Posted on 06/18/2018 11:58:45 PM PDT by canuck_conservative
In case you needed another reason to feel far older than you actually are, a new survey by music streaming platform Deezer, via NME, suggests that by the time you hit 30, you reach something called “musical paralysis.”
That means 30-year-olds have hit the threshold when they no longer seek out new music, or are open to listening to something new and beyond their established taste....
Survey participants gave various reasons for just why they’ve checked out of the music scene, mostly citing having children and too demanding a job to keep up with what’s new.
A considerable 65 per cent said they usually only listen to artists they already know. But 60 per cent said they do wish they had more time to listen to new material — they’re just too busy.
Among the worst offenders are those music fans in Wales and Northern England, where people give up on finding new music by 24 and 23, respectively, while Scottish fans hold out the longest, hitting their threshold at 40.
(Excerpt) Read more at theprovince.com ...
Another vote for Sinatra and the GREAT Tom Waits.
“Small Change” is a masterpiece and easily the best album of the 70s. The cover included an up & coming actress (Cassandra Peterson) posing as a stripper who later became “Elvira”.
Frank...is simply the best of the best. A friend is a LA-based mastering engineer who has made CDR dupes of the studio master tapes for me including all of Frank’s hits...Nat King Cole albums, too. Many are “dry” before the dreaded reverb was added for the commercial release.
I had decide to make a study of elevator music but it seems they have virtually eliminated that genre.
Not just no, but hell no. Enjoy this ditty or two.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AIXUgtNC4Kc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JvMXVHVr72A
Check the links in my post at #24
They were voracious music fans before they became musicians.
Mick and Keef met because they ran into each other at a train station and one had a record (import) that the only had heard about.
The Led Zeppelin guys did their research too (and went through numerous bands and the studio session system before hitting out on their own).
Learning to play is passe. fix it in a computer. Synch it with sweeteners in the live shows. The Edge can’t even fiddle with his guitar pedals and has a different board hauled out each song.
Also since the 60s the mantra has been tear up the past, bury it, revile it, reject old heroes. Situationist Marxist Communist revolutionary claptrap.
Muzak died in the 1990s if I recall correctly.
You can always turn to mood music records of the 60s and 70s
The Mystic Moods Orchestra - One stormy night (1966) Full vinyl LP
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v7e6_dp4Qe8
A1) A dream 0:00
A2) Minstrel boy 4:35
A3) Sayonara 7:26
A4) One stormy night 13:18
A5) In your arms 16:12
B1) Fire Island 18:39
B2) Aja toro 21:31
B3) Hot bagel 24:33
B4) Local freight 26:33
B5) Autumn leaves 31:26
And Led Zeppelin’s success is far more than a sum of its parts. Part of it is nostalgia among those who heard them in high school and hold that moment.
Robert Plant solo doesn’t have the same draw or appeal and Jimmy Page doesn’t want to do the reunion circuit.
I’m in my mid-60’s and I listen to today’s music. iHeart radio or Hits 1 and The Pulse on Sirius/XM. I can’t stand that crap music from the 70’s.
Found a good use for rap music. If you get a critter in the wall of your house, set a boom box next to and facing the wall, find a rap channel on the radio, crank up the volume, and leave for a couple of hours. When you come back the critter is gone. They don’t like that music either.
I love RUSH. That is about 80% of my listening. Sad perhaps. On one of the fan blogs they will have comments by members about other bands sometimes, or Alex or Geddy will be working with a band. Then I’ll go give them a listen, and some of them are okay. Dream Theater and Porcupine Tree I listened to for a little while, but they really don’t hold my interest for too long.
Part of nostalgia is nostalgia, but part is hearing loss. It's harder to appreciate new music when we can't hear the higher frequencies any more. We remember what the songs of our youth sounded like, including the higher frequencies, and our minds fill the missing parts in for us.
Seems like all of the vocals today sound like they are run through a synthesizer so they all sound the same. Wonder how many of these “stars” would be able to perform without the electronics.
I’ll take the 50’s/60’s Rock and Roll, Motown, Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Nat King Cole, and any of the big band swing tunes.
Yes.
FMCDH(BITS)
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I’ve been “out of the demo” for 34 years.
No, you get married and you prefer to enjoy other new things, like novel, culturally-different foods or use your time to stay up on the news.
In case you needed another reason to feel far older than you actually are, a new survey by toy companies suggests that by the time you hit 11, you reach something called “GI-Joe paralysis.”
I’ve found a new genre called dubstep on Pandora. I was brought up on classical, I play the cello, my mother was a closet country and western buff, Gramma’s Glen Miller was always on the spinner. The older siblings played the 60s and 70s. I grew up with 80s 90s.
The only music I can’t stand is rap.
“I consider 90% of Rap to be incoherent, nonsensical babbling.”
I’ll up you 9.999 points.
Growing up on Glenn Miller with Bob Wills singing along, a quick think reveals my taste in music to indeed be a Magical Mystery Tour. Tour includes a whole lotta shaking along the way with rest stops for the Three B’s; Bach, Beethoven and Brahms.
Post-time here signals a new day will soon begin in Larose, Luzianne with the Rajun’ Cajun playing a French version of our hymne national. And somewhere, Luna Lee is pick’n but not grinning her gayageum version of All Along the Watchtower.
What a joy music is...no wonder Beethoven was so frustrated if not tortured by deafness.
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