The EPIC End-of-Decade Listmaking Thread

Originally posted by Palynka
Please. The 80's were filled with dark music. The 90s saw the explosion of happy boy bands and Spice Girls clones, etc.

You have all types of music at all times. Uzless just likes soundbytes.

Yes, but the explosion of boy-girl bands was pretty much right around the time the dotcom bubble began to rise. 😉

It's an interesting coincidence, let's just leave it at that.

Originally posted by darvlay
Yes, but the explosion of boy-girl bands was pretty much right around the time the dotcom bubble began to rise. 😉

It's an interesting coincidence, let's just leave it at that.

Spice Girls and Take That predated the rise of the dotcom bubble. Anyway, when I look at the 80s I see A LOT of dark music. But maybe that's just bias.

Originally posted by Palynka
Please. The 80's were filled with dark music. The 90s saw the explosion of happy boy bands and Spice Girls clones, etc.

You have all types of music at all times. Uzless just likes soundbytes.

ug, i tried to be a bit general for the ADD folks here who don't like details.

just for you palynka....

the 90's can be split into 2.

1990-1995 - economy was in a recession..music was dark/anger/angst exemplified by bands like Nirvana/Tool/SP/Jane's/AliceinChains/NIN etc

1996-2000 economy turned around...music turned around..grunge died and was replaced by boy bands/girls bands/psuedo rock bands (Bush/our lady peace/green day) who sang happier popppy sounds.

Alan Cross goes on to explain that the music that is popular at the time is largely a function of the listener. When people are happy they want to hear happy sounds...when they are sad/angry they want to hear angry/angst sounds. Every decade has all forms of music in them, but the listener chooses which one of those forms he/she is interested. The economy tends to dominate most people's choice of music and is reflected by which form of music gains popularity at that time.

But look, you seem to auto-reject anything uzless says, so why not listen to an expert on the subject of music instead. Go here for a brief intro..

http://www.exploremusic.com/ongoing-history-of-new-music/2009-08-26/Cycles-of-Rock

It's too bad the podcasts were removed due to licensing issues...you might have learned something had I been able to post the link.

Here is a list of the top 200 songs of the the past decade as put together by listeners at a Toronto radio station..102.1

Pretty sad indictment of the decade if you ask me.

