GooeyTheHamster said:

So is it that you hate Moz's voice and/or music? Or do you just hate his attitude and what he represents?

GangstaFam said:

Hate his voice, his stance, his attitude. Up to a certain degree I like him. Then he starts singing.

GooeyTheHamster said:

What about it bugs you exactly?

90s for me and im liking the 00's so far.

Christopher said:

How old are you...18?

DavidEye said:

im just not old.

GangstaFam said:

It is like meeting people. Some you like, some you don't. No reason, really. They seem really nice, but they give you the creeps.

It's like that. He just rubs me the wrong way.

See. I told you. Age is coming up a lot. Coming of age musically, etc. For me the 80's got me interested in music. I've come a long way since the days of liking Adam Ant just because his songs were catchy. Doesn't everyone go through a bubble gum phase? Is Britney Spears similar to The Monkees? There will always be a market for bubble gum crap. The only difference these days is that there is more money to be made so we have more crappy music. It doesn't mean that music is worse than ever. People who say that don't look around enough. If you look, you will find some amazing new music out there.

pkidwell said:

No.

As far as the 80s go,I like the first half of that decade,from 1980-84.The year 1983 is probably the best 80s year of music.

I couldn't agree more about music after 1985, that's why my favorite decade is 1975-1985. Personally, I prefer music with a cold, futuristic edge. I started listening to music beginning with the disco era in the mid 1970s. I really enjoyed the early 1980s because more and more horns were weeded out and music started sounding less "jazzy".

After 1985, music started sounding too electronic. In the early 1980s, there was the perfect blend of traditional instruments and electronic instruments. Drums and a good bass line makes a song for me. This sounded great along with the synthesizers and strong electronic handclaps that seemed to echo. I prefer the synthesizer taking the place of real horns but it doesn't work well for everyone. Artists like Cameo and Rick James should have never gotten rid of real horns. The total turn off to me began in 1985 when just about everyone had gotten rid of real drums. I like cold but this made the song sound absolutely too cold. Songs started sounding like they were made on a cheap casio keyboard from Walmart. R&B music, in particular, had really lost it's hardness beginning at this time because everyone was so busy trying to crossover and also, everyone in a group wanted to go solo...if you got a thing, don't break it up.

vainandy said:

I hate the way horns virtually disappeared from alot of post-1985 music.On a recent thread about Stevie Wonder's 80s albums,I suggested that much of his music from this period would have sounded better if he had used a "70s approach"...lol...horns,piano and harmonica instead of the excessive synths.

Another disappointing thing about the 80s...funk bands became obsolete after 1985,and many of these bands were struggling to fit in and adapt to changing sounds.Kool and The Gang and Earth Wind and Fire received alot of critism for changing their sound to fit in with the "electronic" 80s.

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Stevie Wonder is another one that should not have gotten rid of the horns. His last great album to me was "Hotter Than July".

I also don't like the late 1980s because of the fact that the funk bands were becoming extinct. I had forgotten that Kool and the Gang and Earth, Wind, and Fire were still around in the late 1980s. Their music was definately weaker than their earlier work. Zapp, Cameo, and Rick James also put out weaker music in the late 1980s. All these artists should have kept the horns. The only group that could adapt was The Barkays and their music still wasn't up to par.

On the other hand, the absence of horns worked really well with funk bands like Midnight Star in the early 1980s with their robotic sound but their late 1980s stuff was also a disappointment. When they lost that electonic robot voice, that was the end for me.

vainandy said:

Dang boy, you took the words right out of my mouth. I'm starting to think we are the same person.
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80s definitely. Especially in the early 80s.

Music videos (aka promotional films, an 80s term) were brand new, all the rules were broken, no criticism a bunch of pop culture nobodies ala "Best Week Ever, Awesomely Bad...." , innocence and diverse, hip-hop was hip hop, it was shocking and innovative to curse on a record, and talk about sex. No Clear Channel or other media corporations making the decisions, MTV actually showed music videos, VH1 was music videos for adults AOR-types, and the alternatives music programs (AB, ST, Solid Gold, America's Top 20, Friday Night Videos, Night Tracks, Hot Tracks, Video Soul, etc).

heybaby said:

There are over 400 pages of pictures of the man.

Y'all know.
[Edited 11/29/04 15:42pm]

Thriller81 said:

pkidwell said:

See, I became aware of musical artists and started picking favorites in the 80's. I bought my first tapes and cd's in the 80's. But the 90's I'd say had my biggest period of growth, basically my teenage years and early 20's.

you know, sometimes there are threads i just wish i hadn't responded to, because i really really don't care about them, yet i'm compelled to click on them when i go to "my org" because it's sitting there telling me that there are new unread posts on it, and as obssessive-compulsive as i am, i just can't leave unread threads sitting there in my list.


this is one of those threads.

GrayKing said:

okay, that's weird.

rockwilder said:

Another great thing about the 70s is that many artists and bands were taking chances and doing things that hadn't been done before.It's the decade in which many artists (particularly those in the disco genre) filled an entire side of their album with a 17-minute(!) song....the 70s is the decade in which 12" extended versions were first released...many artists were making complex concept albums....the 70s was the decade in which two-record sets were the norm (just ask the band Chicago or Donna Summer)....it was the decade in which "Live" albums were the norm...it was a decade where artists and bands were remarkably prolific,often releasing two albums in the same year...it was a wild decade where you could do a song about prostitution and it would become a Top 10 smash (lol)...it was the decade of creative and lavish album packaging....

1970s

theAudience said:

im wit my Big Brother on this one...s'appenin brah'

70's

TheRealFiness said:

How you be?
('60s rule )

AES is coming to the City October '05.
Might be hookup time.

tA

Tribal Disorder

http://www.soundclick.com...rmusic.htm

theAudience said:

im always around man..

NWF said:

Ditto ..... That was absolutely perfectly stated.

The 80's, of course! Great music, videos, and people not afraid to express themselves, be different, and not "follow the crowd". I have wonderful memories of that decade, I freakin loved it!

Closely followed by 50's and 60's music (they were very catchy and fun to dance to, although I wasn't even alive yet in the 50's, and was a preschool kid during the mid to late 60's).

The 70's music I don't like at all, you can keep it. Too many bad memories from that decade anyway.

PraiseDaMan said:

I agree wholeheartedly with what you said.