Am I the only one that prefers older music?
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biscuithead
Me likes the eargasm retroplasm...
I saw that years ago on PBS, It inspired me to purchase the Graceland album... Graceland led me to Ladysmith Black Mambazo... I've seen them live a few times .... Check them out!
Ladysmith led me to Afro-Celtic Sound System...
Old music leading to new music ... And the cycle perpetuates itself and new music is discovered!
mr greg
Active Member
How many joints in a lid?
ducati_EL34
Addicted Member
By the 70s a lid was defined as an ounce of pot. So it would depend on how fat you rolled your joints.
Yk Thom
Active Member
Very true, I'm addicted to BeBop era jazz and from my own era early punk and New Wave.
Pio1980
AK Member
Until the lid sounds like the hippy dippy weatherman or Cheech and Chong? Dunno, depends on THC tolerance I suppose.
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eljr
Koyaanisqatsi
Ok, we are a month and 1/2 into the new year and I have listened to about 20 2015 releases, most several times. It is my INDISPUTABLE conclusion that new music is very much alive and well with great new sounds and songs being created daily. As good as anything previously released in your youth. If you disagree, you are flat out WRONG.
I hope this helps those in denial.
peace brothers
I hope this helps those in denial.
peace brothers
illinoisteve
Super Member
I like a lot of older musicS:
Various kinds of classical (not so much arias that sound like the old cow dying).
Various kinds of folk music from various parts of the world.
Jug band, hot jazz, and novelty tunes, especially of the 1920s-30s.
Some blues, some country, definitely western-swing.
Bing Crosby, Peggy Lee, Rosemay Clooney, Jo Stafford, Tony Bennett (still going strong), Willie Nelson.
Some acoustic singer-song writer and jazz up to the present.
My favorite rock, folk-rock artists from my youth (the 1950s-70s)
...but almost no other pop music from 1980 on. It is somebody else's job to listen to it.
Various kinds of classical (not so much arias that sound like the old cow dying).
Various kinds of folk music from various parts of the world.
Jug band, hot jazz, and novelty tunes, especially of the 1920s-30s.
Some blues, some country, definitely western-swing.
Bing Crosby, Peggy Lee, Rosemay Clooney, Jo Stafford, Tony Bennett (still going strong), Willie Nelson.
Some acoustic singer-song writer and jazz up to the present.
My favorite rock, folk-rock artists from my youth (the 1950s-70s)
...but almost no other pop music from 1980 on. It is somebody else's job to listen to it.
mjw21a
Super Member
Well, frankly I think this has gone a bit off topic. The title of the discussion was who prefers old music. To me it depends on my mood. I'm a little ashamed of much of the new music I like now. I should move my sound system into the closet. Taylor Swift's music can't but work its way into your head. And Damn she's sexy. 
ducati_EL34
Addicted Member
It is your conclusion, but not every participant's in this thread. So no one is wrong.
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stuck limo
Active Member
No. I always find lots of things to appreciate from different decades. I have no "cut-off" date or specific years that I refuse to listen to or can't really appreciate. There's various genres and styles I don't like, but there's always more I can get into.
It's hard to disassociate oneself from decades of listening to music deemed good by oneself and other peers and to accept as listenable the utter onslaught of most "new" contemporary music one doesn't deem worthwhile for more than a one time listen.
I think it's could be called cognitive dissonance, mild disdain or just complete disinterest founded upon repeated disappointment
I think it's could be called cognitive dissonance, mild disdain or just complete disinterest founded upon repeated disappointment
Daunia 70
Lunatic Member
Back throughout the 70's and early 80's you had real music instead of all this mass produced crap. I've just watched this interview with Buster Blood vessel from Bad Manners (they had quite a few no.1 hits in early 80's UK and deservedly so).
I whole heartedly agree with everything he says about the state of the music industry today in the last few minutes of the interview. Very sad,but perfectly true and he should know!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oH0BYRzUxM0
I whole heartedly agree with everything he says about the state of the music industry today in the last few minutes of the interview. Very sad,but perfectly true and he should know!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oH0BYRzUxM0
specialidiot
Break Glass, Smoke Lucky
More blather. The crap music of today is no worse than the "Muskrat Love" of the 70's.
cubdog
banging through drywall
I could argue that nothing is worse than Muskrat Love. But hey, if it's from the 70's, it must be good.
cubdog
Daunia 70
Lunatic Member
Where's the likes of The Clash,The Specials,The Beat,or even The Selecter in today's music. Back then you had to have actual musical talent to get anywhere. Today,you just don't need any (just a pretty teeny popper face on Pop Idol). That's the bottom line in my opinion... sad but true!
Pio1980
AK Member
IIRC, initially, part of the gimmick with the punk thing was pride of a lack of talent or skill.
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Daunia 70
Lunatic Member
Seems like I'm fighting a losing battle... well at least good old Buster is on my side :thmbsp:
Axe Elf
Super Member
Talent worked, no talent worked; I would submit that in the 60s or 70s you got exposure by being different and creative. Sometimes that made you popular, and sometimes it didn't, but you got a fair shot at some press and some airplay just by putting something out there that nobody had ever heard before. There was still some top 40 pablum, but you didn't HAVE to put out pablum to be heard.
From the mid-80s on, conformity became the name of the game in popular music. If you didn't sound like the last hit, you weren't given a shot to be the next hit, and artists who wanted to make money conformed to the pop music standard of the time. Creative bands were largely driven underground, or became "alternative"--which once actually meant something. Now there's kind of a production standard for "alternative" too, which has turned it into just another branch of pop, but that only strengthens the point I'm making.
Anyway, it's not so much vapidity or lack of talent that has ruined "pop" music--those things always have existed and always will exist in pop music--but it is the restriction on creativity, individuality and new forms of expression that has stagnated the genre. I value those ideals in just about any type of music.
From the mid-80s on, conformity became the name of the game in popular music. If you didn't sound like the last hit, you weren't given a shot to be the next hit, and artists who wanted to make money conformed to the pop music standard of the time. Creative bands were largely driven underground, or became "alternative"--which once actually meant something. Now there's kind of a production standard for "alternative" too, which has turned it into just another branch of pop, but that only strengthens the point I'm making.
Anyway, it's not so much vapidity or lack of talent that has ruined "pop" music--those things always have existed and always will exist in pop music--but it is the restriction on creativity, individuality and new forms of expression that has stagnated the genre. I value those ideals in just about any type of music.
Pio1980
AK Member
I can add that 'punk' was about "attitude" and energy, talent and skill were secondary but not necessarily absent.
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