POLL: HOW OLD IS "YOUR" MUSIC

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Originally Posted by krazy kat2

I will listen to anything except rap, hip hop, the trash they call R&B these days.

I must get on my soapbox for this.
Those genres are in their hair metal phase.... (That's not to say that all hair metal was bad...just some of it. hehe) Over-hyped, over-done, over-paid, over-"blinged", over-spending idiots talking about all the women they get and the money they have. Rrrggg, it's SOO annoying and it has taken over every major media outlet in the country!!! I'm so tired of it!!!
I could say a LOT more on the current state of rap and hip-hop, but I don't want to be accused of being a racist...which my brother (who is the whitest white boy on Planet Earth) did when I said I didn't like rap...I don't like the white rappers, either!!

Give me some good rock any day.
Of course, there is a state of over-hyped mediocrity on rock these days, too....
Come to think of it, the music industry in general is pushing mediocre garbage as greatness, while the really good stuff gets over-looked, purposefully ignored or slagged by critics who are in the pockets of the major lables.
 

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I usually listen to a bit of everything - from Billie Holliday to Ben Folds Five but I probably tend to choose mostly late 70's to early 90's. I love all my Fleetwood Mac, Depeche Mode, Simply Red, Crowded House, Peter Gabriel - stuff like that. I guess that makes sense, being 26 I grew up listening to my parents play this stuff and if it's old crap - then I like old crap!


I'm also a big Björk fan - her music is amazing!!
I have to agree that the music industry has gone downhill with the quality of work being produced - The really good artists get drowned out in a sea of commercial garbage.
 

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Really, WHEN the music was made isn't too important, although I don't like anything "old." If it's older than me (25 next month) then I don't want much to do with it. The music in my car consists of a whole bunch of Bon Jovi (I LOVE Bon Jovi!), Goo Goo Dolls, Matchbox 20, and Pink. My new trend has been downloading single songs on iTunes, because I don't want to pay $20 and up for a CD and only like 3 songs on it, when I can download those songs for $3 on iTunes! But if it's Bon Jovi, Matchbox, Goo....I'll buy those CD's becuase it's HIGHLY unlikely that there will be more than one song I don't like. Dying for the new Bon Jovi, hubby has been told I want it for my birthday, and I really want the Bon Jovi box set (3 cds and a DVD of unreleased music) for xmas! I think most of the new music on the radio pretty much just sucks.

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Originally Posted by BigKittenDaddy

The TCS demographic poll got me to thinking and remembering about how when I was a teenager I would ask my Dad why he listened to that "OLD CRAP"
which was really stuff from about 1940 to 1960 or so and was mostly Big Band and Jazz that he grew up listening to & I thought it was really old junk.
Well it made me realize that most of the "Modern Music" I listen too not counting all the Classical I love is from about 1965 to 1980-85 and I realized that I am just like my Dad cause I listen to that "OLD CRAP" I grew up with.

What about you folks?
I USED to listen to ROCK AND ROLL when it wAS rock and roll. THEN it became soul and the people who would call into the radio would talk about "getting whitey"!

Then I went to tony orlando and Dawn (still wish Telma Hopkins would start singing again! SHE was fantastic), but he had his "breakdown" and I needed music to wask dishes to 8 hours a day. I discovered county and I liked it.

Then COUNTY went old rock and roll and I have grown up from that. I NOW LOVE OLD country - Hank Williams sr & Jr and George, and all the older one's! I am either 60's or 50ies or maybe even old - George, Reba, Garth are about all I like now BUT I can seldom here them for the Tim Mcgraws and faith hills
I have to listen to them on TV on Classic county!
 

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Well, I'm listening to Doris Day sing 'Que Sera Sera', which came on right after A Perfect Circle's 'Magdalena'. I wouldn't be surprised if Mozart, The Sisters of Mercy, Rammstein, Beethoven, or the Beatles came on next.

I'm not so big into the Big Band era, and I have a very narrow taste in rap, I hate country music, but I'll listen to pretty much everything else.
 

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My son and I were chatting about this and that over dinner a few nights ago (he's 12). He said that they had been talking at school about how 20 years from now Rap would be played on the "oldies" station.

I'm a fan of 80's music when it comes to breaking preferences down into decades. Although, I like disco too.
 

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Originally Posted by lovemycodygirl

I listen to rock music now but I'm true fan of 80's and 90's heavy metal!!
Bon Jovi, Motley Crue, Poison, and Ratt to name a few!
That is not heavy metal!!! That is glam/hair rock. Nothing heavy about Livin on a prayer!


Heavy metal would be early Metallica, Slayer, Overkill, Pantera, Megadeth, Children of Bodom, etc.
 

