Worst year ever for music?

sryanbruen

What was the worst year ever for music in your opinion? So far, it has been 2016 for me. This year has not seen even one good song in my ears. I hear the same beats I hear in every respective song. By respective I mean its genre like those house beats and drums that annoy me of how frequently they're used. The closest song I could find that I like in 2016 is Lukas Graham - 7 Years but at the same time, I am not mad about it.

2016 - worst year ever for music in my opinion.

This is only my opinion. Let's see yours.

endacl

No such thing as the worst year in music. That's my opinion.

biko

Give it time OP, it's only March still.



It can still get worse..

sryanbruen

biko wrote: »

Give it time OP, it's only March still.



It can still get worse..

Yeah like how 2013 fell out with Miley Cyrus...... :mad:

Lights On

It's only 3 months in?

Blackstar - Bowie
Is the Is Are - DIIV
Adore Life - Savages
Painting With - Animal Collective
Untitled Unmastered - Kendrick Lamar
Night Thoughts - Suede
Emotional Mugger - Ty Segall

Some great albums already out and that's only off the top of my head, again just within the first two months of the year. Shaping up nicely

The_Valeyard

I'd say year one.


People still figuring out notes and sounds


Mostly grunts and uggs. Not very good beat to it.

sryanbruen

Lights On wrote: »

It's only 3 months in?

Blackstar - Bowie
Is the Is Are - DIIV
Adore Life - Savages
Painting With - Animal Collective
Untitled Unmastered - Kendrick Lamar
Night Thoughts - Suede
Emotional Mugger - Ty Segall

Some great albums already out and that's only off the top of my head, again just within the first two months of the year. Shaping up nicely

David Bowie is dead though which adds to my deep hate for this year so far music wise.

Mister Vain

I think this has been a good year so far except for that recent Rihanna song which sounds like a dog with a stammer.

It would have to be one of the naughties. That whole decade was fairly bad.

sryanbruen

Can anybody show me any good music of 2016? I can't find any which is why I consider it the worst. I can't see why you say it is a good year for music :mad:

FFS, we're not even three whole months into the year yet. No point in writing it off now.
I thought 2015 was a pretty poor year for music until the end of year when I looked over my Spotify playlist (since 2012 I've made a playlist every year for songs I like released in that year) and realised that there was actually quite a lot of good stuff.

My 2016 playlist currently has 33 songs on it thus far, and am hoping to add many more to it as the year progresses. Every year has its gems and its shíte (though what falls into what category is all subjective anyway) - I don't see why 2016 should be or will be any different.

Some good'uns from 2016 thus far:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y-JqH1M4Ya8

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eo2bsVndWw0

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z0MsTBtJA2w

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y7ZpPsaMNMM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r5O1JHUP1u0

See also ('cause I'll piss people off if I add any more videos):
PJ Harvey - The Wheel
Mick Pedaja - Seis
All Saints - One Strike
Foxes - Body Talk
The Jezabels - Come Alive
Jack Garratt - Fire

sryanbruen

Deleted User wrote: »

FFS, we're not even three whole months into the year yet. No point in writing it off now.
I thought 2015 was a pretty poor year for music until the end of year when I looked over my Spotify playlist (since 2012 I've made a playlist every year for songs I like released in that year) and realised that there was actually quite a lot of good stuff.

My 2016 playlist currently has 33 songs on it thus far, and am hoping to add many more to it as the year progresses. Every year has its gems and its shíte (though what falls into what category is all subjective anyway) - I don't see why 2016 should be or will be any different.

Some good'uns from 2016 thus far:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y-JqH1M4Ya8

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eo2bsVndWw0

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z0MsTBtJA2w

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y7ZpPsaMNMM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r5O1JHUP1u0

See also ('cause I'll piss people off if I add any more videos):
PJ Harvey - The Wheel
Mick Pedaja - Seis
All Saints - One Strike
Foxes - Body Talk
The Jezabels - Come Alive
Jack Garratt - Fire

Excuse me, I did not ask you to influence my opinion, thank you :cool:. I wanted to know your opinion on the worst year for music in your opinion (of course every year has at least a few good songs but sadly this year so far not for me). Out of those songs, I kind of like Easier Day but other than that, no I don't like them songs sorry.

Crap like Justin Bieber's Love Yourself reached #1 and I never know how it did because the music in it makes me so bored....

Mister Vain

sryanbruen wrote: »

Crap like Justin Bieber's Love Yourself reached #1 and I never know how it did because the music in it makes me so bored....

The young wans love it though. Shur he's a great artist just like Zayn.

Anyway I think 2004 was the worst.

sryanbruen

Mister Vain wrote: »

The young wans love it though. Shur he's a great artist just like Zayn.

Anyway I think 2004 was the worst.

Yeah I'm not a fan of 2004 either :cool:

Squall Leonhart

endacl wrote:

No such thing as the worst year in music. That's my opinion.

This.

Every year will have its clangers and it's amazing songs if you listen broadly enough and not to just what you hear in chart radio.

whatismyname

sryanbruen wrote: »

What was the worst year ever for music in your opinion?

