Inspired by a recent music thread: How many of you over the age

[janx]

of 50 listen to new music? I ask this because I do and my brother does, but some of my friends don't and haven't for a long time. ?

[graywarrior]

1. I do.

My MySpace page is mostly new music.

[janx]

4. I'm not surprised!

By the way, I abandoned MySpace and went to FaceBook...I can't keep up with any of it.

But I'm like you--I love new music. I now have XM in home and car and can't get enough of it. Coldplay, Cirque du Soleil, MuteMath, etc... I go with classical, blues, alternative, jazz, rock and roll, electronic--I just love music. I can't get enough! (Just now listening to Los Lobos--Jenny's Got a Pony.)
:toast:

[Broken_Hero]

2. I'm not over 50, but

I'll speak on behalf of a 50+ friend of mine, who did in fact listen to new music...

He enjoyed Linkin Park, and Airbourne.

[janx]

6. I don't know those yet and will check them out. n/t

[Capn Sunshine]

11. May I suggest Incubus?

and Hoobustank and Anthrax ... and of course Velvet Revolver and Hollywood Undead. Depends on the mood. But they have all made enough money to get on my radar, which is an arcane form of money management....

[janx]

13. But do they sound good?

:rofl: I'll take your recommendations any day. ;-) I'll check them out online.

Young adults have given me some good suggestions. I'm lucky in that regard, and I'm amazed that some middle-aged to old people are not open to new music. Some of my old fart friends who teach music have turned me on to some new music also. ;-)

[S n o w b a l l]

14. Yes, they do...here's their most well known song

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7zN9vd9WUiA

And I've always loved this song.

[janx]

15. YES! I've heard this--

great vocals!

[Broken_Hero]

12. The songs that hooked my bud were:

by Linkin Park:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NC0U_zoOQKI

by Airbourne:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mBAJjO8rFD0

My bud was a huge Hendrix, AC/DC, Vanilla Fudge, Boston fan.

[Kat45]

27. Yeah, I like Airbourne.

Glad to hear someone else picked up on them. I never hear anyone mention them.

[Broken_Hero]

32. To be honest,

I heard them via a Guitar Hero game, my bud thought they were AC/DC....

[EndersDame]

3. I am in my twenties but I hope I never grow too old and set in my ways not to explore new things and

music. I do however go back and try to find good obscure music from previous generations. I really thought the 8os and 70s only produced crappy disco and pop but have expanded my horizons

[janx]

5. The eighties were awful, for the most part.

There were some exceptions, but primarily, they were terrible. The sixties and seventies were times of great innovation.

My kids are in their twenties, and they explore music the way you do. My now young adult children and students have introduced me to some great current music. Cheers!

[Common Sense Party]

19. The eighties were actually fantastic and full of great music.

I guess you had to be there.

[enigmatic]

24. I agree w/ this

That was the Golden Age of what used to be called College Rock; Husker Du, The Replacements, R.E.M., The Minutemen, Black Flag etc.

It was a great time for music if you weren't listening to the radio..

[Capn Sunshine]

20. what!?

B-52s ? REM? U-2? Police? Aerosmith v 2.0? Van Halen? UB40?
Paul Simon's Graceland? The Cure? Squeeze?
You didn't like any of those?

[kentauros]

28. The key to any decade is to never listen to commercial radio!

Ever! Do not comply! ;)

The 80s gave us Devo, Oingo Boingo, a renewed King Krimson, negativland, more Eno (that's always a good thing :D), The Talking Heads, TMBG (They Might Be Giants), The Rev Horton Heat, Fishbone!

I'll have to go through my collection to remember the rest... :P

[Tuesday Afternoon]

7. I do. I just don't devote the same amount of time to it that I once did.

time...whose idea was that anyway?

[janx]

9. It's still a good idea.

;-)

[S n o w b a l l]

8. Of course I do...

I can't imagine being stuck in the 80's. What do they listen to?

[janx]

10. Ric Ocasek, if they're smart or lucky. n/t

[Lydia Leftcoast]

16. I listen to the Current (our public radio's local and new music service) when I'm driving

I like some of the stuff, can't stand other things, just like when I was younger.

