youth and music of today
 

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skinnier/shittier

I like a lot of modern stuff far more than a kit if old stuff. Gotta move forward!

Yes, but there's also exponentially more shitty music these days.

There were loads of shitty stuff when I were a lad too though.

uhhh seriously.

i graduated from high school in 1989. need i say more?

what era are these musicians who have said this from?

I think that is inevitable with the advance of technology and the increasing ease of recording at home. The ease of recording at home has allowed for lots of shit, but it also allows lots of great smaller bands to be able to record, without having to go to a studio/get a good contract/etc, and also without a clock ticking, they can tinker with their sound in the "studio" far more than before.

well if i listen to music today from 40 years ago... i'm just listening to rock and roll. if in the 60s he's listening to music from 40 years ago... it's probably not rock and roll.

Crappier, but at the same time there a few bands that still excite me. Like Be Your Own Pet.

tooth

Stop hijacking threads.

Neither/ nor.

tithead.

And when you tell kids that these days, do they believe you?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xe1a1wHxTyo

Good game.

I can't really comment on whatever the kids are listening to today, because I'm far too old, but I would suspect that the ones listening to Nirvana are just as much in the minority as the ones listening to The Beatles were in the '80s.

Most kids I know like Nirvana, but don't know who kurt cobain is.

Why is it relevant if I listen to music from the past or the present?

With people 40 years ago the cutting edge was mainstream- the Beatles, the Kinks, and the Rolling Stones. (The VU and the Stooges were also very cutting edge, but let's ignore that)

Today none of the most successful mainstream bands are cutting edge. The mainstream is all shit now.

And the alternative scenes aren't, and they used to be. There are just these cultures built off of old cultures that were on the frontier of music but no longer are.

Also there is a longer history of Rock and Roll, more stuff to look back to. Bands that had a small local following find new audiences.

I just find music I love, and I listen to it and enjoy it. I don't worry about how contemporary it is or how dated it is. That's totally pretentious.

People seem to listen to new music to be hip. I see lists of 50-100 best albums to come out in 2007. How can you listen to 50 albums and fall in love with all of them in 2007? That's insane. Especially when there are old albums you haven't heard still.

I can't think of any year in music with 50-100 great albums.