Lombard

You would also have to go back to the wages you could make back then, dirty air and water, not to mention 50 year old medical technology.

Koyote

They’re just laughing at your jersey’s dick pouch.

Rolla

All that classic AOR stuff got played to death when I was a teenager in the 70s. If I never hear another Boston or Steely Dan song for the rest of my life, it'll be too soon.

Koyote

I largely agree, but Aja has aged very nicely.

Rolla

Oh lord. I probably hate that one more than any other. When "Peg" comes on, I can't turn that yacht rock off fast enough.

3alarmer 

SurferRosa

... and homes people could afford.

Deal.

3alarmer 

...eventually you need to ask yourself, who is at fault for this ?

SurferRosa

And Can't Buy a Thrill, Katie Lied, Countdown to Ecstasy, Pretzel Logic, Royal Scam and Gaucho.

Koyote

Yeah, that track has been played a lot. But the album is deep.

Outrider1

As I type this I'm listening to yacht rock on the app and Peg is on. LOL I'm not kidding.

smd4

I got a chance to hear my 18 year old son’s “music:” the amount of f**ks, p***y” and b****h was sort of overwhelming. I didn’t say a thing. There was no tune I could hum. He’s an adult who plays classical piano.

Perhaps our resident music teachers can help people like me accept this as “music.”

Rolla

If his music offends his dad, it's doing its job. The kids are alright.

smd4

But I don’t act offended. What then?

Rolla

Then you're an actor. Seems like if you really wanted to "accept" his music, you'd talk about it with him.

smd4

what’s to talk about, Dr. Huxtable?

Rolla

Try to keep up, Corky. You want someone to "help people like me accept this as music," so ask him to explain it.

dedhed

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mstateglfr 

A huberistic and ignorant person once said...

urbanknight

You'll be thrilled to know that when I ask my middle school students which "pops" tunes they want to play, I hear Beatles, Metallica, Led Zeppelin, etc. in addition to 21 Pilots, Imagine Dragons, and the rest of the new stuff. Varied eras, which tells me their parents are introducing them to some stuff and they are listening. They're currently loving a Neal Hefti tune I gave them, and I think they're starting to enjoy Chameleon now that they got the rhythm grooving.

That says enough right there.

urbanknight

The current trend in my band room, thanks to some YouTuber who calls himself "Sexy Sax Man", is for my sax players to learn the solo from Careless Whisper and gyrate while playing it over and over again until I start rehearsal. They even teach it to the younger students at lunch time so I can be sure the trend continue next year, and the next, and the next.

The best definition of "music" that I have found is: sound organized in time. That in no way implies that you have to like or even appreciate it. To branch out a little bit, an art professor once told a friend of mine that art is a conversation which you may or may not be a part of.

I could pontificate for hours on why they like listening to four letter word after four letter word with tons of shouting and very little (if any) melody, but that would just be my personal observations. It speaks to them, and they feel something when listening to it.

I once heard a 40 piece banjo band at a jazz festival. Hated it. It's still music, but I turned and walked away.

rollagain

Not to get back on the original topic or anything, but, rydabent ... if you really want to advance the cause for recumbent cycling, you might want to think about actually going out and riding the things where other people can see you and ask questions about your particular cycle or about 'bents in general--as opposed to sitting at the computer and starting contentious topic threads.

Camilo

You don't need that stuff to be a "cyclist" which is the point being rightly pooh-poohed.

"General Tone"? Nonsense. I read the hell out of that forum and this one and have never gotten that impression.

Camilo

Sometimes i wonder if people who hate the current young generation's music realize what a cliche it is. My parents thought our music was *****, as did their parents. Just get over it. Every generation has it's own musical taste, and that's the way it should be. Thank goodness popular music has evolved since the 40s. There is some Big Band music I like, but I like contemporary music more

PeteHski

I see the same kind of thing. But I wonder if the introduction to older music is more likely coming from the music streaming apps. My 13 year old daughter listens to a vast range of music simply because of Spotify. She listens to all kinds of stuff from auto-generated playlists etc. I think it's awesome.

The other day she heard our elderly neighbour listening to the radio and asked if that's how all old people listen to music? I had to laugh.