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In Reply to: i don't like rock music on my system, do you? posted by centaurus3200 on March 7, 2007 at 11:06:05:
Its happened to the original rockers, to hippies, to the punks and its happening to you.
Although at 33 you may only be peeking over the edge of getting older. But getting older you are.
A lot of music is played by 20-25 year olds to 20 year olds. Nothing wrong in that.
But you have grown and changed. NOT got stuck in a rut. You've probably heard a lot of different musics. Your life follows a different pattern and the musics you listen to are correspondingly different.
There's a huge world of music out there and there is no need to deny yourself any of it you enjoy.
No image to keep or fashion to follow.
So pull the old stuff from time to time and enjoy it. And listen to more and more and enjoy that too.
It may not be long before you have kids of your own and they will listen to something you find complete crap!!!
Follow Ups:
I remember my roommate walking in the door with:Peter Gabriel
the Jam, (Setting Sons)
The Clash (Sandinista)
Simple Minds (New Gold Dream) or was it (Sparkle in the Rain)?
Kraftwerk (Computer World)
Killing Joke,
Silicon Teens
Gang of Four, - (Songs of the Free)
and the number 1 record of all time: Joy Division's Closer..Truly and indistputably the best year in music ever IMO.
(Yes, I know, there isn't a soul who's ever read anything here who'll agree with the above).You're right, it's us getting older, looking back with nostalgia of who we were, - not a real, honest sampling of what's currently out there; that's really just as good to the those that it affects...
The problem of leisure, what to do for pleasure. Ideal love a new purchase, a market of the senses. Dream of the perfect life.
FAR better....
because indeed 79 and 80 were the era that everything seemed to be exploding all over the world, massively influenced by the punk revolution of 77.I've been cleaning up and I came across an old Slash magazine from 1979 and I got deeply nostalgic for those days. All the reviews of what was coming out...this really mattered to me.
But I can't agree with you really. If you ask a 16 year old for the best year, it won't be 1980, probably more like 2003. And if you ask an 80 year old, he will cite some pre-rock year, probably in the 1940s.
Fact is, there is always a shitload of great music and in our current era, there is probably more than there ever has been. Kids today are listening to bands that have just started, a few of whom will still be around in 30 years, and they will think of this early era of these bands (who knows at this stage which ones they might be) as the real golden age of music.
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he's president of a major label.basically, marketing research has shown that people over the age of 30 become nostalgic and start to listen to stuff from their past. not to say that we don't buy new stuff, but it's still relevant to sounds we grew up listening to. like for me, i dug "grunge", so i dig the queens of the stoneage, velvet revolver and wolfmother.
that's the reason for the major shift in pop music. it's being marketed more and more to teens and tweens. they are the main supporter of the record industry these days. many of the stuff you late 40's early 50's folks grew up listening to, would not have had a chance these days.
for example, king crimson, mahavisnu orchestra, zappa, etc. would be dead in the water with regards to getting a major record deal, let alone selling out arenas. shit, this said maven (family member) told of when he went to see the mahavishnu orchestra at the fabulous forum in los angeles (where the lakers used to play) in the 70's.
I'd seriously like to see today's kids fill an arena to listen to JAZZ!
HA!
Robby
I though it was mainly to 8 year olds, but hasn't it always been sold to youth?
What age were you in 1970?
And for my own point of view, I found 90% of jazz-rock tedious sludge useful only for showing how much percussive attack you could get from your AR speakers.
But then most of the early 70s was rubbish... again my opinion.
You seem hellbent on enforcing an old old orthodoxy and hierarchy of musics.
Let's leave music (consumption) or at least pop music consumption in the hands of the young and maybe it will leave the past behind.
The trouble was one generation didn't want to change and it didn't want the world to change around it because that would have made it too obvious that the suede fringe wearing twenty year old had become the suited pompous family man that he had sworn to never copy... his father.
and never mature past a certain point.This is fact in ralation to artistic and culinary tastes as well as virtually all aspects of personal life/perspectives...and requires considerable effort to overcome.
Pop culture, especially radio programming 'oldies' format, simply exploits that fact. In social terms, we see it demonstrated in both the incidence of alcoholism and divorce. Why do you think so many people seem to think that [and act like] their lives were encapsulated in High School?
Of course I can think of a few girls from my HS years that I would like to have 'encapsulated'....as it were. :)
How many times has your wife said 'Oh grow up...'?
Later
D
I often have mow than one a day!
You picked some great stuff there.
Many best years equate to leaving home and getting laid...
JUst because you don't spliff up every night and blast the neighbours doesn't mean music is dead.
Or that those old discs don't mean something to you, but as lives change so does the soundtrack.
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The problem of leisure, what to do for pleasure. Ideal love a new purchase, a market of the senses. Dream of the perfect life.
and not that angry anymore. i'd rather chill to nice mellow vocals like patricia barber or elliot smith than blast the red hot chili peppers.with that said, still dig the peppers and went to see the dandy warhols last friday. which brings up another thing, is being deaf a pre-requisit for being a club sound engineer? good lord the sound sucked at the dandys concert. even courtney taylor was cussing the guy out.
Robby
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