New fag here what was this place like before
2015?
Literally nothing but Simon and Garfunkel
>>65267010
More of the same. There's even less actual discussion now, but one thing that's improved is the way sharethreads are conducted.
>>65267026
those were the days
>>65267010
Slightly less shit. Slightly.
Death Grips were a way bigger deal, and there was more board culture. /mu/core was more of a thing, and AnCo and Radiohead had a much larger presence.
>>65267070
I don't think I could ever imagine a /mu/ like that
>>65267010
2010 through early 2012 was very serious and elitist, and then summer 2012 was the worst /mu/ has ever been- it felt like a 3 month invasion from /b/. hip hop and shoegaze became very popular on /mu/ in 2013, but hip hop got labelled a meme in late 2013. 2014/2015 weren't great (2014 had a lot of general discussion threads and shitposting happened everywhere else), but 2016 has been marginally better.
>>65267118
Can tell you right now that so far this has been the worst year for /metal/ at least
>>65267026
i miss garfunkel power hour
>>65267173
I don't browse /metal/, but I know that it's become more shitpost-y. /shugazi/ is gone, and I haven't seen the hip hop general recently either. /daily/ is like what those chart threads were not too long ago, and /bleep/ is still rather good, at least by /mu/ standards.
>>65267010
a lot of this and
>implying
>>65267118
I don't know man, Montie shitting up most threads and poseurcore becoming a thing has been pretty irritating.
>>65267345
What is the story behind that douche any way?
>>65267070
Board culture is the biggest thing
there used to be all of these things that were completely unique to /mu/ that separated it from all of the other boards
Then the mods came down hard on all of the culture/feels/fun threads to the point of /mu/'s collective consciousness pretty much forgetting all of that. And then right after the mods abandoned this place again, effectively destroying all of its redeeming qualities and then leaving it wide open for shitposters/newfags etc to flood in
Now its just more of the same. It really is just a music-themed /v/ now
RIP old-/mu/
may you some day live on in spirit in the form of another board, somewhere
>>65267231
oh shit I had forgotten about Shugazi completely.
What other generals died with the years? I know /classical/ has been getting some dead threads lately, sadly.
When I came in 2012 there weren't generals. The organizing principles were avant elitism and feels. The elitism was centered around the taste of tripfags. The trips of today are fucking pathetic compared to the meme masters that CLT and btrl were. There was a masterful fusion of memes and music going on. ITAOTS was actually capable of generating a ridiculous multiple-tier hypothetical narrative memescape that was very much a part of the lexicon of the board. As a newcomer in 2012 my memories of the place as a fun time were kind of short-lived. There were less charming memes like racism that took over soon.
>>65267010
well considering that Angry Kid was blessed upon us in 2015, i think you can imagine that it was pretty uneventful
well /mu/'s shitty memes have never really stuck like /tv/'s so quality has been pretty consistent over the years IMO, mainly because there's always discussion about music of all kinds at all times. K-Pop shit could hit the road and I wouldn't even give a shit because even they're respectful enough to stay to their threads. New music is constantly posted, recs are usually pretty solid, people get mad when you like something they don't like and water's still wet. /mu/ has always been one of the best boards and I think most would agree.
>>65267099
It just three years ago.
>>65267364
he shitpost a lot with a trip, thats pretty much it
>>65267010
Lots of tripfriends who specialized in different genres, lots of sharethreads (rip mediafire), as others said more of a unique board culture.
I haven't visited /mu/ in about a year, but from what I've seen lurking in the past hour or so, general music taste of the users here has become less unique and more uniform. Lots of the same albums on charts, etc, even more than before.
I miss old /mu/.
>>65267520
I don't know if it is the best. It's my main board, and the music you can find here is, memes aside, usually amazing. Just a couple days ago I found an album that's becoming my favorite of the decade in an obscure recs thread. Still, there's just a fuckton of shitposting in the form of threads here. Maybe a little too much. Otherwise, the board is great.
