motown and 80’s disco. for rock i’d say everything up until 1999.
This.
60’s (like the Beatles and the Kinks) was the shit, Motown still kicks ass, and 80’s wasn’t really disco, but I knew what you meant. Synthpop? Like David Bowie? That shit still goes today.
For rock, I’m going to say the 70s w/ Zeppelin until the mid to late 90’s when shit like Papa Roach became popular.
In the end, there was fantastic music throughout time…
but I’ve heard barely anything in the last few years that caught my attention… Grace Potter and the Nocturnals… that’s pretty decent for some 2k stuff.
Oh… Punk = Blink 182? wtf… IIRC, punk is Rancid, Sex Pistols, Anti Flag… etc. wtf is a Green Day? Oh… wrong section, that would be pop, sir.
Green Day started off awesome.The 90’s had a lot of Power Houses: we got that Alice in Chain, Nine Inch Nails, Rage Against the Machine, N’Sync, Linkin Park, Biggie, Big L, Digable Planets, Catch 22, Mighty Mighty Bosstones and…ACE OF MOTHERFUCKING BASE!
lol
Green Day was good up until Insomniac… Even the OffSpring was great until right before Americana.
2Pac as well for the 90s…
I agree with most of that list. Silverchair, Radiohead…
mowtown was the shit back in the 60’s. early 90’s had some good shit too.
Americana is a fantastic album. It probably gets shit on for Pretty Fly for a White Guy; but then I realized that they were able to get a song on the radio making fun of all the people who would eventually come to like it. That in itself is pretty awesome.
Silverchair is shit though. I have no idea why anybody would want to remember them. Its like looking fondly on Bush (the band); nobody does this.
emerging classical > classical > romantic period… pretty much Bach > Mozart > Beethoven > Chopin.
In terms of ratio of fans of mainstream to non, i’d say this was the best period.
Otherwise, I have to go with late 80’s early 90’s. Nirvana and Pearl Jam on z100?! classic hip hop time too. biggie, tribe, wu-tang, dre n snoop. I remember I could sit there with my old cassette player and tune into almost ANY mainstream channel and fill up all 80 minutes (on short play) in one sitting.
Bach and Mozart can lick my nuts.
As for Silverchair, I dunno… I love them. They’re one of my favorite bands. Bush… haha.
And while I do own American and do listen to it occasionally, I don’t think it’s comparable to Smash or Ixnay in the least.
Man… I’d damn near flip that around and invert. the Bach era is so damn stuffy it bores me to tears (seriously, I listen to [media=youtube]lhXHMzSOK5c"[/media] and the only thing going on in my head is fat people bouncing), while Mozart, Beethoven and Chopin do some impressive shit.
People don’t think hard enough at all. They think about the 60’s and remember things like the beatles, but they never seem to remember complete garbage bands like the strawberries, the union gap, etc. It’s all nostalgia and shit they hear from their dads. Literally the most useless topic.
Even like the early 90’s, yeah sure we had some great old school hip hop, but did niggas forget that half the music on the radio was crappy euro dance like la bouche and mr. president? Really?
2010 was probably the best year for music in awhile. We had great songs like like California Gurls by Katy Perry and Snoop Dogg doing what he does best, kicking it old school just like when he was all hood doing sick ass gagsta rap back in the early 90s. Not to mention the return of Ushur and my boy Nelly, rap’s biggest superstar. Don’t forget the barage of creative new tracks by Ke$ha and Lady Gaga and it’s no wonder that the music from 2010 will be in our hearts for a long time.
That’s pretty funny.
LOL Sarcasm levels at 100% is see…
actually, when i was using the arrows, they were to signify chronological progression, not “greater than/less than.” I should have been clearer, my bad.
I still stick behind the tail end of the emerging classical to be good. I would agree about your hierarchy. Listening to Chopin for the first time was one of the most mind blowing events for me.
As for contemporary music, i believe the world has never seen so much talent and innovation, while at the same time so little originality and spirit.
I love a lot of the stuff that is being churned out of the music scenes these days, but i do not think today’s mainstream is as great as past mainstreams.
I will say that I prefer Lady Gaga over Brittany Spears or Justin Timberlake (don’t even know if they even have boy bands anymore) over Nsync. But even those artists don’t hold a candle to many motown or R&B singers from the 70’s.
The world could do without the Justin Beibers though.
I think past generations had much better mainstream music, but since the mainstream autotune music has no soul or meaning, the independent music scene has been pretty lively and the internet has allowed some bands to become relatively well known by word of mouth and internet exposure. So our current generation may be the best and worst as far as music goes. As far classical goes, I love most classical and operas, but I have to say Chopin is probably my favorite to listen to. He did some pretty interesting things with the piano.
Schubert > Chopin
You know, just saying that Schubert can ROM Chopin all day. He got resets forever. Mozart is severely overrated.
Honestly, I rather go back to Brittney Spears and N’Sync just because it was unpretentions. It wasn’t trying to be smart; just self admitted music for teenagers to have fun. Lady Gaga is very similar to Warhol’s diarrhea, colorful and underwhelmin g.
Fuck that, the best thing about the Mortal Kombat franchise other than I and II is 90s eurodance. Saying that’s the worst the 90s had to offer only helps its case.
I would’ve pointed to the latter end of the 90s with Spice Girls, Creed, a lot of shitty pop-rap after Pac/Biggie died, and the rise of nu-metal and boy bands.
motown is still the shit. pretty much all hiphop samples it to this day.
Pretty much all of hip hop samples from wherever. Niggas stealing shit ain’t no measure of greatness. If they really wanted to get down, lets see them sample the Rights of Spring or Rhapsody in Blues. That reminds me, Cole Porter > this thread so far. Lets not even get into Miles, Coletrain, Sara Vaughn and the likes. Motown didn’t have shit on the jazz.
I prefer mid to late 60s (The Doors, Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, Jefferson Airplane, ) and this also includes Motown artists as well
70s; lynard skynard, Aerosmith, Queen, David Bowie, Runaways, Sex Pistols, Ramones and of course Disco. Bee Gees were fucking awesome.
And how can anyone forget Bob Marley and Pink Floyd?!?!?!??!
80s; RUN DMC, Souixie and the Banshees, INXS, Hury Lewis and The News, Kool and the Gang, Police, Guns N Roses, Metallica ect
90s; grunge bands (Nirvana, Pearl Jam, Alice in Chains, Red Hot Chili Peppers,ect) and rap (2pac, Notorius BIG ect.)
The only thing I prefer and like this day and age is Industrial/gothic/powernoise bands like VNV Nation, Suicide Commando, Wumpscut, Apoptygma Berzerk, KMFDM, Nine Inch Nails(??) but they’re pretty much still underground bands.
Obviously there are more artist out there for each decade that have made their mark but these are the ones that personally stick out to me.
I can’t stand any “mainstream” music that’s came out these past few years, that includes Lady GaGa.