Music has been around for thousands of years, with each generation adding new takes that reflect their cohort better. Over the decades, a myriad of genres and subgrenres have been spawned; it’s only natural that some types of music would become dated and burn out quicker than others. Although the music that fit under the following genres may still be found if you know where to look, they no longer reach the mainstream heights they achieved during their peak years. Here are ten music genres of the modern era that burned hot and fast. Click for Full Text!
Poster Comment:
It's sickening to read as it demonstrates in microcosm the rot that popular music has been for more years than I can count. My vague perception that one of the most maddeningly mindless, disco, goes on and on.
OF COURSE a commenter gives us a bunch of relativistic "How many older people that came before you wept for you not appreciating their music from their time" bilge -- but there are real esthetic standards, and like everything real and decent today, they're really being trampled underfoot.
In the true golden age, the 60s, a 100% acoustic album full of intrinsically beautiful melody and meaning could spend 5 weeks at #1
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter,_Paul_and_Mary_(album)
No more -- too normal, no free-floating across-the-board suicide-pact irony!