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Agreed, just my personal opinion I went through Beatles, Abba and Queen discography in recent years and honestly Beatles were the most underwhelming (for this 8

by petodo 4y ago

Agreed, just my personal opinion I went through Beatles, Abba and Queen discography in recent years and honestly Beatles were the most underwhelming (for this 80s kid), Queen being good but not that great for my taste and Abba being by far my favorite on completely different level than the other two. I know it's probably not fair since music advanced over years, but if I had to choose only band I'd be forced to listen in deserted island from Beatles era it would still be Rolling stones or Beach boys rather than Beatles. I'm listening every day 80s radio during lunch and dinner with my kids and think 80s/90s was peak music, 70s was pretty great and it went really quick downhill in 00s.

IgorPartola 4y ago
Interesting perspective. I will say that at dance clubs music stopped advancing at early 00s. Aside from hip hop that seems to be peak dance music (hip hop has pushed forward a bit since but not enough). This is to the point that clubs that normally cater to those in their early 20s now play music that was made before some of those clients were born as opposed to even one track from the last decade.
- cdavid 4y ago
  I now old and past 40, but would say it depends on the clubs. There is still quite a lot of new electronic stuff worth listening to. Lots of it is derivative, but that has always been true for most pop music styles. Whatever one may think about it, stuff like barker, raim, empty set, Laurel Halo, all sound very much post 90ies (the period I was a teenager, and started to listen to tons of electronic music).
- tinco 4y ago
  I'm not saying I agree 100% but there's definitely something there. I was surprised when out of nowhere Justin Bieber coopted into a world wide hit in a genre that was in the clubs when I frequented them a full decade earlier (with Despacito). I'm not sure things like that would happen, it used to be that genres basically went out of style every 10 years or so. That said, I wouldn't say things are standing still either in club music. I don't pretend to have been to a club in the past 5 years or so, but even though they played roughly the same genres there's definitely a difference in depth between the acts we danced to in the 00s and acts like Major Lazer and The Weeknd. Maybe the genres are just sticking around longer and go through subtler changes. If you let teenage me hear Despacito I would've liked it but wouldn't be surprised. Major Lazer though would've blown my mind.
  - IgorPartola 4y ago
    As someone who was out dancing at a club a few weeks ago, one mostly frequented by people in their early 20s, the playlist consisted entirely (not mostly), but Lil Jon, Lil Wayne, Missy Elliot, Ludacris, Usher, 50 Cent, etc. I knew all the lyrics and so did my date. Not so for any of the rest of the people. This has been my experience in the past 5 years of going out dancing at different clubs in the US Northeast.

by petodo 4y ago

IgorPartola 4y ago

Interesting perspective. I will say that at dance clubs music stopped advancing at early 00s. Aside from hip hop that seems to be peak dance music (hip hop has pushed forward a bit since but not enough). This is to the point that clubs that normally cater to those in their early 20s now play music that was made before some of those clients were born as opposed to even one track from the last decade.

cdavid 4y ago
I now old and past 40, but would say it depends on the clubs. There is still quite a lot of new electronic stuff worth listening to. Lots of it is derivative, but that has always been true for most pop music styles. Whatever one may think about it, stuff like barker, raim, empty set, Laurel Halo, all sound very much post 90ies (the period I was a teenager, and started to listen to tons of electronic music).
tinco 4y ago
I'm not saying I agree 100% but there's definitely something there. I was surprised when out of nowhere Justin Bieber coopted into a world wide hit in a genre that was in the clubs when I frequented them a full decade earlier (with Despacito). I'm not sure things like that would happen, it used to be that genres basically went out of style every 10 years or so. That said, I wouldn't say things are standing still either in club music. I don't pretend to have been to a club in the past 5 years or so, but even though they played roughly the same genres there's definitely a difference in depth between the acts we danced to in the 00s and acts like Major Lazer and The Weeknd. Maybe the genres are just sticking around longer and go through subtler changes. If you let teenage me hear Despacito I would've liked it but wouldn't be surprised. Major Lazer though would've blown my mind.
- IgorPartola 4y ago
  As someone who was out dancing at a club a few weeks ago, one mostly frequented by people in their early 20s, the playlist consisted entirely (not mostly), but Lil Jon, Lil Wayne, Missy Elliot, Ludacris, Usher, 50 Cent, etc. I knew all the lyrics and so did my date. Not so for any of the rest of the people. This has been my experience in the past 5 years of going out dancing at different clubs in the US Northeast.