bad music

[Gibbo]

I cannot believe how bad music is these days! I heard that song the other day with lyrics that go 'I think you are really fit, you're fit but my gosh don't you know it' What the heck is this all about? It sounded like am imitation of one of Blur's songs or something, and is anyone else sick of hearing the same artists making the same rubbish?

[beenee]

I agree - I can't bear to listen to the radio these days. It makes my blood boil. If I hear one more R'n'B track that sounds exactly like the rest of them, or a boring signature D.Bedingfield or a bunch of cocky 15 year olds trying to sound American I'm going to.... umm.... put on a CD.

[Tinker]

Lol, i think that song is by The Streets. I know what you mean though, I find lyrics funny more than anything. There's a Puff Daddy (P-Diddy?) song where he says something along the lines of 'I am the definition of half-man, half-drugs'. That is REALLY bad, unless of course I have grossly misheard the lyrics.....haha

[andy hughes]

I hate to be pedantic here, but there is no such thing as 'bad' music, it's just music that you don't like, which does not qualify it as 'bad' er se. Yes, some modern lyrics are pretty basic, but they reflect a teenage society that is far less literate than previous generations, with less interest in music with any meaning other than superficial language which teenagers use to communicate. I'm not rtrying to be critical here - merely observational, and with my third teenager in the house, I do know what I'm talking about here!

[Linz]

I must admit I don't like the music that is out these days (and I'm still young) It has definitely gone down hill and the artists don't seem as unique as what they once were

[IggyB]

eeeeee when i were a lad ... fields as far as the eye could see ... music was proper ... jumpers for goal posts

[kags]

50 years ago the older generation were saying Rock N Roll was rubbish. The demise of singles sales has lead to the focus of chart music being 14 year old girls, so it is not going to be to the taste of the more mature listener. But there is plenty of excellent, original music still being made - what about Keane, and Maroon 5, and The Rasmus, and Queens of the Stone Age and Blink 182 and The Foo Fighters. Maybe the days of the enduring superstars like David Bowie or The Rolling Stones has past - some might say that's a good thing!!

[manics_]

I always used to listen to the radio, but its got to the point that its all useless tosh. I know of one band that is wrth listening to at the moment, and that is Franz Ferdinand.
Apart from them i stick to good old rock.

[johntheplamf]

I'm not so sure, I mean for every Girls Aloud, There's a Whitestripes. There are a lot of good bands out there, All depends what kind of music you like i suppose.

[Gef]

andy is perfectly correct. My three kids are all into their 20s now but as they grew up they introduced me to lots of music - some of which I liked (good?) and some of which I didn't (bad?). It's all down to personal taste. Me? I'm just off to listen to some Richard Thompson.

[MikeMikeMike]

And you all ate nothing but coal for breakfast and had to hop to school because you could only afford one shoe. There are millions of radio channels playing all sorts of different things, if you don't like it listen to something else. Of course when you guys were young you listened to nothing but Prokoviev and Schumann. The fact is that the majority of music is always rubbish, but the bad stuff gets quickly forgotten whilst only the good stuff endures. How many bands from your youth are ever mentioned any more? I suggest you go and listen to some of your 78s and see how much of it is utter tripe (assuming you haven't already thrown most of it away as being unbearable anyway.) Here endeth the rant.

[MikeMikeMike]

And you all ate nothing but coal for breakfast and had to hop to school because you could only afford one shoe. There are millions of radio channels playing all sorts of different things, if you don't like it listen to something else. Of course when you guys were young you listened to nothing but Prokoviev and Schumann. The fact is that the majority of music is always rubbish, but the bad stuff gets quickly forgotten whilst only the good stuff endures. How many bands from your youth are ever mentioned any more? I suggest you go and listen to some of your 78s and see how much of it is utter tripe (assuming you haven't already thrown most of it away as being unbearable anyway.) Here endeth the rant.

[MikeMikeMike]

Sorry about posting that twice... a little unnecessary, but it kept accusing me of using profanities. I didn't realise 'Prokofiev' counted as swearing nowadays. It certainly didn't when I was young!

[Lucas]

I kind of agree with MikeMikeMike. In any generation, music is largely rubbish. Taste in music can be easily dictated by the reasons someone is interested in music. There are people who like music because it makes them feel good, makes them dance, helps them get ready to go out, etc, therefore less serious music is needed to cater for them. And there are people who take it more seriously and listen to music that makes them think (like me). There is so much good music out there today (Jet, Franz, QOTSA, Foos, Eels, Doves, Elbow, Mr Scruff, DJ Shadow, REM, Lamb, I could go on for hours!), you just have to look for it a little harder for it as there's no super group out there (like Oasis) taking the world by storm and turning attention to more serious bands. As for radio, ignore it. Radio has always been rubbish. I rely on music TV channels and my friends to get me into new bands.

[IggyB]

virgin radio or xfm are quite good

[enema]

Listen to radio 2!

[Lucas]

yeah radio is quite good. My main problem with radio in general though is that whenever I listen to it, I have to sit there for ages and listen to ads, jabber and song after song that I don't like before something I want to hear comes on. Even if it's a comparatively good station (like xfm or radio 2) there's still loads of rubbish to wade through before you get to the good stuff.

[IndieSinger]

I feel I need to stick up for The Streets here, though! Firstly, I can see the link with Blur. And secondly, for what it's worth, I think they do a fantastic job of incorporating real slang phrases (where else would you find "You are really fit", "Leave it out", "I'm not trying to pull you", "But I stopped sharkin' for a minute to get chips", "You look grand", "We've all 'ad a drink, mate", "Fair play", "I did fancy you a bit, though" and "Or what the shrapnel in my back pocket could afford" amongst others in ONE song?!) into their songs. And they're addictively catchy to boot! It makes such a refreshing change to so many english bands singing with an american accent and using american slang.
I realise that they're a bit of a Marmite band, but it takes all sorts. If you enjoy a certain song, listen to it, it'll make you happy. Don't deliberately avoid a song because it doesn't fall into your category of "Genres I Like". The world would be a boring place if we all liked exactly the same genre of music.

[IndieSinger]

First "can" should be "can't" :)

[Tat]

i love that song! it was written about me dontcha know ;)