Worst decade for Music

[Aquarius1234]

What do you think was the worst decade if you had to choose ...
It's hard I'll go 90s bit mainly early 90s

Oh same. Never realised it until you said that

It did bring us "Ring O' Ring O' Roses", though.

1665 one, supposedly.

Oh my god I’m surprised people are saying the 90’s, I personally feel like that was the best decade with such diverse music genres! Not all my cup of tea but something for everyone. Plus I do love Brit pop and I was a teen towards the end of the 90’s and music was my whole life 😂
I think music in the 2010’s onwards has been a bit dirge like BUT I must confess that I don’t really listen to much current music anymore, there have still been bands coming through that I’ve bloody loved but there’s a lot of dross when I do listen to the radio these days. It could just be that I’m getting old of course…

Another couple of things influencing recent music are:
Shorter attention spans - so no more long, atmospheric intros (eg Where the Streets Have no Name) because people just get bored if there is no catchy riff after 5 seconds and skip the song

Songs designed to be played through phone speakers- so lots of higher pitched/tinny vocals

We are in that decade

This one and the last one.

I think it's now. I'm out of touch but there seems to be lots of music artists who get instantly famous among younger people, then disappear. A lot of it is really bland.

The 2020s

Everyone sounds constipated and like they can't be arsed to actually pronounce the words...all slack jaws and vocal fry on overproduced electronic crap

Agree with this and think the worst time is now, unless you seek out the niche stuff on 6Music etc. There is good music out there, but it isn’t hitting mainstream popular culture in the way it used to. Otherwise everything sounds fake (auto tuned), over-processed and robotic, as though there’s only one agreed vocal style.

Never the ‘90s - they were awesome!

O yes agree especially about the vocal fry !

The current decade is atrocious.

Kpop typifies it.

You look at awards shows today and see the list, it's grim.

Generally speaking rap is a dreadful genre.

Last week I went through the top 10 biggest songs from last year (billboard charts in the US) thinking I'm bound to like one of them. Not one.

Talent doesn't change, but the landscape does, and today's landscape doesn't lend itself to good music.

This decade, and the last decade, really struggling to think of many major acts who will go down as all time great artists.

It's an indictment on today's music that Glastonbury has to wheel out acts from decades ago (Rod Stewart upcoming this year) as today's names are not big (or good) enough.

That stuff is great, but when you watch old Top of the Pops, it’s just endless Robson and Jerome. A decade of great highs and great lows imo (I’ve no particular beef with R&J but they are more representative of what people were buying than the more interesting music to come out of the ‘90s)

I have very little interest in music post 2010 personally.

2010 onwards, and that's not me being old, even my GenZ children don't like much of the current music.

That is so true! Never looked at it like that before.
(I'm off to listen to The Joshua Tree now)

If I had to pick an era I’d probably agree with this.

Modern digital audio workstations have given us a lot of homogenised, robotic sounding, overly pristine but soulless music. But having said that, all decades have produced their stand out talents. I particularly love Fred Again and see him as one of the best emerging talents this country has produced in a long time. Ditto TS and Olivia Rodrigo (although the former isn’t exactly my cup of tea)

I think from around 2005 onwards as the music industry is now micromanaged by promoters and executives

there is some good music about but musicians have to fit into a box to get the promoters behind them

and then they have to become celebs too and say the right thing be at the right place it’s so boring they become mainstream

The best decade for music is the decade you were 15 in and music gets worse from age 25 onwards.

Which is why as a 32 year old I can declare that My Chemical Romance and Paramore of the mid 00s are the best bands of all time.

Lots of great music around if you look for it! Particular favourites now are Sleep Token and Amyl and the Sniffers

The problem with current music is that it's done by committee and produced in a way that doesn't offend anyone, or, conversely, only appeals to certain people (e.g. drill and teenage boys).

The 80s was the greatest decade because it represented so many different styles and eras. It was the zenith of mixing cultures, genres and generations.

I totally agree except the Cello concerto, Elgar was the business!!

Music in the last ten years. There are some truly stand out singers and songwriters, but the vast majority of music played on popular radio stations are either sampling music from past decades (I’m looking at you Dua Lipa) or just plain crap. It’s actually sad.

2010s. Where the only new artists were from X factor style talent shows. Just same type of manufactured rubbish.

I think music is starting to improve again and becoming so much better. I think the likes of tiktok becoming popular during the pandemic has brought much more natural talent, unknowns creating their own music and just going viral if they are lucky.
The 90s and 00s are my music decades though.

Totally agree on the over use of sampling/recycling of old tunes, some of it is so bad it makes me want to cry. I heard a rehash of GnR sweet child of mine with a cheesy euro techno beat the other day. Omg pass the ear bleach

How on earth can you say that? The 1340s had all those Hundred Years Wars bangers and Black Death ballads. Classic decade.

Clearly it was the 1310s

I occasionally go to a nightclub after work parties with many of my younger colleagues (I love dancing) and almost all of the music played is stuff I was dancing to when I was 20 in the 1990s/early 2000s. Just mainstream places.

I asked one of my colleagues about it and he said it’s partly the vast amount that is available. Streaming etc just means (a) much easier to put yourself out there and be a bit niche (b) the volume of stuff available means it just fades away and they move on to the next thing. In a club, you need the audience to recognise the music.

Not sure that means best, rather than more popular as mentioned about about Robson and Jerome for instance.

I do think that the vast choice does mean there is something for everyone. I love how much reggaeton I have access to now, that was harder to come by or Latin music in general.

The 2010s but I'm old so probably more skewed to liking 60s, 70s and 80s music