Hmm.....it's not great, no, but this obsession is certainly causing some constriction and causing us to suffer. It's a really odd cultural thing.
Eventually we'll have just three genres: "guys who sound like Ed Sheeran", "girls who sound like Diana Vickers" and "pulsing-bass-club-noise".
f**ing misogynistic arseholes Music had gotten a lot better between about 2005 and 2013, but we seem to have reached another 2002-esque low.
Not sure which decade has worst music: 00 or 10s? The best music tends not to be mainstream, or I could be bias as my favorite genre is alternative/indie rock.
1) I'm not just referring to British music and I'm also referring to mainstream music, the kind you'd hear on Capital FM or whatever. 2) Compared to 2001-2004, it was much better. Going on the 70s ToTP re-runs they keep showing on BBC4 (as well as various 70s songs I knew from before then), the 70s were mostly awful with a few exceptions such as Blondie and ELO.
Pink Floyd are alright but nothing spectacular. Led Zeppelin, based on my limited experience of them (which is about three songs) are awful. Remember playing TF2 on a UKCS (which has an ingame radio) and Stairway to Heaven came on. As I said in the chat at the time, after about 4 minutes of awfulness, that song really does go on a bit.
It's their most famous song, therefore you can be pretty sure it's one of their worst. That's a general rule for good bands. To call it awful is a hell of a stretch though. My favourite Led Zep song is No Quarter.
TOTP was all about chart singles. Hardly anyone actually bought those compared to albums, but the music people bought hardly ever appeared on the radio and until the Old Grey Whistle Test, never on TV. If you ever see any reruns or compilations of OGWT on BBC4 watch those, that'll give you some idea of what was good. However, things I loved, which you will never see, include British prog-rock (King Crimson, Yes, Genesis, Man, Gong etc.), American West Coast (Grateful Dead, Jefferson Airplane, Frank Zappa, Doors, Captain Beefheart etc.), American Country Rock (Byrds, Buffalo Springfield, CSNY, Eagles, Poco etc.), British folk-rock (Fairport Convention, Steeleye Span etc.), and of course the vast range of British rock (Led Zeppelin, Deep Purple, Black Sabbath etc.). Then you had Bob Marley, and then you had punk rock, and then you had the 80's. But going back to LTL's point earlier, although I have put the sort of stuff I listened to then in vague categories, back then you didn't really do that. You either liked something or you didn't, and it didn't matter what sort of music it was.
My favourite music is and probably always will be skate punk from the late 90s through to the 00s. As I've got older I've diversified, but punk has a special place in my heart. And anyway, The Lawrence Arms brought out a new album this year, and it f**king rocks. It's called Metropole, anyone heard it? It's great that I grew up with these guys, they still sound the same, but now they sing songs about being in their 30s.
Never heard of that. When I was a kid I got into the bands I heard on Tony Hawk's games. Goldfinger and Less Than Jake, man. Good ****.
