While we're on the subject of music

[David LaPell]

I guess I must be getting older now, because my tastes have surely changed over the years. I remember as a teen growing up with Guns N Roses and some really heavy metal bands, but I think over the years I have progressed and gotten more into deeper songs and some mellower sounds now that I am in my thirties. I find now that I can pass up some of the heavier stuff and love to listen to bands like the Traveling Wilburys, Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, Dire Straits and the like. Don't get me wrong, I still love to listen to Ted Nugent, The Angels, AC/DC, Led Zeppelin and some of the harder bands, but I think I have started to slow down a bit. I hope it doesn't continue or when I am in my 80's in the home these young nurses aren't going to know what the heck will be blaring out of whatever devices we have then.

 

[Nico Testosteros]

Dude, my general listening tastes have mellowed. I used to listen to Judas Priest, Black Sabbath, Metallica,etc and I still love that stuff but it's not all I listen to anymore. It sure is great to listen to at the gym though!

 

[Gunslinger808]

I'm still a metal head, but I do listen to other music.
Love classic and classic guitar.

 

[heatheroo]

"older" and "grew up listening to G n R"?

Young puppy

 

[PA Reb]

I'm almost 60 now and still consider Guns and Roses to be one of the greatest true hard rock n roll bands of all time. Its a shame they couldn't act their ages, stop arguing like little girls and continue to record.

 

[3dots]

I guess I must be getting older now, because my tastes have surely changed over the years. I remember as a teen growing up with Guns N Roses and some really heavy metal bands, but I think over the years I have progressed and gotten more into deeper songs and some mellower sounds now that I am in my thirties. I find now that I can pass up some of the heavier stuff and love to listen to bands like the Traveling Wilburys, Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, Dire Straits and the like. Don't get me wrong, I still love to listen to Ted Nugent, The Angels, AC/DC, Led Zeppelin and some of the harder bands, but I think I have started to slow down a bit. I hope it doesn't continue or when I am in my 80's in the home these young nurses aren't going to know what the heck will be blaring out of whatever devices we have then.

Part of it may be that your listening level has to be lowered now do to kids, wifey, neighbors, etc. The Traveling Wilburys at 110db is just wrong but not for Zakk Wylde .

 

[perrazi]

who are these bands if which you speak? good music ended in the mid 60's.

 

[quneur]

I never really followed the crowd as I only listen to what I want. I personally don't care for Lepplin, Floyd, The Who, Beattles (although I do like some songs), Rush, etc. I guess I don't care for the British invasion.

 

[timn8er]

I never really followed the crowd as I only listen to what I want. I personally don't care for Lepplin, Floyd, The Who, Beattles (although I do like some songs), Rush, etc. I guess I don't care for the British invasion.

Actually, Rush is a Canadian band, & they RULE! Tom Sawyer played through a excellent stereo at high volume...it doesn't get a lot better, to me. I don't always go for the stuff that needs to be played loud;there's a lot of jazz & smooth jazz I like, but I still like my rock & roll! I never did understand why people liked G & R though, I thought they were poseurs, myself. But to each his own!

 

[shouldazagged]

I'm 75, going on 76. I listen to and enjoy all kinds of stuff: some G&R (I think Slash is one hell of a guitarist), Aerosmith, AC/DC, My Morning Jacket, The Band, the Drive-By Truckers, John Prine, the Wilburys, classical, blues, jazz, bluegrass, real country, and on and on. I've never seen the point in limiting myself in what I can enjoy. It's good stuff or it isn't.

On the other hand, the Lawrence Welk school (and Yanni and John Tesh and Kenny G) pretty much bore my buns off.

 

[Nframecollector]

I'm 55 and I just bought the new Black Sabbath album.

 

[Taurus627]

I am on the downward slide to 50 and I still crank the hard stuff on occasion but I have gotten into some mellower stuff. Listen to anything from Motorhead and Judas Priest to Stevie Ray Vaughn and a lot more of the 80s classic kind of stuff. Guns and Roses were a victim of their own success. See it all the time in bands that get to big to fast. One members ego gets out of control, then they try to take over and it just causes internal feuds that eventually destroy the band. Not a big fan of the hair metal of the late 80's like GnR, Poison, and Motley Crue.

 

[venomballistics]

I dont always listen to Pantera, WASP, and Metal Church, But when I do .. so do the neighbors

 

[scooter123]

"older" and "grew up listening to G n R"?

Young puppy

I'll second that. When I was a wee lad I learned to enjoy what my Mom and Dad listened to. As a result to this day I still enjoy listening to Benny Goodman and Glen Miller. Once I got to college it was Deep Purple, Uriah Heep, and the Who. Now that I've gained a few years I've developed a taste for Mozart, Bach, Beethoven, and Tchaikovsky. Also have become rather fond of Patsy Cline, such a shame that such a lovely voice was lost so young.

 

[gregintenn]

You think you feel old? I went from Metallica, Motley Crue, and Dokken to enjoying Bluegrass!

 

[snubbyfan]

Since I've been on disability I find that I'm just mellowing altogether. I'm gaining an appreciation for mellow R&B. I also like the music that started in the top 40 with Casey Kasem, went to classic rock then went to the oldies station.
At physical therapy I like the headbangin' stuff.

 

[Muley Gil]

You think you feel old? I went from Metallica, Motley Crue, and Dokken to enjoying Bluegrass!

And you're a better man for it!

 

[MaximumLawman]

They stopped playing "good" music on the radio about the time that the visual became as important and even MORE important than the sound. Yes...we have devolved, and our tastes have been manipulated to the point to where it's more important what a band or musician LOOKS like than what they SOUND like! Don't believe me? Think Janis Joplin would be able to make it past the neighborhood bar today?

If you want to hear good music, you have to look (or listen) beyond the so-called performers who are "somebody" because of who they're related to or what they look like or what production machine is behind them, and actually seek out good music and listen. You won't find it on the radio. Perfect example: Tower of Power. I bet most of you can't name one TOP tune. But I bet you can name a few Chicago tunes. TOP is like Chicago with soul and with balls. But you don't hear them on the radio. AND...they've been around and touring for over 40 years!

 

[Airpark]

I guess I am the oldie here.

I grew up listeing to the Grand Ole Opry on a battery radio in the pre-electric days.

Read by a kersene lamp and we really progressed when we got an Alladin Lamp...anyone else here remember them?

Remember when Ernest Tubb brought Billy Byrd and the first electric guitar to the Opry. It was all acoustic until then. He was the pioneer.

Always liked Eddy Arnold, Roy Acuff, Porter Wagoner, Carl Smith, Patsy Cline, all of the opry staff performers.

Went to the original Jimmy Rodgers Day in Meridian, MS and nearly the Opry was there...they literally owned the town.

Never cared for the Beatles and the Hard Rock.

Guess I am just a country boy at heart. Really like the old fashioned songs from the heart and not the modern yell and play as loud as you can stuff.

However, I realize that like our country music tastes have changed.

Progress is always painful....but...necessary.

 

[carpriver]

I listened to the big band stuff from WWII that my dad listened to and his country western. MY music was early rock and roll, music of the sixties, seventies and eighties. I have found an appreciation of jazz and blues. At this point in my life I listen to what I like