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Originally Posted by Table 5
I'm not buying it. This might be the best decade in terms of access to music, but part of the magic of the music experience is discovering new bands and completely new sounds....and doing it in a contemporary setting makes it all the better. As awesome it might be for someone to discover Dylan now, imagine how cool it must've been back then when the songs actually meant something and the sound was new? Context is king.
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I disagree with this _personally_ - the really good stuff is timeless. I didn't need to live in the 50's to have Wes Montgomery's guitar playing knock me on my butt the first time I heard it. And thanks to modern streaming, I was able to explore his influence and impact forwards and backwards amongst his peers, successors, and research his influences.
I can see your point though about enjoying listening to the "hot new thing" in its proper context; a lot of people enjoy that aspect of music. I've found as I've gotten older it's mattered less and less to me personally (and perversely, the older I get, the older the music I listen to is..I'm gradually and unstoppably listening to earlier and earlier stuff - Charley Patton is on heavy rotation these days, and that's from the 30's...and even some of his stuff is knocking me on my butt when I hear it, because its so fundamental to the sound of blues that would develop years later)
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Originally Posted by Table 5
This decade is also pretty terrible when it comes to sound quality. Most of the time we listen to crappy compressed music on crappy earbuds or computer speakers. And last time I checked, satellite radio still sounded like you were listening to a canned AM station.
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Just like people listening to Dylan at the time eh? The 60's were hardly a paragon of high fidelity home audio for the average person.