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How Will We Categorize Our Current Decade of Music?

July 24th, 2008 8:45am EDT  Post a comment

50 CentWe all know that the 70s was the decade of classic/arena rock, the 80s was the decade of hair metal/synth pop and the 90s was the decade of grunge/alternative rock.

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Thu Jul 24 2008 10:34:59 By: Guy Nacolojist ( 1144)
wow, are you really teeing this one up for me?
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"CRAP."
There you go. Categorized.
That was easy.
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Fri Jul 25 2008 08:21:58 By: Valotte68 ( 1)
How about calling it Suck X@@##! Music because it all sucked!
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Fri Jul 25 2008 08:49:19 By: RASHARPE ( 755)
SO FAR IT HAS BEEN FAIR.
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Sat Jul 26 2008 07:26:37 By: Sherri419 ( 1)
Actually The only thing that I disagree with is,
I lived through the 80s, and actually Cyndi Lauper was the one belting out the high notes (in her concerts),
while Madonna was more of the dancer of the two (in her concerts).
But the rest of what you wrote makes sense too me.
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Sun Jul 27 2008 00:04:25 By: LIL BOOSIEANNA ( 3)
Actually The only thing that I disagree with is,
I lived through the 80s, and actually Cyndi Lauper was the one belting out the high notes (in her concerts),
while Madonna was more of the dancer of the two (in her concerts).
But the rest of what you wrote makes sense too me.
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Mon Jul 28 2008 08:05:50 By: RASHARPE ( 755)
it is all basic, they really use the same chord and vocals of rock groups years ago, the difference is presentation that's all.
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Mon Jul 28 2008 08:35:42 By: srollem ( 1881)
Ok well for starters,"classic rock" is a silly genre. In theory anything 20+ years old is "classic." So soon, Nirvana will be considered classic rock, The Chilli's are already labelled as such by many too.
Plus classic rock is not a sound. Pink Floyd, Elvis and Queen do not sound alike yet they are labelled "classic rock."
70s saw the start of prog rock, glam, hard rock, heavy metal, punk rock, disco, jazz-fusion, electronica & krautrock and all sorts of sub-genres.
80s saw post-punk, darkwave, synthpop, new wave, alonside different variations of metal. That whole glam scene was god awful, even worse than the electronic snare sound :/
Grunge was only 1 part of the 90s, but the whole "alt" scene did take over, even though alternative itself has lost its meaning and is, like "indie" applied to practically anything now.
Most 90s music had personal lyrics, and nu-metal was probably one of the most popular genres.
Hip-Hop took off in the 90s with DJ Shadow's Entroducing being a influence on Massive Attack & Portishead, aswell as the techno/bigbeat sound like the Prodigy.
Most MAINSTREAM 00s music is hip-POP, retro discopop or these soundalike emo and "indie" bands. Im not a big fan of most of it but theres ALOT of great music still being made, see Tool, The Mars Volta, Kayo Dot and many others.
To say its possible to lump any decade of music into one single category just seems pointless to me. Music has changed so much in the last 50 years that its impossible to do so.
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Mon Jul 28 2008 08:38:53 By: srollem ( 1881)
Ran out of characters additional:
Coldplay = Soft Rock/Pop Rock
Linkin Park = Nu-"Metal"
The White Stripes = Hard Rock
Simple.
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Fri Nov 28 2008 15:30:01 By: rapsux ( 500)
this era is the gay boy band era ( bands olike nsync, backstreet boys) emo era, rap crap/hip hop/pop rock era.
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