[XemaSab]

17. I am 30 and I haven't listened to too much new stuff in the last 10 years

and a big part of the problem is that most of the stuff in the '00s SUCKS. :P

[EndersDame]

34. Les Savy Fav, White Stripes, Gogol Bordello, Goldfrapp, Franz Ferdinand Arcade Fire

Les Savy Fav- The Sweat Descends
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ob52pK_VfZQ

Gogol Bordello- Wanderlust King
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=elyQ4ShVw-Y

Arcade Fire
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9zdNdjF-htY

White Stripes-Seven Nation Army
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6j7huh5Egew

Goldfrapp-Ooh La La
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3wEzPgXOaHg

Franz Ferdinand-Take Me Out
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x_9GR9kdZ3o

[janx]

39. Franz Ferdinand does rock!

I hadn't heard Take Me Out before though. Thanks--I'll download it today! :hi:

[BuddhaGirl]

53. my 57 yo hubby LOVES Arcade Fire and turned me on to them!

also Fleet Foxes, the Killers...all great stuff. Will check out your links :-)

[Common Sense Party]

18. I'm barely past 40 and I can't stand most new music.

I have stumbled on a few newer bands I like--Kings of Leon, Iron & Wine, Bell X-1...

But most new stuff I hear bores me to tears.

[Blue_In_AK]

45. I love Kings of Leon.

Great band.

[bluethruandthru]

48. I Love Kings of Leon! n/t

[jberryhill]

21. Ummm... how "new" is Green Day? /nt

[janx]

40. If you're over 50, Greenday is new, yeah.

;-)

[Prisoner_Number_Six]

22. I'm constantly expanding my horizons.

I'm 54. The day I stop exploring new music will be the day I die.

[Iggo]

23. I definitely do.

But I haven't always. I used to only listen to Sabbath, NWOBHM+Scorpions, and the Original Gangsters of Thrash (Metallica, Megadeth, Anthrax, Slayer)+Pantera, and that was pretty much it. I'm 48. That's a lot of years listening to nothing new.

Then I started going to OzzFest regular, and seeing 20 bands in a day, 15-18 of which I'd never heard of, and I got the fever again. And the only cure is...new music. (You thought I was going to say "more cowbell", didn't you.)

EDIT: Oops. I see you said "over 50". Still, I think 48 is close enough.

[LibDemAlways]

25. I'm over 50, but I have a 16-year-old. I've been to numerous

concerts in the last couple of years headlined by bands she likes. Some have been quite entertaining - others, meh. Most recently I took her to see Green Day. Great show. I won't do the pit though, has to be a seat. Anyway, at Green Day there was a couple in front of us who were both in their 60's and looked to be country club types. I don't know if they wandered into the wrong show or what, but they seemed to be enjoying themselves. I hope I never get too old to want to listen to something new - well, "new" for me, anyhow.

[hibbing]

26. Great Topic

Hi,
I don't listen to commercial radio, I do watch Dave Letterman though and he has had musical guests on that let me find some new stuff (Avett Brothers, my newest most favorite band ever). I just don't know where to access stuff or explore groups that I might like. I know that sounds lame but it is what it is. If anyone has some suggestions on how to find new groups I would love to hear some. I feel I lost it all about 10 years ago in terms of discovering new music.

I think that when I first realized I am an old fart was when I heard Family Affair on a commercial and then got it and rocked it realizing later it was like 5 years old already.

On edit I don't have any kids and my sister inlaw has her kids (early 20s) load her player with music. I guess I'll have to ask her for some recommendations.

Peace

[Kat45]

29. My boyfriend and I are always checking out new music

and we're in our fifties. We also go to concerts when we can. He's (was) a musician so he has much broader taste and a more open mind about music than I do. Most of what I hear I don't particularly care for. There is some stuff I like and a very tiny bit that I love. My favorite of the new(er) bands is Buckcherry. Good raunchy hard rock. I've seen them in concert 4 times and I have all their albums. As a matter of fact, my first real date with my boyfriend was to a Buckcherry show! (My idea; he wasn't familiar with them at the time, but he's glad I turned him on to them.)

