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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]NRaleighLiberal
(60,013 posts)but I think there is also a personality element - I love change, to seek new things (that's why I've grown 4000 types of tomatoes in my 30 years of gardening!) - some of my friends loved the 70s, say, and that is where their music tastes remain.
There is also an element of "get off my lawn" in music - that things when we were young are of course better than newer stuff - but it is just different.
I sometimes go back and listen to bands I loved at various times - Chicago, Yes, Kansas, Deep Purple, Jethro Tull, Steely Dan, the Beatles just to name a few. Of those the only ones I can still listen to without cringing are Steely Dan and the Beatles - and even they are not in nearly heavy rotation.
It also depends on what we "use" our music for - I remember getting stoned and doing nothing BUT sitting and listening. Now, it is more to set a mood - we have our morning breakfast music, our energy music, I have my writing music, we have our night time sleeping music. Little of it is rock - it is nearly all ambient or jazz or classical.
Fascinating topic!