The Worst Decade Musically - the 1990s or 2000s

[KINGOFOOTBALL]

There are so many Indie Labels .

And most of it is garbage.

The Indie bullshit always kills me. Same ridiculous "unda ground rappas on mix tapes" illusion guys were feeding us in the 90s.

Guess what all those garage band hacks got a voice exposure and distribution channels and did absolutely nothing.

Every Tom Dick and Harry thinks they can sing, rhyme , make a beat etc. They cant 99% of them suck ass. Find a good one ? chances are hes working with a bunch of sucky ass band members or producers.

It took a shit ton of money to produce a star. Finding a good one was rare, finding a quality writer was rare , finding a hook a hit single was HARD.
You take the top tier talent scouts out of the loop , the vocal and musical coaches out of the equation you end up with 120 gigs of shitty "Indy" mp3s
It often took hundreds of thousands if not millions invested to create a star. The money was taken out of the equation.


American Idol has had anyone who even thought about music auditioning for them for a decade. ALLL the money they have backing them....and theyve only produced a handful of "good" singers and maybe one great one.

Technology + STUPID stubborn execs + the dumbest generation of kids = worst decade of music.

 

[guchi45]

00 by a country mile.

I dont care what genre it is. Unless "latin cross over pop" is the only thing you listen to.

00's
RnB pretty much died.
Most atrocious rap era ever.
A decent period of alternative Rock resurgence turned to full blown hipster emo shit.
Country crossed over which will probably means it was cheapened.

Not one single *mega* star all time great in any genre started in the 00s
Quality depth was sorely lacking on all fronts.

Beyonce , Linkin Park , Kanye ...... all took a back seat to AutoTune as most most well known influential artist.

When Chocolate Rain and single ladies is the catchiest you've produced you've failed as a decade.

FUCK OFF! No it ain't.

 

[guchi45]

90s. 2000S WAS BOSS!

 

[strahanfan92]

FUCK OFF! No it ain't.

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

 

[Maize]

Why are the 80's not an option? What about the 40's? If it is 90's or 00's, I say 00's by a hair.

 

[Boucher]

I miss Linkin Park and Limp Biskit

 

[strahanfan92]

^Remember the Limp Biskit music videos? Shit was scary way back when for a 10 year old. I think there was one where Durst was drowned in milk or something.

 

[Houston]

Not one single *mega* star all time great in any genre started in the 00s
Quality depth was sorely lacking on all fronts.

Who the hell cares about mega stars? Music is music, I couldn't care less if the artist sold 10 albums or 10 millions.

You're crazy if you don't think a few artist like Arcade Fire, Kanye West, and Eminem will be viewed as GOATS in their "genre".

When Chocolate Rain and single ladies is the catchiest you've produced you've failed as a decade.

lol please.

Outkast-Hey Ya/Ms. Jackson
Gnarls Barkley-Crazy
M.I.A-Paper Planes
Jayz-99 Problems
The White Stripes-SEven Nation ARmy
Alicia Keys-FAllin
Eminem-Lose Yourself/Stan


There may not have been any Hey Judes, Yesterdays, Light My Fires, Satisfactions, or My Generations. But please don't try to act like Soulja Boy and Kesha were the only thing on the radio.

Anyways, you're saying this like you're taking shots at anyone who thinks there was good music last decade. If you can go a 10 year period without finding any classic albums to add to your own personal collection, you're the one with the problem...

 

[JeremyHight]

Music has been on a slide since the 80s. It easily goes 80s > 90s > 00s.

* For anyone who says 80s music sucks, go fuck yourself.

 

[KINGOFOOTBALL]

Who the hell cares about mega stars? Music is music, I couldn't care less if the artist sold 10 albums or 10 millions.

You're crazy if you don't think a few artist like Arcade Fire, Kanye West, and Eminem will be viewed as GOATS in their "genre".






lol please.

Outkast-Hey Ya/Ms. Jackson
Gnarls Barkley-Crazy
M.I.A-Paper Planes
Jayz-99 Problems
The White Stripes-SEven Nation ARmy
Alicia Keys-FAllin
Eminem-Lose Yourself/Stan


There may not have been any Hey Judes, Yesterdays, Light My Fires, Satisfactions, or My Generations. But please don't try to act like Soulja Boy and Kesha were the only thing on the radio.

