Timmy84 said:

Saying "today music is terrible" is like saying "the world will end in December 2012".

Oh? You didn't get the memo?

Unholyalliance said:

Timmy84 said:

Saying "today music is terrible" is like saying "the world will end in December 2012".

Oh? You didn't get the memo?

It's full of bullshit.

Here are mine (in no particular order):

Janelle Monáe- The ArchAndroid

Maxwell - BLACKsummers'night

Prince - LotusFlow3r/MPLSoUND/20Ten

Amalia - Art Slave

Kanye West - My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy

Erykah Badu - New Amerykah Part Two: Return of the Ankh

Chrisette Michele - Epiphany/Let Freedom Reign

Jill Scott - The Light of the Sun

Mayer Hawthorne - A Strange Arrangement

Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings - I Learned The Hard Way

The Foreign Exchange - Authenticity

YahZarah - The Ballad of Purple Saint James

Raphael Saadiq - Stone Rollin'

Me'Shell NdegeOcello - Devil's Halo

Bilal - Airtight's Revenge

Teena Marie - Congo Square

Ledisi - Turn Me Loose

The Roots - How I Got Over

Nas & Damien Marley - Distant Relatives

John Legend & The Roots - Wake Up!

Will Downing - Classique

Rahsaan Patterson - Bleuphoria

Mint Condition - 7

Lenny Kravitz - Black And White America

R. Kelly - Love Letter

Lady Gaga

Janelle Monae

Jennifer Lopez

Lenny Kravitz

Don't really care for anything new anymore, it's all about the older music now though if I like anything new, it's from afar.

Ugh I forgot to mention Solidarity Breaks by Barnhoft.

sextonseven said:

I have heard LOTS of albums I love that were released in the last three years. My top ten for each:

2011

The Horrors - Skying
Dum Dum Girls - He Gets Me High
Wild Flag - Wild Flag
PJ Harvey - Let England Shake
Björk - Biophilia
Crystal Stilts - In Love With Oblivion
The Joy Formidable - The Big Roar

Dum Dum Girls - Only In Dreams
The Go! Team - Rolling Blackouts
Austra - Feel It Break

2010

Dum Dum Girls - I Will Be
Joanna Newsom - Have One On Me
Janelle Monáe - The ArchAndroid
Tamaryn - The Waves
Sleigh Bells - Treats
Goldfrapp - Head First
The Like - Release Me
Sharon Jones & The Dap Kings - I Learned The Hard Way
The Dead Weather - Sea Of Cowards
Robyn - Body Talk

2009

The Horrors - Primary Colours

The xx - xx
The Joy Formidable - A Balloon Called Moaning

Fever Ray - Fever Ray
Neko Case - Middle Cyclone
Camera Obscura - My Maudlin Career
Alicia Keys - The Element Of Freedom
God Help The Girl - God Help The Girl
Maxwell - BLACKsummers'night
Company Of Thieves - Ordinary Riches

I am going to check out the stuff I don't know. I love your taste in music.

My favest this year has been Bill Callahan, I think.

HamsterHuey said:

sextonseven said:

I have heard LOTS of albums I love that were released in the last three years. My top ten for each:

2011

The Horrors - Skying
Dum Dum Girls - He Gets Me High
Wild Flag - Wild Flag
PJ Harvey - Let England Shake
Björk - Biophilia
Crystal Stilts - In Love With Oblivion
The Joy Formidable - The Big Roar

Dum Dum Girls - Only In Dreams
The Go! Team - Rolling Blackouts
Austra - Feel It Break

2010

Dum Dum Girls - I Will Be
Joanna Newsom - Have One On Me
Janelle Monáe - The ArchAndroid
Tamaryn - The Waves
Sleigh Bells - Treats
Goldfrapp - Head First
The Like - Release Me
Sharon Jones & The Dap Kings - I Learned The Hard Way
The Dead Weather - Sea Of Cowards
Robyn - Body Talk

2009

The Horrors - Primary Colours

The xx - xx
The Joy Formidable - A Balloon Called Moaning

Fever Ray - Fever Ray
Neko Case - Middle Cyclone
Camera Obscura - My Maudlin Career
Alicia Keys - The Element Of Freedom
God Help The Girl - God Help The Girl
Maxwell - BLACKsummers'night
Company Of Thieves - Ordinary Riches

I am going to check out the stuff I don't know. I love your taste in music.

My favest this year has been Bill Callahan, I think.

Add The Mayfair Set's self titled album to 2009. I bought it after the year was over and forgot to include it on the updated list I posted. LOVE that record. They remind me of old Dutch band Clan of Xymox: http://www.myspace.com/themayfairset

Janelle Monae -- The ArchAndroid

Jazmin sulivan -luv me back

carrie underwood play one

michae jackson-michael

adam lambert for your-entertainment

avril lavigne -goodbye lullabye

kelly rowland-here i am

Lupe fiasco -lasers

Usher raymond vr raymond

marsha ambrusious -late nights and early mornings

Fantasia -new album

Jennifer hudson -i remember me

Timbaland-shock value 2

kris allen-kris allen

leona lewis -echo

Jordin sparks battelfied

RKJCNE said:

namepeace said:

That's part of the reason I started this thread, was to rebut subjective opinions about the allegedly sorry state of music today. I don't doubt that LG's work may be good; I don't know. The main point was there is now a direct correlation between quality of music you find and the level of effort you put into finding it.

