90s/early oughts music vs now

[Phyllis]

wtf happened between the 90s and now?

music on the radio is total barf fest guys. i don't know how often any of you listen to the radio. i rarely listen to it unless i get in one of my friends cars. and it is all shit. the only good music that is occasionally played is when they play 90s music.

and, let me just say, i DO remember a lot of music from the 90s. well, late 90s anyway. and early oughts. also i have an older brother who exposed me to a lot of popular 90s music that was before my time.

kids today have...what? linkin park? fall out boy? mike jones?

THNX 4 TH MMRS!!!1
barffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffff.

[ifihadahifi]

clear channel, etc.

[monet2u]

yeah just the newest "boy band" craze. ugh

I gave up the radio in the 80s after the Quake went off the air. I listen to XM now cuz I'm old and can pay to hear all my faves on the 80s channel.

Anyway, who needs radio when we have the intersuckyoudryweb. Don't be such an old lady miss p. get with the times!

[roach]

120 minutes and alternative nation gave me more good music than the radio.

there's a station in Boston where katie's boyfriend Chachi works, they play a lot of good 90s stuff.

[monet2u]

yeah you pretty much have to switch to local college radio. Or search around itunes they'll have some good ones from around the coutry.

[Phyllis]

it's not that i have a problem finding new music. but radio is just shitty and i felt like complaining.

[katie]

wbcn plays pretty damn good music. there's a fair amount of buttrock played at peak times, but they do a lot of good local music and alternative rock later at night. it's pretty good stuff. they stream on wbcn.com.

ka"hey, it's chachi"tie

[Irock]

Just reading this thread has got that Panic at the Disco song running around in my head. You know the one. UUUUUUUUGGGGGG

[eebs]

i heard this song on the radio in the car t'other morning, although it reminded me of the divine comedy (drums from tonight we fly) and the coral (general tones) it still hung together enough to make me think who's this and when's it coming out.

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[monet2u]

YAY that's Alex Turner and Myles Kane. (Alex from the Arctic Monkeys) <3 Kane is from a band that supported AM on their first tour (I was there) Little Flames, such a nice Liverpool boy, so cute. Now he's in the Rascals (I believe that's his new band). This project is the last shadow puppet. here's the link http://www.theageoftheunderstatement.com/

[James]

I think I'm finally getting old. Most new stuff I've heard lately sounds like a screeching white noise. Everything Jools has had on lately has just really disappointed me. It all started with that band MGMT. I haven't liked anything new since (at least by new artists).

My patience for "rock" has worn thin as well. What's happening to me?

[mere1975]

I swear, it happened around the time Limp Bizkit became popular. That's when "alternative rock" because the c0ck rock it seems to be today -- on American radio, at least.

- Mere "more like metal/rap infused crap" 1975

[Phyllis]

limp bizkit is perhaps the worst thing ever to happen to the universe.

nowadays rock is guys whining into the microphone about how some girl doesn't like them.
really? she doesn't like you? could be because you wear her clothes and makeup all the time and that you're a whiney needy douche bag.

[monet2u]

I'm still finding music I like, but there's a lot of sucky ass music out there that's for sure. I'm also finding I have less time to sort the good from the bad. Someone will suggest new music, but I can't find the time to even check the band out. ugh

[Dogatron]

I think good music unites people. The current climate is very individualistic and music reflects that. I'm not saying individualism is a totally bad thing, but when it becomes fuck-you-selfishness then art suffers. People will become weary of bad politics, economics, mindless consumerism etc, probably through the hard times that are just around the corner, and honest art will return to the limelight...then we'll forget the hard times and return to mediocrity again...kind of like a cultural homeostasis

Or maybe something else fantastic is happening in our cultural that is just as good for the soul as going to a concert or art gallery. The internet is giving everyone the chance to communicate, share ideas, educate themselves for free and not just be passive robots. It has taken over the mantle from the glass god. But it is still in the early growing stages I think and is yet to bare a fraction of the fruits of creative labour that it will in the future. The artists who became rockstars from the tv and radio age are yet to be replaced by the artists of the internet age. Think of the internet now as America when everyone was going west. We're in a period of exploring right now but the internet pioneers will eventually reach a new Hollywood. If we were playing The Oregon Trail we may have to eat some of our oxen making it through the rockies but we'll find a way to California.