Were we spoiled?

TerriBull

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

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I also took my daughters to the 02 when they were in their teens and we both Katie Perry and Taylor Swift (two different shows) and I have to say both were pretty amazing!

I think I was lucky as my parents loved all types of music, our house always had the radio or the Record player on. They even went to New York to see Sinatra..
It was normal for my sister and I, so we continued playing records and Radio all the time we lived at home with Mum and Dad joining in.

I still love all types of music, I have music from the 30's to today's on my play list. I have also been fortunate to have seen big well known acts. I'm even going this Friday to see a group from years ago 10cc.

Both my children and my GC join in with my music and I love theirs.

My youngest GD is nearly 2 and she loves "Golden" she dances and trys to sing it. Tbh.. I think it's good too.

I remember my parents had 78rpm records from the 1930s, they were incomprehensible to me, played on the wind up gramophone
The late 50s early 60s brought the first pop records, original recordings played today are poor quality productions, steadily improving through the 70s. We listen to up to the 90s most after that we don't relate to at all.
If you go to a party today the disco plays thump thump thump nothing with a rhythm to dance to.

Fallingstar

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’m not your age, but after seeing the old version of The Italian Job some years ago and loving the song at the start, where a man in a sports car drives along twisty mountainous roads, I looked for a cd of his songs.Matt Monroe, and the song is On Days Like These.Wonderful voice.🥰

Also love the Beatles version of Golden Slumbers, and now have this as an ear worm.

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

We saw The Drifters years ago in Majorca (not in the early era!) and it was a very enjoyable evening.

Me too viceVersa I love finding new music ,but I still Have a collection of really old jazz and swing .
I don’t think there is bad music and I find it odd that people only listen to the music of their youth.
There are some amazing musicians/singers and bands today Probably half of my cd collection o one on here would have heard of.
It’s sad that people are stuck in the past when there’s such rich pickings out there in young talent

I don’t think there is bad music
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There is most definitely Bad music just as there is Good music in every era.

Oreo

Also love the Beatles version of Golden Slumbers, and now have this as an ear worm.

I love this too and the song you mentioned earlier, from the original Italian Job.

My parents played music constantly. My mum loved Frank Sinatra and Dean Martin, my DD loved old style country music, especially Johnny Cash, they both liked Elvis, Sammy Davis-Junior, Ella Fitzgerald and “Sachmo” My childhood was full of music (& strangers dancing in our living room!)

Strangers dancing in your living room?🤭 Sounds random, tell us more?

Oreo

Strangers dancing in your living room?🤭 Sounds random, tell us more?

My parents were “party people”, my Dad worked very hard and was often working away, my mum worked part time and got on well with all the neighbours.

I’d often come in from school to find a neighbour or two enjoying a glass of wine or sherry, sitting in our kitchen gossiping.

When my dad, whom I adored, came home from business trips, he and my mother would trot up the road to the local Conservative club and when it closed would bring home whoever was still there and “party on” at home.

They had this huge radiogram encased in wood and a drinks cabinet. In the summer it would be in the garden, my Dad had a barbecue shipped to him from the USA in the 70’s, a big globe shaped jobie that not many others had at that time and he’d cook steaks, chicken, lamb chops and my mum would make huge salads and do jacket potato’s in her modern kitchen, with bright orange units and a big open hatch to the dining room.

I was an only child but always encouraged to bring friends home, sometimes my Dad would get us a bottle of Pomagne, or babysham, we thought we were very sophisticated.

It was a quirky and in ways quite neglectful childhood, but other than when my mum was very unwell and became quite unstable and a bit aggressive, it was a happy time, full of laughter and people, sometimes “strangers”

MT62 “Like dancing to a car alarm”😁

Oreo

There is most definitely Bad music just as there is Good music in every era.

Music is very subjective though. What might be 'bad' to one person might be a favourite of another. I prefer to take the view that while I might not like a particular song or piece of music, someone else might love it. I'm sure many on here would hate some of the stuff I listen to, for instance.

I think the reason was so different in the decades you describe was that the music was individual. The groups/singers in all of those decades had to work their way up from the bottom, never knowing where their next pay was coming from, often having to hold down day jobs and gigging at night.Travelling round in old cold vans which would often be their sleeping accomodation after a gig.They had to save and buy their own instruments and stage clothes, they worked so hard to keep going and their music was a source of pride to them.Every great group, from Small Faces, to Beatles, Queen, to Led Zeppelin, Rod Stewart to David Bowie, ALL of them honed their craft over years of rebuffals, different band members, name changes and struggles. These days someone can create something on a computer in their bedroom, out it on instagram or tik tok and instantly become a star and thus rich. It must be galling for the older bands to see how easy it is today.The result is a lot of mass produced sound alike music.

I remember seeing Queen (with Freddie) on the tv many years ago. I was busy doing something but the music got through to me and I loved it. We saw them twice in Liverpool and they were fantastic.

Oreo

There is most definitely Bad music just as there is Good music in every era.

I was going to say "Spoiled, no. Nostalgic, yes."

I recently found a double set of CDs of late 1960's music. I was looking down the track list when I came across one song which I instantly got an ear-worm " Grocer Jack". How I loathed that song and still do!

The rest are upbeat poppy songs which are pleasant to reflect on.

My father, born in 1910, died 1971, was a professional classical musician. He was fascinated by the Beatles and said their music would be played in 100 years.

Allira

^I don’t think there is bad music^
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We remember the good music there has been plenty of awful music through the years

Thanks Cossy that was an interesting childhood😃

Certainly less mundane than mine tho I was happy at the time, the only people in the house drinking endless cups of char were family or neighbours.🤭

Bad music, does Tiny Tim shrilling ‘tiptoe through the tulips’ count? Saw that recently on a music channel.😲

Romola

My father, born in 1910, died 1971, was a professional classical musician. He was fascinated by the Beatles and said their music would be played in 100 years.

I think he was right, it’s already about 60 years isn’t it?

In the 80s when we were living in the Middle East there were now and then sell-out concerts featuring 60s pop icons, e.g. The Searchers, that usually took place around a hotel swimming pool, with dinner thrown in. Great fun!

I loved The Kinks, still do. One vivid memory late 60s is of an afternoon in the garden of an old schoolfriend of dh, whose parents were away. It was sunny summer Sunday afternoon, and I was sitting on the grass when the old friend came and sat beside me - The Kinks ‘Sunny Sunday Afternoon’ was playing.

‘Hello’, said the friend. ‘Are you stoned?’
‘No’, said I.
‘Oh’, he said. ‘I am.’ 😂