At work I listen to Yahoo's Launch Cast radio on my computer. After trying out a couple different stations, the only one I find to be consistently enjoyable is "Big Hits of the 80's". For over a year I've been listening to this station but lately I've been noticing a problem. It started out with "Gonna Make You Sweat" by C&C Music Factory and today it hit rock bottom with the forgettable one hit wonder band, Color Me Badd. C'mon, it's supposed to be Big Hits of the 80's, not crap songs from the 90's. Does anyone listen to Color Me Badd and think, "wow, those were some great days." Quite frankly, it's amazing to me how much music has taken a nosedive since 1989... and I don't think I'm alone on this. Maybe it's a generational thing but when I was growing up, top 40 music could be enjoyed by most everyone. Sure the kids nowadays will laugh at a guy like Huey Lewis but in the 80's he was universally listenable. I can't stand most of the radio play songs of today - and this is from just about every genre. In fact in the search to find new, great music I've turned to sampling tracks on amazon.com for hours at a time because I can no longer find this stuff on the radio. Whatever happened to all the great British bands? There are a couple that stand out now but not the total dominance as there was twenty years ago. I guess I'm just a guy who's getting older. It's just like every generation before me, "we had it better". Those who grew up in the 80's think the music was better than what is out there today, those who grew up in the 70's think that music was better than what was played in the 80's, those who grew up in the 60's think that music was superior to the music of the 70's and those who grew up in the 50's think the music of the 60's was hippie crap. As my grandpa told my dad about Bob Dylan, "he's just an angry young man."
Tuesday, February 14, 2006
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