Jul 9, 2016

I know I'm usually very sarcastic, but my question was real.

 

Jul 10, 2016

googles pedantic*

 

Jul 9, 2016

All music was better in '90s.


I just heard Third Eye Blind's "semi charmed life" today... and remembered that it was considered a fluffy pop single in '97. The song rocks hard and is about a complicated exciting destructive relationship filled with hard drugs and sex.

In the 90's people were smarter and experienced life more... we had better taste and demanded way better, more complicated and more meaningful music.

Most of you millennials are stupid, lazy and idled by video games and s-----y television and social networking. Your music is terrible.

 

Jul 10, 2016

WHOA you're thinking of someone other than me, Outkast is the greatest and probably has my most listened-to catalog (outside of Wayne, maybe) of all time. I would never say something like that lol

Ranking those first four albums is nearly impossible. Aquemini is the masterpiece, probably in my top three albums of all time; beyond that, I think you could argue for any of the other three at #2. The plurality of people would have ATLiens there, and I get that, but I think the debut gets unfairly slighted because it wasn't as experimental. My personal favorite outside of Aquemini--maybe even including it--is Stankonia, though I'd concede that's the most uneven. If I had to rank them:

Aquemini
ATLiens
Southernplayalistic
Stankonia
Speakerboxxx
(Sir Lucious Left Foot)
The Love Below
Idlewild
(that second Big Boi album)

 

Jul 9, 2016

Whoever is saying 2010's is the best...who is better than Biggie, Nas, Tupac, Raekwon, Ghostface, Rakim, Snoop (doggystyle), Ice Cube, Redman, Outkast, Wu-Tang, Jay-Z, A Tribe Called Quest, Big Pun... probably missing a lot off the top of my head but intrigued

 

Jul 9, 2016

People are gonna say whichever era they grew up in.

 

Jul 9, 2016

I mean, this is a dead-end question and always has been. The '90s had a higher density of classic albums, esp. on major labels; the mid-2000s (basically 2004-09) were kind of a singles-oriented time in a way that didn't play well with old heads, ironically. So probably the '90s. The real question is how you'd rank the 80s, 90s, 00s, and 10s.

 

Jul 12, 2016

90's, not only because of the quality of music, but the overall atmosphere.

I mean, I'm sure 2010 is fun for a lot of fans, because of how accessible music is to you, but to me, it was much better during the 90's, when you had to wait for everything.

We didn't have social media, youtube, or albums at our finger tips. You had to go out and buy the tape/CD. You had to look in the booklets, find what albums were dropping on that label, and wait until they did.

Having a bad album, meant it was a huge deal, just as if it was a classic.

Like you'd only have a certain amount of money to spend on tapes/cd's, so you had to make it count lol. You couldn't just download 10 albums a week and pick and choose favorite songs.

If you bought tapes, you HAD to listen to the entire tape. You couldn't even skip tracks.

Music videos were a big deal. And you really only could watch them when the shows came on BET/MTV that showed them. You couldn't go on YouTube.

I mean, when you guys hear about a great battle, you can search on YouTube, and boom, you can watch it, replay it, dissect it, etc.

I STILL have not seen the DMX vs Jay Z battle, which was like a legend.

Artists didn't have a bunch of interviews that you could watch at any time, or social media outlets to pour their hearts into. We literally just knew these guys from a few interviews we saw, and what was said on their music.

It felt iconic to watch Biggie, Jay, DMX, 2Pac, Nas, Wu Tang, Outkast, Eminem etc.

You'd talk between your friends about a certain artist making an appearance on MTV, BET, late night, or on the radio.

Now, that s--- isn't a big deal. Back then? It was a huge deal. You'd have to wait for the show, from whatever outlet, and you actually cared about the questions and answers.

I mean, I'm happy for the 2010's, it must be awesome to have your favorite artist release 2-4 projects in a year, and for them to be SO accessible...

I'm not trying to discredit the 2000's and 2010's, but the era was totally different.

It's like Jay Z said on Volume 3... About opening up a tape or a CD. "Yeah, I know you just ripped the packaging off your CD... If you like me you readin the credits right now"

It's hard to explain to the younger generation. It was just such a fun time to be a hip hop fan. I'm sure you guys love that things are so accessible, which is cool.

When Napster first surfaced, I thought it was the most amazing thing ever. I definitely loved downloading albums instead of buying them, and I continue to do that.

However, looking back, I think that's why I loved the 90's so much. Everything seemed so much bigger, more iconic. You were more in awe of rap. At least I was.

 

Jul 11, 2016

Disagree with all of those....Biggie's discog was flawless although it was only two albums. Future sounds like he makes the same song every time I hear it, to me at least. I'll never get into that type of music though. I loved Kendricks first album and his follow ups were good but boring. J Cole puts out incredibly average albums. T.I. in 2010s?? Hearing anything Young Thug puts out gives me PTSD from remembering Narsh posts and I can't understand anything he says. I'll never think any of those artists are better than Outkast, Wu-Tang (especially their solo projects) Ice Cube...that's crazy to me

 

Jul 10, 2016

You really put Desiigner, Logic, and J Cole in this list bro? lol

 

Jul 12, 2016

I used to have to ride my BMX down to Sam Goody to get a cassette tape single with a s-----y B side so you'd only play and rewind one side of the tape over and over until it finally wore and snapped. Now these kids are chasing Pokemons on their phones. Back in my day you had to work for it and do drugs if you wanted to see Pokemons

 

Jul 11, 2016

what the h--- did you just say

 

Jul 10, 2016

I think it's so hard to compare the decades because the music made has been so different in each of them.

It's like comparing the early-00s Pop Punk music to Pyschadelic Rock from them late-60s. It's easy to do by preference, but when you start trying to go into detail it gets very hard to compare.


I agree that the volume of classics from the 90s far surpasses that of the 00s, but there are a lot of classics from the 00s that are better than the majority of those from the 90s.

 

Jul 9, 2016

The last thread of this topic the other month > this thread

Oh and 90s>2000s all day err day

 

Jul 9, 2016

2010s better than both

 

Jul 10, 2016

 

Jul 10, 2016

Me too

 

Jul 10, 2016

Well yeah but AZ was literally a nobody

 

Jul 10, 2016

90's. 2000's was the beginning for bs rappers getting put on. Not saying that the 90's didn't have any, but they didn't have as many. No Limit and Cash Money effect was in full swing in the 2000's and you started seeing some really s-----y artists pop out of all regions. 2000's still had a lot of great artists and albums but there was less fat in the 90's.

I experienced both eras. I was a kid going into my teens in the 90s and I was a teen going into my twenties in the 2000's. The 90's were better.

 

Jul 9, 2016

i read this post picturing an angry bald guy who has to sit down to pee