Kids and the Music They Listen To

MarkinPhx

MarkinPhx

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I post this with the knowledge that the generation prior to mine thought the same thing about the music I was listening to when I was younger. Just following that tradition !

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My mother definitely didn't like me listening to The Doors, The Rolling Stones, etc. I know the same is going on these days with parents. :D
 

I can say with some certainty that The Doors, Led Zeppelin, Deep Purple, will all still have meaning in fifty years...heck Mick Jagger will still be performing;) But the fluff like Taylor Swift and dubstep....were almost irrelevant yesterday.
 
fureverywhere said:
I can say with some certainty that The Doors, Led Zeppelin, Deep Purple, will all still have meaning in fifty years...heck Mick Jagger will still be performing;) But the fluff like Taylor Swift and dubstep....were almost irrelevant yesterday.
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Good point !
 
I swore when I was in my teens and 20s that I would always stay current with music because I cringed each time my parents and grandparents extoiled the music of their generations. Somehow over the years I generally find what's popular today to not be half as interesting as the great rock n' roll produced during the 60s and 70s. There's lots of great music out there and I do my best to keep listening to new things (although not what you'd call popular charts stuff), but I always go back to the early groups. Now I've turned into a grandparent who extoils the music of my generation. Ha!
 
bluebreezes said:
I swore when I was in my teens and 20s that I would always stay current with music because I cringed each time my parents and grandparents extoiled the music of their generations. Somehow over the years I generally find what's popular today to not be half as interesting as the great rock n' roll produced during the 60s and 70s. There's lots of great music out there and I do my best to keep listening to new things (although not what you'd call popular charts stuff), but I always go back to the early groups. Now I've turned into a grandparent who extoils the music of my generation. Ha!
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I'm the same way ! In our defense though music is much more fragmented these days and new music is harder to discover. I don't listen to regular radio stations anymore so I don't get exposed much to new artists. I suppose I could select a station on Spotify or Google Music to listen to that features new music but I never think about doing that !
 
MarkinPhx said:
I'm the same way ! In our defense though music is much more fragmented these days and new music is harder to discover. I don't listen to regular radio stations anymore so I don't get exposed much to new artists. I suppose I could select a station on Spotify or Google Music to listen to that features new music but I never think about doing that !
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I do listen to new stuff on Spotify but have to say it doesn't hold my attention most of the time. With all these services it's easy to have the music we love whenever we want it, but I miss is driving around with the radio on and the serendipity of your favorite song coming on.
 
bluebreezes said:
I do listen to new stuff on Spotify but have to say it doesn't hold my attention most of the time. With all these services it's easy to have the music we love whenever we want it, but I miss is driving around with the radio on and the serendipity of your favorite song coming on.
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There is something to be said for the days when I would be driving and certain songs would randomly pop up on the radio and remind me of a past relationship or cause me cause me to start driving like a madman, depending on the song !
 
What is this Spotify? It sounds like a robot dog;) Seriously I know kind of what it is, I'm not that bad yet. The best thing that can be said about modern technology for me is the access to music. It's absolutely mind-boggling as a teen I remember using a tape recorder to take music off radio or turn table and mashing together mix tapes.

Now just a quick search on I Tunes and that obscure song from whomever's 1973 album and there it is. Better still, a cassette tape held what? Maybe twenty songs...a Grateful Dead or Allman Bro's album and one track could take up the whole tape:eek:nthego: Now on an itty bitty credit card sized I Pod you can store like one hundred kajillion tunes.
 
I remember my parents thinking that Elvis Presley was "evil", and every generation's parents probably cringe at some of the music their kids are listening to. I like almost all forms of music...from the old classics, to much of the modern stuff...with the exception of some of this Rap that is laced with obscenities. One of my favorite TV stations is MTVLive which features the new artists. Overall, my all time favorite would probably be Pink Floyd...I still listen to some of their albums regularly.
 
My hubby loves Pink Floyd and Emerson, Lake, and Palmer. I like connecting with my kids...my sons are terrific relating to the uh, hem "oldies". Miles Davis, the pure funk of Johnny "Guitar" Watson, John Coltrane...definitely Santana, they appreciated them all.
 

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