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I thought about trying this, but thinking about how to execute it already sounds painful enough.
For input data, I could use my existing library of mostly individually-selected songs, currently at size 1,662. Since I mostly listen to everything, this spans a rather large range of dates.
Then start taking random songs, and rating them on 1 - 10 scale in relation to entire library, enter ratings into 10 year buckets, and use mean of those ratings.
Probably 5 ratings per bucket to keep it short.
Unfortunately, I most likely can’t fill every bucket, hell, some would remain empty. After all, classical music makes my library likely start in late 1600s, and end in 2025.
I didn’t think about that. Perhaps I could leave it out, and start at, say 1920s, but that would make the data incomplete.Problem is, I don’t have the years for most of them, so that would mean looking up release dates for those individually.
Huh, what if everyone would absolutely love (old) classical music, but we don’t see a spike as the graph starts at age of -40?
Nostalgia needs to go back to its old status as a form of mental illness.
Iḿ from 90s and like mostly 60s/70s. psychedelic & prog rock
So basically we all realize that music is a pointless waste of time once we get a job but sunk cost fallacy keeps us “enjoying” the same shit for a while
That is so far from the point of this graph it’s in another universe.
It’s not only a bad take but an incorrect reading of the graph lol
The fuck? Fontaines DC, Tyler Childers, Janelle Monae, Leon Bridges, I have never stopped finding new music I love. This graph makes no sense. Modern music is so good. Old music is so good. I do not have a preference for any particular time period when it comes to enjoying music.
Yeah, i’m currently listening to my 8yo’s explicite R&B tastes and perfectly happy with it. It rages in the same say my 90’s stuff raged.
Uh it’s not an objective scale. This is the result of a survey
Much like every YouTube comment section for an SNL skit has at least 147 “SNL hasn’t been good since…” comments.
Of course 95% of the rest of the comments are literally nothing but them typing out a funny line followed by 🤣😂
There’s been great music forever, there will continue to be great music forever.
The hard part is finding it.
I’ve discovered a new subgenre or other every few years and I still find music that’s just as good in my thirties as when I was a kid. Trick is I don’t care when it was made, I only care that it’s in the style I want. I also have never listened to what anyone would really consider radio friendly music so it helps filter out the product placements disguised as artists. Stay curious and find music yourself and you will never experience this curve.
You just gotta know where to look. Music is an industry, so the people who view songs as products will push their favored products in front of as many of their target demographic as possible. They want those tween-to-twenties locked down. They decide what’s cool, so if they like your products then you’re cool. So if you’re 40 and only listen to top 40 pop stations, you’re probably in for a bad time since none of that shit is really trying to court you in the first place. I’m in my mid-late 30s and I’m still discovering bands and current releases that I’m into. Just gotta look a little harder.
I think that as we get older and consume more media, we experience a sort of fatigue of simple and easy structures, so we desire something more complex. But we grandfather in the stuff that we imprinted on in those formative years, and that’s why that younger demographic is targeted; they’ll keep coming back to their comfort media for their whole life.
Pop music is (usually) the middle ground between nursery rhymes and something like djent or cool jazz or math rock or whatever other more nuanced genre you’re into. “Products” in those genres just aren’t gonna sell like boy bands do. Some pop music is actually good and complex, but it’s just not my thing and mostly never has been. I’m not trying to insult people who like Bad Bunny or Kendrick or whatever, but yeah Black Eyed Peas and Kid Rock fucking suck. Don’t @ me.
most of the music i listen is from before i was born 😕
My dad was like that, but the music he liked was from 1750 to 1830 or so. If there’s no cello, he’s not interested.
For me, my favourites are from the funk era. I don’t think I knew that kind of music existed until I was in my 20s. Now it’s my go-to kind of music.
For real, there’s so much incredible music from before I was born and I’m going into my 40s.
I was wondering what song it might be as I was clicking on the link. Hmm, 1974, that’s the time when prog was going strong, maybe King Crimson…
Post your finds so that this graph may die
Rat Heart outta Manchester has been my repeat lately. Whole album Dancin’ In The Streets is great if you’re after something down tempo and not super up beat. Flute haters need not apply
2026: Elder - Through Zero. Heavy Stoner/Psych/Metal 2025: Totorro - Sofa So Good. Upbeat Math Rock. 2024: Alcest - Les Chants de l’Aurore. Shoegaze meets black metal. Minimal screaming.
I’m going to attack the other side of the graph.
- 1973: Stevie Wonder, Higher Ground Catchy lyrics, very funky, heavy use of the Wah pedal
- 1977: Fela Kuti, Opposite People Africa’s tank on funk music. Screw western norms of 5 minute songs. Have 10 minutes of jamming before the vocals even come in.
- 1967: James Brown, Cold Sweat One of the first funk songs, downbeat on the 1s, one chord groove, lots of improvisation, bass forward, lots of focus on the groove and not the lyrics, etc.
- 1967: Marvin Gaye & Tammi Terrell, Ain’t no Mountain High Enough Delicious Motown, but in particular focus in James Jamerson’s incredible bass line
- 1959: Take Five, Dave Brubeck 1960s jazz with a 5/4 beat
- 1965: Marty Robbins and Johnny Cash, Streets of Laredo A “modern” cowboy remake of a folk song that goes back centuries
Statistically, sure, but I’m forty and I keep finding new bangers.
I can find “new bangers”, but there’s also a whole lot of “holy shit, the kids have absolutely no taste in music”, which I think is a often what the olds think of new music. I think that’s the typical drop you see on the graph as people get older.
OTOH, to me the absolute worst era of music was the popular stuff coming out when I was 5-20 years old or so. That era just sucked. As a kid my general impression was “Holy shit, my peers have absolutely no taste in music”. It was only years later that I actually discovered music that was made during that time that I had never heard about. So, I suppose there was some good music back then, but it wasn’t the stuff that was on the radio, on TV, in the movies, etc. The best era for music, IMO, was 10-20 years before I was born. And, it isn’t even music my parents introduced me to. They had pretty poor taste in music too, and never played that stuff. I only found out about it decades later by exploring music on my own.
Absolutely fucking not. I can’t stand the music I used to listen to.
Yeah. In my XXs I still love finding new music. Very exciting thing to discover a new band I vibe with.
So what I’m getting from this is if you want success, market to 15-year-olds
Always true, in music and in everything else too.
I never listen to old music, nothing from my teen 90s especially. I’ve heard those three million times each. Give me some new artists producing shimmering, sparkly electronic-indie and I am happy to keep eating it up. Other genres too but there’s so much in just this one, it’s immersive, and I absolutely think it keeps my brain sharper.
