Off tangent, but the more I encounter assumptions of nostalgia and find myself having to maneuver around the possibility of it clouding my judgement, the more I think it's a dumb and overstated idea in general that should be resisted as much as possible (and if you're a critical person, it should be easy). The whole point of growing up is gaining more and more ability to grasp/appreciate nuances that can make this stuff more rewarding than my stupid eight year old self could ever fathom. I have too much respect for what I've come to appreciate now to allow the loud, meaningless, superficial sentimentality of feeling hyped about something as an immature kid to push the needle in any other direction.
Even when it comes to the stuff that I liked as a kid that I now feel still holds up, what I liked about it as a kid that I could potentially have some sentimental fondness for was almost always, without fail, for completely the wrong reasons that have nothing to do with what I like about them now. If anything, I react to that with embarrassment, not fondness.
So yeah... Nostalgia.... don't get it and don't care for it-- too often, sincere opinions are carelessly dismissed on those grounds. Recency bias.... now THAT's a real factor that (probably unavoidably) influences everyone.
I miss that controversial opinion thread.
Yeah, Krautrock is fantastic and feels more submerging and spaceful than Hallogallo, which feels a lot more agressive and violent which would be fine if it was a 4 minute track but loses its appeal due to its length. I like the sound, just not its duration.
And I edited the album title.
That's interesting. I didn't think that aggressiveness/violence was part of that equation for you.
Have you ever pondered a reason as to why that would be the case? I agree that the 60s-70s era was the better period, but is is pretty interesting how such a drastic drop seems to appear from 1990s and onwards with you.
It's not that drastic-- For me, there's been a pretty gradual descent every decade since the 70s, with the 2010s being the worst of it, having virtually nothing that really wins me over. I know it's not a nostalgia thing, either, because I only started getting into music when I was 18-20 in 2006-2008 (my entry point was the Pitchfork-y 2000s stuff) and it's not like I'm lacking in interest or anything. It COULD be a lack of exposure thing, but I'm getting pretty tired of looking for it and coming up empty.
Any reason I can come up with stumps me because I don't see why it wouldn't equally apply to other mediums that I don't feel followed the same trajectory. Movies today still seem really strong to me and have never really let up in quality, Television has a pretty long history, but I feel it was probably strongest in the early 2000s, and I loved the 90s for videogames, thought it turned into a wasteland for a while and it's now slowly making a comeback.
Maybe it has something to do with feeling that forced limitations are a catalyst and excessive technology/possibilities are a hindrance, maybe it has something to do with the market being too varied/saturated, leading artists to just be content to appeal to their niche audience rather than make a statement, maybe it has something to do with popular music becoming such a dull but proven science with a low bar of quality that the reaction to it has a lower standard too. Don't know.
It almost feels like there was a single spark that ignited in the late 50s/early 60s and every subsequent decade has just been riding that wave of influence/contention further and further down or something.