Music released from "1965 to 1985" vs "2000 to 2020". From greatest era to garbage era.

started to say 1960 to 1990 vs 1990 to 2020..

I would narrow it down to 1969-1976 as the best era.

The first part of the 2000’s had some excellent music, especially if you’re into metal, punk, and harder rock. If you like aquanet and keytars, probably not so much.

The 2010’s has been awful for music in the mainstream, but there’s good stuff being made underground. If you’re in NOLA tomorrow, I cannot recommend getting to Tipitina’s tomorrow night to see Jade Bird. She’s a fantastic up and coming singer/songwriter out of England that’s like a modern day Janis Joplin.

Tons of great stuff out there...


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There's no best era, it's all subjective.

Every decade has produced amazing music, mainstream or not, whether or not it's your cup of tea is a different question.

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The last 25 years of music say otherwise. Maybe the fact that anyone with pro tools can make themselves sound like a musician has saturated the market.

But it's not even debatable that music has been consistently getting shittier since the mid 90s.

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This is the kind of post that happens when an OT poster stumbles onto the Music Board. There are way more great needles these days. The stack of hay is definitely bigger, though. You just have to look past the radio dial and figure out that Clear Channel is controlling what you consume in all ways.

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The last 25 years of music say otherwise. Maybe the fact that anyone with pro tools can make themselves sound like a musician has saturated the market.

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Standards change with the times. ProTools, Melodyne, software compressors/EQ's/digital analog modeling synths, etc, stuff changes over time. I mean there was a time in history when athletes didn't use performance enhancers.

And I would definitely debate that music has gotten shittier. It's a matter of taste and times changing. shite, Chopin would have probably thought Scott Joplin was a bastardization of piano music, seeing as he "stole" the left hand of stride piano from left hand patterns Chopin and Liszt played, etc.

And Scott Joplin might think the Stones and Led Zeppelin suck. And Jimmy Page might have hated Nirvana. Nirvana might think Paramore sucks. Paramore is fricking great.

It's a matter of taste and whatever is relative to the times.

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1987 is arguably one of the best music years of all time.

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This guy knows what's up!

Bruh, there were some absolutely classic albums in the 2000’s that are still big hits in nostalgia from Panic! At the Disco, Fallout Boy, My Chemical Romance, Slipknot, Linkin Park, The Killers, Chevelle, Tool, Blink 182, Green Day, Alter Bridge, Yellowcard, Mayday Parade, Rise Against, Paramore, Audioslave, all of Jack White’s various bands, etc

Just because you didn’t like it doesn’t mean millions upon millions pf people didn’t connect with it and still feel tied to it strongly, and not just through nostalgia.

Pop punk is commonly panned due to its juvenile image, simple hooks, and “whiny” vocals, but the lyrics are often so much more deep, vulnerable, and honest than literally any other genre. While Nirvana may have been the first mainstream band to speak to the outcasts, pop punk was an entire genre dedicated to them. Sure, there’s some silly stuff like Avril Lavigne’s sk8ter boi and girlfriend, but there’s also a lot of really mature topics like suicide, depression, loneliness, lament, death of loved ones, critics of consumerist culture and the military industrial complex, working class struggles, broken homes, and of course love and loss.

If you can get past the dated outfits and silly aesthetics, there’s real serious and honest stories being told in these songs. Heck, Sum 41 even has guitar solos that rival most hair metal bands.

People are super nostalgic about the following albums right now:
Ocean Avenue
A Decade Under the Influence
Welcome to the Black Parade
Three Cheers for Sweet Revenge
Under the Cork Tree
Riot!
Chuck
American Idiot
Enema of the State
The Killers (self titled)
The Young and the Hopeless
Let Go

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Such a stupid question. How could I possibly know that? I can't tell the future. When I was a kid I probably wouldn't have thought Nirvana would be a thing in 20 years.

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Oh brother. How did I know that you wouldn't be able to list one album when I made that other post? Try listing your favorite albums from the last 20 years. How about that? Should be a pretty6 short list.

If you want to sit here and try to say that you wouldn't have known that Nirvana would still be considered relevant 20 years after Nevermind released, you obviously weren't there...or at least old enough to know about them.

The same goes for Thriller, Purple Rain, The Black Album, Born In The USA, Rumors, Back in Black, Saturday Night Fever, or any other number of albums. If you were around at the time, it didn't take Nostramus to tell anyone that people would remember these albums.