Music used to be a generation identification marker. But after a few iterations, this trend stopped progressing. My kid can't outdo me anymore, someone who knew about Jim Morrison, touched by Ian Curtis and lived through Kurt Cobain. They can't use music to seperate their generation from mine.
So yes, you are right, musical taste stopped being a personal statement right after the death of Kurt Cobain. Even back in the 90s, someone said it is cooler for kids to turn on the computer and play Doom than it is to buy new music.
Not sure what you are trying to say here, but there is more #### hot music being made now, than ever before. You just have to work to find it. The music distribution system has been changed forever.
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When I get a doctor who looks 22, or one of my regular doctors sends in one of his doctorlings to do my checkup, I feel ancient.
Doctors are supposed to be older than you. Don't ask me why, that's just the way it's supposed to work.
Does this I feel old feeling happen before or after the doctor jams his finger up your $$$ as part of your annual prostate exam. you want to feel old, think about that.
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As to classics in general, first I'd like to say that I'm guessing Clapton has all but fallen into obscurity already in the under thirty crowd, and the Stones are so much more about the phenomenon than the music that I think they'll be gone surprisingly fast after they stop touring. But that's kind of besides the point. Also, surprisingly many people NOW have only a very vague idea that there was a band called the Beatles.
As someone pretty in tune with the music scene these days, I can safely say nobody listens to Clapton or the Stones anymore. The Beatles are still gods.
Of course, once you step outside of the music scene you'll find a lot of people than just listen to whatever the radio plays and don't have a clue about the Beatles. But the same can be said about the classical legends to an even larger extent.
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As someone pretty in tune with the music scene these days, I can safely say nobody listens to Clapton or the Stones anymore.
And yet I dare anyone to find a new album as good as Exile on Main Street or a song quite as epically awesome as Layla.
I agree that there is a lot of good music out there these days, but I don't see a lot of stuff that hits quite the same level of pure awesome as the 60's and 70's, and even the 80s.
And it's not really even nostalgia for me, since most of the music I like was way before my "formative years" of the mid/late 90s (hell, most of the stuff I like was before I was born). I was in charge of my wedding list a few weeks back, and apart from throwing a few bones to the teens in the group, almost all the songs were pre 1990. I just don't connect with the new stuff as much as I do with the older ones.
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Weird how good music stops being made right when everyone turns 25, for every generation. Its a pretty crazy phenomena. Also crazy how no one ever can see what a cliche they are.
Before you have a few decades of music to dig through to get all those classics. After that stage, you've to wait for the new classics to come through on a yearly basis. That's why after certain age, people felt like no new classics are being made.
In that case, do share. I'm always looking for good music.
I think my favorite thing about CP is all the great music discussion. I have been turned on to lots of new music. I don't know what you like, but you are sure to find something you like in these threads:
And yet I dare anyone to find a new album as good as Exile on Main Street or a song quite as epically awesome as Layla.
I agree that there is a lot of good music out there these days, but I don't see a lot of stuff that hits quite the same level of pure awesome as the 60's and 70's, and even the 80s.
And it's not really even nostalgia for me, since most of the music I like was way before my "formative years" of the mid/late 90s (hell, most of the stuff I like was before I was born). I was in charge of my wedding list a few weeks back, and apart from throwing a few bones to the teens in the group, almost all the songs were pre 1990. I just don't connect with the new stuff as much as I do with the older ones.
I'm not saying anything about the music itself, just that the Stones and Clapton probably aren't going to be remembered as classics like the Beatles.
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The Stones aren't going to be remembered as classics?
Not to the extent of musicians like Bob Dylan or the Beatles who have maintained their traction with the younger generations. I don't know very many people at all under 30 that listen to the Stones. I could be wrong though as I'm just going off what I've observed.
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Not to the extent of musicians like Bob Dylan or the Beatles who have maintained their traction with the younger generations. I don't know very many people at all under 30 that listen to the Stones. I could be wrong though as I'm just going off what I've observed.
Yeah, sorry, don't agree, Stones are still played and known by younger generations. Even more so than The Beatles from what I've seen.
