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

@ChessorBuckaroo Rod Stewart is playing the Legends slot at Glastonbury though - you know, the slot specifically reserved for acts that have had a very long career in the music industry. They've had a legends slot at Glastonbury for the last 30 years and it's nothing to do with a lack of current bands or talent, it's to make the event appeal to as broad a spectrum of listeners as possible

There hasn't been enough good music in the last 20 years to make one great album between them all.

Regardless, from a great vocalist in Rod Stewart, to (other acts (supposedly) appearing) Chappell Roan, Charli XCX, and Olivia Rodrigo.

The deterioration in quality is shocking.

The reverence for older acts is only increasing due to the immense gulf in quality from them to those who chart now.

This man has a good explanation as to why music is getting worse (it now being much easier to make being the first reason).

s

I've got to say that I love the fact that a bit of silly, camp comedy kept the nauseatingly pretentious Oh Vienna off the top spot

I liked Vienna at the time but now think it was laughably over dramatic.

Definitely anything post 2010 apart from a few exceptions. I’m massively into music and I can’t actually remember the last time I listened to anything remotely recent. I feel sorry for kids growing up today. There was some great music in the 80s and 90s during my taping the top 40 era.

I would says 2010s and 2020s. There's one beat and about three patterns of lyrics and they stick to them. I can deal with the 00s mainstream pop tunes as they were the sound track to going out / growing up and they're special to me for that reason (and catchy) despite really being an indie kid in terms of taste at the time - my personal soundtrack was much more indie/rock. I'm a mid 30s millenial but my music taste now runs older in general.

I also think it's subjective. I listen to 50s but I wouldn't say I listen to crooners, as moaned about upthread. We're obviously looking through different lenses. They were around but I listen to Buddy Holly or Eddie Cochran more; the first dance at my wedding was Buddy Holly - I never even considered another song. I probably have more 50s through to 80s music in my headphones than anything current. My most listened to artists last year were the Kinks, the Beach Boys and Fleetwood Mac.

This is what I thought. 2000- 2010 ISH is rubbish.

The 90s was legendary! The best piano riff /killer vocals dance music imo. The alternative music like Stone Roses and so on. Just brilliant.

Love the 80s. Love 70s too.

Late 70s, early 80s was an incredible, creative and innovative time for music. We had:
Sex Pistols
The Clash
The Jam
The Cure etc
Ska, Reggae and Disco.
Gary Numan, a huge game changer
New Romantics
Wham ( and then George Michael )
Culture Club
Blondie
Global megastars like Michael Jackson, Madonna, Bruce Springsteen, Whitney Houston.

Who do we have now...?

And Prince! God I miss Prince...

There hasn't been enough good music in the last 20 years to make one great album between them all
Love Bill Ryder-Jones's Iechyd Da and Gruff Rhys's Sadness Sets Me Free both from last year.

The one 5 years after your own youth. The teen generation following your own always has shite music, it's practically the law.

Best 80s, closely followed by 2010s...
Worst 90s. Possibly 00s
50s, 60s and 70s were good.

Yes to the crooning. The men all sounded like someone's grandad.

Having listened to the charts recently, for me, has to be this decade. The songs are mostly unremarkable, lyrics are questionable and some of the artists (I use this term loosely) music videos are bordering soft porn!

This! The 90's were incredible for music.

The last 10-20 years have been pretty dire. I mean there's great stuff out there of course but it isn't getting mainstream recognition.

This. 90s was an amazing decade for music.

Early noughties were pretty good also but things have stayed pretty static with nothing massively outstanding or original since then if you compare with the previous 50 plus decades which all had very distinct new music linked with cultural and societal changes.

I find it difficult to answer, because my immediate instinct is to say, the 90s. Which is really "my" era of music, I was a teen in the 90s, I really came of age in the grunge period, and in fact lived in a city with a very active grunge scene then.

Of course there is good stuff in every era, but I just feel like the overall level of musicianship and complexity really tanked compared to the period of the 60s through the 80s.

That being said, I almost don't feel like it ever really picked up after that. There is the odd later artist from the 2000s that I like, but of those, many seem to be reaching back to older styles of roots type music. But overall, the music seems thin, kind of stereotyped, lacking in layers of instrumentation, sonicly boring.

This thread reminds me of all the people who comment on any online Radio 2 story stating that all the 'young DJs' (all late 40s and 50s) only play 'modern music' (anything after mid 90s) and how terrible it all is.

The teens of today will think this is the best era and the era of music when they're in their 40s will be the worst. The teens of the 70s, 80s and 90s didn't have better taste than the teens of today- the older generation all thought the music was rubbish.

You could say this for much of the 90s. Genie in a bottle, Freak me, 2 become 1, Baby got back, Just a little etc etc etc.

Actually Just a little was probably early 2000s wasn't it?

80s were extremely awesome.
00s were awesome.
There are gems & turds in every decade imho.
I will never get over Mr Blobby tune being Xmas number 1.

60s and 70s great. Rest are meh.

My teen and his friends would disagree! My DS adores Oasis and the Smiths but listens to stuff from the 50s (rock and roll) to now. He's said a few times he wished he'd been around in the nineties.