Good music

[Myrddraal]

The 'problem' doesn't exist imo.

Live long enough and time will do its job; the bad music will be largely forgotten and a few precious gems will be free to shine.

What you refer to as old music is by no means the sum total of all music, it is la creme de la creme. The sea of awful music that was created alongside it is forgotten.

Similarly, todays music is a sea of sound. There are gems in there, and time will recognise them and isolate them from the rest, but in the meantime, who gets played on the radio is as much affected by marketing as by musical talent.

So in conclusion my argument is: Old music is not 'better', it is merely 'filtered'

[Geoffrey S]

What you refer to as old music is by no means the sum total of all music, it is la creme de la creme. The sea of awful music that was created alongside it is forgotten.

Similarly, todays music is a sea of sound. There are gems in there, and time will recognise them and isolate them from the rest, but in the meantime, who gets played on the radio is as much affected by marketing as by musical talent.

So in conclusion my argument is: Old music is not 'better', it is merely 'filtered'

Precisely. Some music I loved when I was younger (which obviously isn't even that long ago) I can't even begin to listen to now, which only makes even more clear how much better the music is that I still enjoy after all that time.