[Ron Green]

30. I'm well over 50 and would desperately like to find some new music that doesn't suck.

I have played music all my life and still do: jazz groups, symphony orchestras, bluegrass bands, blues jams. I know what good music sounds like. If you can steer me toward some new stuff that's harmonically interesting and not just some recycled piece of the rock panoply, I'd appreciate it very much.

[kentauros]

31. Start here:

Free Albums Galore :D

Also, the Internet Archive. Many new artists (Netlabel and Creative Commons) have their cuts here.

[mvd]

57. Thanks for the link - will bookmark

I like plenty of modern, mainstream music, but I also always look for stuff I might be missing. :hi:

I'm 33, but my parents are 60+ and still like music from when they were young up to now, as well as classical.

[kentauros]

61. Here's another one to bookmark:

somafm.com

It's an excellent online radio station if you want to stay current without going to commercial radio or don't know when the good stuff is being played on public radio :)

[mvd]

65. Thanks again!

:thumbsup:

[EndersDame]

33. Gogol Bordello

Wanderlust King
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tnXRWycjiBg

SuperTherory of Super Everything (acoustic )
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zOWx5G76pkU

[janx]

41. Do you ever listen to Sirius/XM radio?

NO COMMERCIALS, and a huge variety of new, old, and ancient music--not just rock. Try it! :hi:

[BuddhaGirl]

54. you might check out Radio Paradise

it's a GREAT internet station, a good eclectic mix :hi:

[Forkboy]

35. I'm not there yet, but I can guarantee if I'm still alive at 50 I'll still be listening to music.

The real question I would have is, how many listen to and seek out NEW music, and don't just still listen to what they liked in high school?

[janx]

42. Exactly! n/t

[old mark]

36. I like White Stripes, Green Day, some others - I keep finding "new" stuff from a few years ago

that I missed at the time - I just found the Cowboy Junkies-and some good musicians I missed because I didn't like the first song I heard of theirs and ignored the rest of their work till later, like Motley Crue (I really like their guitarist, Mick Mars - he's a blues player in disguise!)

I really liked the louder punk bands,Sex Pistols, Ramones, Social Distortion are my very favorite punkers.

I'm 62, and will be picking up another SG guitar this afternoon.

mark

[janx]

43. I know what you mean. Radio stations frequently pick up one

selection from a band and push it...over and over and over, so we never get to hear the other tunes.

[Captain Hilts]

37. I'm 50 and I try to. The radio is so useless. So, I do it online. nt

[mulsh]

38. I'm 52 & I keep listening to new music.

I'm fortunate, I live in the SF bay area in a house that gets all sorts of great radio stations. I mostly stay in the lower left hand of the dial, that's where the newer music lives. I don't listen to top 40 rock n roll radio stations and I try to stay away from stations with 25 song rotations. Other than those criteria I listen to every kind of music I can find.

As Louis Armstrong said, "there's two kinds of music the good kind and the other." I listen to as much of the good stuff as I can find.

[Blue_In_AK]

44. I'm 63, and I do.

I still like the old stuff, too, but I think some of the classics have gotten really old and overplayed.

[Tikki]

46. We do...

We can still remember the sting that we felt in the late
70's when we put a new record on our turntable and most of the
people either asked us to change it or changed the music themselves to the radio.

We still listen to the newspapers' choices for 'best new bets' and scope out the internets
on recommendations..but, most of our new music discoveries come from listening
to certain radio shows we know.

We listen to stations like wfmu and kxlu and the public radio stations.

The Tikkis

[bluethruandthru]

47. I do! n/t

[hippywife]

49. I'm 51 and I listen to new music but

it's never the stuff that's found on the highly commercial corporate radio stations. I listen to folk, Americana, roots, blues, like that.

My house and car radios never leave NPR, but my puter is always playing really good music from far away. :hi:

[retread]

50. Not sure what you mean when you say new music? Live? Recorded? Top 40? New artists? New releases by

"older" artists? Old recordings I've never heard ?

