When was "the day the music died?"

What about Vanilla Ice? You must have done a little dance to Ice Ice Baby back in the day?

Did you know she's from Mullumbimby. Not far from you.


Andrew

Sorry, but I think it's unfair to single out one "artist" to justify your inadequacy to appreciate some modern music. I think it's a rather closed minded perception to conclusively make a statement that "music is dead" simply because you don't like some of the things played on the radio (which is fine). I propose you broaden your musical intake and search for things which may not be played on the radio or some other music channel. YouTube would be a good starting point, in my opinion. You can search for covers made by YouTubers, comedic music (I personally recommend Epic Rap Battles of History -- although may not be everyone's cup of tea), or other music in general which doesn't get played on television or through the radio. I can assure you that there are some musical geniuses out there.

Furthermore, I disagree with the whole premise of music being "dead" even with the "mainstream" music. Adele, Bruno Mars, Michael Jackson, Eminem, Pink, Justin Timberlake and many more have all been making music after the date you proposed - and I think it's insulting to dismiss their music, and essentially compare it with music made by the likes of Iggy Azalea.

Some people shouldn't be famous, though. We can both agree on that.

Here's some Mozart for you:

Maybe it's because I'm British, but eighties music is one of my favourite kinds of music of all, particularly the stuff from the Mod revival era early in the decade - The Beat, The Specials, Bad Manners, Selecter etc.

Even now most of these have still 'got it about them' and continue to thrive. Rankin' Roger needs a serious attitude adjustment, but Buster Bloodvessel still sounds as good as ever though he's showing his age. I can't comment on what Selecter are like these days because I don't get to see them again until March. As for The Specials, even though they were always my favourite band back in the day, I expected them to have faded a bit when I went to see them in Newport last year. Not a bit of it - it turned out to be the best gig I've ever been to.

I also liked a lot of the Indie stuff that came out of Manchester in the early nineties - James, Blur, Oasis (and Pulp, who were actually from Sheffield but, well... close enough ). The only one of these I've ever seen live is James - twice. The most recent time was last week, when I actually got to sling an arm round Tim Booth's neck. Present-day me was thinking 'Yeah, big deal', while my inner twenty-five year old was going 'Squeeeee!! Wooohoo!!' all the way home

The music isn't quite dead yet, you just have to go out and poke its sleeping body. There's no excitedly turning on the radio to see what's new anymore

I expect it's unfashionable of me to say so and probably makes me sound like a bit of a music snob, but I think that if the music has died then the day it did so was same day that the X-Factor was born. Simon Cowell was holding the blunt instrument that did it in, but he did have accomplices in Stock, Aitken and Waterman, who had already helpfully anaesthetized it for him.

On the other hand, Buster Bloodvessel fan - music snob? Probably not I can blame Simon Cowell for everything with reckless abandon

I'de say that music has just evolved from where it use to be but I still like to hear old songs every now & then.

After The Boss it was downhill all the way.

That day has not come yet and music is not close to being dead. My wife and I are booked into 4 live shows over the next 11 weeks or so. Bush and Theory of a Deadman - 2Cellos - Korn as well as a Korn and Slipnot show. My wife gets to do one extra show as she is also seeing Manheim Steamroller.

Heck, I really enjoyed the old Dralion score I heard yesterday when I attended the Cirque du Soleil event here in Cedar Rapids. What a great show!

Music is alive and well!

Cheers

-don

If you think that all that was produced in the 70's was "pure pop - ABBA", then you weren't there. Either that or you had a very narrow range of music that you listened to.

For me the 70's was -

Hard rock (which later morphed into Heavy Metal) - Sabbath, Purple, Budgie, Heep, etc..
Glitter rock - Sweet, Slade, Bowie, Suzi Quatro, etc.
Prog Rock - ELP, Yes, Genesis, Tull, Crimson, Floyd, etc.
Punk Rock - Ramones, Pistols, The Clash, The Stranglers, etc.
New Wave - (crossed over into the 80's) - The Police, etc.
Then of course there was the pure pop of ABBA, etc..

And then Disco (vomit).

Video killed the radio star...slowly.

Once MTV got its foothold, image slowly became more important than the music. For me personally, this was the day the music died:

Hoohh Hauuuuhhhh

If you think it's dead - you aren't playing it loud enough.

Yikes! Rick Ghastly! Aaargghh!

One seventies band that I don't think I've seen get a mention is Sparks. They definitely had a sound all of their own. I didn't discover them until the early eighties, when my boyfriend's brother gave us one of their albums (Propaganda) that he didn't want anymore. We split up eventually, but I made sure I got custody of that album

And guess what? Social Media killed the Video Star... so goes on the vicious cycle of the music industry.

I think music per se is not dead. What really died is the art of great music. Today, more people want to sing rather than just simply listening to songs.

Tons of people flock to Britain's Got Talent, X-Factor and the like. But sad to say, only a few winners really know how to compose great songs. So after making one or two hits, they're gone.

Singers covering songs are also rampant these days, so fans tend to love the singers better than the song. This is why the real art of these great original songs is not being felt anymore.