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1 Red Hot Chili Peppers • Dani California
2 U2 • Beautiful Day
3 The White Stripes • Seven-Nation Army
4 Red Hot Chili Peppers • Can't Stop
5 Sam Roberts • Brother Down
6 Linkin Park • Numb
7 Green Day • Holiday
8 Rage Against The Machine • Renegades Of Funk
9 Coldplay • Yellow
10 Foo Fighters • The Pretender
11 Bedouin Soundclash • When The Night Feels My Song
12 The Killers • Mr. Brightside
13 Franz Ferdinand • Take Me Out
14 Green Day • Boulevard Of Broken Dreams
15 Gorillaz • Feel Good Inc.
16 The Killers • Somebody Told Me
17 Linkin Park • In The End
18 Red Hot Chili Peppers • By The Way
19 Outkast • Hey Ya!
20 Coldplay • Speed Of Sound
21 Green Day • American Idiot
22 Tool • The Pot
23 Our Lady Peace • Somewhere Out There
24 Nirvana • You Know You're Right
25 Blink-182 • All The Small Things
26 Tool • Schism
27 Nickelback • How You Remind Me
28 Linkin Park • One Step Closer
29 3 Doors Down • Kryptonite
30 Sum 41 • Pieces
31 Jimmy Eat World • The Middle
32 Green Day • Wake Me Up When September Ends
33 Coldplay • Viva La Vida
34 Gorillaz • Clint Eastwood
35 U2 • Veritgo
36 Queens Of The Stone Age • Little Sister
37 Audioslave • Be Yourself
38 Weezer • Beverly Hills
39 Green Day • Minority
40 Incubus • Drive
41 The Tragically Hip • My Music At Work
42 P.O.D. • Alive
43 Foo Fighters • Times Like These
44 Billy Talent • Try Honesty
45 Jet • Are You Gonna Be My Girl
46 Weezer • Pork And Beans
47 U2 • Elevation
48 Coldplay • Clocks
49 Linkin Park • Faint
50 k-os • Crabbuckit
51 Modest Mouse • Float On
52 The Killers • When You Were Young
53 Blink-182 • What's My Age Again?
54 Puddle Of Mudd • Blurry
55 Three Days Grace • I Hate Everything About You
56 Audioslave • Doesn't Remind Me
57 Linkin Park • Somewhere I Belong
58 Sum 41 • In Too Deep
59 Coldplay • Violet Hill
60 Neverending White Lights • The Grace
61 Evanescence • Bring Me To Life
62 Nine Inch Nails • The Hand That Feeds
63 Blink-182 • First Date
64 Coldplay • In My Place
65 Sum 41 • Fat Lip
66 The White Stripes • Icky Thump
67 Hot Hot Heat • Bandages
68 Arctic Monkeys • I Bet You Look Good On The Dance Floor
69 Finger Eleven • One Thing
70 Incubus • I Wish You Were Here
71 Alexisonfire • This Could Be Anywhere In The World
72 Eminem • Lose Yourself
73 Death From Above 1979 • Romantic Rights
74 Foo Fighters • Best Of You
75 City And Colour • Save Your Scissors
76 Gnarls Barkley • Crazy
77 Finger Eleven • First Time
78 Silversun Pickups • Lazy Eye
79 Kings Of Leon • Sex On Fire
80 Rise Against • Ready To Fall
81 Alexisonfire • Boiled Frogs
82 Against Me! • Thrash Unreal
83 Disturbed • Down With The Sickness
84 Audioslave • Cochise
85 Nickelback • Too Bad
86 The Killers • All These Things That I've Done
87 3 Doors Down • When I'm Gone
88 The Tragically Hip • In View
89 Papa Roach • Last Resort
90 Billy Talent • The Ex
91 Jet • Cold Hard Bitch
92 Weezer • Hashpipe
93 Foo Fighters • Long Road To Ruin
94 Queens Of The Stone Age • Make It Wit Chu
95 Incubus • Megalomaniac
96 Wolfmother • Woman
97 Green Day • Warning
98 Billy Talent • Devil In A Midnight Mass
99 Muse • Starlight
100 Finger Eleven • Paralyzer
101 Red Hot Chili Peppers • Tell Me Baby
102 The White Stripes • Fell In Love With A Girl
103 Three Days Grace • Animal I Have Become
104 Queens Of The Stone Age • No One Knows
105 Rise Against • Prayer Of The Refugee
106 Sum 41 • Still Waiting
107 Foo Fighters • Let It Die
108 k-os • Man I Used To Be
109 U2 • All Because Of You
110 The Raconteurs • Steady As She Goes
111 The Stills • Still In Love Song
112 Foo Fighters • All My Life
113 Three Days Grace • Never Too Late
114 Creed • Higher
115 Sam Roberts • Where Have All The Good People Gone?
116 Three Days Grace • Just Like You
117 System Of A Down • Chop Suey!
118 The New Pornographers • Use It
119 A.F.I. • Miss Murder
120 Metric • Gimme Sympathy
121 Incubus • Anna Molly
122 k-os • Sunday Morning
123 MGMT • Kids
124 Muse • Time Is Running Out
125 Velvet Revolver • Fall To Pieces
126 Billy Talent • Nothing To Lose
127 A Perfect Circle • Judith
128 The Fratellis • Flathead
129 Red Hot Chili Peppers • Snow (Hey Oh)
130 Pearl Jam • Worldwide Suicide
131 Rise Against • The Good Left Undone
132 Metric • Monster Hospital
133 Coldplay • Talk
134 Nickelback • Someday
135 Nine Inch Nails • Only
136 Bedouin Soundclash • St. Andrews
137 Kings Of Leon • Use Somebody
138 Metric • Dead Disco
139 Rise Against • Swing Life Away
140 Billy Talent • Rusted From The Rain
141 Death Cab For Cutie • Soul Meets Body
142 Sam Roberts • Them Kids
143 Beastie Boys • Ch-Check It Out
144 Billy Talent • Red Flag
145 Linkin Park • What I've Done
146 Gorillaz • D.A.R.E.
147 Arcade Fire • Neighbourhood #3 (Power Out)
148 Foo Fighters • D.O.A.
149 Default • Wasting My Time
150 The White Stripes • Blue Orchid
151 The Weakerthans • The Reasons
152 Snow Patrol • Chasing Cars
153 Alexisonfire • Accidents
154 Pearl Jam • Brother
155 Finger Eleven • Good Times
156 Rise Against • Re-Education (Through Labour)
157 Chad Kroeger/Josey Scott • Hero
158 Jimmy Eat World • Sweetness
159 City And Colour • Sleeping Sickness
160 Limp Bizkit • Rollin'
161 Lenny Kravitz • American Woman
162 Linkin Park • Lying From You
163 Gob • I Hear You Calling
164 Social Distortion • Far Behind
165 Neverending White Lights • Always
166 My Chemical Romance • Welcome To The Black Parade
167 k-os • Crucial
168 Nine Inch Nails • Survivalism
169 Billy Talent • Surrender
170 Yeah Yeah Yeahs • Maps
171 City and Colour • Comin' Home
172 Moby/Gwen Stefani • Southside
173 Arcade Fire • Rebellion (Lies)
174 Silversun Pickups • Panic Switch
175 Sam Roberts • Bridge To Nowhere
176 Cake • Short Skirt Long Jacket
177 Our Lady Peace • In Repair
178 Serj Tankian • Empty Walls
179 Oasis • The Shock Of The Lightning
180 Metric • Combat Baby
181 MGMT • Time To Pretend
182 Illscarlett • Heaters
183 Coldplay • The Scientist
184 Our Lady Peace • Innocent
185 Weezer • Island In The Sun
186 Mobile • Out Of My Head
187 Social Distortion • Reach For The Sky
188 Ubiquitous Synergy Seeker • Hollow Point Sniper Hyperbole
189 Audioslave • I Am The Highway
190 Billy Talent • The River Below
191 Tool • Lateralus
192 Sam Roberts • Don't Walk Away Eileen
193 Sloan • The Other Man
194 Queens Of The Stone Age • Go With The Flow
195 Thornley • So Far, So Good
196 Broken Social Scene • Cause=Time
197 Audioslave • Like A Stone
198 Treble Charger • American Psycho
199 The Trews • So She's Leaving
200 Linkin Park • Crawling

