re: Music in 70's and 80's

60/70 to me was the height of music that is forever classics.

I think it's the way we consume music that screwed us.

in the 60s- early 90s, bands had to put out more truly great music, because consumers had to buy entire albums. So the Albums with the most good stuff sold the most copies.

and that competition drove everyone to be even better.
and radios would play everything, because everybody had different favorites.

then we got to the download age.
and we got to the point where autotune and computers etc. made appearances even more important than talent.
and you could just listen to 1 song however often you liked.

so now people only know that one song, FM radio plays in on endless loop, artists quit even trying to produce entire Albums in favor of landing one hit.

now being controversial sells better than being any good.
so songs like WAP get hits on Spotify, YouTube, etc.
so execs think that's what people want. and we get more of it.

60s
50s
70s
90s
80s

The 70’s were the absolute sweet spot. Grew up on 80’s music as a teenager but 70’s music scratches the itch for me.

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Not near the degree that having music people trying to make money by running a record company instead of business people trying to make money by running a record company had.

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This.

And it's why movies generally suck now too.

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Bose, Klipsch, Marantz, Onkyo, Pioneer, Fischer, Technics, Harmon-Kardon

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Crutchfield magazine

who remembers this?