It makes sense. I think there's two forces at play. First, there's a lot of evidence suggesting that people are generally less impressed by new sounds once they reach a certain age, even if they can't always pinpoint what isn't clicking the same. It's just how our silly brains are; we're drawn to things that feel familiar, even subconsciously. On the other hand, it's likely you also simply have a preference for the compositional styles and recording processes that were used between the 60s and 70s. I know myself and many other young people do, too.
That's difficult for me to say. What I was listening to in the 70's was due to what we had in the house at the time. Once I hit my early teens, I was able to search out my own music. I was listening to a lot of Heavy Metal (Thrash Metal, Glam Metal, etc...) in the 80s, especially the late 80s. There was still some music I loved in the 90s, which is when I discovered TOOL, but a lot of it sucked. Much Music was my main source to finding new artist. It was only after living in Montreal for a while in the 2000s where my taste softened up quite a bit and I started liking bands such as Belle And Sebastian for example. It was also from 2012 to current day, when I got that job at the movie theater, that I restarted my collection from practically nothing. So what I have now is a wide mix of everything I like, or love, old and new.
1981 is my favourite year for music - So many great albums by the likes of Echo & The Bunnymen , Tom Verlaine , The Cure , Prince , Grace Jones , The Comsat Angels , The Psychedelic Furs , U2 , X & Siouxsie & The Banshees.
I graduated from HS in 1986. I liked music from the 20’s all the way through the ‘80s. Once grunge came around I pretty much gave up on current music. I’m still like that to this day!💁🏻♀️
I basically stopped listening to new artists around 1996 when I was 26. Part of it had to do with the fact that I travelled overseas for a year, went back to Oz for a bit over a year and then left for good. During that time I was too occupied to care about new music plus I didn’t have the Internet to keep me up to date. I think the only new band I got into was System of a Down and the only reason for that was when I went back home for a holiday in 2001 my friend gave me a few cds and one was SOAD’s debut - I’d not heard of them, played it and loved it. Then I found out they’d just released Toxicity, so I got that and loved it. One thing I’ve noticed is that nearly every artist I like is the same age or older than me. The only group I can think of whose members are younger than me is Emperor - they’re about 4 or 5 years younger.
As we go into the 80’s we are leaving the classic years of pop, rock, jazz and blues and finding really good new stuff becomes more difficult. It’s similarly difficult trying to find really good classical music after Mozart, Beethoven and Bach.
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What a pleasant surprise to hear/see your theme song again, and to see Jinx and Mittens. (RIP) ❤😢 As for your question, I've always kind of been an old soul and more interested in art from the past than anything contemporary, even when I was in high school and college. (The first album I ever heard was "Sgt. Pepper," around 1980.) Having said that, I'd say my interest in new artists diminished greatly sometime around my late '20s. Part of that may also be due to the way the industry and technology changed, too, though. There's simply way too much out there now and very little of it feels special to me in any way.
Awh,nice seeing Jinx again Larry and I'll take seventies music over eighties music any day,the big difference to me between the two decades is that the seventies music was more guitar dominant and I'm a guitar player where as the eighties music was more synthesizer dominant,I'll dance if I want to,yea and you'll dance alone!,good song but I'm going home! Bob
There are so many factors to consider, including one’s life circumstances during certain years, aging and settling, etc. But you mentioned how you didn’t get into many *new* bands during the early ‘80s. That got me thinking. Popular music went through a major change during those years. The overall culture did as well. It’s like when the 1980s began, we all got this sense that we’d arrived at “the future,” so it was time to embrace change, new technologies, new expressions, and to just get futuristic in general. You can even see it in car design (one of my hobbies). So, music changed. But I noticed that you stuck it out with artists that you had already loved *before* the change occurred - Paul McCartney, Neil Young, Lou Reed, Elvis Costello, Sparks, etc. Music in general changed, and so did the music that these artists put out. Consider Sparks, comparing Indiscreet with Angst in My Pants. Of course, Sparks was always about changing and pushing boundaries, but I think the point stands. We build up “good will” and an emotional connection to artists we find reliable and suited to our tastes. This good will enables us to follow them through their various permutations. But the new guys? We’re not in such a hurry to let them in once we get to a “certain age.”
