Musical tastes - stuck in the past?

[whatagain]

Since it is an old thread allow me to answer the original question.
My take is that we like music of our youth better because we listened to it over and over. I could listen to music for full afternoons when I was 14 and full nights when I was 20.

Now not only do I have no time but I find it boring.

I think when you listen to a new music you may hear it a few dozen times. Compared to hundreds or thousands of times we listened to old things.

This being said I still like new discoveries (miles Cyrus wrecking ball, Alicia keys, etc that my daughters listen to).

But I am not open to certain kinds of music that I globally reject.
Jazz, western, rap ... old french songs etc.
I am stuck mostly in my former tastes.

[Kimby]

Jan 16, 2013 4:30:39 GMT bixaorellana said:

I think what Kimby said really sums up why we're so likely to reject music that winds up appealing to us if given a chance:

Oct 26, 2010 16:40:54 GMT Kimby said:

The local symphony conductor advises me that audiences don't like new music because they haven't heard enough of it. If they listen to a piece that they know is on the program for an upcoming symphony concert ahead of time, he guarantees they will like it better when they hear it during the concert than they would if they had never heard it before. Your brain becomes trained to appreciate the new rhythms and harmonics, etc.. Or something like that.

Oh yeah ~~ the link I wanted to post is: myfreemp3.eu/ -- a good place to look for things you might not find on youtube.

The familiarity breeds love/acceptance theory is proven again:

Each year for about 8 years, my younger sister compiled a mixtape (CD) of favorite new music that she had “discovered” during the year and sent it to Mr. Kimby on his birthday. Each year our reaction to the initial playing was “ho hum, not as good as last year”, but by the second or third time through, we had new favorites, and before long there were no clinkers anymore.

[bixaorellana]

What a nice sister you have! And kudos to you and Mr. Kimby for giving each new CD several tries. Do you put it on to play in the background, or play it and make a conscious effort to like it? I ask because I often wind up liking something that's playing in a store, for instance, but think I'm more unconsciously resistant when I sit down and judgmentally listen to music.

[Kimby]

We often bring the CDs in the car for road trips.

[casimira]

There is a young woman that we know who every year compiles a CD of music she has "discovered" over the past year and gives the CD to all her friends, young and old.

I am always grateful to receive this generous gift as I discover artists that I likely would never hear or be exposed to.

This years CD was exceptional and I even "busted" my husband listening to it in the car.

I also occassioanaly listen to one of the major university's radio station and find myself perusing their song list after a particular set of music that I really like.

[kerouac2]

I started losing track of the "newest sounds" about 10 years ago, which is much better than most people my age, who seem to have become bogged down in the 70's and 80's. However, YouTube is my friend because whenever I start reading raves about somebody or other, I can immediately check them out. About half the time it turns out to be music that I knew already -- just didn't know the name of the group or the singer. The other half of the time it sounds like total crap to me and I can't even imagine where other people discovered it.

[onlyMark]

I always make a CD every year for the summer in Spain and play it when we are driving.

[mickthecactus]

Just been watching Joan Armatrading. Forgotten how good she is.

[bixaorellana]

Jan 1, 2019 17:10:22 GMT kerouac2 said:

... I can't even imagine where other people discovered it.

If you scroll down below almost any music on youtube -- old, new, classical, whatever -- you'll find a bunch of comments saying "Who came here because of [insert tv show]?" It appears many younger people get their first exposure to older music from tv soundtracks.

[kerouac2]

I was thinking of the total opposite, though -- where do kids hear the completely new crap? There is so much out there on the streaming services that some of them must be choosing at random. Most of the kids don't watch television anymore. They watch series like Skam of their phones.

[bixaorellana]

Remember that old trope of depicting teen love by showing two kids head to head, each with a straw so they could share the same soda? The modern version of that, which encompasses friendship as well as romance, shows two kids sharing one set of earbuds. They're like ants, Kerouac -- they flick their antennae together and all knowledge is one.

[kerouac2]

I still don't think I'm stuck in the past, but I had absolutely never heard of Billie Eilish before she won all the Grammies. I looked up her big hit on YouTube and still did not recognise the song.

