The Worst Musical Decade?

[ANTHEM]

I consider Springsteen to be 70's.
The 2000's have given us two really good bands... Gaslight Anthem and Rise Against. Not counting re-shuffled older bands, that's about it.

A band or performer is NOT just one decade if their career spanned more than that, no ? Besides his biggest album came in the mid 80's and yes most people WILL identify him with being a top 40 80's icon because he was.

 

[ANTHEM]

The 80's, without a doubt IMO... generic hair metal, new wave, the start of electronica being inserted into music... the only upsides were the start of grunge and the underground hardcore scene.

So the 80's by far in your opinion had the worst music as if no other decade put out really crappy stuff that that decade became infamous for ???? So the 80's ALONG with yes, the 70's started becoming more experimental, in some cases progressive, and was bright, exciting, colorful, and fun, what is wrong with any of those things ???? So some experiments were not so great but again the 80's wasn't the first or last to have some lack luster scenes. It was better than dull, sloppy, boring, depressing, over simplistic, and anti success or anti fun bs spewed by hypocritical grunge groups who filled up areanas, the airwaves, mtv, and lived the capitalist dream. And btw, what the heck does what venue a band play in have to do if they are good or not ??????? As in "arena rock" ????????? As though there is something wrong with having enough of a fan base to play in one As though alterna groups never ever ever played in one Oh I forgot, alterna groups sold the retro hippy woodstock out doors image for a pretty freaking penny while again, hypocritically acting like they were anti success which is confusing anyways Oh, I remember now, they also $old the cliche that they were the down trodden, the underdog Having something to say is one thing and it should be objective, but bands that push the poor old me the man is out to get me and my mommy and daddy hate me cliche is for wankers Talk about ****ing image, that was an ironic multi billion dollar one which started partly because white privileged kids wanted to prove they weren't and partly started because cobain was a dirty smelly dope addict. hypocrites.

I'm so sorry my generation was so lame that people like me killed music in such a short time What we have here are a bunch of hypocrites who got their rocks off bashing the 80's when they were young and hip lol with their grunge scene but are sore in the tail now because they are now a bit older and their scene has died and they can't take what they dished out just a few short years ago like hypocrites so they continue this very worn out 80's bashing here in 2013, but now with a layer of bitterness.

This site is titled "classic rock" and by that I thought I could come here and not have a bunch of bashing bs and who's better than who or who's more real or hard core etc type bullshit. Go find an alternative site to cry about how your scene is so last decade and let's leave this kind of crap off of here please.

I've said all I need to say and refuse to argue about such crap and let the damn truth in what I've said speak for itself because deep down you all know it if you have any real depth and sense at all. I'm typically an easy going guy but years of this has gotten really ****ing old

 

[Khor1255]

Ha!

There, I said it. Now let's move on.

80s = decline. Period. Ya dig?

 

[METALPRIEST]

We're all gonna have different tastes. That's what makes the world go 'round. I've learned that if you don't like what I like?? So what.

But if we can explain what it is about our tastes in music that fires us up....it may shine a light onto those that don't get it as easily.

Better than your music sucks and my music doesn't suck. Not a really strong argument/debate IMO

 

[Born to Lose]

It broke in the 90's, but it started in the 80's. I mean the actual Seattle grunge scene. NOT bands like Bush and Creed and Collective Soul.

Calling the "trendy" poser kids from the 90's who jumped on the bandwagon when grunge broke "grunge" is like comparing the 90's pop-punk bands like Blink182 to bands from the 80's hardcore scene like Social Distortion, Bad Religion, Black Flag, Adolescents, etc... it spawned those pop-punk bands, but it was an EXTREMELY derivative version, and a watered down version at that.

 

[AboutAGirl]

I could change your vote for you AAG...because it is an ancient poll.

Aw thanks! I'd like to change it from the 00s to the 80s, if it isn't too much trouble. Not a big deal either way, but it'd make me happy lol. I really appreciate it!

If I recall I talked at great length in this thread how the 00s just never reached their stride. I was looking for some kind of rock revolution and I sort of found it... but not in the places I thought I would. Perspective has changed over time and the things I love most about rock music... turns out those things aren't a major part of rock music anymore. But luckily I found them alive and well somewhere else!

Absolutely nothing against the 80s, they're just not my cup of tea. In anything, really: movies, TV, fashion. Like I was with the 00s, I'm still waiting for the 80s to 'click' with me. And you know what, someday I bet it'll happen... I'll find the secret pocket of amazing 80s culture which tickles my fancy and has somehow alluded mr thus far. Until then Metallica, The Breakfast Club and to a lesser extent The Pixies will be the main envoys from the 1980s in my collection, lol.

 

[LG]

^^Your vote has been changed from 2000's to the 80's.

I see some passionate debate has taken place since yesterday,,,you know I look at these kind of discussions as just fun for speculation.

MP and I have agreed ages ago that there has been great music(And rubbish) being made in every decade since the Baroque classical era.

I do think one thing can be stated that is factually accurate, that the great rock bands of the late 60's and 70's seem to get more new fans every generation than any other decade. Makes sense new younger fans listen to what's current, then eventually they hear something that piques their interest and go exploring.

I like the 80's, they get trashed all the time but it was a fun time to be alive the world was a happier place and people were generally nicer to one another than the world today.

 

[Aero]

If I recall I talked at great length in this thread how the 00s just never reached their stride. I was looking for some kind of rock revolution and I sort of found it... but not in the places I thought I would. Perspective has changed over time and the things I love most about rock music... turns out those things aren't a major part of rock music anymore. But luckily I found them alive and well somewhere else!

I've been waiting for a new rock revolution to start myself...and I'm still waiting. Right now, IMO, we are living in a sterile, uncreative controlled society which is reflected by the music that comes out on the radio.

So where is this rock revolution you talk about that happened in the 2000s? Because I don't remember hearing anything new and exciting on the radio back then.

 

[Magic]

Do you guys think that a rock revolution might be coined "copycat" or "retro"?


And I'm a bit confused when people say "return to rock" or "rock revolution". I thought most music falls under the "rock" category. These days it is either "rock", "Pop", or "metal".




I am trying to remember what decade I voted as the worst. Not sure there really is a "WORSE" decade. I have always found something in each decade that caught my attention.

 

[tomcat]

I've always hated the 21'st century's music, BUT, if you dig deeper, you can find really good stuff. It's the radio and popular music that is complete garbage these days. What I've been doing, is I start on a vido/song I like, from whatever decade, and then I follow YT's suggested video bar, and see where it leads me. I've been turned on to some really cool alternative 21'st century music that way.