To those of us with open minds, Music is timeless. I love a lot of songs that were written long before I was born, many that I grew up with, as well as brand new ones, it’s all good.
It seriously shouldn’t matter if something is old, why not just listen to absolutely anything if it sounds good :) I don’t understand why people shut things out. I like new stuff and lots of old stuff. And all that should matter is the sound :)
He's talking about when he was a kid. Kids don't normally like the old fogie music. I'm sure like most everybody, he can appreciate the older stuff nowadays
Beethoven and Mozart are very old too. Who cares? I'm not the biggest fan of classical music but I really love some of their pieces. Age isn't something that determines quality in music.
Absolutely agree. Too many people, especially young people, think of music like fashion... Like "it has its time and that time ends". But it's not like that. Music is created and it's eternal. Even after the musicians pass.
I was born in '96, started playing acoustic guitar in '09 when I was 13. I started out on a crappy classical/spanish acoustic learning easy pop songs by Miley Cyrus and stuff. When I turned 15, I switched to playing electric which I got for christmas. I told my guitar teacher I wanted more of a challenge and he introduced me to AC/DC and Metallica. A whole floodgate went open and I went on this big ass music journey. Started listening to Metallica, Megadeth, Black Sabbath, Motorhead, Dio, Judas Priest, Anthrax, Slayer, Exodus, Testament, Annihilator, Guns N Roses, Led Zeppelin, Deep Purple, Alice Cooper, Thin Lizzy, and everything I could get my hands on. So all the bands I started loving as a teenager around 2011/2012 were already 30 to 40 years old.
This comment spoke to me. I was born in 85. Started playing guitar when I was 13 as well. Probably around 1996. My mother got me a classical guitar out of a JCPenney catalog for my birthday. Started immediately listening to all the music on the local classic rock station out of Knoxville tennessee. To this day, classic rock is my jam. I have ac/dc, van halen, LED zeppelin, black sabbath, Boston hanging on my wall in the living room.
I've been into 'old' music since I was a kid, it's what I grew up hearing and what I love. I also love classical music, thanks to an an early teacher of mine, he would play it in class for us, first piece I can remember hearing is Greensleeves. Another genre I love is big band stuff like Dean Martin, Frank Sinatra etc, was talking to a co worker about this just yesterday. One of my favourites is Mack The Knife, further cemented after my seeing the What Women Want movie with the central character also loving this song/genre. I love the music I love and I know others do too so I'm not alone 😊 Congrats on 751k Subscribers 👏🏻
I love big band as well! Try listening to The UK 1940s Radio Station, they play big band, swing and other music from that period all the time. Congratulations Mike, on 750k+ subscribers, you work hard and deserve it!
Dude, I totally get it. I'm about to turn 42 in November. I remember when me and my friends were back in college listening to Children Of Bodom, we were all in the same age group with the band. They scheduled a tour to hit NY towards the end of the year and then it got cancelled. Then they released a statement that it had to do with school and me and me buds realized that the dates crossed over with finals week. We were all taking exams the same week. They eventually made up the date but its weird thinking that Alexi who is my age is gone and so is the band.
I listen to everything from Amadeus Mozart, to ZZ Top. I watched as old became ancient, classic became old, and new became classic. Good music withstands the ages.
You're telling me Mike, I am 154-years-old and I remember going to see Tchaikovsky perform the 1812 Overture 🤣 These dang nab kids nowadays don't know anything about that!
I mean, I'm 19 right now and most of what I listen to is pre 2000's rock and metal. Of course I also listen to newer stuff but it's pretty rare. So the music I love has been called "old" for as long as I've liked it. This got unexpectedly long so here's a TL;DR: People calling something old is only a problem if you think it's a problem or they say it in an insulting way. If somebody complains about your music being too old, just play even older music and turn up the volume. When I was in highschool in art class we were allowed to listen to music during the lesson, but the class had to agree on songs and they would be played on speakers for the whole class. My class being 60% girls who were 14/15 at the time, we pretty much only listened to Justin Bieber or some type of rap/hip-hop. After a while of that being the case, the teacher noticed that me and some of my friends were constantly complaining about the music choices and so he let us choose for one lesson - out of consideration for the others we chose one of the hip-hop songs that we didn't really mind. The whole class started freaking out about how that song was "already 2 years old" and "nobody still listens to that song". They told us to choose a "better song" that isn't "2 fucking years old already". So we chose songs that weren't 2 years old. We chose songs that were 20/30 years old. I'm talking half of the Rust in Peace album, Ride the Lightning, Blizzard Of Ozz, that type of thing. Did the class complain about the songs being old? Yes. Did the class complain about the genre? Yes. Did we insist on our choices anyways? Yes. I don't mind people saying the music I like is old, I think that's just a fact. I don't like it when people go around telling me I shouldn't listen to that music because it's old.
As a 22-year-old, many of my favorite songs were made before I was born, and I also listen to a lot of indie bands that aren't exactly well-known. My music taste is weird compared to most of my peers, but I don't think that's bad at all. In fact, I enjoy introducing people to music that they've never heard before. That being said, it's going to come as quite a shock to me when the "classic rock" stations start playing Coldplay, Nickelback, Linkin Park, and all the other bands I grew up hearing on the radio as a kid.
I gravitated to my parents music in my teens, found a box of records of everything from Sabbath to early Van Halen and ACDC and I of course in my teens latched onto Metallica when the One video came out on MTV. Now, I know my music is old but if the music sounds good, it never ages.
I can pinpoint that moment. Listening to the eagle, a classic rock station in Dallas, and they announced "That old classic rock favorite, Jeremy". Damn...
The hardest part is when albums that defined your path in musical interests start having their *gulp* 30th anniversaries and you remember their releases like it was yesterday. Then you realize you’re that guy hung up on ‘60s rock back in the ‘90s. 👴🏻
My one real gripe is that most of the video of “old” music was uploaded in the early days of RUclips, and the bit rate is atrocious. That means younger generations will only experience low quality versions of what we listened to and saw on mTV.
I started playing in 1988, when I was 16. I generally liked stuff from the 70s and 80s, and that's the majority of what I listen to now as well. The first time I really felt old was hearing Breaking the Law by Judas Priest as the background music being played at the grocery store.
I can relate to this. I like to tell the younger generation about the time I saw Pantera, Sepultura, and Prong in New Orleans. Well, let me tell you youngsters ... it was badass.
It's not about being old or young. Music creates this emotional connection that we associate with a particular time or event in our lives that sticks with us forever. Generally, the type of music that people like (the most) is the music they listened to during their formative years (late childhood to yearly adulthood). It reminds us of "the good old days". And, for a musician, it creates an even stronger bond, because we would spend hours learning how to play those songs we loved.
To quote Grampa Simpson: “I used to be with ‘it’, but then they changed what ‘it’ was. Now what I’m with isn’t ‘it’ anymore and what’s ‘it’ seems weird and scary. It’ll happen to you!”
Everything released in the last 20 years is "new" to me now 😘 But I am glad I saw Pantera live 3 times. The first show was on the Far Beyond Driven tour in 1994, it was crazy... ("Allright grandpa")
I remember driving in the car one day... a song that came on the radio made me turn it up, I was shocked that I knew most of the lyrics being that I really didn't care for the band when they were playing (Ratt Round and Round) the dj then nailed the cofin shut by saying... "Wow I had to dust the vinyl off that one" I knew that things had changed. But its all part of the cycle
61 years old here. Last year I went to see Jethro Tull and I realised that it was 40 years since I last went to a concert with them. And back then they'd been working for years. Earlier this year me and a friend went to see Sparks. Funny story - we were talking one night and he mentioned he'd like to see Sparks one day, but they probably didn't tour anymore and if they did, they'd never come here. We checked on the web and were stunned that they'd give a concert only 8 days later in one of the best concert venues around here. Sold out of course, but there was a waiting list that we signed up for, not expecting anything. The day before the concert I got a mail that there were a few tickets available. Only two of four open seats were side by side, so I pounced on those. Balcony second row center. It turned out nobody showed up in front of us, so we had great seats and the concert was absolutely awesome. Back in the present, next week we're going to see Saga on Monday and then Sweet and Slade on Friday. Not much left of the original lineup up those last two I guess, but the two names are apparently touring together and it's going to be a blast. Next year Suzi Quatro is in town and we have tickets for her show too. I guess Elton John counts as old as well and I have tickets to see him too. I've invited my closest friends along to celebrate my 60th birthday, but that show has been postponed a couple of times. All in all not all that heavy I guess, but that's what I grew up with. Can't beat the time, so I'm embracing it. Oh, and @Mike - thanks for your online lessons. I am a subscriber and your way of teaching works for me. Bought an electric guitar less than a year ago and having great fun with it :)
Ah, this one hit me right in the feels. Real talk! ✊ I can totally relate. Then again, despite being in my 30's, I actually grew up listening to & digging "old man" music; classic rock from the 60's & 70's, thanks to my parents, so I've always been an old soul in that regard and still listen to that stuff! Lol I still love my music from the 80's, 90's, and 2000's that I grew up on too and newer music just doesn't do it for me like the older stuff. It's definitely a weird feeling hearing a song/band that you vividly remember debuting, now being classified as "old" nowadays. The circle of life, eh? 😬
Me too dude, I grew up listening to Elvis and other rock n roll from the 50s/60s, was the soundtrack to my childhood. My mother has always said I have an old soul. I listened to lots of other good stuff from the 80s, 90s and 2000s growing up too 🤘🏻
I wish that situation was the problem i am facing, seeing young kids loving different rock/metal bands than the ones I did back in their age, that is. When I was getting into this kind of sound (around '89, I am in my early 40s now) I came to contact with Beatles, and then Alice Cooper and then Scorpions and then Metallica and Helloween. And I loved everything, including bands the older fans introduced me to (like Deep Purple or Rainbow or Sabbath).Death and black metal were extreme but awesome. Going forward,when grunge bands came around I loved them too. When metal sound went the groove (pantera or machine head) and nu-industrial way (Korn, Slipknot, Rammstein, static-x) I was onboard. Stoner was amazing (qotsa, fu manchu etc), SOAD were perfect. Come '00s, I loved everything from the indie bands like Franz Ferdinand, to razorlight or kasabian and arctic monkeys, to Kings of Leon all the way to sludge-prog-mathcore stuff like Mastodon,Gojira and The Dillinger Escape plan. So by being open and so accepting of all rock styles I couldn't wait to see what the young kids will come up with, and I was sure I would love it. But once I hit 30, around that time, it all came crashing down. Kids in my native Greece or Finland where I live, simply do not seem all that interested in any sort of new rock sound. The minority that is into that stuff seem to revere the old gods like Metallica and Slipknot. Really the last bands that I found tremendous were Animals as Leaders, Ghost and Royal Blood. The last two are the only bands that debuted as recording artists in the 2010s that became truly mainstream and are still "rock" by all standards. I can't think of any other new true rock band that can fill stadiums. Radio also seems stuck in the '00s even the surviving contemporary rock stations.I am regularly scanning streaming services, forums and youtube for young rock acts but besides some interesting songs, there doesn't seem to be any new giants arising.