When I was actively buying albums/music, I didn't care if the music was current, from 1969, 1926 or 17th century music compositions. If the music appealed to me, I'd buy or strongly consider buying the albums or compilations. At this point, I have way too much music on physical media, so have limited purchases of any type/era of music - but still occasionally look for outstanding music from current year(s), obscure 1970s heavy rock, or Classical music I'd never heard of prior.
I think it's just something about the year 1982 for music. I went through the RYM 1982 list, and I picked out much fewer than I would've thought as well. Yet, 1981 and 1983 have many albums for me.
The first rock LP i bought was "Foreigner", then got into KISS, Alice Cooper, The Stranglers and so on. I still buy CDs and LPs from new and "old" artists i like, doesn't matter. What i recognize of these albums you mentioned, none of the 80s did not beat one of the 70s. So i can say, the 70s are my favorite period of music. I have problems with many of these 80s albums, because of the decent, flat sound (production), so much reverb, flanger, bad drums (maybe synth). The following 90s were better, but i do not really like grunge etc. But that is another problem.
Of all the decades I’ve lived through, the 70s and 80s are my favorite for music, with the 90s and 2000s coming in third and fourth place, respectively. I completely lost interest in music in the 2010s.
Rock will never die. Esp with it being brought to masses via this internet. But youtube crusaders like Studmuffin make it more palletable due to enthusiasm etc. it will never go away. ☄️🪘🎸
I think it was the middle 90s 80s less than 70s the boy girl bands sappy musip rap wasnt minthing still lots good music im not a death metal person either 80s still had groups i love like the police tears for fears george michale incs and others depennds on album i have tons on 50s to 90s but have discovered im mainly 70s gal
It makes sense. I think there's two forces at play. First, there's a lot of evidence suggesting that people are generally less impressed by new sounds once they reach a certain age, even if they can't always pinpoint what isn't clicking the same. It's just how our silly brains are; we're drawn to things that feel familiar, even subconsciously. On the other hand, it's likely you also simply have a preference for the compositional styles and recording processes that were used between the 60s and 70s. I know myself and many other young people do, too.
That's difficult for me to say. What I was listening to in the 70's was due to what we had in the house at the time. Once I hit my early teens, I was able to search out my own music. I was listening to a lot of Heavy Metal (Thrash Metal, Glam Metal, etc...) in the 80s, especially the late 80s. There was still some music I loved in the 90s, which is when I discovered TOOL, but a lot of it sucked. Much Music was my main source to finding new artist. It was only after living in Montreal for a while in the 2000s where my taste softened up quite a bit and I started liking bands such as Belle And Sebastian for example. It was also from 2012 to current day, when I got that job at the movie theater, that I restarted my collection from practically nothing. So what I have now is a wide mix of everything I like, or love, old and new.
1981 is my favourite year for music - So many great albums by the likes of Echo & The Bunnymen , Tom Verlaine , The Cure , Prince , Grace Jones , The Comsat Angels , The Psychedelic Furs , U2 , X & Siouxsie & The Banshees.
I graduated from HS in 1986. I liked music from the 20’s all the way through the ‘80s. Once grunge came around I pretty much gave up on current music. I’m still like that to this day!💁🏻♀️
I basically stopped listening to new artists around 1996 when I was 26. Part of it had to do with the fact that I travelled overseas for a year, went back to Oz for a bit over a year and then left for good. During that time I was too occupied to care about new music plus I didn’t have the Internet to keep me up to date. I think the only new band I got into was System of a Down and the only reason for that was when I went back home for a holiday in 2001 my friend gave me a few cds and one was SOAD’s debut - I’d not heard of them, played it and loved it. Then I found out they’d just released Toxicity, so I got that and loved it. One thing I’ve noticed is that nearly every artist I like is the same age or older than me. The only group I can think of whose members are younger than me is Emperor - they’re about 4 or 5 years younger.