Definitely 1971

sryanbruen

whatismyname wrote: »

Definitely 1971

Well I don't know what came out in 1971 :pac::pac: so I can't put that in me least favourite years for music.

Junkyard Tom

Nineteen dickety two. Music was banned by the Kaiser and so was the word twenty so we had to use dickety in its place. I chased that rascal to get it back, but gave up after dickety-six miles.

HalloweenJack

Has reggaeton made it to Ireland yet?

Just be grateful it hasn't, if not.

bodhrandude

We are not even halfway through the 3rd month of the year, 9 and a bit more to go, sorry.

Chris_Bradley

10 of them equal in the 80's.

dark crystal

Mister Vain wrote: »

I think this has been a good year so far except for that recent Rihanna song which sounds like a dog with a stammer.

Seriously - if a worse song than that makes it on to the airwaves this year, I'd be shocked.

Has to be in the running for the worst song ever written.

GLaDOS

We have this thread in AH every year

sryanbruen

ScienceNerd wrote: »

We have this thread in AH every year

Is that because music gets worse and worse?

BattleCorp

That Rhianna song is so bad that the whole year has to be written off.

riffmongous

Their is a silver lining to that Rihanna song, in that it's so bad it forced me to listen to some Sean Paul to remind what good dancehall sounds like

Anesthetize

Hahahaha we're not even 3 months into 2016

To be honest it hasn't set my world alight so far, but I'm being patient. The new Bowie album is great and I dig the new Chairlift album Moth. The new albums from School of Seven Bells and Savages have been disappointing, and DIIV have always sucked balls.

Some upcoming albums I'm looking forward to:
The Joy Formidable - Hitch
Deftones - Gore
PJ Harvey - The Hope Six Demolition Project
Vektor - Terminal Redux
Beth Orton - Kidsticks
The Kills - Ash & Ice

deadybai

BattleCorp wrote: »

That Rhianna song is so bad that the whole year has to be written off.

Just had a listen to see what all the fuss was about...

Fúck me Nickki Minaj wouldn't have a look in.

Omackeral

sryanbruen wrote: »

What was the worst year ever for music in your opinion? So far, it has been 2016 for me. This year has not seen even one good song in my ears. I hear the same beats I hear in every respective song. By respective I mean its genre like those house beats and drums that annoy me of how frequently they're used. The closest song I could find that I like in 2016 is Lukas Graham - 7 Years but at the same time, I am not mad about it.

2016 - worst year ever for music in my opinion.


This is only my opinion. Let's see yours.

That is quite possibly the worst song I've ever heard ever. Whiney bulls*t is all it is. Makes me wanna ram knitting needles in my ears. If that's your idea of the best, I shudder to think of what's worse. Good god!

DanielODonnell

The nonsense on the wireless can't really be counted as music.

However regarding metal and rock music there have been poor releases over the past year such as Triviums disaster of a record.

Capt'n Midnight

Squall Leonhart wrote: »

This.

Every year will have its clangers

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ok6CoIwcJ-E

DanielODonnell

Mister Vain wrote: »

I think this has been a good year so far except for that recent Rihanna song which sounds like a dog with a stammer.

It would have to be one of the naughties. That whole decade was fairly bad.

That naughties term doesn't make any sense, it is not like the years were pronounced as "naughty one, naughty two"

In the future people will learn to refer to the decade as the "Two thousands" or "Twenty Hundreds"

Anesthetize

DanielODonnell wrote: »

However regarding metal and rock music there have been poor releases over the past year such as Triviums disaster of a record.

When have Trivium ever released a good record? On the other hand we had some great releases from Enslaved and Steven Wilson last year.

sameoldname

Whatever about good music, I'd argue that there hasn't been any advancement in music in at least 20 years. The fact that Aphex Twin's Richard D. James album sounds as cutting edge as anything you'd hear nowadays is pretty damning... and that was released in 1996.

colossus-x

Are you talking about pop music OP ?

Pop music had never been good since the '90's.

Good voices are very important in a tune, even if it's just trashy pop, but now one doesn't need a good voice, just one that can be manipulated by a computer to sound good.

Taylor Swift is the only artist I can think off that does good pop songs but it's not like she's a vocal genius but she's not bad at all.

Michael Jackson did everything. He did great videos. He was an amazing singer. He was an amazing dancer. And his song's weren't all the same, like Rihanna for example. Plastic videos , same beats all the time. All done for the pub venues with a thump thump thump beat.

When was the last time you had a well rounded performer who could do it all? It doesn't happen anymore. You have someone who goes on xfactor who we might agree they have a good voice. But that's it. No personality. No nothing. Just a short skirt or big thighs that looks good in some flashy boring music video.

The better question is "When was the last year we found a gem who had amazing musical/performing talent".

I don't listen to pop music anymore. I have gotten into other music genres and I'm glad off it. I'll always love my trance/electro/pop stuff from the 80/90/2000 but that scene is all over.

