I didn’t listen to it then either. Guitar, bass, drums, vocals. That’s what a band is supposed to be.
I happened to catch the Best Rock Album award on the Grammy’s a few weeks back. The nominees were AC/DC, Green Day, U2, Eric Clapton & Steve Winwood, and Dave Matthews Band. I was like shit, that could have been the list of nominees from 15 years ago and most of those bands/performers are even older than that! Of course it may just say more about the Grammy’s than the current state of rock, that 15+ year old bands are the front runners.
Yeahm tatrap was out there, and it dominated the charts, but I didn’t listen to it. There were still plenti of real bands out there. I don’t hear anything that excites me anynore. I am perfectly wiling to accept thatpart of this is just because I’m getting old, but I really do think the music has declined. There aren’t any bands like Rush or Led Zeppelin and more.
I wouldn’t call any of that stuff “quality,” but that’s just me.
We had a particularly demanding patient/patient family member at work. The day she was being discharged as we watched them walk out the door I said “Ok, cue Kool and the Gang”
Blank looks.
“Celebration?”
Blank and quizical looks. I had sing the line from the song.
Oh, that old thing that they trot out when people win I didn’t know it was really a song, like they played on the radio. I thought it was like Happy Birthday or He’s a jolly good fellow."
:smack:
Then again, these are 22 and 23 year olds.
And I tend to think of every album I’ve bought after “So” by Peter Gabriel as new-ish. Yikes.
Peter Gabriel. Didn’t he used to be a singer? Back in the olden days?
Heh. I went out to lunch with my husband a couple weeks ago and the cashier GAVE him the senior discount without asking.
He’s 48.
I laughed all through our meal and texted the kids to let them enjoy it also.
Sadly, there was no discount for seniors at lunchtime.
Well, Stephen Fry is full of it then. I like the 1812 Overture- how does his theory hold up then?
It may also be that we consider that the music then- whenever “then” was- is actually better and more attuned to our taste.
When it comes to music age is meaningless. Les Paul died young at 94.
You’re wrong.
You’re wrong too.
I mostly agree with you.
pulls up a rocking chair
Not music related but I was just looking up something online from my childhood and saw it referred to as “vintage”, “antique” can’t be too far away.
Every age has its share of bad music. Anyone up for a Polka?
Thanks for the cleverly worded refutation.
He might not be wordy, but he’s certainly right.
I saw a listing, once, on eBay, for an empty - empty! - bottle of Oh! de London perfume for something like $100. There were over 30 bids for it. That was the perfume I wore in my mini-skirt days, when I looked like Jean Shrimpton. Now I look like Jean Shrimpton’s Gran… I read on a perfume site that the original formula couldn’t be duplicated today (and be affordable) since there’s a shortage of the sandalwood necessary to make it.
I’m a senior citizen in some places, like Denney’s, but not others. I’ve been offered the senior discount in a thrift store when I made an impulse trip - no makeup, dirty hair, cleaning-out-the-garage clothes…I was shocked, but hell yeah, I took it!
(I can kind of hear the one or two of you out there skimming this, thinking, ‘who the hell is Jean Shrimpton?’)
I had to google her.
Still not familiar.
The words “rap” and “music” should not be used in the same sentence.
(sigh) Jean Shrimpton, leggy Super Model of the 60’s in Swingin’ England. She was the face of Yardley cosmetics, which sold Oh! de London perfume (which is why she came to mind). Boy, I guess I AM old - better stop worrying about makeup and look into buying some Oil of Ol’ Age!
It’s because you have good taste. Most of today’s music is garbage- rap “music,” beboppy hip hoppy “music,” caterwauling bimbos, etc.
I had to have my “curmudgeon” moment of the day 