YEARS ago there was a sound I used to hear that went up and down in a discernable pattern perhaps with words you could both hear and understand, that was good to listen to, or at least I used to find it so. I think it was called music.

What has happened to it? The sound I hear most of the time now no longer goes up and down but in and out, varying between loud and very loud with no discernable words mixed with it.

I find it mind boggling and brain washing, if I am not deafened first.

Am I old or just old fashioned to prefer the artists of a few years ago who were able to sing more or less in tune, with words you could actually hear?

Now music relies on a bass guitar playing the low notes loud enough. The human element is only really to look good and, in doing so become millionaires through so many young people being brainwashed into buying their recordings.

It's as if music has explored all the variables and has gone back to its beginning to the war drums of Africa.

MR A STICKLAND

Heathfield, Chippenham