Even though it wasn’t my generation, I still remember the day I first heard AC/DC, Sabbath, Ozzy, and even Metallica on KZOK Seattle’s classic rock station, and being shocked because it was heavier music that I loved being played on a CLASSIC ROCK STATION!! But what really got me and made me feel old was when they started playing bands I grew up on in my teens like AIC, Soundgarden, and Nirvana!!!!😢😂
Mate, I’ve got it worse. I listen to pop and gothic rock music from the 80s and I’m 16. I’m into retro 1980s stuff like old game consoles and cassettes. Does anyone remember when you used to tape a movie on the TV but them the power would go out, or the dish on the roof would brake, so all you got on your VHS tape were those colored lines? I wasn’t born then.
A lot of rock bands have resurgence on TikTok as well. Arctic Monkeys, Oasis, Radiohead, Weezer, Deftones, The Smiths, Pixies, Pierce the Veil, and the most recent is Ghost.
It was when three students of mine hadn't heard of Coldplay and, in one case, Lady Gaga, that I felt old. I'm only 30. I guess we just gotta accept that nothing is cool forever.
That's nothing Mike Wait until YOU are considered old lol. I'm 60 now I was 18 in 1980 That whole decade Man it was awesome! When 80s metal began. I remember when there was no Van Halen or Metallica! Lol I watched the music we love evolve right before my eyes. Good times Good times indeed!
"Classic Rock" radio often added "and the best new rock" in the 90's, so some stations seamlessly segued "Man in the Box" from new to classic without a break. The ones that get me are the tunes that I absolutely hated when I was in college showing up on classic rock radio. Not too long ago, I was driving down the interstate and "If You Could Only See" by Tonic came on the radio. I nearly hit the ditch as reflexes honed 25 years earlier kicked in and I started jabbing angrily at the buttons on the car radio. That's the double whammy - feeling old while simultaneously realizing that I still viscerally hate a song decades later, and by extension hate the people at the station who played it ad nauseam.
I absolutely adore my folks music. I always claimed it as my own. Hearing a Beatles song just makes me smile. And watching Get Back earlier this year made me smile once more....❤️
I remember when the classic rock station did the "and now we play this" and played Soundgarden. After the shocking "Oh wait that was 20 years ago" realization, it turned to anger that the never played White Lion and called that classic.
I'm still actually into a lot of newer stuff despite being one of the "old ones"! My taste seems to be getting heavier as I age too but there ARE times when I die a little inside hearing the kids these days who haven't heard of some of my favorite bands or referring to it as old people music. Better yet when you have bands that shift their sound and they don't know. Like when you show kids who like BMTH something from their first two albums and they are shocked. Getting old is inevitable, but that music will always be great to us.
I first heard you like "old people music" in Jr. High. I remember the girl that said it to me. I had no Idea what to say in response, I didn't feel that way. But skipping up too, I just watched your video, I would have loved to learn what the old guitar guys started teaching you, but then I started turning on the radio in preschool. Funny though I thought the music was old music but now realize it was the music of the day probably mixed in older songs. I've always listened to a wide variety of music, never adhering to a particular genre that also includes older music. I'm always keep up with new music never want to be the "Back in my day," guy. This IS my day!
I think it hit me when I travelled to China a couple of years back...Kids were wearing T-shirts of all the "old" bands. I'm sure you've all seen the "when we were young" gig coming up next year; I might have to splurge on a flight to the US for that.
I feel this all the time now, but the moment that hit me hardest was when Nirvana's "Smells Like Teen Spirit" was played on a classic rock station. That one almost made me mad. Maybe I'm wrong, but my perception was always that grunge was kind of the first really popular counter-rock-culture movement. What I mean by that is that even though rock music styles did change substantially over the decades, I feel like there was often a clear sort of lineage from one decade to the next, with bands often citing popular influences from the decades before. For example, it would not have been strange at all if some 80s hair band like Dokken claimed a 70s classic rock band like Boston as an influence. However, grunge felt kind of different, almost like an outright rejection of the mainstream, guitar solos, happy music, record label demands, old influences, etc. Even punk, which was arguably the more direct precursor to grunge as opposed to metal and classic rock, had a lot of its roots in stereotypical blues chord progressions, but grunge was very experimental, almost like a less nerdy math rock. Grunge almost single-handedly killed hair metal overnight, and forced a lot of bands like Pantera to make huge pivots in their style. To hear possibly the single most iconic grunge track get labeled as "classic" just felt like a complete misuse of the term. "Classic" is not the same thing as "old". Nirvana may be old at this point, but it just feels so wrong to lump them in with what has traditionally been called classic rock. It's a bit like calling Eminem classic hip-hop just because he's been around for many years now, even though nobody would really lump him in with Run-DMC.
Lol big time! 54 now. Although Halloween ( love to party, play loud music and pass out candy and enjoy) this kid, must have been like 10 or 11 came up to the house. "Oh cool" King Diamond, although it was Merciful Fate , I'm like DAMN! SO COOL!!! He must have a cool Dad.🎃
In my elementary school days my mom always had an oldies station playing in her car (99.7 FM KFRC). So I grew up loving The Beatles, The Beach Boys, The Rolling Stones, The Supremes, James Brown, Marvin Gaye, etc. When I was in middle school I was the grumpy old man that didn't like then-current "alternative" rock and hip hop/R&B. Thankfully that phase didn't last long and it all grew on me eventually. By high school I still loved '50s-'60s oldies and '70s-'80s classic rock, but now I also loved '90s-'00s alternative rock and hip hop. Fast forward 10 years and before I knew it, the local classic rock station played Linkin Park's In the End right after a Lynyrd Skynyrd song, and the local throwback hip hop/R&B station played 50 Cent's In da Club.
I started teaching about 12 years ago. At the time, Foo Fighters was a good middle ground between me and my younger students. Not so much anymore! The good part is that my young students often make me aware of new stuff, and when older songs randomly go viral they'll often surprise me by asking about Fleetwood Mac or Weezer....and of course "Master of Puppets!" That last one's a bit rough on my middle aged hands!
My wife is a teacher. The third grade kids have a popup-museum that they run every year. This years exhibits included not only a discman (fair enough physical media), but a second gen iPod!! I'm 43, a lot of the guys I listen to are dead years now.
It happened to me when I heard welcome to the jungle at the grocery store. Rob Halford calls music a virtual time machine. When you hear a song from your youth it takes you back to what you were doing at that time hopefully inspiring good memories.
I always stay current with music, always listening to new bands. like someone said earlier in the comments, music is timeless. Lots of things make us feel old, it’s life, not a revelation
What’s funny.. I’m 30, and I’m kind of glad younger people were never given that “hard line” between 80’s rock/metal and prior, and “new” (lol) 90s stuff and later. A lot of them just lump it all together.. which I’m ok with, because I love it all, and there IS a common thread there..
Funny story. We are around the same age. When I started playing guitar, grunge had just started dying off. Probably around 96-97. However, I was blessed that my dad always kept the radio on 103.5 out of Knoxville tennessee. It was all classic rock. CDs were $15 a pop at that point and I didn't have a lot of money so I would hang my coat hanger antenna out the window and put in blank cassette tapes and record songs that I wanted to learn. My dad is passed on now but I thank him for that. Now I'm older. Around 40 and a pretty good guitar player but I'll never forget those early days trying to pick up every little riff I could find to add to my bag of tricks. I work at a school now. I saw a young girl with an acoustic guitar. I showed her a video of me playing Hot for teacher by Van halen. She didn't know who Eddie Van Halen was and she wasn't familiar with the song 😔.
