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Yes. It is worse. skylucy Nov 2018 #1
Yes DUgosh Nov 2018 #13
Much, much worse. joshdawg Nov 2018 #83
It is worse!! Left-over Nov 2018 #120
That's ALWAYS what you heard on the radio jmowreader Nov 2018 #159
To me, past music back in the 50's, 60's and 70's was far better. n/t RKP5637 Nov 2018 #2
Late 60's to early 70's joshdawg Nov 2018 #86
Definitely ... and I thought back then it would last forever. n/t RKP5637 Nov 2018 #94
Yeah, and a damned shame it didn't. joshdawg Nov 2018 #100
Absolutely agree! llmart Nov 2018 #122
Seemed like every week a new super group was forming... OAITW r.2.0 Nov 2018 #135
When I was teaching junior/senior high school, maddiemom Nov 2018 #140
Yeah. I kind of feel like Joe does about it. ooky Nov 2018 #202
I stopped at a light recently and the lady next to me had Michael Jackson blaring and ... CurtEastPoint Nov 2018 #3
lol OriginalGeek Nov 2018 #102
That Must Have Been Fun! ProfessorGAC Nov 2018 #125
I had to youtube that so I could do it too OriginalGeek Nov 2018 #134
Cool! ProfessorGAC Nov 2018 #150
This message was self-deleted by its author Hassin Bin Sober Nov 2018 #180
You have to pick and choose. There is some great stuff but it isn't easy to find NRaleighLiberal Nov 2018 #4
Pat was my idol for many, many years Ferrets are Cool Nov 2018 #24
The Way Up is the peak of what The Pat Metheny Group was capable of....amazing. NRaleighLiberal Nov 2018 #26
I have the bluray of The Way Up....it is incredible... Ferrets are Cool Nov 2018 #30
I saw him play it live sweetloukillbot Nov 2018 #49
Only the good stuff lasts zipplewrath Nov 2018 #80
absolutely! with any art, what one hears in their formative years plays a big role NRaleighLiberal Nov 2018 #90
I'm pretty eclectic zipplewrath Nov 2018 #95
My dad was a big Jack Teagarden fan! OAITW r.2.0 Nov 2018 #136
I'm with ya... wcmagumba Nov 2018 #5
I agree. However Rock n Roll has always been for the young. Va Lefty Nov 2018 #6
Rock will keep you young OriginalGeek Nov 2018 #105
Maiden is still great live. sweetloukillbot Nov 2018 #165
Which show are you going to? jmowreader Nov 2018 #168
If I get to go OriginalGeek Nov 2018 #195
PNC is a great venue......If you have seats..... aquaman Nov 2018 #200
I decided to go to the Tacoma Dome anyway jmowreader Nov 2018 #201
There is so much good music today GusBob Nov 2018 #7
Well put jberryhill Nov 2018 #14
We need more of a shared platform. LisaM Nov 2018 #55
Thats what Im talking about! GusBob Nov 2018 #72
But I don't always want a unique path. LisaM Nov 2018 #119
Music is not divisive sorry GusBob Nov 2018 #174
I mean that thirty years ago, it would be common for people to all know some of the same songs. LisaM Nov 2018 #193
My kids never listen to the radio. Codeine Nov 2018 #76
First the came for the big bopper GusBob Nov 2018 #176
You are objectively correct. Ron Obvious Nov 2018 #8
Music seems less and less complex. Less instrumentation. Less composition. Yavin4 Nov 2018 #11
With all due respect GusBob Nov 2018 #20
Great post. Ferrets are Cool Nov 2018 #22
Thanks for the suggestions. Keep going. enough Nov 2018 #77
You make a very good point. I wish someone would respond to it. Silver Gaia Nov 2018 #188
Try a little math rock. Codeine Nov 2018 #71
I love how prog is acceptable now sweetloukillbot Nov 2018 #162
I was three years old when my favorite prog Codeine Nov 2018 #163
My first concert was Genesis in 82 sweetloukillbot Nov 2018 #166
