spacemonkey
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This is true.
What music will define this decade?
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This is true.
Doctor Carrot
Marxist Henchman
8ball
As seen on TikTok
Ooh - now that's more like it.
This is where you tell me this is a spoof track and the other ones are 'real music for cool people' . . .
The_Reverend_M
More bass, vicar?
Was never bothered by the other Goth Trad stuff I've heard but that's TOUGH
kained&able
Here for the football.
I reckon eminem and justin timberlake will be remembered by everyone in 20 years time still.
dave
dave
People have been saying this stuff forever. I remember people telling me that nobody would remember Nirvana 10-15 years later.
Spandex
A crazy bulbous punchbag of sound
You never know what a decade'll be remebered for until it's over, and even then it may not be related to what masses of people were doing, but rather how the mainstream media records it. The 90s are often remebered for Brit Pop, even though that was a tiny scene of about, what 9 bands?
There's been loads going on this deaced:
Pop music, as in what dominates the charts, has come to be dominated by R'n'B and shitty indie bands. That means that more traditional 'pop' music like Sugarbabes and Girls Aloud (anyone that Xenomania have been involved with basicly) stand out from the rest of the chart orientated stuff.
A few other musical movements this decade:
All those dance genres from the 90s: house, trance, techno, tekno, drum'n'bass have carried on, with some genres (like trance) becoming an unlistenable shadow of it's earlier self, some (tekno, d'n'b) carrying on sticking to the same formula, some (techno) with an ever smaller scene carrying on playing mainly to itself. House is such a broad term that all of these fates have befallen different types of house, while newer varieties have come about.
UK Garage/2 Step/Grime/Dubstep - at the beginning of the decade UK Garage/2-step was massive. The scene varied from very pop stuff (Craig David, So Solid Crew) to very underground (Ex-Men, Zed Bias). It crossed over into D'n'B (Zinc & Hype doing their take on garage) and breakbeat (Stanton Warrior, Freak Nasty). Then in about 2003 the pop side all but disappeared and the underground stuff turned into Dupstep and Grime, neither of which have really made it into the mainstream.
The 80s revival - people have been trying to revive the 80s since the 80s ended, usually pointing to Wham or some such shite. But from the beginning of this decade people have looked to the alternative 80s for inspiration. When many people think of electroclash, they think of coked up tossers from Shoreditch with angular haircuts, but musically there was a lot of interesting stuff going on, looking to the (at the time) all but forgotten synthpop, italo, electrodisco, EBM and numerous other scenes from the early 80s. For every Calvin Harris (shite) there's a Ladyton (great). The influence of the 'electro' revival has spread pretty far into house and pop music.
Then there's the punk-funk revival (!!!, LCD Soundsystem), the balearic revival (Studio, Windsurf), the cosmic disco revival (Lindstrom, Prins Tomas). And that's before you get to the all those indie bands with post-punk angular guitars and Joy Division fixations or 'New Rave' or all the bands, producers, DJs and acts that are influenced by some or all of the above.
Minimal techno - developing from the european micro-house scene, it's mostly boring, but has dominated many techno clubs for much of the decade.
There's loads of other stuff too, but I'm bored typing and I've got work to do. I'm sure someone'll point out what I've missed.
There's been loads going on this deaced:
Pop music, as in what dominates the charts, has come to be dominated by R'n'B and shitty indie bands. That means that more traditional 'pop' music like Sugarbabes and Girls Aloud (anyone that Xenomania have been involved with basicly) stand out from the rest of the chart orientated stuff.
A few other musical movements this decade:
All those dance genres from the 90s: house, trance, techno, tekno, drum'n'bass have carried on, with some genres (like trance) becoming an unlistenable shadow of it's earlier self, some (tekno, d'n'b) carrying on sticking to the same formula, some (techno) with an ever smaller scene carrying on playing mainly to itself. House is such a broad term that all of these fates have befallen different types of house, while newer varieties have come about.
UK Garage/2 Step/Grime/Dubstep - at the beginning of the decade UK Garage/2-step was massive. The scene varied from very pop stuff (Craig David, So Solid Crew) to very underground (Ex-Men, Zed Bias). It crossed over into D'n'B (Zinc & Hype doing their take on garage) and breakbeat (Stanton Warrior, Freak Nasty). Then in about 2003 the pop side all but disappeared and the underground stuff turned into Dupstep and Grime, neither of which have really made it into the mainstream.
The 80s revival - people have been trying to revive the 80s since the 80s ended, usually pointing to Wham or some such shite. But from the beginning of this decade people have looked to the alternative 80s for inspiration. When many people think of electroclash, they think of coked up tossers from Shoreditch with angular haircuts, but musically there was a lot of interesting stuff going on, looking to the (at the time) all but forgotten synthpop, italo, electrodisco, EBM and numerous other scenes from the early 80s. For every Calvin Harris (shite) there's a Ladyton (great). The influence of the 'electro' revival has spread pretty far into house and pop music.