I know I've already commented 100 times but this video spoke to me so much. I was driving to work one morning and heard 3 doors down on the classic rock station. 3 doors down came out late in my high school years. That is very modern music to me. I couldn't believe it. If you think about it, growing up in the '90s, hearing stuff in the '70s was considered classic rock. But now stuff like Alice in chains is more classic rock now than listening to classic Rock was when I was growing up.
Saw Steve Vai for the first time (I'm young, lol) on his Inviolate tour. I've listened to him a bunch but seeing him play in person is something out of this world. It was amazing.
The first shift I remember is when Guns N’ Roses and Motley Crue became part of the classic rock catalog. But, it’s not something I really think about. I still play and listen to old school rock. I’ve got a few bands I listen to from the 2000s. Almost nothing new. The biggest challenge for me is finding new music I can get into. But, to me it’s not a bad thing something is old. It’s probably because when I first started playing guitar most of the classic rock music I listened to was old. So , it was never that new by default. I didn’t get into Metallica or nirvana until the late 90s. And there still is alot I haven’t heard. I like exploring bands I never listened to much, and still try to keep an open mind about newer stuff. But music of the past is still the best in my world.
I grew up in San Diego, and whenever my grandmother used to drive us around, she would turn the radio to a classical music station. I remember thinking to myself that this music is really boring. I'm in my early 30s and my grandmother died before I turned 10, but I find myself always going back to classical music for inspiration. Sometimes I want to punish myself by learning a Paganini piece arranged by somebody like Jason Becker, lol. No music is measured in time, some works will always be timeless.
Saw them too, with Skid Row in Houston. 1992ish. Before Pantera comes on stage, they announce that all security would be removed from the stage. Ie they were begging us to come onto the stage and stage dive. There was a massive pit, everyone was crowd surfing, slamming and stage diving. Now everyone stares at their phones and checks setlists so they know the right songs to go pee. But we are the grandpas? Most millennials and all Zoomers would have had heart attacks at the shows we went to. OMG I have to stand up? Sweating? Ugh.
I stand up a lot when I'm watching live concerts and also often sing along if I know the words. I wind up usually pretty far back or actually on the lawn seats sometimes even wind up in the grass.
I give lessons for kids in the neighborhood. Last Halloween one of them came to my door to trick or treat. She said hi to me as I gave out candy. Her friend ask her how she knows me. Her response was that I teach her “dad rock” on guitar. I was crushed. Lol
I just took a 16 year old, a friend's son, to an Iron Maiden concert at his request. I asked what else he liked and he said Pantera, Slayer, Megadeth, among some newer stuff too (his dad is not a metalhead btw, so no influence there). Then I introduced him to Mastodon, Gojira, Opeth, Symphony X, Amon Amarth - the 20-30 year old bands - and he seems to have liked them.
Idk man, I recently went to a Ghost show in FL and decided to wear a Pantera concert T that I have kept in great shape from the 90’s. Many people made it a point to come up to me and say “awesome shirt!”
Dude I still listen to 50s songs and even classical. Music is art and art is timeless. Kids don't realize this, I know when I was very young I thought the same as your students until I matured and became much more familiar with music in general. It's not that it's old necessarily, I think it's relevancy because bands like Nirvana still sell a lot despite the fact the band died with Kurt over 20+ years ago.
Fun listen. This happens to me all the time. I have been teaching guitar for over 22 years. I always joke around that I’ll be listening to Slayer and Metallica in the old folks home (even though I’ll be deaf) and boring anyone within listening range about how I saw these bands in concert and how hard they rocked. Haha. I turned 50 this year. I’ve been celebrating my midlife crisis by getting back into skateboarding all the time. Maybe it’s a little safer than getting a Harley, at least I wear wrist guards! Cheers from Duluth, MN. I appreciate/dig your work.
When i discovered The Rolling Stones as a kid in 1978, it was already considered a bit "old" back then. Punk was the thing at the time, and the new wave came soon. So much have changed in thirty.fourty years. Musicians were uneducated working class people back then. Nowdays almost every singer has an academic degree, and everybody has been in highschool. That's strange to me when i am old now. Back in the day only people who had nothing to lose would play. You know, dead, jail, or rock'n'roll. Now musicians have well paying academic day job when they start, at least over here. Their work phone rings all the time in rehearsals, "sorry guys, i have to do this deal now". Back in the day guys who played were sometimes homeless, used drugs, had no education whatsoever, etc. Rock'n'roll was their only ticket out of that, they played out of desperation, and it kinda gave some extra boost for them.
Last night (15 October 2022) I saw 3 Swedish kids aged between 9 and 12 play songs by the Sex Pistols, Ramones, the Who and Nirvana... Some stuff never gets "old". When I was learning aged 14, my guitar teacher would just go and listen to the record and teach me how to play it the week after. The George Benson stuff he wanted to teach me wasn't really rocking my boat. I wanted to play stuff off the first 3 U2 albums - they only had 3 albums at that point.
I always loved 60s and 70s music. But I was a 90s kid so my music was always considered old. And I never really cared. Actually I got a lot of my classmates listening to the classics.
It's pretty inevitable. It's weird to think that albums my friends and I thought were true watershed moments in history are now almost 15 years old, and barely footnotes in the grand story of music. Just because it was important to you doesn't mean it'll stand the test of time. What's really sad is when one of those albums just doesn't hit like it used to. When I first started playing, I wanted to be James Hetfield. I bought Live Shit: Binge and Purge just so I could copy his playing style, and over the course of 3 years, learned nearly every note on Ride the Lightning. Flash forward and now that 16 year old kid is a 31 year old man with 2 kids, studying for his Series 66 securities exam. I hadn't listened to Lightning all the way through in almost 8 years, so I thought I'd pop it on next time I went for a drive. It completely flopped. I felt nothing. The bizarre moment of emptiness was compounded by the fact that I can still play a lot of these songs, and have used them in lessons regularly since I learned them. It felt like a friend that, while you were close a long time ago, too much time had passed and now you are so different, there's no way to relate anymore. I almost felt like a failure, given now I'm a stooge in the finance industry and have spent the last decade becoming more and more a cog in the machine... life is funny, sometimes.
My new guitar teacher is a few years older than my son (25/21). He’s very musically educated and skilled. He was helping me with Megadeth’s Holy Wars and innocently referred to it as “Dad Rock”! Oooof! I’m old!!!
The very first time I felt some type of way was when I was around age 14. My younger brother who is 4 years younger than me, not a huge difference, had his friend over for a sleepover. I can't recall what exactly happened but we were all goofing around and i jumped to the side and started singing in a funny voice "you can't touch this dananana" My best friend was also there with us and me and her started laughing our asses off. But my brother and his friend just dead pan looked at us as if we were aliens. I was like come on you guys know the song, by MC HAMMER!!?? They had no idea!! I just assumed that EVERYONE knew who he was and that song. That was the first thing that ever made me hyper aware abuot things. Im 36 now and I can't believe NIckelback, linkin park, trapt, hoobastank, lifehouse all play on classic rock stations now. Its soo sad and my brain refuses to believe I am old now.
This is why despite the explosion of reaction channels (with varying quality) it's nice to see people discovering music I listened to when I was young.
When I was in college and got news from my classmates that many Nu-metal bands albums are now 20 years old, made me go “woah”. I mostly got into that style of music when I first started high school, around 2016. Before that I was mainly listening to mainstream pop music off the radio. I’m 21 now and it’s interesting that these artists are celebrating 20 year anniversaries, and I’m discovering some more recent artists that were influenced by the same artists that I found so interesting and Cathartic during high school days.
I grew up on the cusp of all this in the 70s and 80s.... as the late 60s bands were mostly winding down and the rise ( and fall) of 70s and the explosion of metal and New Wave in the 80s ( I was a metalhead, but there was no escaping AOR if you owned a radio. And like it or not, the hooks stick in your head). The idea of hearing deep cut Judas Priest or Iron Maiden in Baton Rouge other than the local edgy high school station WBRH was unthinkable.I remember the DJ playing Back in Black once on the big tweenie station and declaring afterwards "I'll never do THAT again!" AC/DC is still here. The DJ? Not so much... Albums that were new to me as a child/teen are long since considered "classic", and we are many, many steps down the road from that! I remember being 8 and lying on the floor in my bedroom listening to news that Lynyrd Skynyrd's plane had gone down in Mississippi en route to... Baton Rouge ( where the Street Survivors Tour was scheduled to kick off) But up and down the line I continue to listen to these "old/classic" songs because the overwhelming majority of what I have heard on my wife's "easy listening station" when we are out and about? Is total crap, and I PROMISE you unlike the crafted songs of yesteryear? Nobody is going to be listening to this pre-prackaged, over-produced, auto tuned hot mess cookie cutter crap in a few years from when it was spewed out, and certainly not decades from now. Nobody is going to draw inspiration from it, talk about the amazing guitar licks or solo, or how deep and meaningful the lyrics were or how it touched their hearts. Just saying...