http://www.edge.ca/Music/Countdowns/Top200Millennium.aspx

Originally posted by uzless
Here is a list of the top 200 songs of the the past decade as put together by listeners at a Toronto radio station..102.1

Pretty sad indictment of the decade if you ask me.

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1 Red Hot Chili Peppers • Dani California
2 U2 • Beautiful Day
3 The White Stripes • Seven-N Linkin Park • Crawling

http://www.edge.ca/Music/Countdowns/Top200Millennium.aspx

It's a sad indictment of the radio station more than anything.

EDIT - my God, that is the worst list I have ever seen.

Originally posted by uzless
ug, i tried to be a bit general for the ADD folks here who don't like details.

just for you palynka....

the 90's can be split into 2.

1990-1995 - economy was in a recession..music was dark/anger/angst exemplified by bands like Nirvana/Tool/SP/Jane's/AliceinChains/NIN etc

1996-2000 economy turned around...music turned around..grunge died and was re ...[text shortened]... ue to licensing issues...you might have learned something had I been able to post the link.

Take That - Formed in 1990
Spice Girls - Formed in 1994
etc

Originally posted by darvlay
It's a sad indictment of the radio station more than anything.

EDIT - my God, that is the worst list I have ever seen.

I can't have been listening.

Originally posted by Palynka
Spice Girls and Take That predated the rise of the dotcom bubble. Anyway, when I look at the 80s I see A LOT of dark music. But maybe that's just bias.

You see right. It's just that dark music became mainstream in the 1990s. As for the economic analogies, map them onto the trajectory plotted by The Cure; and weep.

Originally posted by Palynka
Take That - Formed in 1990
Spice Girls - Formed in 1994
etc

NKOTB - formed in the 80's
BBD - formed in the 80's
mnudo - 80's

Rather than point out individual bands, take the genre as a whole and look at it from a macro perspective. Like i said, all forms of music are present at every moment in time...it's just a question of which form most people are listening to at that given moment.

Perhaps you should stick to commenting on things less complicated. Like what's your favorite colour or what's your favourite pizza topping....

Originally posted by Bosse de Nage
It's just that dark music became mainstream in the 1990s. .

Bingo. There was always dark music...it just became mainstream/more popular as the economy turned sour.

Originally posted by uzless
what's your favourite pizza topping....

Salted cod.

Originally posted by uzless
NKOTB - formed in the 80's
BBD - formed in the 80's
mnudo - 80's

Rather than point out individual bands, take the genre as a whole and look at it from a macro perspective. Like i said, all forms of music are present at every moment in time...it's just a question of which form most people are listening to at that given moment.

Perhaps you should s ...[text shortened]... complicated. Like what's your favorite colour or what's your favourite pizza topping....

LOL, you don't think the rise of the girl/boy bands (the epitome of poppy happy sounds) in a supposedly "dark age" puts a dent in your theory?

The post that was quoted here has been removed

I see what you did there.

Originally posted by uzless
Bingo. There was always dark music...it just became mainstream/more popular as the economy turned sour.

At that period in the UK, there was a shift away from dark music to happy druggy music. I'd hesitate to draw an economic analogy with the popularity of E.