I've found myself really enjoying classic rock more...stuff that has proven the test of time.

Zeppelin
Beatles
The Who
Classic stuff from U2, Metallica, Megadeth.

It tends to be stuff that was influential to a lot of people and blew the doors off of what other people were doing at the time.

I just think that its harder and harder to sort through the proliferation of available new music to find the stuff that really resonates with me. I'm sure there's stuff there but its just not worth the effort to me anymore.

Take a break and listen to nothing but Grateful Dead for two months. After that everything is gonna sound fucking awesome.

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That was like t-ball. I'm ashamed of you.

Dude, you really don't know what the phrase "ashamed of you" even means unless you look at that GD thread through my eyes.

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I still buy tons of music and seek out stuff that's new to me but I care far less about staying current. What gets me excited these days musically is not finding a new band of twenty something indie rockers but learning more about niche genres like country rock, bluegrass, or black spiritual jazz, or tracing back the artists that influenced my favorite artists to give me a deeper and richer understanding of musical history and their contributions to it while discovering more great music in the process.

I'm sure every generation has fallen out of love with whatever the dominant youth culture of the time was, its part of growing up, but this time it really is different.

Music is in the process of transforming. Music now means something different to the 'new' generation of music makers and consumers. The music world we thirty somethings knew, that we grew up with and felt connected to is winding down, it is in the process of disappearing.

Think back to the world you were born into, or even the world you knew as a teenager. It's gone now, as gone as the Augustan age or the Golden Horde. Why should music continue to be made in what is increasingly an outmoded idiom when virtually nothing of it is relevant to today?

What is happening now is not simply another fad. The world changed in the mid 1980's. It's undeniable that one age ended and another one began just about at the time the current generation of young people were born. It came about through unprecedented technological change and everything that came along with that.

A new cycle of cultural development is beginning, it will take a generation, maybe two, to come fully into effect but by the end of our lives the music scene will seem as incomprehensible to us as Elvis Presley did to our great grandparents, the music we discuss on this board will seem as arcane to our grandchildren as music hall or waltz is to us.

The 80 year run of musical progression being built on the foundations of what came before is almost over. We are entering a new age and you probably aren't going to like it very much.

Also, full points to Konstantinl for making a thoughtful, pertinent post and getting completely ignored. It really is all about Megadeth standing the test of time.

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a lot of you fuckers just don't have fun with music anymore. it's so serious and streamlined. you've taken the enjoyment out of it.

This is about the 5th post by Rads this week that I agree with. One of us should be pretty scared.

Better.

I am quite sure that by the end of this experiment, one of us will be in jail, one of us in rehab, and one of just fine...not sure who's who, but I do know I have not purchased a candle.

Music right now is very transient. There's a lot of things I enjoy in passing that I know I won't still be listening to in a few years. You kind of have to get over the idea of permanence sometimes and just jump right in.

That said, there's still a couple of people making relevant, important music right now that will likely last a little longer than the decade.