re: Today’s music sucks, that’s why!

People remember the highlights of the bygone eras and forget about all of the drech. The 80's was like 99% awful. There's some jewels in there, but my goodness, most of what was popular in the 80's was absolutely terrible, ESPECIALLY the rock music. It was so cheesy, overproduced, and lacking in substance.

The 70's had some straight up awful pop music.

There's a handful of truly incredible bands in the late 60's, but most people forget about just how truly boring most of the music was for the first 6 years of that decade. Heck, most of the Beatles early work is incredibly boring generic pop music that isn't interesting in the least.

Nostalgia causes people to put on rose colored glasses and only remember the best of the best (classic rock radio stations help with this). Being in the contemporary, it is difficult to find the good stuff, and thus people focus exclusively on all of the bad.

The truth is very much so in the middle. There's a lot of good and bad music in every decade, and what decade is the "best" is entirely subjective and will vary from person to person. However, considering the average age of this board is folks who were born in the late 50's-1960's, this board is probably going to REALLY overrate the music that was popular when they were young, because that's the music they made core memories to.

I'm nostalgic about music from the 2000's because I made core memories to that music. That's what was playing in the background when I was young. People have to understand that nostalgia is a HUGE part of their music identity, and that they must at least try to put their nostalgia aside when trying to evaluate music or else they'll just come across as a bunch of old folks bitching about how the young kids need to quit playing in their yard.