i actually feel bad for anyone growing up today when it comes to enjoyment of the history of pop/rock music. there's just SO MUCH music that's being released TODAY that there's just not enough time to listen to EVERYTHING one might be interested in in the past. Even if you grew up with 50s/60s music and are still kickin' and listening to new music, there's just not enough time to listen to everything. To be in one's low 20s today means you grew up with 2000s music, and if that's 2000s pop-related music, i'd find that depressing. That's 4 decades of music you missed out on. Thank the gods for the internets which can work miracles for music discovery, but to base one's music taste on the 2000s just seems like you're shortchanging yourself. I feel like i would've shortchanged myself if i stuck to the music i grew up with and thereafter. Of course, that's the perspective of youth of which my biological career shares a story, but if i could do it all over again, i would've given my younger self different music-listening priorities. But that's with the evil taste of hindsight .
if i could choose when i started listening to new music, then i wish i was born about 11 years earlier to fully enjoy the breadth of 70s music and have more of an appreciation of late 60s material, as well as being able to enjoy everything thereafter. I also think it's more enjoyable to appreciate an artist or album as a "social community", say in one's school or wide group of friends (but you can argue that forums like this provide communities). Technologically, i'm glad i was born when i was to be able to slowly increase my intake of music through CDs and eventually the internets.
Of course, this subject could present its own thread, but i just figured to babble here. Remember, these are only my opinions and i wasn't meaning to say one decade of music is objectively better than any other -- it's just my (narrow?) perspective. _________________ fav artists NOW | ALL-TIME favs | i listen 2 more music than u so u don't have 2!
haha dude. his parents will probably ground him for life if they hear these. But it guess that's the point
We're gonna have a problem here.
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-As a response to the OP -
The albums I was listening to at 13 (I think) were Moon and Antarctica, Lonesome Crowded West, There's Nothing Wrong with love, Empty Bottles, Broken Hearts, Figure 8, Diary, - Burritos, Inspiration Point, Fork Balloon Sports, Cards In The Spokes, Automatic Biographies, Kites, Kung Fu, Trophies, Banana Peels We've Slipped On and Egg Shells We've Tippy Toed Over -, Bleed American, etc.
i actually feel bad for anyone growing up today when it comes to enjoyment of the history of pop/rock music. there's just SO MUCH music that's being released TODAY that there's just not enough time to listen to EVERYTHING one might be interested in in the past. Even if you grew up with 50s/60s music and are still kickin' and listening to new music, there's just not enough time to listen to everything. To be in one's low 20s today means you grew up with 2000s music, and if that's 2000s pop-related music, i'd find that depressing. That's 4 decades of music you missed out on. Thank the gods for the internets which can work miracles for music discovery, but to base one's music taste on the 2000s just seems like you're shortchanging yourself. I feel like i would've shortchanged myself if i stuck to the music i grew up with and thereafter. Of course, that's the perspective of youth of which my biological career shares a story, but if i could do it all over again, i would've given my younger self different music-listening priorities. But that's with the evil taste of hindsight .
if i could choose when i started listening to new music, then i wish i was born about 11 years earlier to fully enjoy the breadth of 70s music and have more of an appreciation of late 60s material, as well as being able to enjoy everything thereafter. I also think it's more enjoyable to appreciate an artist or album as a "social community", say in one's school or wide group of friends (but you can argue that forums like this provide communities). Technologically, i'm glad i was born when i was to be able to slowly increase my intake of music through CDs and eventually the internets.
Of course, this subject could present its own thread, but i just figured to babble here. Remember, these are only my opinions and i wasn't meaning to say one decade of music is objectively better than any other -- it's just my (narrow?) perspective.
I think there's always been this much music out there, but with the internet now, it makes it seem like there's way more music coming out. All the little albums that never made it off their original 10 or 20 cassettes are now being replaced with things like bandcamp, so even if only 10 or 20 people find it, it's still out there for everyone, and ups numbers. There are tons of albums just lost forever, or forgotten about forever, whereas thanks to the internet, every album is out there now. If that makes any sense. Jetlagged out of my mind, so it probably doesn't. _________________
🤡 Setting aside the insanity of that statement, let's take a look at your chart and see if we can find some older albums that you might enjoy.
Phoenix. Listening to Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix, I think you might like Fleetwood Mac or Steely Dan. Their highest ranking albums are Rumours (1977) and Aja, respectively.