Every time I walk into school, EVERYONE knows that I'm the 60 year old at school. I'll always bring up people and bands like Randy Rhoads, or Iron Maiden, or The Who, and NOBODY knows who they are. I feel like I should have been born in the 70s 🤣. I do like sorta new bands like Avenged Sevenfold, and Linkin Park, and Blink 182, and still no one knows who they are. It blows my mind. This video explains pretty much what I go through on a daily basis with music😂. Another great video, dude!
Here's something about older bands and old music. I bought a new album, on cd, from Iron Maiden in 2021. In fact, I did the same with Megadeth this year! The most recent modern bands I have in my collection are Archspire and Crypta. I got their albums from bandcamp. I prefer to download rather than stream because you're locked in to the streaming app and a paid subscription if you want to play music offline. Either download or get a physical copy that I can convert to mp3 to keep on my phone, hence the reason for buying those CDs. I'm getting on a bit now so I prefer to have albums to own rather than streaming playlists because that's the way I'm used to listening to music.
That happened to me when I was 17 and took guitar lessons. My teacher wanted to teach me stuff I wasn't interested in. I wanted to play heavy electric guitar but he taught me classical acoustic guitar instead. I didn't last more than 2 months. I used to play The Offspring in the car when my daughter was really young. They did a renditions of "Feelings" which is an old Morris Albert song from the 70's and they certainly put their own spin on it LOL. Well years later my daughter heard the original and said that it was a nice, gentle cover of The Offspring song and I had to explain to her it was the other way around. It was really funny.
I get the classic rock radio station now playing songs the were new when I was a kid. Yesterday a station played , Skid Row into Pink Floyd then Nirvana. I also think a reason older you likes music that younger didn’t like as a kid is being a musician. Picking up the bass opened my ears to all kinds of music. For example, my mom is a big Motown fan but as a kid is was “ old” music. Now I worship at the alter of James Jamerson.
I'm guessing 90% of the kids you meet don't know what they want to be doing in life just yet and don't know what they're liking or going to like in life (so also in terms of music). You might feel old because they don't know what you know but it's just a difference in experience. Everyone's a master on the subject of their own experience and there's just so much to experience. I've learned about The Kinks and CCR around my 16th, through mentions of my dad who isn't a huge music buff so we didn't have their albums lying around, and they've become some of my favourite bands. I'm 33 now and still discovering older and newer stuff. To be honest, it wasn't until my later high school period (starting around 15 I think) that I really began sinking my teeth into all the different bands and back then it started in the metal scene and then the indie music scene. Heavily influenced by my friends at the time. As I got to know new people, I learned to appreciate new bands and genres. Life takes time.
My original Guitar teacher moved on from ozzy and classic metal to classical music and he was about 32 at the time I was 16/17 and only listening to rock and metal and he said one day it will happen! Low and behold the older I got the more I opened up and changed. I remember when Nu metal was … new! I keep my cds in a rack still cause you can’t get that artwork connection anymore and I want that to still be an inspiration
I am 67 and play banjo and electric guitar in a bluegrass/ country/ light (old)rock band-- and I have been teaching music for 15 years. The last few yearsI have had several teen students not know who Jimmy Hendrix or Eric Clapton is 😢
So cool, a video that needed to be made, when I show my buddies the old bands I'm into, most of them don't get into it. Some of my brothas get Into it, but most are into newer pop and rap. I'm young but I still feel old when I show my old taste in music most of the time.
When I first got the idea that some things there just to old to be relevant those things where about 10 years old. now that I'm almost 50, 10 years ago seems little different than last month.
my 1st true musical lives were already passé in the ‘80-90s (Jimi, Beatles, Floyd, Who, Stones, Kinks) so I’ve been on this trip since I was 11…even that was 30yrs ago & they’re still my favs
Yea, I was upset when Music Choice on my tv completely changed the format of what plays on the channel "Rock Hits" used to play a bunch of the 90s alternative/grunge era but now all that's like in limbo, now they're mostly playing everything from 2000s and up and it's not the same at all.....and on the Classic Rock channel it plays 60s, 70s & 80s . And when I realized I hardly know any of the "new" pop/rap/rock artists that's out now, and I'm not into any of it made me feel old lol
That is pretty standard for any consumer product whether it be cars, appliances, houses, clothes, etc. The over-riding value even when the quality is worse than it once was is that it is NEW. Specifically tailored for the culture in that specific year. Heck, even colors can be considered outdated or not reflective of current trends or moods so it can feel like you are not moving forward hypothetically to embrace the past. Even on a downward slide, most want to be at the forefront of it to feel like they have an edge on the future.
Love the intro in Scary Movie 2 where the adults are gathered around the piano singing Shake Ya Ass. Here’s a free business idea for anyone with the capital: retirement homes with jam rooms (drums, guitars, bass, etc) and gaming rooms with big screens, xbox, playstation, VR head sets etc
Your story made me laugh out loud! Can totally relate! 😆🤣 Love it! And yes, hate when people don't know the original artist of the songs they love, as that example given of Sublime's "Doin' Time" being covered by Lana Del Rey.
That I listen to, say, This Was by Jethro Tull and love the heck out of it is a blessing I've enjoyed for a few decades. It saddens me a little to ponder that time eventually will take all my beloved favorite musicians. But every time we play it (whether on an instrument or on a record) we bring music from the past into the present. It's eternal. I get that moment of feeling old that a record I bought new is now 40 years old. But when I see young people into Led Zeppelin or Zappa or Steppenwolf, it feels kind of cool to be able to tell them more about it than they would otherwise know.
when i grew up it was bullet for my valentine, in flames, disturbed, five finger death punch, and people still respect those bands but ye as you're kinda talking about, people have moved on. the bands i grew up with are not the new flashy wow thing wich i actually love. music is a never ending wave of change, music is constantly evolving and i absolutely love it
Awesome video! Those songs that your students rolled off for you... well they are all new to me even now 😂 I'm even more "old school" than you 🤷🏻♂️ i paused the video and went and listened to every single one! Some good songs in amongst them. Maybe you should do this more often. Get the youngest of your audience to recommend their favorite bands!
When I was flipping through the radio one day and heard Stone Temple Pilots on the same station that plays Hall & Oates I Knew I was getting old. Oh, and I actually did see Pantera live. Loudest show I've ever been to.
It's kind of funny working with younger people these days. I started as a student teacher recently, and the kids were interested in stuff like Pokemon and Minecraft - stuff that I played when I was close to their age. One of the kids Rickrolled me, and the saxophonists in band were playing Careless Whisper. It feels like popular culture has almost frozen in place. The only thing is, I'm finding it harder to find out what kind of music my private guitar students want to learn - maybe they're too young, but many of them just can't name any artists that they like; they just listen to a lot of "different stuff". Maybe that has to do with streaming; they have access to so many artists at once, and don't have that experience of having to build up their music collection and getting to know artists one at a time.
That’s definitely me, I listened to a lot of classic rock when I first got into guitar when I was 9-10 (I’m 23 now) and the first band I heavily got into were The Beatles, I still do love them but I’d still say that it amazes me that a lot of my favourite metal albums like SOAD’s Toxicity and Slipknot’s Iowa are over 20 years old
Good music is good music, that's really all there is to it. If you like a song (or movie or book or anything for that matter) it doesn't and shouldn't matter how old or new it is. As advice to some of the younger people, the sooner you stop worrying about what other people say about the things you enjoy the sooner you'll be happier overall. Part of growing up, at least for me, was learning that trying to fit yourself into a box is exhausting and not worth it, just be yourself and enjoy whatever clicks with you.
To those of us with open minds, Music is timeless. I love a lot of songs that were written long before I was born, many that I grew up with, as well as brand new ones, it’s all good.
well said
I wholeheartedly agree, every generation has wonderful music for absolutely everyone. You just have to look for it!
Tell that to finn mckenty
You hit the nail on the head.
I feel the exact same way.
It seriously shouldn’t matter if something is old, why not just listen to absolutely anything if it sounds good :) I don’t understand why people shut things out. I like new stuff and lots of old stuff. And all that should matter is the sound :)
He's talking about when he was a kid. Kids don't normally like the old fogie music. I'm sure like most everybody, he can appreciate the older stuff nowadays
I think that's mostly peer pressure. Once people develop their own personality (the ones who do, anyway) they don't care about how old the music is.
Beethoven and Mozart are very old too. Who cares? I'm not the biggest fan of classical music but I really love some of their pieces. Age isn't something that determines quality in music.
Absolutely agree. Too many people, especially young people, think of music like fashion... Like "it has its time and that time ends". But it's not like that. Music is created and it's eternal. Even after the musicians pass.
Cough cough finn mckenty
I was born in '96, started playing acoustic guitar in '09 when I was 13. I started out on a crappy classical/spanish acoustic learning easy pop songs by Miley Cyrus and stuff. When I turned 15, I switched to playing electric which I got for christmas. I told my guitar teacher I wanted more of a challenge and he introduced me to AC/DC and Metallica. A whole floodgate went open and I went on this big ass music journey. Started listening to Metallica, Megadeth, Black Sabbath, Motorhead, Dio, Judas Priest, Anthrax, Slayer, Exodus, Testament, Annihilator, Guns N Roses, Led Zeppelin, Deep Purple, Alice Cooper, Thin Lizzy, and everything I could get my hands on. So all the bands I started loving as a teenager around 2011/2012 were already 30 to 40 years old.
