# Will there ever be music as good as or better than music from the late 1960's and early 1970's? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [April 25, 2015, 8:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-there-ever-be-music-as-good-as-or-better-than-music-from-the-late-1960s-and-early-1970s/718529 "2015-04-25T20:55:42Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![drad\_dog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/aeb1de/32.png) [@drad\_dog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drad_dog)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2015, 3:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-there-ever-be-music-as-good-as-or-better-than-music-from-the-late-1960s-and-early-1970s/718529/81 "2015-05-03T03:41:11Z")
4 Way Street Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young c Acquiring the Taste Gentle Giant c Al Green Gets Next to You Al Green c Aqualung Jethro Tull c At Fillmore East The Allman Brothers Band c Blue Joni Mitchell c Bob Dylan’s Greatest Hits Vol. II Bob Dylan c Every Picture Tells a Story Rod Stewart c Fragile Yes c Future Games Fleetwood Mac c Hunky Dory David Bowie c Imagine John Lennon c Judee Sill Judee Sill c Led Zeppelin IV Led Zeppelin c Madman Across the Water Elton John c Muswell Hillbillies The Kinks c Nursery Cryme Genesis c Ram Paul McCartneyandLinda McCartney c Sticky Fingers The Rolling Stones c Surf’s Up The Beach Boys c Tapestry Carole King c Teaser and the Firecat Cat Stevens c Teenage Head Flamin’ Groovies c The Yes Album Yes c There’s a Riot Goin’ On Sly & the Family Stone c Tupelo Honey Van Morrison c What’s Going On Marvin Gaye c Who’s Next The Who c Workin’ Together-Ike & Tina Turner c America America d American Pie Don McLean d Black Oak Arkansas Black Oak Arkansas d Bonnie Raitt Bonnie Raitt d Carly Simon Carly Simon d Crazy Horse Crazy Horse d Danny O’Keefe–Danny O’Keefe d Donny Hathaway Donny Hathaway d Doug Kershaw–Doug Kershaw d Earth, Wind & Fire Earth, Wind & Fire d Faust–Faust d Grin Grin d Himself Gilbert O’Sullivan d I Wrote a Simple Song Billy Preston d Joe South–Joe South d John Prine–John Prine d Little Feat Little Feat d Sweet Sweetback’s Baadasssss Song Melvin Van Peebles d The Doobie Brothers The Doobie Brothers d The Electric Light Orchestra Electric Light Orchestra d The Flying Burrito Brothers The Flying Burrito Brothers d The Stylistics The Stylistics d Thin Lizzy Thin Lizzy d War War d Weather Report Weather Report d Wild Life Wings d ZZ Top’s First Album ZZ Top d Tony Joe White–Tony Joe White d “Babbacombe” Lee Fairport Convention 200 Motels Frank Zappa A Nod Is As Good As a Wink… to a Blind Horse Faces A Space in Time Ten Years After Aerial Pandemonium Ballet Harry Nilsson All Day Music War Aretha Live at Fillmore West Aretha Franklin Back to the Roots John Mayall Bark Jefferson Airplane Beautiful Lies You Could Live In Pearls Before Swine Boz Scaggs & Band Boz Scaggs Brain Capers Mott the Hoople Broken Barricades Procol Harum Byrdmaniax The Byrds Carpenters Carpenters Church of Anthrax John CaleandTerry Riley City of Gold Pearls Before Swine Deuce Rory Gallagher Fillmore East – June 1971 The Mothers of Invention Fireball Deep Purple Fourth Soft Machine Gather Me Melanie Gonna Take a Miracle Laura Nyro Good Taste Is Timeless The Holy Modal Rounders Grateful Dead Grateful Dead Greatest Hits Kenny RogersandThe First Edition Happy Just to Be Like I Am–Taj Mahal High Time MC5 Hooker ‘n Heat John Lee HookerandCanned Heat Hot Pants–James Brown Hot Rocks 1964–1971 The Rolling Stones If I Could Only Remember My Name David Crosby Illusion–Renaissance In Search of Space Hawkwind Islands King Crimson Jack Johnson Miles Davis Killer Alice Cooper L.A. Woman The Doors Leon Russell and the Shelter People Leon Russell Live at Carnegie Hall/What You Hear is What You Get Ike & Tina Turner Long Player Faces Love It to Death Alice Cooper Maggot Brain Funkadelic Master of Reality Black Sabbath Maybe Tomorrow The Jackson 5 Meddle Pink Floyd Message from a Drum Redbone Message from the Country The Move Mirror Man Captain Beefheart & his Magic Band Mud Slide Slim and the Blue Horizon James Taylor Music Carole King Nantucket Sleighride Mountain Nazareth Nazareth New Riders of the Purple Sage New Riders of the Purple Sage Nilsson Schmilsson Harry Nilsson ‘Nuff Said Ike & Tina Turner Pawn Hearts Van der Graaf Generator Pearl Janis Joplin Percy The Kinks R.E.O. Speedwagon REO Speedwagon Rainbow Bridge Jimi Hendrix Reflection Pentangle Relics Pink Floyd Rory Gallagher Rory Gallagher Runt. The Ballad of Todd Rundgren Todd Rundgren Shaft Isaac Hayes Songs of Love and Hate Leonard Cohen Straight Up Badfinger Sunfighter Paul KantnerandGrace Slick Tago Mago Can The Concert for Bangladesh George Harrisonand Friends The Cry of Love Jimi Hendrix The Inner Mounting Flame Mahavishnu Orchestra The London Howlin’ Wolf Sessions Howlin’ Wolf The Low Spark of High Heeled Boys Traffic The Point! Harry Nilsson The Sun, Moon & Herbs Dr. John The Taker/Tulsa Waylon Jennings Where I’m Coming From Stevie Wonder White Light Gene Clark Soul Revolution–Bob Marley & The Wailers Split–The Groundhogs Stormcock–Roy Harper Sun Ship–John Coltrane– recorded 1965 Super Bad–James Brown The Silver Tongued Devil and I–Kris Kristofferson Thembi–Pharoah Sanders They Call Me Muddy Waters–Muddy Waters Tom Jones Sings She’s a Lady–Tom Jones Western Man–Mose Allison Where’s the Money?–Dan Hicksand his Hot Licks (Live) Why Black Man Dey Suffer?–Fela Kuti Hey this all was released in 1971. all other generations are a pale followup. Long live the baby boomers. ---