DEFTLEFTHAND

sryanbruen wrote: »

Can anybody show me any good music of 2016? I can't find any which is why I consider it the worst. I can't see why you say it is a good year for music :mad:

This is good imo.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hViKyGsPEQI

fatknacker

I haven't heard of most the bands in some of these posts. Am I so out of touch with modern music, or are people trying to deliberately post the most obscure bands they know of to be hip?
No, no. It's the children who are out of touch

colossus-x

Bands all sound the same to me.

Edit: I listened to the above linked track without watching the video. I find it totally depressing.

nyarlothothep

Taylor Swift: ****
Adele: ****, you want depressing, listen to Warning, then come back to me
Ed Sheeran: ****
Kanye West: the pinnacle of **** and the emperor's new clothes syndrome personified.

Major labels gobbelled up indies and are extremely prejudiced against releasing interesting music that doesn't fit into the hip hop/pop genres. Just ignore the mainstream and listen to whatever you want, the only problem is that interesting, actually talented artists, much moreso than the ones mentioned above are getting overlooked and even if you play them to the average 2010s listener they'll still willfully stick to their mainstream, garbage crap, because they've been indoctrinated, so **** them too.

fatknacker

Why are you giving all these boring pop artists four stars?

greedygoblin

Anesthetize wrote: »

When have Trivium ever released a good record? On the other hand we had some great releases from Enslaved and Steven Wilson last year.

2015 was all about Clutch and Wilderun for me. Great albums.

Antar Bolaeisk

Music benefits greatly from, what I like to call, the temporal anti-Doppler effect. Meaning, the further away from a certain point in time you are, the more often good music seems to be released.

In thirty years time this will be hailed as the new 80's!

1828.

Beethoven dead, Mozart a distant memory...

Hercule Poirot

Does it really matter if this is a sh1tty year for music? We have access to all the music we could want, with the youtubing, and the ituning and the digitamal downloading - it's a great time to be a music lover

And don't get upset about what's in the charts, I've learnt since the days of Britney Spears et al that you can't control the machine, listen to whatever the hell you want and don't be fretting

Hemerodrome

Isn't it a good thing that music tastes aren't at all subjective and the OP kindly came along to tell us what not to like.
Title track from the album Sarcasm by Hemerodrome.

jackwigan

Painkillers by Brian Fallon is out tomorrow, year 2016 saved.

Badly Drunk Boy

Hemerodrome wrote: »

Isn't it a good thing that music tastes aren't at all subjective and the OP kindly came along to tell us what not to like.
Title track from the album Sarcasm by Hemerodrome.

Hemerodrome sold out with that overhyped third album. It's a scientifically proven fact!

sryanbruen

DEFTLEFTHAND wrote: »

This is good imo.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hViKyGsPEQI

About time! Somebody actually showed me something I like here. Thank you.

nacho libre

Hercule Poirot wrote: »

Does it really matter if this is a sh1tty year for music? We have access to all the music we could want, with the youtubing, and the ituning and the digitamal downloading - it's a great time to be a music lover

And don't get upset about what's in the charts, I've learnt since the days of Britney Spears et al that you can't control the machine, listen to whatever the hell you want and don't be fretting

Thank you. With that in mind, this is my favourite release of the last few years:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gSObRNcPAv8


it is, as you say, indeed a great time to be a music lover

Anesthetize

fatknacker wrote: »

I haven't heard of most the bands in some of these posts. Am I so out of touch with modern music, or are people trying to deliberately post the most obscure bands they know of to be hip?
No, no. It's the children who are out of touch

None of the artists posted in this thread are obscure. People who actually follow music publications and websites would have stumbled across them at some stage.

Chain Smoker

I dunno about there being a "worst year" but 2014 at the time seemed shockingly bereft of great albums, 2 years on and I've yet to discover anything to change my mind.

http://www.metacritic.com/feature/critics-pick-top-10-albums-of-2014

Capt'n Midnight

Antar Bolaeisk wrote: »

Music benefits greatly from, what I like to call, the temporal anti-Doppler effect. Meaning, the further away from a certain point in time you are, the more often good music seems to be released.

In thirty years time this will be hailed as the new 80's!

Late 70's early 80's music was good at the time. Even allowing for the filter of nostalgia and forgetting the utter dross today's chart music is meh at best.

Back then there were new sounds, from synthesisers to punk to ska and new romantics , a massive change from the mid 70's

BBC4 have been showing Top Of The Pops for a while now and just look at what was in the charts back then. Yes there was a lot of *cringe* but the good stuff was great.

There were times in the 90's when entire NOW albums would only have a single song that wasn't bad. Music got better later and then went dire again.

The music industry has to take a lot of the blame. Things like drum machines , vocal harmonisers, and especially wall of sound means that over time mass market music has become more formulaic and less differentiated than in the past. How many songwriting crews are there for the charts these days ?
I'm reminded of 1984 and the songs for the proles.

"It was only an 'opeless fancy,
It passed lika an Ipril dye,
But a look an' a word an' the dreams they stirred
They 'ave stolen my 'eart awye!'

Sometimes I can't even guess the decade of the nondescript music on the low rent music channels on satellite.