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11-21-2009 07:16 AM |
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Originally Posted by JCC
(Post 583240)
The past ten years have been great culturally and anyone that disagrees hasn't been paying attention, instead electing to stick their fingers in their ears so that come 2010 they can spout off with their pretentious bullshit about how popular culture is a sluice and they would shudder at the very thought of listening to anything recorded in the past couple of decades. Fuck them.
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Please. The 2000s have been an appalling decade for music culture. What are people going to remember from this decade? The auto tune voice effect?! The bastardization of songs from the eighties?? Shitty indie bands with one recognisable song?? Even hip-hop, which was always pretty retarded has reached new levels of degradation.
Take bands like the Killers, or the Editors or any of those shitty post-punk wannabes. Basically they take at random the catchiest 80s choruses and reassemble them as pointless, lightweight trash. Why don’t they just become cover bands and spare us all the hideous reconstituted monstrosities they churn forth from their laboratories?
Disclaimer: Obviously I’m being a little bit facetious and I’m sure there are a handful or so remarkable bands that have slipped by my radar but my point is that taken as a whole this decade has been an enormous step down in terms of music. Even in the electronic/experimental genre (and it’s here if anywhere where there will have been growth and I invite recommendations) I haven’t really seen anyone step it up from Aphex Twin, Autechre or Boards of Canada.
A word on Videogames: although most of my favourite games are definitely from the early to mid-nineties I’d be a fool to say there hadn’t been massive developments of a kind since then. I do find that games from the last ten years or so usually have a tendency to be too easy or too cinematic (games are not movies) and there also seems to be an over saturation of JRPGs on the market.
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