The Worst Musical Decade?

[Khor1255]

This is true. The thread is actually about popular music because if it were about all rock music there would be little to really focus on. I mean, you can find something brilliant in any decade but some eras lack truly great music in the mainstream. This isn't just a rock and roll thing. It seems to me popular vocal driven music really became boring in the decades before rock even emerged (if you are talking mainstream city radio at least) and it took rock and roll to shake things up across the board. Maybe rather than a simple return to something that can never be recaptured music needs something truly innovative to kick it in the ass and spawn another great era in pop music.

I don't claim to know what that something might be but I wouldn't be the least bit surprised if it was right around the corner.

 

[ComfortablyNumb]

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

Your opinion does not equal a fact. Hate to tell ya that one dude. You read way too much into what he said and took it way too personal. Seem pretty damn bitter about his opinion. Saying youre tired of 80's bashing? This thread asked about what was the worst musical era and he gave his opinion. Jesus dude, lighten up. This type of whining because it doesnt match up with my opinion is what should be left off the forum, not an opinion in a thread that asks for it.

 

[Powerage]

Normally I would say the 80s, but in terms of stuff I actually like, it's a lot closer between everything post 70's now than at any other time in my life. I used to love a lot of 90's stuff, and still do some of it, but a lot of it I'm not bothered about now.

I wonder if rather than picking the worst, it might be easier for me to just say the 70's were by a country mile the best in my opinion and let everything else come second. Just made a list of bands and how I would categorise them, it's splitting hairs really as the numbers are all very similar.

 

[Jake T]

The fifties had Elvis, Chuck and the Rock & Rollers. And I liked the eighties and nineties. So the naughties is the worst decade IMO.

 

[Born to Lose]

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.

This is true, yeah. Springsteen for me isnt something I associate with any other music really because I was raised on Springsteen... I got the Bruce childhood where most kids got the Beatles childhood my favorite Springsteen album is Darkness, which was from '78, I believe.

 

[AboutAGirl]

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

Depends. If it's stuff like Wolfmother and The Black Keys which err to closely on the coattails of the past, I definitely think it'd be considered retro, and that stuff usually doesn't interest me. Alternatively you have something like Grunge, which combined influence from Sabbath, Purple, Zep, with many other things to make it new and original.

I've always had a skewed view of "rock" anyway, growing up with Neil and Dylan as my mentors. To me a solid drum beat, a clean guitar tone, a simple unambiguous verse/chorus, that'll always be what rock is about for me. Even if a lot of people would call it country, or pop, or folk, or who knows what.

 

[TB_]

I don't really agree with 2000 being the worst decade for music.
I'd agree if the question was "worst decade for commercial music" though.

 

[Born to Lose]

There is always good music hiding underground. Then it surfaces, becomes diluted, and burns out within ten years or so, and a new underground scene begins to spawn, then it breaks... etc... cycles.

 

[Hydrazoic Acid]

For me it's The 1990's, without a doubt.

 

[TB_]

For me it's The 1990's, without a doubt.

I thought so too for a while, but then I started getting into bands such as my bloody valentine, blur, the stone roses etc..