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In reply to the discussion: Is the music of today worse than it was 20, 30, 40, or even 50 years ago? Or am I just old? [View all]DetlefK
(16,423 posts)70. According to science, music nowadays is indeed qualitatively worse than in the past.
The reason is simple: Sound-mixing.
In the past, artists were more likely to experiment. They used all possible tools, mixing high and low frequencies, mixing loud and silent sounds. Plus they dared more to try something new. The songs were more complicated and more intricate. More details.
Nowadays, all songs are mixed the same. They use the same patterns. The various strands are mixed to have equal volume, because that makes the song sound louder to the human ear.
Good song: Loud sounds overlayed with hushed sounds, for the details.
Bad song: The whispers are as loud as the shredding electric guitar.
Bad song: Always that same damn whooping-cry that gets used in every song.
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Is the music of today worse than it was 20, 30, 40, or even 50 years ago? Or am I just old? [View all]
Yavin4
Nov 2018
OP
I stopped at a light recently and the lady next to me had Michael Jackson blaring and ...
CurtEastPoint
Nov 2018
#3
You have to pick and choose. There is some great stuff but it isn't easy to find
NRaleighLiberal
Nov 2018
#4
The Way Up is the peak of what The Pat Metheny Group was capable of....amazing.
NRaleighLiberal
Nov 2018
#26
absolutely! with any art, what one hears in their formative years plays a big role
NRaleighLiberal
Nov 2018
#90
I mean that thirty years ago, it would be common for people to all know some of the same songs.
LisaM
Nov 2018
#193
The music of today is worse because it is no longer dependent on musicianship
rocktivity
Nov 2018
#9
Wow- Those San Francisco scenes are places I'm intimately familiar with, on a daily basis.
NBachers
Nov 2018
#173
It's just different, that's all. If you think there isn't any good music today, you're not looking
WhiskeyGrinder
Nov 2018
#25
Rat pack or rap crap? Who is going to be singing the current rap crap in fifty or sixty years?
Doodley
Nov 2018
#32
I winced when I learned that Lady Gaga was in the newest remake of A Star Is Born
rocktivity
Nov 2018
#43
There's been plenty of great records in the past 10 years ... just not on the radio ...
mr_lebowski
Nov 2018
#47
The stuff the play at the gym sounds like muzak....Cool music videos, but the stuff sounds flat
LeftInTX
Nov 2018
#59
The older generation ALWAYS complains about the younger generation.
PoindexterOglethorpe
Nov 2018
#62
The thing I find amazing is the number of young people who love music from the '60s and '70s and
lunamagica
Nov 2018
#66
IMO, it's more that the business side only pushes the blandest crap to the fore
cemaphonic
Nov 2018
#67
According to science, music nowadays is indeed qualitatively worse than in the past.
DetlefK
Nov 2018
#70
A lotta bands have tried ... GVF is actually doing it pretty well ... unlike most ...
mr_lebowski
Nov 2018
#178
You are just old. Like me. Every generation thinks their music is better, but each generation's
Nitram
Nov 2018
#103
"Is the music of today worse than it was 20, 30, 40, or even 50 years ago? Or am I just old?"
LudwigPastorius
Nov 2018
#123
This article says many of the hit songs are written by just two guys these days. I personally
brewens
Nov 2018
#156
of course 20, 30, 40, or even 50 years ago people were saying the exact same thing
fishwax
Nov 2018
#177
You're not old. It's what the music industry is making off of young pop singers. $$$$$ !!!
YOHABLO
Nov 2018
#183
Boomers invented music. There was no music before. There has been no music since.
Act_of_Reparation
Nov 2018
#205