who here liked music BEFORE Kurt Cobain off'd himself?

[fNord]

I was talking to a girl I worked with today, and after a wile of chatting with her about music, I realized that she was 3 when Nirvana went with both a bang and a whimper....but is that an excuse for not being able to appreciate music that isn't gracing the top 20 today? I am a fan Of The Who, Queen, Frank Sinatra, Louis Armstrong, and Ludwig van Beethoven.

[RiffRandell]

1. Me, although I was a big Nirvana fan.

I liked Queen, The Who, The Band....but punk rock were my roots----Pixies, Circle Jerks, Minor Threat, Ramones, Black Flag, Descendents, D.R.I. and Blondie. I kbnow I have more, just can't think right know as I'm over tired but can't sleep.

[OriginalGeek]

3. DRI just played here

and I couldn't go. Ugh!


But at least I've seen them a couple times so I guess I shouldn't complain. The first time I saw them was before Nirvana was even a band. At least, before they were wildly popular and before I heard of them.

The Pixies were excellent at Orlando Calling last summer.


As regards OP. Me too. My playlist has country, jazz, blues, metal, classic rock, modern rock, indie rock, classical, hip-hop, and weird stuff I'm not sure where it fits.

But not one single Nirvana song.

[RiffRandell]

5. I saw them for the first time in 1986 at a roller rink in Enfield, CT.

I was 16, saw them several times after that---got backstage when I was 18 and hung with Felix. Saw them last May at the Masquerade in Atlanta, was right at the front of the stage and had a good conversation with Kurt. KARMA!

[Joe Shlabotnik]

2. As a 40 year old

I think Nirvana and the grunge scene was one of the very few things that my generation contributed to modern culture. I'm heartened to see 20-something year olds being socio-politically active now, and I'm glad they're doing it, far more so than my generation. Nirvana and the like typified our neurosis, dissolution and effeteness. But ya I'm with you. I'm a fan of non-corporate, non-top 40, nonconformist, generally not very popular music. IMO, despite the odd gasp and whisp of hope, the quality of music pretty much died around 1980.

[Pool Hall Ace]

4. Wait, what??

There are people who actually think that music began with Kurt Cobain?

[HopeHoops]

6. I pretty much ONLY like music prior to that point. A few exceptions, but mostly.

[pipi_k]

7. Goes way back...

My mom told me I used to rock to "Mr Sandman" by the Chordettes back in the 50s when I was a tot of two years old.

After that, my musical tastes turned to the likes of:

Ray Anthony
Cannonball Adderly
The French Nun (Dominique)
The Ink Spots
The Dukes of Dixieland
Elvis
Homer and Jethro
The Everly Brothers


(some of the above courtesy of my dad, who also liked music)


Then the music of the 60s

And the 70s

And even the 80s

With a fair amount of Classical mixed in.

After that, there's a dropoff, as music started to suck a bit...as I mentioned in another thread...sometime during the mid 1990s, although there's still some isolated good stuff, just not as much.

I even like music from the 40s, long before I was born.

If I ever went deaf, I don't know if I could stand it. I would much rather lose my sense of taste or smell.

[Bake]

8. Good music has always been around.

That's all.



Bake

[saras]

9. Richard Thompson: 1000 years of popular music

Of course, for me it would be before the Beatles, but my oldest live recording is from 1897 (John Philip Sousa), and oldest written music around 1000 years old (the abovementioned Richard Thompson album).

Some people like music because they like music. Some people like it because it's about their peer group and their experiences, and these folks often don't relate to music that their peer group doesn't relate to, because the peer communication, not the music itself, is the point. If you express enough interest, they will listen to different music, but simply because you are and they want to relate to you, not because they like it for its own sake.

[BootinUp]

10. You can't appreciate music you haven't heard.

What are you prepared to do? lol.