How Science Just Proved That Life Sucks

[nomorenomore08]

40. Good points. Although most people seem to think music was better when they were kids.

Case in point, I still enjoy a lot of grunge/alt-rock from the early to mid-90's, since that was the music of my childhood (I was born in '84). Though I would argue that bands like Nirvana and Soundgarden made genuinely good music that still holds up.

On the other hand, I haven't really enjoyed anything Top 40-level popular in a long time, with a very few exceptions like Arcade Fire - and even then only certain songs of theirs have caught my ear, e.g. "Keep the Car Running."

But I can't really judge anyone's taste in music, except perhaps for being extremely narrow, e.g. someone who only listens to nu-country and has never even heard of Merle Haggard. I listen to plenty of stuff - death metal, black metal, hardcore, grindcore - that a lot of folks would consider more noise than music, though in the case of the more "extreme" metal genres, the level of musicianship actually tends to be quite high.