Music Appreciation
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(16,864 posts)Glamrock
(11,802 posts)Or, I'm just a old man....
Docreed2003
(16,864 posts)Doesn't make it any less true!
Lmao
Glamrock
(11,802 posts)I don't know about old as hell.... I'm not quite 50......yet. But I am almost there. How did that happen? I'm giving up aging for my New Years resolution. That's it!
Docreed2003
(16,864 posts)janterry
(4,429 posts)and started to listen to the lyrics of a song they were playing from the radio. It was about a girl (or a boy, I forget) who thought they found true love because the other person helped them when they drank too much and threw up.
I mean. Like. A song? A pop song? With that crappy uptempo pop thing. I threw up?
My daughter listens to all of that mess - thankfully she also likes 'better' music, too. When I was young, I never listened to my parents music - so it's kind of nice that 'kids today' listen to everything. But, ITA about pop. It really is a simplistic formula - and I can't imagine anyone listening to it in 20 years. It will be forgotten.
Glamrock
(11,802 posts)But Zep, The Beatles, Dylan, The Stones will still be selling records....
DetlefK
(16,423 posts)The webcomic was "Starslip Crisis", it was in a science-fiction setting with spaceships.
In the storyline, the future sends an army back in time to the present to prevent a catastrophic incident from happening.
But the current rulers in the present don't want to give in to the time-travellers and the time-travellers are powerless, because they cannot kill anybody important without changing the future for the worse.
That is, until they find a loophole: They start assassinating popstars, because, even though they are famous now, they are entirely irrelevant in the grand scheme of history of mankind.
John1956PA
(2,655 posts)TEB
(12,861 posts)Glamrock
(11,802 posts)Duppers
(28,125 posts)Yay.
- oldie but goodie here
PatSeg
(47,501 posts)that it isn't just because I'm "old" or that I'm attached to the music of my youth and don't have an open mind about newer music.
I'm damn near 47 and my favorite music is from 66-78ish
PatSeg
(47,501 posts)She is more inclined to like music from the mid sixties through the seventies, much of it rock and pop. My son is younger and he likes a wider variety of music, which includes classical, Irish folk, and country, as well as pop.
I think the 60s through the 70s was a golden age of music. I keep discovering "new" old music and wondering, "How did I miss that?"
Glamrock
(11,802 posts)At times, I've felt old. But who wants to listen to Nickleback when you're discovering Leon Russell?
PatSeg
(47,501 posts)I went to YouTube to give a listen and he was extraordinary.
My daughter was more of a rock fan, so I didn't pay a lot of attention to some of her music. Finally she got me to listen to Queen and they blew me away, still do.
Glamrock
(11,802 posts)Thing is no one, no one sounds like him. At least in rock. RIP brother Leon.
But you get my point. Why would I want to listen to Taylor Swift or Justin Timberlake when there's so much better non electronic, non dubbed, non sampled music from the 60's, and 70's?
GET OFF MY LAWN YOU KIDS!
PatSeg
(47,501 posts)that is unique.
Another thing that is annoying with more modern music, is the extensive use of "auto tune", so you often aren't really hear a singer's true voice. Who needs talent, when you have auto tune? And even then you can drown out the vocals with loud synthesized instrumentals and call it music.
Yes, we live in a time when we have access to decades of extraordinary music, why would we listen to crap?