It wasn't always that way; in the 70's and 80's, many if not most of the great artists were stars or stars in the making. In the 90's, videos from music across the spectrum were widely played on a few stations (from Yo' MTV Raps to 120 Minutes, BET, etc.) and underground artists were able to find their way to a larger audience. DJ's had more flexibility to put together their playlists. For so many reasons, mass outlets for lesser-known artists have shrunk in the 21st century (even the stars aren't selling what they used to) BUT there are so many other ways to find them.

We have to make the effort if we don't dig what's they're selling. But subjective minds can disagree on the quality of what's selling.

I do agree with that statement alot, although I think you can find a great deal or enjoyment and even sometimes quality in pop music, I wish there were more variety in the types of music that pop radio plays.

I couldn't agree more. I think the DJ is missing from today's equation.

RKJCNE said:

JoeTyler said:

wow, I forgot that album even existed, don't get me wrong, I'm not sayin' it sucks but it has been a complete bomb (in terms of sales); don't worry, it IS the criminally underrated R&B album of the early 21th Century, just as Roisin Murphy's Overpowered was the criminally underrated electronic album of the early 21th Century...

I don't know that it bombed in terms of sales, was it expected to do that well? For an artist with no radio support I think she got alot of puplicity and alot of respect.

150,000 isn't bad for an artist who hasn't even charted a single.

Exactly...she deserved a lot more but it was her full lenght debut...she didn't that bad...and now she has reached the european and brazilian market...before Archandroid no one knew about her...the "strange" artists with quality music generally need some time to eventually become really big...it was the same for Bowie...and a lot of people...add she is a very particular artist and she is black...

RKJCNE said:

JoeTyler said:

wow, I forgot that album even existed, don't get me wrong, I'm not sayin' it sucks but it has been a complete bomb (in terms of sales); don't worry, it IS the criminally underrated R&B album of the early 21th Century, just as Roisin Murphy's Overpowered was the criminally underrated electronic album of the early 21th Century...

I don't know that it bombed in terms of sales, was it expected to do that well? For an artist with no radio support I think she got alot of puplicity and alot of respect.

150,000 isn't bad for an artist who hasn't even charted a single.

Exactly...she deserved a lot more but it was her full lenght debut...she didn't that bad...and now she has reached the european and brazilian market...before Archandroid no one knew about her...the "strange" artists with quality music generally need some time to eventually become really big.....add she is a very particular artist and she is black...

thekidsgirl said:

I feel sorry for people who limit themselves to whatever is playing on top 40 radio. That is a short road to nowhere these days, and you'll miss all the good music!

I totally agree they play the same few artists in heavy rotation...and artists that suck :-)in fact I don't listen to radio anymore..

Happy to see that many people here are happy buying albums that I don't care for, at all, not because they're bad, just because I don't think they're worth buying/downloading. Thank God for Spotify...

reminds me that every person is her/his own queen/king

and I'm saying this heartfully...

duccichucka said:

namepeace said:

Yes, if you listen to the radio.

No, when you put the effort into finding and supporting talented artists.

I say this because I was just thinking today about the slew of standout albums released since 2009

Maxwell -- BLACKsummersnight

Janelle Monae -- The ArchAndroid

Jill Scott -- Light Of The Sun

Mayer Hawthorne -- A Strange Arrangement, How Do You Do

Talib Kweli -- Gutter Rainbows

Erykah Badu -- New Amerykah Pt. 2 -- Return of the Ankh

The Stepkids -- The Stepkids

Raphael Saadiq -- Stone Rollin'

Van Hunt -- What Were You Hoping For

TV On The Radio -- Nine Types Of Light

Me'Shell Ndegeocello -- Devil's Halo, Weather

Bilal -- Airtight's Revenge

Newer artists like Empress Hotel, Electronica artists like Miguel Migs, and other hip-hop artists like Big Boi, Tanya Morgan, and several other artists not listed have made good music during that time. And that's just the music I've listened to; there's more to be mined.

List yours if you like.

Nice list, dude.

But you can't really say that music today is worse than it was before, can you? I mean,

if you look at the billboard chart top 100 singles/albums since its inception, America's taste

in pop music has always sucked. Look at what was charting in the 70s - disco shite.

Look at the chart toppers in the 80s and 90s - more shite.

The reason why we think music today sucks is because we have more music. Music

is being made by anyone with a laptop and a Casio. Therefore, we have a bigger chance

(and we do) of hearing suckiness than we ever did before.

I don't get the argument - to say that music today sucks means that:

1. There is a consensus that there was a time in history when music was good

2. There is a consensus as to when the decline of that mystical good music began to disintegrate

The thing is, we will never be able to pinpoint a moment in time when music was good and we'll never be able to pinpoint when it began to become bad. Good music has always been nestled with shite music, mutatis mutandis. For every Mozart, there's a Scalieri or Clementi. For every Coltrane, there's a Mulligan. For every Beatle, there's a Monkee. For every Stevie Wonder, there's a Remy Shand. For every Aretha Franklin, there's a Alicia Keys. For every Van Hunt, there's a Prince.....

hey o!

(why did my post come out all retarded? I like form, you know).

I agree...I recently look at the old charts and a lot of the greatest band or artists of the past were less commercially successful than many mediocre artists...