To the Baby boomers, your opinion on today's music ?

[petro]

Us baby boomers had the greatest music in our generation, most genre's had its golden age, we had talents who peaked in our lifetime and actually went out and purchased albums and see them in concert.

So question, what are your thoughts on today's music?

I am actually sick of older music, classic rock as it is called. I have heard these songs hundreds if not thousands of times and now have to suffer pharmaceutical companies using songs as stupid ads for their products ruining the song forever.

Some newer groups I like are...
Glass Animals
Big Data
Hippie Sabotage
Joywave
Two Feet
Bob Moses
Nothing But Thieves...

When I had SiriusXM, Alt Nation was actually my favorite channel.

 

[1srelluc]

LOL....There sure isn't any tunes that can stick in your head these days.

Sorry.

 

[OhPleaseJustQuit]

I finally realized in the last decade or so that all the music I thought I loved between adolescence and my late forties was what I listened to because my peer group told me to.

Now that peers no longer influence my tastes, I am free to enjoy what I actually enjoy, and with the exception of the rare country song that still clings to its country roots, that leaves nothing that was made after about 1985. Opera, symphony and indigenous American music, bluegrass, zydeco and the like. That's it for me.

 

[Godboy]

Led Zeppelin, Black Sabbath, Van Halen, Aerosmith, Queen, Ozzy, Dio, Crue, GNR, Metallica, Megadeath, Maiden, Priest, Pantera, Soundgarden, AIC, Pearl Jam, Tool, Korn, Disturbed, Foo Fighters, God Smack, Fozzy, Avenged 7x, Shinedown, etc...
Rock n roll never dies,
Classical next.
Pop, hiphop, rap & top 40 is the cheap hotel art of the music world

What a GREAT list!

 

[Flash]

Rock and Roll died with Heavy Metal and was buried with this Hip Hop/Rap shit.

Most of what they call Rock or Country music nowadays sounds the same for the most part.

 

[Harry Dresden]

Metal was brilliant in the 80s, the 90s? Not so sure. But I just feel sorry for a certain generation who came of age in the 90s and 00s the music then hasn't stood the test of time

in the 80's it was.....the greatest so called metal bands came about in the 80's.....

 

[Ralph Norton]

Todays music with only a few rare and notable exceptions sucks. Much of it is a crime to call Music.

Said every generation for the last 100 years (and probably more).

 

[Mr Natural]

Horrible crap for the most part.

 

[JOSweetHeart]

For almost seven years now it has been mostly music from the 60's, 70's, and 80's for me.

God bless you always!!!

Holly

 

[Hellbilly]

So question, what are your thoughts on today's music?

There is lots of great music being made today. Trouble is, it won’t be handed to you, you need to look for it.

 

[Harry Dresden]

There is lots of great music being made today. Trouble is, it won’t be handed to you, you need to look for it.

if you like todays music....yea.....

 

[johngaltshrugged]

What a GREAT list!

That's just top of the head & just too many to name. I should have AC/DC, System of a Down, Tesla, Rush, Dokken, Skid Row, Nugent, Black Crows, Skynyrd, Scorpions, Creed, STP, Nirvana, Hell Yeah, NIN, Lincoln Park & so many more.
Rock doesn't die, we just gets new bands with fresh tunes.
Can't stand it when they call someone like Madonna or Justa Beaver a rock star. They ain't rockers & that vapid crap isn't quality music

 

[Godboy]

That's just top of the head & just too many to name. I should have AC/DC, System of a Down, Tesla, Rush, Dokken, Skid Row, Nugent, Black Crows, Skynyrd, Scorpions, Creed, STP, Nirvana, Hell Yeah, NIN, Lincoln Park & so many more.
Rock doesn't die, we just gets new bands with fresh tunes.
Can't stand it when they call someone like Madonna or Justa Beaver a rock star. They ain't rockers & that vapid crap isn't quality music

Yep, they are "Pop Stars". Pop stars are corny, while Rock Stars are the epitome of cool, which is why people try to mislabel pop stars.

 

[Canon Shooter]

I don't listen to a lot of the music being produced today. And, if I do, it's from artists that have been producing music for decades. For instance, I just picked up the new Styx CD, "Crash Of The Crown". I really dig it, but Styx has been around, in one form or another, for 50 years...

 

[Canon Shooter]

Can't stand it when they call someone like Madonna or Justa Beaver a rock star. They ain't rockers & that vapid crap isn't quality music

I would disagree with regards to Madonna. She gets some of the best musicians on the planet to both record and tour with (Michael Jackson and Prince used to do that, as well).

You may not like it (I'm not a big fan), but it's definitely quality music...