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.

Originally Posted by J.R.R. Tolkien

There is only one bright spot and that is the growing habit of disgruntled men of dynamiting factories and power-stations; I hope that, encouraged now as ‘patriotism’, may remain a habit! But it won’t do any good, if it is not universal.