Comments on: Where is all the good music?

By: Heidi Heidelberg

Heidi Heidelberg — Wed, 12 Feb 2014 23:00:24 +0000

If you are despairing, here’s some deeply beautiful music that’s wrenched out of the gut and the cerebrals

By: Chuk

Chuk — Tue, 01 Nov 2011 22:11:52 +0000

radio late at night, bought music papers, went to gigs, traded tapes with friends

That is exactly how I got most of my best music as a teen. (Also a few super popular bands I read about in books, like the Clash.)

By: Chuk

Chuk — Tue, 01 Nov 2011 21:27:43 +0000

Maybe it’s not so much that there’s no good music as that there is even more crap. Yes, crap’s always been more common, but now there’s even more of it. (I don’t have stats but just the fact that you can have like 12 different station formats, most of which have some new music on them every week, whereas when I was a kid there were far fewer). Even if it stays the same proportionally, it might hit some kind of critical mass where there is just too much crap. The thing that bugs me sometimes is that I’m pretty sure there is some music out there that I would really like and will probably never ever hear.
(And I definitely have the ‘not as much time for music’ problem.)

By: PaulE

PaulE — Tue, 01 Nov 2011 18:30:45 +0000

“Insane” might be a bit much, but it is certainly a cry for help. And they may not be listening to the mainstream as such – it is hard to avoid it sometimes. But if the “alternative” parts of the mainstream (“Later….” etc.) don’t deliver either, then people can get a bit frustrated. I’m speaking from relatively recent experience on this. In retrospect, I was making a very poor job of finding new music, but I needed some kind of “filter”. Classic Rock Presents Prog solved that.

By: Tim Hall

Tim Hall — Mon, 31 Oct 2011 22:21:14 +0000

Yes, they’re certainly lazy. But it does take a bit of time and effort to find the good music amidst the much larger amount of dross.

By: Ade

Ade — Mon, 31 Oct 2011 21:31:53 +0000

It’s not like you have to look very hard now though, is it? Nothing like the effort required in the 70s. The tricky bit is knowing when to pause and take stock.