You got it. I may prefer Iron Maiden, Priest, Rainbow, etc. But what the hell did happen to music? Most of today's music to me sucks. I don't do rap, hip-hop or pop. The pop of the 80's is not what you hear today. Maybe I'm getting too damn old?:drummer:

I will admit I am stubborn and think that the majority of music today is not good. I think alot of that stems from being raised on classic rock, enjoying the past generations rather that living in my own. I can here real talent in some bands but no heart behind the music. The songs I respect are ones that tell a story as well as sound good.

Of course even then there was crappy music. What I meant to say that is there is still good music in today's age but it has become fewer and fewer.

It's too bad that you feel that way. Good music didn't start in the 60s and end in the 70s.

there ain't no "Mr Tambourine Man" these days, that's fer shure

Sure there is.

There's only one mr. Tambourine man. Sure there are some good lyricists these days but there will never be another Dylan. I know janszoon won't agree :laughing:

Dylan opened everyone up to new possibilities when it came to songwriting. Ive yet to find anyone before Dylan who was writing songs like he was. And I'm not talking about the songs on his first couple albums that we're pretty typical folk albums.

Good music started way back in the Prehistoric Times - Stone and Grunt (Real Experimental! Raw! CVLT!!!!!). It just grew from there.

OK a bit of a bad joke, but moving on...


To move to respond to other posts that still think negative about today's music...

There's still great music out there, it's just that the industry really very little to do with it unless they can sell it to the people that still buy anywhere and everywhere. The 60's and 70's were really a time that will never return - the companies were trying to figure out how to sell music through crap shoot and learning how to get thier connections together and they were lucky enough to have their great musicains who connected with the public. Once The Mega Platinum era grew, the FM stations were gathering ways to run on Automation in The US (Thus shunning requests from the public), and MTV came into the picture, the long slow ride to how they operate now started to speed up quick.

This left out a lot of musicians out of their picture - The start of looking more Independently.

Apart from a couple of eras, a lot of Music was never really a Mainstream thing in the first place, unless the odd band or singer hit at the right time right place.

The best thing to do is to go and discover good music through the Internet and just support it. While it's good to be inspired from the past, it's not all that good to live in it.

I was actually just making a joke about the fact that the song "Mr. Tambourine Man" is still a readily available piece of music for anyone who wants to listen to it.

about the only interesting things out these days are electronica and hip-hop, as I've said before