Where did the melody go? (2017)

Post by goto11 » Wed, Aug 14, 2019, 10:26 AM UTC

kazinator wrote: post #50

goto11 wrote: post #49

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The bottom line is that older music seem better because time is a filter - we remember the good stuff. People have always complained that "music nowadays" is crap.

There is a hypothesis that older music seems better because it is cherry picked, and is being unfairly compared against a random selection of new music. That hypothesis is, unfortunately, starkly false. Music nowadays really is crap; time is not helping it. If we use our 20/20 hindsight and pick the best music of, say, the past 50 years, it will be heavily weighted toward the first 20 of those years. Thirty years ago…

Post by codesushi42 » Wed, Aug 14, 2019, 7:24 PM UTC

Kye wrote: post #48

mwcampbell wrote: post #46

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> panicked attempts to set ourselves ever-further above our roots. I honestly don't know what you're talking about here. What's an example of such an attempt that you think was/is misguided?

See: the quote in my comment. codesushi42 frames tribalness and primalness in music as a regression.