"And as far as polkas, they are a much-maligned musical taste."
Posted on 04/24/2015 7:16:06 PM PDT by Squawk 8888
For all of us, we have a musical sweet spot in our lives. It happens roughly between the ages of 14 and 24, from the time we enter high school to the time life begins to intrude with its demands of jobs, mortgages and families. During that period, almost nothing is more important to us than music. It not only becomes a personal obsession but something we use to proclaim our identity to the rest of the world.
But after about 24, we just don’t have the time (and often the interest) to indulge in our musical passions as much as we used to. Instead of spending hours seeking out what’s new and cool, we begin to fall back on the music of our youth for enjoyment, relaxation and comfort. New music just doesn’t do it for us anymore. We might even find ourselves saying “Music today isn’t anywhere as good as it used to be when I was young!” Then you go and yell at some kids on your lawn.
This is totally natural. Every generation has the biological right to believe that the music of their youth is the greatest music of all time. We also have a biological right (or at least a predilection) to have a musical mid-life crisis. The Guardian reports:
Some encouragement for all the 42-year-olds suddenly getting into Rihanna or Rudimental: at least your midlife crisis is less dangerous than buying an unsuitably-powerful motorbike.
Streaming music service Spotify has identified 42 as the age when many of its users rediscover the joys of current pop music, as part of research into how their tastes mature over time.
“During the teenage years, we embrace music at the top of the charts more than at any other time in our lives. As we grow older, our taste in music diverges sharply from the mainstream up to age 25, and a bit less sharply after that,” explained the company on its Insights blog.
“We’re starting to listen to ‘our’ music, not ‘the’ music. Music taste reaches maturity at age 35. Around age 42, music taste briefly curves back to the popular charts — a musical midlife crisis and attempt to harken back to our youth, perhaps?”
"And as far as polkas, they are a much-maligned musical taste."
There is a great video I recently saw with Jimmy telling some of stories... it’s a compilation video from the ‘90s. I would have to scrounge it up... I just recall that Murphy’s Law, Sick of it All, Gorilla Biscuits and AF were featured in it.
Kinda amazing how all walks of life are here on FR.
That’s awesome LOL! I know a lot of the hair band guys were classically trained and some were very talented, but like you said, he was in Cinderella, hahaha.
Since you guys were friends, did that mean you hail from the Philly area as well?
Well at least he wasn't in "Winger", LOL
Man I cant begin to tell you how awesome it is to see this stuff.
Back then I was living it, didn’t see any of these videos until you sent me the links.
The second one is like an hour, I just started watching it. The kid in the white hat and red shirt at 2:51 is Umbar, he was another roadie with me that came on tour with AF a few times but he worked for SOIA and some other bands too, he died in Europe in like ‘94 on tour with A7 in Europe, good guy.
Much appreciated, look for the new AF album-The American Dream Died, just came out.
Yeah, they are still playing, I get with them every couple of years and hang.
Next time I get up to NYC I’ll give you a shout and we can have some beers with Stigma.
Pop country is honestly just as bad as the rest of the autotuned thumpity thump crap on the radio these days. I heard some song where they were making some country song with some gangsta rap arrangement. Disgusting.
The only thing I can possibly equate it to was the Nickelback Mashup some guy made a few years back that basically showed that every Nickelback song is the same.
No, he was originally from NYC, traveled around with Peter Frampton for a while, was with Cinderella, lived in Nashville, met me in Florida, and moved back to Nashville.
I’m from Boston.
hahahahahahaha
LOL!
LOL Another of my brother’s faves. Likes White Lion and Stryper too, someone please help him!
Only ones I admit to still listen to when feeling nostalgic is Ozzy, the Crüe, and old Metallica.
Man... that would be certainly interesting. The past 2 nights I have been revisiting all these acts from shows I went to back when I was a kid. Just seeing what happened to CBGB is just awful... I can't even imagine what the scene is like now.
I got into it one time with a guy in the pit at, I think it was the Palladium... I can't recall all the acts but I know Murphy's Law was one of them. Turned out the guy was part of DMS. My friends all joke with me about me taking on DMS. Jesus, they are all probably dead now.
I think I know that song. It's by Florida-Georgia Line. First time I heard it, my jaw dropped. It wound up being a huge hit, in heavy rotation on the country stations. Can't tell you how many times I shut the radio off because of it.
"My Generation" by The Zimmers
(Vulgarity Warning: Offensive and indecent sign language exhibited at end of song.)
Nashville should burn and the people running the CMA should be taken away for allowing things to degrade to this state of things. I'd be ashamed of myself if I were a modern Country Music fan. At least I know that Bob Wills is still the king.
It all started with Garth Brooks and the wussification of country music.
I got tired of grunge after about a year and went to the 70's. There were still some good stuff in the mid 90's but most of it was from 70's and 80's bands like Tom Petty, AC/DC, and UFO when their classic lineup came back.
After hearing 1970's and early-mid 80's rock, why would I want to switch my tastes. "Rock is dead" but people still listen to Humble Pie, Lynyrd Skynyrd, AC/DC, Led Zepplin, and The Who. I currently have UFO's Strangers in the Night in my CD player. Skynyrd lead to outlaw country as well as other southern rock bands. I heard Def Leppard's On Through the Night and wondered if it was the same band that did Hysteria. The first release was much better.
While I missed out on the best music when it came out, I was lucky to catch the late period of a lot of those bands and discover their best stuff through that. Those born after 1985 or so are SOL.
I should mention that I’m 37, right on the edge of still hearing some good stuff when it came out.
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