I just prefer to not hear THUMP-THUMP-SCREECH Oooga Booga Kill Cops Hoes that could have been created in the jungle 10,000 years ago. If you can call that crap “music.”
Innovation in music exploded in the late 50s, the 60s, and the early 70s. After that, there was little new. Even in that era, bands had to win over Big Music to get any distribution and radio airtime. You were forced to listen to what THEY wanted you to listen to. I remember this mold just starting to break in 1968 when I discovered K-SHE FM “underground” FM in St. Louis. You got to hear a lot of music that never would see the light of day on the Top 40 format. The Top 40 music was mostly lowest-common-denominator crap.
With the advent of Spotify, Pandora, Apple Music, Qobuz, Tidal, Deezer, Amazon Music, etc, it has become so easy to find music from new bands that you like.
My musical tastes have evolved a lot. I just don’t enjoy listening to the hard rock / psychedelic rock I enjoyed as a teen.
I think there’s another element that’s not captured here. I think the transition from recording on tape to digital, a.k.a. Pro Tools has altered the sound of music. I can tell the difference in the quality of sound from the 90s to today. The Sound City documentary captures what I mean. The Neve sound board makes a difference.
There is no shortage of new music that is awesome and with modern tech it is not hard to find. It is just not what the powers that be push as “popular”. There are still lots of bands that actually know how to play actual instruments
Same here, the good thing thing is rediscovering bands that I largely ignored back in the day like Hall & Oats and Hughey Luis and the News.
I instantly switch stations when a Pink Floyd song comes on and I was a big fan.