Listening to music from another generation to yours

Thoughts_Arrive
Thoughts_Arrive Melbourne, Australia Posts: 15,165
edited February 2013 in Other Music
Is it just me but I kinda feel embarrassed that almost all the music I love is from another generation and for that particular generation.
Let's take my love for PJ and Nirvana and all the 'grunge' bands, that was for Gen X, I belong to Gen Y (sadly).
People without such an obsession for music as me would probably think "why don't you listen to what is current and for your generation?" or ''why are you living in the past'' or ''you're a gen Y'er why are you listening to music made for your elders'' etc etc.

Am I being stupid here?, not many bands out today do it for me, I don't feel the same emotional connection.
Adelaide 17/11/2009, Melbourne 20/11/2009, Sydney 22/11/2009, Melbourne (Big Day Out Festival) 24/01/2014
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  • joewalshdc
    joewalshdc Posts: 948
    I guess I dont see Pearl Jam as another generation as they still make music I connect to today but I do totally get why you say they are. There is music out there today that I still connect to emotionally. Yes there is lots of absolute trash too. However bands like The Joy Formidable, We Are Augustines, Sigur Ros, Frightened Rabbit, The National, Wilco - are making incredible music worthy of any generation.
  • keeponrockin
    keeponrockin Posts: 7,446
    I listen to all generations.
    Believe me, when I was growin up, I thought the worst thing you could turn out to be was normal, So I say freaks in the most complementary way. Here's a song by a fellow freak - E.V
  • pandora
    pandora Posts: 21,855
    me too and all genre
  • keeponrockin
    keeponrockin Posts: 7,446
    I also feel when people say 'bands today aren't any good' aren't really looking hard enough. Just my $0.02.
    Believe me, when I was growin up, I thought the worst thing you could turn out to be was normal, So I say freaks in the most complementary way. Here's a song by a fellow freak - E.V
  • Lifted
    Lifted Posts: 1,836
    keeponrockin wrote:
    I also feel when people say 'bands today aren't any good' aren't really looking hard enough. Just my $0.02.

    yep. it's called being stubborn. I understand not caring to listen to new music.. but to gripe about music you've never heard is a bit ignorant.. there will always be interesting music being made, you just have to put in the effort to find the music that you connect with.

    but like I said, I do understand it. it's called getting old. the older you get, the less interested you are in keeping up with the latest music and/or trends. either because you have more responsibility, and don't have the time, or just simply because your priorities have changed. the music being pushed through the mainstream has, generally speaking, always sucked. so it's not the quality of the music that is changing, it's the listener, their values, and the avenues they are willing to travel to hear new music that changes.
  • Of The Aggie
    Of The Aggie The ATX Posts: 1,550
    Lifted wrote:
    the music being pushed through the mainstream has, generally speaking, always sucked.

    So when PJ, Soundgarden, AIC and all the other grunge bands of the 90s were being "pushed through the mainstream", they sucked?
  • Black Diamond
    Black Diamond Posts: 25,109
    Any occassion I have to try new or old or revisit music based on a reccomendation or a review or a book :shifty: , I'll do it.
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