You should get you some Townes van Zandt.

I think this is partly because of the decline in record company contracts keeping an artist to [x] albums per year, and mostly because of the increased amount of content on the internet. I think it's become a lot more difficult to market an album on a single alone, since everyone can easily access the whole record and decide that the band mostly makes filler, so artists are being more careful with their releases to make sure that they are releasing the most quality product they can offer.

Or maybe everyone just forgot how to write music without them dang computer algorithms.

I think everything you're saying here is true to some extent, even the things that contradict eachother a bit.

I'm not familiar with the dude, but I'll check him out this evening. Thanks.

EDIT: In the interest of not spamming this thread further, I'm just adding to this comment.
I liked the first track more than the other two. I'm a sucker for old, melancholy sounding folk with flutes. The other tracks were ok too, but didn't leave much of a mark on the first listen.

I'm sorry, that was a **** reply above. I'll try and say something more meaningful. There is no doubt the music industry has changed radically since the 70's. I'm thankful that so many artists still believe in the album format, even though market circumstances arguably make the album format financially obsolete. I personally absolutely love the album as an artistic statement and I imagine the same goes for all other users in here - the site being what it is.
I do feel that some 60's and 70's records perhaps have songs that are fairly faceless genre exercises that probably were recorded to fill out the rest of the album. I listened to an album by Golden Earring recently that had 6 tracks total. 2 were inventive and full of personality, 4 felt like cookie cutter butt rock template songs. At least I feel like modern albums tend to avoid that sort of blandness, assuming the album comes from an interesting artist, of course. More time between albums has its benefits, I guess.

Current pop music sucked, 80's and 90's pop music sucked just as hard, just in different ways. Ofcourse occasionally each era of pop makes some good ****.

I can't think of any good contemporary mainstream pop - except if I get to count Kylie Minogue as current. I hate to sound like an old fart, but the top 40 looks a hell of a lot worse in the 2000's than it did at some good moments in the 70's and 80's.

Bruno Mars seems ok.

Well going from sucking to sucking complete ass isn't that relevant of an improvement to me.

That said, I dig Uptown Funk cause..it's just a catchy funk song. That's quite refreshing to hear on the top 40 stations somehow.

I don't know, I think I liked one of his first songs for a split second way back, but he's just boring to me now.