Mainstream music has been horrible since..

When do you say mainstream took it's nosedive?

 

When Metallica cut their hair....

 

I'm gonna go a little more modern and say when rap first took over and throughout the crunk phase; it wasn't complete trash.

pop was bearable;
some post-grunge bands were pretty neat though not amazing (Queens of the Stone Age come to mind);
the The bands were threatening to bring back rock'n'roll;
Kings of Leon were a blues rock band;
nu-metal wasn't a complete joke yet;
Eminem was going downhill, but still had some good ones;
T.I. didn't have multiple personalities;
Dipset broke into the mainstream at their strongest ever (right before losing all touch with their talent);

 

disco :toilet:

 

august 1922 when a new york radio station sold it's first advert ...... and it's been about making money ever since :mickey:

 

Slow downfall =P

You think the seats to Mozart's operas were free?

 

Agreed. When disco finally died out I thought music would get good again, but with few exceptions it's been fair to poor.

 

depends which mainstream you mean, mainstream pop has mostly always been shit for the teenage girls.. Mainstream rock isnt too bad, theres some good shit coming out, Black keys etc. I dont know I think it went down hill when musical artists stopped being drug abusing alcoholics.

 

no, but mainstream music back then was ...... they weren't playing mozart in homes and taverns

 

Mozart, now there's a sell out.

 

From what I hear, he had a lot of ghost writers too.

 

Theres so much good music still alive though

New albums to be on the lookout for:

Blink 182
Kottonmouth Kings - Sunrise Sessions (hope this new record is more lyric-friendly and psychedelic/trippy-based)
Bush - Everything always now
Incubus - If not now when (why in the world did such a good band choose such a bad name?!? Lol)

Metacritic is the best website to stay updated on the new upcoming music release dates. They are always pretty on-point, and keep you in the loop as far as who is releasing what when

 

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Blink. 1. 8. 2.

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Please leave.

 

The Grateful Dead. Disco era..

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7R3WBhod0sE"]YouTube - ‪Grateful Dead - Shakedown Street - Live‬‏

 

Oh, and I agree with Skip. Once the acid and the marijuana went, the good music went with it.

Don't take my word for it, listen to Bill Hicks - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J10w3FuCwfQ"]YouTube - ‪bill hicks drugs and music‬‏

 

There´s always been terrible music, there´s always been good music.

 

acid and marijuana are not more or less an influence in music today. than it was 30/40yrs ago..

Its all in your head...

 

I gotta disagree. Maybe the drugs had nothing to do with it, but there considerably less talent around now, when drugs are frowned upon, than in the late sixties/early seventies, when use of marijuana and acid was more widespread and accepted.

Just saying...