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I hate today’s music. It’s just.. not very good.

I grew up on my dad’s music. We’re talking Beatles, Led Zeppelin, Black Sabbath, Hall & Oates – all the greats. Then I had my own discoveries. The Dave Matthews Band. Oasis. Kanye (lol.)

None of the music today can even compare to what I grew up listening to. Am I being crazy? Am I just too old to appreciate what they put out today? I mean, Al Stewart was talking about how the Russians beat back the Nazis. What are we even talking about today? Where’s the substance? It’s completely non-existent. Just the same old drivel about a cookie cutter love between cookie cutter people.

I mean, check out Dave Matthews. He’s tossing out a lot of love songs. But at least you can picture the people in the songs being a little overweight. They all don’t have abs. They may be balding. The women don’t look like they came out of a Sports Illustrated Bikini edition magazine. Real people.

Everybody’s so obsessed with their image and looking good – it’s killed all creativity. We’ve lost the musicianship that made bands like Chicago great. Did you know that the great Jimi Hendrix openly admitted that Chicago guitarist Terry Kath was a much better guitar player than him? We deserve a better class of musician, not the slop they’re serving us today.

As far as Kanye goes.. I miss the old Kanye. The man is a lyrical genius. All the way up to the My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy – at least 90% of his music was all BANGERS. Not sure what happened. Maybe the Kardashians.