Posted on 12/02/2021 7:26:02 AM PST by dmam2011
As I’ve grown older, I’ll often hear people my age say things like “they just don’t make good music like they used to.”
Why does this happen?
Luckily, my background as a psychologist has given me some insights into this puzzle.
We know that musical tastes begin to crystallize as early as age 13 or 14. By the time we’re in our early 20s, these tastes get locked into place pretty firmly.
In fact, studies have found that by the time we turn 33, most of us have stopped listening to new music. Meanwhile, popular songs released when you’re in your early teens are likely to remain quite popular among your age group for the rest of your life.
(Excerpt) Read more at clarksvillian.com ...
I believe it was Tom Petty who opined (a decade or so ago) that today's "country music" was just "bad rock with a fiddle".
At least it is still technically music, though, with mostly capable musicians. Unlike some of the more tribal offerings.
I have always found that interesting, and I feel that the sense of smell gets branded as well.
Whenever I get a whiff of jet exhaust, it brings me right back to my days near Cubi Point in the Philippines or A-School for Navy Jet Mechanics in Millington, TN.
For a split second, I physically feel in my heart what it felt like to be in those places back then.
My fav....loved Terry Kath when he was alive and Peter Cetera when he was normal....
A friend I grew up with found Sabaton six years ago, and thought “I bet Red knows this group!”
I didn’t, but now have all their stuff, most of Nightwish’s stuff, the Hu’s, and a lot of the newer power metal.
Wardunna surprised me, and I have enjoyed the Viking folk music.
Except for Lady Gaga, there hasn’t been a really huge new artist that came out in the last 20 years. When considering concert and album sales.
Yes there are some big current artists, but they all started circa 2000.
So by the objective measure of popularity, most “new music sucks”
I am the refutation to this article.
I liked grunge in the early 90’s.
Then I switched to classic rock in the middle 90’s
Then I switched to country in the late 90’s
Then in the early 00’s I switched to the new rock at the time. (Weezer, Killers, Strokes, etc...)
Then in the late 00’s I switched to 60’s, 70’s and 80’s country.
Then I started just listening to talk radio.
Then in the early 10’s I found alt-country/red dirt country/outlaw country/Americana/etc....
Since then, I have found plenty of really cool, new music being released all the time and it never gets old. I am discovering new artists all the time. All of them have a different type of sound with a different take on the genre.
Here are some examples....
Sturgil Simpson
Tyler Childers
Turnpike Troubadours
Jason Isbell
Charlie Crocket
Slaid Cleaves
Colter Wall
Flatland Cavalry
Cody Jinks
Margo Price
The Teskey Brothers
Whiskey Meyers
Drive By Truckers
The Steel Woods
Mike and the Moonpies
Billy Bragg
Robert Earl Keen
The Avett Brothers
The Brothers Comatose
Hayes Carll
Zephania Ohora
Shovels and Rope
Justin Townes Earl
The Devil Makes Three
The Wood Brothers
Brown Bird
Nicki Bluhm
American Aquarium
Brandi Carlisle
The Gourds
Blackberry Smoke
John Fullbright
Whitey Morgan and the 78’s
Town Mountain
John Prine
Shakey Graves
William Clark Green
Ian Noe
Luke Bell
Shane Smith & the Saints
Kat Hasty
My youngest nephew(he’s 9) is turning into an avid Beatles fan.
“Because it sucks?”
Absolutely. I can’t stand rap (ghetto music) nor the insipid lyrics that passes for music nowdays.
Check out Saltatio Mortis for some interesting stuff. My Mother Told Me and Brunhild are a couple of great pieces.
You’ll probably like this then. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=viN2J_j2zDs
bookmark
See the link at post 151.
“Let it be” is his favorite song.
I almost put in a qualifier that the “Let it Be” album would be okay. Just keep him away from “The Beatles” (a k a “White Album”).
My question is, why do NEW people hate OLD music?
I have always been a fan of good vocalists in the rock genre and my two favorites are Dennis DeYoung and Freddie Mercury.
Dennis is constantly doing new stuff and the latest one I found to be pretty good is “Isle of Misanthrope”. Dennis sounds pretty good for a 70-something year old.
Freddie...well... Freddie is just Freddie. Incredible talent and I was just listening to the Bohemian Rhapsody and marveling at the stylistic changes and nuances of that song.
I also understand, believe it or not, that Styx (without Dennis now) is doing new stuff.
Back to jazz and other more classical compositions. I really love to get into the counter melodies and underlying parts of a well arranged musical score. That’s what being in the band helped me to learn. Think of the refrain in “Stars and Stripes Forever”. I hardly even hear the main melody as I really get into the counter melody of that part of the song with the piccolo/flute. There is a lot of that in jazz and that is the complexity that is missing in a lot of the newer “stuff” (just being PG rated with that term).
I like “While my guitar gently weeps.” I told him to look it up.
A: The Cher Box! It’s that machine that automatically fills in third notes, or whatever on vocals. It lets performers not be musicians by necessity!
I suppose it depends on what the author means by “music”, because he certainly is not taking classical music into consideration. I go to quite a bit of classical music, and I see five times more older people than younger people at these venues. Last week, I went to a concert featuring Flemish choral music from the 16th Century, and aside from the singers and musicians, there was no one there under 50 years old, and the average age was probably 65 or so.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.