Has your taste in music changed over the years?

[BigH]

I was born before the moon landings...

Were you, I did not know you were THAT old. " The first human-made object to reach the surface of the Moon was the Soviet Union's Luna 2 mission, on 13 September 1959"

 

[davedotco]

99% of modern pop music sucks.

Define pop music.

Any kind of 'music' where the actual music is less than about 25-30% of the total content of the product.

 

[Macspur]

IMO for my tastes music has never been better... so many new young and upcoming artists... The Civil Wars, Lauren Mann, Kate Walsh, Rachel Sermanni, Lucy Rose, Barnaby Bright, Lisbee Stainton and the more established such as Cara Dillon, Richard Shindell, Beth Nielsen Chapman.... the further away from the charts they stay, the better!

Mac

 

[Covenanter]

99% of modern pop music sucks.

There was an awful load of rubbish in the 1960s too and that's often seen as the golden era of "pop" music. Similarly there was probably a lot of poor stuff when Bach was composing but we have no knowledge of it because there were no recordings then. Another factor is that it is so much easier to get music produced nowadays, anybody with a computer can record a video and post it on the net, and the higher the volume the higher the amount of poor stuff I suspect.

The good stuff tends to become "permanent", ie it is remains listened to in the very long term. It is I suspect quite a small proportion of the whole.

Chris

 

[Hi-FiOutlaw]

99% of modern pop music sucks.

+1 It does indeed Stevey boy

+1, and badly mastered!

 

[CnoEvil]

Music has it's place - of course - but once i've heard something and then heard it again (and again and again), I really do lose interest in it. (At least the rock/pop stuff anyway.) I am not in the business of playing the 'soundtrack to my youth' over and over. Nostalgia is vastly overrated and ultimately unsatisfying.

What struck me about your post on the other thread (and inspired this one), was it was the opposite of what happened to me.

When I sold my TT in the very early 90s, I let all my LPs go.....though I did have everything on tape (TDK SA / SA-X as it happens). When my Casstte Deck finally gave up the ghost, I lost most of my early stuff.

Recently, I've been buying it all back on CD :doh: .............but a lot of the 70s stuff just doesn't sound as good as it did on Vinyl.

 

[steve_1979]

99% of modern pop music sucks.

There was an awful load of rubbish in the 1960s too and that's often seen as the golden era of "pop" music. Similarly there was probably a lot of poor stuff when Bach was composing but we have no knowledge of it because there were no recordings then. Another factor is that it is so much easier to get music produced nowadays, anybody with a computer can record a video and post it on the net, and the higher the volume the higher the amount of poor stuff I suspect.

The good stuff tends to become "permanent", ie it is remains listened to in the very long term. It is I suspect quite a small proportion of the whole.

Chris

The 60's and 70's were the golden era for rock. The 80's was the golden era for pop and the 90's was the golden era for rave and club music.

While there have been lots of exceptions to this I think that music has generally been getting worse since the millennium. (All just IMO of course )

 

[the record spot]

I've always listened to a wide range of music; from my earliest memories, where my mum and dad listened to rock and roll, big band music, some orchestral and Radio Luxembourg, right up to now where I've carried on doing the same. Always loved music, always loved trying out different kinds of music. Not a lot going to change there.

 

[BigH]

Never liked any of my parents music.

 

[gregvet]

Never liked any of my parents music.

I blame my parents for the fact that I occasionally still listen to both Abba and Boney M. Guilty pleasures 'n all

 

[mikeparker59]

I was born before the moon landings...

Were you, I did not know you were THAT old. " The first human-made object to reach the surface of the Moon was the Soviet Union's Luna 2 mission, on 13 September 1959"

I was definitely born before the moon landings then by about 6 months!

 

[the record spot]

Never liked any of my parents music.

Elvis, Chuck Berry, Johnny Cash....I don't feel like I'm losing out here.

 

[Um]

No change here,still listen to pretty much everything.

 

[BigH]

Never liked any of my parents music.

Elvis, Chuck Berry, Johnny Cash....I don't feel like I'm losing out here.

Jim Reeves?

 

[Nelly]

like most grew up listing to mostly 60s music forced on me by parents funny how we come full circle sometimes as now i love 60s music

the first album i was ever bought was status quo(pictures of matchstick men)quite funny as we had nothing to play it on parents would not buy me a turntable so when i finnaly left school got a job and bought a cheap turntable i could not bring myself to play it so it is still in the cupboard in original packging never opened maybe one day might be worth enough to sell ?

 

[chebby]

The Beatles had officially broken up before I 'graduated' from infant school.

I don't give a #### about the music of the 60s. It was 'wallpaper' music to me.

It's still wallpaper music now. (On hundreds of 'Gold' or 'Classic' radio stations every day and I avoid them all like the plague!)

 

[Shaun729]

I still listen to rock music, still can't stand jazz or classical music. Given up on any decent music coming out in the future, I've heard nothing decent in the last 20 years. Modern music is so boring, where's the Sex Pistols when you need them? When music got this boring before someone came along to shake things up like Elvis, The Beatles, Sex Pistols then Nirvana and then no one. Maybe some suggestions of a decent modern artist might change my mind.

 

[BigH]

How about Radiohead? Not everyones cup of tea.

 

[davedotco]

I still listen to rock music, still can't stand jazz or classical music. Given up on any decent music coming out in the future, I've heard nothing decent in the last 20 years. Modern music is so boring, where's the Sex Pistols when you need them? When music got this boring before someone came along to shake things up like Elvis, The Beatles, Sex Pistols then Nirvana and then no one.

There is so much good music out there it seems a shame you are unable to find it.

You talk about music or artists that really shook things up so here is an off the wall suggestion for you.

One of the pivotal moments in jazz occured in 1959/60 with the establishment of a harder style of music that developed from be-bop. Kind of Blue is the most well known recording from this period but there are a number of others.

I recall an interview with Ginger Baker and Jack Bruce about their time with Eric Clapton, they were talking about how they used their experience in Jazz bands to play as a tight rhythm unit and allow EC to do his thing.

The comment was "we played Jazz, Eric was Ornette Coleman, we just didn't tell him" (paraphrased).

Try this, Ornette Coleman, The Shape of Jazz to come. Very famous and easily found.

 

[Shaun729]

Definitely not my cup of tea. I'm sure something will come along one day that will grab everyone by the throat and shake things up.

 

[Shaun729]

Thanks guys, I've heard tons of jazz and never liked a single bit of it. I used to work in record shops and have jazz mad friends that play me stuff that I hate, it feels like torture having to listen to it. I'm not saying people shouldn't like it, I'm just saying that I don't. I feel the same way when I am forced to listen to Led Zeppelin, I think they are the most overrated band in history.

 

[BigH]

Thanks guys, I've heard tons of jazz and never liked a single bit of it. I used to work in record shops and have jazz mad friends that play me stuff that I hate, it feels like torture having to listen to it. I'm not saying people shouldn't like it, I'm just saying that I don't. I feel the same way when I am forced to listen to Led Zeppelin, I think they are the most overrated band in history.

You were lucky I had to listen Perry Como!

 

[Shaun729]

It could have been worse, you might have had to listen to Jeff Buckley (the alternative Justin Bieber).

 

[steve_1979]

In the last two years I've started listening to Ella Fitzgerald, Louis Armstrong, Eric Bibb, Joe Cocker, dubstep and electro-swing.

 

[BigH]

It could have been worse, you might have had to listen to Jeff Buckley (the alternative Justin Bieber).

Jeff Buckley is OK in small doses. Really I don't hold out much hope for you.