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pwhodges:
Looking at what I've been playing recently*, it occurred to me that the music I have lived with covers a much longer period than most of you here have lived.  In the pop side of things (classical music is rather different, to its loss), most music is "current"; I have virtually no popular music from before my own teens, but on the other hand, I listen to music from my own teens, my children's teens, and the present.

Leaving aside the rubbish that every time has, which will be lost without regret, do you generally view music from before your own time as golden oldie stuff, or just dusty relics?  Illustrate with bands or albums to taste.



* The last few days have included: Sinatra (Wee small hours), Dire Straits (Brothers in Arms), Beach Boys (Pet Sounds), Fleetwood Mac (Rumours), Prince (Purple Rain), Siousie and the Banshees (The Scream), John Lennon (various).

A Shoggoth on the Roof:
Older music is just as awesome as newer music. I dunno about golden oldie, that's overly romanticizing it. But dismissing it just because it isn't modern is just as absurd. I mean, for example, there's no way in hell I could choose between The Beach Boys or The Unicorns.

for reference, born in 1992.

Thrillho:
Uh, I think you're underestimating the tastes of people on here. Plenty of us listen to stuff from the 50s and 60s, and I'm sure some of us listen to stuff from even earlier.

Inlander:
For several years I listened to almost nothing but jazz. I still love it, so (again, excluding classical music) my listening habits stretch back more than fifty years before my birth. I try to be open-minded about music. My mum was aghast when I brought home a Sinatra album (Wee Small Hours, actually!) because that was her parents' music (she's 60). Actually I find popular music from before the 50s often has a level of sophistication and complexity that's missing from much of today's popular music - probably because it was written for, and enjoyed by, adults, rather than the teens who dominate popular music today (I'm talking about genuinely mass-popular music, rather than the indie stuff that most people in this forum listen to).

squawk:
I'm seventeen years old and pretty much nothing sounds "old" to me.

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