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Old music is outselling new music for the first time in history

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Despite the massive success of Adele's album 25, whichsold a whopping 7.4 million copies in only six weeks, 2015 marked the first time in U.S. history that new releases were outsold by catalogue albums. Seems like everyone's been feeling extra nostalgic lately.
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And it's not like the days when your parents might have said your music sucked. Today's music, in general, really DOES suck. I mean, yesterday's music had a message, sometimes serious, sometimes silly, but still a message or a story to tell. Flash forward to today when the lyrics consist of calling a woman a bitch, or singing to a woman that you love her because she has a nice body. Yea, songs today contain shallow lyrics for a generation of shallow people.

Back in my father's time, it was Frank Sinatra, Perry Como. Yea, I grew up on the Beatles, Stones, and Doors, but I liked to listen to the songs of my father too. And, while my father always complained that the music I listened to wasn't good, there were still a few of them that he ended up listening to because he liked them. Once more, flash forward today where Country music is orders of magnitude more annoying than disco was in the 70's, where rap has become word salad, and what people dare to say passes for rock is insipid bullcrap.

Yea, the music of yesterday is outselling the music of today because, frankly, the music of today isn't music. It's crap.

Thank you, and **** you. LOL.

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It doesnt surprise me. Just listening to samples of pop music in the last few years and they all sound the same, there's hardly any experimentation at all now.
 
danarhea said:
And it's not like the days when your parents might have said your music sucked. Today's music, in general, really DOES suck. I mean, yesterday's music had a message, sometimes serious, sometimes silly, but still a message or a story to tell. Flash forward to today when the lyrics consist of calling a woman a bitch, or singing to a woman that you love her because she has a nice body. Yea, songs today contain shallow lyrics for a generation of shallow people.

Back in my father's time, it was Frank Sinatra, Perry Como. Yea, I grew up on the Beatles, Stones, and Doors, but I liked to listen to the songs of my father too. And, while my father always complained that the music I listened to wasn't good, there were still a few of them that he ended up listening to because he liked them. Once more, flash forward today where Country music is orders of magnitude more annoying than disco was in the 70's, where rap has become word salad, and what people dare to say passes for rock is insipid bullcrap.

Yea, the music of yesterday is outselling the music of today because, frankly, the music of today isn't music. It's crap.

Thank you, and **** you. LOL.

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Well... To be fair, there are some indie and alternative bands turning out half-way decent music still. You've simply got to dig to find it, because the mainstream has become saturated with insipid braindead tripe.

It's a bit like Hollywood in this regard. All anyone wants to make these days are overbloated blockbusters aimed at pleasing the "lowest common denominator." Quality is a secondary consideration at best.
 
danarhea said:
And it's not like the days when your parents might have said your music sucked. Today's music, in general, really DOES suck. I mean, yesterday's music had a message, sometimes serious, sometimes silly, but still a message or a story to tell. Flash forward to today when the lyrics consist of calling a woman a bitch, or singing to a woman that you love her because she has a nice body. Yea, songs today contain shallow lyrics for a generation of shallow people.

Back in my father's time, it was Frank Sinatra, Perry Como. Yea, I grew up on the Beatles, Stones, and Doors, but I liked to listen to the songs of my father too. And, while my father always complained that the music I listened to wasn't good, there were still a few of them that he ended up listening to because he liked them. Once more, flash forward today where Country music is orders of magnitude more annoying than disco was in the 70's, where rap has become word salad, and what people dare to say passes for rock is insipid bullcrap.

Yea, the music of yesterday is outselling the music of today because, frankly, the music of today isn't music. It's crap.

Thank you, and **** you. LOL.

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I agree that a lot of today's music is garbage, but there is still good music being made. You just have to search through all of the mainstream horse**** in order to find it.
 
danarhea said:
And it's not like the days when your parents might have said your music sucked. Today's music, in general, really DOES suck. I mean, yesterday's music had a message, sometimes serious, sometimes silly, but still a message or a story to tell. Flash forward to today when the lyrics consist of calling a woman a bitch, or singing to a woman that you love her because she has a nice body. Yea, songs today contain shallow lyrics for a generation of shallow people.

Back in my father's time, it was Frank Sinatra, Perry Como. Yea, I grew up on the Beatles, Stones, and Doors, but I liked to listen to the songs of my father too. And, while my father always complained that the music I listened to wasn't good, there were still a few of them that he ended up listening to because he liked them. Once more, flash forward today where Country music is orders of magnitude more annoying than disco was in the 70's, where rap has become word salad, and what people dare to say passes for rock is insipid bullcrap.

Yea, the music of yesterday is outselling the music of today because, frankly, the music of today isn't music. It's crap.

Thank you, and **** you. LOL.

