what was the last good year of mainstream music? (bands, funk, Pearl Jam)
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What would you consider to be the last good year of mainstream music?
I personally consider 1996 to be the last good year of mainstream music, I didn't think the late 1990's were nearly as good compared to the early/mid 1990's when it came to mainstream music.
Add about eight years to a poster's high school graduating year and that's the year.
So, if a poster graduated in 1943, it's about 1951. If he graduated in 1976, it's about 1984. etc.
After that year, all the music sounds bad and music isn't as good as it used to be.
Before that year, musicians knew how to play and music was meaningful.
After that year, music was just noise and there was less decency.
I'm born in 1980 and I've started noticing how badly music was getting sometime around 1997 with the boy bands (Backstreet Boys, N'Sync) and the Spice Girls and started listening to the Top 40 stations less often from that point forward because there were fewer songs I liked that were reigning the charts during that time compared to the previous years.
I agree with 1996, and I was born in 1981. Actually 1997 had its share of good stuff, but yeah, you could tell the tide was turning toward teen pop followed by all that awful nu-metal.
I seem to remember 2003 as a small spike of better music. In general 2000-2010 had some fine music, but not the mainstream radio hits, much of which is simply unlistenable - the ubiquity of autotune being the most heinous development.
I consider 1993 to be the last of the consistent years of mainstream music, I started noticing that pop music started to decline right around that time and the songs that made the Top 40 weren't as great as the Top 40 charting songs that came out in the previous years.
I consider 1993 to be the last of the consistent years of mainstream music, I started noticing that pop music started to decline right around that time and the songs that made the Top 40 weren't as great as the Top 40 charting songs that came out in the previous years.
1993 or 1994 sounds about right....good stuff coming out in 91-93, Pearl Jam, Breeders, Nirvana,
Alice in Chains, etc.
For me personally, it could be about 1975, music went noticeably down hill in the mid 70s.
last year it was 2012, this year it's 2013, next year it'll be 2014, and so on...
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