Musically, whats been the worst time

[Booldawg]

In your living memory? Maybe all that New Romantic stuff or the Boy Band era of the mid 90s. For me it has to be early 90s, ridicluous 'festival' type people with floppy hats, left wing politics, Chumbawumba, The Levellers, Camden Market and Doc Marten boots with no laces.

[Reverandfunk]

I bow to your superior knowledge bonio lol but I take it you are a fan lol

[4getmenot]

mid 90's when they had mario and tetris as chart toppers

[OBonio]

Yes I am a fan, but I've also been known to linger round streets waiting for someone to ask me to name 3 hits of the Stone Roses ;o)

[Reverandfunk]

Bonio if you're a bloke I'm seriously worried lol

[Aschenbach]

I do yawn at those 'History of Britpop' documentaries where they oversimplify all music to a few 'epoch making' bands.

Joy Division> Smiths> Stone Roses> Oasis

as if nothing else existed.

[Goodsoulette]

Reverand, influence has nothing to do with how many songs people know. They were the start of indie as it is today. They marked a change in the direction of music. If it werent for madchester we could still be listening to Paula Abdul.

[OBonio]

Or even Buffalo Stance.

[Goodsoulette]

haha.... I got a mate who knocks about with Neneh Cherry. Tht were awful not as bad as Pump up the Jam or Salt n Pepa though.

[littleoldme]

I'd agree with Goodsoulette - around 1999/2000 was the nadir, at least chart-wise, for me (there was, as always, plenty of good stuff not getting anywhere near the charts).

Britpop was all but over as a movement, there was a lack of imagination all round, the 21st century indie revival had yet to get going and it was all brainless, chav-centric dance music - not like the decent, more imaginative dance music of the early 90s - just relentless thump thump thump. Manufactured pap was everywhere too - Westlife's Reign of Terror was at its height, and no-one seemed to have any new ideas.

[Llamatron]

I think mainstream music at the moment is pretty dire.

The so-called R'n'B churned out by the likes of Beyonce and her never ending army of clones is awful. They all sound and look the same.

Well ok, just modern RnB and friggin' P Diddy and his ilk, keepin it real in their Beverley HIlls mansions. *******.

[Llamatron]

Damn it, what's wrong with t0ssers??

[glesga123]

Every era produces a certain amount of sh*te music. There was great brit pop and sh*te brit pop, great electronica and sh*te electronica, great rock and some extremeley high quality sh*te rock, but for me, looking back i would say for the sheer lack of musicallity, utter bad taste and Keith Chegwin in a boy band it has to be the early to mid 70s. Yes, that was the most unashamedly shi*tey time ever!

[FlamingClash]

It's been terrible for ages, but right now it's the worst time for music. All this NME-approved Myspace-hyped utter ****. And the worst thing about it is the rate of infection; everybody's in their own crappy band with their stupid befringed mates spawning more contrived ********.

[FlamingClash]

Ahh they censored it! But you get the picture. Yeah music docs always leave me yelling at the telly, they always miss stuff out...grrr. Stone Roses were pretty good, except for Ian Brown wrecking the songs. I want the debut album without his 'singing' on it. It does my goat.