How many here DON'T listen to the music of their childhoods?

"Childhood" being any time-period up to adulthood. Also, this is in reference to rock and pop, not classical and jazz. Both of those, in my opinion, have a timelessness to them that generally defies the dating of each decade, unlike rock and pop.

I think I can name on one hand the bands still getting my approving attention that also hailed from the decade of my teen years: the seventies. Here's the first four to come to mind: Kraftwerk, Bill Nelson/Be-Bop Deluxe, Mike Oldfield, Tangerine Dream. Really, I can't stand the popular music of the sixties and barely tolerated the popular stuff of the seventies (the use of disco in "Airplane" being the only memorable exception.) Thankfully, an early introduction of the public airwaves (KPFT locally) saved me from a life of musical desertification as happened with the commercial airwaves.

So here I am, fifty years of age, and listening to "Tag's Trip: Progressive house / trance" on somafm.com and loving it! :D

I love modern music, other than the commercialized pop and rock, and am so very thankful for the likes of online stations like somafm. It lets me keep up with the times while still discovering the off-the-wall weirdness of all decades (thank YOU, weirdomusic.com!)

So, do any of my fellow "oldtimers" have similar evolutions (Dev-O-lutions!) of their musical tastes as I? Or am I the odd man out, as usual? ;)

from each decade. I switch back and forth between the '40s, '50s, '60s, '70s, '80s and '90s stations on my Sirius/XM radio. As soon as I hear a song I don't care for I switch to another station as I don't want to sit through songs I don't like. The '50s is probably my least favorite decade of music. The '80s is my current favorite. I'm going to check out the stations you mention, they sound interesting.

They do have some links to people streaming music, but they are primarily there for finding downloads and streaming by other eclectics like us :)

Also try "Beware of the Blog" from WFMU.

The only stuff I can stand from those decades is the Beatles and a few other exceptions.

Some of the older stuff holds up and some doesn't. But I have to have new music regularly, preferably something that shakes me out of any musical comfort zone I may be sliding into. I never want to be that person who listens to only what they liked in high school. I can't. I won't. :)

I get tired of music very quickly, though if I haven't heard a song in a long time I'll enjoy it, but I can't listen to it for long before I'll tire of it again and move on to something else. I'm rarely stuck in a rut. I hear industry people say things like "People like to listen to what they know" Not me. I prefer new.

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The first cassette tape I ever bought was Metallica's Master of Puppets. I still get a kick out of it when I hear the title song and a few others, but I don't go out of my way to listen to it. On the other hand, my iPod includes plenty of stuff from the same era that I never listened to back then and really wasn't even aware of -- Talking Heads, for example.

That said, I listen to stuff from the 60s onward (my iPod overfloweth with Bob Dylan), but most of the stuff I listen to is contemporary -- I think I've got every album by the Hold Steady on the iPod.

And then, of course, there's new stuff by old bands. The Beastie Boys' latest album is their best in years.

Probably my favorite album of all time.

now was it? :P

i want to hear from the eclectics like myself. Those around here that are always posting links to their favorite sixties rock/pop band aren't normally listeners of the broader spectrum of rock and pop. Commercial radio molded them perfectly }(

Unless I'm mis-interpreting what you said. I'm reading it as someone that still listens to the commercial top-40 stuff from their childhood and not anything else. Did you mean "everything else"?

Frankly, most of the stuff from those albums STILL don't get air time on classic rock stations. But yes, I did listen to the commercial stuff on the rock stations - Heart, Rush, Journey, Bad Company, Aerosmith, etc. The concept of "commercial" mutated a bit. I used to listen to a lot of country music as well, but then shitheads like Ricky Scaggs showed up on the scene and it all turned into formula shit. I heard one at a bar recently, one of those fake "patriotic" country songs about supporting the troops so he could drink cold beer and wear blue jeans. What the FUCK?

