Comments on: #140: Do Not Listen To Your Sorry-Ass Old Music

By: suzan

suzan — Tue, 09 Apr 2013 09:18:30 +0000

As a very long time music lover…i saw the Beatles in 1964…I think a lot of the comments about the quality of newer music is correct. But I still listen to JT and groups like f.u.n because their sound makes me feel younger….say yes to dub-step and trance out a little!..Only old people demand each song/artist be perfect or amazing…the energy in the music grows on you the more you listen to it!

By: Ellen

Ellen — Sat, 16 Mar 2013 14:16:36 +0000

Well, Pamela, you certainly ignited a discussion with this post 4 years ago! I think it was a good suggestion to keep yourself exposed to new music, and I am adding it to my iPod all the time, but only when it is actually good. Starbucks download cards are a great source of indie rock. A Pandora radio station can introduce you to new music that you then think is good enough to buy — my Mumford & Sons station has done that. But I gotta say, my twenties daughter steals from my iTunes library all the time when I’m adding more to my classic rock playlist and says she loves having a mom with great taste in music.

By: Bobbi

Bobbi — Thu, 16 Sep 2010 18:03:10 +0000

I love old rock as much as the next boomer, but when I was making out in the car with my 30 year old date and turned on my music he said it was a busskill. Enough said. Bring on the new.

By: Carole Lane

Carole Lane — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 18:26:49 +0000

I’ll never listen to the CRAP that passes for music today. Consider me a classic rock DINOSAUR for life.

By: Jim

Jim — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 18:21:15 +0000

My daughter has grown up listening to everything from Vivaldi to Glenn Miller to Talking Heads in our house. She comes home from school dances saying the music was ok to dance to, but otherwise terrible. The girls on the soccer team I coach sometimes start singing Journey for no apparent reason. I haven’t told them how much I dislike Journey, but it’s funny to hear them singing songs that came out when I was in HS. They also dance to rap and hip hop (DDR). I think you should keep what you like from your youth (and previous generations) and add new music as you discover it. There’s good new stuff out there, but it’s not easy to find since radio has gotten so bad.

By: Ms. D.

Ms. D. — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 22:07:08 +0000

I agree with some of the other posters — I have long said that the only “new” music that’s out these days that *doesn’t* suck makes no secret of its burning desire to sound like “old” music from the ’60s, ’70s, and even ’80s.

Embrace being OLD; the historical perspective you have is priceless.

By: Bob Music

Bob Music — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 22:27:35 +0000

The important thing is to be open to new experiences. You’ll find great music in any era and in any country. A 60s hippy who only listens to the music of his era is as pathetic and lacking in musical appreciation as kids today who think it’s uncool to listen to anything outside their own generation or genre.

By: Bob Music

Bob Music — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 22:09:17 +0000

Being concerned with being cool, guarantees you’re not. Living life on your own terms and not give a flying frig what others think might not get you cool but you’ll get a life.

By: Mark

Mark — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 01:19:20 +0000

My 15 year old daughter recently dragged me and the rest of the family to see Styx, REO Speedwagon and .38 Special. (She wanted to go for the Styx because she recently discovered them and has been really enjoying them).

She’s totally into Queen, Clapton, Jimi, Derek and the Dominos, Pink Floyd, The Who, and I can go on and on. Meanwhile, she’s also into a lot of new bands too.

But for my birthday this summer, she bought tickets to take me to see Bob Dylan. I’m not the Bob Dylan fan. She is. I enjoyed watching Dylan as well as Willie Nelson and John Mellencamp who opened as did she.

I also just drove her and two of her girlfriends out for pizza and on the drive, I listened to all three of them singing the words to all sorts of “classics” from the 60’s and 70’s.

I chuckled. These girls will not think you’re hip if you don’t listen to “Dad’s Sorry-Ass Old Music”. I’m serious. They ridiculed some of their classmates who didn’t see the value in this great old music as being “clueless and having no musical taste!”

So Pamela, by pairing up Elvis with Justin Timberlake, I think I understand. You are apparently sooooo far gone into the cluelessly uncool department that you’re having to struggle to be relevant and you think that you have to try to “not act old”.

Sorry, but being “old” and being “cool” are not mutually exclusive options. In fact, kids today who have a clue realize that “old” and “cool” actually go together very well.

Don’t be afraid to age gracefully and with style. If you appear to be insecure about it, and keep trying to pretend to be young, you will embarrass your kids and they will not want to hang out with you.

By: Ken

Ken — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 11:10:41 +0000

Trent – If it’s metal that gets you going check out Mastodon, Opeth, Kylesa or Meshuggah. They kick ass.