TheLizard Posted June 11, 2007 Report Posted June 11, 2007 Yeah, I decided just to leave that one alone...
The Seeker Posted June 11, 2007 Report Posted June 11, 2007 I guess I'm inclined to agree with Floydaholic, but only because I don't really like today's music (with a few exceptions), which doesn't necessarily mean it really is bad. It's just quite different and not really my kind of music... and I think music is something it's difficult to be objective about.
Rayzor Posted June 11, 2007 Report Posted June 11, 2007 Would it please you if you were born in 1910? That way you wouldn't be able to choose from all the great music that has come out since. By the time rock n roll is born you'll be old and will think it stinks.
Farin Posted June 11, 2007 Report Posted June 11, 2007 if you were born in 1910 you'd probably be a big Jazz or Swing fan
The Seeker Posted June 11, 2007 Report Posted June 11, 2007 Well, if I was born in 1910 I wouldn't care much about it anyway...
Farin Posted June 11, 2007 Report Posted June 11, 2007 that reminded me of this quote: [the teenagers Homer and Barney are doing an acapella version of "You Make Me Feel Like Dancing" in front of a mirror] Middle-aged Grampa: What the Hell are you two doin'? Young Barney: It's called rockin' out! Young Homer: You wouldn't understan', dad. You're not *with it*. Middle-aged Grampa: I used to be with it, but then they changed what *it* was. Now what I'm with isn't *it*, and what's *it* seems wierd and scary to me. It'll happen to you...
Floydaholic Posted June 11, 2007 Report Posted June 11, 2007 Well, I wouldn't remember music from the year 1990, would I??. And I only really started listening to music properly past the year 2000. Can you see where I am coming from now??. You mis-interpreted my post.
Floydaholic Posted June 11, 2007 Report Posted June 11, 2007 Would it please you if you were born in 1910? That way you wouldn't be able to choose from all the great music that has come out since. By the time rock n roll is born you'll be old and will think it stinks. I would have liked to have been born in 1953 maybe, because I would be in my late teens when all my fave bands came out.
Levis Posted June 11, 2007 Report Posted June 11, 2007 (edited) Well, I wouldn't remember music from the year 1990, would I??. And I only really started listening to music properly past the year 2000. Can you see where I am coming from now??. You mis-interpreted my post. I don't think so... you seem to imply that because you were born in the 90s you're unlucky with music. I was born in 87 and the music I grew up with and remember most is stuff from the 90s. Suppose we exclude the first four years when you don't remember anything. I recall hearing very nice songs in 1991 that I rediscovered some years later. For you, that'd be 1994... right in the middle of the 90s, and as good a time as any... 1991-1997 I think resulted in a lot of good music. Edited June 11, 2007 by Guest
Rayzor Posted June 11, 2007 Report Posted June 11, 2007 I think anyone born after the 80's is lucky. They didn't have to live it!
Farin Posted June 11, 2007 Report Posted June 11, 2007 (edited) I don't think so... you seem to imply that because you were born in the 90s you're unlucky with music. I was born in 87 and the music I grew up with and remember most is stuff from the 90s. Suppose we exclude the first four years when you don't remember anything. I recall hearing very nice songs in 1991 that I rediscovered some years later. For you, that'd be 1994... right in the middle of the 90s, and as good a time as any... 1991-1997 I think resulted in a lot of good music. that's true! some of the best songs are those that I listened to with 5,6 or 7 years and rediscovered just recently Edited June 11, 2007 by Guest
Tenacious_Peaches Posted June 11, 2007 Report Posted June 11, 2007 Not one person has heard every piece of music available today, so to make such generalizations about the state of today's music is a pointless exercise in spinning one's wheels in quicksand.
Skuff Posted June 11, 2007 Report Posted June 11, 2007 Although the newest album I have WAS released in June '07 (Memory Almost Full), I really don't like modern music. I do have a few exceptions, though. I don't mind when my brother plays Boys Like Girls or Plain White T's in the car off his iPod. (Preferably The Great Escape or Hey There, Deliah(?) respectively) I think personally that rap is crap. To me, it's all the same "song" with different words. I know people here'll disagree with me, but I'm just stating my opinion!
Floydaholic Posted June 11, 2007 Report Posted June 11, 2007 Maybe I'm just not being clear enough. I'm only talking about my own experience here. I don't really remember listening to music when I was younger. But I do remember "Ring Of Fire" by Johnny Cash anyway, because my parents had a Cd of him. I only really discovered music past the year 2000.
blind-fitter Posted June 11, 2007 Report Posted June 11, 2007 I think personally that rap is crap. To me, it's all the same "song" with different words. I know people here'll disagree with me, but I'm just stating my opinion! All bird-song sounds the same if you're not listening to it.
blind-fitter Posted June 11, 2007 Report Posted June 11, 2007 People's taste in music should never affect how you see them as a person. Quite right, too. The fact that I happen to believe that The Kooks suckle upon Satan's corkscrew nipples does not mean that I think any less of those poor souls some thoroughly likeable people who actually dig them.
blind-fitter Posted June 11, 2007 Report Posted June 11, 2007 But in general music has gone down since then, and so has society. Has it? Has it really? That sounds a bit of a hairy canary to me. Anyways: I thought you just said you were born in 1990??? So what evidence is your comparison based on? Hearsay?
Floydaholic Posted June 11, 2007 Report Posted June 11, 2007 Has it? Has it really? That sounds a bit of a hairy canary to me. Anyways: I thought you just said you were born in 1990??? So what evidence is your comparison based on? Hearsay? The world in general just seems to have gotten crazier to me. And yes, you're probably right there.
Foolonthehill Posted June 12, 2007 Report Posted June 12, 2007 I wish sometimes that I had been alive in the 60s and 70s, but have now come to realize that all such wishes are utterly futile and I'll just have to make the best of the time I'm living. Besides, with The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, Pink Floyd, etc. around (and still writing new songs regularly) as competition, it would be much harder for me to be successful as a musician. In any case, I'm here to be important in MY time rather than wish I was in someone else's.
Floydaholic Posted June 12, 2007 Report Posted June 12, 2007 Same with me, but that doesn't stop me from wishing I was alive for the best years of rock music. But honestly, if I had the choice to go back now, I wouldn't.
Sweet Jane 61 Posted June 12, 2007 Report Posted June 12, 2007 Ok I was thinking about this last night while I was trying to fall asleep, I may regret putting this out there, but what the heck! We got into a big discussion yesterday about music of today, what I want to know from those of you that are into todays music, is there a band/artist that you think will last as many years as say the Stones, Fleetwood Mac, Aerosmith, Heart, and so on? I am just asking because I am not really into todays music that much and the bands I listed have lasted a very long time, and they are still recording and touring. I am wondering and looking forward to some answers.
Farin Posted June 12, 2007 Report Posted June 12, 2007 sure, there are quite a few... RHCP, or R.E.M. for example or my favourite German band "die Ärzte"... after all they already have been around for far more than 20 years but on the other hand, did you know in 1975 that the Stones would still be on tour in 2007?
RonJonSurfer Posted June 12, 2007 Report Posted June 12, 2007 but on the other hand, did you know in 1975 that the Stones would still be on tour in 2007? Of course...it's the same tour...
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