Not all music styles are suited to acoustic live shows.

Yeah, eff that unplugged nonsense

The take your breath away factor has been lost on today's music. There is nothing out there that comes close to comparing with a young Chuck Berry, Elvis, or the Beatles for that matter. Video stations like Much Music and MTV have had to farm out most of their programming time because there is just not enough quality music being made to fill a 24 hour a day station.

And the vast majority that cannot do so, SUCK.

boy those kraftwerk guys suck do they even play autobahn in acoutic???

I get the topic of the thread is to compare. I don't understand why people always want to compare certain artists and make it seem like there needs to be a similar version of the same artist in today's music. MTV has about five different channels dedicated to playing strictly music and quality stuff to regardless of what you think. You have a prejudice against modern music so you don't put any effort into seeking out the quality artists odd today. The medium to find music has obviously changed and it just seems like you are relying on older mediums and that doesn't make sense.

imo music died in the 1890s when the teleharmonium was invented and ruined acoustics

^ this guy gets it

Here follows my idiosyncratic hypothesis concerning the cause of the poverty in pop music nowadays. This hypothesis is based on the essential point conveyed in Ayn Rand's essay "The Comprachicos" (this essay is pubished in the essay collection "Return of the Primitive", edited by Peter Schwartz).

My hyopothesis is that the root cause of the dearth of good new pop music in our time is progressive education.

Why?

In order to create good new music the songwriter needs to possess formidable cognitive skills. Modern education sabotages the development of said skills. Therefore there is a poverty of good minds out there nowadays. And so, just as young people today are less able to read, write, do arithmetic,and so forth compared to the kids of my generation (I was born in 1954), so also kids today are less able to carry out the thinking necessary to create good new music. The minds of the young have been disintegrated by the (mostly public) schools which they have been required to attend.

A tragedy.

Conclusions (two of them):

1) We need a philosophy of reason.

2) We need to get the government out of education (in other words: NO public schools! Privatize both the production and finance of education!)

A person named Galt talking about Ayn Rand? Shocking I tells ya.