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wah_wah_wah posted...

DoctorPiranha3 posted...

I'm mainly talking about the 80s and 90s. Of course it's always been about money, but in those two decades, the sounds were varied. It's like when music expression really started to take off among everybody.

They were varied because you lived through those times and committed yourself to listening to most or all of that music. It's really hard for you to make the definite claim that music today is not varied when you have already deemed it to be terrible and probably don't listen to it for more than five seconds at a time.

I can tell you that the 1980's hair band era wasn't particularly "varied" from what I remember. Even the bands names didn't really have much variability. Just take a predator and go with it - Poison, Whitesnake, Scorpions, WASP etc.

I'm an 00s kid, so my experience with the previous decades music isn't first hand experience. I'm not saying there weren't consistent tunes in those decades, it just felt like people were willing to take more risks, and those risks were getting publicized. Each decade has an identity, but the 2010s kind of blur with the later 00s IMO, and it's hard to see where it goes from here.