Question for the "younger" music fans

[guitman69]

Since I fall just under the age limit set by Dave's post, I decided to start my own. This one is actually open to anyone, not just people under 30.

What music do you like to listen to that is "before your time"? You know, the stuff you parents listened to that you still like.


The Doors

The Doobie Brothers

Led Zepplin

Black Sabbath

Crosby, Stills, Nash, and Young

Jimi Hendrix

Cream (or anything with Eric Clapton in it)

 

[tklr5150]

Pretty much all of it. I'm a rock and roll fan with no time frame around my preferences. My CDs go back as far as Chuck Berry, Little Richard, and Buddy Holly, up through the greats of the British Invasion (Beatles, Stones, Who, Kinks, Zep, Cream, et al), classic Motown (Aretha, James, Stevie), American originals (The Boss, Doors, Hendrix, Beach Boys, Eagles, Janis) prog (Floyd, Tull, early Rush), hard/metal (Sabbath, Aerosmith, Van Halen, AC/DC), blues rock (Clapton, Allmans, SRV), punk (Ramones, Clash, Pistols), new wave (Police, Talking Heads), alternative (REM, U2), arena rock (later Rush, Journey, Styx, Genesis) -- just about everything under the sun. A LOT more I haven't listed here, but I think you get the gist.😛

 

[CurtWild]

i grew up listenig to the oldies,i even have b103(L.I. oldies station)set in my car.as for the favorites:

the doors-one of my personal top three bands of all time
the beatles-who DOESN`T like the beatles
bob dylan
pink floyd
jimi hendrix
the monkees
led zepplin

there are others whose names i just can`t think of.

 

[saysomething]

do i listen to any stuff that my parents listened to? not that much actually, but i do listen to quite a bit that was recorded well before my time.

you see, when i went through that rebellious teen phase, and so many of us turned to rock, i realized that finding *new* types of music to upset the folks was a game that was already played out. that's what my older cousins did. that's what my aunts and uncles did. heck, that's what mom and dad did.

so i discovered grandma's music. you crazy rat pack-ers know all about it. frank (gotta love frank!) dean. sammy. and of course, the big bands. count basie. duke. and the singers. billie holiday. ella fitzgerald. sarah vaughan. that was my music history. just skipped the 60's altogether. (anybody else do this?)

i mean, c'mon, is rage against the machine really gonna pester a couple of dylan fans? it's the same dynamic, only a different age. drove 'em nuts! and when they started to come around, i discovered martin denny and esquivel! oh, boy!!

the active attempt to drive em crazy was a short-lived phase. one of the funnier ones too, in retrospect. but i still love that music i found then.

since then, i've found a lot of great stuff from my parents era. none of which they noticed at the time. lots of yummy impulse and blue note jazz reissues from the early to mid-60s. from the outer-space freewheeling stuff of late coltrane, to the earthy-crunch of soul-jazz. mmmmm, big john patton. jimmy smith.

beyond that, i'm one of those freaks who likes miles, from the my funny valentine days through on the corner and beyond.

and of course, mingus mingus mingus. mingus music IS american music.

now all this is from my parents' day & age. though i'm sure very little of it registered for them.

they might have noticed some of the r&b that i've found. curtis mayfield. marvin gaye. sly stone. james brown. otis redding. you know the stuff. older motown is good too. supremes. martha & the vandellas. temptations. yadda yadda yadda.

none of which is to say that i don't like rock, but much of your 'classic' rock just leaves me cold. which is to say, drunkenmaster13, i could get along just fine without the beatles. and maybe someday someone will explain the appeal of bob dylan to me so that it'll finally get through my thick thick skull. but people have been trying for years and i've been failing to get it for years. plus, i'm sure that the rock and the roll that the kids like so much will be well-represented in this thread. i'm just trying to bring out some stuff that might otherwise go unnoticed, and is too much fun to be ignored.

someday, if you're good, i'll tell you about all the *new* nonsense i listen to.

yours,
-saysomething.

 

[Slappy McGee]

this is a great question....

I consider myself a music lover of all genre and periods....

soo.. first of all, does classics like beethoven, chopin, and vivaldi count as before my time? I dig that shit.

the olders stuff I like is probably before anyone here's time...I really dig my old robert johnson records.

as far as classic stuff, beatles, doors, pink floyd, zeppelin, the dead, dylan, clapton, BB king, simon and garfunkel, johnny cash, willie nelson, god forbid even john denver, LOL

there is surely lots more, but thats the short list.

Slappy McGee

 

[TicklingDuo]

Whooaa, Someone is actually into Martin Denny and Esquivel? Cool! Any Les Baxter or Yma Sumac fans out there? -Drew

 

[saysomething]

Quoting: "Whooaa, Someone is actually into Martin Denny and Esquivel? Cool! Any Les Baxter or Yma Sumac fans out there? -Drew"


goes without saying. them, and arthur lyman too. i love it all. used to play it real quiet on the family stereo too, so you could only just sort of hear it. now that's rebellion for the (post-?)modern age.

loved denny the best though; he'd get the most reaction. i think it was all the bird calls...

oddly enough, i think i got the idea from a calvin & hobbes cartoon...

-saysomething.

ps. i'm always shocked and amazed to find out what we've got on the collective cultural radar here. like the folks in the other music thread recommending the band 'low'. now that's the good good stuff!

 

[Nighttime]

I like metal bands like Iron Maiden, or Savatage.
Talkin´ ´bout the old stuff, i like some of the early hard rock bands like Deep Purple, Alice Cooper (almost everything from late 60s ´til today), most of The Beatles stuff, and bands like Rush, Kingdom Come...

 

[Slappy McGee]

how could I leave out Leonarrd Cohen??!!!

Slappy McGee