Music today

[Wyo2dal]

So I'm sitting here just ordered tickets for the Def Leppard & Kiss 2014 Tour listening to music in the generation I grew up in. Think back to the year you entered High School. What was #1 on the charts now compare it to today.

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http://tunecaster.com/years/year-end/top1990.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

For me I listened to all types of music and still do but music today for the most part all sounds the same. I feel sorry for kids growing up today it could just be nostalgia but wow does music today absolutely blow.

[fromolwyoming]

Here's mine from when I graduated.
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Yeah, I don't recognize any of those songs. Then again, I was raised on the same music as you, Wyo2dal, and have often been told I was born in the wrong decade in regards to music.

[Wyo2dal]

Up to 2010 I can handle the majority of the music, But music over the last 4-5 years has gone pretty far downhill in my opinion. I think it was pretty awesome to live through music in the 80's and the 90's there was some good music. Groups that broke records for weeks at #1 that hadn't been broken since Elvis and most likely won't be broken until after I'm gone.

[Hayduke]

With the internet, music is extremely fragmented now. People share common interests in music all over the world which allows for larger segmented audiences and more diversity. Top 40? I doubt anyone under 40 remembers it. Plus, the theft of music online is taking power away from larger companies.

I wonder if these huge, pricey concerts with rock bands form the 70's and 80's will vanish when they finally do?

[MrTitleist]

Here's the top songs when I entered high school:
http://tunecaster.com/years/year-end/rock1997.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Top songs when I graduated high school:
http://tunecaster.com/years/year-end/top2001.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

[fromolwyoming]

Here's the top songs when I entered high school:
http://tunecaster.com/years/year-end/rock1997.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Top songs when I graduated high school:
http://tunecaster.com/years/year-end/top2001.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

I recognized How You Remind me in 2001, when I was in the 7th grade.

But that was only because they played it on the radio all the time.

[Wyo2dal]

With the internet, music is extremely fragmented now. People share common interests in music all over the world which allows for larger segmented audiences and more diversity. Top 40? I doubt anyone under 40 remembers it. Plus, the theft of music online is taking power away from larger companies.

I wonder if these huge, pricey concerts with rock bands from the 70's and 80's will vanish when they finally do?

I go see Def Leppard every year they come to Arizona never miss them, Seen them with some interesting pairings most of the groups I grew up listening to have all but vanished off.

Def Leppard and Aerosmith are the two bands that really I always go back to listening to. There are some others but those two bands have definitely been there the longest for me.

[Wyo2dal]

Here's the top songs when I entered high school:
http://tunecaster.com/years/year-end/rock1997.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Top songs when I graduated high school:
http://tunecaster.com/years/year-end/top2001.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

I recognize most of that music because I truly listen to everything but it just seems like the amount of good music that comes out of each year is really poop lol.

[alyssa]

Lots of poop music today. I could talk about this for a long time. But I don't have time right now so many things goin' on. It might be offensive to some but I can't stand that rap poop and the words and behaviours etc. of it.
Just yesterday there was news of the Library of Congress adding 25 recordings like they do every year.
I don't know much about Jeff Buckley's music but he was so beautiful. So sad what happened to him.

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[laxwyo]

You guys clearly aren't giving One Direction enough credit

[WYO1016]

[Wyo2dal]

You guys clearly aren't giving One Direction enough credit

Good thing for the Internet and a wiki wasn't sure who that was, I have to admit 80's early 90's we had a fair share of boy bands.

[fromolwyoming]

Lots of poop music today. I could talk about this for a long time. But I don't have time right now so many things goin' on. It might be offensive to some but I can't stand that rap poop and the words and behaviours etc. of it.
Just yesterday there was news of the Library of Congress adding 25 recordings like they do every year.
I don't know much about Jeff Buckley's music but he was so beautiful. So sad what happened to him.

http://www.pbs.org/newshour/rundown/nat ... 25-pieces/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Not really a big fan of rap myself. Some of the older stuff is alright (Fresh Prince of Bel Air anyone?), but otherwise, yeah, not fan of it.

I like most styles, but my favorite is always classic rock (with a lean to classic hard rock like AC/DC).

[Asmodeanreborn]

I think there's still a ton of great music produced today, but I think Hayduke is onto something about how music is shared these days. It's easier to find "stations" (or create your own) of music that YOU like. I love using rdio for this, for example.

We can pretend that the rock/pop classics were superior to what's produced today, but let's be honest, a lot of the biggest hits from the 70s and 80s are rather terrible lyrics-wise and culture-wise too, whether Beatles, Queen, Aerosmith, or yeah, even Zeppelin ("Squeeze me baby, till the juice runs down my leg; The way you squeeze my lemon, I'm gonna fall right out of bed").

[alyssa]

OK, I've kept from saying a lot here even though I still want to. I grew up with so much talent on both sides of my family. One of the types of talent was musical talent. Some of our "toys" were recording equipment and even recording studios. I used to write songs and record them and make my own records. The first full record (or album) that I made on my own of my own songs was in 1986! I know I had some inspiration from some of these popular songs. It's so funny to me. If I made my own record it was so much like a demo. On my main singing part I would actually sing while listening to the rhythm track that I programmed myself and recorded. Then I would play it back and sing to it. I really wasn't very comfortable trying to play a guitar or piano or something and sing to it. I don't even know how I did it all. I know I would be lost today trying to do it.
Sometimes I would record a cover. I had the hardest time ever covering the Jim Croce song "Time In A Bottle".
I had such a hard time singing one line without crying. That song always makes me cry. There is something about it to me. So my recording of it is a mess. It took me weeks to record it because I'd cry so much.
I'll say more later.

[alyssa]

I looked through the lists for 1980, 81, 82 and I probably wanted to sound more rock like, like Billy Squire but .............

[alyssa]

I looked through the lists for 1980, 81, 82 and I probably wanted to sound more rock like, like Billy Squire but .............

I probably sounded more like the Human League or Soft Cell because of my programming of instruments.

[MrTitleist]

I've been listening to this one a lot lately:

[alyssa]

And I, like usual, was living in the past and playing and singin'

"Low"


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