**Author:** ![Reluctant\_A](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/839c29/32.png) [@Reluctant\_A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Reluctant_A)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2015, 3:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-there-ever-be-music-as-good-as-or-better-than-music-from-the-late-1960s-and-early-1970s/718529/82 "2015-05-03T03:51:38Z")
I don’t think I could claim to like even five of those albums. ---
**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2015, 6:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-there-ever-be-music-as-good-as-or-better-than-music-from-the-late-1960s-and-early-1970s/718529/83 "2015-05-03T06:27:19Z")
> [@DinoR](#): > > Thre’s some confirmation bias too. You only are likely to hear a small subset of what was produced then. Look through the Billboard top 100 for those years and good luck remembering all of the bands let alone the songs. Even among the most popular songs I bet most of us can find something we think sucks in that time period. The crap got taken out back and buried. When looking at new music you don’t have that filter. Totally true. I have Sirius satellite radio in my car; on the 70s station on Saturdays, they play the original “American Top 40” broadcast, with Casey Kasem, from the current week, in a year of the 1970s (so, for instance, today, they would have been playing AT40 from the first week in May, from, say, 1973). While it’s entertaining to hear some things like, “here’s a new artist named Billy Joel, with his first Top 40 hit, ‘Piano Man’”, it’s amazing to hear how much dreck was “top 40” material…songs that I haven’t heard in decades, and don’t miss one bit. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Leaffan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/leaffan/32/299_2.png) [@Leaffan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaffan)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2015, 10:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-there-ever-be-music-as-good-as-or-better-than-music-from-the-late-1960s-and-early-1970s/718529/84 "2015-05-03T10:39:14Z")
> [@Reluctant\_A](#): > > I don’t think I could claim to like even five of those albums. Are you kidding me? I’ve heard, and enjoyed, about 70% of that list. I’d like to hear the other 30% now! ---
**Author:** ![foolsguinea](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/foolsguinea/32/14751_2.png) [@foolsguinea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/foolsguinea)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2015, 10:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-there-ever-be-music-as-good-as-or-better-than-music-from-the-late-1960s-and-early-1970s/718529/85 "2015-05-03T10:59:58Z")
There already has been. The late 1970’s and early 1980’s weren’t such a drop off in quality. And there had been before. I’ll put Chopin and Berlioz up against your 1970 pop musicians any day. ---
**Author:** ![Maserschmidt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/maserschmidt/32/18829_2.png) [@Maserschmidt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maserschmidt)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2015, 12:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-there-ever-be-music-as-good-as-or-better-than-music-from-the-late-1960s-and-early-1970s/718529/86 "2015-05-03T12:57:22Z")
> [@funky\_little\_lee](#): > > I ask this in all sincerity, as a 52-year-old who is always interested in finding new music I like: > > Where do you dig? In my time you heard new music on the radio. But what I hear on the radio now is 99% just crap. So where is the good stuff hidden? I’m not being sarcastic, I genuinely want to know. I’m 51 and agree radio is mostly crap, but I do mostly only listen to new music. My two main sources are a local college radio station, WERS (an exception to the crap), but I also go to a website called Metacritic, spot the albums scoring consistently high (say 75+), and listen to a song or two on YouTube before buying. About half the albums I find via Metacritic don’t work for me because of genre or some other reason, but I’ve found a lot of great music that way. ---
