Have your musical tastes changed in your older years? (anniversary, cousins, movies)

[katharsis]

When I was a teen from 1966-73, I did not like most of the easy listening type songs , with about the only exception being the Carpenters. However, for about the last ten years, I have found that I 'love' most of the male singers from the 50's and 60's, particularly Matt Monro, but also Frank Sinatra and Andy Williams and others, too -- it's like some days I can't get enough of that type of music (although I still like 60's pop, classical, and country/western, too.)

Have you noticed a change in your musical tastes?

[greatblueheron]

No more electric guitar for me!


More jazz, classical, soft rock/pop.

[eliza61nyc]

I think it's more of the fact that I'm probably more "open" to listening to other genres. Last year I went to the Capital jazz festival, now I'm not a big jazz lover, I really went because a few of my cousins were going and I wanted to see them but I was pleasantly surprised but many of the acts especially some of the "up and coming" artist.

I think when I was younger I simply wouldn't think to try any thing else. I was a die hard R&B, motown gal with some blue eyed soul thrown it (doobie brothers, hall and oates.)

lol and my guilty pleasure, only in the car secret is Bruno Mars.

[Serious Conversation]

I'm much more musically open-minded now than I was ten or fifteen years ago. I used to be into almost exclusively rock and metal. I listen to a lot of blues now and electronic dance music, with some old school country on occasion. I still listen to mostly rock and metal.

I can't imagine ever liking rap.

[V8 Vega]

Popular Rock & Roll all my life except now that I'm old don't really care for music, right wing talk radio all day and sometimes into the night.

[Nonchalance]

Yes and no?

I grew up on music of every kind, but what stays with me, and what I still love, are the great standards, classical, jazz, and blues. I don't mind 'elevator music!'

I must have seen almost every classic rock act, and every now and then I will cherry-pick a Cream or Blind Faith or Doors or Airplane or some such playlist.

Never, ever liked techno, screechy or rap.

[jim9251]

I've always liked big band and classical, still do. In the 60's when all the kids were listening to The Beatles, I was listening to Glenn Miller, Count Basie and Benny Goodman.

[pikabike]

Dontcha know you’re supposed to start the thread title with “Old People:”???

I still like the music I liked when younger, plus a wider range of styles now.

[Nonchalance]

Originally Posted by jim9251

I've always liked big band and classical, still do. In the 60's when all the kids were listening to The Beatles, I was listening to Glenn Miller, Count Basie and Benny Goodman.

Same here---but the Beatles eventually won me over with their fade-in guitar intro to Eight Days A Week.

[BBCjunkie]

My musical tastes are identical with what they have always been, with only the addition of various New Age artists (David Arkenstone, David Lanz, Tingstadt & Rumbel, Mannheim Steamroller) when they first appeared during the 1980s.

I still love the classic pop/rock of the 1960s through the 1980s but my #1 favorite band of all time, ever since their 1967 debut, is the Moody Blues. I've seen them in concert twice. Unfortunately due to tinnitus I can't attend concerts or movies anymore because of the noise level; otherwise I absolutely would have gone to one of their 50th Anniversary tour dates this year.

I never liked country music and still don't. Didn't like rap when it first appeared and still don't, although on a technical level I appreciate the fact that basically it's a form of poetry combined with rythym. It's the lyrics of rap that turn me off. Also never could get into opera either.