Garbage, The Adolescents, TSOL, Sonic Youth, Frances McKee, and Jello Biafra have released some of the best, original music of their careers in the last decade.
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It's nothing more than this generations dislike of the advance of music.
Our great-grandparents disliked Elvis for the gospel music; my parents dislike today's music for the 80's music. The cycle keeps going.
Please explain how. I've never heard a Tool song on the radio, and I've never seen a Tool video on TV. Might be that they are more popular in the US than in Europe. Either way, they certainly weren't as popular as Led Zep or whatever during the 70's, and AiC and Soundgarden's succes is comparable to that of the White Stripes and QotSA.
Either The White Stripes and QotSA should be counted as ''great mainstream bands'' or Tool, AiC and Soundgarden shouldn't be.
Dude, no matter what decade you live in, 90% of mainstream music and 70% of underground music is going to be total shit. The difference, is that every once in awhile, the music industry's sphincter gets a spasm and accidentally let's in a whole bunch of cool music into the mainstream before it realizes that they're accidentally marketing art instead of a product and clenches up again.
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Do you think we will ever be saved?
In this land of dreams find myself sober...
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Wonder when it'll all be over?
Will you be laughing when it's over?
That definitely happened with the Melvins during the early 90's when they were with Atlantic. I'm surprised no one's mentioned them here yet. Stoner Witch changed my life and even The Bride Screamed Murder did the same for me again. I actually traded in all the so-called "extreme metal" stuff I used to enjoy for more stuff like the Melvins.
Even the shit from the 80s and 90s seems like it was better shit than the shit about these days.
Sure. we had to put up with Madonna, and the Spice girls, but that shit was way better than the Fast Food Rockers and Crazy frog.
I'll never forgive the noughties for that shite.... ever.
Everything got uncreative, grey feeling and sterile.
What happened to our souls...
How did we go from Soundgarden's "Badmotorfinger" to Nickleback..?
From anarchic warm feeling joy of Jane's Addiction's "Been caught stealing" to Coldplay? ...greyed down spiritless dross.
And from the truly agressive Big Four of the eighties to that ineffectual pap that passes as rock and metal today..?
Even if you're right, you're still only saying that the bad music from those days was better than the bad music from these days. Either way, its bad music, so what does that prove? It doesnt mean that there is any less good music being made.
I don't listen to the radio very often - only when in my car and only if it's a drive that's less than like half an hour (more than that and I plug in my iPod). And I still hear Tool, AiC, Soundgarden, and QoTSA and White Stripes played a ton. AiC and Soundgarden in particular are getting a lot of airplay right now, with AiC having released a new album recently and Soundgarden having gotten back together.
All five of those bands have had great commercial success. And yes, I would definitely classify QoTSA and White Stripes as being great mainstream bands.
Just attempting to highlight that today's "good" music against the old good music, loses.
As does the poo music, when compared to the poo music of yesteryear.
So old music for me at least, dominates new on all levels.
There was shit music...but due to more freeodom of individualism/ different recording standards/techiques back then, personality shone through....things felt like they had soul. Music was allowed to be weirder back then...to let the idiosyncrises shine through... Now its all 'moody but sterile' stuff.
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