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Originally Posted by CarlosTheGaucho
Yeah but besides polishing untalented turds there used to be always at least something happening.
Like you had Rock n Roll explosion with Elvis and Jerry Lee Lewis and Buddy Holly (followed by hundreds of mediocre wannabie innovators ) then you had the hippie shit and hard rock emerging in the late 60's, Iggy Pop going down on stage, Velvet Underground doing their weird stuff, Black Sabbath with riffs heavier than the Birmingham steel - something that was never around before and that all just at the break of the 60's and 70's.
Then in 70's there's NWOBHM / space rock / punk rock and roots of hardcore/ trash metal that came to full force in the 80's while pop was dominated by fags with synthesizers and rock had more hair than ever/ then the Seattle scene that went popular in the first half of the 90's and made a couple good bands big and way more good bands uncovered, that's say till 1995 and then?
Nothing.
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Please don't compare talentless hacks like Elvis that had most of their material written for them with real artists of today like TV on the Radio, Sufjan Stevens, Fleet Foxes, Sigur Ros etc etc. He's nothing more than the Britney Spears of his generation. A pretty face with an ok voice that producers fed other people's songs through.
I wouldn't parade your inability to find good music and complain about not being forcefed anything good. Were the Pixies, Dead Kennedy's, Jane's Addiction popular and accessible in the 80's? Do you still listen to popular 90's bands? Still rocking on to Pearl Jam? Were they anything other than a completely traditional guitar band marketed under "alternative"? bleh.