has all the great music already been created?

[anarchist]

late 60's, mid-late 70's,early 80's,early 90's.  am i wrong or does all the best new music copy the time periods i listed?   is 99% of all the current music and bands a waste of time?

[muschi]

yes.
 
 i thought perhaps it was because i am getting older [35 now], but no, i think alot of bands these days sound like as beavis said to butthead once while seeing a video come on tv "OH GOD beavis [with lisp], not another group of whining english mama's boys" as they preceded to mockingly sing along something like the cure [who are in fact good tho].  

[beetsnotbeats]

Originally posted by anarchist:
  late 60's, mid-late 70's,early 80's,early 90's.  am i wrong or does all the best new music copy the time periods i listed?   is 99% of all the current music and bands a waste of time?

Which centuries are you talking of?    
 
 Even Arnold Schoenberg has been credited with saying that there is still a lot of good music left to be written in C Major. For that matter, there is far more good music available than you can ever listen to.  That is what is frustrating.

Madonna's still got a few good albums in her.

[muschi]

so long as shes got the syph, right?

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[brennser]

1 2 3 4 Whatever happened to good music? You know in the days when you could feel it?
 It was almost sexual, sending shivers up your spine. This, I believe is
 because songwriters were not restricted by the small music dictatorship which
 now exists. Let's hope the future holds something better than the present and
 let's leave the past alone. The music business is incapable of bringing music
 to the future, as it sits just waiting to pounce on any third rate trend,
 milking it to death, once again putting money where the music is not. I only
 wish I was born before all the great ideas were used. While I struggle to
 working around this, the most annoying thing is watching other people succeed
 through stealing them. I could have been a legend in my own time; I could
 have sold a lot of records; I could have enjoyed it as well. I could have
 been a lot of things. One thing that I know I am and will always be: I am the
 greatest.
 
 I bumped into this bloke the other day we used to know in school. We didn't
 say 'hello' because he had his hair slightly perked and I had all mine shaved
 off. He was always a bit of a clown. He used to be a hard man, but he did
 his homework, because he knew that one day he'd be going places. I knew I
 should have asked him there and then 'was he happy now that he'd finally got
 there?' He goes to bed thinking of ways to fiddle ten more pounds on his
 expenses. Me? I go to bed thinking of all the reasons why I am the greatest.
 
 We always use other people as the mirror in which we judge ourselves. So, we
 are constantly changing to meet their expectations. Maybe we've forgotten the
 meaning of the word 'individual.' It's as if everything we do or think is
 valued for its conformity. Anything fresh or original is hacked down and
 always brought down to size. You don't even think for yourself, as a life
 that is led for you is some kind of problem. You wouldn't recognize a new
 idea if it spat in your face and screamed out [?]. Who am I to
 talk? Who the hell do I think I am? I am the greatest.
 
 Welcome to the wonderful world of show business. The dark and dank place
 rarely lit by the harsh light of reality. I look around and I see big
 mouthed rock stars with opinions on everything and answers to nothing.
 Burnt out old men with money to burn. Bandwagons full of bands with
 sycophantic fans with no lives of their own. A place where image is king and
 music is a poorer relation that I can relate to. I am the greatest.
 
 I am the greatest.
 
 I am!

[bearman🐻]

I definitely think that there are few original ideas these days. Clap Your Hands Say Yeah is trying to be the Talking Heads, Elkland is trying to be Erasure, everyone else is trying to be Gang of Four or Wire or the Fall or the Cure, and not doing a good job at it. Not that there aren't some decent records being made today, but it's going to be interesting how a lot of this stuff stands up in 5 or 10 years. One has to admire someone attempting diversity or following through with an original thought, but a lot of stuff today is missing the element of danger, and that is what makes rock'n'roll exciting and vital. Imagine how edgy it would have been to listen to Black Sabbath or the Stooges in 1970, or living in England in 1977 and listening to the Sex Pistols or the Damned.
 
 Just call me...
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What about Coldplay?

[Venerable Bede]

thank you, a house.

[sacriforce]

Originally posted by clouds R²:
  What about Coldplay?

is that an argument for there still being great music created? they sound like U2 with a piano and a vocaliizing hobbit. don't get me wrong, I appreciate the poppiness and all but ... yeeesh

Fisty, I was being sarcastic.  I thought that Coldplay was the new Radiohead?
 
 Neither band I have ever heard.

[bearman🐻]

Huge difference between Coldplay and Radiohead. I actually think that Radiohead do something pretty unique and interesting and make a genuine stab at trying to write good music and defy convention. Coldplay really put me to sleep and I hate Chris Martin's voice.

[Sage 703]

I think this is an argument that is rehashed a lot; a lot of people thought that the music of the early-90's was simply derivative of the 70's - Black Sabbath, Led Zeppelin, etc.  I don't know that we can pinpoint what will be remembered as the actual music of the 00's yet.  We're not removed from it; the fact is, the things that we tend to think aren't derivative are those that have less definitive influences.  right now, we're at a heyday of people who grew up in the late 70's and 1980's who really liked dance music and new wave.  Consequently, that's probably the music that they want to make.  20 year cycles, after all - its when the people who listened to the music as kids are finally old enough and talented enough to make it themselves.

[sacriforce]

"t" comes before "s"
 
 point taken
 
 

Originally posted by clouds R²:
  Fisty, I was being sarcastic.  I thought that Coldplay was the new Radiohead?
 
 Neither band I have ever heard.