Why Music Has Lost it’s Charms (Article)

@robones54 Agree with you on Sirius radio sound quality. However, streaming sound quality extremely variable depending on source and streaming equipment. I've had high end cd transports in past, my present streaming setup exceeds any cd playback I had, also exceeds pretty nice present vinyl setup. One can have both vast music selection and highest sound quality with streaming

. I also find it odd that some claim they have greater selection with physical media vs. streaming, I have at least 2500 cds and 3500 lp's, extremely rare any of this physical media not available with streaming. Much more likely, streams not available on any physical media, many releases will never be available on physical media, either due to being cut outs or having never been released on physical media.

I observe a  lot of disdain for more contemporary artists and releases due to disdain for streaming technology and perhaps the entire zeitgeist of contemporary society. There is a burgeoning 'culture of complaint' out there, many turn away, or purposely choose ignorance to avoid having to interface with new artists they assume are part of a culture/society they don't like. Too bad, so many wonderful messages and feelings evoked by many contemporary artists!  On streaming front, no media is perfect, avoiding streaming for unjustified prejudicial reasons denies one a wonderful musical experience.

'Some guy on the internet'  who wrote this:

We dont need "a flag to be proud of " to unite all those who, like larsman because they never had any musical education and evolution, think that their apparent "freedom" to choose the only musical world that they know is not unbeknownst to them, an direct expression of their own mental chains....

knows nothing about me but sure knows how to write long-winded, boring posts. 

A non commercially motivated piece of music can be a popular one and often is...

All commercial pieces did not have some artistic value though...And this junk dominate many communication chanels...

The writer of these article wrote about the ratio Popular music versus purely commercially motivated music, this ratio resembling more nowadays to a slippery slope toward mediocrity...In the sixties for example he was right, the ratio commercially motivated and musical quality was very good and better than today ON OFFICIAL MEDIAS ... He did not claim that there exist no more good musicians... They are marginalized...And anyway the musical education standard is lower in all scools for money reason and anyway music is perceived to be useless for most people...

This writer will never negateand he did not  that the quantity of true great artists all over the world surpass anything in the past...it is a demographical fact....But there is no musical education in general and a total ignorance of any different  musical instruments or different cultural  styles out of traditional modern popular and/or commercial  one in North America... Most young are not exposed to higher quality music, dont listen it first, and dont even know jazz or classical, they have no idea about Chinese, Indian , Persian, Turkisch music too etc...

They dont understand music, they "taste" it like a Macdo burger asking for a Macdo burger till their death...Trump is very rich, guest what he eat?

Music must be learned....

But in the North American medias and channels, no education, no publicity for world great musicians... Have you ever listen to the marvellous sarangi in north america ?

Where and when ?

Dont project your prejudices on the writer of this article try to understand his point....

Yes we are lucky those of us who appreciate music high spiritual meaning to listen now to more great musicians living than in all the past...yes...It is a demographical fact...

But north American masses are keep in chains and in conditioned slavery by marketing and schooling methods of the corporate empire, in all fields of life, and in music too...

We are on the verge of self destruction and some will claim that this is their "taste" and they are free to want it...

’Some guy on the internet’ who wrote this:

We dont need "a flag to be proud of " to unite all those who, like larsman because they never had any musical education and evolution, think that their apparent "freedom" to choose the only musical world that they know is not unbeknownst to them, an direct expression of their own mental chains....

knows nothing about me but sure knows how to write long-winded, boring posts.

You wrote this yourself:

I’m almost 71, I don’t like jazz and am not much into classical,

Then you listen to what, african traditional music, for example pygmies polyphony? they are marvellous..

You listen to Yoruba drum, one of the most astonishing drumming masters on earth?

Do you listen the poetical Erhu?

Do you listen the Rudra Veena ?

Do you listen sufi music?

Do you know anything about North-african music?

I think you listen mainly "commercial" music which sometimes can be very good, and popular, but at least half is pure junk...You say it yourself....

Then why answering a thread about music quality listening declining for market conditioning reason , you spoke like if your right of tasting junk food like others taste high culinary dishes must be written in the American Constitution like arms right are?

You are "free" indeed...

The constitution dont protect people against corporation indoctrination of mases methods sorry if you dont know that...

But dont claim you know what music is.... You dont...

Simple.... Sorry...

Go on with your empty content post and i will go on with my "boring" one ...

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Do your own research.  Try to find every place in your area where music is actually being played and go listen.  Bars, parks, churches, nightclubs, community centers, concert halls, college campuses, don't stop there!  One of the towns near us has free concerts inside City Hall in the winter & on the lawn outside in the summer.  There are summer concerts on an island, a ferry ride away.

My experience is that it is still all there.  Not just music that charms, but music that entrances, music that makes you laugh, music that makes you cry, music that overwhelms, music that changes your life...