The music of today is worse because it is no longer dependent on musicianship rocktivity Nov 2018 #9
Agree, would add Lady Gaga flibbitygiblets Nov 2018 #36
I agree about that era shanny Nov 2018 #39
Lady Gaga? See post #43, LOL! rocktivity Nov 2018 #45
I find Lady Gaga horribly repetitive. LakeSuperiorView Nov 2018 #115
There are any number of amazing instrumentalists Codeine Nov 2018 #73
+100 Duppers Nov 2018 #143
Oh...you're old... Anon-C Nov 2018 #10
Stream this commercial free station- rzemanfl Nov 2018 #12
My now 26 yr old younger son used to like a rap song that... 3catwoman3 Nov 2018 #15
IMHO, rap is pure crap. joshdawg Nov 2018 #84
Transpose your musical example down a couple of octaves PJMcK Nov 2018 #106
If You Do That. . . ProfessorGAC Nov 2018 #131
I barely tolerate the pop music today. It's a generational thing. Laffy Kat Nov 2018 #16
Overwrought vocals. Nobody needs that when they are grocery shopping! LuckyLib Nov 2018 #170
corporate homogenization of writers, artists, music outlets. less diversity msongs Nov 2018 #17
Today's music can't even come close calguy Nov 2018 #18
Couldn't agree more! flibbitygiblets Nov 2018 #38
Pop music, yes. BlueTsunami2018 Nov 2018 #19
It's according to what kind you want... Ferrets are Cool Nov 2018 #21
PT is a great band ... dig me some Opeth too ... mr_lebowski Nov 2018 #41
Opeth continues to evolve sweetloukillbot Nov 2018 #53
Hazards of Love IV (the Drowning) is one of my top 10 favorite songs ... mr_lebowski Nov 2018 #108
If your tastes run to metal Codeine Nov 2018 #110
Interesting... Shoegaze w/ cookie monster vocals sweetloukillbot Nov 2018 #155
The first time I heard them Codeine Nov 2018 #160
Wow- Those San Francisco scenes are places I'm intimately familiar with, on a daily basis. NBachers Nov 2018 #173
I adore the Decemberists prudence54 Nov 2018 #152
Love Opeth...not into growling, but their other stuff is great. Ferrets are Cool Nov 2018 #82
something for everyone! OriginalGeek Nov 2018 #107
I just discovered Haken sweetloukillbot Nov 2018 #153
Dang skippy it's worse. dae Nov 2018 #23
It's just different, that's all. If you think there isn't any good music today, you're not looking WhiskeyGrinder Nov 2018 #25
Also, you're old when you stop growing. WhiskeyGrinder Nov 2018 #27
Give me Sinatra riverwalker Nov 2018 #28
That makes two of us. joshdawg Nov 2018 #85
For a surprise, listen to Willie Nelson's new album. rzemanfl Nov 2018 #132
His "Stardust" album is over thirty years old now. maddiemom Nov 2018 #142
Where does the time go? n/t rzemanfl Nov 2018 #145
I believe your tastes in music are formed by the age 30 DBoon Nov 2018 #29
I think its a muscle that needs to be exercised sweetloukillbot Nov 2018 #54
Not really fair-- dawg day Nov 2018 #31
Funny video. They didn't really have videos back then-- dawg day Nov 2018 #35
My 1st concert was Doors - Procol Harum at Winterland 1967. nt PufPuf23 Nov 2018 #196
Rat pack or rap crap? Who is going to be singing the current rap crap in fifty or sixty years? Doodley Nov 2018 #32
Every 14 year old alive now? Codeine Nov 2018 #78
I dunno OriginalGeek Nov 2018 #112
Some people still know the lyrics to Rapper's Delight after all these years JonLP24 Nov 2018 #203
I think music today is great. There is so much choice out there. violetpastille Nov 2018 #33
This video explains a big part of it Ponietz Nov 2018 #34
Interestingly, we should be less "owned" by the record industry than ever-- dawg day Nov 2018 #37
When was this video made? crazycatlady Nov 2018 #204