As for the best board, I'd say >>>/wg/ takes the title. It's veeeery fucking slow, but the community is friendly enough (for 4chin standards) to not be annoying, and the content is marvelous. Too fucking slow though.
>>65267010
2014 and 2015 were the best years. It will likely never top those 2 years.
>>65267367
This actually made me sad
>>65267053
lmao homie talkin real on 'em slightly he say
>>65267387
Jazz generals still pop up but never do well
There used to be a general for Duster too, I saw it a couple times
NOTM spam
Death Grips all the time (remember ARG?)
Better feels threads
Better sharethreads (remember Jazzthreadguy?)
Even more Famtano memes?
>>65268063
dude I don't know about before, but the current sharethreads are the literal best place to find new music in the internet. How were they better before?
Those threads make up for ALL the shit that gets posted around here, tbhphampai.
>>65267840
its a sad story. it makes me sad that there will likely never be another place on the internet like it ever again
>>65267933
dude a duster general?
i would love that. i wish i knew of more bands that sounded like duster. they have the most perfect tone/aesthetic of any band that i can think of
mf doom
aphex twin
AOTS
Deathgrips
racism
>>65267345
poseurcore has always been a thing. it's nothing new.
>>65267367
The feels threads fucking sucked anyway.
>>65268202
The only thing better about them was Jazzthreadguy, before the swedeposter took over his trip he was probably one of the best contributors on the board.
>>65268556
I liked them, they were a great outlet for me in high school.
Regardless of if they sucked or not, threads like those mentioned helped contribute to and build the board culture here, and made this board what it was, for better or worse.
Id prefer a /mu/ with a distinct identity to the boring more-of-the-same board we have now anyday
>>65268663
It hasn't changed much though. We still get threads with >tfw no gf shit all the time. The real problem I have with /mu/ is the lack of new shit permeating the board culture. We're still fucking talking about Kanye and Grimes for fucks sake.
>>65267387
>>65267231
holy shit what happend to /Shugazi/
almost filtered it because it was such trash, there are also less /bleep/ now that i think about it (still pretty common) but there are more kpop threads (somehow) and more equipment/instrument threads
Sharethreads were better and more plentiful.
>>65267467
Yeah, I honestly remember shitposting being a lot less crass and hostile than it is these days
>>65268744
This is the biggest problem with /mu/ today
>>65268202
Sharethreads are kinda dead honestly
I remember in 2011-12 there was a lot more of them and they less autism and more music
I think that just coincides with the fall of the /rs/ era though
>>65268063
>Better sharethreads (remember Jazzthreadguy?)
>jazzthreadguy
You mean the fuck that constantly spammed shitty swedish christian vynil rips and clogged up potentially nice sharethreads with that faggotry? Yeah, amazing threads were had that way...
>>65268530
In some variation, this is true, but I'm noticing this version more than the prior generations though I guess I like the term more than "talentless hacks"
>>65268587
Jazzthreadguy was so based
>>65267681
2015 was absolute shit, it's gotten way better again.
>>65269830
This, TPAB shitposting was a low point.
>>65269722
>>65268063
jtg still posts regularly, he's in the jazz general all the time
>>65269843
I love that album but you're completely right
>>65268744
My problem is that people don't contribute to threads with other artists
gore spammer
tripper gettem
listen-alongs
horrible summers that never ended
>>65268663
Why don't you just start old-/mu/ style threads yourself?
>>65269885
I do when I'm able. The issue with /mu/ has always been /mu/core itself. When the board became aware of the the commonalities in taste and made a bunch of charts to reflect it, newfags ended up listening to that shit and not moving on. It's a double edged sword though. I started on /mu/core for example, and it helped expand my taste greatly. The issue is that you can't force people to stop being faggots who only listen to the same shit over and over again.
>>65269843
GKMC was worse desu
>>65269830
I came here early 2015 and I have fond memories of it
2016 feels godawful dogshit tier compared to it
>>65270180
I definitely agree. The only thing that really saves /mu/ from that are the generals. On chart threads, I always try to give recs to things that the board is unfamiliar with.
