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Originally Posted by Florya
Ok so some of my examples weren't that great. What I'm getting at is that when I played 'Filth' for the first time, back in 1983, it blew me away. I had never heard anything like it before.
Same with 'Brother James', 'Day of The Lords' and 'Stigmata Martyr'.
The same with 'Despair' by SPK and 'John of Patmos' by Eyeless in Gaza and 'Thirsty Animal' by Einsturzende Neubaten.
I understand the 'nothing is truly new, everything is a rehash of previous work' argument, but when an artist takes such a giant step that what they produce is unrecognisable from anything that preceded it, then that is an evolutionary step in music. A new species of music.
That evolution seems to have ground to a halt.
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I think a lot of the more 'visible' punk in the late 70's damaged certain people's expections of music in the UK, and I often hear the same sort of words you've been posting on this thread from those who came from punk around your age. Morrisey also really destroyed enthusiasm for anything other than conservative, and ultimately safe music, while cunningly making his fans feel like they are outsiders, when in fact they are just deluded.
A number of people have been mentioned already, plus add Birchville Cat Motel, Fennesz made some truly innovative music, hip hop, grime, turntablism etc came up with innovative stuff. There is a thing called the internet now, where you can search and discover thousands of bands, some of them terrible, some of the time average, some of them good, some of them really great, and also some of them doing new things with an eye to the future.
Your point is a personal one. Jut because you don't feel it like you used to, that has nothing to do with the way music carries on evolving regardless.