Why do young people listen to oldies?

Why do we listen to oldies? Come on, have you heard any of the crap they try to pawn off as music on the radio, it all sucks

 

stupidest thing i've ever heard in my life. That's like asking why white people listen to rap music.

music isn't made for any particular sort of person dumdum.

I agree with the above post, have you heard the shit they try to call music these days. Lame. I only listen to stuff from the 60's and 70's because it's not systematic music, all sounding the same, produced by money hungry corporations who push their artists to sing like they're having orgasms in my ear, and rub baby oil all over themselves at every public appearance cuz THAT sells more. ALSO----THEY ALL SANG LIVE. ugggghhhh im gonna go shit something big. What a stupid sdoihf'aoishfgksd...i dunno! just stupid!!!

 

excellent post, by the way.

 

There is a dfference between oldies and timeless.

 

If I think music is good, I'm going to listen to it. I'm not going to just ignore it because it existed before my time. To me, there is no reason not to listen to music that I like. Just because most of those musicians are dead and gone doesn't mean their music isn't. Besides, new music today isn't really my cup of tea. Do you really think old musicians were playing their music for only that generation to hear? No, they wanted it to live on.

 

Are you speaking only of Hip Hop?
Baggie Clothes?
Sorry EVERY generation had it's share of fluff and plain old rubbish music. Including the 60's There is some great stuff being made now. Just get off the mainsream radio!

 

AMEN!!!!!!

 

AMEN!

 

cuz the best music is still the original music

 

Yeah, that's pretty much it. Classic Rock had a very good feel to it, but people who like Classic rock and hate today's rock are basically hipsters. They want to be part of something they think they missed. It worked better back then, because the young people still had brains and talent based music was still popular. There are still brains out there functioning like Richard Melbonn's and Syd Barrett's, but, they're not the brains that are making money. It's not in high demand. There are a lot of great bands out there who play stuff that sounds EXACTLY like the Stones. Just move to Southern California, hang out for a while, and you'll finally hear some of those bands. If you don't hang out in the underground, sadly, you won't hear these bands. But, we have the internet now and it's a very powerful tool, so all you really have to do now is go about finding sites like Iuma.com, and find the bands that the record companies will no longer sell. Don't blame the musicians on a whole, blame our stupid generation for listening to ghetto rap, and hardcore. If people were into rock on a majority, it'd still be selling.

In answering the original question, we like classic rock (oldies as a genre were a bit older than that) because the music was often very trippy, often had something deep to say, and was full of talent. That stuff still exists, though. I'm in a band called "The Riders on the Storm" that plays a lot of classic rock, and a prog. metal band, too. Rap and hardcore aren't the only two that exist today, only what is popular, and as GMDukes showed in the "rap" thread, there are some intelligent and spacey rap/hip-hop artists out there, but they're obviously not going to sell as well as the decadence based rap artists today, and thus I say, blame your generation. They're the one's fueling this lame music. You can still find good rock today, though. It's not like the brains just stopped working creatively after the 1970s ended, they just stopped being able to move product.

 

Right on like Hendrix said "[size=-1]When I die, just keep playing the records"[/size]

 

Maybe because we or they like it. LOL I much rather listen to oldies than this bull put out today. Cmon example 1 William Hung LOL

peace
chickens

 

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Like I said, the music still exists. We're not moving backward. Popular music was almost always shitty. The '70s has disco, it's just that for a very small period the public pulled their heads out of their asses, found what little bit of brain they had left, and started getting into the music brought by the British invasion. It's like the Police Academy movies. You have to realize that a good 80% of people (the majority) are complete morons who are pleased by total bullshit. If you want classic rock sounds, you can find them today, you just won't find them on a major label.

 

Because Good music never dyes......I think that's the main reason....

 

Why do people see the need to trap themselves in a certain time period? I live in four dimensions, baby!

 

..this thread is crazy. yeah, because we weren't born in the same era it's wrong of us to find a sound appealing. if you listened to oldies to piss off your parents you're obviously listning to music for the wrong reasons. hey, you're not allowed to listen to Beethoven because you weren't alive in the 1800s!

dumbed down, people listen to music because THEY LIKE IT, and the oldies era happens to have good music!

I also completely disagree with anyone who said oldies sounds better, there's so many great bands that exist now as well! you just have to dig around to get them.

 

Dead Kennedys, Sex Pistols, Sham 69, Minor Threat? lol



man, oldies rock, I love Gershwin!

 

most of the music made today is shit. Who the hell listens to Back Street Boys or Britney Spears who the hell likes that dip shitty teeny bopper crap, and don't even get me started on C-rap you cant spell crap without r a p you also cant spell rapest without r a p and most of those rappers are doing nothing more then raping beautiful old songs and remixing it into tripe. What's wrong with younger peole listening to the music they like anyway what are you a facist.

 

Hell, when I want to get inspired I listen to folk, ragtime, and blues from the 20s, 30s, 40s, and 50s...