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?”
Really nice...thanks. Loved the photos of Vancouver and BC. My daughter lived there about four years and we loved visiting.
Harsh? Nah, he went WAY too easy on current pop music.
Cockburn has a unique style and gift .
Glad you enjoyed it.
I worry for him as he seems to have migrated from the clarity he so captured once...
My wife, who is 42, is going through the exact “music crisis” this article describes. In the last couple of years she’s started to listen to what passes for modern ‘music’, also known as ‘utter sonic rot’.
I’m hoping that she’ll soon get through this phase and come back to being the country music listening gal I married twenty years ago.
Bruce was just going thru an angry phase. Well okay, some of the newer stuff is still angry (righteously so I think) but you’re missing out big time if you haven’t kept up with him since the 80’s.
Fleetwood Mac outsells them.
Right now I am listening to QUIET VILLAGE by MARTIN DENNY. Earlier I was listening to VICTORY AT SEA. Last night it was Sammy Kaye.
Too much really good old music out there to be bothered by modern crap.
Them too.
But the one I’m really excited about is ELO w/ Jeff Lynne hope he makes it here when they tour.
Anyways, I see your Murphy's Law and raise you an Agnostic Front.
I started with The Beatles at 12 and stayed with Rock all my years until I discovered K-Pop at 60.
K-Pop runs the gamut from ballads to EDM and everywhere in between.
One of my current favorites are these two lovely and talented young women who are known as Davichi singing live the title track from one of K-dramas most successful series, “It’s OK, it’s love”.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SVo1yZG4rk4&list=LLhO5lNQzGvja-olo9AJaPUQ&index=10
Here’s one from the EDM/dance genre, T-ara singing “Sexy Love”.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ShVRP09NCO4&index=16&list=LLhO5lNQzGvja-olo9AJaPUQ
Last but not least, my favorite girl group with the song that shook the world, though it’s not my most favorite by them. Crayon Pop “Bar Bar Bar”.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yMqL1iWfku4&index=47&list=LLhO5lNQzGvja-olo9AJaPUQ
That was a great series.
bfl
Late 40’s to early 50’s for me - I started listening to more types and discovered jazz/smooth jazz piano concertos, Blues, and an assortment of others including some of rock classics. I keep a lot on my computer and am listening to some jazz vocals/piano/sax as I type.
I enjoy Boston, Journey, Def Leppard, Traditional Latin Mass Music, Tallis, a whole lot of 70’s and 80’s, classical, big band, some country and, yes, even Polkas (I’m of Polish descent, and grew up hearing it every Sunday morning - good memories). No rap or techno thanks!
But,for the most part, I’m all about talk radio now. I’m 60, but I’ve been a talk radio junkie since I first heard Maha Rushie and Jim Quinn on the radio many years ago! Hubby is more into the music than I am! Same tastes - even the Polkas! lol!
Good stuff. I’ve actually seen the glorified rafts on Blue Ridge Lake that some of the locals inhabit during the Summer, that we believe were the genesis for the Squidbillies. North Georgia redneck mountain folks living on the water in makeshift “houseboats” made using dock flotation, AstroTurf, and such.
In case you were afraid to ask:
Jukeboxes first appeared in restaurants and bars in the late 1930s.
Juke is an African word meaning “to make wicked mischief” and came directly from American slaves.
They described the illegal brothels or bootlegger shacks where they could occasionally escape their cruel lives with a jar of moonshine as “Juke-joints.”
Juke had an exotic and forbidden appeal, which inspired the name jukebox.
That’s how a commercial record player in restaurants and bars was called a “jukebox”.
The first coin-operated phonographs were introduced in the 1890s when recording on wax cylinder records made it possible for them to survive many plays.
http://superbeefy.com/how-did-the-jukebox-get-its-name-and-and-when-was-the-first-jukebox-invented/
Whatever floats your boat.
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