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I dont know.  I just don't like it.  I can stand Dixie Chicks, SheDaisy (are they around anymore?), etc., but not much.
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Shedaisy are probably still around, since their last in-printed album was a Christmas 2001 jobbo.

http://allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=Algu36j5271y0

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Some of this current pop music (I own quite a lot) isn't right for BLARING OUT... and the ones that are (for example, Westlife's Bop Bop Baby) are truly embarrassing, to say the least.

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I know, I just like to annoy my neighbor.  
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There's still good musci made, but, like LBB stated, you won't find it at the local electronic shoppe. Some of the good, recent stuff is actually made by bands that have been around for a while, though, like Duran Duran, Depeche Mode, and New Order (grrrrreat albums, IMO). Radiohead's still around and I can't think of ANY other popular band (other than Pink Floyd) that can remotely come close to their sound. Rialto also has released a new album and so has Kent (even though I think it's in Swedish :-/ ). How about My Life With The Thrill Kill Kult, Clan Of Xymox, and Blaine L. Reininger? Definitely order by phone and credit card...and don't depend on radio for any interesting new sounds since they're the ones that cater to bigger lamer acts (think all metalrap crap would be as popular if they didn't get played in a loop?)

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(think all metalrap crap would be as popular if they didn't get played in a loop?)

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I happen to like that "metalrap crap". :)

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I happen to like that "metalrap crap". :)
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My condolences ::)

But, really, the stations here play only that and nothing else  :-/  (please, give the other guys a chance - Radiohead, for example...).

Well, at least it's not Fluff Rock - the day I acquire a taste for that is the day I eat mayonnaise and baking soda sandwiches ;)

Tarzan Boy

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My condolences ::)

But, really, the stations here play only that and nothing else  :-/  (please, give the other guys a chance - Radiohead, for example...).

Well, at least it's not Fluff Rock - the day I acquire a taste for that is the day I eat mayonnaise and baking soda sandwiches ;)

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Hey, I remember not long ago I got you to give Def Leppard a retry and you stated they weren't as bad as you thought.  Here's a mayo and baking soda sandwich.   ;D

All kidding aside, I feel the same about Depeche Mode, The Cure etc.  And I agree that it gets tiring to hear the same old pop crap or ra crap on every station you turn to.  And to think, the RIAA wants to shut down the thousands of internet streams that actually give you a choice of other things to listen to...

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There is still some good music but you find it. Mainstream music is ok but not that good nowadays. Alot of come and go musical acts nowadays. I like mainly R&B, Alternative Rock, and even some rap. I'm kind of scared hough because when it hits 2009 though what music and songs are we really going to remember? The 90's had Grunge and Gangsta Rap trends while the 80's had New Wave and Pop/R&B trends. Maybe the decade of the 00's hasn't hit its experimental stage yet though. Its because the state of the music industry is very stagnant and has very little direction.
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I agree with you here. I do like some new music, but it just doesn't fascinate me as much as older stuff. That's probably why I am so into the 80's as a whole ( excluding hair metal, I think that's the only genre that I does not appeal to me from back then). I also like a lot of late 70's punk, ska, alternative, soft modern rock and early 90's music.

New music which I like tends to be r&b and rock, even the occasonal lyrical dance tune ( iio- rapture, lasgo - something). Pure pop does not interest me, however you can't help liking the occasional pop song as they are so addictive. That's just why they're popular.

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What!! When did this happen? As far as I know, teen-pop is going strong, and will (unfortuntaly) be still going strong for some years. It's decline may come apparent when something *like* the whole Milli Vanilli fiasco happens - though I don't think anyone can make the same mistake twice! :D

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My condolences ::)

But, really, the stations here play only that and nothing else  :-/  (please, give the other guys a chance - Radiohead, for example...).

Tarzan Boy
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Did I forget to mention that I also like Radiohead? I listen to just about everything (except for pop music, country, and Christian), so if you recommend something, I will most likely listen to it. Unless it's those three that I just mentioned.

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I believe the good music died when the pop music became popular, samples as the backstreet fags and such.  And yes a lot of music did lose creativity and originality.  But not is all bad.  
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Around these parts they're known better as The Backdoor Boys  ;D

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I agree with you here. I do like some new music, but it just doesn't fascinate me as much as older stuff. That's probably why I am so into the 80's as a whole ( excluding hair metal, I think that's the only genre that I does not appeal to me from back then). I also like a lot of late 70's punk, ska, alternative, soft modern rock and early 90's music.

New music which I like tends to be r&b and rock, even the occasonal lyrical dance tune ( iio- rapture, lasgo - something). Pure pop does not interest me, however you can't help liking the occasional pop song as they are so addictive. That's just why they're popular.


