With satellite radio stations dedicated to each decade, I've been able to take stock in the quality of music over the past 50 yrs. My formidable years were the 80's (born in '71) and it's always been a forgone conclusion that the 80's were the worst. That stuff sounds pretty decent these days. I'm thinking that the 90's were way worse, with the emergence of the boy bands and mainstream rap. The best was the 70's because they just took the 60's and added a lot more drugs...made for great music. Best: 70's Worst: 90's
I was born in 76, so me coming into my own was late 80's-early 90's and I think THAT was the best music, its all age dependant.
True, but can you see yourself, now, popping in Nirvana's "Nevermind" (it changed everything, don't get me wrong) or a Vanilla Ice album? I get being nostalgic, but really good music has legs.
do you mean if the album was released today? if so no. but do I still listen to that music? HELL YES!! I'm that guy blaring Poison's "talk dirty to me" and singing the words and still picturing the video....lol and G N R still rocks! but im not sure if im the best one to answer this because on my ipod, I also have Gordon lightfoot.....Jay-z (no not BHOD's JZ) alan Jackson, volbeat, Madonna, Toto, Ritchie valens, Crosby stills and nash, Dave Mathews, hootie and the blowfish, Slayer, metallica, Black Sabbath...all different kinds.
It's tough to decide if the 60's or the 70's were better. So many that were great in the 70's were heavily influenced by what others had done and discovered in the 60's. I would say that it has gotten progressively worse as the time has gone on. The 80's tried but they couldn't grasp the feel of the 70's, the 90's tried reverting finding a happy medium, which worked sometimes, and then the 2000's came and things have plummeted, at least as far as mainstream music goes
Have you guys listened to contemporary radio? The answer is the 2010s; no doubt in my mind. The majority of new stuff in any genre is almost unlistenable- and every single style has embraced the nemesis of the true artist- AUTOTUNE. Absolute garbage. I'm not saying that there isn't the occasional nugget (Bruno Mars is pretty talented; who knew that prior to the Super Bowl?) but most of it is just trash.
