Why do young people listen to oldies?

i just would like to say that i was not a part of any conformity when i chose to listen to music form the 60s and 70s and i kinda liked it when i was the only one i knew of my age who listened to it.

 

Is hard to fool the ears.

 

i completly agree with ya!, music had soul and melody back then in my opinion. Music of today just seems to be very chord based, Power chordes espicially, and whats the tallent in that eh! Quite a few people kinda see music as a fasion as well which is annoying, for example my mum does not listen to it because apparently 'its way before her time' as she puts it.

 

Stupid Question, easy answer.

Because most new music isn't that good. Rather listen to Arlo Guthrie then Good Charlotte.

 

There we go.
That's all you need to know.

 

Because, with a few notable exceptions, the music produced since the late seventies/early eighties has been total crap. At any rate there certainly have not been enough exceptions to provide nearly enough good music. And don't go and list two or three good bands as somehow evidence that there has been enough good music produced in the past 25 years. As I said there are exceptions. And if you give me any crap about bubblegum punk like Newfound Glory being good I will personally hunt you down and cut your balls off

 

Well, the boomers did some totally boss shit, but keep in mind W. Bush is a baby boomer, Tom Delay is a baby boomer, Fred Phelps is a baby boomer, Jerry Fallwell is a baby boomer etcetera. Tons of nasty evil people are baby boomers.

Now the baggy-panted lamers pretty much suck (thank God I missed being in that generation by six months). Anyhow, I got stuck in the ass end of generation 'X', (1964-1979) the "me" generation, the generation that produced the 1980's and early 90's yuppie wall street hucksters, and for that matter yuppies in general.
I say this all with the greatest of sarcasm, please nobody take it very seriously, except for the part about the baby boomers.

 

i like some of todays music... but i mostly listen to the oldies and classic rock. it is so fascinating... and music was made for EVERYBODY to listen to, regardless of your age, gender, race, etc. so how can you say that if you listen to oldies and you're young then you are listening to the wrong music or something... i think that you should listen to the music that you can FEEL.

 

some people have to understnad that just because im 15 doesnt mean im going to listen to music of my generation like 50 cent, eminem, good charlotte, new found glory, brittney, i dont like that style of crap music haha. I like the grateful dead, the doors, yea they are old bands, but they fuckin rock.i like some music of today, jam bands like phish well they are not together anymore, SCI, WSP, stuff like that. i like dave mathews band, i dont think age should matter. by the way, people who have parents who are baby boomers probably grew up listening to their parents music, like i did. it grew on me and now i love it to death it just happens

 

Yeah, c’mon
When the music’s over
When the music’s over, yeah, when the music’s over
Turn out the lights, turn out the lights
Turn out the lights, yeah
When the music’s over x3
Turn out the lights x3
For the music is your special friend
Dance on fire as it intends
Music is your only friend
Until the end x3
Cancel my subscription to the resurrection
Send my credentials to the house of detention
I got some friends inside
The face in the mirror won’t stop
The girl in the window won’t drop
A feast of friends, alive! she cried
Waitin’ for me, outside!
Before I sink, into the big sleep
I want to hear, I want to hear
The scream of the butterfly
Come back, baby, back into my arm
We’re gettin’ tired of hangin’ around
Waitin’ around with our heads to the ground
I hear a very gentle sound, very near yet very far
Very soft, yeah, very clear, come today, come today
What have they done to the earth?
What have they done to our fair sister?
Ravaged and plundered and ripped her and bit her
Stuck her with knives in the side of the dawn
And tied her with fences and dragged her down
I hear a very gentle sound
With your ear down to the ground
We want the world and we want it... x2
Now, now? , now!
Persian night, babe, see the light, babe
Save us!, jesus!, save us!
So when the music’s over
When the music’s over, yeah
When the music’s over
Turn out the lights x3
Well the music is your special friend
Dance on fire as it intends
Music is your only friend
Until the end x3

 

i dont listen to just oldies i listen to good music i dont care when it was recorded some of it is old some is not

 

oldies are consider music of the late 50s and very early 60s 1960 -1963

 

oldies... i always thought that it was neanderthalian age music...
the Queen of the Stone Age are definitly one of those band out of this tribal neanderthalian movement.

 

You must know that every movement give birth too some judas (bush and all those hawks...etc) ...
The Evil is always somewhere in the heart of a paradise citadel...

The only difference is that the baby boomers large majority was for an evolution of the perception of the "huminds" ...
But in this new generation born since the end of the 50's (average) ...everybody look at your face to judge you ...but the particularity of all innerminds are just banned...until now my son...

so for my generation (nothing to do with Pete cool generation) i will say that we are only a few youngs to reprezent an innocent pure heart in a sick city...and this is a sick BB (body&brain)...
This is called the 21st century egocentric way of life...



...I just wasn't made for these times...

 

Me sitting here in a 2004 thread in 2019 I was 3 when people were arguing about this and just to contribute I like 50s more than any music created in 2004-2019 really further back than 2004

 

cause some oldies are goodies.


why are beethoven and mozart still relevant ?

 

It didn't got put on record for nothing.

 

I like 80's and 90's. Which is my era of music growing up. I remember when i was a kid Michael Jackson was a big deal. I was, still am a fan of his music.

 

I like 70s 80s+ 90s
I also like some of the new stuff
I am not much on country or rap as a whole

 

Because its great unlike so much of today's . As a feminist and a lesbian I detest the misogynistic, homophobic nasty stuff so many guys are always listening to.
A gay male friend of mine said the only living male musicians he could stand are Bob Dylan and Elton John. He listens to lots of women artists, and to classical , most of the time.
A lot of it is NOT music, if you mean singing. Ranting like a mean drunk on a bar stool describes a lot of it. My friend said he had seen stuff written on the wall of men's rooms in disreputable bars that had more intellectual content than some of this stuff!