Yes, please bring back the awesome, ground-breaking music of the Reagan Days.

Sleeping Monkey: Yes, please bring back the awesome, ground-breaking music of the Reagan Days.

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well in all fairness this one wasn't made until after Obama was elected...

//yup im at work..

yeah, it's been pretty shiatty for a while now.

What if i don't like whiny protest songs?

Infinite Monkeys In Front Of A Computer: Sleeping Monkey: Yes, please bring back the awesome, ground-breaking music of the Reagan Days.

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Well played, m'dear. Well played indeed.

What is a Lady Gaga? Sounds like a chick with an infantilism fetish. Kinda looks like one too.

Prince of Pluto: What is a Lady Gaga?

The female spawn of Satan.

Young, Democrat presidents usually inspire lame pop trends submitters

Richard Nixon's election in 1968 may have ultimately been bad for the country, but it was great for R&B.

R&B? How about folk rock, acid rock, or whatever you want to call CSN(Y), Jefferson Airplane Starship, and the rest of the late 1960s? (The 1960s ended in 1973 or 1974.)

Juan Atkins, Derrick May, Kevin Saunderson Ronald Reagan

Music is fine.

Sleeping Monkey: Yes, please bring back the awesome, ground-breaking music of the Reagan Days.

Music was fine in the 80's.

Dont listen to the radio if you are trying to gauge the state of music.

This isn't ground breaking. There's nothing to protest about so all the crappy pop music is getting the air time.

It's nothing new... The Vietnam War ends and Disco starts. Gulf War I ends and we get The Backstreet Boys.

It's actually pretty depressing...

What a horrible farking article.

Sleeping Monkey: Yes, please bring back the awesome, ground-breaking music of the Reagan Days.

Were you alive or paying any attention then?

Bonzo Goes to Bitburg (^)

Hilarious. Article should be titled, Hello, Bill Clinton. Goodbye, good music.

The '90s were the farking worst.

Gunny Highway: Music is fine.

Sleeping Monkey: Yes, please bring back the awesome, ground-breaking music of the Reagan Days.

Music was fine in the 80's.

Dont listen to the radio if you are trying to gauge the state of music.

this

The Reagan era gave us this, this, this, and this.

So hey, at least something went right in the 80's.

SilentStrider: The Reagan era gave us this, this, this, and this.

So hey, at least something went right in the 80's.

Not to mention this, this, this, and this.

carmody: Hilarious. Article should be titled, Hello, Bill Clinton. Goodbye, good music.

The '90s were the farking worst.



eh, maybe 2nd term Clinton. I'd still take Clinton-era mainstream schlock vs Bush and Reagan schlock.

I agree the song in question is horrible, but unlike many of the writer's examples from prior generations, this song is correlational and not causal of the current political/economic climate. We're still broke and unemployed, and I don't want to "just dance."

Sleeping Monkey: Yes, please bring back the awesome, ground-breaking music of the Reagan Days.

There is not enough room in this thread. Reagan inspired a million punk bands.

Tr0mBoNe: This isn't ground breaking. There's nothing to protest about so all the crappy pop music is getting the air time.

It's nothing new... The Vietnam War ends and Disco starts. Gulf War I ends and we get The Backstreet Boys.

It's actually pretty depressing...

Then where the fark was the powerful and revolutionary music for the last 8 years...

...I'm supposed to be complaining about kids and their loud music, not kids and their wussy music.

But wait, what about the "Grunge Renaissance" of a few days ago? You know, the one supposedly going on in Leeds, England and Georgia (the state, not the country)? Isn't that sort of a step in the right direction? Besides, I thought I once heard that shiatty economy = good music. Example: 70s punk & 90s grunge.

bigbadideasinaction: Then where the fark was the powerful and revolutionary music for the last 8 years...

...I'm supposed to be complaining about kids and their loud music, not kids and their wussy music.

I would imagine you probably biatch about kids bumping rap out of their car stereos.

Kids my age are content listening to blah 70's rock if they want to "protest" instead of music from their own generation.

Article is full of cliches and nonsense. Why the hell take it seriously?

I think we should be fair and give the new president at least 100 days.

So it's just me that's actually dumber after having read that article?

Gunny Highway: Music was fine in the 80's.

Dont listen to the radio if you are trying to gauge the state of music.

Exaclty. The music is fine now, you just don't hear it on the radio.

Some of my favorites that churn out good music on nealy a yearly basis:

Mark Knopfler
Reckless Kelley
JJ Cale

At the risk of sounding like a snob, most music that sits atop the pop charts in any given presidency is shiat. Unless it was the Beatles. It's not any president's fault, not even GWB's, that people like horrible music.

ZombieStreetCred: But wait, what about the "Grunge Renaissance" of a few days ago? You know, the one supposedly going on in Leeds, England and Georgia (the state, not the country)? Isn't that sort of a step in the right direction?

Only if that direction leads over a cliff into Puget Sound....

/Grunge ruined mainstream rock

Grunge Renaissance?

Renaissance means rebirth so that couldn't be right because grunge was definitely DOA. The worst musial genre ever.

DjangoStonereaver: /Grunge ruined mainstream rock

worse than hair metal? I can understand not liking grunge, but saying it's the worst ever certainly brings into question your taste in music.

As if pop music could possibly get any farking worse than it is now. Auto-Tune and PR, Auto-Tune and PR, rinse, repeat

"worse than hair metal? I can understand not liking grunge, but saying it's the worst ever certainly brings into question your taste in music."

At least hair metal left us with some decent rock anthems. Grunge substituted angst for actual musical know-how IMO -- and that knowhow included writing decent melodies.

I'd take Warrant over Pearl Jam and Nirvana, critics be damned.

um. what? 60-68, 77-80, 92-2000. those are the best of times for music since the war. sorry.

grunge had substance and the whole notion that hair metal had musical know-how is retarded. but more importantly, THE SIXTIES. and also the punk era. shut up.