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NutmegCT

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I'm so old, Hildegard of Bingen is pop music to me.

What new "pop" music are you guys listening to? Unfortunately what I hear today from car stereos and "rave concerts" seems to be obnoxious loud feedback screeches and people screaming. I just hear noise, something I can't relate to - not the sounds of "music" which I can remember and sing/play again.

What music, and bands, do you listen to today?

Thanks.
Tom M.
 
NutmegCT said:
I'm so old, Hildegard of Bingen is pop music to me.

What new "pop" music are you guys listening to? Unfortunately what I hear today from car stereos and "rave concerts" seems to be obnoxious loud feedback screeches and people screaming. I just hear noise, something I can't relate to - not the sounds of "music" which I can remember and sing/play again.

What music, and bands, do you listen to today?

Thanks.
Tom M.
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I don't normally listen to music except in the car (bluetooth), sometimes on the computer.
Since all the stations I used to listen to have gone corporate, I subscribe to an alternative.
It a radio station located in Freedom CA that plays American roots music from early 1900s to around 1960.
They are likely to mix R&B, rock & roll, folk, country, blues or jazz during the day.
It is NEVER background music for me and once I'm listening I hate to turn it off.
My wife can't stand it, for even a second.
I used to blast it in the garage when I used to work on cars or other projects.
 
maynard said:
I use Sirius to listen to 1940's music
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I prefer to let the DJ mix it up.
BTW: I like both kinds of music...Country and Western.....
 
I'll go all the way from middle ages chant to current. for current artists off the top of my head.

Sabrine Carpenter
Ed Sheeran
Dua Lipa
Miley Cyrus
Maddie and Tae
Ashley Monroe (both as a single and with Pistol Annies)
P!nk

I don't say I like everything each has done but there's enough good stuff they're on my music stick. and there are several other current as well.
 
mikephillips said:
I'll go all the way from middle ages chant to current. for current artists off the top of my head.

Sabrine Carpenter
Ed Sheeran
Dua Lipa
Miley Cyrus
Maddie and Tae
Ashley Monroe (both as a single and with Pistol Annies)
P!nk

I don't say I like everything each has done but there's enough good stuff they're on my music stick. and there are several other current as well.
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I can't say I would recognize any of those artists.
But I live in a vacuum.
 
Country and Western are the only stations on my truck. (y):rolleyes2: PJ
 
NutmegCT said:
I'm so old, Hildegard of Bingen is pop music to me.

What new "pop" music are you guys listening to? Unfortunately what I hear today from car stereos and "rave concerts" seems to be obnoxious loud feedback screeches and people screaming. I just hear noise, something I can't relate to - not the sounds of "music" which I can remember and sing/play again.

What music, and bands, do you listen to today?

Thanks.
Tom M.
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My musical tastes are similar to yours.
 
I’m not a current pop music fan. I listen to Sirius in the car, the classical music channel, which I could listen to all day. At home, it’s mostly WCRB (Boston classical) streaming, or MVY ( rock, americana, roots, etc.) streaming from Martha’s Vineyard. Can you tell I miss New England?
 
NutmegCT said:
I'm so old, Hildegard of Bingen is pop music to me.

What new "pop" music are you guys listening to? Unfortunately what I hear today from car stereos and "rave concerts" seems to be obnoxious loud feedback screeches and people screaming. I just hear noise, something I can't relate to - not the sounds of "music" which I can remember and sing/play again.

What music, and bands, do you listen to today?

Thanks.
Tom M.
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You sound exactly like my father when I was in my teens. All his 'good music' ended in the 50's (truthfully the 40's) Each generation gets to pick their own music and the generation before gets to hate it. I don't love a lot of new music and listen mostly to 70s-80s but there is new stuff - like the names aforementioned that I do appreciate.

I also think that we forget that most of the music of our generation has had half a century (or more) for the cream to rise to the top. (when was the last time you heard Seasons in the Sun or Last Kiss (even by Pearl Jam)) I ran into this perpetually with church music - where people ragged about the insipidness of contemporary Christian Music forgetting that 90% of the classic hymnody stopped being sung a century ago - leaving only the top 10% (or less) and forgetting that we don't have the luxury of waiting a century to decide if contemporary music is any good. We just have to listen and sing till we figure it out.

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Why Old People Hate New Music

The music from our youth holds a special place in our hearts. Why?
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OTOH - RE: Country and Western.

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In my last church we had a 'gospel music early service' - it was to be the 'good old music'. In reality it was for all the golfers to get to church early enough to hit the golf course before it got too hot.

The keeper of the music was a lovely man named Jack and one day after the service he tore a strip off me for this newfangled hymn we sang called "Guide Me O Great Jehovah" (Published in 1745 :rolleyes2: ) To this day I don't know how he got to be 80 and Presbyterian and still not know 'Guide Me O Thou Great Jehovah'.
 
Every generation seems to have unique musical taste and generations that follow usually find it to be irritating. It is almost like each generation strives to find something that bothers those who are older. It was the same hundreds of years ago when I was young.
 
Does seem interesting that few guys are listening/enjoying/concert going, to Lady Gaga, Justin Bieber, Sabrina Carpenter, Alex Warren, Ravyn Lenae, Tinashe, Chappell Roan, Doja Cat, sombr, Tate McRae, etc.

(Found these on a Spotify "Today's Top Hits" page.)
 
My tastes are fairly eclectic, they typically cover everything from baroque music to 90s rock, with outliers on either side being some medieval music and some rap. I feel like Garth Brooks is more pop than country and everything after him has been nothing but bad pop music, so I don't tune into country stations. On the radio I usually listen to classic rock stations, partly because I find classic rock to be inoffensive to my ears and partly because its lack of dynamics makes it easier to listen to with the top down. At home I listen to a lot of jazz, blues, rock (60s through contemporary), and classical (baroque through 20th century mostly). As far as actual modern pop... I own one Adele album (a woman was involved in the purchase of that), I own Lorde's first album which I do thoroughly enjoy, and I own both Amy Winehouse albums, though I find them kinda hit or miss.
 
Some of what I listen to is things they've played on the so called classic rock station I listen to. I say so called since while they play things from the 90s and earlier, they also play current things. So I run across someone I like on occasion and go check Youtube for songs from that person/group. Now I don't like everything most artists do, but it is a great introduction to things I might not normally listen to, or music videos I wouldn't have seen. But I hit stuff I grew up with too, like from my college days, Simon and Garfunkel in Central Park and America there too in 79.
 
Had the chance to go to S&G in Central park the beginnings of the 80s. Guy I knew down the hall from me lived in NJ just across from the city and several of us were going to rush over from western OH, do the Saturday show and come back. But, then it was announced that The Kinks were going to play locally and he and most of the others decided they wanted to go to that instead. Always sorry I missed the Central Park show.
 
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