Is Old Music Killing New Music?

@hilde45  Why don't you just delete your first posting.  It is lacking in context and appears to be an equity play for young people versus boomers.   Equal opportunity is available to young people.   They spearhead technological innovations today, not boomers (and sometimes get rich doing so).  Unfortunately, our public education system is dumbing down young people.  They are dumber and tend to be less capable of taking care of themselves.  Also, how often do they read a book or newspaper?   I'm sure you are all in for equity, not equal opportunity and probably think books (those old things written by dead people mostly) are passe.   WRONG!  

@mike_in_nc  I was into 50's rock and roll, pop music from the 20's to 50's, classical and opera as a child.  At about 30, I became interested in jazz from the 20's to the 60's, then in my 60's in hard bop and fusion.  My wife brought me into 60's to 80's rock after we met when I was 41.   I am open minded and find new horizons in music.  (I have 28,500 LPs, 7,000 78s and 7,000 CDs with all these types of music).   I dislike rap, hip hop and the genre that spawned them.   They are antithetical to my moral beliefs.

@beasmooth1 Yes, patience is required to listen to music.  The most important factor in music is rhythm, the timing of music (even one note repeated in time can be considered music).  Streaming and earpod listening to music on phones does not convey the full character and experience of concentrating on music using more elaborate sonic setting (although there are some excellent quality earpods/phones but listening while exercising is not paying attention in my opinion and doesn't convey the full listening experience).   As Type A personality that I borderline on, I take time out each day to listen/envelop myself into listening to music.  

Yes, I've sold 18,000 records in the past 35 years.   I have a rule for myself, if I don't potentially want to listen to a recording 3 times a year, out it goes (except for ethnic music which I have 3,500 records/78s/cds).  I have about 5,000 LPs to listen to still and decide to keep or toss.  I stopped purchasing 78s (except ethnic music) 20 years ago.   So many of the vocal, violin and piano recordings have been wonderfully remastered by Ward Marston, Obert-Thorn and Andreas Meyer to CD.

@jssmith I doubt I’m a Sigma with my low creativity and average I.Q. However, I’m self-taught on computer since the mid-80s DOS, have a JD as well as having taken science courses at UCLA along with my history and political science BAs. Became a top commercial real estate appraiser for 28 years after 5 year stint as a residential property manager (hands on repairs too)/contractor for tract homes and apartments. Funny thing is that I’m mostly self-taught since school and prefer independent pursuits rather than group activities (other than choir for 51 years). I'm probably an anomaly compared to most people who are stuck in a rut both in life and work.

I can’t do anything artistic but appreciate and know art history. I can’t compose and play piano slowly yet I am quite knowledgeable on music history (especially opera and ethnic musicology). I don’t know how to create computer programs but am able to learn how to use them with minimal instruction. My learning ability accelerates with age, possibly due to earlier knowledge compounding with new subject matter.

As to bitcoin, I don’t like it. As to blockchain, yes, I can see myself using it just as I learned to switch from a slide rule to a calculator to a computer.

I will always want to listen to music on records and CDs. Streaming just doesn’t have much of the music I want or will probably never have (ethnic, out of print on esoteric music on formats of LP, 78, RR and CD). Note that streaming music is rarely accompanied with extensive recording, composer and artist notes whereas my Marston, Romophone, Biddulph, etc. CDs have sizable booklets of notes.

@dabel  Without PRAT, there is no music.  Could be a tone or a note, but with PRAT, one has music.   

@jssmith I like to watch Rick Beato videos.  I've learned much about modern music from him and about guitars.   

I suppose I am not a Sigma.  However, I never want to retire.  I run a full business (which is now mostly from home, real estate rentals and equity investments) instead of my former driving 30,000 miles annually all over California for commercial real estate appraisal.   High school IQ tests had me at 97 (Stanford/Binet) and 98 (Berkeley).  The school informed my father than I should be in pass/fail courses.  I had already achieved nearly straight A's in accelerated courses so all that remained were AP courses.  It was either college instead of 12th grade or AP.  They permitted me to take AP courses instead of losing student funding.   By 18, I was a junior at UCLA in dual majors.  I took an on-line IQ test which tested me at 129.  Maybe I got better at test taking 50 years later,  

@larsman Yes, I agree that there is much new music which I have not heard.   I also agree that so much great music was recorded in the past 100+ years just like so much great film/video was recorded.   I have 550 DVDs/Blu-Rays and an avid watcher of TCM movies.   Comedy, musicals and film noir are my favorites (my wife forgoes the musicals).   Video is much easier to retrieve great picture quality compared to music.   4K high end LCD screens were not wallet breakers.  However, I have a higher end audio system which is 15X+ more expensive than TV screens to achieve similar results. 

I'm 66 and loved the 50s doo wop, opera, rock and roll and classical music when I was a child.  PRAT must have had a lot to do with my desire to hear music as the quality of the sound was mediocre from my tube record players.  It wasn't until I was 13 that I finally bought a Sony TC366 RR that I started hearing good sound (and 15 when I had a beginner's early stereo).   When music has a melody and PRAT that one can sing and dance to, how can one not be moved?   With my high end audio systems, I can appreciate radically different music as well from rock pre-1995, fusion jazz and 20th century obscure classical music.   I cannot sing or dance to Rap, Hip Hop and most pop of today.   It doesn't move me.