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This is pretty spot on for me. I don't even know who the latest artists are, I just listen to the same old stuff over and over.
I have moods for genres though. Currently going through a chiptune phase again (YM2612 specifically, so give recommendations).
oh yeah, chiptunes are the best.
i remember a song called "cydonian skies" (part 1 & 2). i played it a million times while playing minecraft.
The fuck? Fontaines DC, Tyler Childers, Janelle Monae, Leon Bridges, I have never stopped finding new music I love. This graph makes no sense. Modern music is so good. Old music is so good. I do not have a preference for any particular time period when it comes to enjoying music.
Uh it's not an objective scale. This is the result of a survey
Yeah, i'm currently listening to my 8yo's explicite R&B tastes and perfectly happy with it. It rages in the same say my 90's stuff raged.
Sauce: https://www.jstor.org/stable/48812575
This study builds on decades of work that makes less and less sense every minute of the digital age. Each year we're further from a semi-homogenous group listening to Casey Kasem's Top 40 (or whatever). Most people have a fairly clear, shared concept of 60s/70s/80s/90s music, but ask ten people about the 10s/20s and you'll probably get eleven different answers.
In addition to changing mass listening habits, the digital age untethers us from time and wildly diversifies "new" music. You can hop on Youtube/Spotify/etc and listen to the Glenn Miller Orchesta as easily as the newest Drake singles, which with radio/MTV/etc was historically not the case. Those platforms also have allowed a world of music diversity and access that completely changes the paradigm. For example, some of the best "80s Music" in existence was released in the past few years.
And I'm over here mostly listening to music from other countries and loving it.
Sometimes it really is that the music in the U.S. isn't as good as it used to be.
Iḿ from 90s and like mostly 60s/70s. psychedelic & prog rock
Time is a very good filter of what's worthy and what's not. You're living now and you're witnessing good stuff, but you're also witnessing bullshit before it's had the chance of being forgotten. If you look back 40-50-60 years, will you think of The Beatles, ABBA, Freddie Mercury, Jimi Hendrix, or will you think of someone who maybe released a couple of songs or an album and dropped out of existence? Yes, I thought so.
What, you mean you don't still rock out to the Newbeats?
I like most types of electronica. Trance, techno, house, bounce, phonk, and even some dubstep. I still find new songs on youtube that I enjoy, even in my 40's. Growing up my dad listened to a lot of psychedelic rock. I don't really listen to rock anymore but I do recognize a lot of rock artists like dick dale, iron butterfly, and many others who created the psychedelic sound that progressed into techno and trance. I still hear a hint of miserlou in a lot of modern electronica it has a very recognizable guitar riff.
And yes Dick Dale was a surf guitarist, but his experimental creativity was a departure from what came before him. I consider him the grandpa of the big psychedelic rock artists who came after him. Many big psychedelic rock artists claimed dale as an inspiration.
Dick Dale is a legend a lot of great musicians owe something to. Most (though not all) modern surf, some of which is fucking great, follows in his footsteps while also borrowing from psych rock and other genres.
Always give Dick his due, he is the king after all.
Edit: at the same time, it'd be a mistake to ignore the influence of The Ventures as well.
Edit edit: Since this has lead me to fire up my 'face melting surf' playlist again, I'll take the opportunity to give a shout out for my aquaintence-of-an-acquaintence's weekly radio show Storm Surge of Reverb.
Good and bad music exist since the existence of music. The problem with bad music began from the music industry massified it with criteria more commercial than artistic, this is why good music did not cease to exist, but you have to look for it more than before. Whether you like it or not depends only on personal taste, not on type or style.
But then why are gen alpha and gen z listening to music I grew up with. It is so weird. I know its tiktok but still weird that they listen to the same music.
Yes, it's Tik Tok. And it's music older than I am sometimes. But mine listen to everything, like I do. I took the youngest to see Inhaler and also to see Young the Giant. Taking my husband to see Cannons, and also got him into country music, he used to hate it but if you turn off the commercial radio and just find the good stuff it is still being made.
The 2 bands both my older set of kids (millennials) and my younger set (GenZ) wanted to see when they were middle school age were Panic at the Disco and the My Chemical Romance, I always thought that was funny. Like it's middle schooler music, I think I would have loved it too.
There's been great music forever, there will continue to be great music forever.
The hard part is finding it.
There was a period in my life where I didnt have time to listen to new music and I thought I could get by on Metallica, maiden, misfits, and (at the time) my favorite band, Fear factory. I distinctly remember telling people, I'll listen to this til the end of my days, I don't need more.
Then covid happened and I was stuck at home, no longer interrupted by random work or life stuff when I picked what music I put on for hours, and it got stale (No shit). And I started to listen to so much more.
Now my wife and I go to multiple shows a week, hearing all the latest and coolest shit from our local scene (SF); we tell all of our friends: $BAND is coming in 6 months, buy your tickets now, it'll sell out. Or: free show on Saturday, want to come?
We are on friendly terms with members from multiple local bands, we go to album release shows, we get signed merch just by being chatty/friendly, we are helping bands, promoters/venues book with each other by putting them in touch.
Honestly it's pretty incredible. When someone says "there's no good music these days" or "rock/metal is dead" i just ask them... "Well what are you into? I can recommend something". Because they're so wrong...And if thry see what I see, they'd never say that in the first place
My music taste is like the inverse of this graph.
This may be true for casual listeners but it fails miserably for people who are "into music".
i'm not. it definitely applies to me. and i'm guessing it would for the majority of the public, too.
That could easily be extended to other interest areas;
The average person may exclusively eat local, contemporary foods (ie whatever everyone else in their community eats), while "foodies" go out of their way to find new and interesting flavors.
For many people, fashion is, "whatever looks kinda like what everyone else is wearing." For "fashionistas", there's a whole language around clothing choices.
But it's better to share some actual joyful experiences.
I recently started listening to "Angine de Poitrine". They're a modern band that just released a new album and still plays live concerts. According to the OP chart, they're 15 years too new for me.
For some old stuff, check out Hillery Hahn. I keep going back to her Bach sonatas and he lived in the 15th and 16th centuries.
Then there are crazy fusion versions. I recently found Ben Comeau's gem "Donald Trump is a Wanker". He took the bassline of "Seven Nation Army", gave it a choral voice, and transcribed it to a fugue format. To paraphrase an other contemporary artist; that shit is bananas.
No fate but what we make. You can put in the effort to keep your mind and your ears open. Absolutely worth it IMHO.
Why should I bother when all the best music came out before I was 35?
I'm 41 and I think some of the best music of my life has released in the past few years, personally 🤷♂️
"How people who only ever listen to the music that's played on the radio feel about music"
Keep your statistics to yourself, I'm over 40 and love discovering new music.
Same! but, ngl its a struggle sometimes!
Not just music! (Though that is probably the strongest example)
It's telling how many people are nostalgic for a society that only existed before they were born. Recent History education sucks.
Damn we humans are bad as shit as forming our subjective opinion that doesnt get extremely distorted by nostalgia
I've discovered a new subgenre or other every few years and I still find music that's just as good in my thirties as when I was a kid. Trick is I don't care when it was made, I only care that it's in the style I want. I also have never listened to what anyone would really consider radio friendly music so it helps filter out the product placements disguised as artists. Stay curious and find music yourself and you will never experience this curve.
So what I'm getting from this is if you want success, market to 15-year-olds
Always true, in music and in everything else too.
and a banker bro dad that can grease palms at the record label
I didn't discover music I liked until I was 21. I got raised on church garbage and the oldies channel.
Only most people.
Some of us keep listening to new music throughout our lives
New stuff isn't tied to memories from youth though