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PrintableStarMon said: missfee said: What I mean by "Old Soul Music Lovers" is that the category refers to the current young adult generation 18-35 years old who prefers old school soul music as oppose today's music. You can find this music blasting in their car and on their MP3 players:
Sam Cooke Otis Redding Al Green Wilson Pickett Ben E. King Ike & Tina Etta James Teddy Pendergrass Marvin Gaye The O'Jays and the list goes on and on and on.... There are a lot of us out here, yet some of the older people, which this music came out in their era, have dubbed us "an old soul in a young body"...but why is that? Why do I have to have an old soul to love classic soul music? I'm 41, I remember when I was around 17-20 years old and playing songs from a generation or two past... around some old heads and they'd be surprised to here me play music from their generation. The usual response I'd get would be something like "You don't know nothing 'bout dat there, that's before your time youngster"... I would just break off something about the song or artist to let them know what time it was, and @ the same time get hip to other similar artist. I dig it when I roll up on someone who's younger and their playing some old school be it jazz, soul, rock, r&b, gospel, funk..etc. I usually give'em the  or swap some music knowledge and roll on.
....and you don't have to be an old soul to dig classic soul or any other genre. Thank you so much!!! I can relate to this...thats the part I hate. How some of the older generation can't even remember the fact that it wasn't Wilson Pickett who recored "Sweet Soul Music" but actually Arthur Conley. That's the biggest argument I win all the time. I will forever love and miss you...my sweet Prince. | |
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Here's my perspective from a near 60 year old vantage point:
What's cool about this world is that as time goes on the sheer volume of music from decades past just keeps piling up in the "oldies" category. Because of this phenomena young people of today have access to tons more music than my generation did "back in the day." That old soul sound was brand new once; it was the cutting edge and initiated a whole genre that hadn't ever existed before (although I suppose it could be argued that it was the logical extension of music from cats like Cab Calloway and church gospel music). The list of artists that Missfee started this thread with hold a special place because they were the first to define a brand new sound that today's soul music is a deriviative. Advances over the years in recording technology, electric instrument design and computer tools has done much to shape the sound of today's music (and the music of the last 30-40 years). It's only by comparison to the sonic characteristics of what is typical today that you could say the old classic soul music is either primative sounding or authentic sounding and it's a matter of personal taste as to what one prefers or is able to appreciate. I recently read somewhere that someone was trying to obtain a full array of antique acoustic instruments from various museums in order to play some famous 18th century classical compositions so that an audience could hear the music as it sounded to listeners back in that day. But I digress. Bottom line here is that you young people of today are far more versed in all types of music that have come down the pike in the last 40 years because that huge volume of work has been available to you and I think that is very cool. My 21 year old daughter knows music from Cab Calloway and Count Basie to Rhianna and Snoop Dogg. It's amazing to hear her sing along with everything from Frank Sinatra to the Beach Boys to the Beatles to Al B.Sure to Led Zeppelin to James Brown to Donna Summer to Earth Wind and Fire to Stevie Wonder to P-Funk to...well you get the picture. The sheer accumulated volume of music and the hugely numerous channels of availability have given you an unprecedented opportunity to be exposed to so much whether you heard it from your parent's music collection growing up or whether you hear it on oldies radio formats today or even as sampled passages in contemporary artists work today. It's all good. And I can see why old farts from my generation may think you are something special if you dazzle them with a knowledge of what they think of as "their" music. I don't know if there is any such thing as a soul that might be older than another soul but I do know that the young people of today have a far more comprehensive knowledge of music than we oldsters had when we were your age. [Edited 5/17/08 13:52pm] | |
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