**Author:** ![drad\_dog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/aeb1de/32.png) [@drad\_dog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drad_dog)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2015, 7:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-there-ever-be-music-as-good-as-or-better-than-music-from-the-late-1960s-and-early-1970s/718529/87 "2015-05-03T19:41:14Z")
> [@Reluctant\_A](#): > > I don’t think I could claim to like even five of those albums. Al Green Gets Next to You Al Green c At Fillmore East The Allman Brothers Band c Blue Joni Mitchell c Every Picture Tells a Story Rod Stewart c Fragile Yes c Future Games Fleetwood Mac c Hunky Dory David Bowie c Imagine John Lennon c Judee Sill Judee Sill c Led Zeppelin IV Led Zeppelin c Madman Across the Water Elton John c Muswell Hillbillies The Kinks c Sticky Fingers The Rolling Stones c Surf’s Up The Beach Boys c Tapestry Carole King c The Yes Album Yes c There’s a Riot Goin’ On Sly & the Family Stone c Tupelo Honey Van Morrison c What’s Going On Marvin Gaye c Who’s Next The Who c Not to guild the lily, but I just condensed 1971 to the cream, indisputable, even to Beethoven and Mozart. ---
**Author:** ![drad\_dog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/aeb1de/32.png) [@drad\_dog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drad_dog)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2015, 7:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-there-ever-be-music-as-good-as-or-better-than-music-from-the-late-1960s-and-early-1970s/718529/88 "2015-05-03T19:55:18Z")
What I have been thinking about recently is what role Londoners have had in the last 60 years of music. The stones the kinks the who David Bowie, 1/2 of Zeppelin, Rod Stewart, Yes?, Mayall clapton Winwood and Traffic Elton John, many others I’ll think of soon. It’s the greatest city for music ever. Even without the rest of their generation. ---
**Author:** ![drad\_dog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/aeb1de/32.png) [@drad\_dog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drad_dog)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2015, 7:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-there-ever-be-music-as-good-as-or-better-than-music-from-the-late-1960s-and-early-1970s/718529/89 "2015-05-03T19:58:46Z")
Just remembeered: 1971 out of London: The Pink Fairies - Never never land. Do It!!! ---
**Author:** ![Kent\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kent_clark/32/105_2.png) [@Kent\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kent_Clark)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2015, 1:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-there-ever-be-music-as-good-as-or-better-than-music-from-the-late-1960s-and-early-1970s/718529/90 "2015-05-04T01:52:32Z")
> [@drad\_dog](#): > > Hey this all was released in 1971. all other generations are a pale followup. Long live the baby boomers. Looking at the Billboard Top 100 for 1971 I see **multiple** songs for Three Dog Night, The Osmonds, The Partridge Family, and Jerry Reed. Among other artists on the list were Tommy James, Daddy Dewdrop, Tom Jones, Ray Price, Henry Mancini and Perry Como:eek: You can’t pick and choose your way through that decade. I could argue that the decade from 1913-1923 (premiere of Stravinsky’s\* Rite of Spring\*, publication of James Joyce’s _Ulysses_, first Broadway productions of Eugene O’Neill, Picasso’s cubism period, Vaslav Nijinsky’s choreography at the Ballets Russes, the Harlem Renaissance, Charlie Chaplin, the birth of radio, Coco Chanel’s fashion design, and, if you stretch it to 1924, Gershwin’s _Rhapsody in Blue_) – so revolutionized the arts as a whole, that nothing we’ve done in the last 90 years is even worth talking about. But that would be silly, wouldn’t it. ---
**Author:** ![Reluctant\_A](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/839c29/32.png) [@Reluctant\_A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Reluctant_A)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2015, 2:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-there-ever-be-music-as-good-as-or-better-than-music-from-the-late-1960s-and-early-1970s/718529/91 "2015-05-04T02:13:07Z")
> [@Leaffan](#): > > Are you kidding me? I’ve heard, and enjoyed, about 70% of that list. I’d like to hear the other 30% now! I’ve heard roughly half; I like significantly less than that half. Although, to be fair, most rock music does not speak to my soul. ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2015, 2:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-there-ever-be-music-as-good-as-or-better-than-music-from-the-late-1960s-and-early-1970s/718529/92 "2015-05-04T02:52:37Z")
> [@Alice\_The\_Goon](#): > > You are officially an old person. Please pick up your fanny pack and your clip-on sunglasses that go over your reading glasses at the front desk. I am officially an old person. Is that a crime these days? Is there an age beyond which a person has no right to his opinion? > [@kunilou](#): > > And in 250 years people will be able to name about as many artists as we can name from the late 17th century. I have music in my collection composed in about 1600. Some guy named “Anonymous” was big back then. ---
