Originally Posted by AndrewZealand

I used to listen to whatever was current, but around 2000 I sort of reacted to my dissatisfaction with music by picking up a lot of old bands that I hadn't listened to for a long time and started preferring a lot of stuff from the the '70s and '80s.
Whenever I try to listen to post-2000 music.......there still seems a sharp contrast between it and the stuff before it. Other than that, I think I fear that that I'm going to start preferring the post-2000 stuff and that it's going to change me as a person. I realize that today's music still has the "mainstream and alternatives" i.e if you don't like the mainstream you can listen to the alternatives like the "indie" bands. However I still feel that all post-2000 music tends to have a common theme. Maybe there is still good music somewhere, stuff that still has the feel of pre-2000 music, it's just much harder to find.