Seeing all those glorious mullets and baggy t-shirts and big-block plaids earlier sent me wandering around the InterWebs in search of more of the nostalgic same, which eventually led me to 80s-Music.net and the following compilation of music-video clips that span the entire decade. It’s pretty fun:
Is it just me or did music go to hell the year after I graduated from high school (1987)?
There have been some killer songs since 1987 so I don’t think music really went to pot, however I don’t think much of the 90’s forward will become classic and still listened to when it ages like the 80’s and prior. For those of that generation, we LISTENED to it. It meant something. We connected to the lyrics. Nowadays it’s more like background noise to ADD kids while their text messaging or doing something else. Doubt many of today’s generation can recall instances in their lives and the songs that were the soundtrack for them.
Well, at risk of sounding like one of the old coots who dissed on Elvis by saying essentially the same thing, I think music today is primarily about percussion. It’s all beat, with no melody to speak of, and the lyrics are mostly like an afterthought. That’s not the sort of thing that endures… but then kids today seem to have radically different ways of relating to the world than we did anyhow. I don’t think music or movies are important to them the way they were to us.
Damn kids. 🙂
I don’t know – I think the iPod has done more to bring music back to a “primary” activity than any device since the record player…