Have I Turned Into My Parents?

[habernac]

Originally Posted by fotze

Ya, but you have to admit you are one of the most nostalgic guys around.

how so?

[SeeGeeWhy]

Originally Posted by troutman

I feel differently - there is so much music being released today (far more than ever before), my fear is I will never come close to hearing 1% of all the awesome music being made. You have to work harder to find it (it is not on mainstream radio), but there is all kinds of new exciting music.

Agree!

I especially feel this way about live music. How many good shows have I missed because I've never heard of the band before? How many good shows have I missed because it is not part of the regular routine of myself or any of my friends?

I do feel like the internet has exposed be to more good music, but I have to work pretty hard to find it. The thing is that when you find a good vein of music, you can mine that vein and find a lot of good stuff, so while your prospecting efforts are rewarded, you still end up feeling like you're missing out!

Managing music is also a chore these days...

[Locke]

No. Your parents are probably cooler than you.

In all seriousness though, tastes change. I held a practice last week where I told the kids they could pick the music and it was a horror show. Never again. They'll listen to what I like and like it!

At the same time these are people who were emo last week and will be hardcore death metal people next week.

Kids are idiots with bad taste who arent good at anything, selecting good music least of all. And that includes us when we were kids.

Fact of life. Deal with it.

And music on TV cannot be described on a board with profanity filters. Much, and MTV and all the rest are garbage and suck harder than the bitter beer guy by an order of magnitude.

[troutman]

Originally Posted by fotze

Ya, but you have to admit you are one of the most nostalgic guys around.

Me, on the other hand, I'm sadly attempting to remain hip and relevant in my 40s.

[C_Rush]

No, I think it's part of becoming an adult. I definately don't think much of music today. But that's the way life goes: I finally came to terms with how old I am when a 17 year old told me she didn't know who Kurt Cobain was...

[CaptainCrunch]

Originally Posted by C_Rush

No, I think it's part of becoming an adult. I definately don't think much of music today. But that's the way life goes: I finally came to terms with how old I am when a 17 year old told me she didn't know who Kurt Cobain was...

So you gave her taxi fare and kicked her out of bed.



Come on if I didn't do it, Locke would

[Galakanokis]

There is some good stuff now and than. I find a band will have one excellent song and the rest of the album is ho-hum. The entire albums don't seem to grab you anymore.


Is there anything that is really new nowadays? The Beatles, Zepplin, Sabbath, Floyd, Valens, Holly etc...... When you heard those bands for the first time you were hearing something NEW. You didn't have 5 bands that sounded like Zepplin like you do with Creed, Theory of a Dead Man, Nicklecrap, Collective soul, Staind...They all sound pretty much the same.

Go back and get some Mohzart and Beetohoven or Bach. Feel the power in those songs, emotion. Move up to some Robert Johnson, Hank Williams and Lead Belly. And listen to the stories they tell! What's Britney's point?

And I turned into my father when I started gettting Gordon Lightfoot and Irish Rover albums....Plus I can't stand it when my kid bangs a ball in the house just like my father before me!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[C_Rush]

Originally Posted by CaptainCrunch

So you gave her taxi fare and kicked her out of bed.



Come on if I didn't do it, Locke would

Thanks Cap'n! That made my day!

[Cheese]

Originally Posted by troutman

Me, on the other hand, I'm sadly attempting to remain hip and relevant in my 40s.

YEESH!! LOL...Wait till you try the same thing in your 50s!!!
I have to admit that I do keep up with a lot of the music played today...MUCH moreso than my contemporaries. I still love a lot of the old sixties & seventies stuff as well, combined with Blues, Jazz, Philharmonic...etc etc etc.
I think that makes us "eclectic".

[Burninator]

Todays music sucks, not like the music back in my day. That was real music. That music meant something. Not like the crap today.

- As quoted by everyone getting old throughout history.

[iggypop]

Originally Posted by Burninator

Todays music sucks, not like the music back in my day. That was real music. That music meant something. Not like the crap today.

- As quoted by everyone getting old throughout history.

Exactly.

Personally I love new music, but I haven't listened to FM in years. If you really want to find good new music you need to invest in sat radio, or find something online.

I love listening to stations like XMU or the Verge on XM, they try to focus on unsigned or unknown artists. Nearly all of it I've never heard before.

Once a week they have an artist come in and DJ for a few hours. Other times they broadcast a University radio station nationally for a couple hours. Also they bring in artists and play their entire album, in between songs the artists will talk for like 10 minutes about what influenced that particular song. Overall its very cool, and again it's basically all music I would never of heard of otherwise.

I might be alittle bias though, I'm only 21 so this is "the music... in my day.

[iggypop]

Darn, guess I'll remove my post.

[Ford Prefect]

Originally Posted by Locke

...

Kids are idiots with bad taste who arent good at anything, selecting good music least of all. And that includes us when we were kids.

...

I gotta say, you're WC Fields-like professed hatred for kids is amusing. How did you manage to survive your own childhood without killing yourself?

And your coaching kids is somewhat paradoxical ... unless of course you don't actually despise the little monsters as much you claim.

[stuck_in_chuk]

I think that there is lots of great music coming out right now, and it is easier than ever to find it. Satellite radio, internet radio, and indy record label websites are all good resources. If I hear a band I like, I try to check out as much stuff on their record label as possible. Check out the bands that are signed for the big concerts (like Coachella and Sasquatch) and go from there. CBC Radio 3 (radio3.cbc.ca) is one of the best resources for Canadian indy music. You do have to look a bit harder for good music that isn't mainstream, but it is a lot easier to do now than when I was a teenager (and had to check out Maximum Rock 'n' Roll and other fanzines).

I admit, most of the stuff on the radio is pure crap, but that has always been the case.

[JiriHrdina]

I like music but find I don't listen to it nearly as much. Haven't bought a CD in over a year - when I do listen to the radio its either sports or news. Part of that is because of my job and part of that is because it's what I enjoy now.

[Got Miikka?]

I find that I have been listening to more trashy pop music now than ever before. I hear it on the radio playing in the gym, mostly, and then I find myself singing "Dangerous" by Akon or whoever in the shower. It won't make my iPod, but I actually find myself becoming more tolerant of this stuff as I grow older. I mean, don't get me wrong, a lot of it makes me ears bleed and my stomach turn, just like always, but not as consistently as it once did.

I will feel like I lost something it ever comes to the point that I am griping about music to kids. I want to be more immature than my kids, if possible. So there.

[Locke]

Originally Posted by Ford Prefect

I gotta say, you're WC Fields-like professed hatred for kids is amusing. How did you manage to survive your own childhood without killing yourself?

And your coaching kids is somewhat paradoxical ... unless of course you don't actually despise the little monsters as much you claim.

Obviously I survived because I was the awesomest kid ever.

I coach kids because without me they would be even worse at everything than they already are.

Do I hate them that much? Probably.

[Ford Prefect]

Originally Posted by Locke

Obviously I survived because I was the awesomest kid ever.

I coach kids because without me they would be even worse at everything than they already are.

Do I hate them that much? Probably.

Aww, that's sweet ... you're so altruistic Locke.

[Hack&Lube]

Your youth is when your particular tastes and likes/dislikes are formed. It's when those memories and everything associated with them grows on you and you form lifelong attachments to them.

But that's just nostalgia and personal preference. Quality of music is something quantitative but almost empircal in a way. And yes, much of today's music popular music DOES suck in terms of muscianship, composition, showmanship, etc.

[Azure]

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