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Golden Oldies, or Dusty Relics
Dimmukane:
To me there is only good and bad music, I don't see it as being new or old. I frequently discover music that has been around far longer than I have, but since I'm just hearing it, it's the same as being new to me.
Just my two cents.
billiumbean:
I don't think that older music should be dismissed at all for being old, but it seems like, in my group of friends, you can't criticize older music, either. I have definitive opinions about all music, but I'm not a blasphemer if I talk about not liking Bowie's disco phase or something.
Also, to me, old music has a different feel, at first, as if it's not quite as relevant to my life as something more recent. It just takes getting past that phase for me to appreciate it equally, I don't know why.
IronOxide:
My music collection (chronologically) resides somewhere between The Anthology of American Folk Songs and Philip Glass's new recording that dropped in the last week.
I find myself in an odd circumstance in my youth in that on an average day, I find more often than not I am discovering 'new' albums that in general are older than me. In a manner, when I hear a Jazz or Rock album that I have never heard, I often feel it as 'newer' than some of the indie rock albums I hear today.
Every artist does something slightly differently in a way that allows them to sound 'fresh'. I am still taken aback by the modern sound of Ornette Coleman 50 years later and find his music much more "current" than much of the mainstream pop music (even without needlessly conspicuous autotune).
Also Paul, with all due respect, I will take issue with your statement that "to its loss" it is not very current. While it does have something of a longer history than other musical forms, the classical music scene has had quite a boom recently. With new great composers like John Adams, Philip Glass, and Eric Whitacre (one trick pony or not), classical music has never been more current. It is not that it is locked in history, it is that the lines between classical and popular music are ever blurring, moving from some kind of elevated, untouchable class to musicians just the same, making the distinctions a little less concrete.
What we are experiencing today is something like the movement of the renaissance lead by Farmer and Morely, where classical music can become popular, because they share many of the same conventions, and just experiment a little more on the live performance and harmonization.
ThePianoMan:
Age of music doesn't really make a big difference to me. For a while I was mostly buying albums 15+ years old, almost no current stuff. Now it's a little more balanced, but I still enjoy as much old music as new music. Music is music; there's really no "golden" time for it, just good times for particular genres and scenes.
RallyMonkey:
If I need to listen to the radio, I listen purely to the station which plays the syndicated True Oldies Channel. I like it, because all of the crap has been filtered out. Only songs that have been remembered for over 40 years are played, so, whether I personally like the songs or not, they're near guaranteed to be listenable based purely on the fact that there's something to the song that people remember.
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