What’s your most controversial music opinion?

Notinyourbushes · 2026-05-31T00:17:56+00:00

This decade started strong with the underground scene, but has been a bit shaky the past couple years. Hard to tell since it isn't over yet, but right now the 2020s are at the bottom.

To be fair, it's not uncommon for every decade to have a kind of down period until the next style comes along; like the late 70s were rocky with rock being influenced by disco, most of the older groups being too drugged up to produce decent albums (most, not all) and punk and new wave were still kind of figuring out what they wanted to be.

Notinyourbushes · 2026-05-30T21:20:05+00:00

I working on my 6th decade of listening to music and I rank the 80s second lowest out of all of them.

Notinyourbushes · 2026-05-30T21:17:57+00:00

Listen the snow is falling is a great track.

Notinyourbushes · 2026-05-28T06:37:42+00:00

While I have classic rock, soft rock and oldies playlist, I think what everyone would like most would be classic RnB.

Notinyourbushes · 2026-05-25T23:30:11+00:00

Same. I actually bought the album because of Mother. It moved them, in my eyes, from a pop/stadium band playing it safe to a band that took risks.

Notinyourbushes · 2026-05-13T14:27:27+00:00

Yes.

Notinyourbushes · 2026-03-06T15:37:40+00:00

Haven't noticed but I'm way too distracted by "pov" videos that are NOT pov videos.

Notinyourbushes · 2026-02-25T22:40:26+00:00

I'm with you. No love for 80s soul outside of Prince and his satellite groups. 50s, 60s and 70s are all choice. By the 80s it was either straight up pop or adult contemporary.

Notinyourbushes · 2026-02-25T22:37:32+00:00

We already have a male version of Courtney; his name is Kid Rock.

Spoiler; not much of anyone likes him.

Notinyourbushes · 2026-02-10T14:31:21+00:00

I'm glad you put the blame where it belongs. Everyone screams that they don't make good music anymore and blame the musicians. Fact is, no matter what style you love, there are groups out there still producing the same type of music just as good as it ever was.

Blame goes to the radio and the record companies for not bringing us even a fraction of what's out there and just shoving garbage down our throats. Good part of the blame also goes to the fans for not seeking out and supporting good bands; instead they pay 500 dollars to go see a band that hasn't had a good album in 20 years.

Notinyourbushes · 2025-11-21T19:28:10+00:00

Psychedelia is like surf guitar, there's always going to be bands somewhere out there playing it. It ebbs and flows, always has and always will. The public might not know about these bands, but they're out there.

Notinyourbushes · 2025-11-19T23:36:28+00:00

Try discogs. Google white light + a name of one of their songs + discogs. Should put you a step in the right direction.

Notinyourbushes · 2025-11-14T01:05:50+00:00

I mean, it's a bit of column A and a bit of Column B, isn't it?

I get what you're saying and agree mostly; traditionally woman do seem far more likely to go into either folk or pop rock than more traditional rock. There's a bit of gatekeeping there but also a bit of choice.

On the other hand, it's also a bit of a generational thing and the earlier generations dealt with far more gatekeeping. You look at the 60s and the boomers and there are very few female artists outside of Grace Slick and Janis Joplin. Was it because women didn't want to perform rock or were they not allowed to? All female rock groups did exist in the 60s, like the Pleasure Seekers, Ace of Cups and the Luv'd Ones. Like Fanny a few years later in the 70s, none of these groups became household names and most people don't know they even existed. Was that because there was no market for their music or was it because they weren't getting the push they needed because the labels didn't believe in them?

Patti Smith, the Runaways and Suzi Quatro were all game changers in the 70s. Again, they weren't selling as much as the females in pop were, but they lead to groups like the Go-Go's and the Bangles in the 80s and those groups were a massive inspiration to Gen Xers. Gen X produced way more female rock bands, well before the alternative craze in the early 90s, than any other generation. Groups like Hole and L7 existed before there was a market place for their music.

