Listening to old music!

[steve1234]

Im 18, but i dont have much interest at all with music in the charts. :(

I like a few hip hop/rap/r&B songs, but they are nothing special. Many of them seem manufactured and just the same. I find many of the videos very similar, unimaginative and very unoriginal (e.g. some gansta rapper doing some silly walk around a swimming pool which has loads of sluts in it...like a soft porn video). Many music artists only seem to be in the charts because of their looks, like Pixie Lott, Rihanna, etc
The exceptions of modern music, for me, are unique and original artists such as Eminem, Dizzee Rascal, Calvin Harris, KOL, The Killers, stuff like that etc

I prefer more meaningful music. Most of the music I listen to is from the 70s and 80s, like Fleetwood Mac, INXS, The Smiths, Simple Minds, Bon Jovi, bla bla bla the list goes on. I like most stuff from the 70s and 80s.
Its not just me though, many people in my college rarely listen to modern music, and mostly talk about really old music from the 70s and 80s.

Anyone else feel like this? any more opinions? am i just out of touch?

[Blood]

SO not out of touch dude. I love 80s and 70s music. Journey, Bon Jovi, Genesis, Queen...and tons more. Some of the artists today just don't have talent.

[dbrkk]

OMG I'm all for older music! Don't feel ashamed for liking REAL music. Stuff nowadays is way too dirty and sounds too computerized.

[Mr. Smithers]

Nothing wrong with liking good music. Today's crap is horrible.

[Aspiringanonymous]

I grew up listening to my father's music, which was mostly from the '70s, '80s, and so forth. I had a conversation the other day with someone where they mentioned a song from just a few years ago was 'old', and I said, 'no.. everything 1990+ is new to me'. I listen to an equal combination of both old and new, and rarely ever anything 'mainstream' even in the new.

Truly unique and original artists are very difficult to find. All the comparatively unique ones out there still adhere to some vital extent of conformity - if they didn't, they wouldn't have ended up as famous as they are now. But perhaps I am wrong.

I don't mind music being computerized, but I absolutely can't stand sexually suggestive lyrics. That's more or less the main reason.

[Peace God]

I listen to mostly older music but dont sleep on the new shit... you just gotta look past the mainstream stuff.

[Scarface]

I listen to all 80's. Whitesnake,Poison, Eddie money, Rod Stewart, Rollingstones, Simple minds, Psychedelic furs. A bunch of others Go 80's

[steve1234]

Thanks everyone for your feedback :)

There is a lot of sexually suggestive lyrics in old music, but it is far less obvious, and maybe more romantic. But modern music tends to be in your face and just plain dirty i.e. Akon - "im trying to find the words to describe this girl without being disrepectful...damn she's a sexy bitch", or most stuff from Rihanna or any other R&B artists.
When you put on MTV, sometimes its like a porn channel!

I do still look at the charts, but I rarely find something i'm in to.