Were we spoiled?

My mother thought the Beatles and Rolling Stones were modern rubbish 😀
However, many of today's young generation still appreciate music from that era

Yes, I find a lot of today's music boring and repetitive and have never seen (or heard) the appeal of rap whatsoever.

Call me an old fuddy-duddy!

I love discovering new music and new artists - metalcore is my new obsession and I've even started going to gigs on my own, after years of missing out because I had no-one to go with. Yes, I'm probably one of the oldest there, but a lovelier bunch of fans you could not hope to find. I hope to be rocking out right to the very end!

I loved the music of my youth as it was completely different from what went before but there is a lott of good music around now. I listen to Radio 2 as I want to hear what is current - maybe not terrible modern but certainly not just revelling in the past.

Yes we were, I was born in 63, the soundtrack of my years is Queen, Bowie The Beatles, 10cc, Pink Floyd etc.

All proper musicians.

I listened to Elbows version of Golden Slumbers yesterday.
It is a Beatles cover from Abbey Road.
The inspiration was the 1603 poem Cradle Song by Thomas Dekker.

It brought me to tears.

No rap music will ever make me feel this way!

There are a few recent “guddens” but I feel too many are just unpoetic long whines put to music. Detest auto tune as well.

If you can’t belt them out while vacuuming then they are no good …imo😃

One of my sons loves music from the 60s

I think we enjoy the music that reminds us of when we were young. Each generation seems, in the main, to dislike the music of the generations that follow them. Not everyone of course, but I think it is a common trait.

Elder Gdcs (10 and 9) are very familiar with a good many Queen and other old numbers, and will sing along very lustily in the car.

Mind you they also sing along lustily to ‘I’m gonna wash that man right outta my hair’ from South Pacific.

Sago

Yes we were, I was born in 63, the soundtrack of my years is Queen, Bowie The Beatles, 10cc, Pink Floyd etc.

All proper musicians.

I listened to Elbows version of Golden Slumbers yesterday.
It is a Beatles cover from Abbey Road.
The inspiration was the 1603 poem Cradle Song by Thomas Dekker.

It brought me to tears.

No rap music will ever make me feel this way!

I'm a '63 baby too, but I honed my musical tastes in the punk era and since then, I've embraced a wide range of genres from rock and indie to metal, emo and goth, with even a bit of rap thrown in for good measure. My tastes are nothing if not eclectic - there's Janis Ian and Leonard Cohen in my playlists too (to mention but a couple), as well as some classical.

tanith

I'm 77yrs old and find all modern music sounds repetitive and souless rubbish. So were we spoiled being of the 50s 60s 70s era of wonderful music? Or am I just an old misery stuck in the past whose car radio is tuned to Gold all the time?

Yes Tanith - I believe we were. I'm also in my 70's so as young people/teenagers we were lucky enough to live through a musical revolution. With the early blues artists in the US Elvis - The Beatles, The Stones into full on pop culture.

There had never been music like that before and it opened up a whole new world for children of the 50's and 60's. I bet in 50 years time young generations would be hard pushed to name a chart topper from 2026 - but my children in their late 40's could certainly name many from the time I was a teenager or in my 20's.

I prefer the music the 20s, 30s and 40s.
Modern stuff is just lift music/background sound.

I’m in my mid seventies and grew up loving the crooners thanks to my parents, especially Perry Como but also Matt Monro, also loved Elvis, the Kinks, and Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons as well as anything Motown.
Was never a big fan of The Beatles but do like their music. Preferred Wings tbh.

I went to see the Drifters at the weekend with my daughter. We were both dancing in the isle. There were young and not so young there all loving the music. Great night out

I don’t like today’s music is just like mass produced mush. Though am sure the younger generation would argue otherwise.

MissChateline

I went to see the Drifters at the weekend with my daughter. We were both dancing in the isle. There were young and not so young there all loving the music. Great night out

Yes I agree. Love the Drifters and the Temptations.

The music of today appeals to the young. They will probably be saying similar to us when they reach older age. How they miss the music of the 2020s and it's all rubbish now.

Fallingstar

I don’t like today’s music is just like mass produced mush. Though am sure the younger generation would argue otherwise.

This oldie would very much argue otherwise. Yes, there is a lot of mainstream 'mush', but outwith that, there are lots of exciting new artists making great music.

I really enjoy music from many genres and different decades.

My “modern” favourite artists include Adele, Anne-Marie, Ed Sheeran, Lewis Capaldi and Dia Lipa, but I still also listen to The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, Rod Stewart, the great Frank Sinatra, Bob Marley, Crowded House and Michael Buble!

So I think there’s good artists and great music throughout the decades.

Having said that, in my opinion, the 70’s and 80’s produced some amazing music, much of this still gets played today and is covered time and time again.

Nice to hear different take on things maybe i should try listening more often to different recent music.

“Dua Lipa” thank you auto-correct

My young grandson, still only 11, has a penchant with friends to make their own rap, I suppose it encourages them in experimenting with rhyming verse of sorts, personally I think it all sounds the bloody same, any rap. A monotonous rhythm, no musicality to speak of. My feelings about rap generally is, it is to music what Tracy Emin's bed is to the world of art, in other words it doesn't require any great talent. It's not a genre I feel I can embrace. I don't want to discourage him because I know I'll sound like an "old person" knocking a young person's taste, so I tend to bite my lips somewhat. Although I really, really hate the nihilistic element of drill and grime, not that I think he knows about any of that, well I certainly hope not. My granddaughter, mid teens actually likes some of the retro sounds, she's an Oasis fan far more acceptable imo.

When my kids were in their teens, now mid and late 30s, they went through an Eminem and Dr Dre phase, some of that, a bit okish. I also remember an awful heavy metal group called Slipknot whose music to my ears sounded like continual angry screaming at the top of their voices, although I did thank them for introducing me to Nirvana. Eventually they moved on to drum and base and a more eclectic mix, Green Day, Red Hot Chilli Peppers, Foo Fighters, Blink something or other. An age of phones being lost in mosh pits but the music was better and around that time they also came to appreciate some of the bands and music we listened to and grudgingly admitted the music of our time was really something! Of course it was, more than that even, sublime!

I've just seen the mention of Dua Lipa, I do like her.

Yes just saying the other day, we had the best years going out.
I went out in the late 70s, 80s. Listening to proper rock bands. I also enjoyed music from the 50s & 60s from Elvis to Pink Floyd.
I think I stopped going out when it changed to rap & hip- hop. Like dancing to a car alarm.
Most of our pubs & clubs have gone now in town.
I feel sorry for the younger generation.

My grandsons (8 and 10) were here at Christmas and loved watching my DVDs of the Monkees. I could hear them singing some of the songs, while they were playing. It was very funny. They do like some modern music as well though.