Is the music played today, better than the music from 70's and 80's?

Late 70's and 80's. How do I know? My mother told me....LOL!

I don't understand why so many people hate today's music...and lots of the people who prefer the older music tell those of us who prefer today's music that we "have no taste in music". :/ Music changes over time, people need to just accept it. And us younger people grew up with different music than the older people did.

I don't have time to really search for something I really like among popular music today but hitparades don't promise a lot. We get an overload of gangsta lyrics, new stars that look anything but human and it less and less about nice voices and great music! Am I the odd one out? Don't care, I'm old!

Not even in the same category,or relevant to today's music!We dealt with our feelings differently,and hung on,and out in the times we were raised.(I was the T.V. changer,I had a record player,and records.Had a diary,and a pen pal!Had time to think deep about issues,before the next thing became a distraction!)My phone was a rotary phone,no call waiting!It hung on the wall right by the kitchen,where my Mother cooked,and had dinner on the table by 6-6:30pm. (with her eyes in the back of her head!)It wasn't all I wanted,but it inspired me to dream of more!And our music reflected that to me! ~*(;->

and some of the 80's :)

no i wouldn't say.

I'll take 80's music anytime.

That's why I have older songs on my polls. The new music doesn't have the same "passion" as the old music did. Some of the new music might try to grab that, but it's like a rope that has grease on it.



















I could go on, but i think you get my point.

Why do I have to be a teenager in the generation that has the stupidest music? I'll admit that some of today's artists are good, but most are laughable.

you tell me:

I almost forgot:

No no and no

I play music and personally know pro musicians.No way in hell is music better now.Thanks MTV lol

they should change the name to when not showing movies TV to RTV Rap or shall i say crap

Oh rap takes skill and years of disciplined training,that's why 7 yr. old's can do it.All you need is a rhyming dictionary. :) http://www.rapbasement.com/im...

lol, so true
Of course we can't knock all youngsters.

Yeah I saw him,good job kiddo! lol

No way, Music Today has no soul. Mainstream musicians can barely play instruments.

Exactly! Fellow guitar player. ;)

thank you sir

In fact, I like the REAL oldies. Glenn Miller, Henry Mancini,...

Me too the Big Bands rocked.

that's actually a hard call.. it depends on the genre. mostly i like the 80s though

The 80s was the golden age of heavy metal and the 70s was the forerunner to it

I cant imagine any of the newer crap ever being referred to as "classic".

No. And the eighties were no where near the seventies, and the seventies were no where near the best music ever, that of the 60's!

I like a lot of the oldies, but it does depend on which song compares against which oldies song.

I like the oldies better for the most part, but there are some artists today that are bringing back a good vocal element and a true musical sound to their art. No, auto tuning every song and playing the same 5 notes through a computer is not music, thats right DUBSTEP IS NOT MUSIC!!! it's the same sound my old modem used to make and it sucks!

there is still some decent music but I hate the way they made so much of it boring or whiny chick songs... Even the guys sing things that sound like whiny chick songs.

The older music had better harmonies and many of the musicians were classically trained.

Great question! I am a teenage and I definitely prefer oldies. I listen to Michael Jackson, Queen, Pink Floyd, Whitney Houston, Mariah Carey, TLC, etc.Classic Rock and Roll is the best besides ol' school R&B;&Rap; back when Rap songs had meaning to it.
I love music from the 1970s and 1980s. People think I am weird for listening to old music.
Old music inspired newer music and newer music is resampled from old music.
Most of today's music isn't as good as music from the '70s and '80s. Adele, Bruno Mars, Beyonce and neo soul are one of the very good singers out these days and I love them especially Adele. But I love MJ, Queen, TLC and Pink Floyd etc more than today's music.

Try Itchycoo Park by the Small Faces. Incense and peppermint by The Strawberry Alarm clock. Cherish by the Association, and one of the first anti drug songs of the 60's Kicks by Paul Revere and the Raiders, for more intense music try King Crimson, ELP, Spirit, YES. Good luck.

Know them all. ;)

What about The low spark of high heel boys by Stevie Winwood and Traffic. Or just about any thing from Steppenwolf!

Hey remember MacArthur Park by Richard Harris (Prof. Dumbledorf) By the way what was MacArthur park about? Same goes for The low spark of high heel boys?

My girlfriend and I were just talking about MacArthur Park 2 days ago. Jimmy Webb who wrote it went to MacArthur Park with Linda Ronstadt's cousin,Susan. Boot wearing high spirited rebels standing on a street corner and the low spark the underbelly and the strong undercurrent at the street level.Or something like that.I thought it was about gays in the day. ;)

There were a lot of songs with almost undecipherable lyrics back then.

I don't pay attention to lyrics sound is my thing.Take YES for example read the lyrics of Roundabout I don't care it was the sound I liked. ;) And you can understand the words. http://www.lyricsfreak.com/y/...