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Is it a waste?
Not An Addict:
I'm sorry, but every generation has its crap. The '70s were chock-full of it, the '80s were utterly saturated with it, and the '90s had most of it cleverly disguised as "ironic". Years from now, I guarantee we will all be sitting around reminiscing about how great music in the 2000's was, just like boomers reminisce about the '70s.
MilkmanDan:
Everyone knows the best years of music were '90-'95.
Also, music is getting better all the time. Musically, growing up in my parents generation would have been boring as all hell.
E. Spaceman:
--- Quote from: MilkmanDan ---Everyone knows the best years of music were '90-'95.
Also, music is getting better all the time. Musically, growing up in my parents generation would have been boring as all hell.
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Pffft, Grunge? Vanilla Ice? MC Hammer? no period has been better than other.
TrueNeutral:
--- Quote from: Buzzgit ---I’m a fairly young guy (21 years) but I find that a lot of my generation listens to the music that their parents listen. I have trouble thinking of a generation of kids who 50/50 listen to their parents stuff and music being produced today. Its not just musically maturity…something is different and I don’t know why.
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Well, the thing about our generation is that the view of parents has changed. We no longer view our parents as 'old and stuffy' who think all music of today is 'noise' as the cliches had previously has us believe. Whenever you find out that your parents might actually be on to something you get interested.
salada:
I was having a conversation similar to this witha friend of mine a while ago, except it was about architecture (along the lines of "most modern buildings (prefab & kit homes / horrible "exclusive" estates / etc) look like rubbish, how come old buildings all look better, etc"), and we decided the simplest reason for it was that it takes a few years of hindsight to see what stands the test of time and what just falls apart or was a terrible passing fad.
Essentially, I think it's the same with music — The Velvet Underground's first album still sounds as fresh today as it did in 1966, for example. It may be harder to pick out the gold when it's surrounded by crap, but in retrospect, classic stuff stands out for a reason.
And I don't really agree with that comment about avante-garde music being in it's best form ever today: a lot of modern "avante garde" stuff sounds similar, derivative, expected, whereas I think some of the older composers / artists were really pioneers.
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