Anyways, you're saying this like you're taking shots at anyone who thinks there was good music last decade. If you can go a 10 year period without finding any classic albums to add to your own personal collection, you're the one with the problem...

Nothing to do with taking shots at people. But the ridiculous indy and narrow appeal music acts making this decade anything but deplorable is silly.

Any hobo can find an album or single that they love and listen to forever. Noone cares about that. EVERY decade had that. But it was covered up by layers and layers of major hits , albums and influential artists. Great art whether is music , movies , etc is about capturing the imagination of the masses. Not playing some dive bar in hoboken.
Greatness has a way of shining through and it shined the least in the 00s. Was there talent for it ? Perhaps. But execs controlled and groomed them in ways that cheapened music and influenced the industry for the worst.

You would be MAJORLY challenged to find anyone who thinks 00's wasnt the worst in decades.

Quantity doesnt equal quality. Of course youre looking at obscure artists ,since the upper echelon and mid pack is devoid of anything truly memorable.

It would be like arguing the 00s was the "Defensive era" in football.

 

[leaffan]

I think most people tend to favour the era of music when they were in their teens and early 20s.

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.

 

[leaffan]

I think most people tend to favour the era of music when they were in their teens and early 20s.

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.

Most of my fav. music has came out of the late 70s/80s with a mix of newer stuff.

Top 40 shit has been awful for quite a few decades imo.

 

[KINGOFOOTBALL]

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.

Most of my fav. music has came out of the late 70s/80s with a mix of newer stuff.

Top 40 shit has been awful for quite a few decades imo.

Late 90s were atrocious.
That never went away. It leaked pretty deeply into the 00s as artists started being cookie cut from the late 90s mold.

Listening to oldies stations is always a breathe of fresh air. So many songs I never heard of from the 60s-70s of various genres that absolutely made my playlist first time I heard them.

 

[BrntO4Life]

All of you guys bitching about this past decade just didn't try hard enough, that much is cut and dry. I know tons of people who don't care that much about music, so it's not a big deal. But they also don't bemoan the lack of good music these days.

There are tons of great bands that formed or blossomed this past decade, but you stayed glued to FM radio.

Stop getting your music from Rick Dees or KIIS FM.

 

[relaxedanderson]

I'll join the chorus with; there is good music out there, probably more than ever before, but you have to look hard for it.

The days of great artists also being huge superstars is gone and will never return. There is not the infrastructure, demand, patience or money for that to happen any more.

There is no way to get to stadium-filling level without the support of a major record label or one of these big, all-encompassing package deals with someone like LiveNation and these companies are no longer interested in investing time or money in nurturing art. They just want a quick return on their investment which usually means just slapping a pair of tits or a six-pack on it and slopping it into the trough.

You can't find good music just from listening to the radio and you definitely won't find it by watching TV. It's not served up like it used to be, there's no "Ok, you don't like The Bee Gees? Here, try The Clash instead." Now it's more "You don't like the Black Eyed Peas? Well you should, everybody else does, look how many downloads they've sold".

To find good music now you have to do it yourself. You have to go to clubs to see bands; speak to bands you like or their fans to find out what else is out there; use the recommendations on things like Last.fm - ok, it's not perfect but it's a start.

Trying out new music is easier now than ever. Back when I started exploring music properly I'd have to take a risk and pay £10 for an album that I'd never heard before if I wanted to try something completely new. Now, even the smallest bands have got examples of their work all over the internet. You can try setting little targets like listening to 10 new acts a week, that's over 500 artists a year. Most of them you won't like but even if you only like 5% of them that 25 new bands a year.

2000s bad for music? Well I found Nina Nastasia, Mclusky/FOTL, PW Long, The Owl Service, Chrome Hoof, Gindrinker, Carla Bozulich, Pantaleimon, Les Savy Fav, Erase Errata, William Whitmore, Jarcrew/Truckers of Husk, Lullabye Arkestra, The Pipettes, Christopher Rees and El May among many others.

I enjoyed the decade.

The charts were shit though.

 

[FirstTimer]

lol at either one sucking. Yes if you're thinking about the radio and Soulja Boy then the '00s sucked. There's a ton of good music from last decade but unlike past decades you had to go seach and find it yourself which to me is the beauty of it. Probably my favorite album of the decade was one I found on my own while just going through random artist.
I feel sorry if you've only managed to walk out with 2 or 3 CD's from the 00's.

