True Originality, True Brilliance

[Mack]

In today's musical realm of 5 minute one hit wonder sound the same bands it really gets me down sometimes how in this new millennia there are so few new acts coming through that actually have desire to break new ground and achieve something NEW.

The current musical market is flooded with bands that not only all sound similar in style, but moreover their style is just a weak reproduction of the groundbreakers of the 60's / 70's and early 80's.

In addition an endless tide of sickly pop with a mixture of re-hashed oldies makes for something slightly more exiting at times but this whole musical decade so far has sadly been about trying to revisit the musical past and making a pretty bad job of it.

I'm not sure of the demographic of Foxes talk members but now in my mid 30's I am proud to say I was lucky to grow up in an exiting and groundbreaking era in music. And so many of the great acts that stunned me live all those years ago are still sounding fresh as a daisy and better than their contemporary rivals in the 21st century.

Enjoy the silence..........

[Jay]

I am personally one for thinking that every decade has it's good and bad points in terms of music you just have to want to find it!!

I myself am 30 and class some of the records from the late 80's early 90's which is the era you are probably talking about as being some of the most criminal records that have ever and will ever be released!! you could argue that young people now think the same as you did back then that they go and see a band live and it's a life changing experience.

I personally think there are some excellent original artists out there at the minute and some very poor bands who seem to get all the limelight like everything you have to search through the crap to find the decent stuff!!

you think Depece Mode are brilliant... I think they are seriously boring and overated!! it's all about opinions and if we all had the same taste it would be a very boring world.

I can listen to music and enjoy it from bands that haven't even got a record deal the same as I can enjoy music that was recorded 30 years before I was born

[Mack]

Some great points indeed, and you are right that when you are young you always think your times are the best etc..

However, if you look back over past decades they all had a theme or some groundbreaking new musical genres were born.

The 60's as we all know was the birth of popular culture; beatles.. mowtown and so much more. Then the 70's took it to another level and whole new scenes like the funk and soul scene were born. The 70's also had punk along with the whole 'Woodstock' scene and the great bands that surrounded it. The 80's were when great pop music was made and electronic music came through with exiting acts like kraftwerk and the mode. Hip Hop was also brought to the fore as a whole new musical realm.

The dance/acid/garage scene was born in the late 80's and flourished well into the 90's splintering into a thousand genres and allowing a whole new realm to become mainstream.

Then we reach 2000 and it all seems to have stalled.

I dont live in the past and find some new acts great to listen to, but I have been waiting all decade for this youth to be given something new to call their own but it just has not happened.

I look at so many young people today and they look lost for an identity and a motive. I cant help feeling that music has let them down a bit in not giving them something to focus on and something to belong to.

[Lineker's Left Foot]

In today's musical realm of 5 minute one hit wonder sound the same bands it really gets me down sometimes how in this new millennia there are so few new acts coming through that actually have desire to break new ground and achieve something NEW.

The current musical market is flooded with bands that not only all sound similar in style, but moreover their style is just a weak reproduction of the groundbreakers of the 60's / 70's and early 80's.

In addition an endless tide of sickly pop with a mixture of re-hashed oldies makes for something slightly more exiting at times but this whole musical decade so far has sadly been about trying to revisit the musical past and making a pretty bad job of it.

I'm not sure of the demographic of Foxes talk members but now in my mid 30's I am proud to say I was lucky to grow up in an exiting and groundbreaking era in music. And so many of the great acts that stunned me live all those years ago are still sounding fresh as a daisy and better than their contemporary rivals in the 21st century.

Enjoy the silence..........

Yes too right my friend !! So many artists were geniuses who hated fame e.g. Syd Barrett, Kate Bush, Peter Green, Nick Drake, Jeff Buckley, Stuart Adamson, Ian Curtis and even Robert Smith to some extent, that's why many became reclusive as they loved music, but hated the fame thing. Now in this world of manufactured music, people want fame, using music as a method to achieve it i.e. Girls Aloud, Justin Timberlake etc.