Exapno_Mapcase:
I’m not the first person to say this, and it was summed up nicely in a NYTimes op ed last week that I can’t find in a quick search (maybe somebody can link it), but it’s weird how little the world has changed since the 1960s. 1916 was impossibly old and different when I grew up. 1966 is virtually just like today except with clunkier technology. Even my parents had no connection to 1916 and they were both alive then. We can experience all the media of 1966 without making any mental transitions. Movies are the same, television is the same, magazines are the same, radio is the same, music is the same. Virtually every media had a New Wave in the 1960s that deliberately broke with the past. (Music’s New Wave waited until 1980, a mere 36 years ago now.) Nothing ever breaks with the past today: it scoops it up and samples it.
As long as the thread has been resurrected, I think it’s worth mentioning that music’s “New Wave” didn’t wait until 1980; “New Wave Music” was a marketing term. The real departure for popular music-the experimentation and splintering into hyphenated subgenres- happened at the same time as in the other media you mentioned, around the mid-1960s.
WordMan:
My 15 year old music-invested daughter is focused on the new Panic! at the Disco album, which is really a solo effort from remaining member Brendan Urie. She loves talking about how Urie is a big Sinatra fan and croons in some of the songs.
Gaga and Bennett. What goes around…
just a question is he related to an urie that was in ultravox
Acu ally most of the stuff I hated before I was 15 I listen to now … like the ramones and the like of course I was 5 when they were popular …
zimaane:
I’ve noticed too, that the starting date is creeping up as well. In the late 80’s, classic rock included all of the Beatles, Kinks, Who from their first albums. Now it seems hearing anything from the first Beatles albums, or the Who before 1970 is rare on the classic rock stations.
kearth 101 in la which is considered one of the first oldies station is now a primarily 80s station…