No, I wasn't being sarcastic at all. Part of it is that I have extremely broad tastes and I'm fairly easy to please. I truly like most music at least a bit. But even being pickier, so that it would exclude the vast majority of stuff on commercial radio, say, I can easily find plenty of newly-released music every year that I like a lot. It's just that it's extremely rare for me to find something that I like as much as my favorite artists, most of whom were well-established by the 70s.

I hope this never changes for me, but what do I know. I'm probably younger than all you regulars in here (halfway through the 30's). Right now, finding new stuff that blows my mind - sometimes even joins my all time favourites - is not too rare. That might change... hope not.

I think discovering music now is different then discovering music when I was younger. When I was younger I only had a few albums and I played them over and over till I got tired of them. Then I put them away until I was in the mood to listen to them. I knew them backwards forwards and upside-down. Now if I find something I like I play it a few times, but I move on to discover new music. If anything, I usually find myself a particular song I really like, and vaguely knowing the rest of their music.

I think it takes time to find the right artist and explore music, imo. Then it take time for their music kinda to sink in become a favorite artist. Time doesn't matter when the music was made. Time only matters when you are listening to your favorite music.

Anyway, I thought I share my circa 70s/pre-70s artist and my post-70s artist I really like. Tell me what you think, does the circa 70s/pre 70s artists crush the post-70s artists, or are they on the same level music-wise? You be the judge.

circa 70s/pre 70s artists:
Big Yellow Taxi - Joni Mitchell


Jim Croce - Photographs and Memories


Post-70s artists:
The Actual Tigers - Testimony


Gregory and the Hawk - Oats We Sow

You gotta put effort into it if you want to stay open minded these days, I think. As teenagers, in decades passed, we listened to the albums we had many times - even if we didn't think they were the greatest thing ever. It's what we had, so we listened to them until we liked them, or until we got tired of them.

Now, we literally have a world of music at our fingertips. This means we have to decide actively to spend a portion on our listening time on stuff we're not immediately all that impressed by.

I try to come back to all sorts of artist again here and there, just to see if I was wrong or right in my first reaction. All genres get a chance again on a rare occassion, if I'm feeling adventurous. I could just stick to what I know and complain that all that new stuff isn't as good as what I know already. This of course would guarantee that I wouldn't find all those amazing artists I never knew I could love.

Let's have a polite discussion on the myth recent music is just different not worse.
 

I'm totally new to this forum and it is the only music forum online that is active. But, I read a while back on Facebook a young woman write something to the effect of, "music never gets worse it's just the older generation can't appreciate the new generation," when responding to criticism of All Time Low.

Now, I'm thirty five and I do not get music after 2005. I was a teen in the nineties and listened to music of the Grunge era. The only thing I listened to between 2000-2005 was Franz Ferdinand, the Killers, and Cold Play before they changed format. After that I started to listen to Sixties and Seventies music and realized it was a better musical time than the Nineties, but what the Nineties had was authenticity, prophesy, and rawness.

Here is what was on THE RADIO when I was a kid and it was all original new, not rehashed, not cover, not stolen, all new music:

Alice in Chains,
Nirvana
Pearl Jam,
Soundgarden,
Smashing Pumpkins,
Alanis Morisset,
Tori Amos,
Screaming Trees,
Bad Religion,
Temple of the Dog,
Red Hot Chili Peppers,
Offspring
The Cardigans,
Lush,
Sonic Youth,
Oasis
Blink 182
REM,
Weezer

There was also Korn and Slip Knot, but they stole all their music from bands like Drowning Pool.

I don't just listen to Rock, I like Blues, Jazz, R&B, Soul and especially Funk but it was not on the on mainstream radio in the nineties and I'm not as much of an aficionado of it as Rock. Rap in the Eighties and Nineties was powerful but again while I love that period of rap I never got into it.

So, I pose the following questions for discussion:

1) What Rock is played now on MAINSTREAM RADIO like it was until 2005?
2) Is Music worse now for the younger generation?
3) If you think music is worse now since 2005 what caused t?

Thanks

Chula?

Mainstream radio was 90% garbage in the 90s too. If you restrict yourself to the radio you're only going to set yourself up for disappointment.

We've seen these arguments twelve million times here.

http://www.musicbanter.com/general-m...re-thread.html

Merged.

k

OK, well you are the first one to discuss. What is outside of Radio right now after 2005? What was going on in the 90's outside of radio? Please list bands and I will listen. Please do not assert a truth without evidence to substantiate that truth.

I'm not a fan of Marilyn Manson but he was big and original and pretty prophetic. Oh, and I'm huge fan of Rage Against the Machine and left them out by accident.