I'm taking a different approach to this by looking at the big cultural picture and not simply saying old music is better because...

The classic rock from the 60's and 70's was either directly about or inspired by the Vietnam War. It was all about anti-war protesting and was the single biggest thing influencing the whole country. That and the Playboy inspired free love and Timothy Leary with his LSD. Those things got woven into the majority of that era's classic music.

The reason it still has power now is they were written with a lot of sincere passion by all those bands. Passionate music wirh a clear message is what grabs audiences, and those songs inspired that whole generation. As an Air Force vet from that era I hated a lot of the lyrics but loved the music itself. As we all know it's hard to discern the exact words from listening to the record sometimes but eventually, I would figure it out and then discover that a favorite song was really a disguised protest song. I had to hold my nose about that several times while I loved playing the music itself.

The point is, there is no huge, single thing that galvanizes modern songwriters like the Vietnam War did. Eddie loves big bands and so do I. Same thing WW2 inspired them. The Great Depression inspired 30's music. The modern world is way too fractured for that to happen now.

This article mentions the Grammy's. The answer to that is obvious to me but I do not want to start a political argument here. All I'll say is modern Hollywood is turning off a majority of the country with their various political causes and they just can't stop themselves from inserting that into the program.

Bob

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