That’s an awesome music journey man. Great bands there
This comment spoke to me. I was born in 85. Started playing guitar when I was 13 as well. Probably around 1996. My mother got me a classical guitar out of a JCPenney catalog for my birthday. Started immediately listening to all the music on the local classic rock station out of Knoxville tennessee. To this day, classic rock is my jam. I have ac/dc, van halen, LED zeppelin, black sabbath, Boston hanging on my wall in the living room.
I've been into 'old' music since I was a kid, it's what I grew up hearing and what I love.
I also love classical music, thanks to an an early teacher of mine, he would play it in class for us, first piece I can remember hearing is Greensleeves.
Another genre I love is big band stuff like Dean Martin, Frank Sinatra etc, was talking to a co worker about this just yesterday. One of my favourites is Mack The Knife, further cemented after my seeing the What Women Want movie with the central character also loving this song/genre.
I love the music I love and I know others do too so I'm not alone 😊
Congrats on 751k Subscribers 👏🏻
I love big band as well! Try listening to The UK 1940s Radio Station, they play big band, swing and other music from that period all the time.
Congratulations Mike, on 750k+ subscribers, you work hard and deserve it!
@@herculesrockefeller8969 Cool, I'll try and find that on my radio, thanks 🙂
Dude, I totally get it. I'm about to turn 42 in November. I remember when me and my friends were back in college listening to Children Of Bodom, we were all in the same age group with the band. They scheduled a tour to hit NY towards the end of the year and then it got cancelled. Then they released a statement that it had to do with school and me and me buds realized that the dates crossed over with finals week. We were all taking exams the same week.
They eventually made up the date but its weird thinking that Alexi who is my age is gone and so is the band.
Ohh man I wish I could have seen them live. Sadly I discovered them just one year ago. RIP to one of the greatest😢
I listen to everything from Amadeus Mozart, to ZZ Top. I watched as old became ancient, classic became old, and new became classic. Good music withstands the ages.
And Metal. \m/
You're telling me Mike, I am 154-years-old and I remember going to see Tchaikovsky perform the 1812 Overture 🤣 These dang nab kids nowadays don't know anything about that!
GET OFF MY LAWN!!!!
No way man, we're gonna keep rocking FOREVER!
Forever,...forever...
forever
Don’t make me cry!!
I mean, I'm 19 right now and most of what I listen to is pre 2000's rock and metal. Of course I also listen to newer stuff but it's pretty rare. So the music I love has been called "old" for as long as I've liked it.
This got unexpectedly long so here's a TL;DR: People calling something old is only a problem if you think it's a problem or they say it in an insulting way. If somebody complains about your music being too old, just play even older music and turn up the volume.
When I was in highschool in art class we were allowed to listen to music during the lesson, but the class had to agree on songs and they would be played on speakers for the whole class.
My class being 60% girls who were 14/15 at the time, we pretty much only listened to Justin Bieber or some type of rap/hip-hop.
After a while of that being the case, the teacher noticed that me and some of my friends were constantly complaining about the music choices and so he let us choose for one lesson - out of consideration for the others we chose one of the hip-hop songs that we didn't really mind. The whole class started freaking out about how that song was "already 2 years old" and "nobody still listens to that song". They told us to choose a "better song" that isn't "2 fucking years old already". So we chose songs that weren't 2 years old. We chose songs that were 20/30 years old.
I'm talking half of the Rust in Peace album, Ride the Lightning, Blizzard Of Ozz, that type of thing.
Did the class complain about the songs being old? Yes.
Did the class complain about the genre? Yes.
Did we insist on our choices anyways? Yes.
I don't mind people saying the music I like is old, I think that's just a fact. I don't like it when people go around telling me I shouldn't listen to that music because it's old.
As a 22-year-old, many of my favorite songs were made before I was born, and I also listen to a lot of indie bands that aren't exactly well-known. My music taste is weird compared to most of my peers, but I don't think that's bad at all. In fact, I enjoy introducing people to music that they've never heard before.
That being said, it's going to come as quite a shock to me when the "classic rock" stations start playing Coldplay, Nickelback, Linkin Park, and all the other bands I grew up hearing on the radio as a kid.
2 years later man 2024. Be prepared. A rimshot classic rocker in my area called 99 9 the hawk is already playing kryptonite by 3 doors down.
I gravitated to my parents music in my teens, found a box of records of everything from Sabbath to early Van Halen and ACDC and I of course in my teens latched onto Metallica when the One video came out on MTV. Now, I know my music is old but if the music sounds good, it never ages.
I can pinpoint that moment. Listening to the eagle, a classic rock station in Dallas, and they announced "That old classic rock favorite, Jeremy". Damn...
The hardest part is when albums that defined your path in musical interests start having their *gulp* 30th anniversaries and you remember their releases like it was yesterday. Then you realize you’re that guy hung up on ‘60s rock back in the ‘90s. 👴🏻
My one real gripe is that most of the video of “old” music was uploaded in the early days of RUclips, and the bit rate is atrocious. That means younger generations will only experience low quality versions of what we listened to and saw on mTV.
I started playing in 1988, when I was 16. I generally liked stuff from the 70s and 80s, and that's the majority of what I listen to now as well. The first time I really felt old was hearing Breaking the Law by Judas Priest as the background music being played at the grocery store.
Oh nice where was that at? The hardest they've gone at our local stores is 38 special and occasionally thin Lizzy.
I can relate to this. I like to tell the younger generation about the time I saw Pantera, Sepultura, and Prong in New Orleans. Well, let me tell you youngsters ... it was badass.
By god, there needs to be a time travel machine so I can go there. Don't live in New Orleans so. Teleportation machine too.
It's not about being old or young. Music creates this emotional connection that we associate with a particular time or event in our lives that sticks with us forever. Generally, the type of music that people like (the most) is the music they listened to during their formative years (late childhood to yearly adulthood). It reminds us of "the good old days". And, for a musician, it creates an even stronger bond, because we would spend hours learning how to play those songs we loved.
To quote Grampa Simpson:
“I used to be with ‘it’, but then they changed what ‘it’ was. Now what I’m with isn’t ‘it’ anymore and what’s ‘it’ seems weird and scary. It’ll happen to you!”
Everything released in the last 20 years is "new" to me now 😘 But I am glad I saw Pantera live 3 times. The first show was on the Far Beyond Driven tour in 1994, it was crazy... ("Allright grandpa")
\m/
I’m 18 and love old school metal so this is basically a constant feeling for me so I guess I’ll never be “cool”
I remember driving in the car one day... a song that came on the radio made me turn it up, I was shocked that I knew most of the lyrics being that I really didn't care for the band when they were playing (Ratt Round and Round) the dj then nailed the cofin shut by saying... "Wow I had to dust the vinyl off that one"
I knew that things had changed. But its all part of the cycle
And Mike, I love how you explore topics and angles of not just guitars, but the experience of musicianship that no one else seems to offer.
61 years old here. Last year I went to see Jethro Tull and I realised that it was 40 years since I last went to a concert with them. And back then they'd been working for years. Earlier this year me and a friend went to see Sparks. Funny story - we were talking one night and he mentioned he'd like to see Sparks one day, but they probably didn't tour anymore and if they did, they'd never come here. We checked on the web and were stunned that they'd give a concert only 8 days later in one of the best concert venues around here. Sold out of course, but there was a waiting list that we signed up for, not expecting anything. The day before the concert I got a mail that there were a few tickets available. Only two of four open seats were side by side, so I pounced on those. Balcony second row center. It turned out nobody showed up in front of us, so we had great seats and the concert was absolutely awesome.
Back in the present, next week we're going to see Saga on Monday and then Sweet and Slade on Friday. Not much left of the original lineup up those last two I guess, but the two names are apparently touring together and it's going to be a blast. Next year Suzi Quatro is in town and we have tickets for her show too. I guess Elton John counts as old as well and I have tickets to see him too. I've invited my closest friends along to celebrate my 60th birthday, but that show has been postponed a couple of times.
All in all not all that heavy I guess, but that's what I grew up with. Can't beat the time, so I'm embracing it.
Oh, and @Mike - thanks for your online lessons. I am a subscriber and your way of teaching works for me. Bought an electric guitar less than a year ago and having great fun with it :)
Ah, this one hit me right in the feels. Real talk! ✊ I can totally relate.
