Though i listened to him more as a kid, I can't deny his genius, his songs are extremely original and no one can deny his talent
For me it was when there started being 20 year anniversary releases of albums I bought at university.
I am a fan of a country music and I can tell you that it isn't dead. The past isn't coming back (Merle Haggard, Hank Williams etc.), but the future is yet to be written. All forms of popular culture (of which country music is one) change and evolve. That's the nature of popular culture!
It's the nature of any thriving culture, popular or not, soon as it stops changing it's dead and only fit for a museum, or worse, government funded performances.
When I was a teenager, my primary interest in music turned to "Classical" genres, Beethoven, Mahler, Mozart, Bach, etc. One of the biggest virtues of becoming acquainted with defunct musics is the realization that all music genres must pass, all styles of music are temporary, locked into their own time. It's not as if I didn't listen to or enjoy contemporary musics from 1968-1975, but I was aware that musical styles were changing and changing quickly. It's not so much that "rock is dead", it's more like "rock is in the rear view mirror". What's past is past and nothing is about to change that. And if you don't like the new music you encounter, there's a good chance you don't like it because you're old. You can talk about the new music being inferior, but that won't stop other [usually younger] people from enjoying it.
This is all true for you. But I suspect you have been listening for a long time. You have established a set of templates for what you consider to be good music, and the new stuff ain't it. That doesn't stop other people from enjoying it. This is all attributable to the illusion of time, the notion that things are changing when the thing that is changing the most is you [or me], our particular vantage point determines what we think of as good or bad and most of what we think of as good already happened. The new stuff threatens that.
I agree. I feel the same way.
Or over the PA at 5 guys...
" . . . because pop is as crappy as it's always been, jazz seems to have pretty much stopped innovating since the boppers died off, and rock is mostly moribund . . ."
I knew something was up when I heard Green Day [Time of Your Life, of course] over the PA at a Foods 4 Less.
. I like different genres for different reasons. One reason I like pop is because it has a nice repetitive structure that makes it great for casual listening(like right now while I'm typing this). I can spend of few seconds reading ASR, then jump back in to listening, then type a reply, jump back in etc. By contrast, I have a really hard time enjoying classical or jazz music while surfing ASR. I love those genres, but I have trouble enjoying them unless I'm paying attention to the themes and how they're developing.
