Y'all I just made myself feel so old, hubs looked up top 100 music from 2001, 2011, 2021, and today and the amount of music I could recognize decreased by significantly. I recognized probably 70% of 2001 and decreasing as I went on. BUT I blame the internet, I can listen to exactly the kind of music I want with no dependence on the radio, but also I'm old!
@RickiTarr i have a 6yr old and in a failing attempt to stay current I often put on "UK top 100 hits right now" play list and I skip about 9 of the first 15 and then quit.
thankfully my daughter has a wide range of taste in music so we can be listening to Taylor swift one moment and when I'm all popped out, i can pop on muse or leo moracchioli's covers go on and he's still happy.
@Yorkshiregeek@RickiTarr The stuff that was popular when we were kids often had a short shelf life. Think about the ones we still listen to, and you can't be blamed for not liking most of what is popular today.
@RickiTarr I was actually just thrilled to learn that a band I like, Fontaines DC, is on the list of most favored acts to see at the UK music festivals this summer. They’re currently gigging, youngish, and apparently hot. #notThatOld#radio6 Definitely would recommend tuning in to bbc radio 6 (bbc sounds app) - plenty of US & UK bands, new & old music.
@RickiTarr On my last birthday a friend sent me a list of 120 songs that are now 50 like me! I recognised most of them. That would not happen with a current playlist 🤦♀️.
@RickiTarr I remember being a kid and seeing these dudes who were still trying to be like 80s hair metal dorks 10+ years later and I decided that I would not be a person who just kept on listening to the same music that was popular when I was in high school.
I was successful in my goal, but music has fragmented so much and I don't listen to the radio so I have no idea who the 'popular' musicians are these days. I also took a 10 year dive down an electronica hole so that didn't help either, LOL
I just realized I am the same ...
I have an old blackberry phone in my car that I use for a music player. I have a couple of hundred songs on it and I think they are all older than 40-50 yrs.
I still have Jimi Hendrix day at my house once a week. ⏳
@RickiTarr The 2000s should be my decade of music but I can’t recognize most of it. That’s only because I was too busy listening to J-Pop. I’m most familiar with music from the 50s, 60s, 70s (thanks mom), then the 90s.
@RickiTarr I used to be the guy who could’ve worked in A&R. I knew who everyone ‘new’ was because I’d already seen them at clubs on the Sunset Strip. Made mixtapes of music most people still haven’t heard 20 or 30 years later. Went to the Grammys.
But then I turned 40. And started listening almost exclusively to the music of my ‘70s and ‘80s youth. Haven’t even heard of half the acts in the Top 40. I can’t really blame the internet. I just got old haha.
@ferricoxide
I sat in a command center for 72hrs waiting for the world to end. We had spent weeks in preparation and months trying to coordinate efforts. My coworker confessed to me while we were smoking cannabis outside one evening behind the buildings that he and his wife had hoarded gallons of water and if I needed to, I could shelter with his family. I was single and loudly alone, so they were concerned.
@mentallyalex@ferricoxide@RickiTarr@Weanerdog I fixed a lot of Y2K bugs in my employer's software and also helped a bit with cleaning up GCC. Y2K wasn't a disaster because a lot of people worked their butts off fixing vast numbers of issues by the deadline.
@RickiTarr I pipped this prospect at the post when I developed a keen interest in music from the mid-'70s through the mid-'80s during my formative late-'90s years.
@RickiTarr Now, inasmuch this story has a point, it's this: I've got to be one of the youngest people alive who's heard Big Band music on a high-fidelity, stereophonic system from a guy who in all likelihood purchased that record when it was new.
@RickiTarr
I try and get into the radio every day, sure there's a lot of stuff that doesn't seem important.
But right now I'm listening to the Stones, rolled gold best of.
2000 Light Years From home.
The bass and drumming are so fucking good.
I've stopped worrying about the old thing
That was recorded before I was born 👍
You're doing better than me.
Allowing for declining hearing, I don't think I remember much from 1990 onwards.
It just seems to be a continuous hum of flat dirges.
Then again i've always had eclectic tastes, mostly classical, blues, jazz in that order.
Some more modern, a bit of pop, country, various shades of electronic, but not much.
@RickiTarr As you get older you have to make an even greater effort if you want to get to know good new music because as you get older you are more and more exposed only to top 40, which is not a great representation of new music.
@RickiTarr If you can recognise a decent amount of music that was released in 2021 you are doing very well. Particularly if a healthy % is by artists who weren't producing music in 2011 or 2001.
You are right to blame the Internet, it has shattered the monoculture (as much as such a thing ever really existed).
But it can also be that old people listen to old bands.
During my youth, Black Sabbath visited Australia, and were roundly and loudly denounced as Satanists - there was a huge media focus against them and this dreadful heavy rock that was ruining teenage lives. I was still allowed to go. It was great. I thought the young support act were even better - you may have heard of AC/DC...
Years later, when I heard Paranoid coming over the sound system in BigW (a cheap department store), I knew I was truly old. 😭
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