80's hits vs today's music.

[lordkenmore]

I seem to recall some columnist--I am thinking it was Leonard Pitts--who quit being a music columnist in favor of editorial page writing due to an increasing dislike of current music...

 

[lordkenmore]

As for me, I try to keep an open mind (ear?), and have heard some modern things that I've liked. But very little recent music really appeals.

 

[mattl]

Hate 90% of "old" music, hate 99% of today's music.   Just spent 14+ hours driving home from a vacation.  Used my wireless ear buds for a bit, but they died, so I was forced to try and listen to live radio.  What a waste land.  Modern pop all sounds the same, there is not one redeeming thing about it.  Got relatives that LOVE what I call dinosaur rock - stuff from the 70-80's.  I find it annoying, has no relevance to today and if I never heard it again I would live the rest of my life just fine.  I tell them it's like our parents who liked Lawrence Welk and such and the stuff he played from the 20's and 30's -- music that was 40 years old in the 60's - how did we respond to them - eye rolls.  Here they are today doing the same.

 

I like Indie/modern folk and classical, got lots of Pandora and Amazon "channels" devoted to many varied artists.  I always listen when something new gets added to my mix.

 

[daveamkrayoguy]

--And Madonna...

-- Dave

 

[vacerator]

In Arizona

and southern California, they play lots of Hispanic and Latin music on the radio also.

 

[cycluxe]

Unfortunately the monster hits of the '80s have been airplayed to death. That's why I listen to college radio, where the selection is much more diverse. There's actually a show on a local college station that plays '80s songs you won't hear on commercial radio, like Real Life's "Send Me An Angel" and Martha and the Muffins' "Echo Beach."

 

[agiflow2]

Funny thing is I like the eighties more now than when i was a teen and my early twenties back then. I had quite a few things I liked also. Duran Duran, Pat Benatar, Stevie Ray Vaughn, Van Halen...and whatever moved me at the time.

Now that I have Sirius XM I can now listen to music I never heard before and bands I never heard of before, but at the same time hearing songs from bands I grew up with that FM never played. FM is dead to me now.

Really digging the Beatles channel !

 

[tolivac]

I worked in a top 40 radio station when 70's,80's music was played---SICK TO DEATH of that music-had to listen to it for 8hrs a day-40hrs a week!!!!When I got home either had silence on or listened to other types of music.Todays music is TRASH to me.Sadly a lot of 50's and 60's songs have been played to death as well.I agree with many on here-radio is such a talentless wasteland now.Same with sat radio-same sort of thing-records played over and over-nothing NEW!Don't waste the money on the sat radio.With sat radio and most radio stations---Can we put a new stack or records on?-or--can we change the roll in the organ?Asked at a merry go round--they changed the roll for me and let me pick the one with songs on it I wanted to hear!Stayed there the rest of the day!Glen Echo Park!