I think the 90's were better then the 80's, I don't even think it's close.

:jonesy:

You haven't listened to much music in the past decade then.

Outside of asshats using auto-tuning and stupid as voice shit so any asshole can feel like they can "sing" what "experimentation" has there been?

 

[jeffx]

Alicia Keys-FAllin

a newer version of James Brown's "It's a Man's World"

 

[leaffan]

All of you guys bitching about this past decade just didn't try hard enough, that much is cut and dry. I know tons of people who don't care that much about music, so it's not a big deal. But they also don't bemoan the lack of good music these days.
There are tons of great bands that formed or blossomed this past decade, but you stayed glued to FM radio.

Stop getting your music from Rick Dees or KIIS FM.

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.

 

[bucky]

Easily.....the disco era is absolutely the WORST.

There was no other time in my life that I was tempted to get drunk, do drugs or commit suicide just so I wouldn't have to listen to that crap.

As far as today. Real music died when artists stopped actually singing. Things are WAY overproduced to cover up for lack of talent.

The 60's are easily the best.

 

[Deviant]

Neither decade is really horrible. We're just currently living through the decade and hear occasional great song lost in a pile of mediocre/terrible songs. Every decade has it.

What's happening here is that we're comparing the 2000's, which we're still kinda' listening to, to the highlights and great songs of a decade past, which is unfair. But just like the 90's, this decade most definitely had some great music in it and others that are forgettable.

Let's start with the 2000's. Anyone remember this song?

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Yeah, that was a huge hit in 2006. Pretty positive it either charted at #1 or came pretty damn close to for quite a while. Haven't heard it in ages and I pretty much forgot that it was even a song.

Now, remember this song?

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Made in 2005. Still gets played to this girl. Everyone loves this song and enjoys it. If there was a CD to highlight this decade, this song is most definitely on here.

Someone will eventually bring up that this decade had Justin Beiber. Yeah, well the 90's gave us this:

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Yeah, the 00's have Ke$ha, but the 90's let MC Hammer have a career. Someone should have woke him up from his dream when "2 Legit 2 Quit" was a hit.

I can go on, but it'll get tedious.

I don't really have a preference to either decade though. Each decade has brought artists that I love.

The 90's gave us Pearl Jam, Nirvana, Soundgarden, Rage Against The Machine, Red Hot Chili Peppers, the best of Depeche Mode, U2, Radiohead, Jay-Z, Biggie, Tupac, Destiny's Child, Aaliyah, Missy Elliott, Usher, TLC, Dr. Dre, NWA, LL Cool J, Weezer, Jamiroquai, Will Smith, Cyprus Hill, Public Enemy, No Doubt, Lenny Kravitz was fun for a while and I can go on all day.

The 00's gave us Muse, Arcade Fire, Vampire Weekend, The Strokes, Franz Ferdinand, Silversun Pickups, Tool, Kanye West, Lupe Fiasco, more Jay-Z, Linkin' Park (as easy as they are to make fun of), Beyonce, Lady Gaga, Britney Spears, Daft Punk, Outkast, more Usher, Eminem, 50 Cent, Ludacris, Gorillaz, Justin Timberlake, Timberland and much more.

And I'm only listing the mainstream artists of each decade. I think we spend way too much time generalizing decades and looking to the past as what is "great" rather than appreciating what's right in front of us. Music needs to evolve anyway. As much as I love classical rock, I think it's great that we've found a way to advance rock music as well.

However, I will say this about this decade. The one major difference between this decade and any other is that it has become A LOT easier to DIY with the technology and programs we have. With the internet, it's very easy to get exposure because information moves very fast. Now, almost anyone can create a song and make a hit out of it. Case and point:

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Seriously, fuck this song. The report was funny enough, it didn't need a song. Goddamn Auto-Tune the News.

The other thing is that CDs are practically extinct. Most artists just kinda' focus on singles rather than albums. So, the easiest way to make singles and money is just to sound like everyone else. So, we kinda' get lost in a monotony of auto-tune and electronics, much like what synth did to the late 80's.

Also, it's really not that difficult to find quality music. It's not in any particular genre, you just need to listen to it rather than focus so much on the shit.