Rock changed too. Even my favorite band of the time, Genesis, went down the dark path. I never got into the grunge thing and rap just isn't music. Bubble-gum pop is too stupid to comment on - but it is still out there. Berlin was a good early 80's entry and Enigma was a good 90's entry. Bond is just mind blowing. There are occasional newcomers with talent, but most are just crap with a gimmick like that Bieber kid.

The radio wasn't my chief influence. You rarely if ever heard Adrian Belew, Air Supply, ELP, older Genesis, King Crimson, Santana, Spyro Gyra, Earth Wind & Fire, Weather Report, or Bobby McFarrin (other than that "Don't Worry, Be Happy" thing). Now Yes, The Who, Eagles, Cars, Alman Brothers, Styx, Sting, Steve Miller, Steppenwolf, ZZ Top, Pink Floyd, Phil Collins, Peter Gabriel, newer Genesis, Moody Blues, Meat Loaf, Led Zeppelin, Kenny Rogers, Kenny G, Journey, Jim Croce, James Taylor, Heart, Foreigner Eric Clapton, Elton John, CCR, Chicago, Bob seger, Billy Joel, Bad Company, Alabama - yeah, those all got play time.

Anyway, my middle daughter has classic rock running almost around the clock. She can pick out songs and artists within a note or two and she knows the lyrics better than I do. That's pretty cool. She doesn't like the top-40 shit on the radio or most of the stuff her friends thing is awesome. I gave her my 1978 "Death Before Disco" shirt and she wears it regularly.

And many of the bands you mention I did hear on public radio (if I wasn't also playing them when I had a show of my own), but not so much on commercial radio. Although after about 1978, I didn't really know what was aired on commercial radio, unless I was in the presence of someone that had never "ventured" below 92.1 FM

However, public radio broadened my interests considerably. The stuff I mentioned above won't ever get played on commercial stations, nor have most DJs even heard of them. Anything "instrumental" just isn't played, unless it's the soundtrack to a movie or TV show (think "Hill Street Blues" theme for an example.)

So now, I listen to online stations or find it in download format from all sorts of cool sources. I suppose I could resurrect my music thread from a couple of years ago, making sure to have updated links. Our fellow eclectics might like that :)

I listened to it too much. Though I've discovered after avoiding it for a couple decades I can enjoy it again. Thankfully, corporate radio chased me away from the airwaves. I'm not exposed to the same music repeatedly. Now my tastes spread over a spectrum of decades and nationalities.

I found our local Pacifica station in 1977 and dropped corporate music not long after that. I was exposed to such a wealth of music, the likes of which I'd never imagined! Morton Subotnick, Philip Glass, negativland, Zoviet France, Killing Joke, Throbbing Gristle, Deuter, and even PDQ Bach! :D I'd never hear any of that on commercial radio and it's led me to seek out even more genres.

I work with someone that only listens to whatever pop the commercial stations present to her and refuses to even try one second of the stuff I have recommended that's of a higher quality and still within the realm of pop. If it's not on the commercial stations, it doesn't exist or isn't worth hearing. But I keep trying to "open her ears" so to speak anyway. maybe something will slip in ;)

i turned 13 in 1994, so my musical world was shaped quite a bit by grunge and alternative. my top three favorite bands are unchanged from about 96, but there's just some stuff from that time i just can't stand anymore. i had nevermind on an endless loop for awhile, now i can't stand nirvana unless they're doing someone else's music.

I was just saying that I've heard it said people like to listen to what they know. It's why radio stations repeat hits. That's what sells. But I much prefer to discover new stuff. I get tired of hearing the same old stuff over and over. I want to music to stimulate my brain. I think some people like to hear music to take them back in time, or to just chill out to, and there's nothing wrong with that. I think a lot of people do a little of both. It's just different listening styles.

music that was popular during my youth.

get depressed whenever I hear it. I was in my teens in the 60s and it was a sad time for me - my dad died, my mom got cancer and died too. I hate the 60s and try to forget them.

I like 80s pop, though. It reminds me of when my three kids were teenagers and how much fun it was having them and their friends around.

