Am 04.07.2012 10:10, schrieb Invisible:
> On 04/07/2012 04:23 AM, Patrick Elliott wrote:
>
>> 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.
>
> Heh. Sampling bias.
>
> So I guess the thing to do is to try to track down 18 truly great tracks
> from this century.
>
> (I'm tempted to say "the debut album from The Baseballs" and call it a
> day... but that's a tad lazy.)

There /is/ plenty of good stuff out there. Don't expect it to be all 
Rock & Roll though :-P

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