Changes in music tastes

1968hawkeye

1968hawkeye

US Veteran
Joined
Sep 4, 2002
Messages
96
Reaction score
7
Location
Brevard, NC - Used to liv
I am finding that my tastes in music is reverting back to my youth. Take for example Van Morrison's new CD "Astral Weeks Live at the Hollywood Bowl." I picked up the CD a couple of weeks ago and like it very much, even more than the original album that came out in 1968. In fact I'm listening to it right now. It is definitely not "Brown Eyed Girl" or "Moondance."

It seems lately the CDs I have been buying are remasters of classic vinyl line Cream's "Disraeli Gears" and "Wheels of Fire," Blind Faith's self titled only album and Eric Clapton's "461 Ocean Boulevard." Great albums for sure.

The best recent CD purchase has to be the 50th anniversary re-issue of Miles Davis' "Kind of Blue." This is one great collection of classic jazz.

Also since I moved here to western NC two years ago from FL I find myself also listening to and liking Bluegrass.

Has your like in music changed or is it the same as it has been.

Hawkeye
 
Register to hide this ad
I am finding that my tastes in music is reverting back to my youth. Take for example Van Morrison's new CD "Astral Weeks Live at the Hollywood Bowl." I picked up the CD a couple of weeks ago and like it very much, even more than the original album that came out in 1968. In fact I'm listening to it right now. It is definitely not "Brown Eyed Girl" or "Moondance."

It seems lately the CDs I have been buying are remasters of classic vinyl line Cream's "Disraeli Gears" and "Wheels of Fire," Blind Faith's self titled only album and Eric Clapton's "461 Ocean Boulevard." Great albums for sure.

The best recent CD purchase has to be the 50th anniversary re-issue of Miles Davis' "Kind of Blue." This is one great collection of classic jazz.

Also since I moved here to western NC two years ago from FL I find myself also listening to and liking Bluegrass.

Has your like in music changed or is it the same as it has been.

Hawkeye
 
My tastes have never changed. I was brought up listening to everything from big band to bluegrass to classical. Was a long haired hippie guitar player back in the 60's and believe the 60's and 70's to be a watershed for music, especially in this country.

I like a little of everything except (c)RAP, which, if I was being charitable, may be free-form poetry of dubious talent and quality with a drum beat but does not qualify as music in my book under any circumstances.

As a musician, my observation is that people tried to distinguish themselves and produce something different and fresh in the 60's/70's and NOT sound like everyone else, where as every time someone manages to do something a little different these days there are immediately two dozen copy cats and they all have recording contracts . . . . it all starts to sound the same, to me, and I have a pretty good ear.
 
My taste have not changed and I agree with Fred about RAP. I prefer instrumental over vocal and the 60/70 sounds are my favorites.
 
N Frame,
I recall one riff Michael Savage once did on rap. He called it "hieroglyphics, with a beat". Never heard it put better!
 
My music tastes run the gamut, depending on where I am and my mood. I like smooth jazz at home, light rock at work, contemporary hits in the car.

I just found www.pandora.com internet radio and that's working out really well.
 
I have a greater appreciation for C&W and 40s Big Band now.
 
My tastes have changed too. I grew up listening to Country and Western and 60s-70s rock and roll. I'll bet I haven't listened to either genre in 5 years now. I have migrated to Jazz, Classical, and Big Band.
 
Originally posted by NFrameFred:


"I like a little of everything except (c)RAP, which, if I was being charitable, may be free-form poetry of dubious talent and quality with a drum beat but does not qualify as music in my book under any circumstances."

__________________________________________________
NFrameFred, you are right on. I've had "conversations" with people on this or maybe another forum that try to defend "rap" and call it music. By definition it is not music. Not by a long shot. It might be interesting, entertaining, blah, blah, blah...but it simply does not qualify as music. It amazing the lengths some will go to try to defend the indefensible!
icon_razz.gif
Click to expand...
 
I like 70-80's rock, don't like what they call rock today. I've always like country, even some of the new stuff that many argue is not really country.

My only oddball is Motown music. In a previous life I traveled to Michigan for business frequently and my contacts there would take me out to the clubs. I really liked that music even though admittedly its breadth and scope was limited. I'm not sure there is a modern equivalent to Motown?
 
I guess what I left out of my original post that started this discussion is that my likes in music hasn't really changed all that much. I've always liked classical, rock (50s through 80s), folk. What is happening to me is that I am rediscovering music that I had forgotten about and finding new music to appreciate. We have a radio station here in WNC which is an NPR station and unlike most NPR stations they don't play classical music. THeir music is all over the map from modern rock, indie, raggae, to classic jazz and the artists range from Van Morrison to Bob Marley to Warren Zevon to Miles Davis to Bela Fleck & The Flecktones. It is quite a treasure in my opinion.

http://www.wncw.org/ListenLive.html

Hawkeye
 
I still like the music I always have: Western Swing; Bluegrass; old-time country; jump blues from the late 40s; jug band and juke joint music from the late 20s to the early 50s; jazz from all eras; classical when I'm in the mood.

Rock and roll originally was very simple music with a backbeat that kids in the mid- and late 50s liked to dance to. I know; I was a teenager then. But it wasn't really all that special musically; it's more a nostalgia trip than anything else. Rock from the 60s on is dreck that is pretentious and takes itself seriously. But it's a waste of time. Rap is from, and should return to, the bottom of the privy.

My post, my opinion. And I am unanimous in that.

Bill
 
I grew up listening to '60s, '70s, and 80's country and rock. I've never liked pop, top 40 stuff. I don't like much country made after about 1995. Not much country about most of it; it seems to be pop. I've found that as I age, I like music from before I was born more and more. I now like Bob Wills, Hank Williams and their contemporaries. I also like "Texas music", which is kind of country, kind of rock, and will never make the top 40. Lots of artists have been signed by Nashville, and little comes of it, as they will not change their sound to meet Nashville's expectations. More power to them. I'll still buy their CDs.
 
I went from rock to blues and jazz while in high school.
Then to country.
In the truck this afternoon I had on the local classic rock station.
The music I've bought lately has been mostly jazz and some country.
So, I haven't changed too much, overall.
 
Still "Lost in the 60's" My 60's music playing in my 63 Ford Galaxie and I'm a kid again. Rock, country and blues was all better in the 60's. I do slide back to the 55-59 era also. Pre army Elvis. The boy went down hill after that.
icon_smile.gif
 
I still like the greats of the 60s, 70s, and 80s (Rolling Stones, Who, Doors, Jimmy H, Led Zepp, Deep Purple, Cream, Kiss, AC/DC, Motley Crue, Judas Priest, Fog Hat) but in the early 90s I started listening to some rap and R&B.

I still listen to the vintage rock & roll of the 60s-80s, but I also like R&B acts like Beyonce, Destiny's Child, Brandy, Monica, TLC, Toni Braxton, En Vogue. I like some rap (NWA, Ice Cube, House of Pain, Beastie Boys, Run DMC, Dr. Dre, Eazy E).

I started listening to R&B and rap because I couldn't stand the hair bands of the late 80s and early 90s and didn't like grunge music either.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.

Latest posts

Back
Top