**Author:** ![Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/left_hand_of_dorkness/32/7156_2.png) [@Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Left_Hand_of_Dorkness)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2015, 3:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-there-ever-be-music-as-good-as-or-better-than-music-from-the-late-1960s-and-early-1970s/718529/93 "2015-05-04T03:04:58Z")
> [@panache45](#): > > I am officially an old person. Is that a crime these days? Is there an age beyond which a person has no right to his opinion? Of course not. But you know how when teenagers talk like their generation has invented music and sex and rebellion, and how adults kind of laugh at them? It’s less funny when an adult talks that way about the era of their own adolescence. The idea that the Beach Boys indisputably stands up to Mozart, for example. C’mon, _really_? ---
**Author:** ![Ellis\_Aponte\_Jr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@Ellis\_Aponte\_Jr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ellis_Aponte_Jr)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2015, 3:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-there-ever-be-music-as-good-as-or-better-than-music-from-the-late-1960s-and-early-1970s/718529/94 "2015-05-04T03:07:14Z")
> [@kunilou](#): > > Looking at the Billboard Top 100 for 1971 I see **multiple** songs for Three Dog Night, The Osmonds, The Partridge Family, and Jerry Reed. Among other artists on the list were Tommy James, Daddy Dewdrop, Tom Jones, Ray Price, Henry Mancini and Perry Como:eek: You can’t pick and choose your way through that decade. Why can’t we? I assume the OP is basing his proposition on the GOOD stuff from that period. Being only 43 he would not remember or (probably) care what was in the Top 100 of 1971. ---
**Author:** ![Steophan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/steophan/32/9595_2.png) [@Steophan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Steophan)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2015, 3:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-there-ever-be-music-as-good-as-or-better-than-music-from-the-late-1960s-and-early-1970s/718529/95 "2015-05-04T03:24:16Z")
> [@Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](#): > > The idea that the Beach Boys indisputably stands up to Mozart, for example. C’mon, _really_? Having not been born when either was at their peak, and having listened to plenty of stuff by both, I’d say that’s pretty indisputable. Neither are among my absolute favourites to listen to (I tend towards darker or heavier stuff) but both were among the absolute best at their chosen art form, made great use of the evolving technology of their time, and massively influenced both contemporary and later artists, whilst acknowledging their own influences in their works. Just as Mozart went from his juvenile Haydn imitations to mould-breaking, unprecedented symphonies the Beach Boys went from their early surf music to the mould breaking, unprecedented Pet Sounds and Good Vibrations. I consider it pure snobbery to say one art form is necessarily greater than the other. ---
**Author:** ![Phedre\_no\_Delaunay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/839c29/32.png) [@Phedre\_no\_Delaunay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Phedre_no_Delaunay)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2015, 4:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-there-ever-be-music-as-good-as-or-better-than-music-from-the-late-1960s-and-early-1970s/718529/96 "2015-05-04T04:39:23Z")
> [@Alice\_The\_Goon](#): > > You are officially an old person. Please pick up your fanny pack and your clip-on sunglasses that go over your reading glasses at the front desk. This. Don’t forget to shake your cane and order everyone “off your lawn”. ---
**Author:** ![Tibby](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tibby/32/17030_2.png) [@Tibby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tibby)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2015, 7:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-there-ever-be-music-as-good-as-or-better-than-music-from-the-late-1960s-and-early-1970s/718529/97 "2015-05-04T07:33:26Z")
There will never be pop or rock music as good or better than that from the late 50’s, 60’s and early 70’s because that level of musicianship takes a high level of inborn raw talent combined with focused commitment to craft. Lennon & McCartney were prodigies and the Beatles paid their pounds of flesh in Berlin and elsewhere to perfect their craft. Musical prodigies will continue to be born (look at [Evgeny Kissin](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iiYk9LFD11c)), but artists self-motivated enough to practice 8-hours a day year after year to perfect their craft (as [Valentina Lisitsa](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PeHA6cnAoRs) does) are getting fewer to find. People in general are getting lazier. The greatest music of all (sorry, it’s not pop or rock) will never be surpassed by that produced in the 17th, 18th and 19th centuries. That level of musicianship took not only being born a musical prodigy and having laser-focused commitment to craft, but also a level of early age practice that will never again be seen or allowed. If you tried to make your kid practice as long and hard as the musical giants parents made them practice (often to the point of bleeding fingers), CPS would swoop in and revoke your custody. Composers like Beethoven and Mozart and composer/performers like Chopin and Liszt didn’t just put down their I-phones and say, _“I think I’ll crank out a few tunes today.”_ It’s getting to the point where a modern musician will record a string of burps and farts and win a Grammy. And he’ll still need to use auto-tune! But, then again, every once in a long while, the world is blessed with a flawless performance [like this](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X1oe1Fnz8eA). Get off my lawn you tone deaf punks! ---
