Were we spoiled?

Since when is Rap Music ever "music"?

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

ViceVersa

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.

Roots reggae all the way for me!

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.

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

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 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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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 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.

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’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).

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

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 .

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.

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!

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.

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...

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.

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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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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 😂

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.