I guess I have a nostalgic fondness for some of it, but don't really go out of my way to listen to much of it, other than Prince and Talking Heads (plus some 80s stuff that I discovered after the fact, like REM or Tom Waits). My high school years were when MC Hammer and Paula Abdul ruled the roost, and I pretty much switched to classical and classic rock, which I still like despite it being overplayed to death.

So I guess I still like the music that *I* was listening to as a teenager, but a lot of it wasn't really current music at the time. And my tastes overall are pretty broad. Just about the only genre of music that I've found that I can find no redeeming value in is Chinese Opera.

The 90s to me were just a nothing era as far as music goes. After the amazing music in the 80s -- everything from Talking Heads to Prince to the Cure to Echo & the Bunnymen to New Order to Peter Gabriel to R.E.M.'s early stuff to the U2 "War" era to Joy Division to the Smiths (How Soon is Now -- MY GAWD what a song!) to the ska-influenced stuff from the Specials and the English Beat and on and on the 90s were like, meh, nothing interesting. I like a lot of the newer bands now much better than I did the stuff that was coming out in the 90s.

I was truly a child in the 70s and I listen to a bit of that (Van Morrison, Stones, etc.), but not that much.

of my teen years and early adulthood. God I hated that decade.

was from the '40s and '50s. The '50s stuff is OK, but I would not go out of my way to listen to it.

like you I found community radio in about 1983 (?) and prefer variety and uncommon music. The station deteriorated a lot in the late 90s, early 00s but all it takes is a few minutes on a comercial station to make rush back.

I am a product of the '60s, went to Woodstock, went to art school with students who became the Talking Heads ....

I saw Led Zep on their first year of US tours, and never listened to them after that.

I got burned out on rock by the '80s, and like the Heads and many others started listening to other pop traditions from around the world, African, Caribbean, Latin, etc. Much more interesting music.

I grew up exposed to many styles of music, learned more in college, and frankly think that rock isn't all that interesting, except when I am in the occasional mood for it.

When I go back to the old stuff, I listen to the Stones, Stevie Ray Vaughan, George Thorogood, roots rockers of any kind. I hate pompous rock, anthem rock, rock with pretensions of various kinds. I have all the Beatle albums and never listen to them; they were simply overplayed.

Rock really hasn't changed since the 60s and seems to be stuck going in endless revival circles. Occasionally something will stick out as particularly good within the genre, but I feel no need to learn the new stuff, because it is mostly just like the old stuff, only less original. Rock in and of itself is derivative of earlier styles, merely adding electronic amplification to those styles.

IMHO there was almost a decade between the mid-90's and the mid-00's where there was some stuff happening, but most of the music from that time was dreadful. Being out in the sticks with no interesting radio stations didn't help.

I listen to stuff from the 90's and some of the more recent good stuff, but if you'd asked me this question 5 years ago I would have said that I totally listen to the music of my youth.

I also like stuff from the 50's, 60's, 70's, and 80's, but I find that I can't listen to a lot of it at a time. I think the instrumentation sounds off somehow. :shrug:

I listen to all Asian music now .. Jpop,Jrock, Visuel Kei, J~Ska, Kpop, Cpop, Thai music. Its all so fresh and new to me.

I was hugely into Debbie Gibson. I still like Electric Youth, but her other albums not so much. I was into NKOTB, and am not now. I like Tiffany's newer stuff. I'm not as much of a Mariah Carey or Celine Dion fan. I still like country music, but not into it like before. I buy certain country artists but don't buy as much from the genre. I like R&B music (Bruno Mars, Cee Lo Green, Alicia Keys) more than when I was younger. I listened to classic rock back then, and it's my favorite genre now.

Holy God Almighty 90s music blows chunks.

I still listen to music from the 50's to the 80's mostly.

