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Modern "music" is shite
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GavinHemmings:
Yeah, I agree with you. That's why I prefer to listen to classical music, jazz, and soundtracks from good movies.
free_electron:
I prefer "Symphony of two wooden sticks and two rocks banged together" by Neanderthalers Zog and Ugh.
It's very popular. Most hardrock and metal is basically rewashes of it. ( ok , i admit Zog and Ugh never developed the sound of a cat being milked using pliers. That came later )
0xdeadbeef:
Even in ancient Egypt people complained about the younger generation. Part of the problem is that the older one gets, the less he/she usually wants to learn and adapt to new things. I don't exclude myself from that.
Regarding music, as for many others, my interest reached its maximum between teen age and young adulthood and declined towards my early 30s. Even though I recently bought a few new albums, I feel I'm stuck with certain hearing habits that I can't totally overcome anymore. I figure this is somewhat normal.

Another point is that there is just much more music produced nowadays than in the 70s or 80s. It's a similar problem with books and so on: there is just so much media produced that it would cost an immense amount of time to find out which of these offerings would actually appeal to me. When I was younger, the selection was way smaller, but indeed I invested a lot of time to find out what I liked and what I didn't. Now it's more like more of a coincidence when I stumble over a song I like and check out if I want to buy an album.

Anyway, it's undeniable that commercial interests have changed music especially when it was totally commercialized in the 90s. Good videos became more important than the music but even before that, radio stations wouldn't want to play songs that were too long or too short. Effects like that continue until today: I read somewhere that habit of quickly checking the first 10 seconds of a song to decide if it's good or not has changed the songwriting in the last decade or so. Long intros or instrumentals between two vocal songs are not popular anymore because of this. Also, obviously, the meaning of an album is devaluated if the songs are sold separately.
KE5FX:
The guy make some good points, and backs most of them up with solid observations and justifications.  It was interesting to learn that a vast proportion of modern radio-friendly music was authored by one of two guys.

However, the example he uses to open his argument -- the Beatles -- is interesting only because it's such a rare exception to the rule.  Except for that period in music history, I don't think there's ever been a time when the best music could be found at the top of the pop charts.  It happened once, in the 1960s-1970s era, but it will never, ever happen again.  And plenty of people will argue that it didn't happen then, either.

At the same time, it's never been easier to find the good stuff.  Use the discovery tools that services like Spotify give you.  Listen to truly independent DJs at truly independent radio stations.  These days, everybody gets to maintain their own personal charts... which does take a little bit of extra work.
coppice:
Whenever you think that music is worse than in the past remember that mares eat oats, and does eat oats, and little lambs eat ivy. A kid'll eat ivy too, wouldn't you just love that stuff to come back?
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