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I've had this conversation a few times about modern classics and recent music quality. I usually end up thinking that some of it has to do with the problems of the medium.
It's hard to be a classic without being at least sort of popular.
And just as when cable TV brought a ton of extra channels, it mostly meant that there was more crap to wade through to find the good stuff. I quit watching TV.
I find the same thing with music - there's more of it out there, and maybe too much vying for my attention. It feels like the popularity contest is too desperate, probably more than it ever was. And probably why the checks are already written and waiting for the next name that "sounds like". Only louder, with less dynamics. Heh!
I rarely like what's on "popular" radio, I never watch awards shows. I tend to find out about music I end up liking from reading - either magazines or these kinds of forums.
Maybe it means that classics will become more personal, rather than universal (or maybe that's a self-canceling phrase). I wouldn't mind this too much, as long as there continues to be people that continue to care like it seems most of us here do. That might help to assure that the next batch of classics are always around the corner, however personal or universal they may be.
Okay, whose soapbox did I just steal? I think I'm done with it now.
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