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[–]rubberbiscuit 4 insightful - 3 fun4 insightful - 2 fun5 insightful - 3 fun -  (3 children)

Fully agree. I even posted a funny meme, a very tame one too, on Torum (a newer crypto social media site) and it got removed for violating so called community standards. Done with that place. I'm on Bastyon which seems more promising.

Also, just want to point out, as I've been studying this quite intently over the past few months, that popular music has deteriorated severely in your lifetime. 1960s was fantastic, 70s, 80s also quite good, until about 1988, maybe 89, when it got awful. Early 90s is terrible. I'd like 80 of the top 100 songs in the 60s-80s and early 90s might be 25/100. I'm almost afraid to continue past 1995 where I am at now.

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I'm almost afraid to continue past 1995 where I am at now.

I picked out some notable alternative bands active in 2000-2005, do you like any of them: Coldplay, White Stripes, RHCP, Weezer, My Chemical Romance, NIN, A Perfect Circle, System of a Down, Jimmy Eat World, Gorillaz, Modest Mouse, Blink 182, The White Stripes, Silversun Pickups, Beastie Boys, The Killers, Green Day?

There was a lot of crap in the whole 00s decade but it wasn't all bad.

[–]rubberbiscuit 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Yes definitely like Weezer, Blink 182, Green Day, will check out some of the others. Every decade had some good groups and bad groups and good songs and bad songs, but the top 100 each year got really bad, overall. I'm not sure why in the 89-94 time frame much of the music people liked was so awful.

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overall. I'm not sure why in the 89-94 time frame much of the music people liked was so awful

It had to do with the music industry but it was so long ago I don't really remember the details. I think basically it happened because almost all music is controlled by a few major players. They decide what you listen to-- less so now but decades back they had even more of a stranglehold on the market.

So bands like Nickelback are elevated because some scout saw a show of theirs, reported it to his boss who probably had a meeting about it, and the criteria they used to predict hits was formulaic and probably involved people in cubicles and spread sheets. It just didn't lend itself to good music in general.