Rusty Messages: 1186 Registered: May 2018 Location: Kansas City Missouri
Illuminati (3rd Degree)
Different genres of music have "golden era's" for me. For Jazz, the late 40's through the 60's I prefer. It's just maintaining now it seems, nothing very innovative. Rock I've liked from the beginning to around the 90's, when grunge became popular. Downer rock I've characterized it. Nothing real compelling since. Reggae really hit it's stride in the 70's I think and started to devolve in the 80's on with dancehall and the influx of hip-hop. Country, the 40's till the 60's get my attention. What passes today I can't hack. Whiny schlock. Blues is timeless but goes through era's of resurgence and decline. There was a nice resurgence in the late 70's that's mostly turned into blues rock now. I call it too much cream in the coffee.
Rap and hip-hop, I don't even want to go there. I will say that early rap sounds almost quaint to the ugly, mean spirited stuff the hip-hop sound seems.