Were we spoiled?

..and I love to live so pleasantly, live this life of luxury lazing on a Summer afternoon😃

I like the old Kinks songs too, there was another quirky one, called something like Follower Of Fashion? And another about Terry and Julie , Waterloo Sunset?

Oreo

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

With that in mind, I could never really embrace "Shuddup a ya face" a classic I know, and a phrase worth uttering very occasionally, not to anyone on GN of course well maybe just the odd one

Yes I loved the Kinks too, especially Waterloo Sunset, dedicated to Terence Stamp and Julie Christie - allegedly!

Oreo

I like the old Kinks songs too, there was another quirky one, called something like Follower Of Fashion? And another about Terry and Julie , Waterloo Sunset?

Terry and Julie - possibly Terence Stamp and Julie Christie (or probably Ray Davies's sister and her boyfriend!)

TerriBull

Oreo

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

With that in mind, I could never really embrace "Shuddup a ya face" a classic I know, and a phrase worth uttering very occasionally, not to anyone on GN of course --well maybe just the odd one--

😂😂😂

Oreo

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

I remember Tiny Tim, different for sure, but not the worst, thankfully most have been long forgotten.

Oreo

I like the old Kinks songs too, there was another quirky one, called something like Follower Of Fashion? And another about Terry and Julie , Waterloo Sunset?

www.youtube.com/watch?v=stMf0S3xth0&list=RDstMf0S3xth0&start_radio=1

Same here! 💐

Because you don’t like t doesn’t make it “bad” Oreo it’s just not your taste.

paddyann54

Because you don’t like t doesn’t make it “bad” Oreo it’s just not your taste.

No, it could be argued that it is subjective, but some 'music' is poor, amateurish and badly written.

Have Status Quo as my all time fav band & seen them more times than I can count I do like & buy cd’s from Korn, Deftones, Foo Fighters, Disturbed & many more. My son & 15 year old Grandson are into all these & more so get lots of recommendations from them in what to listen to or buy. There must be some more 80 year olds out there with similar tastes, hopefully. Just so I dont feel totally alone 😂

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They were way before my time at the crest of their fame and popularity but if I want to relax then it's Sinatra and Dean Martin for me. Now with a very heavy dose of Michael Buble.

What absolute bliss!
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SillyNanny321

Have Status Quo as my all time fav band & seen them more times than I can count I do like & buy cd’s from Korn, Deftones, Foo Fighters, Disturbed & many more. My son & 15 year old Grandson are into all these & more so get lots of recommendations from them in what to listen to or buy. There must be some more 80 year olds out there with similar tastes, hopefully. Just so I dont feel totally alone 😂

I love your style! Deftones, Foo Fighters and Disturbed are all on my playlist, along with so many similar bands.

I was born in 1950 and think we were incredibly lucky to have the music of the 60s/70s etc. I used to spend two nights a week seeing fabulous blues bands on Eel Pie Island, Twickenham (even once, the night before one of my A-level exams). Was also a Beatles fan club member and loved the Stones too. Still go out to gigs now and then.
These days, I hear the occasional modern track I quite like but my daughters and their children seem to prefer that of my own youth.
I well remember the day my younger daughter said, 'Hey mum, you really should hear this guy - he's called Jimi Hendrix'. I then showed her my stash of his albums...

Have to add to what I posted before - The Everly Brothers. ‘Let it be me’ was a much played record when my DH and I fell in love.

Do you really think there’s been no decent music written since the 1970s? It’s hard to know where to start really. The energy of some of the female performers like Amy Winehouse (such a sad loss), Florence Welch (amazing percussion), Dua Lipa and Wet Leg is infectious.

We often find ourselves taken by theme songs for television programmes, looking up the artists and listening to some more of their music. Ditto film and TV series soundtracks. Some of it we like and some of it we don’t. Radio 6 is a really excellent source of contemporary music from all different genres. And there are some really excellent presenters.

We have got our old favourites too, but some of it I feel like I’ve really moved on from and I find the lyrics of some old pop songs cringey (or positively dodgy) now!

Lahlah65

Do you really think there’s been no decent music written since the 1970s? It’s hard to know where to start really. The energy of some of the female performers like Amy Winehouse (such a sad loss), Florence Welch (amazing percussion), Dua Lipa and Wet Leg is infectious.

We often find ourselves taken by theme songs for television programmes, looking up the artists and listening to some more of their music. Ditto film and TV series soundtracks. Some of it we like and some of it we don’t. Radio 6 is a really excellent source of contemporary music from all different genres. And there are some really excellent presenters.

We have got our old favourites too, but some of it I feel like I’ve really moved on from and I find the lyrics of some old pop songs cringey (or positively dodgy) now!

This is also true. Young Girl by Gary Puckett and The Union Gap is one such song. I revisited this song recently and the lyrics are so dodgy.

Lovely memories here, thankyou for starting the thread OP. I don’t listen to much of today’s music so shouldn’t really comment . DGD makes me laugh when I start to sing along to something she thinks is new, “how do you know the words of that??!!”. I was lucky that my parents liked all sorts of music and so did I .

I love a lot of the current music. Try Alex Warren, Benson Boone and Teddy Swims, you may like them. My adult children treated me to a performance of Mumford and Sons in Manchester, it was the best present ever

I’m a 60s/70s fan but like some of the modern stuff. My main gripe is not being able to hear the lyrics. When I watch some singers on the tv, they seem to have the microphone right up to their lips so you can’t even guess what they’re saying. They get to the end of the song and I haven’t heard a word. (I have no hearing problem by the way).

vanessahumphries

I love a lot of the current music. Try Alex Warren, Benson Boone and Teddy Swims, you may like them. My adult children treated me to a performance of Mumford and Sons in Manchester, it was the best present ever

I love all of those!

I enjoy the sound of a lot of modern music but I'd love to be able to understand the words. If I really like a tune I have to google the song to find out what the words are. So annoying.

Well, I was born in 1943 and I can remember the outrage the Beatles and all that music had on the older generation. It was discussed on the radio, condemned as uneducated.

In fact there was the song wasn't there 'Fings aint what they used to be' talking about young people like me We used to have stars, Singers who sung A Dixie Melody. Now,they're buying guitars. Plinkety plunk, backing themselves with three chords only

I loved the 60s pop music but it was never enough for me to want to buy records or go to concerts. My music is classical music and my interest in popular music waned with my 20s.

I agree, there is a lot of lousy "music" nowadays, but also some very good records, or should I say downloads, I just can't think of any at the moment.
I'm sure my Mum and Dad cringed at music choices in my era, more so my older brother's records as he liked weird some really stuff. I loved putting Mum's records on the record player as I preferred that era to 70's/80's.