I can't really listen to anything old and modern music has gotten pretty bad with people listening to stuff like the Dave Matthews Band and Green Day.

 

I think people say this every year. "Music just isnt as good as it was in ----"

 

You gotta know where to look for what you like. Music always changes, its a constant form of communication for our society. I love Classic music as much as the next guy(if not more), but I also love finding a newer band and enjoying something I havent heard before.

 

right now Im digging

 

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I think people say this every year.  "Music just isnt as good as it was in ----"

 

I'd be a bit young to be saying stuff like that, seeing as how I'm only 16. I just meant the mainstream stuff(Not the poopish crap, that will always stick) that most everybody listens could be better than it is.

I'd be a bit young to be saying stuff like that, seeing as how I'm only 16. I just meant the mainstream stuff(Not the poopish crap, that will always stick) that most everybody listens could be better than it is.

 

As I wrote that I realized that you might feel that i pegged you like that, and please dont feel that way. It was a broad statement that was meant to reflect that nostalgia for classic music is much better than excitement for new music. You slightly proved my point by remarking that "modern music has gotten pretty bad with people listening to stuff like the Dave Matthews Band and Green Day".

 

I like what Dave and Green Day have to offer, but I also understand that both of those artists are completely saturated in modern day music playlists. This wasnt so when i was your age. When I was 16, Dave was touring with NO LABEL because nobody wanted to take a chance on a so-called "college-band". Green Day was slightly more popular, but viewed as bubble-gum pop-punk that wasnt going to last. I, on the other hand, was saying something along the lines of "modern music has gotten pretty bad with people listening to stuff like Pearl Jam and Nirvana".

 

You just have to appreciate things as they come. Corporations have changed things a bit, and mainstream has become more corporate, but the diversity of music nowadays is something to behold. There is no more Alternative, Mainstream, top-40, country, classic rock, etc. They all bleed into each other, yet they are all pretty distinct. My former employer Clear Channel tries to peg bands into holes, and they dont understand why their ratings slip after initially launching stations.

 

One piece of advice that I can give you, is when you buy a cd for a song(we all do it, just admit it), listen to the whole cd through and through without stopping. Its hard to do, but it gives you a better idea of whether you enjoy the band, or the good song. When I started doing that (when i was about your age, curiously enough), music became so much better to me, it became such a bigger part of my life.

Edited July 25, 200520 yr by kyyle23

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