I must be really old dickthegrouch Nov 2018 #40
Some of today's music is just amazing and some is just plain awful. Tikki Nov 2018 #42
I winced when I learned that Lady Gaga was in the newest remake of A Star Is Born rocktivity Nov 2018 #43
"The music" is rather open-ended hibbing Nov 2018 #44
I was going to find some examples drmeow Nov 2018 #46
BIll Drummond is an interesting guy sweetloukillbot Nov 2018 #58
There's been plenty of great records in the past 10 years ... just not on the radio ... mr_lebowski Nov 2018 #47
Good List sweetloukillbot Nov 2018 #57
Hell ya GusBob Nov 2018 #175
There is good stuff around...check out the struts bedazzled Nov 2018 #48
Some Of It Is colsohlibgal Nov 2018 #50
great music is made everyday.. every generation gotta complain tho ;) JHan Nov 2018 #51
It depends when you were young, and music was a giant part of life. Hoyt Nov 2018 #52
How do we know what they'll think is great music in a thousand years? NotASurfer Nov 2018 #56
The stuff the play at the gym sounds like muzak....Cool music videos, but the stuff sounds flat LeftInTX Nov 2018 #59
Worse. Doreen Nov 2018 #60
There are contemporary artists that I think put out pure garbage Jake Stern Nov 2018 #61
The older generation ALWAYS complains about the younger generation. PoindexterOglethorpe Nov 2018 #62
Yea verily.... mbusby Nov 2018 #63
And people always forget the crappy music Codeine Nov 2018 #79
That was my era! Love those bands. AllyCat Nov 2018 #138
Looks like they were right about that. raccoon Nov 2018 #81
the four chords that killed pop music quickesst Nov 2018 #64
I do not consider "rap" music question everything Nov 2018 #65
Elvis was famously off-key when he sang. Codeine Nov 2018 #74
When I listen to Paul Simon with headphones his voice.. Kahuna7 Nov 2018 #97
in what way is rap not music? unblock Nov 2018 #104
Buddy Rich didn't consider Elvis or Simon and Garfunkel music. Act_of_Reparation Nov 2018 #207
The thing I find amazing is the number of young people who love music from the '60s and '70s and lunamagica Nov 2018 #66
IMO, it's more that the business side only pushes the blandest crap to the fore cemaphonic Nov 2018 #67
If you can't hum it, it isn't music demosincebirth Nov 2018 #68
Without reading any other responses, in LibDemAlways Nov 2018 #69
According to science, music nowadays is indeed qualitatively worse than in the past. DetlefK Nov 2018 #70
Songs are mixed like that for a reason, unfortunately. Codeine Nov 2018 #75
Now, that I didn't know. malthaussen Nov 2018 #99
Its much much better now ghostsinthemachine Nov 2018 #87
I will agree on what we actually get fed by the powers that be MuseRider Nov 2018 #88
For the most of it, I think 80's music was as bad as it gets. Rustynaerduwell Nov 2018 #89
Try some "Greta Van Fleet" LiberalArkie Nov 2018 #91
Totally dig these guys, too! mr_lebowski Nov 2018 #109
I guess Led Zeppelin stole enough material Codeine Nov 2018 #111
A lotta bands have tried ... GVF is actually doing it pretty well ... unlike most ... mr_lebowski Nov 2018 #178
For Sure StarzGuy Nov 2018 #92
Worse BillyBobBrilliant Nov 2018 #93
Industry is changing fast zipplewrath Nov 2018 #96
"All about record sales"? Codeine Nov 2018 #114
I still miss disco. nt Permanut Nov 2018 #98
The perennial returns. malthaussen Nov 2018 #101
You are just old. Like me. Every generation thinks their music is better, but each generation's Nitram Nov 2018 #103
Just gotta look....I am 65 and amaze at the young music talent beachbum bob Nov 2018 #113
