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Post by majestic on May 24, 2023 8:08:00 GMT -5
I was part of the generation that rejected their parents' music and embraced the Beatles and rock'n'roll in general. Now I enjoy big band swing (and small bands too, come to think of it). I too love Big Band music.
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Post by adamwarlock2099 on May 24, 2023 8:20:24 GMT -5
I find the same too. Even listening to a lot more country music, or at least giving it a chance. And listening and giving more modern music a chance and not just dismissing it as bad because it is modern. Which has lead me to quite a few new songs that I really enjoy and try to explore the artist more. I quite like a lot of Shawn Mendes songs who I just passed off as music for awkward teenage girls. But he is quite the talented artist as a singer and a musician.
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Post by majestic on May 24, 2023 8:35:37 GMT -5
Ha! Same here. I started to listen to country music in my late 50s. Something my younger self would have never done! Modern music for the most part I don't enjoy except for a few artists. About the only music I never listen to is opera or rap music.
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Post by codystarbuck on May 24, 2023 10:56:12 GMT -5
Ha! Same here. I started to listen to country music in my late 50s. Something my younger self would have never done! Modern music for the most part I don't enjoy except for a few artists. About the only music I never listen to is opera or rap music. I guess you will miss out on the splendor of Sir Mix-A-Lot's Aida, then. He did do a symphonic event.....
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Post by codystarbuck on May 24, 2023 11:11:13 GMT -5
I grew up with an AM radio station (FM was not as big a thing, yet, and was mostly "old fogey" music) and, in between farm reports and swap meets (basically classified ads on the radio), we got a lot of Adult Contemporary stuff....Carpenters, BJ Thomas, Neil Sedaka....that kind of thing. They programmed their own stuff; so, the odd rock song got through (like ELO), some country (especially people like Dolly Parton and Kenny Rogers) and a few odds and ends. The other musical influence in childhood was American Bandstand. Thanks to it, I was exposed to a lot of Motown/R&B artists, depending on what was on the charts or who was a musical guests.
1970s radio also wasn't so ghettoized and more stations programmed their own music, so you could get a mix of styles, at a good station. You might have a block of rock, one of R&B, jazz, what have you. So, I grew up with a lot of that, plus the crossovers. As a result, I have quite an affinity for Motown, R&B, Soul, Funk and other urban music, though more pre-1980 than anything else. Earth, Wind and Fire, The Commodores, Marylin McCoo and Billy Davis Jr, Al Green, Peaches & Herb, The 5th Dimension, George Clinton, Lou Rawls....stuff like that.
Rock is more prominent by junior high, as I had my own radio to tune in WLS and there is disco in there; but I quickly latched onto the emerging New Wave material, like Devo, The Cars and Blondie, plus Cheap Trick was a favorite of WLS.
It has been more in recent years that I have gotten into the stuff I missed, as a kid, because I was too young to stay up for The Midnight Special or Don Kirchner's Rock concert or because I didn't control the radio setting. Stuff like Glam Rock, with Slade, The Sweet, Roxy Music, Bowie, Mud.......also started exploring stuff like rock-a-billy, both the Revival stuff, like Stray Cats, and original stuff. That has led to other stuff of the 50s and early 60s and more outliers.
I always enjoyed a lot of the Disco era, so not so much a liking it better now, but I don't have to hear people trashing it now, vs then.
Got more into Classical music and Swing, as an adult and have come to a certain appreciation for jazz of the 50s and 60s, through movie soundtracks.
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Post by Deleted on May 24, 2023 19:42:22 GMT -5
The Rolling Stones - I considered them old fogey music at some times, and disco/pop crap at other times. I started appreciating the old fogey style in my early 20s, but still don't like the disco/pop crap.
Bob Dylan - I heard just enough of him to believe that the ubiquitous Dylan-mocking voice everybody uses to be all there is to him. That changed when a local station put Tangled Up In Blue into rotation, which led me to digging up more of his gems.
Stevie Ray Vaughan - I could never get past his voice, plus there's something about his tone that sometimes sounds distasteful to me. But now I can get past both those things.
Jimi Hendrix (yes, Jimi Hendrix) - Another one I never gave a fair shake. Purple Haze turned me off as just being weird. I'm probably the only person in the history of ears to say this, but it was Mitch Mitchell's playing on songs like Fire that made me take a closer look (not saying Mitchell is subpar, but who appreciates the drums before they appreciate Hendrix?)
I've recently come to appreciate non-Metallica thrash groups Slayer and Megadeth.
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Post by wildfire2099 on May 24, 2023 20:10:14 GMT -5
Rush is one of those bands I don't mind but have never really gotten into deeply. I've liked most of what I've heard on the radio over the years, but not enough to buy an album. And I like a lot of the bands the cite as influences, e.g. Zeppelin (I think?) and prog acts like Yes and Genesis, but it doesn't sound to me like they ever reached the heights those bands did musically. However, I have picked up one of there earlier albums on cd so I plan to give that a try some day. If you want to see if you'll like Rush, next time you're on you tube look up the official video for 2112.. it's about a 1/2 hour long, and it's basically a musical graphic novel. If you don't like it, then just be happy enjoying Tom Sawyer on the radio, but it might just make you a fan . As far as the Stones go... if you stick to the non-popular Blues stuff, they're a pretty good blues band. Some of the popular stuff is great (I'm a big fan of Sympathy for the Devil and a couple others) but alot of it is fairly meh for sure. I especially enjoyed the Howlin' Wolf sessions.. he's an old blues man that did some stuff with Bill Wyman, ronnie Wood and Eric Clapton that is really good.
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Post by badwolf on May 25, 2023 9:48:09 GMT -5
Jazz in general. I didn't understand it when I was younger. There was no discernible melody, and I hated the sound of a saxophone. Since then I've acclimated to the sax and have grown to like its free-form nature.
Also, oldies and big band. I'm not talking about the bubblegum pop you hear in 50s themed diners.
I find that the older I get, the more I like music that takes me away to an earlier time.
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Post by Mormel on May 27, 2023 10:11:25 GMT -5
I used to be a 'Beatles are overrated, Stones any day' guy.
Then I became a 'Beatles early work doesn't hold a candle to their later work ' guy.
Now I'm a 'Hard Day's Night' and 'Beatles for Sale' are solid rock n roll LPs guy.
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