How up to date are you musically?

[HoobleDooble]

I remember as a kid in the late 70s/early 80s listening to Radio 1 in my room, checking the charts on Ceefax when they updated during the week, watching Top of the Pops on a Thursday and taping the my favourite songs during the Top 40 Countdown on a Sunday. My parents would dismiss most of it as "a racket" and just listen to what they liked (mainly classical, but with some 60s, Beatles and Simon & Garfunkel etc.). I always said I'd never be like that and couldn't imagine not being up to date with the latest charts.

Fast forward to now, I'm nearly 50 and haven't got a clue. I watched that quiz show 'The Hit List' a few weeks ago and had hardly heard of anything or anyone this side of the Millennium except maybe Adele, Ed Sheehan and a couple of others. I don't understand what happened, I do remember house music creeping in sometime in the late 80s and thinking "This isn't for me", then dance music filling the clubs to the point that I only went to Retro places, so I think this is when I started shutting my ears and changed over to Radio 2.

Some of my friends (younger and older) seem to still have their finger on the pulse, my older sister occasionally introduces me to a new artist if she thinks it's something I'd like. I just wondered whether my "I know what I like, and I like what I know" approach is a common phenomenon?

I'm not really and I've always loved music. I'm 52 and mostly to listen to Magic Soul all day.
I hear stuff from the DDs room but it's mostly shit .
I have Spotify, but it's all old stuff on my playlists. The newest on it is the new Black Keys album.

Watched the Brits the other day. Hardly knew any of the names.

I’m not that bothered. I tend to hear a song I like the sound on a playlist, and then investigate that artist. I think there’s a lot more music around then when I was a teen. As you say, then you had radio 1. Now you have hundreds of radios stations, plus Apple Music/Spotify, YouTube etc,

Dear, I've never been up to date with music!

Ha ha I feel like I never progressed past the year 2000
Haven't a clue who anyone is anymore. My nearly 7 year old has recently taken to telling me all my music is boring and embarrassing. I used to say a very similar thing to my parents!

It's odd isn't it. DS has a very eclectic taste in music that goes from John Denver to My Chemical Romance via George Harrison and Vengaboys, but listens to rap and grime. He's 21. He likes most of the music I like and wouldn't call it boring, but has much more up to date stuff on our shared Spotify playlist. I like some of the more recent stuff like Lewis Capaldi and George Ezra, but he tells me that's not cool. I like Radio 2, he listens to Capital Xtra. It's as though we both like older music but my tolerance stops short of the more modern stuff where he likes up to date music as well, so his range spans a period from mid 60s to today, and mine is sort of mid 60s to roughly 2005 with some random newer stuff.

im about 15 months out of date, used to listen to local radio on the commute which played mostly chart songs
now since i dont have to commute im out of touch, and dont care

I know the latest stuff from listening to the radio in the car, and my gym class.
I still prefer 80’s rock though.

I listen to radio 1 in the car.

Dh listens to xfm or whatever plays 90’s stuff, i like it still but prefer to find new music as well.

Stopped listening in 1995 ish

Never listen to music

I'm still firmly stuck back in the 80s

I used to listen to a local station in the morning because the DJ was hilarious. He left and I stopped listening. I cannot abide people talking on the radio, I listen to Spotify in the car now

Bbc 6 music is good for "trendy" new stuff that you wouldn't hear on R1 or 2; they also play old stuff from the 60s onwards. If you find R2 inane and R1 too 'young' try 6

I listen to radio 1 so would say I'm pretty up to date

I only listen to it in the car though so i spent most of 2020 out of the loop as I wasnt commuting

I raided adult DD's playlist (Deezer) for ideas.

I listen to Radio 6 & local indie bands on radio.
Quite like some hip hop.
I can't tell you genres but I think I have a huge variety including 2010s stuff.

No idea about the charts but listen to radio 6 music every day - so hear that new stuff

@LaurieFairyCake

Stopped listening in 1995 ish

Never listen to music

I am always surprised when people don't listen to music! It takes zero effort and improves the quality of my life immeasurably. I am not up to date at all, the only recent music I would have heard would be quite mainstream stuff like Taylor Swift and Lana Del Ray. I don't have time to seek out new artists or trends. But I have quite a broad taste in music and and happy to fall down a Spotify rabbithole. Love Cerys Matthews on 6Music on a Sunday morning for picking up some new sounds.

I'm 30 and have no idea. I couldn't tell you a single song or artist in the top 40 - do they even do the top 40 any more?

I listen to greatest hits radio, podcasts and my ipod. I think the last charting song I bought was Ed Sheeran in 2017

I listen to Radio 1 so I'm fairly up to date.

That said, I was very confused by the amount of times they've played Rasputin recently 😂

I'm mid 20's and couldn't tell you one song from the top 40. Anything after 2015 ish I probably won't know it. I'm much more 80's and 90's.

Ashamed to say that I went from radio Caroline to R4 (hadn't long stopped being the home service).

The music died for me in the 1980s, except for perhaps Bon Jovi, Whitesnake, Guns N'Roses and slightly more up to date, Adele. I find modern music very unappealing.

Little Mix - their clothing is peculiar, it's almost like pornographic prancing to music.

I sound like my grandmother here, "It all sounds the same to me," which is what she said in the 1960s. I'm an old fogey but I have heard of Lewis Capaldi.

I am not up to date at all. Good music has faded away, and been replaced by basically everything sounding like repetitive sameness.

Lots of younger people still follow all this noise and sameness,and bad singers,as that is all there is now.. I dare say that younger people love RAP music and Techno stuff etc, but it's not good quality music at all.

But you always notice, when they usually have the oldie singers headlining at Glastonbury, such as Barry Gibb, Dolly Parton etc, that all the crowds, still like the oldie music, and know all the words to songs.

Not at all. I used to listen to Radio 1 in the car so I had a vague idea what was around, but then I realised that I rarely liked any of it and I didn’t care whether I was aware of its existence or not. So I switched to Classic FM, which makes me much happier.

I was born in 1964. I listen to R2.
However, I do love a bit of Calvin Harris.

@SoupDragon

I listen to Radio 1 so I'm fairly up to date.

That said, I was very confused by the amount of times they've played Rasputin recently 😂

Love this new mix, I had the original release though.