Those over 35 do you like new music from new artist

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Born in 71. Before streaming I went through a long stretch of not listening to any thing but the old stuff. When I got Pandora I put in all the old stuff and started getting newer artists with a similar sound, to what I like. And yes, I like a lot of newer stuff. I went to a Paramore concert a little while back and was probably one of the oldest guys there that wasn’t chaperoning his kid. Thankfully my wife was there or it would have felt awkward.

I’d like to add that it’s very weird to go to a concert for a band that you only know through streaming. You have no idea what their playlist is going to be because you don’t know what their hits are.

22

Yes and no.

I will hear new songs on the radio and enjoy them, but I don’t think I’ve felt compelled to listen to an entire CD by a new artist very often anymore. I do sometimes, its just something I only do a few times a year.

For the most part, I listen to the music I was exposed to in my teens and 20s.

23

B 1961

I didn’t like disco and I loathe club music. They’re just different versions of the same lame to me. Likewise, Bro Country is as cheesy as that crossover crap from the 80s.

I listen to Americana stations mostly. It’s new, but not generally top 40. I like Shovels and Rope, Leon Bridges, Margo Price, Alabama Shakes, Father John Misty, the Black Keys, Nikki Lane, Jason Isbell, Shaky Graves, Greta Von Fleet… There’s just as much good music today as there’s ever been. And just as much crap, too.

Madonna. Woman, please! I remember watching her first big video “Lucky Star” and wondering who the Debbie Harry knock off was. …acting like she single handedly got us out of disco or something…

24

I’m 56. There’s all kinds of excellent music being made by new(er) performers these days.
Lately I’ve been listening to:

Agnes Obel
Billie Marten
Goldfrapp
Aoife O’Donovan
Becca Stevens Band
Chris Pandolfi
Heilung
Phoebe Hunt
Oumou Sangare

I get a lot of leads from store music, TV shows, movies, and Spotify radio. If I hear something interesting, I use Siri/Shazam.

25

I’m 58, and am constantly looking for new music from new performers.

My main reason is simple. I love live music, and I they usually are out there touring, and tickets to see them are cheap. All those poor saps spending hundreds of dollars for seats to see the bands they loved when they were teens? I can see a dozen or more shows for the same money and see someone in the prime of their musical life.

26

In my 40’s and ya, i love new music.

If I working around the house i will play the most played, or student playlist, on amazon prime. Sometimes i make my own playlists with a mix of old and new but most of the time i really enjoy their playlist suggestions.

With a sonos in three rooms, shit can get real loud.:smiley:

27

Interesting user name/ musical taste combination.

28

Post-35. I never liked the popular music, so I’m not sure that the standard applies here. But yes, I keep finding new bands every year, and just as often as not they’re doing something new and interesting.

I would say that most people don’t like music. They like dancing, and they like the social aspects of sharing a band amongst their clique. They don’t hate the music, but the music itself isn’t the point. And so it’s not too surprising that they stick with it since they never learned how to appreciate music on its own merit, and don’t have a clique to convince them that the new stuff is worth immersing themselves in up to the point where it becomes something enjoyable.

29

Just on the far side of 40.

Hell, yes. I seek out new music fairly regularly.

Granted, some is merely ‘new to me’, and is actually from before my birth, or my childhood or teenage years, but there’s also a lot of more recent stuff.

30

I’m 41 and constantly finding new bands I like. I was raised on old school country and can not stand the pop country on the radio today but there are guys like Hank 3, Scott H. Biram and Lucky Blanchard to fill that gap. In the late 80s I discovered hair metal through my cousin and been banging ever since. I love 90s grunge but I’m not stuck on it. To me it’s about loveing music. Just this summer I took my 21 year old and 15 year old son to see Slayer, Bullet For My Valentine, Anthrax, 5FDP, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Avenged Sevenfold, Bad Wolves, Ghost, Hank Williams JR, GodSmack, BlackSmoke Cherry, Georgia Satellites, Shinedown, and my current fav Breaking Ben twice. All awesome shows!

31

Do new Classical composers/musicians count :smiley: ?

OK, sticking to what’s on the radio, there’s very, very little new music I like. I find some 20 songs that are at least tolerable per year. Half of that is fine, not great but fine. Each year, there’s always a couple of songs that I find really good. That’s something, but definitely not more than that I’m afraid.

I’ll be 44 next month but I’m not sure that age is a factor in my case as I lost interest in popular music in the late '80s, when I was about 14.

32

I’m 64 (will you still need me, will you still feed me ;)), and hell yes, I listen to new music. There’s something in my soul that needs periodic infusions of good new music to keep from going stale.

