Asklemmy

Oh no, the things I like aren't in pop culture currently! That must mean other people suck, rather than just being that trends shift constantly.

I hate to say this, but grow up. Whatever you think of your favorites, nobody else is obliged to think the same, and them not liking has nothing to do with them being dreamers or not. The whole concept is absurd in the first place, and people have been saying the same thing about whatever is currently popular instead of what was popular when they were young since the beginning of recorded music. I suspect something similar was in place before then too.

Besides, you picked one band that's still hugely influential and popular. The other one, Crimson, less so, but still a fairly influential band in the right circles.

But, I notice you didn't harken back to the jazz era, or classical. Why didn't whatever your generation is show how great a bunch of dreamers they were/are by digging back into that? Or into the blues mosaic that led to rock, which led to prog rock? There's a whole lot of dreamers you skipped in your listing.

Hell, you entirely ignored folk music as it existed before recording, which was and is the heart of democratized music performed by small groups rather than big orchestras or solely for the enjoyment of the wealthy.

Which is ignoring that you assume wrongly that more modern forms of music have some kind of hole in them where no insight exists. Which is outright blind and deaf. You think hip-hop doesn't give insight into the human condition? Especially when it's addressing systemic injustice and the state of society's denigration of people of color?

Nah, dude, this post, your hot take on music? It points to you lacking insight, to you lack imagination and thought beyond whatever it is that gets your jollies.