This question likely has no correct answer, and if I am wasting anyone’s time please feel free to call me on it, I can take it. Okay here goes…
I am a “child of the 60’s” and played in numerous bands during that decade. When I became an adult, (say the years from 20-40) I loved listening to the “oldies” from the 60’s and even the 50’s.
Lately though I have noticed that the music that appeals to me NOW is that from the 70’s and 80’s, (Haven’t gotten to the 90’s yet) and I am 51 years old. Have any of you ecperienced this and what do you think happened? Did we become jaded or what?
Sorry, can’t help you there with that question. I am not (yet) 51. My current reason for joy is that I shall soon have (records that I lent to a friend) returned to me and once again I shall have most of the albums of the “Incredible String Band” so I suppose I am a sad old fogey.
It is all right - I don’t mind it, apart from the arthritis.
Your reaction is perfectly understandable. The music industry died in the mid-1980s, killed by the influences of corporate moneygrubbers. There hasn’t been anything recorded in the 1990s that’s worth listening to.
I am 52 and I love the music from the 50’s, 60’s and some from the 70’s. There may be even a few songs that I like from the 80’s.
However, I will never get used to such crap as rap music and the likes of such as Marilyn Manson. As far as rock music goes, as “rock” as I ever got was The Iron Butterfly with “In-a-gadda-da-vida”. Of course, to listen to that you had to have the long version playing and it had to be really loud.
I too enjoy music from the 50s, 60s, 70s and some from the 80s. There are only a few songs that I like from the 90s, none of which are rap or hard rock. I am 44. I agree that the music today is not music.
I’m 53, and I guess I’m really odd, 'cause I didn’t care one way or the other about ‘my generation’s’ music growing up. I was, and still am, a Blues, R&B, and Traditional Jazz kinda guy. But I find that now I enjoy a lot of the 50s - 70s stuff they play on the ‘oldies’ stations these days.
I love Whiter Shade of Pale for instance. But probably more for the licks than the words.
I appreciate some of the 80s and 90s stuff, but not a lot, and rap ain’t even music, as far as I can tell.
BTW, cheezit, where in Oregon are you? I’m in Newberg. Are you interested in the Evil Bitch world tour?
The best explanation I heard was from a music critic who said “you end up liking the music your liked in high school and college.” For me, that was the beatles. For Mrs. Kunilou it was Andy Williams. The marriage has survived nonetheless.
I’m genX (born 1974 to two baby boomers). My parents, like the original poster, listened mostly to music from the sixties. I grew up listening to all that: English Invasion stuff (my dad worships the Beatles, as do I), Motown, surf music (especially the Beach Boys), and a lot of acid rock. All my life I’ve loved rock and roll music, and now I listen to just about anything rock, oldies as well as contemporary stuff. I’m a musician myself, and I consider myself a student of popular music. I like mostly rock, but I also listen to some rap (especially NWA and its offshoots Ice Cube and Dr. Dre), some country (especially Garth Brooks and Alabama), some classical, and a lot of blues.
I’m 18 years old, my favorite band in the world is The Who, and I have to say, music today sucks. I wish I could legally bomb the MTV studios so that I would not be bombarded with Britney Spears and Eminem and Destiny’s <expletive> Child. Who gives these people record deals? Apparently, record execs are deaf, 60 year old men that haven’t gotten laid in 15 years.
I’m pretty sure I’m down as a regional coordinator for EB’s stopover in Oregon, and had plans in the back of my head to contact other Oregonians, and Vancouverites, pretty soon anyway, when I saw your name and remembered you saying you lived somewhere in Oregon.
I know Roseburg is a long ways from the Portland area, and you might not want to come up here just for the dubious pleasure of meeting EB and myself, and any other SDers I can con…err…invite to get together, but maybe we could ship EB down to you on her way to San Francisco.
Anyway, think about it, and, if you think it’s something you’d like to do, we can make arrangements off-line. my e-mail addy is in my profile.
[end shameless hijack] You will now be returned to your regularly scheduled thread.
