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Middle Aged Man Doesn't Listen to New Music Anymore (AKA midlife non-crisis)

 
 
 
Playball40 said:
Wow, I find I like a lot of new music and still love my old stuff. When my son was in high school it was all about Hip Hop. When my daughter was in high school is was Panic at the Disco, Fall Out Boy etc (BTW - Panic has some great new music - love Death of a Bachelor). Now, my youngest are in middle and high school - love Twenty-One Pilots, Sleeping with Sirens, Bring me the Horizon & even some one offs like Nathanial Rateliff. I love new show tunes too, like Hamilton, Legally Blond, In the Heights. I still listen to classic rock (Bowie, The Who, U2 were some of my favorites) plus Elton John, Rod Stewart and others. Liked some 80's punk too and some non-definitive stuff like Regina Spektor, The Cranberries, Lord.....

I just cannot imagine not finding any new music appealing.....AND I'M OLD!
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I have the same reaction. Playing gigs, I sometimes have to learn stuff like Rihanna, Green Day, Bruno Mars, Maroon 5, whatever's current on the club date/ wedding scene. Often these tunes contain at least bits that I can appreciate.

The only artist who seemed a real breakthrough since the golden age to me was Cobain. I think he put more rock into punk, made it swing a bit more.
 
Playball40 said:
Wow, I find I like a lot of new music and still love my old stuff. When my son was in high school it was all about Hip Hop. When my daughter was in high school is was Panic at the Disco, Fall Out Boy etc (BTW - Panic has some great new music - love Death of a Bachelor). Now, my youngest are in middle and high school - love Twenty-One Pilots, Sleeping with Sirens, Bring me the Horizon & even some one offs like Nathanial Rateliff. I love new show tunes too, like Hamilton, Legally Blond, In the Heights. I still listen to classic rock (Bowie, The Who, U2 were some of my favorites) plus Elton John, Rod Stewart and others. Liked some 80's punk too and some non-definitive stuff like Regina Spektor, The Cranberries, Lord.....

I just cannot imagine not finding any new music appealing.....AND I'M OLD!
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I feel much the same. The weird thing for me lately is that my youngest child and his wife have less eclectic tastes in music than I do at this point. He still listens to the rock and alternative music I brought him up on, but he is 25 and I listen to more new music than he does. You mentioned Bring Me the Horizon, I went to see them in concert last year, and was talking to my son about it. He immediately dismissed them as "screamo" and not worthy of going to see in concert. I thought they put on a damn good show, and "Happy Song" was in heavy rotation for me throughout 2016.
 
The Colourful Jester said:
On the other hand Google Play does give me millions of songs.
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Yep, that's where I am at, GPAA gives me a nearly infinite number of songs to which I can listen, so long as I have an internet connection. Last time I bothered to check, I had over 20,000 songs on my 3tb external drive, but that was like 2-3 years ago, and I seldom use it for listening to music any more.
 
There are a few (FEW!) great artists around now. as a middle-aged man, I probably never would have heard of them. I, like the OP, have had no drive or patience to even try to like the crap that is popular today. I like the stuff I liked in the 80's (80's music is just nostalgic to me.. I mostly listen to classic rock, when I seek it myself). My wife listens to pretty much everything and has very eclectic taste... and through her I am exposed to the new stuff... the decent new stuff. We go to music festivals and concerts more than I would choose to.. but she is all about it. I started liking some of it.
 
KeepTalking said:
Playball40 said:
Wow, I find I like a lot of new music and still love my old stuff. When my son was in high school it was all about Hip Hop. When my daughter was in high school is was Panic at the Disco, Fall Out Boy etc (BTW - Panic has some great new music - love Death of a Bachelor). Now, my youngest are in middle and high school - love Twenty-One Pilots, Sleeping with Sirens, Bring me the Horizon & even some one offs like Nathanial Rateliff. I love new show tunes too, like Hamilton, Legally Blond, In the Heights. I still listen to classic rock (Bowie, The Who, U2 were some of my favorites) plus Elton John, Rod Stewart and others. Liked some 80's punk too and some non-definitive stuff like Regina Spektor, The Cranberries, Lord.....

I just cannot imagine not finding any new music appealing.....AND I'M OLD!
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I feel much the same. The weird thing for me lately is that my youngest child and his wife have less eclectic tastes in music than I do at this point. He still listens to the rock and alternative music I brought him up on, but he is 25 and I listen to more new music than he does. You mentioned Bring Me the Horizon, I went to see them in concert last year, and was talking to my son about it. He immediately dismissed them as "screamo" and not worthy of going to see in concert. I thought they put on a damn good show, and "Happy Song" was in heavy rotation for me throughout 2016.
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Bring Me the Horizon is what they did to white bread to make it less interesting. I like that term, "screamo". ...
 
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rousseau said:
Opoponax said:
Your theory is wrong.
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There are certainly many exceptions, but I'd guess the brunt of the boomer Bell Curve fits that description. They come from an age where all of the best stuff was on the radio, and most of them have never made the transition to music in the digital age. Hell there's even people from my generation who fit that bill.

Posters in this thread are not going to be representative, because hey.. we're at a Freethought forum, but you'll know someone who fits that bill when they tell you 'music sucks these days'.
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Fair enough. But when I think of the people I grew up with and hung out with, most of us used to go see local bands play in backyards and then to L.A. and Hollywood to see underground bands play at places like the Troubadour and Roxy. I was literally the first person I knew who liked Metallica (first Metal Massacre album). Sure, they became mainstream, but they sure didn't start off that way. Same with a lot of other bands. I got into Iron Maiden when, at the age of 10, my brother took me to a UFO show. Maiden was the opener and that was when Di'Anno was the lead singer.

Anyway, apparently there's a forum skirmish afoot here and that's more entertaining than my life story. :)
 
Opoponax said:
rousseau said:
There are certainly many exceptions, but I'd guess the brunt of the boomer Bell Curve fits that description. They come from an age where all of the best stuff was on the radio, and most of them have never made the transition to music in the digital age. Hell there's even people from my generation who fit that bill.

Posters in this thread are not going to be representative, because hey.. we're at a Freethought forum, but you'll know someone who fits that bill when they tell you 'music sucks these days'.
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Fair enough. But when I think of the people I grew up with and hung out with, most of us used to go see local bands play in backyards and then to L.A. and Hollywood to see underground bands play at places like the Troubadour and Roxy. I was literally the first person I knew who liked Metallica (first Metal Massacre album). Sure, they became mainstream, but they sure didn't start off that way. Same with a lot of other bands. I got into Iron Maiden when, at the age of 10, my brother took me to a UFO show. Maiden was the opener and that was when Di'Anno was the lead singer.
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In the interest of getting things back on track...

It certainly would have been extremely cool to have seen Metallica before signing with a major label, as well as Maiden with Di'Anno (though I think Dickinson is the better front man). I did catch Metallica in a local nightclub here in St. Louis when they were on their Ride the Lightning tour. WASP was headlining the show, and Armored Saint was their warm-up band. Metallica was low band on the bill for that one, and I had never heard of them before then. I think that was in 1984 (might have been '85). I saw them again a couple years later supporting Ozzy and touring on Master of Puppets, just a few months before Cliff Burton died. I thought they blew Ozzy away, but then again, that was his Ultimate Sin tour, and that was a pretty weak album, also I was never much of a Jake E. Lee fan.
 
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