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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.
hint: your emotions are s function of hormonal activity. music feeds your emotions in such a way that your hormones are run in a feedback loop that tweaks your emotions to higher levels. as you age, your hormonal activity lessens, so thoe feedback loops are less effective and you lose interest
Do you have a source on this? Music playing a role in hormonal feedback loops sounds sus to me and if it’s not I’d love to read more into this.
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.
So basically we all realize that music is a pointless waste of time once we get a job but sunk cost fallacy keeps us “enjoying” the same shit for a while
That is so far from the point of this graph it’s in another universe.
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.
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.
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?
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.
There’s been great music forever, there will continue to be great music forever.
The hard part is finding it.
My music taste is like the inverse of this graph.
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
I was a teen when Limp Bizkit was the thing for me and it’s pretty sad that no other band has that sound yet. Especially the one of the less known tracks. I’m not a hardcore metal guy, so I look for guitar work with melodies. Any recommendations?
I have to say, I’m not very good with specific descriptors like that, moreso (sub)genres or “this band sounds like that/these band(s)”.
I agree there’s not a lot that sounds quite like Limp Bizkit, not that I’m familiar with anyway.
When you say “guitar work with melodies”, what first comes to my mind is Iron Maiden. My instinct was to go to my concert calendar and see what is coming up that might fit the bill to give you a rec, and I found “The Lord Weird Slough Feg” (sometimes just “Slough Feg” these days) is in a couple weeks. One track I remember loving by them is “Tiger! Tiger!”. Their whole vibe reminds me of a Heavy Metal 2000 (the movie).
Give that a shot, hopefully I’m not too far off the mark!
(edit: and if that tickles your fancy, check out “Burst into Flames” by Haunt; “Time to Die” by Satan)
I think this only applies to some generations, almost all the music I like has been made before I was born
“How people who only ever listen to the music that’s played on the radio feel about music”
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.
So what I’m getting from this is if you want success, market to 15-year-olds
and a banker bro dad that can grease palms at the record label