What!! When did this happen? As far as I know, teen-pop is going strong, and will (unfortuntaly) be still going strong for some years. It's decline may come apparent when something *like* the whole Milli Vanilli fiasco happens - though I don't think anyone can make the same mistake twice! :D
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Agree with your post 100% except for the teen-pop thing. I listen to basically the same stuff you listen to. I agree songs of the last 3 years don't have the freshness of the 80's and 90's stuff. In my opinion Teen-pop seems like old hat now. I rarely even here about teen-pop anymore. Now everybody listens to R&B and Rock now. I don't think Teen-pop is going that strong. Record Sales of teen-pop are way down from 2-3 years ago.  I know teen-pop will always be around. I think somewhere around 2008 it will hit once again. I hope it doesn't overshadow good music like teen-pop did a few years ago when it hit like a ton of bricks in 1999. As for the Milli Vanilli fiasco that is something way different.  Pop Stars and Making The Band were a bust in terms of record sales. The only reason teen-pop hit big was because of the great economy and the happy happy mood of the country a few years ago. In 3 years late 90's teen-pop will be remembered like disco.

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I think good music is a matter of taste. I like rock, but I try to listen to all types of music. A lot of people might think that the last "good" music was in the 17th century. Others thought "the music died" after the Buddy Holly tragedy. Many people have different answers.  
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Try 1983.

"There ain't no rock & roll no more, just the music of the young" -- Ian Hunter, Apathy '84

:'( :'( :'( :'( :'( :'( :'( :'(

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Try 1983.

"There ain't no rock & roll no more, just the music of the young" -- Ian Hunter, Apathy '84

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Hey, I remember not long ago I got you to give Def Leppard a retry and you stated they weren't as bad as you thought.  Here's a mayo and baking soda sandwich.   ;D

All kidding aside, I feel the same about Depeche Mode, The Cure etc.  And I agree that it gets tiring to hear the same old pop crap or ra crap on every station you turn to.  And to think, the RIAA wants to shut down the thousands of internet streams that actually give you a choice of other things to listen to...
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I hear ya, dude. Def is not the worst of the bunch (nothing can beat Poison and Motley Crue at that). Damn, I forgot to strike them off the list again. Definitely better than Bon Giovi's music (I tried, I really did, but just couldn't swallow it). There was a time when I would have eaten that sandwich though (sometime around '87) - when all the bigger kids suddenly did an about-face to all the hair band stuff and listened to Motorhead, Ministry, Metallica, Megadeth, and Slayer (plus all the speed metal that will give anyone whiplash) strictly. I would have been caught dead listening to New Wave then as well (closet New Waver???) :-[

Y-107 in the late 90s had such great line-ups. they even had a Spandex Nation night on Thursdays AND they played whatever you requested (including obscure album tracks). They're the station that got me back into listening to music (too bad it went belly-up on December 1999).

Tarzan Boy

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Did I forget to mention that I also like Radiohead? I listen to just about everything (except for pop music, country, and Christian), so if you recommend something, I will most likely listen to it. Unless it's those three that I just mentioned.
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Oh, I didn't mean that you should give other bands a chance, but that rdio stations down here should. I think it's great, though, that you like Radiohead. I've only known of two other people who like this band and the stations here don't even know they released an album last year. At least it seems that way since they haven't got any airplay since OK Computer...

Tarzan Boy

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Desperate to find good music, this past few months I even started to listen to the 80's music! I'm pretty much a 90's generation, I have vague memories about the 80's. But the more I explore music of the 80's the fascination grows in me.
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Sound to me like you're headed in the right directions. ;D

Kryllith

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Around these parts they're known better as The Backdoor Boys  ;D
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I don't know I like the Backstreet Fags better.  It says it all and what they are.  Or how about the Backhit Boys.

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Agree with your post 100% except for the teen-pop thing...In my opinion Teen-pop seems like old hat now. I rarely even here about teen-pop anymore...I don't think Teen-pop is going that strong. Record Sales of teen-pop are way down from 2-3 years ago.  I know teen-pop will always be around. I think somewhere around 2008 it will hit once again. I hope it doesn't overshadow good music like teen-pop did a few years ago when it hit like a ton of bricks in 1999.
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Now everybody listens to R&B and Rock now.
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Agree with this to an extent. The slightly older generation listens to this. In England especially, it is under 18's who buy the majority of music, so pop music is indefinitly still around. Unfortunate for those who have sense. These pop songs are still reaching very high positions, when good bands (IMO ;) ) opinion, such as Garbage, The Bluetones and Travis are starting to fall back - and these bands had many top 10 hits in previous years.

I'm actually hoping with the 80's revival that is going on at the moment, that some may be converted - hey I'm only 17 and I've been converting for a couple of years now! I suppose 80's music really grasped me last Summer, when I realised how many 80's covers there were around. With a little help from the net i just downloaded tonnes of songs I loved, and found out some others from people in my family and by watching various TV shows about the 80's.

My best friends love pop-music - and I try my best to get them to hear some of the older stuff, but it just doesn't fascinate them as it does me. I'm really into the history of music from '77 to the mid 90's  - I like a lot of music from this time.

