Generation Gaps and Being Partial to What you grew up with.

[SimplyKickingAss]

Music is very egocentric, people are partial to the music they grew up. I was reading a guitar magazine and they were saying most kids start listening and really getting into music at around age 12 - 13 and the music they grow up with 13 - 19 years of age is the music they will always be most partial to and it's what they will mostly listen to there entire life. My dad grew up with Jimi, Zepplin, the beatles, lynard skynard etc... And that the music he always talks about he likes some songs from todays bands but he mainly listens to the old stuff.

I'm 29 I have a wife and kid and don't have a lot of time to seek out new bands etc... So I really just listen to what I grew up with, STP, AiC, Nirvana, Soundgarden, Silverchair, Bush, Pearl Jam, Screaming Trees, Foo Fighters, Tool, Failure, Green Day, Kyuss, Mudhoney, NiN, Pantera, Primus, RHCP, Radiohead, Sonic Youth, Smashing Pumpkins etc... I think thats why people from different age ranges don't always get along musically

[jrowa001]

the people who havent heard of blogsearch.google.com or sputnikmusic.com are the ones that will always be listening to the bands they heard on the radio when they were younger

[adb]

I got into music around that age, but I am not partial to it at all anymore. Its garbage.

[McP3000]

bitch ****

[SimplyKickingAss]

It's just what I read in a mag and something I agree with... Has the internet created a new generation of people who like to argue?

[badtaste]

I grew up with Britney Spears but I'm actually a big P!nk fan.

[adb]

no, it's created a new generation of people who can easily find music that isn't commericalized bullshit

[McP3000]

dammit i didnt know **** was filted

[SimplyKickingAss]

dammit i didnt know **** was filted

You're always so angry... How old are you?

[McP3000]

im your mom's age doubled and ****ed along a grilled chess sandwich

[adb]

grilled chess sandwich

:lol:

[McP3000]

dont be mocking me while my music fades out brah

[Iluvatar]

im glad our generation is the least commercialized musically then our forefathers

[McP3000]

how does one get succuessfully comercialized properly?

[Iluvatar]

one must pay for mtvu

[McP3000]

i wanna mtvu2

[RiceMonster]

the people who havent heard of blogsearch.google.com or sputnikmusic.com are the ones that will always be listening to the bands they heard on the radio when they were younger

Yeah, there is no other places to find music other than sputnik and blogsearch

[Iluvatar]

yes you are forgetting about pitchfork and rolling stone

[SimplyKickingAss]

I really mean no one any harm, I really just enjoy talking about music. There just seems to be a lot of angry kids here I know forums in general are not always the greatest places to hang out. But if you look back at my posts I've only defended myself. I've never tried to start anything, it just seems like no matter where you go forums are full of sarcastic pricks that talk to you in a way that they would never talk to you in real life. So sorry if I offended anyone.

[rasputin]

no matter where you go forums are full of sarcastic pricks that talk to you in no way the way they would talk to you in real life.
Welcome to the Internet.

[Ceminon]

I guess TS is pretty much right. Though I listen to a lot of bands that you will almost never hear on the radio. And not so much because it's not very mainstream, but also because most people my age (I'm 19 years old) would concider it way too old.

Example: My brother thinks that every type of music from before the year 2000 is crap/old trash/outdated. Strangely, I get the feeling he's changed his opinion on that lately, since he's been listening to Elvis and Sinatra. XD

[morrisseysucks]

the people who havent heard of blogsearch.google.com or sputnikmusic.com are the ones that will always be listening to the bands they heard on the radio when they were younger hahahahahahahahahaha

[Det_Nosnip]

I don't agree with this premise at all. I've met plenty of old timers who are deeply into the music scene. Hell, all of the musicians playing today grew up with something completely different, yet they still tend to keep track of what is going on around them.

You're either open minded and you explore new music or you're not and you don't. There's no valid excuses for listening to the same **** for your entire life and ignoring music's progression and development. Hell, I grew up with the same group of early 90's grunge bands, but that's definitely not the only thing I listen to now, and even then I identified as much with Led Zeppelin and 80's Metallica as I did with Alice in Chains or Soundgarden.

[metacognition]

I really mean no one any harm, I really just enjoy talking about music. There just seems to be a lot of angry kids here I know forums in general are not always the greatest places to hang out. But if you look back at my posts I've only defended myself. I've never tried to start anything, it just seems like no matter where you go forums are full of sarcastic pricks that talk to you in a way that they would never talk to you in real life. So sorry if I offended anyone.

Helps to not be pompous and belligerent.

[RNR]

Only the mindless, nonmusical drones will continue to be most partial to the music they grew up with. It's almost as bad as people who personally identify with one style of music.

I grew up with classic rock and blues and now I'm most partial to metal but increasingly partial to hip-hop, reggae, jam rock, and new folk.

[Dave de Sylvia]

Some people like music more than other people. I'm guessing the first group are the ones who don't make an effort to update their tastes.

[Dimmu Burger]

I'd have to say that this isn't true for me, but probably for a lot of people.

I grew up with all the 90's grunge and even some rap and I barely listen to that anymore. I listen to death/grind stuff and underground rock mostly. Even the mainstream stuff I listen to I didn't get into til I got older (Ben Folds, Counting Crows).

[Permanent Solution]

The problem with posting this on a MUSIC FORUM is that people here are too passionate to stop updating their tastes. Our generation is more tech saavy anyways, so I think we'll always be updating to some extent, but for an audience such as the one on this site that article is pretty untrue I'd imagine.

There are plenty of people content with not updating though, in the general population.

[Dimmu Burger]

Exactly.

[keyboardxmoshII]

i grew up listening to minor threat, suicidal tendencies, and wu-tang clan, and hell yes i still listen to all of that

[SimplyKickingAss]

Helps to not be pompous and belligerent.

only after being attacked. check my post history, but i normaly just brush off the shiznit from forums. But man it's everywhere you go, it would be nice to just find one with a bunch of cool people regardless of age.

[keyboardxmoshII]

check your mom's history

[SimplyKickingAss]

check your mom's history

So you can still be in grade school and post on here?

[keyboardxmoshII]

owned owned owned owned

[Permanent Solution]

only after being attacked. check my post history, but i normaly just brush off the shiznit from forums. But man it's everywhere you go, it would be nice to just find one with a bunch of cool people regardless of age.

Folks here are pretty cool, you just have to not take yourself seriously and not be an *** until people know you. <_<

[Dimmu Burger]

That's true. Most people here are cool, just give the others some time.

[RiceMonster]

I take this forum 100% seriously I don't know what you guys are talking about

[Correction]

So you can still be in grade school and post on here?

no theres an age limit and i think you're the man to enforce it!!!

[lak89]

i still listen to stuff i grew up with, albeit not too much anymore, i still thank those bands for expanding my tastes and musical horizon

[ThePalaceOfWisdom]

I heavily disagree with that idea. Less than a year ago I would've recommended people listen to some really generic music. This generation is more likely to find new music and update themselves because we have the internet and that makes almost anything accesible to us. The main reason people don't get along musically is the same reason people don't get along for any other reason, not everyone is going to agree in any situation that's just how it is.

[Squirellmeister]

My music tastes are constantly getting wider and more diverse, and this has been the case since I was 17. It was about then that I really started using the internet to look for new music.