At What Age Did You Start Outgrowing Contemporary Music?

TheGlass

I think its happening to me now, at 24. Now I've a fairly varied music taste across most genres and several decades, but I think I've only downloaded a handful of songs released last year and none so far this year. I've even found the a lot of the songs are just annoying me. Is music actually going to **** or am I just getting old?

nc19

Music will never be as good as it was in the 90s imo

Links234

I think I'm listening to more modern music than I was before, mostly stuff released in the last few years.

The kinda thing I'd listen to isn't what everyone else might like though

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y5pS5kTGGgI

Maximus Alexander

I'm 28 and I still haven't. There is shed loads of quality music being released all the time and it's more accessible now than it ever was. Unless you're actually referring to chart music, rather than contemporary music, in which case I outgrew it at about 15. Though the odd song still makes the charts that gets my motor running.

SilverScreen

This is what happens when people expect to be spoon-fed music. You can never grow out of contemporary music if you make an effort to look.

Peregrine

I still listen to contemporary music.

Chart music? Probably stopped at 11 or 12 or something.

henryporter

47 :eek: and still enjoying the hidden gems of the new musical world - granted there's more sh1t than ever before but if you keep an eye on newspapers ( yip them ancient information sources), online reviews (pitchfork etc), follow a few related artist links on spotify, you will discover plenty of great contemporary music.

wazky

It all went to sh1t when Big Tom retired.

TheGlass

SilverScreen wrote: »

This is what happens when people expect to be spoon-fed music. You can never grow out of contemporary music if you make an effort to look.

I generally go out of my way to find new music though, nothing in the last few years seems as good. I actually download a program that analyses the number of songs and plays by year in my library, there's a general decline from about 2001 onwards, then it just drops off a cliff in the last few years

i go looking for new music all the stuff in the charts suck

anything after the 90s is god awful garbage

biko

You've gotta make your own kind of music, sing your own special song,
make your own kind of music even if nobody else sing along.

Brego888

nc19 wrote: »

Music will never be as good as it was in the 90s imo

Seriously?

MRnotlob606

i make my own music with a teaspoon and a rubber duck.

Hotale.com

SilverScreen wrote: »

This is what happens when people expect to be spoon-fed music. You can never grow out of contemporary music if you make an effort to look.

Any chance of any suggestions though? :pac: I've been looking for months and I haven't found anything I've really loved

At 29 I listen to loads of chart music and don't see myself growing out of it any time soon.

Davidius

I outgrew all music when I was 14.

Manach

Assuming the old rule of 90% of anything is rubbish, then at least 10% of today's music is of interest and can be equivalent (at least in causual listening) to that of any decade of the modern era.

Sulla Felix

What kind of stuff from the early 2000s are you listening to so much? Hard to give suggestions ,.

Rory Gallagher

nc19 wrote: »

Music will never be as good as it was in the 90s imo

Yeah the 90's really were the era of the pinnacle of music.

:rolleyes:

Mostly ****e music in the 90's

Tropheus

Late 20s. Can't beat the 90s stuff.

Rory Gallagher

The late 70's,Early 80's would have been deadly for me.
Rory Gallagher,The Clash,Muddy Waters,The Dubliners and so many others who all existed at the same time.

I started outgrowing it whenever I realized that all the **** music was not music but a fad.People seemed to hop on a bandwagon and when another wagon of crap they forgot about the former wagon and jumped onto the new one.

The artists I listed will never be forgotten.Unlike so many shallow **** who will be forgotten when the next biggest thing comes along.
I wish I lived in Inisfree.

Wompa1

Chart music around 13, when I started working in retail that had the radio blaring with all the garbage on it....Murder on the Dance floor....Sophie F'kin Ellis Bextor...S Club 7...Just thinking about it makes my skin crawl

Toby Take a Bow

Rory Gallagher wrote: »

Yeah the 90's really were the era of the pinnacle of music.

:rolleyes:

Mostly ****e music in the 90's

You'd swear it was all subjective. People and their opinions, the fools.

Agricola

Well the way I can tell what age I outgrew contemporary music is that when I have that "nothing but 90's" show on the radio in the car, I can pretty much sing along word for word with most of the stuff played.
After 2002 or so - would'nt have a scooby doo! So 20 or so I suppose.

Rory Gallagher

Toby Take a Bow wrote: »

You'd swear it was all subjective. People and their opinions, the fools.

Two kinds of opinions exist.

The wrong opinions and my opinions.

Agricola

Opinions are all like arseholes, usually full of shít.

auldgranny

Agricola wrote: »

Well the way I can tell what age I outgrew contemporary music is that when I have that "nothing but 90's" show on the radio in the car, I can pretty much sing along word for word with most of the stuff played.
After 2002 or so - would'nt have a scooby doo! So 20 or so I suppose.

Never mind "nothing but 90's" I love Friday night 80's

InReality

about 25/7

TimeToShine

I'd be the opposite. I listened to "old" music (60's through to the 90's) all through my teen years but since I hit my twenties I've gotten more into modern stuff which is actually accessible live.

There is still tremendous stuff out there but you have to look for it.

mrsbyrne

27. 1989 turned on TOTPs , hated every song.

catallus

I think the OP is onto something and maybe not just about music. We cling to the familiar in all things, rejecting the new marvels in favour of our old loves because we can't bear to imagine a future without ourselves; the realisation that everything we care about dies with us is a cruel blow to the vanity of every living soul which longs for nothing less than immortality. There's probably a pill for that.

Whatsgonewrong

I don't particularly classify anything today as music, just seen louis walshes new 'boyband' on the late late who, was quite embarrasing.

