Yes, the lack of shared experience that radio hits provided is a huge difference between then and now. Also the way music is listened to today by most people, on ear buds while doing something else like cleaning, jogging or driving. Everyone will sit and watch a two hour movie, hardly anyone will sit and listen to a 40 minute album.
And there is a great music being made. And it is easy to find, but to certain folks if they don’t hear it on the radio and know it is popular with others then it must be a complete music desert out there.
Freegards
“Everyone will sit and watch a two hour movie, hardly anyone will sit and listen to a 40 minute album.”
So true.
When I got seriously in to music at around 12 or 13 I’d sit alone and listen to both sides of a record. It was great. Nearly forty years later, there are so many distractions it’s tough.
Long drives can be great to really get into music, if the damn phone would stop buzzing and ringing.