Then again, despite being in my 30's, I actually grew up listening to & digging "old man" music; classic rock from the 60's & 70's, thanks to my parents, so I've always been an old soul in that regard and still listen to that stuff! Lol
I still love my music from the 80's, 90's, and 2000's that I grew up on too and newer music just doesn't do it for me like the older stuff. It's definitely a weird feeling hearing a song/band that you vividly remember debuting, now being classified as "old" nowadays. The circle of life, eh? 😬
Me too dude, I grew up listening to Elvis and other rock n roll from the 50s/60s, was the soundtrack to my childhood. My mother has always said I have an old soul. I listened to lots of other good stuff from the 80s, 90s and 2000s growing up too 🤘🏻
I wish that situation was the problem i am facing, seeing young kids loving different rock/metal bands than the ones I did back in their age, that is. When I was getting into this kind of sound (around '89, I am in my early 40s now) I came to contact with Beatles, and then Alice Cooper and then Scorpions and then Metallica and Helloween. And I loved everything, including bands the older fans introduced me to (like Deep Purple or Rainbow or Sabbath).Death and black metal were extreme but awesome. Going forward,when grunge bands came around I loved them too. When metal sound went the groove (pantera or machine head) and nu-industrial way (Korn, Slipknot, Rammstein, static-x) I was onboard. Stoner was amazing (qotsa, fu manchu etc), SOAD were perfect. Come '00s, I loved everything from the indie bands like Franz Ferdinand, to razorlight or kasabian and arctic monkeys, to Kings of Leon all the way to sludge-prog-mathcore stuff like Mastodon,Gojira and The Dillinger Escape plan. So by being open and so accepting of all rock styles I couldn't wait to see what the young kids will come up with, and I was sure I would love it. But once I hit 30, around that time, it all came crashing down. Kids in my native Greece or Finland where I live, simply do not seem all that interested in any sort of new rock sound. The minority that is into that stuff seem to revere the old gods like Metallica and Slipknot. Really the last bands that I found tremendous were Animals as Leaders, Ghost and Royal Blood. The last two are the only bands that debuted as recording artists in the 2010s that became truly mainstream and are still "rock" by all standards. I can't think of any other new true rock band that can fill stadiums. Radio also seems stuck in the '00s even the surviving contemporary rock stations.I am regularly scanning streaming services, forums and youtube for young rock acts but besides some interesting songs, there doesn't seem to be any new giants arising.
I love showing songs to people much younger than me. Not just the stuff I loved as a kid but just other fun stuff from years past. Great topic, Mike.
Even though it wasn’t my generation, I still remember the day I first heard AC/DC, Sabbath, Ozzy, and even Metallica on KZOK Seattle’s classic rock station, and being shocked because it was heavier music that I loved being played on a CLASSIC ROCK STATION!! But what really got me and made me feel old was when they started playing bands I grew up on in my teens like AIC, Soundgarden, and Nirvana!!!!😢😂
Mate, I’ve got it worse. I listen to pop and gothic rock music from the 80s and I’m 16. I’m into retro 1980s stuff like old game consoles and cassettes. Does anyone remember when you used to tape a movie on the TV but them the power would go out, or the dish on the roof would brake, so all you got on your VHS tape were those colored lines? I wasn’t born then.
the local classic rock station took mercy on us and changed their format branding to "iconic rock" when they started playing 80s and 90s stuff
A lot of rock bands have resurgence on TikTok as well.
Arctic Monkeys, Oasis, Radiohead, Weezer, Deftones, The Smiths, Pixies, Pierce the Veil, and the most recent is Ghost.
It was when three students of mine hadn't heard of Coldplay and, in one case, Lady Gaga, that I felt old. I'm only 30. I guess we just gotta accept that nothing is cool forever.
Coldplay was never cool
I wish I'd never heard of Coldplay and Lady Gaga.
@@m_b4 point, but everyone knew who they were in the 2000s
That’s because those two you named fell off hard. Not because they’re “old”.
That's nothing Mike
Wait until YOU are considered old lol.
I'm 60 now
I was 18 in 1980
That whole decade
Man it was awesome!
When 80s metal began.
I remember when there was no Van Halen or Metallica! Lol
I watched the music we love evolve right before my eyes.
Good times
Good times indeed!
"Classic Rock" radio often added "and the best new rock" in the 90's, so some stations seamlessly segued "Man in the Box" from new to classic without a break. The ones that get me are the tunes that I absolutely hated when I was in college showing up on classic rock radio. Not too long ago, I was driving down the interstate and "If You Could Only See" by Tonic came on the radio. I nearly hit the ditch as reflexes honed 25 years earlier kicked in and I started jabbing angrily at the buttons on the car radio. That's the double whammy - feeling old while simultaneously realizing that I still viscerally hate a song decades later, and by extension hate the people at the station who played it ad nauseam.
I absolutely adore my folks music. I always claimed it as my own. Hearing a Beatles song just makes me smile. And watching Get Back earlier this year made me smile once more....❤️
I remember when the classic rock station did the "and now we play this" and played Soundgarden. After the shocking "Oh wait that was 20 years ago" realization, it turned to anger that the never played White Lion and called that classic.
I'm still actually into a lot of newer stuff despite being one of the "old ones"! My taste seems to be getting heavier as I age too but there ARE times when I die a little inside hearing the kids these days who haven't heard of some of my favorite bands or referring to it as old people music. Better yet when you have bands that shift their sound and they don't know. Like when you show kids who like BMTH something from their first two albums and they are shocked. Getting old is inevitable, but that music will always be great to us.
Doin Time by Sublime is basically a cover of that old song Summertime, at least the chorus
I first heard you like "old people music" in Jr. High. I remember the girl that said it to me. I had no Idea what to say in response, I didn't feel that way. But skipping up too, I just watched your video, I would have loved to learn what the old guitar guys started teaching you, but then I started turning on the radio in preschool. Funny though I thought the music was old music but now realize it was the music of the day probably mixed in older songs. I've always listened to a wide variety of music, never adhering to a particular genre that also includes older music. I'm always keep up with new music never want to be the "Back in my day," guy. This IS my day!
I think it hit me when I travelled to China a couple of years back...Kids were wearing T-shirts of all the "old" bands.
I'm sure you've all seen the "when we were young" gig coming up next year; I might have to splurge on a flight to the US for that.
I feel this all the time now, but the moment that hit me hardest was when Nirvana's "Smells Like Teen Spirit" was played on a classic rock station. That one almost made me mad. Maybe I'm wrong, but my perception was always that grunge was kind of the first really popular counter-rock-culture movement. What I mean by that is that even though rock music styles did change substantially over the decades, I feel like there was often a clear sort of lineage from one decade to the next, with bands often citing popular influences from the decades before. For example, it would not have been strange at all if some 80s hair band like Dokken claimed a 70s classic rock band like Boston as an influence. However, grunge felt kind of different, almost like an outright rejection of the mainstream, guitar solos, happy music, record label demands, old influences, etc. Even punk, which was arguably the more direct precursor to grunge as opposed to metal and classic rock, had a lot of its roots in stereotypical blues chord progressions, but grunge was very experimental, almost like a less nerdy math rock. Grunge almost single-handedly killed hair metal overnight, and forced a lot of bands like Pantera to make huge pivots in their style.
To hear possibly the single most iconic grunge track get labeled as "classic" just felt like a complete misuse of the term. "Classic" is not the same thing as "old". Nirvana may be old at this point, but it just feels so wrong to lump them in with what has traditionally been called classic rock. It's a bit like calling Eminem classic hip-hop just because he's been around for many years now, even though nobody would really lump him in with Run-DMC.
Yep, I know that feeling.
Lol big time! 54 now.
Although Halloween ( love to party, play loud music and pass out candy and enjoy) this kid, must have been like 10 or 11 came up to the house. "Oh cool"
King Diamond, although it was Merciful Fate , I'm like DAMN! SO COOL!!! He must have a cool Dad.🎃
The thumbnail made me chuckle...........and I did see Pantera live, in 92 supporting Megadeth. What a gig.
In my elementary school days my mom always had an oldies station playing in her car (99.7 FM KFRC). So I grew up loving The Beatles, The Beach Boys, The Rolling Stones, The Supremes, James Brown, Marvin Gaye, etc. When I was in middle school I was the grumpy old man that didn't like then-current "alternative" rock and hip hop/R&B. Thankfully that phase didn't last long and it all grew on me eventually. By high school I still loved '50s-'60s oldies and '70s-'80s classic rock, but now I also loved '90s-'00s alternative rock and hip hop.
Fast forward 10 years and before I knew it, the local classic rock station played Linkin Park's In the End right after a Lynyrd Skynyrd song, and the local throwback hip hop/R&B station played 50 Cent's In da Club.
I started teaching about 12 years ago. At the time, Foo Fighters was a good middle ground between me and my younger students. Not so much anymore! The good part is that my young students often make me aware of new stuff, and when older songs randomly go viral they'll often surprise me by asking about Fleetwood Mac or Weezer....and of course "Master of Puppets!" That last one's a bit rough on my middle aged hands!
My wife is a teacher. The third grade kids have a popup-museum that they run every year. This years exhibits included not only a discman (fair enough physical media), but a second gen iPod!! I'm 43, a lot of the guys I listen to are dead years now.
It happened to me when I heard welcome to the jungle at the grocery store. Rob Halford calls music a virtual time machine. When you hear a song from your youth it takes you back to what you were doing at that time hopefully inspiring good memories.
I always stay current with music, always listening to new bands. like someone said earlier in the comments, music is timeless. Lots of things make us feel old, it’s life, not a revelation
What’s funny.. I’m 30, and I’m kind of glad younger people were never given that “hard line” between 80’s rock/metal and prior, and “new” (lol) 90s stuff and later. A lot of them just lump it all together.. which I’m ok with, because I love it all, and there IS a common thread there..
