Youngun here, but just wanna say.

Music didn't change for better or for worse.

That's all.

Terrib3Towel said:

I'm not talking to you younguns that prefer old music. I'm talking to the older people who witnessed the change in music firsthand. At what point did you guys say "screw it" and turned the radio off for good and decided to just play your old records? When did u realize music wasn't gonna get any better? I'm curious is all.

For me, it was about 4-5 years ago. I just got so sick of all the junk out there and how the real musicians were being ignored. I still listen to the radio from time to time, but I listen to the oldies like classic rock or 60's and 70's soul.

I do like some newer music, but not a lot. I love all my old records and I can really appreciate just how talented some of these folks were and still are today.

Terrib3Towel said:

I'm not talking to you younguns that prefer old music. I'm talking to the older people who witnessed the change in music firsthand. At what point did you guys say "screw it" and turned the radio off for good and decided to just play your old records? When did u realize music wasn't gonna get any better? I'm curious is all.

I never turned the radio off, I just changed to a different station.

There are some amazing current buns making music in 2012. Music does not begin and end with what is in the top 40/100/whatever.

I've never listened to the radio but I think I stopped getting excited about new music about ten years ago. It wasn't this big decision. One day I just realized I was completely out of the loop with any new artist. And even though I still got to live shows and check out the occassional new band the last artist that gave me any kind of excitement was Robyn, and that was after I saw her live.

smoothcriminal12 said:

Terrib3Towel said:

smoothcriminal12 said:

Youngun here, but just wanna say.

Music didn't change for better or for worse.

That's all.

I'm young myself and I agree. I enjoy new and old music. I'm just curious as to what these old geezers have to say

Don't expect much beyond the usual.

It was in the early 90s when I began to realize that,the music I grew up with (in the 70s and 80s) was so much better than the crap I was hearing on the radio.

smoothcriminal12 said:

Terrib3Towel said:

smoothcriminal12 said: I'm young myself and I agree. I enjoy new and old music. I'm just curious as to what these old geezers have to say

Don't expect much beyond the usual.

What do you think the OP should expect?

Terrib3Towel said:

I'm not talking to you younguns that prefer old music. I'm talking to the older people who witnessed the change in music firsthand. At what point did you guys say "screw it" and turned the radio off for good and decided to just play your old records? When did u realize music wasn't gonna get any better? I'm curious is all.

prbably 2000.

smoothcriminal12 said:

Youngun here, but just wanna say.

Music didn't change for better or for worse.

That's all.

Tha hell it didn't. Real instruments then. Fake instruments and autotune now.

Come on now. I have such high hopes for you.

Growing up there was always'oldies' (50's,60's70's) radio on in the house, so perhaps I was conditioned to think that the old stuff is always better.

I came of age musically - that is to say I reached that age where one typically starts trying to find ones 'own' music - around 1999-2000. That was perhaps the worst time for mainstream pop and rock, or at least it was here in the UK. For those who can't remeber, the charts were wall to wall boy and girl groups, commercial Eurodance and UK Garage, whilst the hot 'Rock' sound was nu-metal. Oh, the horror!

Even my tiny teenaged mind could tell that this stuff was no god, so I started delving into classic rock and soul, and haven't looked back.

like cinema, music has nothing new to offer...

another form of art that, from now on, will survive just because people likes it

but make no mistake, the evolution that popular music started during the late-40s ended during the mid-00s...some would say during the late-90s...

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smoothcriminal12 said:

Youngun here, but just wanna say.

Music didn't change for better or for worse.

That's all.

Vendetta1 said:

Real instruments then. Fake instruments and autotune now.

I hear no autotune here, and it's current music:

MickyDolenz said:

Vendetta1 said:

Real instruments then. Fake instruments and autotune now.

I hear no autotune here, and it's current music:

Ivy and I live in the same city. Have you heard any of these artist on Chicago radio?

She'll get back with us but till then I'll answer for her.

NO.

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Granted the music business is a trickey place and you never know who the audience will embrace. Even so, in the 60's, 70's and I think the early eighties, Sharon Jones would've been heard somewhere on the radio in Chicago. Not now, none of the artist you've posted have the "look" and may be considered too old for mainstream radio. Terrible3Towel did ask when did we shut off the damn radio.

