At what point in history did music begin sliding on a steep slope downward?

Question

Everywhere I go now, all I ever hear is this hip-hop and (c)rap music. Whatever happened to the good music(classic rock, blues,etc.)?

Answer 1

I think it was the mid to late 1980's.

Rock went to big hair sissy bands,

R&B went from Lionel Ritchie and Quincy Jones Prodctions to about 1000 songs with the same beat and a sort of nursery rhyme poetry looped in. There was nothing new just sample what someone else created and loop it into your song. I think the absolute low point was Vanila Ice.

The Blues and Jazz got buried with Classical music and the DJ replaced "live music".

But, today is a really great time for music.

Rap has evolved from a form of prison entertainment into an artform.

Rock is back, fact is it never left Europe or Australia.

Jazz is back and so is Blues. You can hear the movie soundtracks including all styles in one movie.

Country and Western Music has really evolved.

I think this is a great time for music as the younger artists are experimenting with a fusion of everything they hear. I am very happy about the future of music. We did have some years there in America where more people tuned into Talk Radio than Music Radio, but that is changing back again. These things run in cycles and I think we are in another upswing.

Answer 2

I am afraid you are mixing with that group.
It is that same group of ignorance that gets to buy labels instead of good quality goods.
They have ruined eardrums and a pallet akin to a pig as they eat there way though anything in a colourful package.
As to the point in history when it started, I guess it started with your peers.
People my age experienced a change from classical to jazz and swing bands but both ran in tandem.
Then came L.Ps. and High Fi followed by Stereo Hi Fi.
Today we want I Pods holding more bars of music than we could listen to in a year. Played out of what. Taken from what.
The name of the con is digital and if the kids of today had half of the education that's being paid for, they would know it is inferior.
!6 bit then 24 climbing to 32 and now 64?
Hurrah I've got the latest.
The only digital music that is good comes from a synthesiser where it is generated. Even then you need something the cost of an I Pod to turn it into analogue.
Sampling analogue to turn it into digital is impossible, totally.
Yes you can get a resemblance where the experts tell you, you can't hear the other bits anyway.
It is sampled using time and pitch to measure the rate of change on the xy axis and it doesn't matter how fast it happens you cannot capture the original curve.
But back to music.
It's still alive but getting more difficult to find.
Try Organ clubs.
You won't hear many organ sounds but you will hear instruments and music that will astound you.
And played by people younger than yourself.

Answer 3

In the 80's. Old punk was probably the last good innovation of music, so after that was over all we had left was crappy pop and imitators. Then a few years later some guys decided that it would be cool to grab themselves and make second grade rhymes about sex, drugs, and money, it is now one of the biggest music industries in the country if not the biggest. I don't listen to anything that was made in the last 17 years pretty much, not to be stubborn, I just looked at my music one day and saw that everything I liked stopped dead in it's tracks at 1989 besides the new releases of old bands. The music industry was already going down hill then rap came in and pulled a Yoko Ono and it dyed.

The fact that hip-hop and (c)rap are so popular probably owes more to this country's hedonistic values more than the talent or musical innovation/originality that Led Zeppelin, The Who, Howlin' Wolf, Muddy Waters, or the Sex Pistols had.

It doesn't help that anyone with money can get their music publicized very easily these days.

Answer 4

As others have said, there's still interesting music out there but it's harder to find. Speaking as a mature gal , I feel that the decline (in the UK anyway) of the power & influence of small independent labels and the growth in corporate owned majors has changed how record companies work with artists so the days of sticking with an artist and maybe having a hit on album number three is long gone So there are less music enthusiasts in record companies these days and less chance for an artist to grow (& hence eventually be heard by more people).Couple that with the fact that music sells in much fewer numbers than in the past and so the stakes and risks for the music companies are higher and they can afford to take less risks than their predecessors.
Music's gone the same way as television. In the past you had a known source of new music and 3 main TV channels. Now there's hundreds of TV channels, plus FM radio, DAB, internet radio, websites, podcasts etc so finding the music that appeals to you is a bit more effort .I stopped looking in the mainstream media for the music I like so no longer expect to hear it in the places that i would have tuned into when a lot younger (ooh me youth!!)I'd recommend one of those music suggestion online places- a great way to discover new (& old) music that you might like.It might just surprise you.

Answer 5

It is funny, but it seems like every single generation thinks music went right in the toilet starting with their kids' generation.

I would tend to agree with your assesment personally, but my 25-year-old son loves that stuff and he thinks what the kids are listening to now is garbage (personally I can't tell the difference).

My parents thought and still do think that I listen to garbage, because being a product of the late 1960's and early 1970's, I like the classic 60's rock and early seminal forms of heavy metal (Stones, Doors, early Sabbath, early Priest, etc) -- and all the later disco, "arena rock" and "hair bands" just leave me wondering why anybody listens to that (though I must admit for some perverse reason I just love early punk -- it makes me laugh it's so "in your face"). But my folks can't tell the difference between that and what I like.

For their part, my folks grew up listening to Chuck Barry and Elvis Presley and so on (early 50's rock) and my grandparents thought they had lost all sense of taste -- I would probably agree with my grandparents at least on the issue of that awful, whiney falsetto Frankie Valli type junk (walk like a man, talk like a man? fer-petes-sake Frankie, SING LIKE A F&^@*ING MAN!). I bet that my great-grandparents couldn't believe my grandparents were listening to that swing and big band garbage, what's wrong with ragtime?

I wonder if Adam and Eve yelled at Cain and Abel, "Would you two quit bashing those stupid rocks together like that? It sounds HORRIBLE! Why can't you tap some sticks together like someone who isn't stone deaf would do?"

Answer 6

Music is constantly evolving. The music that you like still exists, if you look for it, and just because you dont like a particular style, it does not mean other people not. I cant stand hip hop but dont puplically deride it.

Answer 7

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Answer 8

The 1st of January 1990!!

Answer 9

1972

Answer 10

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