>>65267345
Hampus is a better troll anyways.and cooltop too.
>>65270448
I miss CLT. He was a great troll.
>>65267010
much better board culture (like it or not the feels threads and /mu/mor threads (i especially loved facebook threads) gave this board a unique personality, now the board culture isn't much different from /v/ /pol/ and /tv/
sharethreads were more frequent, and arguably better as we had a lot of ppl who specialized in certain genres and mediafire still worked
LOTS of tripcode users circlejerking and shitposting but imo in a funnier way than they do now
a lot more listen-alongs, singalongs, generally more 'interactive' threads that went beyond just arguing about music and posting collages
honestly i can't really think of anything that's gotten better about this board besides MAYBE that the same 3 itaots jokes aren't on the first 2 pages all the time now
>>65270525
you remember the guy that posted super obscure scandinavian vinyl rips? oh those were the times.
>>65270572
remember the guy that posted super obscure penis rips because he didn't like i, the witchfinder
>>65270587
that's just gorespammer. i like to think he's the main reason metal got pushed away from /mu/. at least we have a general now.
>>65270490
>he actually convinced a good portion of the board that kesha was patrician
>>65270624
It was brilliant. He was great.
Im an ancient fag that has been posting on 4chan since a year after it was made, ive seen meme's you wouldn't believe, now all gone, like tears in the rain.
Mu:
Era 1: folk, indie, metal, jazz, rock,
Era 2: (current era) OH MY GAWD I LOVE NIGGER DICK KANYE WEST GOT A 10 FROM PISSFORK HURRRR DURRRR RAP HIPPTY HOPPP NOTHING ELSEE.
era 3: ?????????
>>65270687
Looks like you've deteriorated some in the process.
>>65270687
2004: /mu/ started
2016: rip /mu/ goodbye
>>65270687
>implying /mu/ isn't 90% black men
>implying /mu/niggers aren't shooting their African genes into white women every day
>>65270687
The ten from pitchfork was definitely a turning point.
damn how did grimes vs. anti-grimes even become such a thing?
>>65270687
it's pre-MBDTF review and post. /mu/ has never recovered.
>>65270724
People have always hated on Grimes. I've never listened to one of her albums in my life, but both sides of the conflict seem to be mind-numbingly retarded.
>>65270713
The internet was better before niggers and teenage girls invaded it, i blame smart phones
>>65270729
I just want this nigger era to end.
Mu should move on to electronic music or some shit
>>65270767
phones changed the site. fuckers can shitpost, get banned and just get a new ip effortlessly. i remember back in the time when you get banned you can't even fucking lurk.plus this site can be accesse from anywhere now since smartphones blew up. nowadays people just treat the site as a site to visit when you're bored in class, instead of dedicating your time to shitpost.
what is the next step for /mu/?
will this board enter a renaissance period, better than any period beforehand?
what will it be like?
>>65270941
Continued degredation. The only way /mu/ can reform is to become elitist again. That won't happen, too many normalfags now.
>>65270941
music has become so stagnant, just nothing but top 40 pop rap.
I see no light at the end of the tunnel
>>65270790
despite your /b/-tier shitposting it would be cool to see a /mu/ more focused on electronic genres
right now it's just "Daft Punk, Aphex Twin, the list goes on..." with 80% of the board, and the other 20% are largely /bleep/fags (which is fine, it's just certainly not the whole of electronic music)
>>65270998
What's a good in-point for electronic music?
>>65270961
/meal/ got that coverd though. indiefags need to step up.
>>65270998
>nigger is /b/ shit
fuck off nigger-lover
>>65271025
Most indie-fags are too weak-willed. I shit on garbage like Hospice whenever I can but I'm just one man.
Similar like now. The thread-culture was a little different. Sharethreads were always on the first page. I definitly remember the /mu/core bands having more discussion. AnCo and NMH were spammed like crazy, which I don't see as much anymore now.
