Hi, It's my first post in this board so probably it will not bea very long text.
So, when I was young (like 12/13 y//o) I just listened to nowdays' radio music, house, eletrronic, pop and sometimes 90's rock music, and I liked it. But I started to learm about the history of my country's (Brazil) songs. I started to learm a bit more of rock from the 50's, blues, jazz and many others songs fromAmerican and Braxiliam culture, after getting a certain knowrdge of old music, now, in my opinion, music nowdays are bad, or like they aren't better than the old songs. I think that eletronic music like dubstep are very stupid (No offenses to who likes it).

And you? Do you like the classics songs of the past like Beatles, Bob Dylan, Chuck Berry and "old" music genres like blues, jazz, rockability or do you prefeer the eltronic music and pop with eletronic sounds, remixes, bass drops?

Thanks for reading and posting!

in addition to what Larfen said, its more fun to look for music today because i have to shovel through the popular stuff that might not last the test of time in order to find something i like and that might last, and in the process i might end up finding that i like and that wont last (and then i can be a great hipster to my grand children )

people felt exactly the same way about blues/jazz/rock as you feel about dubstep. when music went electric (ie w/ amplification, electric instruments), a lot of people did not like it at all and looked back fondly on the fully acoustic music of days past

like people genuinely felt betrayed when dylan switched from acoustic guitar to electric

For me I can enjoy all kind of music. Im not prejudiced about them. It changes about situation and my feelings in that moment. But if a music has a uniqe melody (thats relative, so people listening that kind of musics shows you if its good or bad for its style) its totally good. Doesnt matter past or present.

I love american old school blues! BB King, Jhonny Winter, Muddy Waters, Creedence Clearwater Revival, etc. And either rock bands like Led Zeppelin, Anthrax, Black Sabbath... Dude, I f* love old musics hahahah . And well, I agree, nowadays people have such a different style, they like to hear another kinds of musics, and have a different thought too.

Yeah, that's true, I only focused in the bad music of the present, I mean, of course there still some bands and artists that makes good songs, but unfortunately they aren't as popular as the bad artists. And about the "bad" songs from the past, I don't know any lthing, obviously there were some shit songs but they didn't got famous, nowdays they hire anybody as a musician, stupid songs get famous easily, That's my point of view, maybe I'm wrong, And Lafen or anybody else could post a good song or band from the present and a bad one from the past if you know? Thanks

If you want this to remain in the discussion board, don't start posting specific songs please. Once this conversation goes into specifics it belongs in the music/movie mini-board.

Another factor is that everyone likes the music that he/she isn't used to. I mean if you listen to music of the same genre or the same influence a lot you will always get bored of it. And you look for something new. In this interesting case the old songs are the new ones, they sound different. And there are so many variations in old songs that you will less likely get bored of them.

Totally agree. I play in a band specified on reggae music and can't listen to reggae outside the rehearsals very much, because it gets boring.

Additonally, I think that you can learn so much from old songs. The variations are very interesting and nothing goes over that good old vynil sound. But also some new electronic genres and songs are quite interesting when you know what work the artist put in the music. Virtual Instruments also have a really large(!) spectrum of sounds and harmonics.

I like listening to "old" instruments compared with some matching synths.

A lot of writers in music don't seem dedicated nowadays it all feels like it's on a whim, I want to hear complex song structures and powerful vocals. Today you can't tell if someone has a good set of lungs and throat through the over produced music.

Old school music had talent everywhere due passion, seclusion and liqour.
Today talent is few, not many have the same drive, too many distractions (Facebook, twitter followers, and YouTube) they find a comfort zone and tend to get trapped there.
And overall aren't that great at story telling and visuals.

Also I like some nu music, so I'm not ripping on it entirely.