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Age  >as "the dark age"? >         Rainer  lots of possible
reasons, to do with music going flat and straight  i have
theories:-  1) Style (and fashion) became more important than
content (and music).      ...and the music industry went with
that in a big way 2) The sound at live music events took a
drastic drop in quality (it  really did,     I was there).
Partly because the pa equipment itself sounded  worse (and still
does). 3) any band going into a studio would find themselves
presented with a drum     machine as a replacement for their
drummer. 4) It started to be considered that metronomic time
keeping  was correct,     and that anything else was wrong. 5)
in the studio, it became "a really good idea" to remove all the
dynamics from the music using compressors. 6) somehow related to
the dominance of the Disco in the latter half  of the seventies.
...or at least, that's how it se