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Let me explain something to you jive turkeys.

All too often when I read YouTube comments on old music, a youngster will say some variation on "I love this music and it's from before I was born" or "This is my favourite band and I'm only 15 or whatever". That's great. Then, some jive turkey comes and says something like "Nobody cares about your age, snowflake.", "You think you're so special?" or "You must be proud of yourself."

Look here, bringing up one's age is not so much about the listener as it is a comment on the music. It's a compliment, not a brag. The listener is not trying to say that they are special, they are saying that the music is not merely nostalgia for old people, not a flash-in-the-pan fad, but is genuinely good music that has stood the test of time, still worth listening to. Dig?

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rockysantoro
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To steal a line from Quicksilver Messenger Service, ''Have another hit''!

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panzrwagn
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Consider this - nobody thinks of the New York Philharmonic as a cover band. And nobody has out-Bached, Beethovened, or Mozarted those guys in over 200 years of trying. And we're still listening in amazement to what they created in a pretty short period from 1725-1825. What happened between 1950 and 1980 in popular music is no different, no less worthy, and the best will survive centuries because it is likewise that appealing. 

kb673
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@panzrwagn 

You beat me in referring those old guys.

Also, don't forget the lasting jazz, blues and swing/big band from the 1920s-1960s.

Peace.

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ja_kub_sz
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Good music is good music, age aside, but I particularly enjoy good music that I can tether to some specific point and time in my life. It just resonates more with the emotional side of music for me. Like reading a book as soon as it's published, and the author signed your copy as you talked about how you interpret it. So I always seek out new music, in addition to enjoying older music that thus far has been the soundtrack of my life.

My wife loves "oldies" (song's her parents grew up listening to)... I don't really connect as much with those songs. I absolutely can appreciate the emotional nostalgia of that music to her, but to me, I don't connect as much intellectually with songs/artists that came and went before my early teenage years.

I don't judge people's musical tastes in reference to their age, but I do enjoy music more in reference to my age.

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asvjerry
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Another wake up, decades too late....*L*

 

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