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As time has gone by, I've discovered other genres well worth exploring,
but the genres I embraced in my teens ('60s Rock and Prog Rock)
are still my musical Home Room today.
My hypothesis is that many of us "absorb" the music we heard around us in our teens.
It not only becomes familiar to us (so we still enjoy hearing it years or decades on),
but it perhaps molds our sense of what music "ought to" sound like... so that later,
when we hear something very different, we might say: "ehh, that's no good."
Obviously, this isn't a comprehensive theory... it doesn't explain why I like one '60s artist
and don't like another, or like some songs by a particular artist, but not others, etc.
The answer is because the 1960s/70s were such a prolific period of amazing music there is so much left to discover. Thanks to many online deep cuts 70s stations I have been blessed to hear for the first time some incredible music that passed me by the first time around 40+ years ago.
Today's new music is really awful. Not worth wasting your time on or pretending to like just to appear "relevant" to your peers.
I actually feel bad for people like you. There are so many amazing musicians and amazing music out now that you will never seek out to hear. I am so thankful to be alive in this time with 100 years and counting of recorded music.
As to the OP, I think it is because for most people it isn't so much the music they like but the nostalgia and good feelings it provides.
I think people get stuck in a rut because they refuse to open themselves up to exploring new music. They have made a decision that it's all bad and don't wish to prove themselves wrong.
Music was not quantitatively better or worse in any particular era, it's just that music has a way of attaching itself to memories and for many people their teenage years especially feel like a better time, a carefree time. So the music of that particular time is deeply embedded in and associated with those nostalgic feelings.
There is nothing wrong with that, it's perfectly normal but I do get annoyed by people saying there is nothing good outside of their era of choice. It's extremely narrow minded and dismissive of people like me who really love music from all different periods and still find music to enjoy to this day.
I like Spectrum too, but also classic vinyl. I love Blackberry Smoke, Nathaniel Rateliff and the Night Sweats, Warren Haynes, SRV, just a combo of old and new.
I'm 70 and have always loved music, not just my era!
I recently discovered them. :-) I enjoy them quite a bit.
I think for some people, it's not so much the era, or not just the era, but the type of music- especially those "NeW MuSiC sUckS" uncultured philestines. I've heard music from the sixties, and I do like the Beach Boys, but to me, there was too much soft ass rock back then. Those people would probably like bands that come real close to some of those bands, like Train, or Gin Blossoms, if they'd give them a chance. Or some early grunge like Mother Love Bone. Most people don't even try to explore music, There are bands I'd jever know about, if it weren't for me letting random videos play, or checking out suggested videos, like The Codine Velvet Club, on YouTube.
I mostly listen to 90s and early 00s music, but when I find something I like, I download it, and mostly rock. There's good music all through the ages, if you know where to look... and actually look. And people always going on about how they don't like rap or hip-hop, outside of simply not liking the genres, don't have at least one song they might like, just don't make sense. And it doesn't make you regal or all sanctified, or one of the popular kids, because you brag about not liking rap, or hip-hop.
My hypothesis is that many of us "absorb" the music we heard around us in our teens.
It not only becomes familiar to us (so we still enjoy hearing it years or decades on),
but it perhaps molds our sense of what music "ought to" sound like... so that later,
when we hear something very different, we might say: "ehh, that's no good."
That's funny, because I really don't like, or only selectively like, most of the music I grew up with in the 70s. I still listen to Steely Dan, Doobies, America, the Stones, Poco, Michael Stanley Band, the Moody Blues, Linda Ronstadt - throw in Dreamboat Annie, Peter Green's Fleetwood Mac, a couple Chicago or ELO songs, a few guilty pleasure pop singles, and I'm good for that era.
The rest of it - nope. Once I got to college in the late 70s and was exposed to the Clash, the Police, Talking Heads, the Cars, B52s, the Ramones, my musical tastes changed almost completely. I still seek out new music whenever and wherever I can - and social media makes it so much easier to inflict my tastes upon unwitting friends!
I am a baby boomer who sees so many my same age uninterested in listening to any music other than the rock they grew up with? Why is that? Doesn't it get boring?
I grew tired of 70s music long ago. I first started listening to older music....big band, standards, bop, etc. I also started listening to some country. Of late, I've been listening to a substantial amount of hip hop and of newer artists of the "singer/songwriter" genre. I only listen to a 70s tune now and then for nostalgia sake. But to listen to nothing but? How can people stand the repetition?
I'm in my 30's and listen to all these 60's and 70's classic rock bands, but lately I've discovered Mariah Carey, Christina Aguilera, Alicia Keys, Rhianna and electro dance music etc..
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I'm 32 and listen to a lot of 60-70's stuff but also modern stuff. Not so much country or hip/hop though...but I like Eminem.
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