Old Music vs New Music

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ok im gonna start the old overdone shit debate here, cuz its still gonna be entertaining hopefully

so i do listent to new music but it cant compare to what i can n do find in old music..
like how i cant make much of a top 10 of 2009 cuz even tho ive downloded a good amount of album from 2009 most of the good shit i found out about in 2009 was not from 2009
simple logic is that you cant compare one year to every other year that came before..
but still
what came in 2005-2010 seems pale if you compare it to lots of what came in in most 5 year era (if that makes sense)



is it cuz its so easy now a days to make a record that its become hard to find anything worth something , or did we just lost the beat somewhere
 
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There is always good music about, but trends don't seem to last. I'll edit this post after I get back from class, with some thoughts.
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Some new music sucks. 2000-future Some old music sucks. past-2000
Most new "popular" music sucks. Most old "popular" music doesn't.
 
time acts as a filter. there always has been and always will be a lot of garbage that becomes popular. but the percentage of that old garbage that gets airplay decreases as time goes by and new garbage becomes available. so if it's old and still around, it has qualities that set it apart from kind of the Average Popular Song.
 
I find great music from all eras, but the thing I love the most from older music is the rawness. I like some organic sloppy raw shit that you can tell is real. That's where the soul is at. Alot of new music is just so polished it loses alot of its balls. I think alot of it has to do with technology, I bet alot of musicians would rerecord their older records with new gear if it was possible to recreate the magic. Something about digital recording just doesn't allow the slop to blend in to something so magic when every note is crystal clear.
 
double ewe said:
time acts as a filter. there always has been and always will be a lot of garbage that becomes popular. but the percentage of that old garbage that gets airplay decreases as time goes by and new garbage becomes available. so if it's old and still around, it has qualities that set it apart from kind of the Average Popular Song.
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This is actually very true, I will also add though that having music in digital format as opposed to buying a whole album, kind of dilutes the music a lot more. There are a lot of groups I hear today that I don't really hear more than 1 or 2 songs from. While there has always been one hit wonders I think the digital format doesn't allow a lot of bands to grow or go into a slump.

For example Pink Floyd released 'Piper at the gates of dawn' in 1967 and didn't release anything significantly successful again until 1973 with 'Dark Side of the Moon.' That's a 6 year gap with 5 albums in between, that just doesn't happen these days.
 
I listen to roughly 90% old stuff which I really like, over and over again. I'm stubborn, set in my ways, and satisfied with the music I love ;) My more recent music loves are either happy accidents, or "kind of coerced" onto me by my well meaning friends with excellent and varied tastes, and I just end up surprising myself because I end up lovin (most, not all of ) em. I'm really thankful for those moments.

It's not to say I'm a closed minded bore, I'm just real lazy and never go actively digging up new stuff cos I'm bored :D I'm a serial repeater, and I never tire of my favorite old stuff.
 
^ the point might be that its easier to find good music if you dig in the past instead of digging into the newer release
not that there isnt anything good anymore
 
What I search for is new music. I'm constantly on the grind for whats new & what's hot.
I don't listen to too much older music. But the old music that I do listen to is timeless & doesn't seem outdated.
And what I look for in new music is the same deal, the albums that will last forever and never lose their flavor.
 
mainstream music is getting worse, but as the person above me said, there is good music around you just have to dig for it
 
all equally terrible. there's ALWAYS terrible music, we're just more aware of what's current.
 
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