>>3819 >typical dadrocker complains about today´s music" Oh I understand that, though I sit at a somewhat different position.
> Keep in mind that prog rock was like intellectual music that the low classes couldn´t reach and they were tired of seeing absurdly complicated stuff around the early 70s Oh indeed and it got pretentious. I seen some critics exclude all but the core British bands as not true progressive rock. There was some who could very well be argued to care nothing but the most extravagant as real music. I don't expect such music to reign ever alone, nor do I want to.
>and this is the part that got me the most and I almost flipped the table. sighs* Keep in mind one thing I said, "mainstream". Music is very hard to define indeed. I think when you look dig a little you find plenty of interesting stuff. That's what I meant with media fragmentation. The Internet been has been good for obscure and off beat. Maybe I just have a closed off negative perspective It just seems like these mainstream styles have dominated things. They still have a stranglehold influence on society. Lots of things that become popular just get that same dumbing down treatment (Modern Rock band being just more pop, look at mainstream dubstep when it was a fad, and other genre agnostic but water down stuff). I will agree that I was being a little too pessimistic, because when you think about it, there is probably more people listing to more genres than ever before. For me it has just felt a lot of things are just melting into this one genre agnostic mess of pop insert genre, and pop pop led by diva queens and a few male artist. (at least in my country). I think it depends how one rates mainstream cultural trends? Is this it's death or a stagnation that will choke out oxygen in the long run? Or as and if social media continues to consolidate and been hearded by the "safe" and the "tame". I don't know, I mean I was quite surprised when vaporwave broke through.
Thats the main points on that anyway. Gonna reply later tonight but I have to do something and this CSS whil awesome strains my eyes why didn't I compose in text editor?
