Any of you stuck musically in a particular decade?
 

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No. I am not.

I don't have any special feelings toward either era, as far as I'm aware.

Yeah, I'll confess that, until relatively recently, I was guilty of 80s/90s-ophilia, but I have now discovered that there are new and exciting things happening that I somehow hadn't noticed. And it's all down to you guys. Thank you. I love you all.

Same here.

it's more about the sound of bands in general than the era of when they actuallly wrote their music, good music (or what i find to be good music )is timeless, still there's something special about music recorded in the late 50's-60's, from surf to rock and eventho there's bands who can afford that vintage gear and recording gear it still won't sound like something that was actually recorded back then, there's a lot of stuff from the eighties that i, even if i like the songs or bands themselves, don't like because of the production/mixing, especially when it comes to drum sounds

i love the 80's but there's great music made in all decades, and mostly i listen to the current stuff.

It's understandable if a person has remained loyal to an era that corresponds with when they first discovered the joys of music. Finding a whole new world is a pretty powerful experience, and it's bound to always have an emotional resonance. What sometimes alarms me is when people get stuck in an era that doesn't correspond with their musical epiphany but actually predates it. Music should be about progression, not regression. I'm not criticising people for being, say, an 18 year old who likes late 60s psychedelia if that is just a part of their musical canvas, but if that is their entire canvas, well, I just feel a bit sad for them for their lack of exploration of other areas.

nah

I agree. I feel this applies to image also. Some people consider and claim themselves to be 'punk' or 'emo' or 'hardcore' or 'rockabilly' or 'indie' and I find that degrading. To have a band that may be one of them is a different thing, as just because your band sounds a certain way, doesn't mean you don't venture down other avenues outside of your band. But to call yourself something, a genre, is very limiting as a human being, I think.

I find it rather creepy when you get people in their twenties walking around in Teddy Boy clobber, but it's rather endearing when you see people in their fifties and sixties who do the same and who clearly still live a Teddy Boy lifestyle and still go to the "hop".

all that is why i wonder how so many young people spend so much time worrying about "where they fit in" . i understand the curiosity and nature to find/create personal identity, individually, in society, of the world, though things get easier when you just realize that you cant possibly ever just fit in as one thing or that . we're all everything , and the more open you are to everything the richer things become . at the same time , in regards to what sonicl said earlier, it is still great when people naturally get immersed in specific fields , as much richness can be obtained when you dig deep . its useless to choose where you dig beforehand though , somehow blindly hoping you'll be at the bottom of the hole .

^ There's nothing I can add to this, anything I said would just be a pointless re-wording. But I will say: "Repped".

i seem to be stuck in the 70's at the moment for some reason

You're in Manchester and you're stuck in the 70s? For God sake, man, give yourself a good shake!

thanks :)
ill add, "what really matters is what you like, not what you are like. books, records, films these things matter. call me shallow, its the fucking truth." , rob gordon, high fidelity

80's funk!!!

this is Greek to me. explain?

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 love the noisy rock with the melodic tendencies and after polvo and unwopund broke up I was distraught but I learned to wait out the sufjan stevens and the neutral milk hotels and wait and wait and the kids did not let me down, for now there is parts & labor, and animal collective and all these bands that are kicking out the new skronk, taking skronk to new heights!

This man is a Teddy Boy, and he is at the Hop:



And this is Showaddywaddy, a famous Teddy Boy revivalist band from the late 1970s.

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.