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Aug 2023
26m 50s

The More Things Change Part 1

Curiouscast
About this episode

Continuing to dive into the Ongoing History of New Music archives, here's a show for 2016 that we are surprised has not been posted yet!


Have you every heard yourself say this?

kids these days! What’s wrong with them? All their crazy music. It’s just noise!

That usually leads to…

music isn’t as good as it used to be. When i was younger—high school, university—music was awesome!

That’s followed by a list of bands and songs you believe to be the greatest ever, a lot of which aren’t as popular as you still want them to be…and then things usually end up like this…

if today’s kids would stop and listen to what we used to listen to, they’d see that i’m right! Then we’d start getting some goodnew music!

Don’t worry…if any of this sounds familiar, it’s because this is totally natural… 

People always hate the music of the generations that are coming up behind them…and I mean always

The young are always denigrated for their music, their way of dancing, their technology and their overall disrespect for their elders and history and the way things used to be… 

It’s the cycle of life…and it’s been going on for not just decades, but centuries…here…let me show you…

 

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