Another Music Direct Catalog observation

Well...maybe...because....https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bLKb9Ms68ME

I listen primarily to Classical Music.  For a variety of reasons, after World War II most newly composed Music has had trouble entering the canon of basic repertoire.  Most of the energy of discovery or rediscovery has been on Composers that were outside the acknowledged Masters— first Late Romanticists such as Mahler and Bruckner, then with the Historical Informed Period Practice (HIPP) movement, Baroque and Pre Baroque composers.  When I attend a Concert and a new contemporary piece is on the program, everyone in the audience seems to grit their teeth for the ordeal—faces remind me of being at the Dentist office in the pre Novacaine days—and then we relax and wait for the next Warhorse to begin.
  The OP describes what to me seems an analogous situation.  The great Pop Music of about a 30 year span has achieved canonical status.  And while I am aware that new Pop Artists are always amongst us and selling out concerts and downloads, I think everyone here would agree that the scene doesn’t remotely resemble the halcyon days of yore.  Classical Concerts resemble Audio Museums, and the Music Direct Catalog, which in these days of the extinction of stores that sell Physical Media represents an important source of such media, is the Pop equivalent of the Classical scene.

It’s about time we got in charge of the musical culture. We had to listen to endless pop jazz treacle when we were coming up. Your kids will have the same complaints about your music soon enough.

By the way that was a beautiful picture of Joni Mitchell, wasn’t it? Don’t disagree and make me have to slap you around in front of your GenX friends. The should be more vintage pictures of Michelle Phillips and Linda Ronstadt too, not more unnecessary GenX stuff. Don’t worry, you’ll have your day sooner than you think.

Mike

Hey - I agree that both the picture of Joni is quite incredible and that Joni herself was an incredible artist. I still occasionally revel in her Court and Spark, or her Blue album. And Hancock's "River" release was a fitting testament to her power.

It's just that these artists have been the pantheon for close to fifty years, and those who insist on fallacies that the best music was made in that era seem to be in denial that culture has moved on.
To know the past is imperative. To cling to it is to fade away.

Life before Joni Mitchell ...

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RRKP-qeJvVU
 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lJXLqAutql4

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RJqZPiyR1PY

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tuYh4NnAc7o

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mKg9dHt-kgA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WiiFEAkENL8