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The amount of "old music" does increase every year while "new music" is more or less a constant, so,...
 
i wouldn't say that music sucks today. there are plenty of talented kids getting out there and starting bands, as there always have been. i'm sure that if i went looking, i could probably find some pretty cool stuff that might not be on the radio. it's just that at this point in my life, i'm good with mostly listening to Dylan records and the music of a few other artists.
 
Mark F said:
The amount of "old music" does increase every year while "new music" is more or less a constant, so,...
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If your last name is Farner, I salute you. :)
 
I started getting into music around '82. You could go to a summer concert and see the Stones, Elton John, Bowie, Paul McCartney (while he was still actively producing hits), Van Halen and AC/DC were huge stadium rock acts, and about 10 other rock bands who could sell out an arena on their own. And if you didn't like rock, f*cking Thriller came out in '82. Prince was just getting big. Duran Duran where huge and their brand of pop was leaps and bounds better quality than most of today's stuff.

I think Taylor Swift is a good musician and I feel like she would've sold well back in the 80's too. But who else is out there? As far as lesser known acts, I love Tegan and Sara, but that's about it.
 
danarhea said:
And it's not like the days when your parents might have said your music sucked. Today's music, in general, really DOES suck. I mean, yesterday's music had a message, sometimes serious, sometimes silly, but still a message or a story to tell. Flash forward to today when the lyrics consist of calling a woman a bitch, or singing to a woman that you love her because she has a nice body. Yea, songs today contain shallow lyrics for a generation of shallow people.

Back in my father's time, it was Frank Sinatra, Perry Como. Yea, I grew up on the Beatles, Stones, and Doors, but I liked to listen to the songs of my father too. And, while my father always complained that the music I listened to wasn't good, there were still a few of them that he ended up listening to because he liked them. Once more, flash forward today where Country music is orders of magnitude more annoying than disco was in the 70's, where rap has become word salad, and what people dare to say passes for rock is insipid bullcrap.

Yea, the music of yesterday is outselling the music of today because, frankly, the music of today isn't music. It's crap.

Thank you, and **** you. LOL.

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2 words. Physical releases.

People don't buy new music. They stream it.
 
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Bah.

There is exquisite music being made today, easily the equal of that in the past.

You just have to go out and look for it.

It isn't hard.
 
Nilly said:
2 words. Physical releases.

People don't buy new music. They stream it.
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There are three major stations in Detroit playing Christmas music as early as November. That's a condemnation of today's music as well.
 
sangha said:
No, it's outselling new music because now there's a lot more old music :lol:
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That and why buy a new album that has maybe two good cuts (out of 11?) when you can wait for a compilation (greatest hits?) album that has less junk?
 
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danarhea said:
And it's not like the days when your parents might have said your music sucked. Today's music, in general, really DOES suck. I mean, yesterday's music had a message, sometimes serious, sometimes silly, but still a message or a story to tell. Flash forward to today when the lyrics consist of calling a woman a bitch, or singing to a woman that you love her because she has a nice body. Yea, songs today contain shallow lyrics for a generation of shallow people.

Back in my father's time, it was Frank Sinatra, Perry Como. Yea, I grew up on the Beatles, Stones, and Doors, but I liked to listen to the songs of my father too. And, while my father always complained that the music I listened to wasn't good, there were still a few of them that he ended up listening to because he liked them. Once more, flash forward today where Country music is orders of magnitude more annoying than disco was in the 70's, where rap has become word salad, and what people dare to say passes for rock is insipid bullcrap.

Yea, the music of yesterday is outselling the music of today because, frankly, the music of today isn't music. It's crap.

Thank you, and **** you. LOL.

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I'm still good with George Strait, Willie, Alan Jackson, Gary Stewart, Jerry Jeff and Charlie Pride.
 
Aging population. And has been pointed out, after a few years, new music becomes old music. The oldies radio station here plays Time Of Your Life by Green Day at least once a day.
 
There doesn't seem to be the same number, nor the quality of the singer/songwriters from past eras

where are the Carole Kings, Willie Nelsons, and so on?

Where are those songs that make you go hmmmmm....and really think about the lyrics

Yes...I am biased...I grew up with great music
 
Tanngrisnir said:
Jaysus. Where do I start?

What do you like?
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If it were 1982, I would list the names from post #8 and people would generally automatically know what I was talking about. These were established (Duran Duran wasn't quite yet) bands that had been around for a while, could sell out stadiums alone, and had widely respected music.
 
Maddie & Tae sound pretty good to me.



 
JC Callender said:
If it were 1982, I would list the names from post #8 and people would generally automatically know what I was talking about. These were established (Duran Duran wasn't quite yet) bands that had been around for a while, could sell out stadiums alone, and had widely respected music.
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Eh. I lived through that as a high school kid. Duran Duran, while the biggest band in the world for a few years, was just a creative pop outfit. Nothing particularly great about them, IMO.

Selling out stadiums isn't the best metric for great music, to my way of thinking. Nor are they even a good venue for the kind of music I like.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bEImPb8QxSk

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Se983SsuAXA
 
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