Hey you kids! Get off my lawn! Why modern music sucks.

[Glamrock]

[Docreed2003]

1. That's freakin brilliant!!!

[Glamrock]

2. And true!

Or, I'm just a old man....

[Docreed2003]

3. Well you may be old as hell...

Doesn't make it any less true!

Lmao

[Glamrock]

6. Hey man!

I don't know about old as hell.... I'm not quite 50......yet. But I am almost there. How did that happen? I'm giving up aging for my New Years resolution. That's it!

[Docreed2003]

7. Hahahahaha!!

[janterry]

4. I was in a thrift store a few weeks ago

and started to listen to the lyrics of a song they were playing from the radio. It was about a girl (or a boy, I forget) who thought they found true love because the other person helped them when they drank too much and threw up.

I mean. Like. A song? A pop song? With that crappy uptempo pop thing. I threw up?

My daughter listens to all of that mess - thankfully she also likes 'better' music, too. When I was young, I never listened to my parents music - so it's kind of nice that 'kids today' listen to everything. But, ITA about pop. It really is a simplistic formula - and I can't imagine anyone listening to it in 20 years. It will be forgotten.

[Glamrock]

5. True that! Most of these "artists" will be forgotten.

But Zep, The Beatles, Dylan, The Stones will still be selling records....

[DetlefK]

8. There is a great storyline with this premise in a webcomic.

The webcomic was "Starslip Crisis", it was in a science-fiction setting with spaceships.

In the storyline, the future sends an army back in time to the present to prevent a catastrophic incident from happening.
But the current rulers in the present don't want to give in to the time-travellers and the time-travellers are powerless, because they cannot kill anybody important without changing the future for the worse.

That is, until they find a loophole: They start assassinating popstars, because, even though they are famous now, they are entirely irrelevant in the grand scheme of history of mankind.

[John1956PA]

13. Sounds like that song ought to be titled "I Get Dry With Little Help From My Friends." n/t

[TEB]

9. Glam you make me laugh

[Glamrock]

10. That's what I's here fo baby!

[Duppers]

11. Even my 31yo son agrees.

Yay.

- oldie but goodie here

[PatSeg]

12. Nice to know

that it isn't just because I'm "old" or that I'm attached to the music of my youth and don't have an open mind about newer music.

[Glamrock]

14. Nah

I'm damn near 47 and my favorite music is from 66-78ish

[PatSeg]

15. The same with my daughter

She is more inclined to like music from the mid sixties through the seventies, much of it rock and pop. My son is younger and he likes a wider variety of music, which includes classical, Irish folk, and country, as well as pop.

I think the 60s through the 70s was a golden age of music. I keep discovering "new" old music and wondering, "How did I miss that?"

[Glamrock]

16. That's where I'm at.

At times, I've felt old. But who wants to listen to Nickleback when you're discovering Leon Russell?

[PatSeg]

17. I seemed to have missed him

I went to YouTube to give a listen and he was extraordinary.

My daughter was more of a rock fan, so I didn't pay a lot of attention to some of her music. Finally she got me to listen to Queen and they blew me away, still do.

[Glamrock]

18. Ooooohhhhhh I just adore brother Leon.

Thing is no one, no one sounds like him. At least in rock. RIP brother Leon.

But you get my point. Why would I want to listen to Taylor Swift or Justin Timberlake when there's so much better non electronic, non dubbed, non sampled music from the 60's, and 70's?

GET OFF MY LAWN YOU KIDS!

[PatSeg]

19. Yes, he has a blues sound

that is unique.

Another thing that is annoying with more modern music, is the extensive use of "auto tune", so you often aren't really hear a singer's true voice. Who needs talent, when you have auto tune? And even then you can drown out the vocals with loud synthesized instrumentals and call it music.

Yes, we live in a time when we have access to decades of extraordinary music, why would we listen to crap?