They look like the English version of Sha Na Na.

I'm usually most obsessed with what's new and what's coming out right now, but I retain my love for things past.
I think it's a shame how a lot of people kind of stop seeking out new sounds by the time they hit their late 20s and early 30s, and live in an arrested musical state from their youth. This is the reason classic rock radio dominates the American airwaves with the same 50 songs for 30 years, and it gets me down.

Every decade has had a great underground scene. I think people are talking about mainstream stuff? As far as pop goes, the British Invasion '64-'66 is a golden age.
But my fav is the 80s, not just the underground. I STILL fucking like Jenny/867-5309. (Bonus points for artist name).

Theory: whatever music you grew up listening to is the best music ever. We branch off, but those roots are strong.

I was stuck in the 1980's for some years, because very little in the 90's seemed very inspiring - for me it was a case of a small number of artists making up for the general malaise. But I have to say that I've loved the current decade, so my listening list has been amended.

I think most people keep a love for whatever era was the one where they developed a musical taste - I could probably be quite specific and say that 1981 - 1988 was such a time for me (ages 10 - 17).

Of course, I didn't have much access to the internet in the 1990's, so I probably missed out on a lot there. Most of the current decade's music that I like is stuff I've come across online.

Tommy Tutone. I have the 7" single

the best music ever is sonic youth/dinosaur jr

i am i suppose slightly stuck in the late 90's just because i was in gradschool then and i couldn't buy records and then there was napster but anyway i needed new stuff and in the mid 90s i was traveling and slightly crazy so im still catching up, in a way. but not in an ideological way. it's just, hm, an offshoot of economics.

I might dabble in other eras but, at heart, my home is the late 70s-80s New york punk-noise thing: anything from The Cramps to Pussy Galore and all stops in between. I guess i'm pretty narrow minded, now that I come to think of it.

good music is good whatever age it was born in. im stuck in music from the 60s at the mo... the 1760s!

seriously. im stuck in this years music. its been a good year for music i think.....

i wouldnt say i was stuck in any particular era or decade as i am always listening to and enjoying new music. i do know plenty of people who are stuck in the 90's. its funny to watch their faces when you tell them something bad about nirvana.

I see that a lot in people porkmarrass. sometimes life comes along and takes up all your curiosity or your desire to seek out new music and you reach a cut off point. many of my friends in their early thirties are in that position. they have not heard "anything good" since 1994, you know? and it is because they have too many other things to do, what with carrers, children, wives, husbands, etc. That in itself is not a bad thing, what is bad thing is when people assume just because they have "not heard anything good lately" that that means that noone is MAKING anything good lately. I say BULLSHIT to that!

I'm that guy. Sorta. I'm glad there are good bands out there. There always are. But I like what I like, and I no longer feel the need to seek out new things like I did a few years ago. I just got a .99 cd "I Want My New Wave." I get more pleasure from that than I would digging around for some new thing. 'Sides, there are too many goddamn bands now. Seeking out that those bands that kick you in the gut and change your life seems to me like hunting for a needle in a stack of needles.

Let me put it this way: let's say I'm out driving and I want to hear something. I could invest in satalite radio or bring along a stack of new cds, flipping through it all 'til something grabs me. I'm sure something would, eventually. But the person I am now (for the most part) would much rather pop in something I know I like or love. Besides, I have such great taste that everything I listen to warrants multiple listens.

I think the age when my tastes more less settled (I do add a band every year or so) was 25. Does this age correspond with anyone else?

Having a thriving local scene makes a difference, I'm sure. There are officially no interesting bands where I live.

Like a lot of people, I worry about the critical arrest that affects some people, but more worry that it might happen with me (I have a feeling in the next 15 years or so I'm going to by an awful lot less rock music, and a great deal more classical) This last 6 months I've been buying a lot of 30s and 40s music, thanks to not having much money and buying records from charity shops (there's a lot of elderly people in my town). My plan for next year is to concentrate on a decent collection of essentials (why I don't have any recordings of Bach's solo violin partitas I have no idea), West African music (I cannot, absolutely can not get enough soukous in my life) and more wartime stuff.

maybe

I listen to some old music and some new. I rarely pay attention to the dates.

For me it's late 80's till mid 90's

which brings up an interesting question: what's better? Music that's new to the world or music that's new to YOU?

I've written reams and reams on the notion of a 'real' avant-garde academically. Music that is without context, without forbears or sufficiently distinct from previous music so as to warrant the term avant-garde is so unspeakably rare as to be a non-sequiter. So music that's new to you is the default answer, but also the best.