Tell me these weren't good musical times:

The 50’s
1. Rock Around The Clock - Bill Haley and His Comets
2. Rock and Roll is Here To Stay - Danny & the Juniors
3. Blueberry Hill - Fats Domino
4. At The Hop - Danny and the Juniors
5. Little Bitty Pretty One - Thurston Harris
6. The ABC's Of Love - Frankie Lymon and the Teenagers
7. All Shook Up - Elvis Presley
8. Little Darlin' - The Diamonds
9. Come Go With Me - Dell-Vikings
10. Kansas City - Wilbert Harrison
11. Love Is Strange - Mickey and Sylvia
12. Be-Bop-A-Lula - Gene Vincent
13. I'm Walkin' - Fats Domino
14. Peggy Sue - Buddy Holly
15. School Day - Chuck Berry
16. What'd I Say - Ray Charles
17. The Stroll - The Diamonds
18. Goody Goody - Frankie Lymon and the Teenagers
19. Stood Up - Ricky Nelson
20. Chantilly Lace - Big Bopper
21. Wake Up Little Suzie - The Everly Bothers
22. Great Balls of Fire - Jerry Lee Lewis
23. Tutti Fruitti - Little Richard
24. Rumble - Link Wray
25. Yakety Yak - Coasters
26. Love For Sale - Billie Holiday
27. Ragtime Cowboy Joe - The Chipmunks
28. Endless Sleep - Jody Reynolds
29. Standing On The Corner (Watching All The Girls Go By) - Four Lads
30. Tequila! – Champs

The 60’s
1. The Twist - Chubby Checker
2. Build Me Up Buttercup - Foundations
3. Sugar Pie Honey Bunch - Four Tops
4. This Old Heart Of Mine - Isley Brothers
5. More Today Than Yesterday - Spiral Staircase
6. Heatwave - Martha and the Vandellas
7. Ain't Too Proud To Beg - Temptations
8. The Loco-Motion - Little Eva
9. Jimmy Mack - Martha and the Vandellas
10. Sweet Soul Music - Arthur Conley
11. Let's Spend The Night Together - Rolling Stones
12. Rainy Day Woman # 12 & 35 - Bob Dylan
13. In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida - Iron Buttefly
14. Louie Louie - Kingsmen
15. I Fought The Law - Bobby Fuller Four
16. They're Coming To Take Me Away, Ha-Haaa! - Napoleon XIV
17. I Think We're Alone Now - Tommy James & the Shondells
18. Light My Fire - the Doors
19. Psychotic Reaction - Count Five
20. Who's Makin' Love - Johnny Taylor
21. I Dig Rock and Roll Music - Peter, Paul and Mary
22. Ringo - Lorne Greene
23. Palisades Park - Freddy "Boom Boom" Cannon
24. Itsy Bitsy Teenie Weenie Yellow Polkadot Bikini - Bryan Hyland

The 70’s
1. Disco Inferno - Trammps
2. Brick House - Commodores
3. Y.M.C.A - Village People
4. September - Earth, Wind and Fire
5. Stayin' Alive - Bee Gees
6. You're My First, My Last, My Everything - Barry White
7. Last Dance - Donna Summer
8. Flash Light - Parliament
9. Heart of Glass - Blondie
10. Play that Funky Music - Wild Cherry
11. Born To Run - Bruce Springsteen
12. Dancing In The Moonlight - King Harvest
13. Rock On - David Essex
14. You're So Vain - Carly Simon
15. Low Rider - War
16. Signs - Five Man Electrical Band
17. Watching The Detectives - Elvis Costello
18. We Got To Get You A Woman - Todd Rundgren
19. Life is A Rock (But The Radio Rolled Me) - Reunion
20. Sub Rosa Subway - Klaatu
21. Jazzman - Carole King
22. Afternoon Delight - Starland Vocal Band
23. Your Mama Don't Dance - Loggins and Messina
24. Sky High - Jigsaw
25. Painted Ladies - Ian Thomas
26. Old Time Rock and Roll - Bob Seger
27. Brown Eyed Girl - Van Morrison
28. Some Kind of Wonderful - Grand Funk Railroad
29. Only The Good Die Young - Billy Joel
30. Rock and Roll All Night - Kiss
31. Sweet Home Alabama - Lynyrd Skynyrd
32. Rock and Roll - Led Zeppelin
34. My Sharona - The Knack
35. Margaritaville - Jimmy Buffett