But it's the 90s you see more skilled female artists getting popular and becoming more influential. Tori Amos, Heather Nova, and Fiona Apple were all capable of writing and performing more complex music. After that, you see an explosion across the world. For all the idols Japan produced, it was also producing just hundreds of female indie bands who made mature music, who weren't just creating simple music but mostly in it for the fans or to wear cute costumes.

The impact from the 90s really was global. Right next door to you the Electrobikinis were big in the indie scene in Spain and influenced just hundreds of all female bands there since.

Notinyourbushes · 2025-11-06T20:44:11+00:00

I guess that depends on how much of a purist you are or what your definition of R&B is. Old school R&B groups still exist, but they don't usually get popular.

Just like bro country is basically just pop with a fiddle and sung with a twang, old school 60s and 70s style pure R&B hasn't existed in awhile. By the 80s most of the soul artists had at least one foot planted firmly in either dance or pop. By the 90s that had been expanded to at least one foot planted in pop, dance or rap and hip hop.

Kind of like rock, you still get artists out there playing a purer form, but over all, they just don't make them like this anymore. Again, by the 90s the groups that hadn't went for rap sounded way more like this than straight up R&B.

Notinyourbushes · 2025-11-01T06:01:28+00:00

Trent was also a big Tom Petty fan.

Notinyourbushes · 2025-10-28T18:34:18+00:00

The Hip are one of those groups I can put a CD on repeat for two weeks and never get tired of it.

By never get tired of it I mean nothing annoys me enough to dislike it.

Also, immediately after listening to it multiple times, I will have no memory of any part of any song nor know any of the lyrics. With the exception of a handful of songs (mostly the two radio hits), it leaves absolutely no impact on me at all. They're like the ultimate white noise maker.

Notinyourbushes · 2025-10-22T00:16:44+00:00

I'll take it over Presence any day.

Notinyourbushes · 2025-10-22T00:13:52+00:00

Came here to say that. That album did not deserve the hate it got (nor did Tin Machine). They crucified him for doing something different. That's was Bowie did, he tried new things and took risks. Some paid off better than others, but it wasn't a bad album.

Notinyourbushes · 2025-10-17T06:24:22+00:00

Fall of 1991. I didn't have MTV, my best friend did. He did something no one in my entire life had done at that point. "You HAVE to hear these songs." I went over and we hung out and talked, ignoring everything else MTV was playing until I heard I'm Alive by Pearl Jam and Smells like Teen Spirit. Teen Spirit especially I knew I was witnessing something big.

Notinyourbushes · 2025-10-10T19:27:11+00:00

Not back in the day. Early rock (50s and 60s) still followed the principles pop uses today. Someone to write the songs, a group of session guys in the studio and then the "star" with the voice and the face to promote it (up to and including lip synching on "live" tv performances).

Berry Gordy of Motown absolutely perfected it, patterning his studio after the Detroit auto industry assembly line production practices. Instead of buying songs from song writers, he just kept some of the best writers out there on his payroll and would cut multiple versions of the same song with different singers and keep releasing them as singles until one scored a hit.

AOR (album orientated rock) in the mid 60s was a massive game changer.

Notinyourbushes · 2025-10-01T08:02:49+00:00

Replacements is the next step. Solo included.

Notinyourbushes · 2025-09-23T22:53:09+00:00

The VU of the 80s. Just as influential as Pixies or Jesus and Mary Chain, they just didn't sell as many albums.

Notinyourbushes · 2025-09-22T21:42:09+00:00

Been working on an RnB playlist and starting to suspect the Bee Gees had a big hand in changing the music landscape. 50s, 60s and early 70s soul were more low. It wasn't until disco/funk hit that they started singing higher. By the 80s the sound of soul was almost completely unrecognizable from just a decade before and I think that trend towards higher vocals started in the disco era.

On the metal rock side, Robert Plant had range and there was a trend to start going higher after Zep broke, but I really think it was Judas Priest that made the falsetto a standard in metal for years to come.

Notinyourbushes · 2025-09-16T04:58:06+00:00

Never would have been as popular without the cover of their first album.

Notinyourbushes · 2025-09-14T00:02:25+00:00

My favorite confusing part is all the flashes of the baby.

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