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Post by Deleted on Sept 7, 2015 21:40:18 GMT
Only today i was asked why a bloke a couple years short of 50 Years old listerns Avidly to Electronic Dance Music?
I had no idea that age had anything to do with it till i sat back & thought about it. Still no way will the comment deter me from doing so after all my Music collection & Studio Equipment are both geared around it..
Why should it matter?
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Post by AlanS on Sept 7, 2015 21:53:17 GMT
It doesn't matter. Why on earth should the question deter you?
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Post by John on Sept 8, 2015 4:01:02 GMT
I agree it does not matter we enjoy what we enjoy I guess the other person just saw it as unusual but nothing wrong with that
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Post by ChrisB on Sept 8, 2015 6:11:21 GMT
It doesn't matter one tiny little bit.
However, I guess it's true to say that the kind of folks who shuffle round in internet forums muttering stuff about hifi to each other do often have a common interest in certain types of music. A friend of mine selling some recordings on a forum at the moment and he was surprised at the number he has sold within such a short space of time. My feeling was that, to his chosen audience, he had the perfect products to sell.
You like what you like, Andre. I guess a few eyebrows were raised when you first let it be known that you were buying non-prog stuff but then a lot of folks have failed to understand your narrow but deep approach to music up to now. Follow your interests, no-one else will do it for you!
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Post by John on Sept 8, 2015 7:24:03 GMT
Just thinking about age and music in terms of my own life I certainly can see how my taste has changed over the years
In my teens I was very much into Heavy Metal bands like Diamond Head Van Halen Blue Oyster Cult and Boston were the main stable of my diet.
In my 20s I started getting into bands like Rush I never really did the prog stuff although in my 30s I got into bands like Dream Theater Pain of Salvation Psychotic Waltz etc as well as Fusion and some of the Gypsy Jazz scene
In my 40s I started to explore world music so I gained a liking for more exotic scales
The last few years I started to explore Jazz a bit
I just see music as a very personal thing. I cannot explain why I like what I like and have no idea what I be listening to in a few years time
Andre what amazes me is your depth of knowledge around your chosen fields and the passion you have for it
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Post by Clive on Sept 8, 2015 8:23:55 GMT
There are certainly almost no restrictions in the music we should listen to. I think many have a natural affinity to music we listen to during our formative years, probably late teens. I certainly sometimes play my old favorites from that era. I'm just guessing but his maybe persists quite strongly into at least our mid-30s. Personally I'm as or more likely to explore music from the 50s (jazz), this is before my original musical era as I was born in the 50s. Like John, Blue Oyster Cult was one band I listened to or should I say played with huge distortion! Who would have thought I'd be playing be-bop jazz though my interests are much wider than this. I might even play Sinatra or Vera Lynn on 78, or even Elvis on 78.
If there's one behaviour that bugs me it's folks my age trying to be like kids today, playing today's popular music and thinking they're cool because of it. I some respects I feel this is infiltrating their kids' musical space, it their kid's formative era, they don't want their parents being part of it. It's fine to know the music and artists to banter with the kids. Anyway..that's just my personal issue for therapy.
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Post by Slinger on Sept 8, 2015 11:11:01 GMT
At the age of 61 I still listen to a lot of the stuff I was playing when I was 21 but I've also cherry-picked some good stuff along the way and hopefully I'll continue to do so. To me I either like or dislike a piece of music (all right, I know there are plenty of grey areas, but for the sake of simplicity...) and when it was released has no bearing on that, otherwise I probably wouldn't be listening to music written in the 14th century, let alone the 21st.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 8, 2015 11:21:42 GMT
Andre what amazes me is your depth of knowledge around your chosen fields and the passion you have for it Thanks. You might have noticed by now my Interests are always within the Obscure/Underground side of it..this is why it may seem like that to you John.. I suppose you do have to have Knowledge to know about the depth of any underground scene.. I do buy a lot & study a lot, goes to making a passion i suppose. |
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Post by MartinT on Sept 9, 2015 21:52:22 GMT
I agree with all the above points. It doesn't matter and I don't see that age and musical tastes are in any way connected (although Ruth laughed at the audience for a Yes gig, saying that all the men were wearing leather jacket, jeans and a t-shirt and were of a certain age group). This is as true for classical concerts as it is for any genre of music and I love seeing students at the Festival Hall getting into Mahler or whatever.
Music is a universal language!
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Post by ChrisB on Sept 9, 2015 22:54:31 GMT
I remember going to a Paul Rodgers gig about 15 years ago and being amused at the conversations I was overhearing in the bar and thinking how different they were from the type of conversation I would have expected to be hearing when I had last seen him.
If you substitute:
"We had a few cans on the train on the way up and then Tom/Dick/Harry sparked up a f***in' massive doobie'
For:
"....and nowadays, all I have to do is push a button and it does it for me!"
You will have some idea of what I mean.
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Post by zippy on Sept 10, 2015 7:50:14 GMT
Music doesn't happen in isolation - we hear it around us all the time as well as that which we specifically sit down and listen to.
Our minds associate (mostly unconsciously) that music with events around us, so any preference for music from our earlier years isn't necessarily based on whether the music is good or bad.
At retirement age, I happen to like music from the 60's and early 70's, and a lot of more serious current music, but not 80's or 90's for some reason
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Post by Deleted on Sept 10, 2015 11:03:45 GMT
I agree with all the above points. It doesn't matter and I don't see that age and musical tastes are in any way connected (although Ruth laughed at the audience for a Yes gig, saying that all the men were wearing leather jacket, jeans and a t-shirt and were of a certain age group). This is as true for classical concerts as it is for any genre of music and I love seeing students at the Festival Hall getting into Mahler or whatever. Music is a universal language! I remember the 2nd time i saw Bjork live, it was at Sheffield Arena {Post tour i think it was} the majority of the crowd were teenagers.. |
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Post by MartinT on Sept 10, 2015 11:56:59 GMT
Yep, sometimes the crowd are as expected, and sometimes they can be quite surprising.
About the only time I've felt truly out of place at a gig was my son's ex band Clockwork. The music was death-metal-thrash stuff, played too loud with the amps screaming into distortion and the audience was 90% mosh pit and immediate onlookers. Still, he wanted my support so I was there, in body at least!
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