Why Is It, That As We Get Older...

[Jack Daw]

I still listen to a classic rock station for the morning commute that plays music from the 1970s when I was in high school. The popular music of my college years was the gawful disco, which I could not and still cannot stand. I also have collected CDs over the years from Led Zep, The Who, etc., and listen to them on occasion.

[davedove]

Everybody knows it's because those young whippersnappers only listen to trash and not real music.

[Jerry]

I listen to either of two stations. One is classic rock from the 50s through the 70s. The other is a country station. Ironically, my music of choice back in high school in the late 50s to early 60s was classical.

[Detroitpete]

Gunny, you're old--face it So am I! Turn it up and howl at the moon!

[Frank McGrath]

My musical tastes are along the lines of eclectic. My CD collection, though not large, includes The Beach Boys, Queen, some Bluegrass and country, German Oompah music, Pipes and drums, and Scottish/Irish rock. I also have a Dave DeBouy CD from Baltimore, Md. Crabs for Christmas. The obligatory Billy Joel collection. I mainly listen to classic rock stations on the radio. I just can't listen to the new stuff. Not after groeing up in the 60's.

[piperdbh]

I remember hearing James Taylor when I was in high school and thinking, "This is old people's music." Not too long ago, I went out and bought one of his "greatest hits" CDs.

[SteveB]

I listen to all genres of music. But then I grew up before the four Sassanachs changed the sound scene here. I was never a fan of their type of music, but play some of it today.

The band that I pipe in is oriented to the modern African music, and some Hip-hop. After I get home I like to play some Scot tunes to let my pipes feel that I still respect their birth in Fife....

She who pays the Piper calls the tunes.

Slainte

[Gunny5711]

Gunny, you're old--face it So am I! Turn it up and howl at the moon!

You're right, I am old. LOL. But I wouldn't have it any other way!

[Mikilt]

As I have grown older, music has become less important to me. Even to the point that I no longer listen to it in the car. Once in a great while though, I'll watch some Grateful Dead concert footage on youtube. That music still means something to me.

[Mike_Oettle]

DaveDove wrote: “Everybody knows it’s because those young whippersnappers only listen to trash and not real music. ”

Sounds rather like what our parents said back in the 1950s and ’60s.

And Frank McGrath wrote: “I just can't listen to the new stuff. Not after growing up in the ’60s.”

Well, there’s an awful lot of new stuff, and it’s been building up, year by year, ever since most of us stopped having the radio on with the current hits all day and every day.
There is good new stuff, there is bloody awful new stuff, and there is new stuff that I might never hear (or recognise).
My daughter’s choice of music for her wedding was all from The Nightmare before Christmas, played on the church piano by our neighbour’s son, who grew up with my kids and whose wife gave birth to their first child a couple of days later. I was surprised by it, and at first did not recognise it (for all that I have seen the movie several times), but I certainly recognised the tune played as we walked out of the church.
Is all my daughter’s music good? By no means. But she often surprises me pleasantly with her choices.

When I am in my car I listen to one of two radio stations:
1. A local station that broadcasts mostly the hits of about 20 years ago. Not marvellous, but good wallpaper most of the time.
2. A national station in Afrikaans that goes out of its way to present new stuff in Afrikaans, but also puts out pretty darned good stuff in English and other languages that ranges from the 19th century to the 21st. It also still has some classical music slots, which have disappeared entirely from our other national radio stations (especially the English service, which used to feature top-class classical regularly, along with other listenable material).

When I am at home, I use the TV to tune into a classical music station in Johannesburg, or my computer to pick up other stations.
And since I belong to a church music group, I get to learn and sing new numbers all the time – numbers which don’t appear on the charts, most of the time, but are best-sellers just like the Bible (which never appears on best-seller lists).
Regards,
Mike