Or Aretha Franklin, Tina Turner. roody Nov 2018 #116
You're old. I'm 64 and have found tons of great new music. bif Nov 2018 #117
I am 69 and my wife is 49jim Nov 2018 #118
40 years ago at the height of my music fandom Runningdawg Nov 2018 #121
"Is the music of today worse than it was 20, 30, 40, or even 50 years ago? Or am I just old?" LudwigPastorius Nov 2018 #123
I'm old too, Corgigal Nov 2018 #124
I don't think there will ever be another Freddie Mercury! Silver Gaia Nov 2018 #189
My parents said the same thing. guillaumeb Nov 2018 #126
Yes. nm. qazplm135 Nov 2018 #127
Lots of good music and artists out there ornotna Nov 2018 #128
The 60's were a complete social and cultural shift. Cattledog Nov 2018 #129
"The TRUTH Why Modern Music Is Awful" Cetacea Nov 2018 #130
yep - same thing I was going to post nt Locrian Nov 2018 #187
Hot And Cold, Yav ProfessorGAC Nov 2018 #133
It seems there may be reason for that, actually. dixiegrrrrl Nov 2018 #137
Started HS in 67.... OAITW r.2.0 Nov 2018 #139
I'm biased for the late 60s/early70s GeorgeGist Nov 2018 #141
I love Stevie and EWF but yes there is good music today. mahina Nov 2018 #144
You are old. shenmue Nov 2018 #146
check out kexp in seattle Chakaconcarne Nov 2018 #147
Music peaked in 1967. It's been downhill since. SunSeeker Nov 2018 #148
You are confusing music with my life. n/t rzemanfl Nov 2018 #151
LOL SunSeeker Nov 2018 #154
Absolutely, it's worse paulkienitz Nov 2018 #149
Excellent points. Silver Gaia Nov 2018 #190
This article says many of the hit songs are written by just two guys these days. I personally brewens Nov 2018 #156
Old people back in the 70s said that about modern music. gtar100 Nov 2018 #157
Interesting. warmfeet Nov 2018 #158
You are old. So many options are available for music today. Freethinker65 Nov 2018 #161
Both--Pop music has always been bad and you are older my friend randr Nov 2018 #164
NO, music is the same ratio of shit to classics it always was The Polack MSgt Nov 2018 #167
No, it's about the same jmowreader Nov 2018 #169
Yes, it's worse. smirkymonkey Nov 2018 #171
I have to agree with the OP... mac2766 Nov 2018 #172
of course 20, 30, 40, or even 50 years ago people were saying the exact same thing fishwax Nov 2018 #177
I think the answer is either yes or no depending on perspective Major Nikon Nov 2018 #179
. Hassin Bin Sober Nov 2018 #181
Oh yes ificandream Nov 2018 #182
You're not old. It's what the music industry is making off of young pop singers. $$$$$ !!! YOHABLO Nov 2018 #183
I'm 66 and I find better music today JohnnyRingo Nov 2018 #184
I like the current music in country, pop, hip-hop, rap and more! democratisphere Nov 2018 #185
No, it isn't. Glamrock Nov 2018 #186
Yup. I get it that there's good NEW stuff out there. Silver Gaia Nov 2018 #191
That's what Pitchfork, Onion's AV Club and similar sites Codeine Nov 2018 #198
We have seen music evolve. kentuck Nov 2018 #192
Yes and Yes. Iggo Nov 2018 #194
Oh it is so much worse! jazzcat23 Nov 2018 #197
I'm old too and catch up on new music when I'm driving. mia Nov 2018 #199
Boomers invented music. There was no music before. There has been no music since. Act_of_Reparation Nov 2018 #205
Mozart, Beethoven, Louis Armstrong. . . ProfessorGAC Nov 2018 #206
I would have said Muddy Waters, Robert Johnson, John Lee Hooker... Act_of_Reparation Nov 2018 #208
They Were Fake Too ProfessorGAC Nov 2018 #209
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