As we go into the 80’s we are leaving the classic years of pop, rock, jazz and blues and finding really good new stuff becomes more difficult. It’s similarly difficult trying to find really good classical music after Mozart, Beethoven and Bach.
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What a pleasant surprise to hear/see your theme song again, and to see Jinx and Mittens. (RIP) ❤😢 As for your question, I've always kind of been an old soul and more interested in art from the past than anything contemporary, even when I was in high school and college. (The first album I ever heard was "Sgt. Pepper," around 1980.) Having said that, I'd say my interest in new artists diminished greatly sometime around my late '20s. Part of that may also be due to the way the industry and technology changed, too, though. There's simply way too much out there now and very little of it feels special to me in any way.
Awh,nice seeing Jinx again Larry and I'll take seventies music over eighties music any day,the big difference to me between the two decades is that the seventies music was more guitar dominant and I'm a guitar player where as the eighties music was more synthesizer dominant,I'll dance if I want to,yea and you'll dance alone!,good song but I'm going home! Bob
There are so many factors to consider, including one’s life circumstances during certain years, aging and settling, etc. But you mentioned how you didn’t get into many *new* bands during the early ‘80s. That got me thinking. Popular music went through a major change during those years. The overall culture did as well. It’s like when the 1980s began, we all got this sense that we’d arrived at “the future,” so it was time to embrace change, new technologies, new expressions, and to just get futuristic in general. You can even see it in car design (one of my hobbies). So, music changed. But I noticed that you stuck it out with artists that you had already loved *before* the change occurred - Paul McCartney, Neil Young, Lou Reed, Elvis Costello, Sparks, etc. Music in general changed, and so did the music that these artists put out. Consider Sparks, comparing Indiscreet with Angst in My Pants. Of course, Sparks was always about changing and pushing boundaries, but I think the point stands. We build up “good will” and an emotional connection to artists we find reliable and suited to our tastes. This good will enables us to follow them through their various permutations. But the new guys? We’re not in such a hurry to let them in once we get to a “certain age.”
For me, it was sometime around 1990. I was 26 then. I still bought a lot of music, but the amount of current music I really liked dropped off.
When I was actively buying albums/music, I didn't care if the music was current, from 1969, 1926 or 17th century music compositions. If the music appealed to me, I'd buy or strongly consider buying the albums or compilations. At this point, I have way too much music on physical media, so have limited purchases of any type/era of music - but still occasionally look for outstanding music from current year(s), obscure 1970s heavy rock, or Classical music I'd never heard of prior.
I think it's just something about the year 1982 for music. I went through the RYM 1982 list, and I picked out much fewer than I would've thought as well. Yet, 1981 and 1983 have many albums for me.
The first rock LP i bought was "Foreigner", then got into KISS, Alice Cooper, The Stranglers and so on. I still buy CDs and LPs from new and "old" artists i like, doesn't matter. What i recognize of these albums you mentioned, none of the 80s did not beat one of the 70s. So i can say, the 70s are my favorite period of music. I have problems with many of these 80s albums, because of the decent, flat sound (production), so much reverb, flanger, bad drums (maybe synth). The following 90s were better, but i do not really like grunge etc. But that is another problem.
Of all the decades I’ve lived through, the 70s and 80s are my favorite for music, with the 90s and 2000s coming in third and fourth place, respectively. I completely lost interest in music in the 2010s.
I stopped in the mid 90s. Just couldn't get into many new artists.
Rock will never die. Esp with it being brought to masses via this internet. But youtube crusaders like Studmuffin make it more palletable due to enthusiasm etc. it will never go away. ☄️🪘🎸
I think it was the middle 90s 80s less than 70s the boy girl bands sappy musip rap wasnt minthing still lots good music im not a death metal person either 80s still had groups i love like the police tears for fears george michale incs and others depennds on album i have tons on 50s to 90s but have discovered im mainly 70s gal