Rockism is a primitivist ideology; a subtext of rockism is that, at one time in history, they "got music right", and that all subsequent innovations have compromised this purity. (This golden age is often placed in the 1960s or 1970s.) Critics of rockism assert that this vaunted "golden age" of pure, authentic music is a myth, and that popular music never was entirely free of the interference of commercialism, marketing and commodification.

~U~;419867 wrote:Will we ever get the kind of great music like we had from the 60s? It's amazing how most of the 60s music holds its own vs anything today.

Let's be honest most of today's music you could throw a pair of shoes in the dryer and get the same thing.

DeyDurkie5;419880 wrote:what is good music to you? quit listening to the radio and you will find great music

ccrunner609;419903 wrote:Because music excecs put out bullshit stuff like Lady gaga and Soulja boy playing on the dumbness of people to gobble it up just because they hear it on the radio.

~U~;419915 wrote:One thing I notice is most musicians on the radio or popular today don't even write there own music. Amazing what McCartney and Lennon did.

darbypitcher22;419979 wrote:60's?

everyone knows some of the best music came out in the 80s

Mulva;419945 wrote:The Beatles started out almost exclusively as a cover band though, not writing their own songs. And McCartney wrote plenty of awful songs from a strictly lyrical perspective.

I Wear Pants;420027 wrote:Anyone with a library as large as The Beatles will have some less than stellar songs. But overall most of The Beatles work is pretty damned good.

Sonofanump;420073 wrote:I'd say '66 to '75 would be the best ten years of music.

Swamp Fox;420125 wrote:I Think that basically, music is good if you like it. We like the days of our youth. My musical era would be from the late 50's to the early-mid 70's with a smattering of later stuff thrown in. I was in our local bookstore, coffee shop today and I noticed that they were selling phonograph records for a dollar each or 10 for seven dollars. As I glanced through the various selections, I realized that there was another advantage to being old. No one likes my music and not many people have actual record players in their homes anymore. I bought a reproduction of an old radio at Krogers a few years ago and I go to antique shops and peruse old records. I have quite a collection .itI is an fm-am radio with no remote that also has a built-in phonograph. To me music sounds somehow better with a few scratches etc.