re: Why is there no "great" music anymore?

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I promise you nobody who grew up listing to 80's music thinks 90's is greater.




False, I grew up in the 80's and early 90's rock is my personal favorite time in rock.

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My kindergarden through 12th grade years pretty much spanned the "video music era" from 1980 to early 1993 so I feel like I know 80's and 90's music well. Popular music, outside of the greatest musical era of all time imho (1963-1975), was as good as it ever was throughout the 80s. The 90s were pretty good too (at least the first half of the 90s) but not as consistently good as the 80s.

Popular music imho is the truest way to judge the quality of a musical era. Music has alway had good non mainstream bands so the fact that you can find them is nothing to get excited about. The fact that decent music has to be sifted out of the huge mountain of musical crap that is modern music tells you just how bad music has been the last 10 years.

P.S. Widspread Panic and Phish are great great bands but it's a little silly to claim them as modern bands. Both bands peaked in the 90s and have practically zero in common with modern popular music.