liked for some time aren't delivering the goods anymore and i'm not just buying a new CD by a band i've been into previously on the offchance it might be as good as their other stuff. As for new stuff, I can't think of any bands i'm really interested in which causes me a certain amount of disillusionment.
However, i'm still discovering an awful lot of music from the 60s, 70s and 80s which really does it for me as well as listening to and enjoying CDs i've had for say 15 years.
The charts don't interest me as i've always looked beyond them as they are only the tip of the iceberg as far as available music goes.
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Old 11-04-2003, 17:37
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Originally posted by couleddie
Personally I can't seem to get enthused about new music today.
Im the same, but I think it is just because I don't invest as much time in music as I did in my formative years. There is still good stuff out their, At The Drive In, God Speed You Black Emperor, The Hives and The Libertines to name a few.
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Old 11-04-2003, 22:28
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Im the same, but I think it is just because I don't invest as much time in music as I did in my formative years. There is still good stuff out their, At The Drive In, God Speed You Black Emperor, The Hives and The Libertines to name a few.
For those who are disillusioned with chart music but are unsure of where to look in the wide, wide world of independant artists Godspeed You Black Emperor is not a good place to start. And I'm a fan!

Really though, there are hundreds of cool bands around now. Just don't accept what you're told is cool. Go look for yourself! For finding new bands, the internet is great. mp3's are brilliant for listening to stuff you wouldn't have listened to otherwise, but of course, if you like it - buy the CD later... bands like Grandaddy or the Delgados (to name but two) need your money in order to record new music at a later date!
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Old 11-04-2003, 23:30
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Why do people consider how good music is by whats in the charts?

I've been buying music for over 25 years and have always thought the charts to be rubbish and taken no notice of them (well apart from to notice they were rubbish!!! )
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Old 11-04-2003, 23:54
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Why? The 70's had good bands and artists, sure, but it also had the Bay City Rollers, Showaddywaddy and the Wombles.

Exactly !

These days its hard to find a group / singer that has more than 2 or 3 records available before vanishing

David Cassidy - Donny Osmond - T-Rex were also from the 70's

Cannot remember them doing many covers

I like some of the music these days, loved the latter 1990's, like some of the music today ... and will perhaps love the music of tomorrow, who knows, but not if that group/person continually does cover versions of old songs
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Old 12-04-2003, 13:11
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My gut reaction is that its not as good today as it was. However, thats what my parents used to say in the sixties!.(Im 50 now).

I dont think that 'bad' music ever gets success. Certainly music we dont like gets success, but that doesnt mean its bad.
eg.I dont like westlife at all, but I couldnt say they were 'bad'. They do a very professional job. Trouble is, that and a lot of similar music today has no originality and hardly any emotional stimlus. its a bit like the musical situation round about the late fifties, and early sixties b4 The Beatles. Derivitive safe and harmless. I include a lot of rock in that as well. Watching p-rock channel on sky for eg just seems to me like a flashback to punk late seventies. They all seem to sound like the Damned or the Buzzcocks. which is fine, but hardly original.

It's come to a fine thing when I watched sat morning music shows, and the only thing I found that was remotly interesting from a rock pov was the new girls aloud single!. (I love Duane Eddy'surfer rock' type of guitar, so maybe im biased).
Daniel Bedingfield showed promise, but the production is much to messy for rock, a common thing these days. To much open chords and not enough chord chopping.(Blondies 'one way or another' is a good example of chord chopping at its finest) IMO.
sorry..getting a bit techncal.
so..is music today as good as it was?. from a personal perspective I'd say no, if by 'good' you mean original and inovative.
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Old 12-04-2003, 16:16
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Today you don't really here any catchy rock songs from bands, the type oasis, blur, guns and roses and rem did.
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Old 13-04-2003, 14:49
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What about the Red Hot Chili Peppers, the Foo Fighters, Queens of the Stone Age et cetera...
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Old 13-04-2003, 15:02
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Pop is just not the same as it was in the 80's/early 90's. I haven't heard a good pure pop tune since Britneys 'hit me baby one more time'. I suppose Kylies 'Spinning around' was a good pop tune and 'I cant get you out of my head', but apart from that all the other pop music around just sound the same!
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Old 14-04-2003, 13:31
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Originally posted by RichardS
Impossible to say - some is better some is worse.

Being 40 and still buying many CD's I like to find new bands.
me to i am 36
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Old 15-04-2003, 01:50
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If you like elevator music then todays music is great , otherwise it isn't !
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Old 16-04-2003, 13:06
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Well, speaking as a music-addicted 45 year old, I have to agree with the sentiment that every era throws up it's share of good and not so good stuff.

There's plenty of REALLY good stuff around at the moment but you have to make the effort to track it down.

Some of my recent favouries;

Placebo - Sleeping with Ghosts- great Album,great live band

White Stripes - White Blood Cells - play it loud

Vanessa Carlton - Be Not Nobody - great songs

Martina Sorbara - What a voice!!

Nothing particularly obscure but all good stuff...IMNSHO...

Martyn
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