Why Is Most Music So Bad Today?

It's post-punk.

 

Post-punk? Explain?

 

That is what Grunge is. The lyrics are rebellious in nature Listen to some Nirvana lyrics, or AiC lyrics, it was definately rebellious. It was harder than rock, but not as hard as metal.

It didn't get too old, it just has been dead for awile. Band members kept killing themselves

 

The hipforums are a horrible place to go to find out about new music. It is predominantly a "hippy" site (say what you will about the diverse community). Therefore, most people people here are obsessed with an epoch that ended decades ago, or the contemporary extension of it. And consequently, don't know shit about modern music. I thought that essay was a joke. Jesus Christ. I've been listening to a lot of music from the 70's this past week. Neu!, Wire, dub reggae, Suicide, PiL, Throbbing Gristle, The Fall and Pere Ubu. Basically, I think an obsession with "classic rock" is pure laziness. It's acessible, "deep", "meaningful", whatever, in an obvious and straightforward way. Perfect for someone who just picked up on smoking pot in their mid-teens, who can luxuriate in the immortal wankings of Led Zeppelin or Yes. Someone who has spent three years obsessing over Pink Floyd or The Grateful Dead is going to find the unpolished edges of Sonic Youth very difficult. I couldn't imagine most of you enjoying Lightning Bolt or Black Dice.

 

Because it's all stagnant, repetetive garbage. There are no innovators out there anymore. They are only in it for the money. Okay, Sigur Ros are brilliant and unique, but apart from that?

Nah, there'll never be another Pink Floyd, Jimi Hendrix, Smiths etc. What have we got now? The Arctic bloody Monkeys and the Kooks. Oh, great.

They should be gassed for daring to force their music upon unsuspecting kids. Wankers.

 

I agree with you Too bad noone wants to start a Grunge band with me ... I can sing /// I wrote lyrics, I also play some guitar, but I just don't want to play in a gay ass band inspirated by fuckin' Blink 182, or some POS band like that.

 

Throbbing Gristle is great.

From what I read I have to agree with some people on this thread. Good music is out there but you just have to look.

Does anyone here use Pandora?
http://www.pandora.com

Seriously, I have found so much more music with using this site. Just enter a song or band and the site will create a station with similar music. You can vote on if you like the song or not and the site will tweak your station to reflect that. Over time you will get a great station to listen to. I'm not fimilar with TiVo but I have been told it is basically TiVo for music. I could be wrong though.

 

Haha, come on man. There are a lot of innovating new rock bands. A lot of people here who are looking for good rock seem to think that when they've looked past their tv and see the alternative rock and indie scene they know it all. Blabbering things like rock 'n roll is dead and (almost) all new music is garbage are pretty lame and ignorant statements since you guys obviously haven't heard all new music.

 

But where's Grunge?

 

I don't know, but I'm not really looking for it.

 

for sale in a second hand shop?

 

Yeah well, I think he ment Grunge bands/scene. I don't know if there still is one, but yeah, it could be I missed it since I rarely dig grunge music.

 

Pandora is the shit, I use it all the time.
If you are looking for new music, check it out.

Music is bad these days because it's all about money and no real talent.

 

Hey crud3w4are, I'll start a grunge band with you. I'm a drummer, and I love grunge! Slight complication though, we're a few continents away so it might make jamming a tad difficult...

Back on topic... Music does seem a lot more bland now than it ever was before. I enjoy a few new bands, but there doesn't seem to be much of a "musical revolution" or much turmoil in the scene these days. Lots of bands just seem to be very boring and formulaic (especially metalcore and nu-metal bands... ughhhh). I find myself listening to more stuff from the 60s through to late 90s than I do anything from the 00s.

There are still a few decent bands around though. The last Strung Out album (Exile in Oblivion - 2005/6?) was pretty sweet. Bloc Party is a new band that I quite dig.

 

As my name may suggest, there are two areas in life that I hold close.
These are psychedelics, and Grunge.
I've been in my fair share of Grunge bands over the course of 5 years. Started as a Nirvana/Pixies/Mudhoney/Smashing Pumpkins tribute thing before we wrote out own sloppy distorted guitar parts and I added drum grooves which were catchy as fuck, then went off-beat and blended it all together with pure grunge-esque fills.
Names changed frequently; from 'Ignition' to 'Concubine', 'No Idea', 'Wasted', 'No Big Birds'. We gigged everywhere until the guitarist cut his cobain-style hair off (his image was completely kurt cobain and very convincing with his posture too!!) and we just went our seperate ways as I played bass in a Metal band and drums in another Metal band.
Grunge - post punk?? There was a lot of punk around before the Grunge scene. Layne Stanley and Kurdt Cobaine (his own spelling for his name) were inspired by punk bands such as sonic youth, the clash, the knack.
The lyrics in Grunge are usually entirely of the metaphorical sense. Nothing is as simple as it seems, and Kurt especially wrote his songs in a coded sense. For this reason, different people can have different opinions on what a Nirvana song is relating too (especially their older bootleg material before the commercial success of 'Teen Spirit' which inevitably let to Kurt's death).

Grunge is Dead. It may live on in our hearts, but in reality, no more grunge production. There are a couple of new-ish bands which are grunge-based, but they are few and far between and quite hard to find.... but if anyone can find any material by 'Paradox', I guarantee they won't be left unsatisfied. 'Corporate Pollution' and 'What You Are' (or what you were, can't remember) are 2 very good songs by them.

People who are saying the music of today is shit are looking inn the wrong places. The UK alone is boosting a tremendous underground D'n'B scene with leading artists 'Pendulum' and 'Drumsound + (Simon) Bassline Smith'..
Also, the techno/psychedelic trance scene has never been better. There's always new material popping up on p2p file sharing programs and myspace websites. I don't know what the hell people are saying when they think the music of today is shit and talentless, but they're obviously not typing the right criteria before they hit the search button! For the most part I'll agree; rap is getting stale, hip hop is as bland as an interview with Noel Edmonds, and the majority of what's presented as mainstream music is utter rubbish and obviously aimed at those wearing burbery and cheap jewellery....

...but it ain't ALL bad.

 

i think it works like this, in the sixties underground rock 'n roll got big because there were a lot of people looking for themselves what was going on in music land, the big companies found out and made it even bigger and eventually screwed it all up.
in the seventies punk became big because there were a lot of people looking for themselves what was going on in music land, the big companies found out and made it even bigger and eventually screwed it all up.
in the eighties hip hop and rave music became big because there were a lot of people looking for themselves what was going on in music land, the big comapnies found out and made it even bigger and eventually screwed it all up.
today we have myspaces and you can find like a hundred new bands a day, you're not gonna tell me they all suck because i already know they don't. that guy who wrote the whole article about music that sucks probably has no idea how myspace works.

 

A lot of music today is terrible because of the lack of originality and the fact that a lot of new bands are trying too hard to please everyone.

 

There's great music around eeeverywhere!

 

Thanks man, that site is completely fucking amazing.