I think Ian nailed it in his comments. What is interesting to me is my daughter loves making music and she is able to without the need and expense for a recording studio etc. She posted her first official song on YouTube Music, Apple Music, Spotify without a record label. It’s actually very good. Growing up she would get so excited about a song that she heard and would play it for us and inevitably it was a remake of a classic song which we would play for her. We had friends over and would play classics (50’s-80’s), Guitar Hero exposed her to a ton of awesome music as well! I know there has been some great music being made in the 90’s through today, due to the ease of making and posting online it is difficult to sort the good from the bad but it’s there. I think history buried the bad and only the great ones stand out so it always appears that the current generation doesn’t have anything worth listening to because it is still getting sorted out.
I feel bad for Generation X and The Millennial's
Us Baby boomers were grateful to have experienced the best era for rock/soul/pop/jazz/funk from 1964 thru 1974. We were there at the right age. Motown, Stax, Atlantic, Hi Records and then look at the talent we had. The Beatles, Aretha Franklin, Ray Charles, Sam Cooke, Jimi Hendrix, Queen, James Brown, Rolling Stones, The Doors, Herbie Hancock, John Coltrane, Wes Montgomery, T Rex etc. Such an amazing creative explosion in music, nothing can beat that era.
I feel bad for the younger crowd Generation X and Millennials who missed it and parents playing their records for you it isn't the same experience, seeing these artists live years after their prime also isn't the same.
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I’m a Boomer and there is no way that I would consider any era of music to be better than another. It is all in the brain of the listener. 95% of the Boomers that I know only listen to the same rock/pop/soul music that the listened to in high school or college. They might go to a classical music concert, but the they have no idea of any current music music is. I listen to all sorts of current music in the blues, Americana, bluegrass, jam band, and Jazz genres. The people that I see at concerts include Boomers, Generation X, and Millenials. The new music that is playing at those concerts sound good to everyone at those concerts. The younger listeners have the advantage that they can better utilize technology to find the best new music and artists. |
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Poor things… they never got to stumble into a Tower Records on Sunset Blvd at 2 in the morning. See The Who walk in (stumble, really) to admire a pallet stack of their new LP, Who’s Next. No one really paid attention to them, because all 10 people looking at LPs were frozen. We heard knocking, and more knocking, “open the door man…it’s me, I got the stuff”… Not sure how many Who LPs were sold that night, but everybody, including the baby boomer Who, walked out with that yellow LP. It was sensational. |
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