**Author:** ![Jragon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e19b73/32.png) [@Jragon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jragon)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2015, 9:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-there-ever-be-music-as-good-as-or-better-than-music-from-the-late-1960s-and-early-1970s/718529/98 "2015-05-04T09:58:03Z")
> [@monstro](#): > > I’m guessing that your average 16-year-old thinks the music they listen to is better. Unless they are a 16-year-old who hangs out around with people a lot older than they are. I’m not sure that’s really as accurate as it may have been when record stores and targeted, demographic focused television controlled popularity. Almost everyone now has their specific old bands and old genres, a lot of people have one or two bands nobody else has ever heard of they adore. I’m only 2015 and there were many people who were totally into Queen and The Beatles. Sure, you heard… uh… what the hell was even **playing** in 2008\*? Whatever, but it wasn’t really as super defining as it feels like music once was. I doubt we’re going to see any more Disco Riots any time soon. I’m 100% certain people who think Katy Perry is Peak Art™ exist, but having talked with plenty of young people, it doesn’t seem like they really deify current music as much as it seems like people did in the mid-late 1900s. It’s just too easy to look around and find tons of great stuff in your niche (or your current mood) nowadays. It’s not even hard. I looked at my phone’s 25 most recently played and almost none of them are remotely in the same **genre**. I have everything from orchestral to electronica to vapid bubblegum europop to rock to Kesha. - Oh… oh my. I just looked that year up. **Low** topped the charts? Really? I must have blocked that out. ---
**Author:** ![up\_the\_junction](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/f1d935/32.png) [@up\_the\_junction](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/up_the_junction)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2015, 10:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-there-ever-be-music-as-good-as-or-better-than-music-from-the-late-1960s-and-early-1970s/718529/99 "2015-05-04T10:20:42Z")
This will be an unpopular pov but I’m not sure people who listen to US radio know much about modern music. Like network tv it serves a very specific demographic. But I’m only relating what many US musicians say when they come over here. US radio is generally very safe. Of course YMMV. Imo, the truly fantastic thing about music today is the depth and diversity, and it’s really difficult to explain how great that is. It’s not chart music, it’s not fashionable and it can come from literally anywhere - if you ever watched Jools Holland on Youtube you may have got a glimpse of the breadth of what’s out there. Fwiw, this is a good example of what I’m talking about - if you like good music, check it out for a week or so, different times of the day/week. Maybe try Popular Shows; [http://www.bbc.co.uk/6music/popular-programmes](http://www.bbc.co.uk/6music/popular-programmes) > **[Radio 6 Music - Listen Live - BBC Sounds](https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/live:bbc_6music)** > > Listen live to BBC Radio 6 Music on BBC Sounds ---
**Author:** ![Jragon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e19b73/32.png) [@Jragon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jragon)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2015, 10:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-there-ever-be-music-as-good-as-or-better-than-music-from-the-late-1960s-and-early-1970s/718529/100 "2015-05-04T10:52:13Z")
I’m not sure any given country’s radio is much more indicative of ~~the state of music~~ than any others’. The UK charts have had some amazing bands and hits, to be sure. On balance I’d say I like the stuff on their charts more than the US ones, but it’s no more or less representative of the state of modern music than Canada’s, Australia’s, Finland’s, or, yes, the US’s are. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-there-ever-be-music-as-good-as-or-better-than-music-from-the-late-1960s-and-early-1970s/718529.md?page=4) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-there-ever-be-music-as-good-as-or-better-than-music-from-the-late-1960s-and-early-1970s/718529.md?page=6)