At What Age Did You Start Outgrowing Contemporary Music?

TheGlass · 30-05-2014 07:09PM #1

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 · 30-05-2014 07:11PM

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

Links234 · 30-05-2014 07:11PM

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 · 30-05-2014 07:11PM

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 · 30-05-2014 07:11PM

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 · 30-05-2014 07:13PM

I still listen to contemporary music.

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

henryporter · 30-05-2014 07:15PM

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 · 30-05-2014 07:15PM

It all went to sh1t when Big Tom retired.

TheGlass · 30-05-2014 07:18PM

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

30-05-2014 07:19PM

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

anything after the 90s is god awful garbage

biko · 30-05-2014 07:22PM

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 · 30-05-2014 07:35PM

nc19 wrote: »

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

Seriously?

MRnotlob606 · 30-05-2014 07:38PM

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

Hotale.com · 30-05-2014 07:39PM

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

30-05-2014 07:41PM

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

Davidius · 30-05-2014 07:41PM

I outgrew all music when I was 14.

Manach · 30-05-2014 07:41PM

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 · 30-05-2014 08:57PM

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

Rory Gallagher · 30-05-2014 09:02PM

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 · 30-05-2014 09:03PM

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

Rory Gallagher · 30-05-2014 09:13PM

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 · 30-05-2014 09:15PM

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 · 30-05-2014 09:19PM

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 · 30-05-2014 09:19PM

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 · 30-05-2014 09:25PM

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 · 30-05-2014 09:38PM

Opinions are all like arseholes, usually full of shít.

auldgranny · 30-05-2014 09:42PM

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 · 30-05-2014 10:14PM

about 25/7

TimeToShine · 30-05-2014 10:17PM

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 · 30-05-2014 10:22PM

27. 1989 turned on TOTPs , hated every song.

catallus · 30-05-2014 10:36PM

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.

At What Age Did You Start Outgrowing Contemporary Music?

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