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I'm a child of the 80s-90s. I was born in the wrong era. Give me Led Zeppelin, the Beatles, Cream, Pink Floyd any day.
It was only when I was in my 20s that I started to appreciate 90s music. Its very strange.
But yeah, I do fall into the stereotype of not understanding music of those who are younger.
The funny thing is that my 16 yo son likes all these bands as well. He's going through a Beatles thing right now. He also likes the newer heavier music. The local bands in our small town do the growling, moshing stuff. So, it's not dead it's just evolving. Our local stations will never play anything good. We have 3 country stations, 2 light rock, 1 tweeny station, and 3 christian stations. Our kids have to down load and play their own music.
I'm a child of the 80s-90s. I was born in the wrong era. Give me Led Zeppelin, the Beatles, Cream, Pink Floyd any day.
It was only when I was in my 20s that I started to appreciate 90s music. Its very strange.
But yeah, I do fall into the stereotype of not understanding music of those who are younger.
I go even further back I have a HUGE vinyl collection, and most of what I have is old swing and instrumental records from the 20s and 30s. I also have a lot of 40s/50s and 60s stuff and some 80s just for fun.
I've never really understood the *new* mainstream music..just seems really angsty and whiny to me. Give me some Briertone and I'm a happy gal
Okay VictorianPunk I think I've figured out the problem. Since the 1950's womens liberation has evolved and emasculated men including the music they like. Then on top of that you get the metrosexuals involved and real men just don't stand a chance.
BTW I am female. I don't like my husbands music, although I do tolerate it....Metalica, Slayer, Megadeth, etc.
There's not a lot of incentive for younger people to create their own art when the older generation tells them it's all been done, so they better just appreciate the superiority that THEY created. The kids should put down the Rock Band, tell their geezer parents where to stick it and come up with something really innovative all on their own just for themselves. That whiney stuff sounds more like boring adult contemporary radio fare. It just fuels the parents to mock their kids music when it should be the opposite. Nah, too lazy, let's just bring back the 80s.
There's not a lot of incentive for younger people to create their own art when the older generation tells them it's all been done, so they better just appreciate the superiority that THEY created. The kids should put down the Rock Band, tell their geezer parents where to stick it and come up with something really innovative all on their own just for themselves. That whiney stuff sounds more like boring adult contemporary radio fare. It just fuels the parents to mock their kids music when it should be the opposite. Nah, too lazy, let's just bring back the 80s.
That's an interesting point. I can see the value in doing something totally new that's not another form of rock at all. Not sure what that'd be.
I guess one possibility "in the spirit of rock&roll's origin" would be abandon guitars and embrace some ethnic group looked down upon. Maybe have percussion-focused Arab-tinged music or something. Or a Mexican/Punk fusion with big weird displays of Mexican flags everywhere and symbolic Aztec human sacrifices. Now that'd be shocking!
Music has been sliding terribly throughout much of the 20th century. Here's some real music (played by a student of Liszt himself), several items in the playlist:
Older music, or film, often looks better because the really boring or awful stuff tends to get forgotten. (Although it may linger in the memory if it was awful in an amusing/campy way like some monster movies) I remember when I really started listening to an oldies station that played '60s music I was surprised to find so many songs I'd never heard before and how so many of them were not that good. "A World Without Love" performed by Peter & Gordon is, for me, one of the most annoying songs I've ever heard. "Sugar Shack" by Keith McCormack was also fairly irritating or at least blahh.
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I have a HUGE vinyl collection, and most of what I have is old swing and instrumental records from the 20s and 30s. I also have a lot of 40s/50s and 60s stuff and some 80s just for fun. 
