Pop is making me feel old

[KhiaShamone]

This depresses me. Don't you just miss the days when artists had two B-sides on a single, sometimes even three? Fact is that many artists continuously make the wrong choices when it comes to picking tracks for an album and with the death of the B-side many great songs will probably never see the light of day. In fact, many of my favourite songs ever are B-sides.

But then again, don't the iTunes "deluxe" and Japan-only and Walmart-only edition special/bonus tracks almost make up for it? Kind of a roundabout way of getting the B-sides and such...plus unused songs get leaked more often than not (as in, more often than in yesteryear).

[Mvnl]

I hate itunes only tracks. Not being able to get a track physically in any way is torture.

[marie_05]

I hate itunes only tracks. Not being able to get a track physically in any way is torture.

Exactly, it's not the same. I'm not a fan of the 'Japanese edition only' thing either.

Besides, back in the day a lot of artists had bonus tracks and B-sides!

[Baby Clyde]

Yes, I've always been of the delayed gratification bent. I never listen to album leaks, and don't stream, so I never hear albums until I buy them physically - which often isn't until months after they're released, so the anticpation often has a looong time to build.

This is me precisely. I wouldn't dream of listening to an album before buying it. That would spoil all the fun. I wouldn't know where to find a 'leaked' album if I tried and am not entirely sure what 'streaming' is.

I buy an album, upload it to iTunes and then play it. If I like it I continue to play it, if I don't it sits there with the 20,000 other songs and pops up every now and then when I have it on shuffle.

[ladygagaogaga]

You are 22 but you are sounding like a horrible mix of a mid life crisis and emo teenager but that is how most 22 year olds sound.

There is PLENTY of exciting music out this year, I'd even say 2012 has been my favourite since 2008 (Lana, Azaelia/Azalea, Icona Pop, Rebecca & Fiona, Niki & the Dove, Grimes, St Lucia, Charli XCX, CInnamon Girl, Trails & Ways, Swiss Lips, iamamiwhoami etc)

[sometimesxtc]

2009!!! Try being stuck in 1983.

I'm older enough to be your father but modern pop doesn't make me feel old at all, it just makes me feel superior.

This thread is fantastic. All I can add is, I share Baby Clyde's thoughts... even though I was only born the year before I'm (also) stuck in.

[Tribal Spaceman]

90s dance music was my biggest love but now the charts are full of generic crap with a 90s-esque sound and I just can't get into it. Well, maybe 10% or so, but the rest is dire.

[vivalaradio]

I find that most of the music I buy these days ends up being albums by artists l liked when I was a teenager in the 90s, but I'd never bought their albums back then as I spent all my money on singles!

[Keifer3194]

Not being funny , but I don't think being older (20s isn't old at all) stops anyone from discovering or listening to new music - u just have to look for the good stuff. Btw Florrie is perfect so people shouldn't send for her :P

[MadgeBrit]

I truly think this is a case of music simply sucking harder than ever.

The way fashion has died out, music has died out. people have simply run out of ideas and sounds.

[Keifer3194]

No,no, and no. Pop music is just as interesting as it was in the previous decade. People who say it all sucks just don't look hard enough. Popjustice proves this.

[hudweiser]

You are 22 but you are sounding like a horrible mix of a mid life crisis and emo teenager but that is how most 22 year olds sound.

It reminds me of St Elmo's Fire. If anyone's too young to know of it, it's essentially about a bunch of 22-year-old post-grads having mid-life crises' about all manner of things that, ten years later, one would barely acknowledge let alone stress about.

That may sound snide, it's not supposed to. I worry about all manner of grand-scheme-of-things unimportant stuff.

[Eric Generic]

Pop music is just as interesting as it was in the previous decade. People who say it all sucks just don't look hard enough

This maybe so, but surely we shouldn't need to look hard for any good stuff...throughout the decades, there has been a fair amount of good stuff in plain sight. This must be the first time in (my) living memory where anything half-decent is beyond the immediate mainstream and fantastic pop music by Will Young is reduced to the fringes.

[Keifer3194]

Echoes was a brilliant album that did, in fact, debut at the top. I just don't think the problem is as big as people say though there is a problem. I also blame the problem on this whole 'stanning' culture thing where people are so obsessed with one artists that they dont want to hear anything else or refuse to listen to pop music beyond the top selling females. That needs to end or great pop music will not come through.

[Eric Generic]

Echoes did well at first, but the media have a problem with maintaining support/interest in anyone who isn't the latest fad, or who doesn't give them easy column inches. The Brits snubbed him even though there was a paucity of genuine nominees, and the last time he was on a NOW collection was 11 volumes ago (NOW 71). He's merely an example, there are many others in the same position. Too many pop fans are obssessed with the same narrow selection of supposed superstars, and the media can't see beyond finding the next big 5-second thing.

[Baby Clyde]

90s dance music was my biggest love but now the charts are full of generic crap with a 90s-esque sound and I just can't get into it. Well, maybe 10% or so, but the rest is dire.

Modern chart music is NOTHING like 90's dance, one of the most glorious genres in musical history.

If only it sounded like this..........

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wBfhuq6sOZQ

[Baby Clyde]

This maybe so, but surely we shouldn't need to look hard for any good stuff...throughout the decades, there has been a fair amount of good stuff in plain sight. This must be the first time in (my) living memory where anything half-decent is beyond the immediate mainstream and fantastic pop music by Will Young is reduced to the fringes.

As usual.

THIS^^
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and

THIS^^

[Mvnl]

Yeah, but then the 90s also had a few years that sounded like this...

[Charley]

I wonder if I Want To Be A Hippy will ever get sampled into a pop song.

[Eric Generic]

I'm amazed I ever survived 1992 with its A Trip To Trumpton, Rhubabrd & Custard and all that rubbish! And SL2's On A Ragga Tip, and umpteen 2 Unlimited singles that all sounded the same to me. Happy days!?

[Mvnl]

I'm amazed I ever survived 1992 with its A Trip To Trumpton, Rhubabrd & Custard and all that rubbish! And SL2's On A Ragga Tip, and umpteen 2 Unlimited singles that all sounded the same to me. Happy days!?

Aww, 2 Unlimited weren't so bad.. Although I found them waaaay too noisy at the time. But their Greatest Hits is actually quite solid and really nothing but hits, which is quite something for the kind of act they were.
Plus the times they did try something differently it ended up surprisingly nice..



(Some nostalgia might cloud my judgement)

[Keifer3194]

Also don't come for On A Ragga Tip - That's my tune.

[Blob]

Can't we just go back to the days of Motown!?

[Charley]

I'm amazed I ever survived 1992 with its A Trip To Trumpton, Rhubabrd & Custard and all that rubbish! And SL2's On A Ragga Tip, and umpteen 2 Unlimited singles that all sounded the same to me. Happy days!?

I had no idea that bit of Nadia Oh's "Slapper (Ayye)" was a sample! In my defence though, I was just 4 years old the year On A Ragga Tip was released.

[Mvnl]

Can't we just go back to the days of Motown!?

Now thére's a plan!!

But then, I quite appreciate being able to choose between Motown, 90s dance, Max Martin pop, Timbaland R&B, 90s rock ballads, etcetera etcetera. Even if they stopped making new music I'd be good for the rest of my life.