do you believe the quality of music has dropped throughout the years?

Question

or improved?
im thinking between 60's ---- today if that helps:)

Answer 1

well if you can think about songs telling people to make love, and love each other, to be free, but be nice to the world around us and love our neighbors, and stuff like that
then we have stuff today telling people to kill anyone how they disagree with, kill anyone who they thing disrespects them, kill the cops, kill the teachers, kill your parents, kill the whoe....kill. kill. and they the same artist ( I use that lightly) tell people how and where to put it, how to have sex, to have sex with any one and everyone and the use of profanity is a norm and to basically have no morals...
if you think about it, you really do to have to ask...
year ago artists actually played musical instruments and today it is a lot of computerized noise...

I am all for freedom of speech, believe me..but when the speech is offensive to people then that's when the speech should be stopped...and a lot of song writers are hiding behind this and they are wrong to influence our young of this country in the way hey have..wrong, shame on them..

good luck !

Answer 2

Well, there are a couple ways of looking at it. The way I look at it, there are more people making music now than ever. So on average the overall quality has stayed the same, there is just the same amount of quality spread out over many more people. There is still plenty of good music out there being made, even today in 2006 (soon to be 2007!). If you haven't heard it, it just means you aren't searching hard enough.
Don't worry, though, I think that within the next 10 or 20 years the public will get sick of the surface, and the last vestiges of a failing system will disappear. If you're disappointed with what's out there now, in a few years I think it will be very different.

Answer 3

A lot of today's 'musicians' cant play an instrument and cant even sing on key. They arent even musicans. Posers.
Automatic & Machine are words that have no place in music.
Why play guitar yourself if the synthesizer can do it for you?
Its easier, but its not the same.
Where is the human element of someone with a real voice, emotions and convictions and calluses fot that matter.
The quality of mainstream music has been on a steady decline for a while. I blame Disco. And Elvis.
But think of this way, the quality of music fluctuates.
If the 50's and 60's were an incredible time for music, the quality will eventually pick up in the future again.
There is still hope...

Answer 4

I don't believe. I know it has dropped.

IMO Music industry is starting to slowly becoming a non-profit organization starting from the early 2000s.

No wonder all the people I know (and myself included) still listen to the old stuff...

Although there are some good musicians from the 70s and 80s, who still are alive and well, I doubt they can cling on for another 10 or 20 years, due to age of course, and the value of music significantly dropping due to free mp3 downloads and such.

That's why cds don't sell as much as they did before, because too many people downloading mp3s seems to make artists not want to focus on recordings but instead focus more on live performances. Who's going to write good stuff if it's going to be obtained by everyone for free?


And of course there is the fact that there are posers... but whatever. I'm actually surprised that some people actually pay attention to them.

Answer 5

i liked the 60s/70s to 90s and i only like a few artists from 2000 on. i think it has dropped since 1996/1997. i'm only 15 and have not been around for anything before nsync and backstreet boys, but now i listen mostly to music before that because there really isn't a lot of good music nowadays, despite what my friends say.

Answer 6

i think it's a combination of things. there has been a tremendous increase in quantity of music, so there will be more of all quality, including crap. also, i think standards have changed, technology has enabled "skill" to be re-defined, and true artistry has not been financially rewarded as much as entertainment value. all that being said, there are still some great musicians playing these days, ones with quality that rivals things from the past. it's just that the percentage of this caliber musician is less than in past years.

Answer 7

Yes it's dropped. In the 60-80's we actually have idols to look up to like Jimmy Hendrix, Robert Plant, Beatles, Stones, Metallica etc. Now days anyone can make a band and put it on the radio. I don't think this generation 90-00's will make any lasting impression on generations to come.

Answer 8

Yep. It's dropped, in my opinion. I mean, the artists that were singing back then that still sing today, they're still good. But this new stuff, that all my friends are singing-- it just gets on my nerves.

Answer 9

Well lets see.....

WE HAD - The Doors...The Grateful Dead...CCR...Jimi Hendrix...Led Zeplin...Bruce Springstein...

WE HAVE - Nickelback...Linkin Park...Limp Bizkit...Saliva...Disturbed...

Yeah, I'd say we got the short end of the stick

Answer 10

definetly there r some many clowns in the industry right now music is going down