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It's 2026, which tech did you realistically think we would have by now? (lemmy.world)

submitted 21 hours ago by return2ozma@lemmy.world to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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[–] BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 0 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

Good music. Why does music in the 21st century have to suck so bad? It's not that much different than what we had in the 20th century, the quality just steadily decreased instead of increased. It's all divas screaming, really boring rap, or just dull, art-less rock.

Today, even young people are discovering that the Classic Rock era had very cool music. It would have been like my generation discovering the music of the pre-war 30s.

[–] HubertManne@piefed.social 2 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

I like music from the decade before my birth and swing became big at one point and many folk discover there is a lot of classical music they like. I get what your saying but like there is a lot of historical crap pop to which is kinda always around.

[–] BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 2 points 3 hours ago

Cool, I have a degree in Music History, and you are 100% correct, there is a LOT of bad historical music. Luckily, we don't have to deal with it much, because most of it has been filtered out over time.

There's a loose rule in all Art, that 95% of art is mostly mediocre. Only about 5% is worthy, and only about 1% is truly good, or great. When youre in the midst of it, most of what you are hearing is junk, and you have to be the filter, and it can be exhausting.

But if you go back to the old stuff, it's basically been curated by critics and fans over the decades, and mostly the best stuff has survived, so it's easier to find great, satisfying music.

And if you're ambitious, you can sort through the debris, and find the odd forgotten classic rock gem, like Shoes:

Or Yaz:

Or Bread: