The Worst Decade Musically - the 1990s or 2000s

[BrntO4Life]

I'm stating the opposite. Sure there was good music but the over abundance of terrible music is just so much. I found plenty of new artists. One could argue if anything its so much easier to find the stuff you like. What gets me is the over commercialized shit these days.

It doesn't help when shit like the black eyed peas is constantly pushed down our throats. If cbs reminds me one more time that they are playing during the superbowl I might ban that channel.

Well I stopped listening to the radio my Junior year of high school and still don't, so I have no clue what the charts have been doing for the past 7 years.

I'm continually amazed by the ease at which I can find an abundance of 'good' music in just a week's time.

[bucky]

Except for bucky's anti-disco era rant, I agree. Not just singing, but song-writing and musicianship too

Even though you liked disco, you get a thanks for adding this. I should have been more clear. Thanks for expounding on this for me.

+rep jeff.

[killgod]

I find great music all the time.

I just stay away from anything popular and it worked pretty damn well this past decade.

[dave]

For me then thats late 90s to early 00's.

Britney spears first album came out when I was in grade 9. I wanted to shoot myself during the time period.

But did unmentionable things to yourself watching her videos.

[Pitty]

No, I have not.

It's easy to see the pop music is cookie cutter, but it has been since the 70's and Disco. When you look at particularly genres, beneath the top 50 singles, you can easily find some 'innovative' productions. This includes every genre, sans Country.

In fact the increase in popularity in Country music over the past 20 years makes the 90's and 2000's the worst on principle. Still, the Indie Rock genres and non-top 100 Hip Hip and R&B have been exceptionally good this decade (John Legend, Lupe, Kanye, Big Boi/Outkast, Deltron, the Roots, Peter, Bjorn, and John, Phoenix, Sufjan Stevens, etc have all made some great stuff in the past 10 years). Thanks to the internet you don't have to suffer through the dark days of Disco and New Kids on the Block ever again.

[dope]

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[Mogriffjr]

Both era's had great music but really the 2000's introduced Soulja Boy and all this dance pop roll, dance bullshit that most of these guys call rap or whatever.

Not to mention half of the songs that people sing on now have the autotune...smh

2000 done fucked up...90>>>>2000.

[Deviant]

Both era's had great music but really the 2000's introduced Soulja Boy and all this dance pop roll, dance bullshit that most of these guys call rap or whatever.

Not to mention half of the songs that people sing on now have the autotune...smh

2000 done fucked up...90>>>>2000.

And the 90's introduced us to Limp Bizkit and all this poser white boy bullshit that these guys call being hardcore.

Not to mention half of the songs are from prepubescent boy bands...smh

See? You can say that for any given decade. Each decade has had their grand share of horrible/embarrassing music.

[LiquidLarry2GhostWF]

There is good music out in the 2000's, its just not on the forefront. Pop music sucks, similar to early-mid 70's and the late 80's...pop music in those eras...not all that good...just like now, its not very good. But there is good music out there.

The computer age though..the age of the internet, it makes music much tougher to find because pop music is limited in scope to the Top 40 stations. Its not like the 80's to early-late 90's where pop music and music videos reigned supreme and the top of the pops was right in front of your face.

[LiquidLarry2GhostWF]

And the 90's introduced us to Limp Bizkit and all this poser white boy bullshit that these guys call being hardcore.

Not to mention half of the songs are from prepubescent boy bands...smh

See? You can say that for any given decade. Each decade has had their grand share of horrible/embarrassing music.

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[CrimsonGhost56]

any post involving wesley willis deserves a thanks!!

