Yes, it is. Closing ones mind to new music is really a shame.
Many years ago I worked for a small company in which most of the employees were Baby Boomers. The only music they listened to was classic rock - thats it.
Whenever the two youngest people tried to introduce something new into the playlist at work these people would become unglued, frothing at the mouth lunatics. ( same reaction whenever politics came up - you can’t imagine how much they loved Bill Clinton )
I never understood how a group of people who experienced an entirely new style of music when they were teens could turn their backs on that approach to music. When did they just stop trying new music? Who knows but I swore I’d never do the same thing and so I’ll listen to just about anything new or a style I have never heard.
Personally, I hate classic rock. Can’t stand any of it with the exception of Pink Floyd and even then I like the later material. I walked out of a liquor store three days ago because Led Zepplin playing. Greatful Dead, Cream, Doors - can’t stand any of it.
I have been listening to a lot of electronic / chill out / ambient and trance music for some time now. Very limited amounts of lyrics if any at all. I’ve posted a few examples below.
Emancipator - When I Go
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NIHLo4tFfEk&list=FLsUa50GpxwrPy3sXSgfDQpQ
Conjure One - Into the Escape
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rl8E8UDIbKg&list=FLsUa50GpxwrPy3sXSgfDQpQ
Carbon Based Lifeforms - MOS6581
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UtPTvyjtx3g&list=FLsUa50GpxwrPy3sXSgfDQpQ
Babylon of the Occident - The Shanghai Restoration Project
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xSHTEH1kT1A
To me that's almost like saying we should open our minds to being more like Pajama Boy. Of course if this is the kind of music you grew up on, I can understand it a little more. Then again, I'm a big 50s oldies fan, but was barely born when it began.
Coming of age in the 80s when there was a lot of music I didn’t like (and good stuff too) I back tracked to classic rock, and still have my roots there. But a lot of what I wound up listening to was classic rock era but not classic rock popularity, I got very heavily into prog and metal and went off into the obscurata of the era.
I think the fact that I separated myself from my era so young set me up to continue to explore. I’m not tied to the era that was popular when I was in high school because I didn’t like it, when I was listening to new music then it was new wave and punk, if I was listening to something popular it had probably been popular when I was 6. Which feeds into my ability to find good music in any era, it might have only sold 100 copies when it was new but that doesn’t mean I won’t find it eventually. Also helps I work in software and get to listen to music all day long, and work with odd people that will bring thumb drives over for no good reason.
Good grief! Yet you consider this thing you linked to good music?? It sounds like cheap video game music. But then "to each his own" as they say.
Babylon Of The Occident - The Shanghai Restoration Project:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xSHTEH1kT1A