Funny story. We are around the same age. When I started playing guitar, grunge had just started dying off. Probably around 96-97. However, I was blessed that my dad always kept the radio on 103.5 out of Knoxville tennessee. It was all classic rock. CDs were $15 a pop at that point and I didn't have a lot of money so I would hang my coat hanger antenna out the window and put in blank cassette tapes and record songs that I wanted to learn. My dad is passed on now but I thank him for that. Now I'm older. Around 40 and a pretty good guitar player but I'll never forget those early days trying to pick up every little riff I could find to add to my bag of tricks. I work at a school now. I saw a young girl with an acoustic guitar. I showed her a video of me playing Hot for teacher by Van halen. She didn't know who Eddie Van Halen was and she wasn't familiar with the song 😔.
I know I've already commented 100 times but this video spoke to me so much. I was driving to work one morning and heard 3 doors down on the classic rock station. 3 doors down came out late in my high school years. That is very modern music to me. I couldn't believe it. If you think about it, growing up in the '90s, hearing stuff in the '70s was considered classic rock. But now stuff like Alice in chains is more classic rock now than listening to classic Rock was when I was growing up.
I graduated high school in 2008, 2015 was when I first heard bands like disturbed referred to as old people music….. that was the first time it hit me
Saw Steve Vai for the first time (I'm young, lol) on his Inviolate tour. I've listened to him a bunch but seeing him play in person is something out of this world. It was amazing.
I have been listening to 'OLD' music since I can remember, my favorite stuff is from the 60's and 70's
The first shift I remember is when Guns N’ Roses and Motley Crue became part of the classic rock catalog. But, it’s not something I really think about.
I still play and listen to old school rock. I’ve got a few bands I listen to from the 2000s. Almost nothing new. The biggest challenge for me is finding new music I can get into. But, to me it’s not a bad thing something is old. It’s probably because when I first started playing guitar most of the classic rock music I listened to was old. So , it was never that new by default. I didn’t get into Metallica or nirvana until the late 90s. And there still is alot I haven’t heard.
I like exploring bands I never listened to much, and still try to keep an open mind about newer stuff. But music of the past is still the best in my world.
I grew up in San Diego, and whenever my grandmother used to drive us around, she would turn the radio to a classical music station. I remember thinking to myself that this music is really boring. I'm in my early 30s and my grandmother died before I turned 10, but I find myself always going back to classical music for inspiration. Sometimes I want to punish myself by learning a Paganini piece arranged by somebody like Jason Becker, lol.
No music is measured in time, some works will always be timeless.
Saw them too, with Skid Row in Houston. 1992ish. Before Pantera comes on stage, they announce that all security would be removed from the stage. Ie they were begging us to come onto the stage and stage dive. There was a massive pit, everyone was crowd surfing, slamming and stage diving.
Now everyone stares at their phones and checks setlists so they know the right songs to go pee. But we are the grandpas? Most millennials and all Zoomers would have had heart attacks at the shows we went to. OMG I have to stand up? Sweating? Ugh.
You are really old and cranky grandpa
I saw them on that tour as well but in Fargo, ND. Saw them once more in 96 but biohazard was opening for them.
I stand up a lot when I'm watching live concerts and also often sing along if I know the words. I wind up usually pretty far back or actually on the lawn seats sometimes even wind up in the grass.
I give lessons for kids in the neighborhood. Last Halloween one of them came to my door to trick or treat. She said hi to me as I gave out candy. Her friend ask her how she knows me. Her response was that I teach her “dad rock” on guitar. I was crushed. Lol
When I started hearing Enter Sandman on classic rock stations, I knew I was getting old
I'm 66 and always use Buffy for my getting old experience. You know you're getting old when you watch Buffy the Vampire Slayer because her Mom is hot.
Hehe. Team Joyce!
Loved the Band Candy episode haha
Dude, I’m now OLDER than Giles in season one!! Going back and watching it is unsettling. He seemed so old when I originally watched the premier. 😂😂
I just took a 16 year old, a friend's son, to an Iron Maiden concert at his request. I asked what else he liked and he said Pantera, Slayer, Megadeth, among some newer stuff too (his dad is not a metalhead btw, so no influence there). Then I introduced him to Mastodon, Gojira, Opeth, Symphony X, Amon Amarth - the 20-30 year old bands - and he seems to have liked them.
Idk man, I recently went to a Ghost show in FL and decided to wear a Pantera concert T that I have kept in great shape from the 90’s. Many people made it a point to come up to me and say “awesome shirt!”
Dude I still listen to 50s songs and even classical. Music is art and art is timeless. Kids don't realize this, I know when I was very young I thought the same as your students until I matured and became much more familiar with music in general. It's not that it's old necessarily, I think it's relevancy because bands like Nirvana still sell a lot despite the fact the band died with Kurt over 20+ years ago.
Fun listen. This happens to me all the time. I have been teaching guitar for over 22 years. I always joke around that I’ll be listening to Slayer and Metallica in the old folks home (even though I’ll be deaf) and boring anyone within listening range about how I saw these bands in concert and how hard they rocked. Haha. I turned 50 this year. I’ve been celebrating my midlife crisis by getting back into skateboarding all the time. Maybe it’s a little safer than getting a Harley, at least I wear wrist guards!
Cheers from Duluth, MN. I appreciate/dig your work.
When i discovered The Rolling Stones as a kid in 1978, it was already considered a bit "old" back then. Punk was the thing at the time, and the new wave came soon. So much have changed in thirty.fourty years. Musicians were uneducated working class people back then. Nowdays almost every singer has an academic degree, and everybody has been in highschool. That's strange to me when i am old now. Back in the day only people who had nothing to lose would play. You know, dead, jail, or rock'n'roll.
Now musicians have well paying academic day job when they start, at least over here. Their work phone rings all the time in rehearsals, "sorry guys, i have to do this deal now". Back in the day guys who played were sometimes homeless, used drugs, had no education whatsoever, etc. Rock'n'roll was their only ticket out of that, they played out of desperation, and it kinda gave some extra boost for them.
Last night (15 October 2022) I saw 3 Swedish kids aged between 9 and 12 play songs by the Sex Pistols, Ramones, the Who and Nirvana... Some stuff never gets "old".
When I was learning aged 14, my guitar teacher would just go and listen to the record and teach me how to play it the week after. The George Benson stuff he wanted to teach me wasn't really rocking my boat. I wanted to play stuff off the first 3 U2 albums - they only had 3 albums at that point.
I always loved 60s and 70s music. But I was a 90s kid so my music was always considered old. And I never really cared. Actually I got a lot of my classmates listening to the classics.
It's pretty inevitable. It's weird to think that albums my friends and I thought were true watershed moments in history are now almost 15 years old, and barely footnotes in the grand story of music. Just because it was important to you doesn't mean it'll stand the test of time.
What's really sad is when one of those albums just doesn't hit like it used to. When I first started playing, I wanted to be James Hetfield. I bought Live Shit: Binge and Purge just so I could copy his playing style, and over the course of 3 years, learned nearly every note on Ride the Lightning.
Flash forward and now that 16 year old kid is a 31 year old man with 2 kids, studying for his Series 66 securities exam. I hadn't listened to Lightning all the way through in almost 8 years, so I thought I'd pop it on next time I went for a drive.
It completely flopped. I felt nothing. The bizarre moment of emptiness was compounded by the fact that I can still play a lot of these songs, and have used them in lessons regularly since I learned them. It felt like a friend that, while you were close a long time ago, too much time had passed and now you are so different, there's no way to relate anymore. I almost felt like a failure, given now I'm a stooge in the finance industry and have spent the last decade becoming more and more a cog in the machine... life is funny, sometimes.
My new guitar teacher is a few years older than my son (25/21). He’s very musically educated and skilled. He was helping me with Megadeth’s Holy Wars and innocently referred to it as “Dad Rock”! Oooof! I’m old!!!
The very first time I felt some type of way was when I was around age 14. My younger brother who is 4 years younger than me, not a huge difference, had his friend over for a sleepover. I can't recall what exactly happened but we were all goofing around and i jumped to the side and started singing in a funny voice "you can't touch this dananana" My best friend was also there with us and me and her started laughing our asses off. But my brother and his friend just dead pan looked at us as if we were aliens. I was like come on you guys know the song, by MC HAMMER!!?? They had no idea!! I just assumed that EVERYONE knew who he was and that song. That was the first thing that ever made me hyper aware abuot things. Im 36 now and I can't believe NIckelback, linkin park, trapt, hoobastank, lifehouse all play on classic rock stations now. Its soo sad and my brain refuses to believe I am old now.
This is why despite the explosion of reaction channels (with varying quality) it's nice to see people discovering music I listened to when I was young.
When I was in college and got news from my classmates that many Nu-metal bands albums are now 20 years old, made me go “woah”. I mostly got into that style of music when I first started high school, around 2016. Before that I was mainly listening to mainstream pop music off the radio. I’m 21 now and it’s interesting that these artists are celebrating 20 year anniversaries, and I’m discovering some more recent artists that were influenced by the same artists that I found so interesting and Cathartic during high school days.
Lol. You're 21? You're still a youngster. Report back in 20 years from now.
I grew up on the cusp of all this in the 70s and 80s.... as the late 60s bands were mostly winding down and the rise ( and fall) of 70s and the explosion of metal and New Wave in the 80s ( I was a metalhead, but there was no escaping AOR if you owned a radio. And like it or not, the hooks stick in your head).
