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EpoxyObsession
Dead Account Holder
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03-06-2008, 03:43 PM
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Originally Posted by poet`s playground
The sixties was a great era for modern music. It was revolutionary. Everybody was coming up with something new, there were proto-punks, rock'n'rollers, singer-songwriters, soul, rockabilly, everything was political, everything was personal, everything was changing. So many artists and sounds came out of that decade. Artists and sounds that laid the foundations for music that's still being written, that still can be found in so many places in today's music...
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I completely agree with this. The best times in music are the times when music is evolving, when music is radical instead of remaining stagnant or changing only slightly. I see the past few decades as a wave -- creativity building beginning with jazz and swing, culminating in the wide-spread and daring musical changes of the sixties, stagnating through most of the 70s, and then very slowly rising and ultimately falling in creative potential as we go through the eighties and then approach the end of the nineties, where music flatlines at a low amount of originality and continues to flatline into the 2000s. I mean, we still have groups like Radiohead that are pushing music forward, but they're not as big and there aren't very many of them. It's sad.
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