Also people who listen to modern music I wouldn't classify them as music 'fans' either, the most loyal music fans are definently the ones in the metal and rock community. Nice people sharing a similar interest and everyone gets on, great musicians and pure dedication by the bands, very happy to be apart of it.

GLaDOS

Some variant of this thread comes up every month it seems.

Lots of great music out there, go find it.

Sh1tbag OToole

Back when a smoke was a smoke, and groovin was groovin' and dancing meant eeverything

SimonLynch

Wanted to put Desmond Dekker (Workout and Please Don't Bend) on the juke box in my local earlier, not on it. However, one of the local scholars asked me to put some Beethoven on, 8 Beethoven tracks available Vs 4 Dekker to my surprise. No idea why I just posted this, hic

Rothko

Whatsgonewrong wrote: »

I don't particularly classify anything today as music, just seen louis walshes new 'boyband' on the late late who, was quite embarrasing.

Also people who listen to modern music I wouldn't classify them as music 'fans' either, the most loyal music fans are definently the ones in the metal and rock community. Nice people sharing a similar interest and everyone gets on, great musicians and pure dedication by the bands, very happy to be apart of it.

Ridiculous statements.

TimeToShine

Whatsgonewrong wrote: »

I don't particularly classify anything today as music, just seen louis walshes new 'boyband' on the late late who, was quite embarrasing.

Also people who listen to modern music I wouldn't classify them as music 'fans' either, the most loyal music fans are definently the ones in the metal and rock community. Nice people sharing a similar interest and everyone gets on, great musicians and pure dedication by the bands, very happy to be apart of it.

Meanwhile, people in the electronic music community are spending thousands on DJ sets and audio equipment...

Your post irritates me. Too much to refute.

Whatsgonewrong

TimeToShine wrote: »

Meanwhile, people in the electronic music community are spending thousands on DJ sets and audio equipment...

Your post irritates me. Too much to refute.

Na It is people like you who are irritating, anything but metal because they're all freaks and losers right? hahaha typical irish mindset

Links234

Whatsgonewrong wrote: »

Na It is people like you who are irritating, anything but metal because they're all freaks and losers right? hahaha typical irish mindset

I'm a metal fan and I'm annoyed by the suggestion that fans of modern music aren't "real" music fans

smurgen

first time I heard dubstep and all them other step genres. the likes of skrillex, I just cant abide or connect with it and cannot understand how he's touted as some sort of genius.It's repetitive and derivative over the top music.I listened to all sorts of artists from Korn to Apex Twin to classical music but I can't understand this dubstep ****. Also it seems to be enjoyed by **** who consider themselves alternative,

Links234

smurgen wrote: »

I listened to all sorts of artists from Korn to Apex Twin to classical music but I can't understand this dubstep ****.

Meanwhile Korn are working with Skrillex, so erm, ok

Whatsgonewrong

Links234 wrote: »

I'm a metal fan and I'm annoyed by the suggestion that fans of modern music aren't "real" music fans

Is It because your a moron? And your favourite band is probably Trivium hahahahahah !!

Links234

Whatsgonewrong wrote: »

Is It because your a moron? And your favourite band is probably Trivium hahahahahah !!

Resorting to insults? No my favourite band isn't Trivum either, but if it was that'd hardly be cause to call someone a moron.

MagicMarker

I only listen to variations of notes E, A, B, F.

The rest are utter garbage.

smurgen

Links234 wrote: »

Meanwhile Korn are working with Skrillex, so erm, ok

Old korn, I was only pulling out two of the more extreme artists I used follow.Stopped following them after take a look in the mirror. Then the Queens of the Stone age phase kicked in.Thanks for reassuring me of my choice to stop following them however.

MagicMarker

Whatsgonewrong wrote: »

Is It because your a moron? And your favourite band is probably Trivium hahahahahah !!

When you try and belittle someone else, use correct grammar.

Whatsgonewrong

Links234 wrote: »

Resorting to insults? No my favourite band isn't Trivum either, but if it was that'd hardly be cause to call someone a moron.

I called you a moron because as a metal fan you should know people who are listening to the likes of myley cyrus, katie perry etc are NOT music fans. Especially as what they do Is a ****ed up form of enterainment more than music, show more skin then talent is the motto.

The One Doctor

I like Lady Gaga, Katy Perry and Dragonette. I also like 11th century French troubadour music and Jonathan Coulton. Why should I give up liking pop just because I'm 34? Don't be stupid OP, just enjoy the music you enjoy and stop trying to be an effing hipster.

Nothing wrong with enjoying TGIF (Last Friday Night) and 'Je languis d'amere mort' back to back, and that's just what I'm doing now.

Links234

Whatsgonewrong wrote: »

I called you a moron because as a metal fan you should know people who are listening to the likes of myley cyrus, katie perry etc are NOT music fans. Especially as what they do Is a ****ed up form of enterainment more than music, show more skin then talent is the motto.

No, people who listen to the likes of Miley Cyrus are fans of different kinds of music than me, and though I don't appreciate it I don't feel the need to put people down to make me feel better about my taste in music or make myself feel superior.

Whatsgonewrong

Links234 wrote: »

No, people who listen to the likes of Miley Cyrus are fans of different kinds of music than me, and though I don't appreciate it I don't feel the need to put people down to make me feel better about my taste in music or make myself feel superior.

We are superior though, we all know it !!!

smurgen

It's hard to describe what real music is.it's timeless and you recognise it straight away. imo 90% of music is only filler ,derivative crap that'll sound ridiculous in a few years if it ever sounded good.good music doesn't age badly,it always sounds fresh and relative.so hard to come by but makes you feel alive when you hear it!