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Buzzgit:
I was having this conversation with a group of friends last night and I thought it would make a good forum discussion.
Why music being produced today isn’t given the credit it deserves? I mean people talk about the historic significance of music all the time or the development of a sound through different bands. But everyone always acts like the stuff that is coming out now is somehow “less” then anything that has been produced before…like it’s destined for the historic waste basket. Personally I don’t think this way, but so many people do.
Your thoughts?

TrueNeutral:
Yeah, "music used to be much better" people annoy me.

No it didn't, you just remember it more fondly and it felt newer back then.

Storm Rider:
Well, I like to think of it this way.

My father's generation had Led Zeppelin.

My generation has Green Day.

So... I do think that at the very least, mass-audience music has declined sharply in quality. Sure, good stuff still exists, but it will never get the attention or sales numbers it deserves in order to be recognized as historically important.

eternie:

--- Quote from: Storm Rider ---
My father's generation had Led Zeppelin.

My generation has Green Day.
--- End quote ---


That's a very broad generalisation. Green Day are hardly on par with Led Zeppelin. We have Oasis, Muse, hell even Robbie Williams who will be recognised years from now as brilliant and quite rightly too. They're quite mainstream, too.

We look back on music as if it's better than today because people say it is, but that's not at all true. Okay, there's lots of hip hop-esque crap in the charts but lots of 'indie' bands are getting through too and they're making a big impact. It's not that bad.

Of course I'm speaking for England here.

E. Spaceman:
My father's genertation had The Velvet Underground, but they also had motherfucking Sonny and Cher, Herman's Hermits, Journey and many others. We may have to live with Oasis and Coldplay, but there is enough good music for it to even out.

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