On 7/3/2012 1:46 PM, Orchid Win7 v1 wrote:
> Somehow, I doubt that in 30, 40 or 50 years time, anybody will give a
> **** about This Is Love, Payphone, Don't Wake Me Up, Whistle, or Call My
> Name. That's today's UK Chart Top 40. I just looked it up. I haven't
> heard of a single one of these [which is no surprise], but then neither
> have you [which is kind of my point].
>
> Also: Hoo boy, this post is A LOT of copyright infringement! o_O
> Legally, I should probably be sued off the face of the planet...

Someone once put it like this - This is the first time in history where, 
in principle, 100% of all the crap, and 100% of all the truly great 
works, could potentially continue to exist into the next generation. 
Previously, about 50% of the great works survived, but so did roughly 
50% of the complete crap.

So, yeah, I am sure you can find "last century" music, if you only look 
at sources that have already filtered out the tone deaf, unpopular, and 
just plain bad, music, that is, apparently, better than an average 
sampling of today's. Its just a false comparison, unless you either 
"unfilter" the prior centuries music, or you add filters to the current 
music, to put them in parity. Odds are, most people haven't even "heard 
of" the truly horrible music from the last century, because no one 
listens to it, even though a few people have "saved it", instead of some 
better work, which they had no interest in keeping.

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