I feel bad for Generation X and The Millennial's

A shame you never grew up. Music composition and instrument virtuosity sure did. I'm sure the newer generations will never miss you're condescending attitude.

Admittedly I find pitch correction software to be one of the most fatiguing things I've ever listened to. I grew up with the understanding that singing or playing with absolute pitch was expected and if someone didn't possess that ability, they pursued something other than music. But the inherent nature of capitalism is to make a profit. I believe this has been the downfall of popular music/culture. I'm not suggesting a controlled economy but I believe artistic integrity to be more important than maximizing dividends where it pertains to the artistic process. 

You only heard what some business man allowed through the gate. Congratulations on your limited knowledge.

This is the boomerest boomer post that ever did boomer.

Signed,

A Gen Xer (the generation that was sick of Boomers way before everyone else hopped aboard that train lol)

@au_lait  please clarify,

You only heard what some business man allowed through the gate. Congratulations on your limited knowledge

I am glad I am alive now to listen to almost anything at any time on gear that is likely better than any time in history. Though I do find I am discovering more older music than new, such as Jeff Beck (I even saw him open for Santana but never liked his music until I was able to really discover his catalogue with ROON).

Luckily, I have a great local FM station that plays new pop and world music along with the most eclectic old stuff.

Everybody thinks they were young in the glory days.  They are wrong.  Another mistake most of us make is to believe our time is more important than other time.  Or that 'things are different now'.  Most likely everything is a continuum.

Watch Woody Allen's 'Midnight in Paris'.

Sad….music brings people and cultures together. You would never know it by this thread. 

Don’t feel bad for me!

im a Gen X and enjoy all of that music and then some…daily. I also enjoy the music from your parent’s generation and prior…not to mention my music from the 80s and 90s and 2000’s - lots of epic stuff!

This whole thread plays out like LCD Soundsystem’s “Losing My Edge”…

to quote paul Simon- Every generation throws their hero up the pop chart. 

When music is good it always gets discovered by all generations... 

Imho....as usual.... ;) .....

It’s because ’we’, our ’era’ ( or ’error’, if mispronounced...😏...), has stopped listening to anything other than what they grew up with or is familiar with....

There’s still terrific music ’out here’.

Get off your collective tushes, and go wander around.

"Turn off the TV"

Go out.  Frequently.  Hear live music in your community.  Old musicians, young ones, male, female, undeclared, unknown, famous, folk, rock, jazz, bluegrass, blues, soul, funk, hip hop, classical.  There is great music all around.  You just have to listen.

I think our Grand Parents said the same thing when they were our age about us missing out on great music. Most of what I listen to is Not new music.....

The golden age for everything was when I was 18.

Hey don't forget earth wind d & fire Gorge Clinton  stevie Ray Vaughan led Zeppelin isley brothers parliament funkidelic.  The list goes on and on

There has been great music since the dawn of recorded music in all generations. There also has been less than great music in all generations. Great music to my way of thinking is music that has aged well. I can listen to 1930’s swing music for a couple of hours and switch to contemporary music for a while. I can put on a Flatt and Scruggs album and then a Frank Sinatra with Count Baise. Go from the Stones to Sturgill Simpson. As a 71 year old baby boomer I probably listen more to music from my high school and college years but to say that you feel sorry for another generation let’s me know you haven’t explored music from other generations. I could give you countless examples but if you like female vocals just dial up Brandi Carlisle and see how she stacks up to other great female vocalists.

I urge you all to check out John Bradley's "Boomer Patrol" songs.

My thoughts exactly. Well articulated. In fact I’ve over played my favorite and b come a little jaded.  Nothing recent gives me goosebumps 

Leave complaining and brooding behind, and cease projecting helplessness. Go with what you know and/or experience as best you can. I’m a Boomer, a dual national, and dedicated to enjoying great music. Don’t stream except for using Apple music in my 2008 Toyota FJ with its original sound system. Grew up with vinyl, biut with the refinement of CD mastering, I left the scratches, pops, and skips behind. Too lazy to get up, turn the record over, cue the tonearm, and trying to rationalize why I don’t want to put forth the effort to provide the meticulous care vinyl needs. I’m fortunate to have a close friend in Baltimore whose family dedicated themselves to recorded music and the ongoing refinement of the industry’s electronics. The salon still exists and with the same mission. "Relax, enjoy...no rush." The recent decades have contaminated much of what we appreciated.

Still upset? Listen to Dylan’s It’s Alright, Ma (I’m Only Bleeding)

@oregon The TV dinners sucked but JoAnn Castle brought the house down every time.  I implore anyone who who hasn't heard her give a listen!

I have to weigh in on this.

What seems to be lacking in modern pop music is the flesh-and-bones humanity of the old school recording process (ugly warts and all). I’d rather hear John Lennon screw up the bass line in "The Long and Winding Road" than some technically perfect digitally generated bass line. I’d rather hear Dylan sing off key than hear "Ye" sounding pitch-perfect using autotune. The visceral experience of hearing a live orchestra cannot be matched by a synthesizer playing state-of-the-art pitch and rhythm perfect renditions of the same score.

