Anyone Here Like Older Music Better Than Modern Music?

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As it pertains to music , I would describe myself as being a moderate conservative, over all. While my tastes are fairly eclectic , they do tend to be more so traditional , or rootsy , in character . Basically , I will enjoy everything from trad pop , and "volksmusik" / schlager , on the more conservative end , to folk metal , and symphonic metal , on the more alternative end of the spectrum . Now my politics , on the other hand , are a different matter entirely . Incidentally , back in the day , the U.S. government actually deemed a preference for folk music as being a possible sign of a person being a Communist . So , just because a person may hold a more traditional view of music doesn't necessarily mean that their politics are going to likewise be conservative .

Yep, young and impressionable, but Sweetleaf is in her 30s (I think).

Yep

Was never a contest about enjoying older music over newer stuff. Though some of my older taste go way further back

On the matter of not liking rap, hiphop and country music. We are usually to some extent primed by our peers so naturally if your "besties" are Swifties and religiously listen to tay tay, then naturally you might want to deliberately "dislike" Beyonce (even if you can't help inadvertently bopping to Beyonce tunes playing in a shopping mall).

It amused me no end reading the negative comments about Kendrick Lamar's songs played in the superbowl as "inappropriate" because hiphop and rap is not "real music". But there were plenty of toddlers filmed dancing with unbridled joy to Kendrick's music on tv. Children usually don't lie unlike their parents.

Likewise country music has a rich history and a lot of good boot scooting toe tapping tunes I can't help but like. there is also a lot of pent up emotion and clever relatable lyrics.

Of course rap lyrics can be crude/vulgar and on the surface unrefined, but there is usually a message if one listens. Music is both visual and auditory art and like a lot of artforms its not for everybody.

I have a preference for older music. I like classical music, show tunes, Schlager music, and the music from the 60s and 70s.

My early exposure to music was mostly singing in chapel, and whatever the BBC saw fit to put on the home service, and of course, Radio Luxembourg, when when atmospheric conditions allowed. Then came Radio Caroline, the North Sea based pirate radio. The first record they played was the Stone's covering "not fade away". In due course the BBC bowed to popular pressure and gave us Radio One, dedicated to pop music, which we go on the school bus.

I mostly remember stuff like T Rex, Jerry and the Pace Makers, Freddy and the Dreamers, Herman's Hermits...

As a result, you only have to play me the opening note of any songs from back then, for me to be able to identify the song and the group. It's also true for the time I was in college; Dark Side of the Moon, Tubular Bells, and later World music (I love the Bundu Boys).

In contrast, I can hardly name any song from the 90s.

That brings back a few of my memories. Merseybeat was the first music I got into. I know the bloke who wheeled Freddie Garrity* into the operating theatre when he was about to die of heart failure decades later. He says he was still cracking one-liners at the time.

*Lead singer and clown in Freddie And The Dreamers.

I can identify all sorts of obscure grindcore and powerviolence songs by the first few notes or even a burst of feedback. I'd struggle to identify or remember most pop music I've heard.

Does this mean grindcore in innately superior, or just that I'm familiar with it?

The latter of course. Unless you spoke in jest, in which case lol.

Joking, but to make a serious point (which you understood).

Claiming that the music you're familiar with is better than the music you're not familiar with because you can remember the former and not the latter isn't a solid argument for the former being of higher quality.

It should be obvious that the music one is familiar with will both be easier to remember as well as more likely to have emotional meaning.

The stuff I grew up with is the best because I still remember it ignores both what I drew attention to above but also the general tendency to remember stuff from our most formative years through the lens of nostalgia.

Those two major subconscious biases will always impact how we view the stuff we were familiar with during our formative years. When people neglect to consider them, they're conceding an inability to even try to be objective. That's not to suggest that this is a topic that one can be entirely objective about, only that one can at least attempt to account for internal biases.

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Yes I think it's all relative. I've heard the kind of thing you've criticised called "objectifying the feelings." And I've heard getting it right called "owning the feelings." If there was more of that then there'd be less trolling, and I think folks would win friends and influence people more. But sometimes I think that what looks like projecting a feeling is just shorthand, and that the speaker doesn't expect anybody to take what they've said too literally. Language and its comprehension are rich and complicated things.

I guess what I like best is best because I like it is a little too transparent for most folks.

I don't know much about art, but I know what I like.