[Inspired]

51. I do. I love a lot of it.

[Richardo]

52. I do. 'Classic' rock bores the shit out of me.

But it has to be something with a little talent and musicality attached to it.

[tigereye]

55. I do - there's lots of amazing new music coming out all the time!

:hi:

[EFerrari]

56. I was very lucky in the late 90s and commuted with my kid for a year.

He was the radio jockey and that's how I got to know a bunch of newer bands. Not so much since, then, though.

[nemo137]

58. My mom, who's 50, has the musical taste of a 16 year old indie girl.

She once asked me how I'd like Sufjan Stevens to be my step dad, and loves Bright Eyes.

Granted, she introduced me to Elvis Costello and the Talking Heads (to the point where my girlfriend thinks it's weird that I think that "More Songs About Buildings and Food" is comfort music), so I guess it's fair.

[kwassa]

59. Music that is new to me is any genre I haven't listened to before

or artists within a genre that are new to me. Internet radio is bringing in a vast world of music to me that I haven't heard before.

I started tuning out of rock in the mid 80s, and only occasionally pick up on a band that reaches me. Green Day, Dave Matthews, a few others.

Last week on Internet radio I listened to stations that played baroque classical, early jazz, cajun, electric blues, New Orleans piano players, salsa, merengue, soukous, and zouk.

but I was listening to most of these styles 20 years ago, too.

Rock and roll has been repeating itself for forty years. It is hard for newer artists to come up with anything particularly original as it has all been done so many times. Much of rock is merely electrified forms of other music that came before it. So ... the world of music is large, and much of it is more interesting and complex than rock.

[OffWithTheirHeads]

60. I'm 59 and counting. My first apartment was two blocks from

the Fillmore West. I knew Big Brother when they were a garage band. Went to speedway Meadows every Sunday. Saw the Stones at the Cow Palace when the warm up band that no one had ever heard of was some group called Jefferson Airplane. My last rock concert was Altimont. If I never see a rock concert for the rest of my life, it will be too soon. I played in a garage band with one of the members of Journey (He was a better guitar player than me)and I stopped listening to contemporary music during the disco era. I actually liked Rap in the beginning as it seemed to have some Reggae overtones but now, if I listen to anything, it is classical in one form or another. Either the European white guys or the gypsies of Flamenco or good Spanish guitar. And then there is Reggae. I love Reggae but I could give a flying pop about pretty much anything that makes it to the corporate controlled airwaves these days.

[Skittles]

62. I listen to current stuff on the car radio

I like some of it

[zanne]

63. I'm over 50 and always looking for new music.

Lately, I'm liking music in the jazz genre. And blues. Any suggestions? I find it hard to find music for people my age.

[KatyaR]

64. I do now, but I hadn't listen to much music at all for quite a while.

Back in the day (I'm 52), I was all music, all the time, but as I got older, a lot of sad events plus a couple of major bouts of depression ruined music for me. I still have trouble sometimes, but I'm a lot better now.

I'll tell you what got me back to listening and enjoying music--BBC Radio One on XM and "Doctor Who Confidential." Radio One plays much better stuff than any of my local stations, and no stupid car commercials! As for "DW Confidential," each one of the new DW episodes has a corresponding "Confidential" which is a behind-the-scenes show. They use popular music, and I don't know who makes those selections, but they are freaking BRILLIANT--I've found so much good music, it's insane. I never knew artists like Muse, the Prodigy, Snow Patrol, Robbie Williams, Kasabian, Julien-K, Lostprophets, Newton Faulkner, the Proclaimers, Franz Ferdinand, the Killers, and David Guetta until the last couple of years.

And the sand painting video from "Ukraine's Got Talent" turned me on to Apocolyptica--I've always loved good string music, and their music gives me chills.

Music--just another reason to love those internet tubes!

[Bennyboy]

66. I only listen to new or old music....

I don't listen to commercial radio music. I listen to shows mostly. Today it was Van Morrison, Miles Davis from the sixties, but yesterday it was Phish from the shows i saw last week.