To be fair, there are many modern artists who eschew digital manipulation and prefer to stay true to the old analog processes (digital recording is fine as long as manipulation is kept to a minimum, or, even better, entirely eliminated). I do respect that many modern artists use synthesized music and autotune as part of their expression (T-Pain is a good example), but certain genres simply do not hold up (for me at least) when overly processed and produced.

George Gershwin was a prodigeous piano player and composer who has left us with an amazing repertoire. All evidence suggests that hearing him play live was enthralling. Gershwin is also famously known for creating piano rolls (to be played on the then popular player pianos – the digital music of the times). No doubt this made him a lot of money, and has left us with some priceless historical artifacts, "But a sense of voiceless perfection, a lack of microcosmic nuance, and an overall mechanicalness of the recordings ultimately shatter the “live” illusion and return our attention toward their inorganic nature. It’s even more difficult to coax out the personality of Gershwin as the performer of this music. Though scholarly analysis can provide clues about Gershwin’s style and arrangement, the combination of post-performance editing and analog reproduction obscures what traits of a “live” Gershwin performance might linger in the facsimile."*

* quote from "The Ghost in the Machine: Decoding Gershwin in his Piano Rolls" by Sarah Sisk, 2021.

@ianb52 

I think Ian nailed it in his comments. What is interesting to me is my daughter loves making music and she is able to without the need and expense for a recording studio etc. She posted her first official song on YouTube Music, Apple Music, Spotify without a record label. It’s actually very good. Growing up she would get so excited about a song that she heard and would play it for us and inevitably it was a remake of a classic song which we would play for her. We had friends over and would play classics (50’s-80’s), Guitar Hero exposed her to a ton of awesome music as well! I know there has been some great music being made in the 90’s through today, due to the ease of making and posting online it is difficult to sort the good from the bad but it’s there. I think history buried the bad and only the great ones stand out so it always appears that the current generation doesn’t have anything worth listening to because it is still getting sorted out. 

I’m a Boomer and there is no way that I would consider any era of music to be better than another.  It is all in the brain of the listener. 95% of the Boomers that I know only listen to the same rock/pop/soul music that the listened to in high school or college.  They might go to a classical music concert, but the they have no idea of any current music music is.

I listen to all sorts of current music in the blues, Americana, bluegrass, jam band, and Jazz genres. The people that I see at concerts include Boomers, Generation X, and Millenials.  The new music that is playing at those concerts sound good to everyone at those concerts.  The younger listeners have the advantage that they can better utilize technology to find the best new music and artists.

@flyfish77 + 1

If you stream, how many Boomers actually explore the genres? Like, click on Tidal "Hip-hop" or "Indie" and listen to a few songs from 10-15 newly released albums? I mean, it's easy to shy away from genres we don't like, but there's always good gems in them if you keep an open musical mind. 

Poor things…

they never got to stumble into a Tower Records on Sunset Blvd at 2 in the morning. See The Who walk in (stumble, really) to admire a pallet stack of their new LP, Who’s Next. No one really paid attention to them, because all 10 people looking at LPs were frozen. We heard knocking, and more knocking, “open the door man…it’s me, I got the stuff”…

Not sure how many Who LPs were sold that night, but everybody, including the baby boomer Who, walked out with that yellow LP. It was sensational. 
 

I feel bad for people who look down their noses at other generations. And I think it's pretty awesome that technology allows GenX, Xennial, Millenial, GenY, etc., to access just about every kind of music ever made at the push of a button... something generations of the past never had. 

Short sighted post, dude. Get off your horse.

Hey never feel bad for the next gen......my kids and my grandkids found their music.

I even like some of it ;-)

I found some myself.    

If you go through the chaff to glean the grain, try J-Rock or J-Metal.

My favorite is Band-Maid.  They just did in '22 their American tour.  They came back from playing in NYC and LA for the opening band The Last Rock Stars this month.  They are coming back for a US Tour in May.  I have my VIP ticket for the Rockville concert in Daytona Beach.  

They are not an Idol Japanese Band, but a true rock band. They all play their instruments, about as good as it gets. They write their own songs, all of them since 2016. I have not gone as far as some of the nuts but I did buy 7CDs and 3 Blue-Rays.  The mixing and sound  is superb particularly with Sennheiser 820s.

Live they sound even better......

Ohhhhh.......I forgot they are an all female band.......

How many people have 5 or 6 figure systems and only listen to one genre of music or music from one era? 

Pin drop …………

@dabel You noticed that? I think the silence is very telling. 😁

Do all the variations of 'rock' count as one genre? I've got a 5-figure system and listen to rock and reggae, which is pretty close, too, and that's about it. More than enough to explore just with those....