First off I am completely old skool! I can appreciate newer artists such as Kanye West, Gaga and couple others but really my heart belongs in the 80'swhere music is concerened. Actually where everything is concerened, lol! There are a ton of albums/artists that I listen to on a regular basis as if they are brand new. Here's an example....

Madonna

Rick James

Debbie Gibson

Ray Parker Jr.

Rockwell

Dazz Band

The System

Dead or Alive

Vanity 6

Apollonia 6

How about you guys? Still rocking older acts as if they just came out yesterday?

No doubt I listen to my 80's playlist on my IPOD on the regular, my 60's and 70's playlist get regular play too. My 2000's playlist only get's played maybe twice a week.

60s and early 70s Dusty Springfield. Can't get enough of that.

The oldest thing I've played on my iPod in the last week was "I Cried For You," Billie Holiday (1936).

Johnnie Taylor

Swing Out Sister (They still record though.)

Hall & Oates (They occasionally release new music too)

Minnie Riperton

George Benson

The Beatles

Jackson 5 (Not Jacksons or solo)

All the time. I'm into very few of today's artists. And yes I love 80's music as well.

All the time.

All the time

Timmy84 said:

All the time.

HELL YEAH!!!!

If I didn't there'd be some music and radio executives in serious hiding!

Almost exclusively.

Ellie said:

Almost exclusively.

Right on! It's nice to know i'm not alone lol!

SUPRMAN said:

Timmy84 said:

All the time.

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Ellie said:

Almost exclusively.

Me too!

I hardly listen to anyone new, but i really try to listen to older artists "new stuff" because almost everyone i loved back in the 80's , still records today and does better stuff now.

Michael and Janet Jackson are my main to favorites.

Then Whitney, Jody Watley, Prince, etc.

That's all i listen to and i am only 20

dancerella said:

First off I am completely old skool! I can appreciate newer artists such as Kanye West, Gaga and couple others but really my heart belongs in the 80'swhere music is concerened. Actually where everything is concerened, lol! There are a ton of albums/artists that I listen to on a regular basis as if they are brand new. Here's an example....

Madonna

Rick James

Debbie Gibson

Ray Parker Jr.

Rockwell

Dazz Band

The System

Dead or Alive

Vanity 6

Apollonia 6

How about you guys? Still rocking older acts as if they just came out yesterday?

Another DOA Fan? ashahahah

I love Nude

All the time...

I have a really hard tome committing to new artists. I may like them for a while, but very few have made it onto the list of regulars.

I was raised on that kind of music. I hardly have anything modern on my iPod or computer. And if I do, the artist has an old sound to them. I love my daddy for keeping it old school. I can't get enough of the sounds of the 60s, 70s and 80s.

To steal a line from Jay-Z -I am truly "an 80's baby"....not born in the '80's mind you!!! But "coming of age" in the '80's.... I think I was spoiled. My reality was:

- '70's bands (EW&F, Slave, Chic, Switch) were still around late '70's into the early '80s. I got to enjoy hearing real-live instruments

- BARRY WHITE - 'nuff said.

- Hip Hop was introduced to the world. I know a lot of people don't like this genre, but the hip hop from the early 80's (Rakim, Treacherous 3) does not resemble what's being called hip hop today.

- Prince, Michael and Madonna - say what you will, but they were all extremely creative and very enjoyable in their own way.

There's still good music being made today of course, but I tend to listen to the older stuff more often.

Shaolin325 said:

To steal a line from Jay-Z -I am truly "an 80's baby"....not born in the '80's mind you!!! But "coming of age" in the '80's.... I think I was spoiled.

Same here... I graduated high school in '85, and college in '89.

uh... almost exclusively.

I think you'll find that's the case with most people on here.

This is Prince forum most of the members are still stuck in the 1980s

That what I listen to primarily. Other than Mariah Carey and Prince, I sort of have to get myself in the mood to listen to anything from the 90's, and I barely listen to anything from the past decade other than Kanye West and Coldplay. I also spend a lot of time listening to 70's music.

I mostly listen to older artists.The 70s is my favorite musical decade.

Gunsnhalen said:

That's all i listen to and i am only 20

HELL YES! I'm 21. Nice to know I'm not alone

Of course... my favorite decades for music are 60s and 70s.

I listen to music all the time so there's always everything in the mix.

yup, ive been listening to Prince, Aerosmith and MJ the most over the past few months. I mainly listen to the 70's and 80's stuff. I still have alot of older music to discover though

As someone who is young (19) i do not enjoy most mainstream music. There are a few songs here and there but not most of them. I have maybe 10 songs that were recorded in the last decade by mainstream artists.