Best Era of Music?
OK, so I'm actually more into music now than when I was a teen...
That said, it's not quite the same.
The early '80s.
Bowie fantic to the core... but there was so much more: Led Zep, ELO, Fleetwood Mac, Television, Sex Pistols... for the lead in...
Then postpunk, which is basically the forerunner to the alternative/indie music we champion today. It was all brand new!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ixk3NRtu4nw
The Bunnymen at the Royal Albert Hall... omg... I saw this! (in Hollywood, CA) This >> recent show, obv
Pixies, REM, Madonna, My Bloody Valentine... etc
The Goth nightclubs...
No Question: the best era for music ever.
But I'm open to opposing opinions, however wrong they might be.
(If this seems like a 'lucky me, however old, unlucky you' thread... time to be objective, eh)
Lay it on me.
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Drank red wine with Robert Smith after one-a these shows
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9KukJ7avB4U
Ain't no Alex Turner story compare, sorry!
1987-1989
1989-1995
Now.
ahahahaha
ohhhhh mercy
Not joking actually
Though if this year isn't great...maybe a few years ago. I'm just excited to be into music right now, so many varied things to try out, unlimited gigs to go too.
unlimited gigs?
how does that work?
Sign up for our free trial, pay a fiver a month, no cancellation fee...
No but really I used the wrong word. I just meant with the internet and everything finding a good gig nearby must be so much easier. I can only see that as beneficial for music.
Ah.
If you're saying the functional aspects of enjoying and listening to music are greater now than any time in history I would agree. If we're talking about the quality of the actual music being produced right now is the best in history, I would disagree.
Sadly no, we disagree
Not when it comes to the availability of music (despite the cheapening aspect of discovering music via the internet), but the quality itself. I've read a lot of disdain towards modern music on DiS, but for me even 2012 (relatively poor overall) had such a wealth of great things to discover once I'd looked hard enough.
I think a casual music observer (which I am sure you are not) would look at this era and see mediocrity. I think there is a higher percentage of crud released today than previously, but the sheer increase in volume offsets this.
I think objectively comparing now with an older era is tricky...
The really average stuff from the those days will be forgotten about and thus the proportion of universally adored stuff that people relate to those times increases relative to today (where we still have, unfortunately, a lingering memory of something akin to that Sam and the Womp song for every Swans release).
I also think, thanks to the internet/spotify/etc, I've found and loved too much from too many eras to really find one that strikes me as better than the rest (although personal experience means 2003-2005 was a great time for me and music).
1976-1982
Whichever one you were 16 in
completely this
Late 90s/early 00s
Travis, Stereophonics, Coldplay, Radiohead... I could go on. Truly they were great days.
1981 - 1994
greedy
90`s
Loads of inspiring, beautiful and influencial Electronic music.
1954-2013
70s
They did a programme. Lauren Laverne had the casting vote.
1776-1822
May 15 2001
The day Tool released Lateralus
an awful album
Why do you say ''Early '80s''
when none of the acts you mention bar REM, Madonna, and Echo (at a stretch) were relevant to that period?
Y'know "early 80s" which stretches
from the late 70s to late 80s...
let's not take the threads of a drunkard that seriously, eh
Agreed :D
early '80s it is my good man.
late 60s early 70s
creedence, hendrix, stooges and black sabbath making other rock music silly for 40odd years to come
electric miles davis and his pals doing all that
FUNK
About 1966-1971.
whenever Big Star were active
1955-1971
I think when future historians look back at the 20th and early 21st century western music this is they'll conclude.
1991-1994
Subjectively: I was at university; saw nirvana in a club in the first term, smashing pumpkins in the second, got introduced to loads of new stuff etc etc
Objectively: nirvana -nevermind; faith no more - angel dust; nine inch nails - broken, fixed, downward spiral, pearl jam - ten; pavement - s and e; MBV - loveless; slint - spiderland; portishead -dummy