>>65271015
that's like asking for an in-point to the entirety of 'string music.' there's many electronic genres, so you'd be best off finding a few that sound decent to you and then asking for recs specific to them.
I mostly listen to 90's autist bloops and "IDM" personally, but there's lots of shit out there.
>>65271025
I never mentioned you using the word nigger, I just said that your posts were /b/-tier shitposts. now they're looking much closer to /pol/ though.
>>65271076
/mu/ is /b/ tier shitposts though. it wasn't even me posting.
>>65271105
/mu/ is pretty shit, but it's not quite /b/ levels of shit
it's probably closest to [s4s], and at its worst maybe /tv/
>/emoe/ probably dead
>mumu/djplayer not being used that much, if at all
>2009 was 7 years ago
You guys should really just start leavng 4chan in general now it's become way too filled with shitposters, remember when "memes" meant characters that you can make endless jokes out of? now it's just whatever shit some guy posts on twitter, i would be fucking shocked if 4chan lasted for another 10 years.
>>65271577
Nowhere else to go. Reddit is shit, and while I use RYM I try to keep my interaction with that tryhard community to a minimum.
>>65271577
I've found that trying new boards helps
as in literally new boards, boards that were recently created
/trash/ is generally comfy, and I've heard that when it isn't being overrun by /pol/ /his/ can be pretty good too
>>65269034
>he thinks that is actually jtg
How new?
Speaking of spammers, I miss Karen.
>>65268396
Well it died a long ass time ago but I'm sure you can find the pastebin if you ask nicely enough for it.
>>65267010
I think there were more "adults" back then. Now there are a lot of kids and high schoolers here, the serious discussion is been replaced by memes.
My opinion not nothing changed
I think the longer you are here, the better you get at visually filtering out the shit and finding specific threads that actually have something to offer, at least in my opinion. It seems about the same here as it did in 2013, although meme rap was a bigger deal so I'm glad that died
>>65274171
i think maybe you were underaged. so your perception of age changed. im 20 now but started posting when i was 14. there were way more people into childrens music like emo, shoegaze, post-punk, post hardcore, indie etc... more feelfags. i tihnk the board hasnt really changed to much in quality but there is less that actively pisses me off anymore.
Been here since 2010. It was a lot better. Now whenever I visit this board and see the threads I feel immense depression and regret. Normies and memes were a mistake.
>>65271216
none of those things existed in 09
>>65274548
not that guy but i think the problem is that 4chan became so mainstream. like there were always kids, but they used to be total dirtbag outcasts. i'd rather have some insecure 14 year old trying to fit in than one trying to tell me eminem is the greatest thing and how all his friends agree
>>65269912
>gore spammer
nice, I had forgotten about this
It's never been "good", but it used to be better. Less retard kids who take themselves too seriously and a higher average knowledge about music, but also just as much if not more elitism and general assholery.
>>65274904
It's a cliché but it's true, 4chan's downfall has been it becoming common knowledge. There used to more of a general consensus on what the site should be, nowhere close to an actual one of course, but more than there is today. There was still shitloads of stupid dumbass arguments and off-topic posting, but there was a sense of community and like-mindedness, now you've got all kinds of people on here which creates a lot more friction and tension.
>>65267367
Feels threads were fucking awful and you know it.
NMH used to get spammed daily, there were more tripfags on /mu/ than usual, sharethreads were actually good, Scaruffi wasn't taken seriously, Radiohead and Animal Collective were posted at roughly the same rate as Death Grips and Swans are now, Cooltop introduced the whole pleb/patrician dichotomy, Dicklick Brigade threads were a common occurrence and Pitchfork giving MBDTF a 10 was the catalyst for /mu/ actually caring about hip-hop.
Source: been lurking here since 2011, seen some shit.
>>65275065
>been lurking here since 2011, seen some shit.
