re: Nick Saban: My generation had the best music, today's music doesn't compare

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90's was a weird transition of music. I know older people hate on it, but I can't see why.

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Early to mid 90s is my favorite. Grew up with late 70s and 80s stuff

Basically every creative element of music has been done, it's all retread music set to first world problem lyrics. People no longer struggle, so rock, blues and soul are dying or dead.

The man has great taste in music

Most sampled music ever is from 1960-1980...
Jazz cats from the 50's and 60's started making funk-jazz "on the one" in the 70's and changed the sound....

Did a whosampled.com on a lot of the music and artists that I used to listen to in the 90's and 00's and it all came back to 5 sec samples from the 70's...

Blue Mitchell, Brother Jack McDuff, Cannonball Adderley, Freddie Hubbard, Jimmy McGriff, Donald Byrd, Dorothy Ashby, Eddie Harris, Ramsey Lewis.

Nothing but synthesizers, auto-tune and drum machines nowadays. Boooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo

I’ve always wondered about Nick’s take on popular music.

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I think there are brilliant musicians out there currently making music, but there is a lot of new stuff that the kids seem to like that is absolutely horrible.

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A lot of popular stuff in every era is horrible.

The only difference between then and now is the old awful music stopped getting played over time while the new awful music still bores holes in your brain like an alien worm from hell.

Eventually the shite from now will vanish and only the good stuff will be played. Then 40 years from now some tired old fart that gave up on giving anything new a chance sometime in his mid 30s when he began to realize that "yes, this is his life" will be bitching to everyone around him that the music from 2010-2020 was GOAT while everything in future world is shite.

From that era Saban is talking about? Junk songs like The Osmonds "One Bad Apple", Richard Harris - MacArthur Park, Captain and Tennille "Muskrat Love", Rick Dees and His Cast of Idiots “Disco Duck” and many, many more were all big hits and got tons of radio play.

I agree here..but can you honestly find bands as good as Floyd, Zepp, Stones now?

Country singers with the talent of Cash or Hank?

Song writers as amazing as Dylan?

I just don't see it. Even in the less popular groups.

Blues singers with the soul of BB King?

Guitarist like Clapton or Jimi?

Maybe it's because it has all been done before.

There is a ton of really great music today, but it's much less a part of the culture at large & you really have to go looking to find it.

Some late 70’s music was downright awful. Take Patrick Hernandez, for example. Born To Be Alive must be the most nauseating song ever recorded.

True. Aaron Watson and Cody Johnson real country as far as new stuff. King George still the GOAT for all genres of music

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80s was the best decade. That shite today ain't music. These idiots don't even write songs anymore. They buy or steal them from others.

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Neither did Elvis.