Vampire Weekend. These guys remind me of Paul Simon's solo work. Check out Graceland (1986). Contra in particular reminds me of the Police. Check out Synchronicity (1983).
Maroon 5. They're basically a pop band with guitars. You could really go a lot of directions with that, so I'll just suggest Prince, Purple Rain (1984), maybe the best guitar-pop record ever. Just don't let your parents hear "Darling Nikki." And why not Michael Jackson, Thriller (1982), the best pop record ever?
Carly Rae Jepsen. Hmm. You could go two routes here. You could just listen to old pop albums from female artists. Whitney Houston, Whitney (1987) comes to mind. Or you could really broaden your sonic palette and check out artists she claims influenced her. Try Aimee Mann, I'm With Stupid (1995).
Beyond that, it doesn't seem like you actually like the rest of the albums on your list all that much. So I'll stop there. And you know, you could do worse than to listen to the listen to the top 5 albums from each year. You won't like them all, but it'll expose you to some new sounds.
i actually feel bad for anyone growing up today when it comes to enjoyment of the history of pop/rock music. there's just SO MUCH music that's being released TODAY that there's just not enough time to listen to EVERYTHING one might be interested in in the past. Even if you grew up with 50s/60s music and are still kickin' and listening to new music, there's just not enough time to listen to everything. To be in one's low 20s today means you grew up with 2000s music, and if that's 2000s pop-related music, i'd find that depressing. That's 4 decades of music you missed out on. Thank the gods for the internets which can work miracles for music discovery, but to base one's music taste on the 2000s just seems like you're shortchanging yourself. I feel like i would've shortchanged myself if i stuck to the music i grew up with and thereafter. Of course, that's the perspective of youth of which my biological career shares a story, but if i could do it all over again, i would've given my younger self different music-listening priorities. But that's with the evil taste of hindsight .
if i could choose when i started listening to new music, then i wish i was born about 11 years earlier to fully enjoy the breadth of 70s music and have more of an appreciation of late 60s material, as well as being able to enjoy everything thereafter. I also think it's more enjoyable to appreciate an artist or album as a "social community", say in one's school or wide group of friends (but you can argue that forums like this provide communities). Technologically, i'm glad i was born when i was to be able to slowly increase my intake of music through CDs and eventually the internets.
Of course, this subject could present its own thread, but i just figured to babble here. Remember, these are only my opinions and i wasn't meaning to say one decade of music is objectively better than any other -- it's just my (narrow?) perspective.
I agree with this, but only to a point. The fact that a teenager today has got access (via Spotify/YouTube/downloads/whatever) to pretty much every worthwhile piece of recorded music since the dawn of time has got to be something to celebrate rather than lament. The main problem is that with so much choice you're not going to dwell on something too long if you don't get it first time around (unless you have a tenacious personality and dearly want to give something like Trout Mask Replica umpteen listens before something clicks).
What is lacking today (at least as far as I can gather) are revolutionary scenes, where music, art and fashion all collide. To be swept up in something, to belong to a movement and be part of a 'happening' - to be given a sense of belonging when you're a spotty and slightly odd teenager desperately wanting to break out of the bedroom ennui of revising for exams. With so much choice of old and new, where do you begin? Forums like this are an absolute godsend if you need inspiration, or at least a steer in a certain direction...
Of course this is all down to the inquisitive mind of the individual listener. Some of us our happy to stay in our pigeon-holes and stick with a certain genre of music (and by proxy those that influenced it). Others like to experiment, open our minds and dive right in to all sorts of wonderments without a thought for what effect it might have on us. Bit like acid, really - except without the flashbacks (unless you have the volume set too high and end up with tinnitus for a week).
The main problem is that with so much choice you're not going to dwell on something too long if you don't get it first time around
Agree, that's prob the main problem. The risk of a very superficial approach to Music.
Anyway, eyal, some big pop rock bands from the past you may appreciate: The Beatles, The Who, and yeah The Smiths. Each one of these is a great starting point. Good luck. 😁
So I have a chart, and someone told that I need to explore music before the 2000s. But I can't find any. I need recommends for albums before the 2000s.
Half the albums on your chart have negative comments attached to them and you think 90's music in general sucks. Why are you trying so hard to be into music when its clearly not for you? Honestly you just shouldn't listen to albums at all except for the ones by your favourite bands like Phoenix and Vampire Weekend. Just stick to singles and be a casual listener as far as listening to the material of other bands goes. Maybe a greatest hits compilation here and there. _________________ kill yr idols
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