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I appreciate the music of the 60's and 70's as much as the next baby boomer, but then again I look back and realize how bad much of it was. Stupid lyrics, trite instrumentation, and a heavy dose of shlock. The 1990's was the greatest decade for music in my lifetime, with such works of art as this:
TG the 60's and 70's didn't have videos, internet, digital files, etc, to immortalize every schlock-y band that came out. Because trust me, there were a lot. Someone, now, would actually have to rip-from-vinyl all those stinkers for them to re-emerge, float back to the surface of our collective memories. As we fall out of our chairs, recoiling-in-breathless-horror-and-shame! ... ...
And anyways, every 'era' has had classical music being created, world music, etc. '...the greatest outburst of musical creativity since the German classical era of the 18th and 19th centuries.'(!!!)
Ha ha ha, thanks for the laugh, that was good. Seriously, I enjoyed the sarcasm.
Anywho....
I humbly submit, exhibit A, to represent all that was good and new with the 90's: Aphex Twin - Wet Tip Hen Ax
With new tech, comes new forms of expression. 90's pop, as you posted, was the watered down version of all that.
The toddling beginnings of new forms of expression, or coattail riding record company pablum, are almost always embarrassing to look back on.
IDM, EDM, no exception.
Believe it or not many people compared Richard David James to Beethoven and Bach and Brahms and all that. At the time.
Except he really was creating a new wave of music. Like, actually creating the computer bits that make the sounds.
Etc etc, love talking music with knowledgeable people. This is fun.
I appreciate the music of the 60's and 70's as much as the next baby boomer, but then again I look back and realize how bad much of it was. Stupid lyrics, trite instrumentation, and a heavy dose of shlock. The 1990's was the greatest decade for music in my lifetime, with such works of art as this:
This was the greatest outburst of musical creativity since the German classical era of the 18th and 19th centuries.
I disagree totally with that statement, but to each their own. No decade can hold a candle to the sixties music-wise, not even the '80s. There were some good songs and artists in the 1990s, and there was a lot of diversity, but that decade is so overrated. Sorry.
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