>tfw i started visiting /mu/ in september 2015
i feel like a missed the good old days of this board
>>65275113
by a long shot
I've been on 4chan since 2008 or 09, and if it had been like this when I first started browsing I'm certain I wouldn't have bothered. I only stay for some naive hope things might actually get good again, plus a few boards (/mu/ not included) are still alright.
>>65267933
>>65268396
I could be wrong but I think Duster generals occur on a monthly basis now, so as to avoid the discussion getting too repetitive.
>>65275148
i keep visiting this boards mostly for the essentials/flowcharts
2006-2007 was an age where /mu/ was completely strange, it was an era of prog rock and meal. Dragonforce was unironically the most discussed band on the board and there were a lot more weebs.
2008-2010 was largely an era of indie rock and alt rock, most of the stuff you discussed from 2006-2007 would get laughed at. ITAOTS thrived in this era.
2010-2012 was a mishmash of alt rock/indie rock, hiphop, prog, metal, and a bunch of random other stuff. the very fundamentals of /mu/core solidified in this era
.
2013 was full shitposting and memes. yeezus, death grips, radio head and sunbather were spammed 24/7. More generals formed to get away from the memes.
2014-2016 was full post-irony and aftermath after 2013, most of /mu/ never recovered from 2013 and you'll only find meaningful music discussion in generals
>>65272832
/trash/ might as well be renamed to /furry/
>>65267467
I miss elitism. I want plebs to be called a filthy pleb by the entire board again. I remember how /mu/ used to make fun of people not listening to an entire album or having the volume on a reasonable level.
>>65275234
Dragonforce /mu/ was fun
>>65270767
This. 4chan should be unable to access through smartphones to keep the normies out.
>>65270983
We need to call those filthy plebs out on being filthy plebs when they get out of their containment thread
>>65271015
Primal Scream - Screamadelica
>>65275284
This is also a good example of how 4chan has gone to shit. There used to be a bunch of original content all the time. Rage comics were actually funny back then and things like the rage face and trollface and all that shit that have left 4chan completely now actually had a purpose, before they just became copy paste characters so people with no creativity could make jokes. Of course, a bunch of the content made on here was shit, but at least it took some effort, you couldn't just go on meme generator or whatever people use now.
>>65275312
What difference is that going to make though, everybody is a pleb on /mu/ now because there is no basic consensus on what's good and what's not, and pleb just means "somebody who disagrees with me"
>>65275284
>>65275237
not quite
it's definitely gotten more furry and general-oriented over the past few months though
>>65269912
>gore spammer
I was never around when he was but from time to time when I search for download links in the archive I see his posts.
Why did he stop posting?
>>65275422
Gorespammer had a hate-boner for an old doom metal tripfag named I, the Witchfinder.
We don't know much about Gorespammer but wherever I, the Witchfinder posted, gorespammer immediately flooded the thread with gore.
And even when witchfinder wasn't around, if people brought up stoner metal or bands that witchfinder liked he just randomly appeared and spammed gore.
He kept on posting images saying that if witchfinder stops posting on /mu/ he'll go away. He disappeared when Witchy stopped posting,
>>65275495
I, the Witchfinder stills posts regularly though.
Did /mu/tants hate Gorespammer as much as we hate Montie now?
>>65276005
that depends really, mealfags and sharefags can't stand him. montie is universally hated though. i hate nomad the most, so montie's not as bad to me personally.
2013 was the last good year. seemingly every album that year had some discussion, shitposting about kanye was the worst thing the board had to offer, and waifu threads were minimal
>>65275422
Either the mods found a way to block it or he got bored of it.
>>65276005
The hate for gorespammer wasn't universal. People who didn't use sharethreads or metal had no relation with him. For the people who did, definitely.
I frequented /mu/ between '09 and '11 before getting bored and quitting, only to return occasionally for big released, and it honestly hasn't changed that much compared to most of the other boards. There's less community spirit, the general taste is a little worse, and politics have become more heated and polarised, but that has happened pretty much everywhere on the internet.
>>65276526
/mu/ is the most liberal board on here. chicks post here and aren't even told to post their tits
