Posted on 06/18/2018 11:58:45 PM PDT by canuck_conservative
In case you needed another reason to feel far older than you actually are, a new survey by music streaming platform Deezer, via NME, suggests that by the time you hit 30, you reach something called “musical paralysis.”
That means 30-year-olds have hit the threshold when they no longer seek out new music, or are open to listening to something new and beyond their established taste....
Survey participants gave various reasons for just why they’ve checked out of the music scene, mostly citing having children and too demanding a job to keep up with what’s new.
A considerable 65 per cent said they usually only listen to artists they already know. But 60 per cent said they do wish they had more time to listen to new material — they’re just too busy.
Among the worst offenders are those music fans in Wales and Northern England, where people give up on finding new music by 24 and 23, respectively, while Scottish fans hold out the longest, hitting their threshold at 40.
(Excerpt) Read more at theprovince.com ...
Disco taking over caused me to stop looking for new music.
As luck would have it the music in the 30 years before that was fantastic and I am still happy to listen to it.
Sounds about right.
I have to tell people regularly I don’t listen to new music. I quit listening to new music in around 1984 and all I care to listen to is music from around 1970 to 1984. I don’t care if you think I will like this song. I won’t. Leave me alone.
I was more of a "21st Century Schizoid Man" kind of guy but "Court" was great also.
Just yesterday I was looking up Quicksilver Messenger Service and am amazed at how good it sounds even with no external stimulants...and nice to be able to enjoy all of that now just for the music and not the trip.
I had no idea CW McCall had more then one song. Some are funny and some are real tear jerkers.
Then there are so many Do-Wop artists I had never heard of.
Searching out new music is fun.
I still enjoy listening to the Bobby Sherman record I cut out of a box of Cheerios.
Same here. Added New Age and exotic acoustic in the 70s. By late 70s went back and got the rock operas, then the jazz quartets. The 80s brought the Space Music / Electronic, then in the late 80s the Irish/Celtic and World Music. The 90s was my classical revival which eventually as added Opera and choral after Y2K. ‘05 brought a blues revival. Right now it is everything that a harmonica can do and that is a lot.
I must be weird. I’m always buying new stuff.
One of the more interesting mashups I've been enjoying in recent years is classical musicians collaborating with bluegrass musicians. There are some insanely talented bluegrass players out there, and when they mix it up, some interesting stuff pops out.
My tastes are pretty expansive. Last the groups I ordered disks of were Kruger Brothers, Panic at the Disco!, and Willie Nelson.
If you want new rock, try some Muse
As someone coming from basically the same place and looking to fill the void Rush's retirement left in our lives, I recommend you check out Coheed and Cambria. They are a little rougher-edged than Rush and in their 40's now, but the songwriting is much better than Dream Theater (though DT always wins for musicianship) and you can hear the clear Rush influences, especially in their earlier science-fiction-themed work. They are a little more pop- and or metal-sounding at times, but the cleverness and creativity of Rush are there.
Also, if you like instrumental work, check out Arch Echo and also Plini. As a guitarist, those two are who I am listening to a LOT, lately. :)
I was past age 35 before my musical palate expanded from 60’s-70’s rock. The internet is to blame.
That’s so sad. Some of the best music in my library I didn’t discover until much later. A friend of mine just started guiding me into EDM, turns out some of it is really good, I’m about to turn 49. It’s a big exciting world, never stop exploring.
I turned thirty years old in 1988, and I can say that there wasn’t a single band or song that came out in the early 1990’s that I liked. I am a throw-back to the 1960’s through the 1980’s music fan.
My definition of “new music” is simple: If you never heard it before, then it is new regardless of when it was composed or recorded. As for current music, I find myself more interested in pop from outside the US when it comes to current pop music. Frankly, though, I was exposed a very wide range of music in my youth, so it is easier to discuss what I don’t like, because that list is much shorter than my “List of Likes.” My personal collection of music runs the gamut from Metal to Baroque to Bluegrass to Swing music to Electronica, etc.
If it has a semblance of rap music in it I turn it off or change the channel. I was at the chiropractor the other day being treated in one of their rooms with heat and they had some rap music on and it was making me a nervous wreck having to listen to it and I finally uttered aloud dear God please turn that garbage off. Rap musicians can’t sing so they dupe suckers in with this blathering crap and within seconds he stops singing and I hear a woman actually carrying a decent tune. Turns out it was the Message on XM. It was Christian contemporary with a rap element, yuck!!! My wife listens to it and laughed loudly when I told her about it.
About the only thing worse than hip-hop and rap is current country music, hick-hop. It all sounds the same, drinking, screwing, partying and their pickup trucks. Give me Patsy Cline and George Strait!
I grew up having to listen to my parents music, 50’s-60’s-70’s. So I really like that era and most of the 80’s after that my interest drops off quickly. I do find it interesting that my oldest son in his early 20’s and my youngest son who is 15 love to listen to 50’s music. My 18 year old daughter is like my wife, she listens to all genre’s.
Agree.
I do stumble on something new once in a while that I like, but most of what’s out there is complete crap. I don’t find it pleasant or entertaining to hear cursing, screaming, misogyny, racism, anger, violence, and all the other things that the left accuses us of yet embraces in their “music”.
I rarely bother looking for anything new. The most likely place for me to discover new music is a soundtrack on tv or a movie. (Consdering how few movies I go to or how little tv I watch, that tends to be rare.) When I do hear something l like, I look for the artist and buy the album.
Do the bump
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