01-01-2019, 12:51 AM
(This post was last modified: 01-01-2019, 01:15 AM by Eric the Green.)
(12-31-2018, 09:21 AM)Bill the Piper Wrote:(12-31-2018, 07:22 AM)David Horn Wrote: And regarding the lack of Artist types: I can't see that at all. We didn't have an explosion of art and music in the 1960s from young Boomers, after all.
Yes, the explosion of good music in the Millennial cycle (lasting from late 60s to early 2000s) will be probably remembered as the "golden age of rock". And it might be true that the Silents inspired it.
Yes, and the golden age of rock was pretty much over by the early 1980s (and started earlier, in the mid-60s not the late 60s). The Silents, mostly late wave/Boomer cuspers, led by The Beatles and company, the folk and folk-rock artists like Bob Dylan and Donovan, and the Motown sound artists, certainly led the way. But rock certainly continued into the 2000s, and sometimes it was even listenable (though later rock was sometimes deliberately ugly and revolting). Now, pop music can be described as innocuous cookie cutter when it is not downright annoying.