Posted on 02/07/2019 1:53:30 PM PST by LibWhacker
Research has suggested that modern music really isn’t as good as the old classics.
A study has found that golden oldies stick in millennials’ minds far more than the relatively bland, homogenous pop of today.
A golden age of popular music lasted from the 1960s to the 1990s, academics claimed.
Songs from this era proved to be much more memorable than tunes released in the 21st century.
Music from the vinyl era is still very popular among young people Scientists tested a group of millennials on their ability to recognise hit records from different decades.
The 643 participants, typically aged 18 to 25, maintained a steady memory of top tunes that came out between 1960 and 1999. In contrast, their memory of 21st-century songs from 2000 to 2015 – while higher overall – diminished rapidly over time.
I could probably post a thousand links to a thousand songs from that era. But Van Morrison is one of my favorites.
Here's one I haven't been able to get out of my head lately.
Feel free to post your own.
Maybe they should look at the old ways of living a bit too instead of dreaming of Socialist utopias.
I grew up with Britney Spears and Taylor Swift but will say that I’m sometimes fascinated by early 1980’s music like Falco, Nena, The Vapors, Orchestral Maneuvers in the Dark, Spandau Ballet, and etc.
And I loathe rap.
This is why television ads for years now have had to use music from the 70’s and 80’s. There are no bands, musicians, or songwriters today; just insipid little millennials singing insipid little songs that all sound exactly alike. There’s no substance to the songs and no talent possessed by the singers. Oddly enough, one of the very few exceptions is Lady Gaga. Never would have thought I would compliment her, but after her Super Bowl performance a couple of years ago I have to say that while super strange and of course a liberal idiot, she does certainly have talent.
Thanks for posting this. My kids are a bit older, but are quick to sing along with many songs from the era cited (1960-1999). And I might not be very objective, but there was some very fine music created and produced in those years, IMO.
Here’s some I’ve been enjoying.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i_i7PKdQJU4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GXE_n2q08Yw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uY3vgBzgYn4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SD5engyVXe0
My 18 year old and his friends like to try and stump me with 70s-80s music and if I know the title and group. I’m amazed at how much they know from that time period.
I am a Millennial and my two favorite songs of all time are both from 1976 ( Don't Fear The Reaper and The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald )
I too have a great distaste for rap.
Maybe they are finding out the bands actually played instruments back then?
I was checking out Oldies CDs in the library and a new, young employee was looking over my selection and commenting how much she enjoys music from that era vs today
It’s really a slam dunk. Virtually nothing today catches my attention. That goes for TV and movies too.
“A golden age of popular music lasted from the 1960s to the 1990s, academics claimed.”
Make that the 50’s to the 90’s.
All of my under 30 years old nieces and nephews listen to 60’s and 70’s rock. They can tell you more about Led Zeppelin, The Doors and The Stones than anybody who grew up in that era.
My brothers 11 year old daughter knows almost every Beatle song by heart.
You have good taste. Love both. Don’t Fear the Reaper I played over and over again as a kid.
Who knew you had some good taste in music? ;)
Pop music now is all manufactured rather than created. Performers are selected for their look, they are given generic songs that follow a proven formula for tempo and chord progressions, and they are autotuned into pitch perfect divas. And not just traight pop, all genres. Interesting that some younger folk are saying "I've had it, let's hear something different."
Add “Sultans of Swing” and you just might make the grade.
;)
How?
The Baby Boomers and "Greatest Generation" shipped all the blue collar manufacturing jobs overseas and then imported slave-wage foreigners to work the few that remained. They oversaw the cost of a college education reach six figures while mandating that every job that paid over $10 an hour require one.
Millennials did none of these things. They're just on the receiving end of the giant economic sh*t sandwich that their parents and grandparents gifted to them.
It's little wonder socialism sounds so appealing.
How old am I?
My Social Security number is in Roman numerals.
My last birthday cake set off the smoke alarm.
I had nicknames for the dinosaurs in my subdivision.
MOST OF ALL!!!
While in college, I went to a concert featuring the Supremes, the Four Tops and the Temptations and Little Anthony and the Imperials....for ten bucks!
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