Was 2016 the worst year in music ever? (poll)
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Laughable premise.
Pop music is terrible these days (for the most part), but there is so much great music out there if you look for it.
If you like 90's alternative rock, for example, check this out. I think this is one of the best songs of the past decade, but absolutely has the sound of that era. It came out this year, and will never get played on terrestrial radio.
Pop music is terrible these days (for the most part), but there is so much great music out there if you look for it.
If you like 90's alternative rock, for example, check this out. I think this is one of the best songs of the past decade, but absolutely has the sound of that era. It came out this year, and will never get played on terrestrial radio.
I read the thread before actually looking at the list. Before I looked at the list I was all for agreeing that it was a bad year. Then actually going through the list I thought it was actually pretty good. Some of this is probably due to my low expectations but there were still about 15 or so that I thought were really good.
I just double checked the list. The Twenty One Pilot's songs are the only ones I can stand and there are only a handful of other songs that I even recognize.
And of course they are overplaying Twenty One Pilot's so much that I find myself changing the station when the come on now too.
Pop music sucks right now. Anyone who tells you otherwise is a 14 year old girl...
or BDK, which is pretty much the same thing.
And of course they are overplaying Twenty One Pilot's so much that I find myself changing the station when the come on now too.
Pop music sucks right now. Anyone who tells you otherwise is a 14 year old girl...
or BDK, which is pretty much the same thing.
Nickelback 2004 vs Bieber 2016. **** you Canada. Build the wall.
While Nickleback IS absolutely horrendous. There was at least a handful of non-suck in 2004.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billboard_Year-End_Hot_100_singles_of_2004
Linkin Park, Early pre-pop sell out Maroon 5, Outkast, Jet, D12...
Did A Sailor's Guide to Earth come out this year? Then no, it's not the worst year.
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Go back and look at the 70s top 100s. They are filled with **** like Barbara Streisand, Captain & Tenille, Olivia Newton John, and Ringo F'ing Starr.
Go back and look at the 70s top 100s. They are filled with **** like Barbara Streisand, Captain & Tenille, Olivia Newton John, and Ringo F'ing Starr.
This year is pretty well devoid of non-crap though.
Let's look at 1975, with Captain and Tennille topping the charts.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billboard_Year-End_Hot_100_singles_of_1975
You've got Elton John, David Bowie, Eagles, Doobie Brothers, Average White Band, Stevie Wonder, America, Bad Company, Styx, Grand Funk Railroad, Bachman Turner Overdrice and mother ******' QUEEN!
So you'll have your soulless pop crap every year, but at least some years you have some quality in the Billboard Top 100.
This was the age of Disco and you've still got some quality in there.
I'm really impressed by this young man. I really like their song Fill in the Blank.
I don't think that 2016 was the worst year in music for the premise of the thread. As others have said, there was a lot of really great stuff that came out that didn't hit Ryan Seacrest's radar.
However - it's arguable that this was the worst year in terms of losses to the current music world. Prince, Bowie, Cohen, Haggard, Frey (that one is arguable), Lemmy just missed the cutoff for 2016 by a few days.
However - it's arguable that this was the worst year in terms of losses to the current music world. Prince, Bowie, Cohen, Haggard, Frey (that one is arguable), Lemmy just missed the cutoff for 2016 by a few days.
Yes it all depends how you define the "Music Year". But going off of the Billboard Hot 100 alone, 2016 was pretty terrible.
When you compare it to the Billboard Top 100 from previous years, it's pretty bad.
Of course this is just a critique of pop music for this calendar year, but it is telling that there's almost no palatable pop music this year when even some of the worst years prior had at least a handful of decent entries into the top 100.
Ugh, just looked at 2015 again.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billboard_Year-End_Hot_100_singles_of_2015
I think the only thing you could call a highlight last year was Fall Out Boy - Centuries?
2015 was worse than 2016 I guess. Twenty One Pilots is at least decent this year.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billboard_Year-End_Hot_100_singles_of_2015
I think the only thing you could call a highlight last year was Fall Out Boy - Centuries?
2015 was worse than 2016 I guess. Twenty One Pilots is at least decent this year.
I bet my grandpa and grandma thought music in the 70s sucked too. You old timers need to look at these things with a wider viewpoint than your own limited one. You can appreciate and understand someone's musical ability without actually liking their stuff.