I shut off the radio in the 90's early 90's. Maybe before I drop died, the digital revolution will weed out the bullshit and will get back to good, fun, substantive music being produced by people who have some fucking talent. I doubt it tho'.

^^Where I live, there's a college radio station that plays jazz and another station that plays southern soul and zydeco. So they are on the radio. Maybe the OP is not listening to the right station.

Doesn't every generation hate the next's music? My uncle hated the beatles, he thinks they ruined music.

I still listen to tons of new music. Just not mainstream new music.

Terrib3Towel said:

I'm not talking to you younguns that prefer old music. I'm talking to the older people who witnessed the change in music firsthand. At what point did you guys say "screw it" and turned the radio off for good and decided to just play your old records? When did u realize music wasn't gonna get any better? I'm curious is all.

Truth be told, I haven't listened to music on the radio as a habit in years. I used to listen most during the 80's. If I knew Donna Summer had released something new, I would listen for it on the radio. And, it was during the 80's that I really enjoyed music most as well. I like some of today's music, but, for the most part, not much. In today's world of Ipods, Zunes, and smartphones, one can listen to their very own music collection as if it were their own personal radio station with no commercials and often, not too much song changing. At least, not for me. I have a few records, but I refer mp3s and cds. I never thought music wasn't going to get any better. Whether or not music is good or bad is a matter of personal opinion. One man's jam is another man's junk. I simply choos not to listen to radio music because most stations, it seems, just play the same songs over and over and over within the same hour and a half of airtime. Some stations only play "the hits". That is, the Top 40, which is why repeat songs are heard so much because what stations play is limited to just the well known songs which gets boring when they are played continuously throughout the day. If I were a radio dj and I could play by my own rules, I would play all genres of music whether the song was released or a b-side, if I could do so legally. That's why I listen to my Zune HD on shuffle the majority of the time with a few requests thrown in:)

leecappella said:

If I were a radio dj and I could play by my own rules, I would play all genres of music whether the song was released or a b-side, if I could do so legally.

As long as there isn't any profanity and maybe certain kinds of subjects, you can play whatever you like on your station. There is no law that says you can only play singles. Whether or not you can fund it through companies advertising on it or that it'll get a huge audience is a different story.

TD3 said:

MickyDolenz said:

I hear no autotune here, and it's current music:

Ivy and I live in the same city. Have you heard any of these artist on Chicago radio?

She get back with us but till then I'll answer for her.

NO.

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I can't pin point the date. But it was sometime after the falll of the neo soul music. There was still an organic dynamic feel to music making during that era (93-97ish). You could actually listen to the radio or see a video of an artist and felt like you had discovered something special and unique. Soon after that radio stopped playing or breaking diverse artist..and they just began to bombard us with non stop gutter music. There use to be a time when certain songs (hard core rap) wouldn't get played during drive home hours...when kids would be more likely to listen after school. I think when I heard the ying yang twins Wait to You See My D%!K at like 330 on a Tuesday I was pretty much done.

The so-called neo soul movement.

I loved what I heard from Jaguar, Erykah, D, and them. But since they themselves revere the era of their musical forefathers/mothers, I decided to go back to my old folks' crates and see what I was missing.

Chaka Khan hit me in the chest and I haven't turned on the radio eversince. That was 2002, I was 20. I was content then as I am now, there's ALWAYS new "old" music to discover.

I, too believe that there is great music out there that just isn't mainstream popular, but I, and many others have trouble finding it, so I'd appreciate it if anybody claiming there's still great new music out there could share some examples to show the "geezers" that they're wrong.

TheDigitalGardener said:

smoothcriminal12 said:

Don't expect much beyond the usual.

What do you think the OP should expect?

Back when I was young yadayadayada artist had talent yadayadayada robots weren't taking over yadayadayada. I'm just screwing with you guys, but seriously, expect nothing less.

Vendetta1 said:

smoothcriminal12 said:

Youngun here, but just wanna say.

Music didn't change for better or for worse.

That's all.

Tha hell it didn't. Real instruments then. Fake instruments and autotune now.

Come on now. I have such high hopes for you.

You really must hate Cher