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In reply to the discussion: Is the music of today worse than it was 20, 30, 40, or even 50 years ago? Or am I just old? [View all]Codeine
(25,586 posts)110. If your tastes run to metal
give a listen to Deafheaven.
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Is the music of today worse than it was 20, 30, 40, or even 50 years ago? Or am I just old? [View all]
Yavin4
Nov 2018
OP
I stopped at a light recently and the lady next to me had Michael Jackson blaring and ...
CurtEastPoint
Nov 2018
#3
You have to pick and choose. There is some great stuff but it isn't easy to find
NRaleighLiberal
Nov 2018
#4
The Way Up is the peak of what The Pat Metheny Group was capable of....amazing.
NRaleighLiberal
Nov 2018
#26
absolutely! with any art, what one hears in their formative years plays a big role
NRaleighLiberal
Nov 2018
#90
I mean that thirty years ago, it would be common for people to all know some of the same songs.
LisaM
Nov 2018
#193
The music of today is worse because it is no longer dependent on musicianship
rocktivity
Nov 2018
#9
Wow- Those San Francisco scenes are places I'm intimately familiar with, on a daily basis.
NBachers
Nov 2018
#173
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
Rat pack or rap crap? Who is going to be singing the current rap crap in fifty or sixty years?
Doodley
Nov 2018
#32
I winced when I learned that Lady Gaga was in the newest remake of A Star Is Born
rocktivity
Nov 2018
#43
There's been plenty of great records in the past 10 years ... just not on the radio ...
mr_lebowski
Nov 2018
#47
The stuff the play at the gym sounds like muzak....Cool music videos, but the stuff sounds flat
LeftInTX
Nov 2018
#59
The older generation ALWAYS complains about the younger generation.
PoindexterOglethorpe
Nov 2018
#62
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
According to science, music nowadays is indeed qualitatively worse than in the past.
DetlefK
Nov 2018
#70
A lotta bands have tried ... GVF is actually doing it pretty well ... unlike most ...
mr_lebowski
Nov 2018
#178
You are just old. Like me. Every generation thinks their music is better, but each generation's
Nitram
Nov 2018
#103
"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
This article says many of the hit songs are written by just two guys these days. I personally
brewens
Nov 2018
#156
of course 20, 30, 40, or even 50 years ago people were saying the exact same thing
fishwax
Nov 2018
#177
You're not old. It's what the music industry is making off of young pop singers. $$$$$ !!!
YOHABLO
Nov 2018
#183
Boomers invented music. There was no music before. There has been no music since.
Act_of_Reparation
Nov 2018
#205