the 2000s: worst era in recorded music?

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thirdform

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it would be like saying late 90s/early 00s scouse house shaped the 2000s even though hardly anyone listened to it outside of liverpool and wiggan. just completely absurd. there are always going to be local scenes, but we have to look at things globally, and I'm inclined to agree that the 00s was generally speaking a nadir. Of course there were loads of good things going on, atl rap, houston, hyphy, you name it.
 
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thirdform

pass the sick bucket
i can even objectively prove that the 90s were better than the 2000s for global recorded music with one solitary song.


If Armenian-Turkish producers were putting rave riffs in chart topping songs what does that say?
 
luka

luka

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this is very relevant. some fucking terrible shit on here

Mvuent’s Bad Boy Bashment Bonanza

I was supposed to do a UK funky one next, but I got too excited about this. I got a bit carried away, so its about 3 or 4 times the size of the other playlists (and that's without repeating any riddims), so Mvuent you can skip/do one word entries for loads of them. This is music of the gods...
www.dissensus.com
 
WashYourHands

WashYourHands

Cat Malogen
Wtf are you lot on about, masses of absorbing electronic music around

Andrew Liles, Nurse, late era Coil doing gigs, Colin Potter, Mirror, Jonathan Coleclough, Darren Tate, Andrew Chalk

could go on
 
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mvuent

Void Dweller
lol i certainly share this thread's assumption whether it's truly fair or not. that things were dire on both a sonic level:
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stuff made with drum samples in a DAW 10-15 years ago often sounds annoyingly thin compared to stuff from the past few years
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and a spiritual level, as implied in the discussion of how tons of artists became flattened cartoon characters. no shortage of "talent" but a severe dearth of magic.

dunno how much i can justify this but the 60s-90s really feel like a distinct arc of cultural history that dies at the 2000s. there are artists from that epoch who managed to keep the fire going in the 2000s but even then, dunno that any of them did their best work.

thinking of the kind of stuff matt's researched, maybe you could say 60s hippyism > 70s cults / interest in eastern religion > 80s new age > 90s cyber utopianism. but nothing in 2000s, as far as i can tell.
 
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mvuent

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exactly. an awkward transition era where the internet was being handed off from people who saw it as a tool to kids who grew up in it. the latter group were becoming the ones with magic. but inchoate compared to the 2010s.
 
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mvuent

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Blueflamesofthenight
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good lord. The very first three seconds of this song violently catapulted me back to when I was 13 and just beginning to explore music on my own. Nothing compares to that gut-punch feeling and immediate swell of innumerable, un-namable emotions that well up in you when hearing the opening bars to a song that was so influential to your younger years
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catalog

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mvuent said:
exactly. an awkward transition era where the internet was being handed off from people who saw it as a tool to kids who grew up in it. the latter group were becoming the ones with magic. but inchoate compared to the 2010s.
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Yeah, clumsy takeover. I always think of the true geekery of them eg the youtube inventor and the first video he ever put on YouTube - "me at the zoo".

But definitely the Internet has been a relay project of sorts.
 
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