The idea of hearing deep cut Judas Priest or Iron Maiden in Baton Rouge other than the local edgy high school station WBRH was unthinkable.I remember the DJ playing Back in Black once on the big tweenie station and declaring afterwards "I'll never do THAT again!" AC/DC is still here. The DJ? Not so much...
Albums that were new to me as a child/teen are long since considered "classic", and we are many, many steps down the road from that! I remember being 8 and lying on the floor in my bedroom listening to news that Lynyrd Skynyrd's plane had gone down in Mississippi en route to... Baton Rouge ( where the Street Survivors Tour was scheduled to kick off)
But up and down the line I continue to listen to these "old/classic" songs because the overwhelming majority of what I have heard on my wife's "easy listening station" when we are out and about? Is total crap, and I PROMISE you unlike the crafted songs of yesteryear? Nobody is going to be listening to this pre-prackaged, over-produced, auto tuned hot mess cookie cutter crap in a few years from when it was spewed out, and certainly not decades from now. Nobody is going to draw inspiration from it, talk about the amazing guitar licks or solo, or how deep and meaningful the lyrics were or how it touched their hearts.
Just saying...
Every time I walk into school, EVERYONE knows that I'm the 60 year old at school. I'll always bring up people and bands like Randy Rhoads, or Iron Maiden, or The Who, and NOBODY knows who they are. I feel like I should have been born in the 70s 🤣. I do like sorta new bands like Avenged Sevenfold, and Linkin Park, and Blink 182, and still no one knows who they are. It blows my mind. This video explains pretty much what I go through on a daily basis with music😂. Another great video, dude!
Here's something about older bands and old music. I bought a new album, on cd, from Iron Maiden in 2021. In fact, I did the same with Megadeth this year! The most recent modern bands I have in my collection are Archspire and Crypta. I got their albums from bandcamp. I prefer to download rather than stream because you're locked in to the streaming app and a paid subscription if you want to play music offline. Either download or get a physical copy that I can convert to mp3 to keep on my phone, hence the reason for buying those CDs. I'm getting on a bit now so I prefer to have albums to own rather than streaming playlists because that's the way I'm used to listening to music.
That happened to me when I was 17 and took guitar lessons. My teacher wanted to teach me stuff I wasn't interested in. I wanted to play heavy electric guitar but he taught me classical acoustic guitar instead. I didn't last more than 2 months.
I used to play The Offspring in the car when my daughter was really young. They did a renditions of "Feelings" which is an old Morris Albert song from the 70's and they certainly put their own spin on it LOL. Well years later my daughter heard the original and said that it was a nice, gentle cover of The Offspring song and I had to explain to her it was the other way around. It was really funny.
I get the classic rock radio station now playing songs the were new when I was a kid. Yesterday a station played , Skid Row into Pink Floyd then Nirvana.
I also think a reason older you likes music that younger didn’t like as a kid is being a musician. Picking up the bass opened my ears to all kinds of music. For example, my mom is a big Motown fan but as a kid is was “ old” music. Now I worship at the alter of James Jamerson.
I'm guessing 90% of the kids you meet don't know what they want to be doing in life just yet and don't know what they're liking or going to like in life (so also in terms of music). You might feel old because they don't know what you know but it's just a difference in experience. Everyone's a master on the subject of their own experience and there's just so much to experience. I've learned about The Kinks and CCR around my 16th, through mentions of my dad who isn't a huge music buff so we didn't have their albums lying around, and they've become some of my favourite bands. I'm 33 now and still discovering older and newer stuff. To be honest, it wasn't until my later high school period (starting around 15 I think) that I really began sinking my teeth into all the different bands and back then it started in the metal scene and then the indie music scene. Heavily influenced by my friends at the time. As I got to know new people, I learned to appreciate new bands and genres. Life takes time.
Me listening to Def Leppard Hysteria today would be like my grandparents listening to Bing Crosby in the 80's.
My original Guitar teacher moved on from ozzy and classic metal to classical music and he was about 32 at the time I was 16/17 and only listening to rock and metal and he said one day it will happen! Low and behold the older I got the more I opened up and changed. I remember when Nu metal was … new! I keep my cds in a rack still cause you can’t get that artwork connection anymore and I want that to still be an inspiration
I am 67 and play banjo and electric guitar in a bluegrass/ country/ light (old)rock band-- and I have been teaching music for 15 years. The last few yearsI have had several teen students not know who Jimmy Hendrix or Eric Clapton is 😢
The Classic Rock Radio played Crawling this morning and I wanted to cry...
So cool, a video that needed to be made, when I show my buddies the old bands I'm into, most of them don't get into it. Some of my brothas get Into it, but most are into newer pop and rap. I'm young but I still feel old when I show my old taste in music most of the time.
When I first got the idea that some things there just to old to be relevant those things where about 10 years old. now that I'm almost 50, 10 years ago seems little different than last month.
my 1st true musical lives were already passé in the ‘80-90s (Jimi, Beatles, Floyd, Who, Stones, Kinks) so I’ve been on this trip since I was 11…even that was 30yrs ago & they’re still my favs
Yea, I was upset when Music Choice on my tv completely changed the format of what plays on the channel "Rock Hits" used to play a bunch of the 90s alternative/grunge era but now all that's like in limbo, now they're mostly playing everything from 2000s and up and it's not the same at all.....and on the Classic Rock channel it plays 60s, 70s & 80s . And when I realized I hardly know any of the "new" pop/rap/rock artists that's out now, and I'm not into any of it made me feel old lol
That is pretty standard for any consumer product whether it be cars, appliances, houses, clothes, etc. The over-riding value even when the quality is worse than it once was is that it is NEW. Specifically tailored for the culture in that specific year. Heck, even colors can be considered outdated or not reflective of current trends or moods so it can feel like you are not moving forward hypothetically to embrace the past. Even on a downward slide, most want to be at the forefront of it to feel like they have an edge on the future.
I feel you.
Love the intro in Scary Movie 2 where the adults are gathered around the piano singing Shake Ya Ass. Here’s a free business idea for anyone with the capital: retirement homes with jam rooms (drums, guitars, bass, etc) and gaming rooms with big screens, xbox, playstation, VR head sets etc
Your story made me laugh out loud! Can totally relate! 😆🤣 Love it! And yes, hate when people don't know the original artist of the songs they love, as that example given of Sublime's "Doin' Time" being covered by Lana Del Rey.
That I listen to, say, This Was by Jethro Tull and love the heck out of it is a blessing I've enjoyed for a few decades. It saddens me a little to ponder that time eventually will take all my beloved favorite musicians. But every time we play it (whether on an instrument or on a record) we bring music from the past into the present. It's eternal. I get that moment of feeling old that a record I bought new is now 40 years old. But when I see young people into Led Zeppelin or Zappa or Steppenwolf, it feels kind of cool to be able to tell them more about it than they would otherwise know.
When "Enter Sandman" hit the classic rock stations.... I knew right away my taste in music was considered old. 🤣
when i grew up it was bullet for my valentine, in flames, disturbed, five finger death punch, and people still respect those bands but ye as you're kinda talking about, people have moved on. the bands i grew up with are not the new flashy wow thing wich i actually love. music is a never ending wave of change, music is constantly evolving and i absolutely love it
Awesome video! Those songs that your students rolled off for you... well they are all new to me even now 😂 I'm even more "old school" than you 🤷🏻♂️ i paused the video and went and listened to every single one! Some good songs in amongst them. Maybe you should do this more often. Get the youngest of your audience to recommend their favorite bands!
When I was flipping through the radio one day and heard Stone Temple Pilots on the same station that plays Hall & Oates I Knew I was getting old. Oh, and I actually did see Pantera live. Loudest show I've ever been to.
My favorite band is still Grannies Jug Band with Grannie on washboard, Uncle Jed on the jug, Jethro on the wash pan and Ellie Mae on the harp. 😎
It's kind of funny working with younger people these days. I started as a student teacher recently, and the kids were interested in stuff like Pokemon and Minecraft - stuff that I played when I was close to their age. One of the kids Rickrolled me, and the saxophonists in band were playing Careless Whisper. It feels like popular culture has almost frozen in place. The only thing is, I'm finding it harder to find out what kind of music my private guitar students want to learn - maybe they're too young, but many of them just can't name any artists that they like; they just listen to a lot of "different stuff". Maybe that has to do with streaming; they have access to so many artists at once, and don't have that experience of having to build up their music collection and getting to know artists one at a time.
That’s definitely me, I listened to a lot of classic rock when I first got into guitar when I was 9-10 (I’m 23 now) and the first band I heavily got into were The Beatles, I still do love them but I’d still say that it amazes me that a lot of my favourite metal albums like SOAD’s Toxicity and Slipknot’s Iowa are over 20 years old
Good music is good music, that's really all there is to it. If you like a song (or movie or book or anything for that matter) it doesn't and shouldn't matter how old or new it is. As advice to some of the younger people, the sooner you stop worrying about what other people say about the things you enjoy the sooner you'll be happier overall. Part of growing up, at least for me, was learning that trying to fit yourself into a box is exhausting and not worth it, just be yourself and enjoy whatever clicks with you.
Every time I make an old Simpsons or Seinfeld reference at work I feel like a fossil.
Kfsl fossil 103 :-)
I always listen to things that I like. It could be from the beginning of time till now