Why is modern music so awful

[zerocrossing]

I don’t know if anyone cares, but I find great modern music on TikTok. All I did was go in there and search for stuff that I already like and then let the algorithm do its thing. Not every suggestion is a winner, but the hit rate is pretty good.

[eLawnMust]

If you see how it's changed over time it becomes much more clear... Here I hear innovation & a musical nature peaking in the 70's & 80's... Then in the 90's comes that frickin' 4/4 kick drum which presides in virtually all groups music which is beginning to sound all same like any group could play any other group's music... Then starting around 2009 it is clear that instead of using musical tact the onslaught of modulating FX becomes prominent... Thank god we didn't have powerful computers back in the 70's & 80's...

[aMUSEd]

Some great music there

[ThoughtExperiment]

There's nothing intrinsically bad about the 4/4 kick. Some wildly innovative techno music came out of Detroit, all of it with that 4/4 kick.

[Aloysius]

... and disco.

[ksandvik]

I like Detroit techno, but boy that's old music, not to speak of Disco. I think there's a revolution moving out from 4/4 kicks which is a godsend.

[Bunny_boy]

If you see how it's changed over time it becomes much more clear... Here I hear innovation & a musical nature peaking in the 70's & 80's... Then in the 90's comes that frickin' 4/4 kick drum which presides in virtually all groups music which is beginning to sound all same like any group could play any other group's music... Then starting around 2009 it is clear that instead of using musical tact the onslaught of modulating FX becomes prominent... Thank god we didn't have powerful computers back in the 70's & 80's...

Just flicked through 80s onwards. That's, er, quite a selection I hope that was done as a joke

I guess the guy has never heard of drum n bass, idm, footwork, dubstep (actual f**king dubstep, not that hair metal thing), UK garage, dub techno, breakcore, etc etc

[vurt]

Then in the 90's comes that frickin' 4/4 kick drum

idm was born in the 90s, specifically to rid tracks of repetitive beats, due to an english law.
4 on 4 was illegal for raves in fields.

it's ok to dislike it, but to deny it's existence to rewrite your own version of history, that's just weird.

[Bunny_boy]

And again with that video. For the 80s why all the pop music? It's supposed to be the evolution of electronic music, not the big hits of the day. No room for Blue Monday, early electro, early house, phuture's acid tracks, Monotonprodukt 07, E2-E4, industrial, Suicide, hardcore, EBM, acid house, etc, etc, etc

Liked the way Delia Derbyshire and Wendy Carlos weren't named. Can't have too many women, can we?

[vurt]

Liked the way Delia Derbyshire and Wendy Carlos weren't named. Can't have too many women, can we?

you've unwittingly opened a hornets nest with this feller.

[lunardigs]

I'll suggest this, which probably no one will agree with here, but I think astrology can describe modern music very well.

That's bollocks. But I'm a Pisces so what do I know?

It would track the same quality of time as the generations, which is pretty well described already by astrologers.
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Baby Boomers: 1946 to 1964 (Pluto in Leo until 1957, then in Virgo)
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It's through the principal of Pluto that a generation realizes sex and death. i.e. transformation--radical transformation and so on--and this is what we're approximately hearing in the music of a given time.
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so then pick one of those generations and explain anything unique to that eras music caused by the astrology

The boomers, ruled by Leo, were the greatest rock n' roll generation. We'll never see anything like that again in our lifetime (60's and 70's rock, and to a lesser degree 80's rock).

[Aloysius]

Leo who?

[ThoughtExperiment]

Sayer

[Aloysius]

[Bunny_boy]

Leo Slayer, surely