Jim Croce.
I am feeling very old tonight. I still say the 70s had the best music ever. I always tell my kids they won’t have any oldies to enjoy because they won’t be able to stand their music when they are old.
I’ll be sure to add Jim Croce to my next music death rant. I agree that the 1970s was the best era for pop music. I miss the days when I could turn on the radio and hear all genres of music blended together. Mostly happy, upbeat music too. There is still good music being made but you don’t hear it on radio anymore.
What has happened though, is that Record companies have lost control of the distribution of music.
With that loss, they lost the ability to shoehorn music listening into a few hundred major acts.
Music has fragmented, and diversified.
It won't be that people will have no good music to look back on, it will simply bee that they won't look back on the same good music.
Everybody is now like that weird kid in the seventies that knew who all the local blues players were.