Then there's the punk-funk revival (!!!, LCD Soundsystem), the balearic revival (Studio, Windsurf), the cosmic disco revival (Lindstrom, Prins Tomas). And that's before you get to the all those indie bands with post-punk angular guitars and Joy Division fixations or 'New Rave' or all the bands, producers, DJs and acts that are influenced by some or all of the above.
Minimal techno - developing from the european micro-house scene, it's mostly boring, but has dominated many techno clubs for much of the decade.
There's loads of other stuff too, but I'm bored typing and I've got work to do. I'm sure someone'll point out what I've missed.
kyser_soze
Hawking's Angry Eyebrow
For me it's the total opposite - every time I've been in a club and there's been dubstep I've been bored shitless, but love listening to it on the 'pod or at home...
Also, I think that whole 'defining music' thing is a largely the invention of music journos - people bang on about Nirvana as being 'seminal' and whatnot, but AFAIC they were a mediocre rock band with a depressed front man...
ohmyliver
poppin' like a cork
Hey, I'm just saying what I see.
I don't get alot of the 'post libertine' thng, but I know alot of kids do. Perhaps I'm just old.
audiotech
wav, aiff, mp3, ogg, flac
chico enrico
No hair shows you care.
shit indie music obviously. this has been the decade of anaemic jangly indie garbage. (in UK anyway)
lights.out.london
Black Flag
lights.out.london
Black Flag
You didn't make too many gigs in the early 80s then?
I was using 'shoegazing' as a description of bands' stage presence back-in-the-day, rather than the 1990s term used to describe a 'movement' or genre by mostly Melody Maker wanker journos.My Bloody Valentine were famous for their underpowered amps!
lights.out.london
Black Flag
You didn't make too many gigs in the early 80s then?
oh right. well you can hardly blame me for being mistaken then....
Did they use Session amps?
i don't know. they used Big ones though.
lights.out.london
Black Flag
actually he just used 2 standard marshalls. http://guitargeek.com/rigview/77/
gentlegreen
I hummus, therefore I am ...
drone
it's all remakes of other stuff
a genre noone has mentioned yet which was very of this decade was electroclash, but that was basically updated 80s music
breakcore is just speeded up jungle/hardcore etc not really that original
the dubstep is another one that all the sounds are borrowed from other stuff
that's not to 'diss' those genres, but like when you hear the old dub music, or even a lot of 60s and 70s rock, they were making sounds that had never been heard before on earth. nothing has done that
Bjork is someone who has been making really original music. I know she was doing that in the 90s but she's really come into her own this decade. but she is a bit 'grown up' for top of the pops lol
I think one of the big themes this decade has been that pop music has been geared towards a much younger audience. The number ones used to be tunes liked by older teenagers, now it's aimed more at younger teenagers, which is all well and good because it's just a busines at the end of the day, people can get music that they like wherever they are and don't have to be limited by the top40 or HMV album of the month etc anymore
And anyway, pop music has always been shite
If you look back at the charts from the old days, you do get the odd time where it's a goldmine, but mostly it's just dross
a genre noone has mentioned yet which was very of this decade was electroclash, but that was basically updated 80s music
breakcore is just speeded up jungle/hardcore etc not really that original
the dubstep is another one that all the sounds are borrowed from other stuff
that's not to 'diss' those genres, but like when you hear the old dub music, or even a lot of 60s and 70s rock, they were making sounds that had never been heard before on earth. nothing has done that
Bjork is someone who has been making really original music. I know she was doing that in the 90s but she's really come into her own this decade. but she is a bit 'grown up' for top of the pops lol
I think one of the big themes this decade has been that pop music has been geared towards a much younger audience. The number ones used to be tunes liked by older teenagers, now it's aimed more at younger teenagers, which is all well and good because it's just a busines at the end of the day, people can get music that they like wherever they are and don't have to be limited by the top40 or HMV album of the month etc anymore
And anyway, pop music has always been shite
If you look back at the charts from the old days, you do get the odd time where it's a goldmine, but mostly it's just dross
I think one of the big themes this decade has been that pop music has been geared towards a much younger audience. The number ones used to be tunes liked by older teenagers, now it's aimed more at younger teenagers, which is all well and good because it's just a busines at the end of the day, people can get music that they like wherever they are and don't have to be limited by the top40 or HMV album of the month etc anymore
And anyway, pop music has always been shite
i think pop singles have quite often targetted younger teenagers ever since they existed (by "they" i mean both pop singles and teenagers), from Frank Sinatra onwards
http://top40.about.com/od/popmusic101/p/teenpop.htm
yep
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