My main earworm this year (along with a jillion other people, I know) has been lovelytheband’s “broken”. They’re probably a one-hit wonder, but I also like Cage the Elephant, Florence + the Machine (hey, the hurricane wasn’t her fault!), Alice Merton, the Lumineers, Modest Mouse, and some artists and bands that have already been mentioned like Nathaniel Rateliff and the Night Sweats, Imagine Dragons, Father John Misty, and Fitz and the Tantrums.

33

I probably would feel the same, which is why I don’t go that route.

Try an alternative music station over the Internet. I highly recommend WRNR. Great selection of music, and also a very good morning deejay in Rob Timm. (I’m close enough to Annapolis that I listen to RNR the old-fashioned way, via over-the-air FM signals. :))

34

But I know I’m an oddball in my generation. Most of my HS friends stopped listening to new music sometime in the late 1970s to early 1980s. I remember having to practically force a friend of mine to listen to Paul Simon’s Graceland in 1986, and that was even an artist that we’d grown up on. Trying to pry new music into even early middle-aged ears can be a challenge.

35

If it’s good, it’s good. Doesn’t matter what era, the style and execution are the important factors.

I rarely get exposure to interesting new stuff on radio but I think that has always been the case. The mass-market stuff is often just that and hardly going to be ground-breaking.

More often I get pushed towards new artists by my music streaming services. My love of Brian Eno leads to a suggestions for NEU!, CHVRCHES and Sleaford Mods.
The fact that I like Radiohead lead to suggestions for Mogwai (Scottish quasi-instrumental epic rockers), Guided by Voices and Teenage Fanclub.
All good stuff, I don’t even look to see whether they are contemporary or not. The first Neu! track I ever heard was Hallogallo and it gave no inclination that it was over 40 years old.

36

If it’s music, sure. If it’s rap/hip-hop/trance/dance/electronica/boyband, it isn’t.

37

I like new rock music but it is harder to find these days. Looking at my Windows Media Player, these are the latest albums I’ve added, with several released quite recently:

The Unheavenly Creatures - Coheed and Cambria (Prog metal/rock)
Child Sacrifice - Pill Friends (Lo-fi)
Jethro Tull - Aqualung (A digital download fell out of the album as I was taking it out after I had had it for several months and I was pleasantly surprised because classic rock vinyl usually doesn’t come with dd.)
Living Proof - State Champs (Pop punk)
Fruitfly - Board Games (Lo-fi)
What It Takes to Move Forward - Empire! Empire! (I was a Lonely Estate) (emo revival)
Fuck Your Emotional Bullshit - Snowing (emo revival)

38

I’m 54. I listen to the DC alternative rock station while driving home since they play a lot of the 1990s songs I like, but they also play new things, some of which I also like. I don’t usually get the names of the bands, but I can give you snippets of songs I’ve listened to and enjoyed the last couple of years:

“If you want to destroy my sweater, just pull the string as I walk away…”

“I’m a rebel just for kicks. I’ve been feeling it since 1966” (or '86 in some choruses)

“Dreaming like it’s 1984, dressing like the Rolling Stones. Hey-ho, let’s go get some more like young Ramones…”

“We’re the vampires, baby, up `til dawn.”

“On the first night we met you said, ‘Let’s make a deal–If anybody ever asks us let’s tell them that we met in jail.’ And that’s the story that I’m sticking to…” I really liked this one. British singer, first name Fred or Frank.

“What’re you smoking? You can’t believe a word I’ve said. I’m only joking, you crazy [dunderhead?]”

“I am so frikking bored, nothing to do today. Guess I’ll just sit around and medicate.”

“I was Cleopatra. I was young and an actress, and you knelt by my mattress…”

Irksome that, since these are new and may or may not be hits, they tend to disappear from the radio just as I start to learn the words and want to hear them. Unlike oldies, which you can count on hearing over and over again for eternity.

39

40 here, I still like most things I hear on the radio and don’t think it’s any worse than the stuff on the radio in the past four decades.

40

I have no problem with new music, it’s the style of the most popular stuff that makes it hard to find good stuff.

For example, my current go-to of an example of new music that I like is the song Sixpack by JEFF the Brotherhood. It’s got a nice saturated guitar old style feel.

OTOH, it’s from 2012. Yikes. But that is still “new” to me.

The “you may also like” type things are terrible at leading to other good stuff. I mean just unbelievably awful. E.g., I fell in love with The Pipettes several years ago. A girl group with modern take on stuff. The suggestions were basically just groups with female singers. The type of songs didn’t matter. And of course that is the main thing that actually matters to me!