[bjd]

I had never heard of her either, but then again, she is only 18 so can't have been around for that long.

[kerouac2]

I have at least heard of Lil Nas X (who didn't win). He is extremely new to the scene, too, but in 2019 he had the longest #1 hit (19 weeks) in the history of the Billboard charts. And I have at least heard his song on French radio, unlike Billie Eilish

[whatagain]

I heard my sharona from the knack going to the airport this morning. It made my day.

[bixaorellana]

Well, I feel like one of those Japanese soldiers who finally came out of the woods 50 years after WWII ended. This is the first I knew of Lil Nas X and his incredibly long-running hit. My entire life brightened up with that song, that video, and that adorable boy.

[kerouac2]

One nice thing about him is that he came out while the song was still #1 in spite of the huge risk for his career considering the number of homophobes in both the rap and the country music circles.

[kerouac2]

(And bravo to Billy Ray Cyrus, too, even though he has had time to adjust to the modern world due to his unusual daughter.)

[mickthecactus]

Sept 27, 2019 21:04:34 GMT mickthecactus said:

Just been watching Joan Armatrading. Forgotten how good she is.

Just watched it again. What an unpretentious unassuming person she is. A superb musician.
However, she was referred to as brown, black and a person of colour. Very confusing for a poor white boy...

[cheerypeabrain]

I watched the Joan Armatrading show and then Later With Jools Holland

Now that I no longer listen to 'pop' radio I miss new music...but then Jools Holland often has the latest popular acts on his show. I listen to Loose Ends on radio 4 and usually enjoy the musical guests...it was on radio 4 that I first heard The Hu a Tibetan heavy metal band

[bixaorellana]

I went to a weekend taco & live music thing while in Texas last week. The music was geared to the crowd in attendance. This had to have been the first time since I was in school that I was surrounded by so many people of my same age group. While listening to the band's rendition of Brown Eyed Girl, a perennial favorite of mine, I realized that song is fifty-five years old.

[Kimby]

I am definitely stuck in the Golden Oldies category, but it has to be from the 70’s and evoke memories of my college years.

In the car I flick the radio from station to station till I land on a song I recognize and like, and stay there till that station plays something I don’t like or takes a break for commercials.

Then I give the other stations a chance to snag my attention for awhile.

[kerouac2]

I was keeping up with just about all popular music at the turn of the century, but for about the last 20 years my brain became overleaded so now I filter out a great deal of the new stuff and just concentrate on about only a half dozen new artists, usually marginal. It has reached the point where I cannot even recognize a lot of the top mainstream stars. Beyoncé comes to mind as someone I could not pick out of a police lineup.

[cheerypeabrain]

BBC2 this evening...2 of my favourite female vocalists...just watched P!nk Live in the Piano Room...P!nk belted out her hits accompanied by her band and the BBC Concert Orchestra.

Now we have another favourite...Linda Ronstadt: The Sound of my Voice. A documentary.

Probably both available on iPlayer.

[mickthecactus]

I’m watching Linda Ronstadt too.

She reminds me of Joan Baez btw.

Great finish to the programme. The Everly’s “When will I be Loved” sung by five ladies including Emmylou Harris, Bonnie Raitt and Stevie Nicks. They don’t come much better than that.

[mickthecactus]

I forgot to post this superb song -

[kerouac2]

There are times when I understand what a golden period it was for a lot of us in our youth. This song is 55 years old and is still wonderful. And much of generation X-Y-Z has not even discovered it yet.

[cheerypeabrain]

Nice

[bixaorellana]

Oct 7, 2023 19:44:59 GMT kerouac2 said:

This song is 55 years old and is still wonderful.

I'm not a fully committed Beatles fan, but I have always LOVED that song.

I also like those reaction videos, and the couple in that one are among my favorites. I like her a bunch and the way that she never tells him to stfu, even though you can see it in the thought balloon over her head.

A cheap thrill for me is when the kid reactors young adults play some of my all-time favorites and just go ga-ga over them.