Turn that Music down!!

[Post Toastie]

Now I no longer like talk radio and only listen to NPR.

Huh???

[ZERO THEORY]

I'm 23 and already at that stage. My generation is shit; no bones about it. If you can get someone my age to listen to a song for more than 12 weeks, you're a wizard. The attention spans are so short now, that each song bores everyone instantly. But really, it's essentially the same songs played ad infinitum:

-I love you and we're happy (pop/country/r&b)
-I love you but you left/I fucked up/X happened and we're not happy (pop/country/r&b)
-I'm drinking and doing drugs/at the bar/in a club and we're happy because we don't value our future (pop/rap/rock)
-The material goods I have are price exorbitantly, but I don't care because I make such an obscene amount of money (rap/pop)
-I am the superior male to you in every way; try to denounce me and I'll kill you (rap)
-Everything sucks. I'm suicidal and it's everyone else's fault (rock)

I can count on one hand the friends I have that are my age. Everyone I grew up with just assumes I'm an alien because I don't use social media, I listen to Nick Drake and Sade, I talk about grad school instead of bar hopping, and I drive a 3/4 ton. Having said all that, indie rock and indie electro (read: "hipster music") are favorite genres of mine, and genuine hard rock is only getting better, so it's not all lost.

[ray1970]

I'm 23 and already at that stage. My generation is shit; no bones about it. If you can get someone my age to listen to a song for more than 12 weeks, you're a wizard.

I've got two kids your age (21 and 25) and I seriously doubt either one of them has heard a single song all the way through. Seems like they will start a song and then, about half way through, get bored with it and switch to another song and then do the same thing.

I think that "Attention Deficit Disorder" stuff just might be a real condition after all.

[Ah Pook]

-I love you and we're happy (pop/country/r&b)
-I love you but you left/I fucked up/X happened and we're not happy (pop/country/r&b)
-I'm drinking and doing drugs/at the bar/in a club and we're happy because we don't value our future (pop/rap/rock)
-The material goods I have are price exorbitantly, but I don't care because I make such an obscene amount of money (rap/pop)
-I am the superior male to you in every way; try to denounce me and I'll kill you (rap)
-Everything sucks. I'm suicidal and it's everyone else's fault (rock)

You have never heard of the perfect country song, have you?

[Great-Kazoo]

You have never heard of the perfect country song, have you?

And you don't have to call me David Allen Coe.

[Jeffrey Lebowski]

Music ended for me just around Y2K and I have no idea why. I didn't even know it happened until around 2010 and many times since then it has been pointed out I have no idea who 99% of bands/singers/etc are now. I may have music released since then, but almost all is from bands that were around way before Y2K. Most everything I listen to is 70s/80s/90s.

I guess I'm not much of a music lover myself. I do have sirius in all cars and I tend to work on language lessons or listen to Patriot radio. Sometimes sports.

I definitely don't understand people who have to have their iPods on all the time jamming to music when they work, when they work-out, when they are just putzing around, etc.

[ray1970]

Most everything I listen to is 70s/80s/90s.

Reminds me of my wife. She is still stuck in the past as well.

In the 70s/80s/90s were you listening to music from twenty or thirty years earlier?

I like new stuff, especially music.

Dont get me wrong, the old stuff was great. But if that's all you listen to, then you are just living in the past and not keeping up with the rest of society.

[Aloha_Shooter]

In the 70s/80s/90s were you listening to music from twenty or thirty years earlier?

In the 70s and 80s I was listening to John Denver and Billy Joel but I was also listening to Nat King Cole, Frank Sinatra and Glenn Miller. Good music is good music -- it will be timeless if it has pleasing tonalities, melodies and harmonies and/or a catchy rhythm. How many people today still listen to George Strait from the 70s or 80s?

Dont get me wrong, the old stuff was great. But if that's all you listen to, then you are just living in the past and not keeping up with the rest of society.

I'm open to new stuff and some of it is good ... but not a lot. As far as keeping up with society, are we talking about the same society that thinks Barack Obama is the greatest thing since sliced bread, actually WANTS to be dependent on the federal or state government, doesn't bother actually reading the Constitution or new laws, and goes around thinking Trayvon Martin was some little angel ruthlessly gunned down by a racist white guy? Mmmmm ... yeah, count me out of that crap, I'll just leap frog it to an era when society regains its senses.

[Rooskibar03]

I just leave my ipod on the Monkees greatest hits...

[jerrymrc]

living in the past

I have that album.