AF and BSS are hardly retro.
Reflektor sounds like garden variety 80's synth-pop. And I like it. It's just that I doubt it will go down in history as an essential musical shift.
I’m not into hip hop myself but I can appreciate that there's some amazing talent in the genre.
I can only appreciate talent if I see any. I can say that about opera...but I can't about hip hop. It's the least tolerable of all musical genres, and I'm not alone in that opinion. There's a reason that the idiots who think walking around with their pants falling down is cool, are also the ones who wouldn't listen to anything else. There's a connection there
dontcha think!!!!!!
While I don't buy into the theory that music was higher quality in the 60s and 70s than it is now
Well, start prying into details, and you just might start buying into it
a little. God knows it isn't essential for either being great or popular, but
musicianship has certainly had a big influence on what is considered great music. Music isn't just auto-tuned vocals and dancing. Occasionally an instrument needs to be picked up and played.
When we start looking at the greatest musicians of all time, very few on that list are from the last 10-20 years. There are some good singers as vocals are still taken seriously (if not consisting of the same auto-tuned R&B sound like they are trying to win "Nobody has talent, X Factor, Pop Idol, American Idol).
Interesting. You talk about how finding music was something you had to invest more into, it wasn’t convenient. But if your premise is true that far less of the good music is mainstream now, then finding it isn’t convenient at all.
Except that's not what I said. Finding good music was incredibly easy in 1977. The contemporary music of 1977 and of today is popular. It just
happens that the contemporary music of 1977 turned out to be classic great music far more often. The inconvenient part was in
playing your music. You had to go to the record store and buy it. You had to carefully take it out of the sleeve and put it on the turntable, probably running the record brush over it first. You cued it up and dropped the needle. You had to turn it over to listen the the other side. This was part of the ritual of listening to music.
I see people on the streetcar listening to their ipods and reading at the same time. I'm pretty sure it should be legal for me to hurt that person.