I think part of the problem looking around the state of music today is that hindsight 20/20. We can't see the path of influence as it's occurring. Given another 10 years, it will be far more obvious who from the last decade made a lasting impact.

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I don't think there needs to be such an album any more. The internet has allowed for more selective tastes.

i can't either.

I totally agree with this.
I used to make a point of trying to listen to as many albums as I could that there was a some sort of buzz about whether it be websites or other people telling me. Eventually I stopped because I was so bored of listening to so many mediocre albums and 'flavour of the month' albums that barely had a lifespan of 2 weeks. The internet has made everything faster, things happen in weeks when previously they would happen over months.

These days I take my time listening to new stuff. I could probably count on my fingers & toes how many new bands or albums I checked out in 2011 & 2012 the way I see it is if they really are as good as people say they are they'll still be around for me to listen to in a few years time.

I don't see myself missing out on anything.

You are missing out, but I wouldn't say anything completely mind blowing has been released in the last two years. Maybe a few game changers in their particular fields, but that's it. But then again, those albums don't come around too often anyway, it's not a reflection on the music industry at the moment.

Yeah the way I see it is I can listen to everything that comes along in the last couple of years hoping I find something good, or I can spend my time cherry picking the best music from over 50 years of recorded music history and catch up on the newer stuff later on when it's lasted some time.

This whole thing of 'I checked out this band before anyone else did' doesn't really interest me anymore.

I think you have it right to be honest, but I have so much time on my hands at the moment so I am able to do both, which gives me a healthy balance of knowing where music is heading, and also discovering great music in the process (and lots of it is being made now).

Huh, modernisation has taken it too far, it seems. Youth nowadays (yes, the same one I'm part of, sadly enough) can't focus on a single thing, everything needs to be faster and faster, quickly check if somebody has tweeted anything, leave a little comment on Facebook here and there, I am guilty as well, but what's there for me to do about it? Internet is an awesome invention, but it has its downsides and these are that everything must be faster and easier. Go find a track from last year that has been in the charts for a reaosnable amoutnof time and is over 5 minutes long. Prtety much impossible. The purists will always be there, but still, it's next to impossible to stop the modernisation. Culture in general is fading away, I mean, look at the songs made nowadays. Every popular song seems the same, it's either pop or dance (or dubstep but that isn't even music anymore). I sincerely hope for another revival of rock like in the 90's, but I fear that music has taken severe brain damage. Mankind is going down the ****ter anyways.

This, exactly. A large chunk of what I listen to on a regular basis would be inaccessible here in the midwest, even if it were possible to order from a catalog, there would still be very scant choices. I've gotten into most bands through the internet, since I've been using it since I was like 10-11, and I don't know what I'd have done if I'd never had them, I don't think I would have survived my teenage years if it weren't for certain ones.

Saturated with music, I like that.

I think good music will always win out in the end. A lot of music today sounds a certain way just for the sake of sounding cool. This music is always short lived. Music has to mean something, has to hit you somewhere. Music has always been good ( with bad in there ). And throughout the ages, people have always viewed change in a precarious way. All things come to pass and we need to just go along with the ride and stop worrying about the future of things when we are in the present.