The Official "Music Was So Much Better in the Glorious Days of Yore" Thread

[manly]

Good music will always be produced no matter the time.
Every decade has its own masterpieces!

[Neapolitan]

Originally Posted by manly

Good music will always be produced no matter the time.
Every decade has its own masterpieces!

So true, it doesn't matter if it's 3 o'clock in the afternoon or 3 o'clock in the middle of the night.

[Aux-In]

Originally Posted by Neapolitan

So true, it doesn't matter if it's 3 o'clock in the afternoon or 3 o'clock in the middle of the night.

Yeah but anything made at 02:59:59 is total dog**** though.

[Key]

Originally Posted by Aux-In

Yeah but anything made at 02:59:59 is total dog**** though.

True.

[Alterioids]

This has always been a strange argument imo. Of course the past seems to have better music when you look at the greatest/ best bands or artists of that time. There were still f*** tons of garbage music back then, but we don't care about that because we can just choose to listen to the best of that era. With modern music, we're more exposed to everything that's new, unrefined and popular. It isn't possible to show a downward trend of "quality of music over time." Music just changes along with the people and cultures who make and listen to it, and people just have preferences.

tl;dr - there is good modern music, it's just also presented with the lower quality music that's put out along side it

[MicShazam]

A lot of my favourite music has been made inside the last 18 years. Even a majority. So I'm totally "le right generation".

[MicShazam]

Originally Posted by elphenor

quite a window

I'd say I like a lot of the music made in the last 20 years but it's just annoying to hear that if your favorite music was made, you know, possibly before you were born it's worth mentioning or whatever because do we do that with books or even film

So far, I'm also very positive about contemporary films and comic books.

Maybe I'm generally reading non-fiction books that are from a bit further back in time, some even before my time. But there's definitely lots of great movies being made right now in the new millennium. Even if I'm discovering quite a lot of amazing movies from the 40's to the 70's these days. The jury is still out on what's the best film decade(s) in my eyes, because I've got so much left to explore.

Maybe that's really what I'd say about any medium of art/entertainment.

[MicShazam]

Popular music (in the academic sense) has gone through pretty radical developments since just the 60's though. Pre-sixties popular music is kinda limited compared to many other mediums of art. Soon after that though, all sorts of interesting things start happening and everyone should soon enough be able to find something they would really be able to get into.

I don't have much pre-70's popular music. Very, very little actually.

[Frownland]

Originally Posted by elphenor

my point is you don't hear people say **** like

Camus? how can you relate he died a long time ago?

Do you hear people say that about music?

[Frownland]

Originally Posted by elphenor

**** yes, all the time

Can you give me an example? It's a new concept to me, I've never heard anything like that except for maybe vaguely implying that by not listening to older music.