Were we spoiled?

Strangely enough I think it’s folk music these days that’s evolving and reinventing itself.The Folk on Foot podcast features the folk chart each month and the music is so variable. It also features a different singer or group each month. And I love Scandinavian music eg GOAT and Heilung. I don’t like rap, though. And I didn’t discover a new favourite band at Glastonbury this year.

Our son is a big music fan and loves music from the eighties but he also loves the music we used to play when he was a child in the late sixties and early seventies, he recently bought a box set of Neil Diamond CDs for £5 in his local record shop, he says they will remind him of us, his current favorite music is anything by Wings or Yes. His 17 year old daughter Mia is following in his footsteps, she likes the music of today such as Sabrina Carpenter but she also likes some of the oldies, she was in the car with us and I’m Not In Love by 10cc came up on our playlist and we were surprised when she said she loved that one. When our son visited yesterday he said he had bought Morissey’s latest CD but Mia had commandeered it and was playing it in her room. I love that music can bring families together.

A very eclectic mix of musical taste in our household. 16 year old resident grandson keeps us up to date with modern stuff and artists ( including language/slang/trends etc. very enlightening 😂). He in turn came with us to 2 Springsteen gigs last year and has a Bruce disco most mornings whilst hes showering for school.
Win/ win I reckon
BTW. How on earth did I miss David Draiman and Disturb’d cover of “
Sound of Silence” all that time ago? Wow. Gives me goosebumps every time I listen

I absolutely love Disturbed's cover of The Sound of Silence - David Draiman's voice was made for that. It turns it into a completely different song.

My era was 60s, 70s and 80s but I really lost interest after that as there were fewer original artists and songs. The 90s brought lots of repetitive electronic dance music along with rapping and satanic stuff which I loathe. Give me peace and love not darkness and hate.

We certainly enjoyed the golden years of music but not all of it was great. I have noticed how repetitive some of the older stuff was, often with one line repeated over and over. I can't listen to any of that stuff now. 'Message in a Bottle' is a good example. I have to switch it off.

My benchmark for a good song is whether I can listen to it 60 years later and still love it. Lots of Beatles songs still hit the mark especially John's songs.

The songs that last forever are the ones with layers of sound which you never get tired of hearing. They lift you to somewhere else. 'Golden Brown' by the Stranglers is in my top ten.

Gosh, Alexa has just played Disturbed's 'Sound of Silence' as requested.
Thanks for the suggestion.

Chestnut

My era was 60s, 70s and 80s but I really lost interest after that as there were fewer original artists and songs. The 90s brought lots of repetitive electronic dance music along with rapping and satanic stuff which I loathe. Give me peace and love not darkness and hate.

We certainly enjoyed the golden years of music but not all of it was great. I have noticed how repetitive some of the older stuff was, often with one line repeated over and over. I can't listen to any of that stuff now. 'Message in a Bottle' is a good example. I have to switch it off.

My benchmark for a good song is whether I can listen to it 60 years later and still love it. Lots of Beatles songs still hit the mark especially John's songs.

The songs that last forever are the ones with layers of sound which you never get tired of hearing. They lift you to somewhere else. 'Golden Brown' by the Stranglers is in my top ten.

I'm tickled by the fact that you say you love songs about peace and love, yet Golden Brown is in your top 10.

Roots reggae all the way for me!

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Chestnut

My era was 60s, 70s and 80s but I really lost interest after that as there were fewer original artists and songs. The 90s brought lots of repetitive electronic dance music along with rapping and satanic stuff which I loathe. Give me peace and love not darkness and hate.

We certainly enjoyed the golden years of music but not all of it was great. I have noticed how repetitive some of the older stuff was, often with one line repeated over and over. I can't listen to any of that stuff now. 'Message in a Bottle' is a good example. I have to switch it off.

My benchmark for a good song is whether I can listen to it 60 years later and still love it. Lots of Beatles songs still hit the mark especially John's songs.

The songs that last forever are the ones with layers of sound which you never get tired of hearing. They lift you to somewhere else. 'Golden Brown' by the Stranglers is in my top ten.

I'm tickled by the fact that you say you love songs about peace and love, yet Golden Brown is in your top 10.

Because 'Golden Brown' is all about peace and love. It's such a beautifully crafted song with fascinating layers of sound and that amazing keyboard.

It has two meanings, one being the soothing effects of heroin and the other being a relationship with a woman. He believed that the drug could bring peace and the woman could bring love.

Since when is Rap Music ever "music"?

More like an abomination. I wish there was a stronger word to describe such twaddle.