Even though I can’t name anything currently in the charts there’s a host of recent music I like just as much as the 70s stuff and can sing along with as happily. It’s just not mainstream, mainstream being dominated but the marketing men only interested in stuff that will reward their efforts with cash.
In the 70s you could list the niches quite easily and each had a follwing that resulted in sales in millions. Glam, prog, metal rock ‘n’ roll, soul, disco, motown, regae, folk, folk rock… . In the 80s it became more diversified and now we have so many niches and styles that mix niches that it’s hard to define what you’re into. If people ask what I like I just answer “pop” for want of a better description.
There used to be just a couple of music stations in each country and walking though a town you’d hear the same stuff on every radio on every building site. Then came FM, MTV and finally streaming which means nobody is locked into someone elses playlist. We have the best of all worlds and even if I look abck fondly on 70s music I’m thankful not to have to rely on John Peel if I fancy discovering something new even if it is something old rehashed- ther are only so many combinatiaons of notes and even less sound reasonable in sequence.
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