Poll: Can anyone save mainstream music.

[mjp19xx]

I honestly have to say that we have not seen a mainstream music movement that was not just garbage since grunge in the early nineties. The fifties gave birth to rock & roll. The sixties gave us a golden age of modern music with the British Invasion, Motown, the bluesy rock of Cream, Hendrix, The Doors, and countless others. The seventies gave us disco if your into that sort of thing, and punk, some great prog rock, and most of Led Zeppelin and Black Sabbath's catalogs. The eighties well... We should probably just skip the eighties. I have of course already mentioned the nineties. So, whats next?

Since the nineties I can only think of one musician that has impressed me who did not release the majority of their work in previous decades, and that is Jack White from The White Stripes and The Raconteurs.

 

[Biek]

What the hell is wrong with 80's pop music? I'll listen to 80's and 90's music over the crap their shitting out this decade any day.

 

[Andey]

The listener by choosing not crap by supporting non big label bands and instead of just going with the flow looking for themselves and finding things they enjoy but then again rap is just too popular now adays to kill

 

[black lincon]

No and double no for my favorite genre Hip-Hop. All Hip-Hop is at this point is dance music. I miss the old days where it all had a point and so now-a-days I don't have to sustain myself on the scraps of that movement in the few current artists who make good hip-hop.

 

[the_duke_CC]

Genuinley, i hold out little hope for the mainstream market, occasionally a song will come along that i will like (e.g. hot chip's over and over) or maybe theres an album thats actually worth buying (Back to black, Amy whinehouse) but apart from those fleeting moments id rather put on something by the jam or the clash or henrix, zepplin, dylan. its nothing against modern musicians you know they are still out there it's just that record labels are to aware of what will say these days im mean even the great (and in my opinion unblemished) roadrunner records have taken to signing act that they would never have considered a year ago. but that's just my uninformed byast opinion.

 

[zoozilla]

The problem is that people who listen to "mainstream" (read: shit) music are the ones who don't know about Limewire or other file-sharing sites, which means they get their music through legal means.

That means record companies are seeing mainstream music sell tons, and it's really not too shocking that they choose to push similar sorts of music.

 

[muse-13-bliss]

now? the 21st century?
we have bullshit crap rap
i dont even consider to call it music
to me
its just a way for some dumb high school dropout to make extra drug money
and what a way to make drug money
go out, make a video of you and a bunch of half naked women, talk about drugs, money, violence and abusing said women
and bamm
your famous

wtf seriously??

 

[Neurowaste]

It's up to true Metal, raise the horns!

 

[MrSnugglesworth]

No. Its not that I don't like it. Its just that... Rap is taking over. It will not stop until it has permenantly(sp) taken us over. I hate it just as much as all of you, but... regular Rock n Roll is finished.

 

[NeutralDrow]

Why does mainstream music need "saving," again?

 

[the_duke_CC]

The problem is that people who listen to "mainstream" (read: shit) music are the ones who don't know about Limewire or other file-sharing sites, which means they get their music through legal means.

That means record companies are seeing mainstream music sell tons, and it's really not too shocking that they choose to push similar sorts of music.

I buy all of my music through legal means just because i pay for my music doesnt mean i have any less of a decent taste in music than anyone else. If anything the people i know who use things like torrent sites have this taste for modern mainstream music. All though i will agree with your last sentence.

 

[twistedshadows]

Why does mainstream music need "saving," again?

My question exactly.

 

[Gotham Soul]

Music? You mean that hammer-beaten factory-manufactured pop drivel that supposedly passes for music?

No. Music is now about how much money you have in your pocket, and likewise the industry has .changed so that money is the focus when creating "music".

 

[Skeleon]

Mainstream is beyond saving.
That's why it's called mainstream: Too far away from any shore to be rescued.

I still listen to music that's twenty years older than I am. And wherever I go nowadays I have to listen to shitty rap/hiphop. I was born in the wrong decade.

 

[Bucket0Bones]

There are a few gems in the cesspit of music. But there aren't enough to warrant listening to mainstream music again.

 

[lizards]

well i dont know about saving but rock music like AC/DC Guns n Roses Led Zepplin and that stuff could use a revive

 

[TaborMallory]

The eighties well... We should probably just skip the eighties.

Aw, come on. The eighties gave us Metallica and Slayer; awesome bands as a precursor to other bands like Tool and Cradle of Filth.

 

[Bored Tomatoe]

What we all need to do is just keep listening to what we listen to legally so that record labels will see manufactured pop isn't the only thing that sells.