When would you say the initial decline in music began?

There's definitely no good music being made now. Totally agree. Two thumbs up

I disagree with the whole premise. 00s was a great, deep decade for music, you just had to search a bit.

When the Lynyrd Skynard plane crashed. Amiright?

There are more pianos, violins, guitars, mandolins, and banjos among the working classes of America than in all the rest of the world, and the presence of these instruments in the homes has given employment to enormous numbers of teachers who have patiently taught the children and inculcated a love for music throughout the various communities.

Right here is the menace of machine-made music! The first rift in the lute has appeared. The cheaper of these instruments of the home are no longer being purchased as formerly, and all because the automatic music devices are usurping their places.

And what is the result? The child becomes indifferent to practice, for when music can be heard in the homes without the labor of study and close application, and without the slow process of acquiring a technic. the tide of amateurism cannot but recede, until there will be left only the mechanical device and the professional executant...

When a mother can turn on the phonograph with the same ease that she applies to the electric light, will she croon her baby to slumber with sweet lullabys, or will the infant be put to sleep by machinery?

Children are naturally imitative, and if, in their infancy, they hear only phonographs, will they not sing, if they sing at all, in imitation and finally become simply human phonographs — without soul or expression? Congregational singing will suffer also, which, though crude at times, at least improves the respiration of many a weary sinner and soften the voices of those who live amid tumult and noise.

The country band with its energetic renditions, its loyal supports by local merchants, its benefit concerts, band wagon, gay uniforms, state tournaments, and the attendant pride and gayety, is apparently doomed to vanish in the general assault on personality in music.

The country dance orchestra of violin, guitar and melodeon had to rest at times, and the resultant interruption afforded the opportunity for general sociability and rest among the entire company. Now a tireless mechanism can keep everlastingly at it, and much of what made the dance a wholesome recreation is eliminated. -- John Philip Sousa, 1906

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In my opinion today's mainstream music is absolute garbage, I do have Spotify and almost all my music on there is stuff from the 60's through early to mid 90's. What are some bands you enjoy listining to who have come out in the past 10 years?

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what are some bands you like?

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Except for sports and conservative talk, haven't listened to the radio in 15 years... 

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Yes. This.

Fleetwood Mac, Eagles, The Allman Brothers, The doobie brothers, grateful dead, CCR, Sam cooke, Otis Redding, Smokey Robinson, Jackson Browne, Paul Simon, The rolling stones, Skynyrd, Eric Clapton, Led zeppelin, Pearl Jam, Alice in chains, Stone temple pilots, Toadies, Pixies, Smashing pumpkins, Van Morrison, Soundgarden, Pink Floyd, Jim Croce, Blues travelers, band of horses, widespread panic, phish, Steve Miller Band, Wilco, Railroad Earth, Percy sledge, Hall and Oates, The Band, Billy Joel, Janis Joplin, and Rush are some but not nearly all.

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Whenever the backstreet boys, nsync, Britney Spears, etc. came along

I will say most of the newer music I have is indie rock, bands such as: The strokes, Arcade Fire, The postal service, death cab for cutie, The killers, Bon Iver and Modest Mouse.The killers being my favorite out of the bunch.