[A.J.Armitage]

In the ongoing musical revolution, the leap into a world without norms leads to electronic or industrially produced music, which lacks an essential element of traditional music: namely, the overtones.

I guess we're overthrowing Western Civilization.

[Askel5]

Precious little left to overthrow.

Trust all is well with you.

[OrthodoxPresbyterian]

In the ongoing musical revolution, the leap into a world without norms leads to electronic or industrially produced music, which lacks an essential element of traditional music: namely, the overtones. ~~ I guess we're overthrowing Western Civilization.

Fool! You've doomed us again!!

Actually, I think it's the author's fault for listening to the wrong sort of Industrial/Electronic music. If I just listened to a few tracks of Dance House/Techno as a representative sample of "electronic/industrial", I'd probably come to the same conclusion as...

...well, as if I were to judge all Rock Music by an assortment of Beach Boys and Britney Spears, without including any (old) Rolling Stones or (old) U2 or (old) Metallica, etc.

Of course, I specify "old" in each case, given that I think each of those bands stopped producing good quality music -- with rare exceptions -- about 25, 15, and 10 years ago, respectively. With the exception of some Goth and some Industrial, even I have been pretty disappointed in "Rock Music" (broadly speaking) for at least the last decade. But, as always, JMHO.