Todays music is shit....discuss

[El Coyote]

Its bloody rubbish isn't it? I sometimes think its because i'm getting older, but I don't think it is.The tv/chart/radio is just full of soulless, passionless pish, where style is more important than content. I could count on one hand the number of bands which have excited me since 95...ah the glory years of 90-95 where we had essential releases from bands like-

Nirvana
Pearl Jam
Mother Love Bone
Alice In Chains
Soundgarden
Faith No More
Metallica
Smashing Pumpkins
Stone Temple Pilots
Rage Against The Machine
Guns n Roses
Therapy
Kyuss
The Wildhearts
Green Day
Janes Addiction
Manic Street Preachers
Red Hot Chili Peppers(anyone remember when they were good?)
Screaming Trees.....

...i could go on but you get my drift.Thats a fuckin awesome list.(obviously i'm a rock fan.... ;)) What have we got now? The Killers and Justin Trousersnake......, no thanks.Nurse...the screens...I think music is on the verge of flatlining.

[pornlover]

Couldn't had said it better myself, El C I did some digging and since your music taste is similiar to mine if not identical, try giving these tunes a spin on your speakers and tell me what you think!!

Tool - Prison Sex
Chevelle
Perfect Circle
Rise Against - Blood To Bleed

Theres more, but if you had to download one song, get the Tool one. I have a feeling if you didnt like them before you may enjoy some of their stuff. Rise against is a good new band that I recently got into, normally I dont go for their kinda garbage but they are quality.. As far as Chevelle and Perfect Circle, I didnt list any particular songs because they have many classics, give em a try tell me what ya think

[El Coyote]

I love Tool bootyninja, they're one of the few bands since 95 I was referring to...saw them a couple of times live...awesome.Never really got sold on A Perfect Circle though. Judith, The Hollow and Orestes are fantastic though(I think thats what they're called! Havent listened to them in a while). Don't know Rise Against or Chevelle, might check them out.

[fireside]

not sure if youve ever heard this band,...but if you get the chance to do so,..try--------iced earth(in the following,..something wicked this way comes/purgatory/alive in athens/dark saga/the blessed and the dammed,...........another has been the releases of the front man of judas priest ,.rob halford,..with his release of--resurrection/and live insurrection,..the new release of,.black sabbath-the dio years,.and all cds from godsmack,.now im not the type of person that was into the big hair bands,.i enjoyed those like,.nazareth/ritchie blackmores rainbow/judas priest/jimi hendrix/led zeppelin/heart/james gang/tommy bolin/etc,.................but i do agree that most of the music today is far and few between the way it used to be,.especially when someone tries to play something like rush,..through those thumpping speakers it ruins for everyone

[mar1b0r0man]

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I totally agree, not only in music but movies as well. The days where some individuals - with real talent can claim to be called singers, musicians, actors, celebrities, etc. are gone. These days, anyone - with zero talent zero skills can be a celebrity. There's no more heart or even though in any of their work, if you can even call it work. It's all about the "bling", and as long as they can be controlled and their work can be mass-produced and marketed, they instantly earn the seal of approval from hollywood. It's unfortunate but we now live in the era of the hollywood "machine" cookie-cutter and fabricated singers, musicians, actors, celebrities, etc. and to think, kids growing up and looking up to these drones, it's just so sad ;D

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[pornlover]

Btw El Coyote the singer from Tool is also the singer from Perfect Circle.

[Wing]

I completely agree with you there. Nowadays people don't even care what those clowns are there singing they just care about their pretty face and popularity. The mainstream music are all unbearable garbage. I mean when all the radio stations around your area play the SAME CRAP day and night and they don't even sound good.

What worse is there are a lot of other choices of music (for myself, I really like eurodance, vocal trance) but there are NO, ZERO, NONE radio station(s) plays those type of music at all. Why should I be forced to listen to annoying musics that I don't like...? Whatever happened to diversity?

Which is why I turned to Internet radio station like di.fm. It's place like that I can find relaxation from the stress of work. But guess what? Those goddamn greedy bastards are about to force Internet radio out of business by this!!! http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/18384667/site/newsweek/

I mean wtf? What has this earth coming into? Soon I will have no place to listen to what I like to listen to? I have a feeling that they are trying to force us into listening to mainstream crap but hell, I rather destroy my radio into bits than listening to something that's not worth listening at all.

Like El C mentioned, the 1990s is where the true music sprouted and withered as soon as year 2000 visits us. If I have to listen to music from 10 years ago then so be it, I am damn proud of it.

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[mar1b0r0man]

I hear ya, it's just so sad that 99% of todays music & movies will never become classics.

[Boneman]

Completely agree, me and my 'old' friends still agree that the early 90's was the best time for music like El Coyote mentioned (Soundgarden etc.). But I do love the 60's as well (Hendrix, Dead, etc.)
The 90's though was when we graduated from high school and we have a theory (not really a theory) that the popular music when you graduated from high school is the music you will always think was the best.
However, several younger people I've talked to say that the music from the early 90's was genius and they listen to it as well.
I can't believe our theory will really hold up these days though...God I hope not...

There is great alternative music these days, one streaming station I listen to is KEXP from Seattle. they play great alternative music you will NEVER hear on the radio. I listen to it all day at work

[Banewolf]

The 90's were shit.

Yes, there were some good Bands like Nirvana or Soundgarden or Tool - but when it comes to popular Music the 90's were a freakin' Nightmare! I can't remember even 10 good Songs that entered my country's Top Ten in the Nineties.
All that Techno and Euro Dance stuff that ruled the charts made me want to enter a Disco with a Sword in my Hands...

There was some good Music though - mainly in Metal (Fear Factory, Type O Negative, Machine Head, Sepultura and others)
Metallica were shit after "...and Justice for all".

The 80's were a much better Decade when it comes to Music.