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I listen to Top 40 and probably always will. I wonder how old I'll be when I stop liking current music? It's weird to think about. I like older music, and different music, but the majority of the time I'm listening to pop/top 40.
 

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Originally Posted by GratefulBear629

That is not heavy metal!!! That is glam/hair rock. Nothing heavy about Livin on a prayer!
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Originally Posted by GratefulBear629

Heavy metal would be early Metallica, Slayer, Overkill, Pantera, Megadeth, Children of Bodom, etc.
....same feelings here!!!
..and I must to added too, SEPULTURA, TESTAMENT, too!!!!
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STAY HEAVY FRIEND!
 

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Originally Posted by CoolCat

....same feelings here!!!
..and I must to added too, SEPULTURA, TESTAMENT, too!!!!
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STAY HEAVY FRIEND!


Instead of going to my senior prom, I went to go see Sepultura and Voivod instead.
 

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I listen to a plethora of music. Grew up with (80's) Metal - pop metal, hair metal, thrash metal...all of it! So of course I still like that, except where the vocals are more growling than singing. Went to college in Nebraska and got into Country, so I can listen to that. Earl has some techno stations on the Sirius radio in the car, so I am getting used to and liking that too. Oh yeah, and goth/darkwave & industrial too. All of these from 80's to current.

My favorite band is NIN, which I guess would fall in the metal/industrial area.
 

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Originally Posted by GratefulBear629

That is not heavy metal!!! That is glam/hair rock. Nothing heavy about Livin on a prayer!


Heavy metal would be early Metallica, Slayer, Overkill, Pantera, Megadeth, Children of Bodom, etc.
Amen to that!!

Although I would hesitate to put post-hair-cut Metallica in anything but the "corprate sell-out" category. Their old stuff, on the other hand, is great.


So of course I still like that, except where the vocals are more growling than singing.
My BF refers to those bands as "cookie monsters", because the singers sound like the Cookie Monster.
hehe
 

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Originally Posted by Zoe'n'MissKitty

Amen to that!!

Although I would hesitate to put post-hair-cut Metallica in anything but the "corprate sell-out" category. Their old stuff, on the other hand, is great.



My BF refers to those bands as "cookie monsters", because the singers sound like the Cookie Monster.
hehe
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Cookie Monsters!
I love it!!

And I totally agree with you about Metallica. Of all the bands who could have come out against Napster...the band who got signed because of COPIED (not bought) tapes making their way across the country does it.
I lost all respect for them. Good thing I saw them twice in 1988-89 on the ...And Justice For All tour!
 

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I like mostly heavy metal. I listen to lots of things----I'm not a "music snob" like so many people try to be.
 

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i listen to loads so i voted *other* its all 70s 80s and 90s but it has to be *different* physeceldelic (sp?)
 

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Originally Posted by valanhb

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Cookie Monsters!
I love it!!

And I totally agree with you about Metallica. Of all the bands who could have come out against Napster...the band who got signed because of COPIED (not bought) tapes making their way across the country does it.
I lost all respect for them. Good thing I saw them twice in 1988-89 on the ...And Justice For All tour!
I agree with Metallica on the napster issue.

Why Metallica Sued Napster


"At this moment, all around the world, hundreds of thousands of people are breaking into record stores and stealing CDs and tapes. Or they might as well be."

"Metallica has challenged Napster not only because they are outraged that their recordings are being duplicated and distributed without their consent. Metallica also wants to support the many less prominent artists who are unable to fight Napster or any other corporation trying to undermine their art and well-being. Thousands of artists depend on record royalties to survive, to support their families and to create more new music. Napster takes royalties from these artists. It shouldn't come as a surprise that most musicians can keep going only if people actually buy their music, as opposed to getting it free from Napster -- and for every wildly successful band like Metallica, there are thousands of artists who are barely able to get by. Left unchecked, Napster threatens the livelihood of every writer and musician. And except for the most established artists, Napster will also eliminate the funding from record labels needed to pay the significant costs of making and marketing new records. The irony of this all is that Napster could lead to a future with far less music, rather than more."

"Metallica has always been generous with its music. Unlike most bands, Metallica has always allowed, and still allows, fans to record live concerts and trade those recordings in any format, including MP3. Metallica has also chosen on several occasions to provide free concerts and to stream albums and live concerts over the Internet for free. In addition, Metallica's Web site features free samples of the band's work, at www.metallica.com. But giving away the band's music in these instances has been strictly Metallica's choice, as well it should be."

 

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Another heavy metal fan here, and the music I like tends to be around the 1980s and 1990s.
 
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