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[MvP]

The 2000's were arguably the most important decade in terms of the music industry as a whole. P2P file transfer programs, torrents, rapidshare, soundclick, blogs, myspace, facebook, youtube, and other programs or websites have allowed for not only musicians to get their music heard, but for downloaders to broaden their horizons and experience music they never heard before. No way in hell would I have ever listened to albums by Radiohead, Tool, Rage Against The Machine, Arcade Fire, TV On The Radio, Del tha Funkee Homosapien, Pantera, Curtis Mayfield, Shad (i could go on and on) if it wasn't for this instant accessibility to music. If this were any other decade I would probably be listening to Top 40 radio right now. Radio is dead to me nowadays.

This decade has also completely changed marketing thanks to the internet. Fan sites, twitter, message boards (JoeBuddenTV, Chamillionaire.com), etc. have allowed the artist to easily interact with fans and present them with fresh material as soon as it gets uploaded to the net. For the most part, the days when you had to wait 3+ years for new material from an artist are long gone.

Computers have also allowed people to create music without ever having to even pick up an instrument. One of the biggest rap songs of 2010 was produced by a 19 year old with a laptop. You could argue that this is exactly what is hurting the music industry right now but on the other side, it also allows great unknown musicians to be heard, musicians that probably never would have been relevant outside of their neighborhoods if this was decades ago.

[Houston]

lol you guys are letting a black kid from the surburbs talking about "crank that soulja boy" and a white slut who "wakes up in the morning feeling like P.Diddy" ruin a decade of music for you?

Best troll ever?

When people ask about 2000's in movies, do you immediately think about the worst movies made or do you first think about the best ones?

With google and youtube if you can go 10 years without liking any new music you don't deserve to find anything new. Like I said it's nobody lost but your own.

To you guys complaining about lack of "experimentation", what are you expecting? You do realize that as time goes on it's harder to create new stuff? It's not just music....
How often do you see original stories in movies and books?

[guchi45]

Kill yourself. It's not even debatable when it comes to hip hop.

2000s way better. First half of 2000s kills 90s.

[dell71]

There is lots of good music from this decade. The problem is its so easy to get "your stuff" out there now there's more crap than ever before. Most radio has always focused on what's most palatable to the masses, but since it took some effort to get music put out there wasn't as much garbage to wade through to get to the good stuff. It was easier for actually talented artists to break through and get some airplay. It was also easy to switch over from the top 40 station to one that focused on underground or less popular music. It was easy to, while you're in the record store (remember those?), take a few extra minutes going through the racks of whatever genre you like.

Now, it seems all the stations are top 40 stations. By that, I mean no matter the genre radio is only focused on the most popular songs/artists it has to offer. The other stations are mostly oldies' stations.

Record stores hardly exist, so no help there. Most of the ones that do are actually part of stores that try to sell everything entertainment and offer CDs as well as movies, every celeb rag mag out there, tons of t-shirts and everything else with some famous person's name/face on it. And since they don't have the buying power as the superstores (WalMart, Target, etc), everything is overpriced. How sad is it that, at least where I live, the best music selection can be found in the same place I would buy my refigerator from, Best Buy.

Then again, who the hell buys CDs anway? That's another part of the problem. What incentive do good artists have to make an album before they get popular? That means chances are I'm not going to find the good stuff if I happen to be wandering the music aisles at Best Buy. Instead, these artists do like everyone else. They put up a facebook bage, start a twitter account, slap a video on YouTube and hope they've started a snowball rolling downhill. More often than not, they're still stuck in obscurity buried under more garbage than they should be because while I (you?) were trying to find something good to listen to I got sidetracked by a video of some clown maiming himself by jumping off a steep staircase, trying to land on a toothpick. This, of course, took me to all sorts of other crap I wasn't intending to watch. Sorry.

There are always shows to go to. True, but as I age I have more responsibility, less expendable income. I can't really afford to drop $100 out of every paycheck the way I once could. I can hear you now: $100? There's no way in hell a show is going to cost you $100. Well, there's the ticket to show, gas traveling back & forth, drinks, food, possibly a CD if I really like the artist and yeah, I've probably spent $100. So I'll leave that to you young, single guys.

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