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Neil Young: Modern music sounds rubbish

By | Published on Monday 23 January 2012

Neil Young

Neil Young reckons that the quality of all 21st century music is rubbish though, as wonderfully contentious as that statement is as a standalone voxpop, what he really means is the sound quality of music released today is not up to scratch.

Which is similar to what Bob Dylan was saying a few years back when he too was quoted out of context as saying all modern music was rubbish. Though Young reckons that the sound quality of modern recordings is having an impact on the creative side of musical output.

Young told MTV: “I’m finding that I have a little bit of trouble with the quality of the sound of music today. I don’t like it. It just makes me angry. Not the quality of the music, but we’re in the 21st century and we have the worst sound that we’ve ever had. It’s worse than a 78. Where are our geniuses? What happened? If you’re an artist and you created something and you knew the master was 100% great, but the consumer got 5%, would you be feeling good? I like to point that out to artists”.

On the impact sound quality is having on musical genres, Young continued: “That’s why people listen to music differently today. It’s all about the bottom and the beat driving everything, and that’s because in the resolution of the music, there’s nothing else you can really hear. The warmth and the depth at the high end is gone”.



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