The 80’s
1. Love Shack - B-52s
2. What I Like About You - Romantics
3. Dancing With Myself - Billy Idol
4. Rock The Casbah (Mustapha Dance) - the Clash
5. Antmusic - Adam and the Ants
6. Girls Just Wanna Have Fun - Cyndi Lauper
7. Train In Vain (Stand By Me) - the Clash
8. Just Like Heaven - The Cure
9. Situation - Yaz (Yazoo)
10. Sledgehammer - Peter Gabriel
11. Eye of the Tiger - Survivor
12. Thriller - Micheal Jackson
13. Jessie's Girl - Rick Springfield
14. It's Still Rock and Roll To Me - Billy Joel
15. She Bop - Cyndi Lauper


Every now and again in these more modern times I might find a few songs I enjoy. :shrug:

I don't go out of my way to listen to the teen idols of my youth such as Shawn Cassidy, John Travolta, The BeeGees, The Osmond Brothers and Eric Carmen. I do listen to some oldies occasionally but mostly stuff like the Beatles, Rolling Stones, and Motown hits.

i only listen to white noise and static.

NO ONE WILL LABEL MEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!11111111

and you don't like the music you grew up with, Shame on you!! (Need I add: :silly:)

One of the best things about being born during that time period was our wonderful music. So many good artists! So many terrific songwriters!

as my childhood music. I have vague memories of my Dad's Three Dog Night records in my very young youth. Then the 70s came and mom and dad split and she remarried and went deep in to the bible so from about 74 until I graduated high school I wasn't allowed to listen to anything other than a bit of country (we lived in Texas and some of them did sing about the Lord) and church music. I graduated in 81 and left home 3 months later to begin life away from having others do my thinking for me and the first thing that happened was I got a job and met a friend who had nothing to do with church and he showed me Led Zeppelin. Zep is still my all time favorite band but they also got me into everything from metal to folk and blues and jazz and I am just now getting around to getting caught up on all the 70s and 80s stuff that I missed while paying attention to Zep, Rush and Sabbath and thrash only through most of the 80s.

Just saw Blue Oyster Cult live for the first time last Thursday. They were great. A couple weeks ago I went to see Devin Townsend, SepticFlesh and Obscura and in May I attended my 3rd Maryland Death Fest in a row...

Right now my winamp has about 30,000 songs queued up and sorted randomly and the last several artists were
Thelonius Monk and John Coltrane
Hank Williams III
King Crimson
Three Dog Night
Absu
New York Dolls
Motorhead
Rotting Christ
Suicidal Tendencies
Weather Report
Cattle Decapitation

and I love it all

So I guess I do listen to the music of my youth but I also listen to music from most everyone else's youth too lol...

:headbang:

Disappointed a bit in the new Septicflesh CD. It's good, but I loved the previous one. Would still like to see them live though.

Nice mix of genres. My Itunes is the exact same way. Here's my last 10...

The Gories
Ihsahn
Pentagram
Michael Franti
Duke Ellington
The Fucking Wrath
Melvins
David Bowie
Yob
Pig Destroyer

Too much good music to limit ourselves to just one genre. :)

Yessir - way too many good things out there to limit one's self.

One of the funnier things is even though I lived a VERY sheltered high school life, I still heard people complaining about how much "DISCO SUCKS" and I guess I believed them but it didn't matter since I wasn't allowed to listen any way...but I confess that now I start dancing in my chair when Jive Talkin' comes up in the rotation...lol

(and I am noting the Gories and The Fucking Wrath for exploration - new to me! thanks!)

The Gories are broken up, but this is the current band of the Gories main man, Mick Collins.

My father was always into music. Neil Diamond, Three Dog Night, Chicago, disco, rock...I got to hear a lot of things early on, and that's where my love of music comes from.

Overplayed, overrated for the most part.

I find current off-the-beaten-path stuff way more interesting. I'm glad I'm in KPFT territory also.

:rofl:

My childhood music was crappy compared to what I like now.