I'll start.

Janice Joplin.

Darude - Sandstorm

The Grateful Dead. Dirty fvcking hippies.

U2. Pretentious twat waffles.

I'm certain there are others, but my morning cup of hate hasn't fully kicked in yet.

Whoa! To each his own, obviously, but there was always something about that mouth full of gravel sounding voice and lyric messages of Joplin that appealed to me. Then again, I'm a product of the 60s, so there's that.

What act or acts am I glad I never saw? How about Herman's Hermits and Gary Lewis and the Playboys. You never heard of them? Well, you didn't miss a thing, although they produced hit songs in their time.

Pretty much all Boomer garbage. I really fvcking hate the Beetles! The most over-rated trash piles ever to burst onto the music scene. I can't wait until all of them are dead. Death cannot come soon enough for Beatlemania. The Beatles will be forgotten about five minutes after the last Boomer dies. The Beatles being forgotten along with Woodstock will be a good thing.

I'm also glad to never see Elvis, Bob Dylan, the Kinks, Rod Stewart, the Monkees, Elton John, Cat Stevens, the Beach Boys, Jimmy Buffet, Queen and of course the Grateful Dead. I hate everything about hippies including their music.

What the boomers changed is how old people behaved. Prior to them it was expected that as you aged, you put away "childish things" including "childish music", and moved on to more sophisticated, better music. Old people in the 60s and 70s didn't want to stay 16 and listen to Glenn Miller for the rest of their lives. But now we have 75 y/o boomers going to Rolling stones concerts and "Rockin" to the Beatles. They're proud they're still mental teenagers, telling the "the Man" to go stick it, while they rebel. Sad. In retrospect, though, I see that the lyrics were not just harmless fluff, but a part of the process that has created the stupidest political movements in history.

Hard to say. Maybe one of the lame, soulless acts of the 50s-60s trying to sound like Chuck Berry or Little Richard. Pat Boone singing "Tutti Frutti" was pretty disgusting, for example....

Anyone who hates the Beatles cannot be trusted. Bono is kind of a twat waffle (I had never heard that term before, but it fits). I still enjoyed the U2 show I saw in the 90s. Plenty worse than them I'm sure (unless you really can't tolerate a little twat wafflery, I suppose).

Sucks being here posting on this thread on such a nice day, but I have a bad wheel, so no fishing this weekend.

The Beatles suck. They really do. They made bad music and you should feel bad for liking it.

Thompson Twins lip syncing.

Interesting to see the deterioration over the generations.

Now you're up and it's your turn, so.... pull up your pants and turn that gawddamn music down.

I always loved music for the sheer quantity available. Like remember going into a huge record store and feeling that sense of wonder at what you could find? Or the day where you were stoned in there and were like [Bleeeeep!] it and listened to some stuff from the African section?

The internet has really ruined what made music so unique as an art form. Before the internet, music was the art medium you could collect and explore in any town in America. Nowadays everything is all on the internet and disconnected. There really isn’t a pop music scene or really any popular culture in the same way. It’s the reason MTV doesn’t play music videos anymore, or for the last 20 years. Maybe it is a good thing in some ways, but I’ll fondly tell my kids about record stores someday.

Your stuff about the boomers wanting to live the 60s and 70s forever is somewhat true IMO, but don’t forget how good, meaningful, and important music was back then, up to even just 20 years ago. Evaluating music in today’s context can be unfair IMO, because so much stealing happen in style and sound.

Now new music is another commodity on an app to consume yet even young people I know are far more interested in classic 60-90s than anything 2000+. When the Boomers are long dead that music will live on. I think so will Nirvana and the Seattle bands. However, it’s pretty hard not to notice the void post 2000 and so few new household band names.

I would definitely skip the Beatles show for Pink Floyd.

The best stuff Pink Floyd released was during my lifetime. Although they probably are technically a boomer band, I've never heard a boomer rocking it.



I sort of see what you are saying but I don't care that music is in a digital form instead of vinyl. I don't care that it's disconnected but I rarely listened to the stuff on the radio and was more into underground stuff. The internet has more music than any record store and you can access it from anywhere. So record stores are obsolete. You don't need MTV when you can watch videos on YouTube. MTV is obsolete too.

But yeah music quality peaked in the 80's - 90's. Most stuff after 2000 is poor quality. 60's and 70's music generally sucked. That said there are exceptions to these general trends and you can find good tunes in any year.

". . . But yeah music quality peaked in the 80's - 90's. Most stuff after 2000 is poor quality. 60's and 70's music generally sucked. That said there are exceptions to these general trends and you can find good tunes in any year."

Care to list examples of that "peak music?"

Ask around and I think what you find is that "peak music" for each person occurred during their individual formative teenage and young adult years. You say 80s and 90s; sounds about right. Funny thing, for me it was mostly mid-60s through the mid to late 70s, with more bits added along the way. The part you got right was the end of your last sentence - "you can find good tunes in any year." Not said but implied, is that you can find a ton of not so good tunes in any year.

70’s and 90’s were the best movie years. Not thread related I know.

Hah, there's no accounting for taste is there?

The two acts I am most glad to have missed are a Donald Trump campaign rally and a Mike Lindell conspiracy symposium. Unfortunately, I did see Roseanne Barr sing the National Anthem, albeit on television, and that left a mark...