• Buffaloaf@lemmy.world
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      10 months ago

      I think the big reason people think that music from another time was better is because you only get to hear the good songs; they stopped playing the shitty ones long ago.

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        10 months ago

        Based off the number of absolute bangers from that decade, I can only conclude that there were either more musicians or fewer bad songs.

        Seriously: there are more legendary songs than months in that decade; And there are more songs which are merely incredible than there were weeks in the decade.

        Maybe all that asbestos in the air caused better music.

        Probably I just like rock-inspired sound from that era. Music shifts all the time and it’s just a matter of personal preference. It feels like rock splintered into fractile sub-genres which never quite hooked me in the same way.

        Punk and metal had a lot of progress in later decades, but their wellspring feels like the 80s.