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The last song I heard that moved me was A Little Bit of Everything by Dawes. Maybe I was spoiled listening to songs by Lennon, Leonard Cohen, Gordon Lightfoot, Billy Joel, John Prine, Prince, Michael Jackson, Motown, The Eagles, Beach Boys, Stones, The Who, Zeppelin, Dylan (when he could still write) Cat Stevens, Beach Boys, Randy Newman, Johnny Cash, Kris Kristofferson, Bare Naked Ladies, Lucida Williams, J Giles Band, Hendrix, Doobie Brothers, George Jones, Hank Williams, Heart, Zappa, Metalica, Earth Wind and Fire, BT Express, James Brown, Joan Jett, Grateful Dead, Captain Beefheart, Michael Jackson, Live, Paul Simon, Miles Davis, Weather Report, Steely Dan, Blue Oyster Cult, Rush, Van Halen, Reo Speedwagon etc... The last country artist that floated my boat was Hank 3 who never got airplay as far as I know. There is no artist today that comes close to all of the above IMO.
What I think is going on it that there is a glut of music and "musick" and most of if is free for the listener. Also, there are a lot of clueless non musicians making inorganic "musick".
If you have Roku go to Film Rise and check out how Steely Dan's album Aja was made. Becker and Fagan dissect the album track by track. It's very enlightening.
I suppose I like any music if it was soul, honest intent, feel and motive. If music like that is being produced with those qualities today the corporate thugs who have wrecked the music industry and screwed artists wouldn't recognize good music if it flew up and bit them on their greedy butts.
Hmm... looks like your tastes were pretty broad back in the day. I'm a little surprised you haven't heard more stuff you enjoy going forward, but, then, of course, it's not like we all hear the same stuff anymore -- unless, of course, one listens to corporate radio via air or satellite.
(Me, I stopped listening to commercial radio in the late 80s when I realized just how much paylola and 'co-promotion' seemed to play a role in determining that 'the kids' would hear.)
That said, until the advent of modern streaming in the first decade of the new century, I had been getting deeper and deeper into my own, rather idiosyncratic groove. When I could finally subscribe to an on-demand service and hear what I wanted, when I wanted, without digging through 1700 albums and singles -- including music I'd always wanted but never owned as well as new music I'd never heard, I was in the proverbial hog heaven.
My stylistic tastes are broad, from roots to avant-garde jazz to orchestral music to folks like the aforementioned Capt. Beefheart (who I saw 5 times) and the Residents (who I've never seen), and these days with a BIG dose of roots country, bluegrass from the last half century plus, and a number of younger, 'Americana' bands. I don't like all or even most,
by any means. But I keep listening and when I hear something that tickles my ear, I save it to my stream library or a playlist so I don't lose track.
It works for me.
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