This year should have a sort of music 'craze' - where one genre of music was extremely popular. As I don't beleive last year did. Over the past few years we've had dance music crazes, latin song crazes, electronic songs and indie/brit pop crazes. I'm just hoping that it does verge on an 80's craze ;)

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Agree with this to an extent. The slightly older generation listens to this. In England especially, it is under 18's who buy the majority of music, so pop music is indefinitly still around. Unfortunate for those who have sense. These pop songs are still reaching very high positions, when good bands (IMO ;) ) opinion, such as Garbage, The Bluetones and Travis are starting to fall back - and these bands had many top 10 hits in previous years.

I'm actually hoping with the 80's revival that is going on at the moment, that some may be converted - hey I'm only 17 and I've been converting for a couple of years now! I suppose 80's music really grasped me last Summer, when I realised how many 80's covers there were around. With a little help from the net i just downloaded tonnes of songs I loved, and found out some others from people in my family and by watching various TV shows about the 80's.

My best friends love pop-music - and I try my best to get them to hear some of the older stuff, but it just doesn't fascinate them as it does me. I'm really into the history of music from '77 to the mid 90's  - I like a lot of music from this time.

This year should have a sort of music 'craze' - where one genre of music was extremely popular. As I don't beleive last year did. Over the past few years we've had dance music crazes, latin song crazes, electronic songs and indie/brit pop crazes. I'm just hoping that it does verge on an 80's craze ;)
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Well I started listening to the 80's around late 1998. As far as young people listening to the 80's sometimes its hard for even a 20 year old to the 80's because they think its so old. I agree over the last few years as you have pointed out there have been so many different music crazes and people just seem to get tired of them. As for an 80's revival I see some hints of 80's influiences in today's musicians but I don't see the 80's coming back full circle because everybody seems to like that "thug image" thing. I would like to see a dance craze again maybe like the early to mid 90's club stuff but that would get like disco and people would start trashing it. I live in the States where Britney Spears and N'Sync were really popular the last few years but they are starting to fade.

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Do you guys still listen to the current music? I don't anymore. >:(

Music today is utterly dissappointing to say the least. It lacks substance, creativity, and inspiration.
I'm not referring to a specific genre either, the quality of music IN GENERAL has declined so much.

And, sad to say, it all started from the 90's, well actually the late 90's (when those no-talent Backstreet Boys and the likes started to take over).

I found myself looking for more and more music in the early to mid 90's when Nirvana Red Hot Chili Pepper, Foo Fighters, Soundgarden ruled.

Desperate to find good music, this past few months I even started to listen to the 80's music! I'm pretty much a 90's generation, I have vague memories about the 80's. But the more I explore music of the 80's the fascination grows in me. Heck, I even like the pop music and the techno dance stuff. Isn't this pathetic? I'm actually going backwards. :'(
Made me wish that I was born earlier so I could spend my youth in the period where music doesn't suck. (SIGH...)

What's wrong?
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Hey, I kind of thought Hanson were cute and quite talented as well! But whatever happened to them!

Peace,Cat Lover
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LOL. I actually own their first album I'm afraid to say. Hey - I was only 13! And I did get it as a Christmas present :) (even though I asked for it  :-/) Haven't listened to it for years though, honestly! :)

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Do you guys still listen to the current music? I don't anymore. >:(

Music today is utterly dissappointing to say the least. It lacks substance, creativity, and inspiration.
I'm not referring to a specific genre either, the quality of music IN GENERAL has declined so much.

And, sad to say, it all started from the 90's, well actually the late 90's (when those no-talent Backstreet Boys and the likes started to take over).

I found myself looking for more and more music in the early to mid 90's when Nirvana Red Hot Chili Pepper, Foo Fighters, Soundgarden ruled.

Desperate to find good music, this past few months I even started to listen to the 80's music! I'm pretty much a 90's generation, I have vague memories about the 80's. But the more I explore music of the 80's the fascination grows in me. Heck, I even like the pop music and the techno dance stuff. Isn't this pathetic? I'm actually going backwards. :'(
Made me wish that I was born earlier so I could spend my youth in the period where music doesn't suck. (SIGH...)

What's wrong?
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I flushed it down the toilet and it went round and round and round  :P

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Do you guys still listen to the current music? I don't anymore. >:(

Music today is utterly dissappointing to say the least. It lacks substance, creativity, and inspiration.
I'm not referring to a specific genre either, the quality of music IN GENERAL has declined so much.

And, sad to say, it all started from the 90's, well actually the late 90's (when those no-talent Backstreet Boys and the likes started to take over).

I found myself looking for more and more music in the early to mid 90's when Nirvana Red Hot Chili Pepper, Foo Fighters, Soundgarden ruled.

Desperate to find good music, this past few months I even started to listen to the 80's music! I'm pretty much a 90's generation, I have vague memories about the 80's. But the more I explore music of the 80's the fascination grows in me. Heck, I even like the pop music and the techno dance stuff. Isn't this pathetic? I'm actually going backwards. :'(
Made me wish that I was born earlier so I could spend my youth in the period where music doesn't suck. (SIGH...)

What's wrong?
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It maybe not good to you but other people still enjoy it.

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But if the parents only expose their children to the music they like from their past (knowingly or unknowingly), their children will grow to like the music to which they have been exposed.