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Originally Posted by A-Rod's Cousin
How in the world can anybody say the '60s were bad for music? The last half of the decade alone was probably better than any other decade. ANd the first half gave us a lot of good motown tunes from guys and girls. And the lesser known "pre-British-invasion" British bands. I'd rate the decades thusly:
'60s
'80s
'90s
'70s
'00s
I'd say there is a very large gap between the 60s and 80s and a very small gap between the '80s and '90s. Really I may put the 90s in 2nd place. Big gap between the 90s and 70s, and a noticeable gap between '70s and '00s.
I really really hate modern music. I get that I may just be oldmanyellingatcloud but I just rarely like any of it. I'm not going out of my way to not like it, either.
'80s music is way underrated. It's always been fashionable to hate on '80s music but I really like the decade.
'90s I give a lot of credit to in the sense that both rap and country went mainstream, and it got out of the hair metal era. And it's when I started getting into music. But the last 3-4 years largely sucked hairy dick with the influx of Creed/Spice Girls/Boy Bands/Spears/Xtina, etc. Lou Perlman took a massive smelly dump on all our faces.
I think this is why it's kind of arbitrary to separate music eras by decades. In my mind there's phases that are strong, like 88-96 or late 60s-76 and **** eras like 1997-2010 or whatever. And then it's even more disjointed when you break it down by genre or see how a ton of great bands don't really fit into one decade.
I don't think it's backinmydayism to recognize modern music as really bad comparatively, sooner or later we were bound to hit the worst period of music and I think it was from like 2003-2010 or something. That period sucked epically. Looking at 72off's list those are all "good" bands, but you could name equivalently good bands from the 60s, 70s, 80s and 90s that haven't even been mentioned yet and are nowhere near the best of that time period.
Last edited by Jake7777; 01-19-2013 at 02:27 AM.