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Originally Posted by SpectralJulianIsNotDead
The list becomes drivel towards the end.
But I often wonder this about music, and collecting records I get this impression:
music was just as shit during the 50s & 60s. There was tons of corporate bullshit music that people hated. Yeah there were some good bands that made it to the top & some good one hit wonders, definitely more so then than now. . . but if you look at record bins full of 50s and 60s records, it's mostly shit. My Mom told me that when she was a teen before Dark Side came out, her cousin introduced her to Pink Floyd & nobody knew who they were at the time. A record store owner told me in the 60s the only good brit rock you could get was the Stones & the Beatles, you had to mail order the Kinks.
I feel like with music we have a huge case of hindsight is 20/20. I almost never discover a new favorite album when it comes out. It's usually a few years afterwards at least.
Am I going to be able to look back in 20 years and recognize all the great music I overlooked today? All the hidden gems of albums that I just refused to listen to because they were too pimped by pitchfork & hipsters for me to give a shake or ones that I just never heard of?
Or is rock and roll the new blues? Something that's only really cared about my nerdy white dudes who wish to relive their glory days & where no new innovation exists?
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--I dunno. Do you think years and years from now, a list of albums from 2000-2010 will be a stellar set? I don't know. Just asking.
--Yes, crap is not confined to any era. When you think about how many thousands of albums came out in, say, 1968, to end up with 100 good ones is a lousy ratio. BTW, Sound of Music soundtrack is the second biggest selling album of the sixties (though maybe only in UK). Make of that what you will.
--Still, if someone gives me a record and tells me it just came out, I have trouble getting into it. Tell me it came out in 1977, and I'll lap it up. Weird.