Does anybody listen to todays music or do you prefer music you grew up with?

i don't consider someone writing a song when all they're doing is copying/stealing a for lines/measures/bars of someone elses material. worked in an "alterntive" HS for 2 years. NONE of the kids wanted to be there. if they were at least working, i allowed music... reasonable volume. i started humming/singing along to some rap song i had NEVER heard before. picture 6-7 HS guys in a school in the WORST rated school district in all of PA. looking at me like... HOW does this not only OLD but WHITE lady know this song??

it was cut/pasted into a "song" in a video about Tupac & Biggie... language gets real vulgar in no time.

 

I lost interest in contemporary music around the mid-80s and began listening to what they started calling "classic rock" around that time on AM radio, since FM was playing the nauseating bile that began passing for rock music or at least was being played on the rock stations. The DJs interleaved musical vomit with classic rock, but listening was commensurate with trying to fend off gastrointestinal insurrection while watching a movie polluted with incessant commercials.

Jazz was my passion, albeit transitorily for all but a few artists, in the late '90s.

Then came computerized music -- the quantized, sampled, click-track based elevator music that persists to this day and is about as interesting as the constant ringing and hiss of tinnitus. So, no, I don't listen to any music these days with the exception of maybe one or two classic rock concerts a month on YouTube, if that.
 

The sight and sound of my mother singing and sawing on her violin to big band standards and crooners put me off music of that era, although I later got into swing, and still later electro swing. My musical tastes are eclectic today, and I can appreciate a bit of everything except rap and country. A fan of early electronic music in the 1970's, I today enjoy techno, trance, and synthwave...
 
a while back, made a 350+ mile road trip from NJ to WV mountains. car had am/fm radio, no "cassette player" (that dates the trip, huh?!) and WAY before any kinda satellite stuff. within about an hour into journey, radio stations started fading fairly quickly. once nearing Lancaster, PA, seek/search would stop on either church or C&W. not much for either :cool: , but let me say i knew ALL of the words to "Achey Breaky Heart" by the end of that trip!
 
When my son was born we played classical music at a low volume on the radio in his room. One day I got the bright idea to change to
he station to rock 'n' roll. He loved it and refused to accept the classical music after that. His mother never forgave me.:rolleyes:
Through the years he and I connected through a lot of good music until, as an adult, he and his friends began listening to and creating some very strange stuff. He has worked in the music industry with different artists from country to rock to punk and beyond.
Time marches on.
They left me behind...... :cool:
 
I have no preferences as to an era or decade. I dance with my grandkids to their music and they range in age from 10 years old to 20-something, (or K-pop to electric emo). My record collection includes Liszt, Arlo Guthrie, and Cab Calloway. My son has yet to return the 2 polka albums he borrowed.
 
I prefer songs / music that I grew up to. For instance, Mom loved Julio Iglesias so I listen to his songs. I know it isn't everyone's cup of tea... but, it is for me as it reminds me of my Mom's era of music.

 
I also have no preferences. Big band music, music from the 60’s, 70’s and every other decade is good. My taste in music is very versatile. The only music genre I prefer newer is country. Old ‘cry in your beer’ country I’m not too fond of.
My favourite type of music are ballads but I like most types.
 
I guess I like the 60s music that was popular when I was in the 8 yr to 14 yr range (probably influenced by the music my siblings listened to, since I was the youngest sibling). I like the pioneer era of Israeli music but not enough to listen to it anymore. Then I liked Bieber for a while because my daughter played it ceaselessly so it was either grow to like it or go stark mad.
But after I saw a movie at the theatre about I think it is Queen, I now like the songs from the movie. And I enjoy the humorous musically distorted news on YouTube like 'Dead Giveaway'. And sometimes I re-watch YouTube videos of particularly emotional renditions of songs in auditions (like 'The Rose' by Christopher Maloney).
Do you guys have favorite music competition songs you listen to?
 
I'm in the Big Band group. Listened primarily to the music of my parents --- 30's, 40's big band jazz. Also had a collection of Dixieland records -- it's just plain, fun, lively, music.
But,, in high school, I have to admit going over to the darkside. I still remember the first time I heard "Purple Haze", and thought that was the greatest rock song I'd ever heard. Still listen to Woodstock music. That was first date with now wife --- watching the film at university.
But we do listen to symphonic music on a daily basis. Lots of symphonic music videos streaming on Prime.
 
SetWave said:
When my son was born we played classical music at a low volume on the radio in his room. One day I got the bright idea to change to
he station to rock 'n' roll. He loved it and refused to accept the classical music after that. His mother never forgave me.:rolleyes:
Through the years he and I connected through a lot of good music until, as an adult, he and his friends began listening to and creating some very strange stuff. He has worked in the music industry with different artists from country to rock to punk and beyond.
Time marches on.
They left me behind...... :cool:
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.... down on 6th Street?
 
I am totally ignorant of the current music scene, and actors too for that matter. Most of the names I see on the celeb news mean nothing to me.
I used to spend a lot of time watching MTV and VH1 and recorded a lot on video. I still enjoy watching the videos and listening to the oldie music. I just can't get into modern music at all. The last CD I bought was of Kenny Ball, who died of old age a long time ago!
 
JimBob1952 said:
By the way, you may not have noticed it, but rock really is dead. I looked at the Top 20 songs on Spotify and none could be considered "rock" in the traditional sense, by which I mean people playing their own instruments (usually electric guitars, bass, drums and sometimes keyboards) and singing songs they have written. Usually to a strong beat, with influences of country and/or blues.

The kids have moved on. We're the only ones listening to the old stuff.
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The kids have moved, somehow that's unsettling considering the great music we grew up with and listen to today. I guess you had to be there to appreciate it. Strangely with COVID live concerts may be only memory of the past.
 
There is a current performer named Sam Smith. He had a song a while back called "Stay With Me." It has over a billion views on YouTube.

A deceased performer named Tom Petty co-wrote a song called "I Won't Back Down" back in the 80s. It has about 30 million views on YouTube.

Sam Smith agreed to pay royalties to Tom Petty and Jeff Lynne in 2015 because "Stay With Me" is essentially a note-for-note copy of "I Won't Back Down."

That, in a nutshell, is why today's music sucks.
 
JimBob1952 said:
There is a current performer named Sam Smith. He had a song a while back called "Stay With Me." It has over a billion views on YouTube.

A deceased performer named Tom Petty co-wrote a song called "I Won't Back Down" back in the 80s. It has about 30 million views on YouTube.

Sam Smith agreed to pay royalties to Tom Petty and Jeff Lynne in 2015 because "Stay With Me" is essentially a note-for-note copy of "I Won't Back Down."

That, in a nutshell, is why today's music sucks.
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One example of music plagiarism ruins all of modern music? My you do have a rather strict measure for music. Can we also say then that the music of the 60's sucks because artists like Led Zeppelin ripped off blues musicians of the past?
 
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