While a lot of people feel like “things were better back in the day,” if you take an honest look at old music you will see that it is a pretty mixed bag.
For example, older bands were more original and experimental, but they didn’t really know what they were doing so the results of their experimentation were usually really embarrassing and amateurish. They were more passionate and their motives were more pure, but since they weren’t very good at their instruments and didn’t have access to good recording technology most of the records sound like shit. That said, sometimes I think it’s cool how shitty and raw older bands were, sort of like how sometimes it’s funny to play old Nintendo games and be like “WTF people actually thought this was good?! LOL”
Most of the bands that we liked back then would be laughed at today, but for some reason there are people who still like them. From what I can tell, those people fall into two categories: 1) bitter, old farts who are clinging to the past and/or stopped paying attention to new music 2) younger kids who pretend to like them because they think it’s cool to be “into old-school stuff that their peers don’t know about” and tell other little kids that “you should know your roots!!”