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I saw it was International Music Day, and it got me talking with my buddies about when the best time for music actually was. The Beatles in the 60s? MJ and Prince in the 80s? Is it now, because the technology is better? Or will "back then" always win because the music was more raw?

At first I kept coming back to right now being the best time to be a working musician. You can record by yourself, put it in front of the right people, and if the algorithm catches it, you blow up overnight.

But is the quality still there? Does it connect the same way? There's more music than ever, and it's harder and harder to get anyone to actually listen.

So where do I land? I think there was a golden era, and it's the 50s through the 70s. Not because nothing good has come out since, but because so much of what music is today was shaped back then.

Thoughts?

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