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AIBU?

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Original poster

to think that popular music was better in "my day"

61 replies

upsylazy · 16/03/2011 10:54

DS1 is fast approaching adolescence with DD not far behind and they are both beginning to develop an interest in contemporary popular music. However, it all sounds like a terrible racket to me - hardly any of it seems to have a proper tune or lyrics and the artists all appear to have very silly names. When I was a teenager, I remember enjoying music by musicians like Duran Duran, Spandau Ballet, Wham! and Culture Club. I am beginning to dread the next few years of having to listen to this appalling cocophany with accompanying booming bass line and obscene lyrics. My Dcs however tell me that I am just being old and boring and am a "loser". Surely IANBU to thing that music should have a tune?

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Madsometimes · 16/03/2011 10:55

YANBU, however, YAB an old fart, just like me Grin.

manfromCUK · 16/03/2011 10:56

YABU - you sound like my granny moaning about Duran Duran, Spandau Ballet, Wham! and Culture Club.

SlainteBooyFeckingHoo · 16/03/2011 10:57

YABU

every generation says this. they cant all be right. i tehrefore declare that my era was the best (early-mid 90's)

WinterOfOurDiscountTents · 16/03/2011 10:58

YABU, if only because you are talking about only one genre of current music. Which is exactly what old fogeys do!

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upsylazy · 16/03/2011 10:58

I suggested that they buy me a copy of "Smash Hits" so that I can read up on these people but they don't publish it anymore!

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squeakytoy · 16/03/2011 10:58

Are you 95? Grin

Admittedly there is a lot of crap in the charts, but even an old fogey like me (41) listens to Captial and I like quite a lot of the stuff that they play.

Hammy02 · 16/03/2011 10:59

YANBU. Loads of modern music samples songs from my yoof. So it must have been better then!

Tryharder · 16/03/2011 11:02

We were into A-ha [swoon]

I do agree with you re] the depressingly obscene lyrics and soft porn pop videos. In my day, female musicians and singers never took their clothes off - think Annie Lennox, Carol Decker, Belinda Carlisle, Lisa Stansfield etc etc. Feminism has taken a backwards step in my opinion. You can't sell records these days without pumping and grinding and deep-throating the mic. Sad.

Original poster
upsylazy · 16/03/2011 11:03

Hammy what is sampling? Isn't that what you do at a farmer's market?

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TondelayoSchwarzkopf · 16/03/2011 11:04

Christ no, 80s music - shite. Today much better.

mayorquimby · 16/03/2011 11:05

Surely nothing was worse than the bands you have mentioned.
And no pop music wasn't better in the past, it's almost always absolute shite with a few great songs per year which is all anyone remembers in a decades time.

Granny23 · 16/03/2011 11:24

I had the extreme good fortune to be a teenager from 1959 to 1966 - think Elvis, Beatles, Kinks, Beach boys, Buddy Holly, the Everly Brothers, Chuck Berry - I could go on listing for hours. That's my kind of music! My father, who eclectic tastes in music thought that lot was just a noise. Besides classical and folk he was mainly a 'big band man' and loved Sinatra and Shirley Bassey - That's what he called music.

I do not think it is essential to get into whatever is current with your youngsters. It is THEIR music and the last thing they want is their elders pretending to get it and elbowing into THEIR groove.

MooMooFarm · 16/03/2011 11:32

YANBU - I kind of agree - although not about Spandau - I was always a 'Duran-y' Grin. But actually quite a lot of 80's music was crap too. I've said the same as you before, but on thinking about it, there were probably only a few artists that I really liked then amongst the durge, just as there are a few now - Lady GaGa, Adele, Coldplay to name a few....

So I've probably just always thought there's a lot of durge about!

AbsDuCroissant · 16/03/2011 11:34

YABU - the 80s as good music?!?!?!

Give me a break (90s teenager. It's all angst and dirty hair over here)

MooMooFarm · 16/03/2011 11:34

PS - examples of bad 80's music - Modern Romance, Bucks Fizz, Milli Vanilli - can you honestly say that the crap music now is any worse than all that?? Grin

montmartre · 16/03/2011 11:38

Ha ha ha ye olde farte!

FruStefanLindman · 16/03/2011 11:39

YANBU. But I thought that the parents job was always to moan about their teenagers music, and the teenagers job to listen to stuff which they know drives their parents mad Grin

carminaburana · 16/03/2011 11:41

Yabu and sound about 70 - music was pretty shite in the 80's - its a lot better now.

PigValentine · 16/03/2011 11:41

The nineties is definitely the best era for music Grin

YABU though, there is lots of good music around today, I'm just to lazy to give it a chance!

smallwhitecat · 16/03/2011 11:43

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VajazzHands · 16/03/2011 11:43

I think the more and more music becomes about looks and "who you know" the more true it will be for every generation that music was better back in their day

Desperateforthinnerthighs · 16/03/2011 11:44

YANBU - 80's music rocks..but yes, as someone else said, suspect this is coz we are old farts!!

I was playing my soul II Soul CD in the car the other day and DS (he is 8) said it was a load of old rubbish...but then I hate the 60's music which my parents obv loved - I think thats rubbish too.

However, although I am stuck in a timewarp, this old fart went to see Plan B the other night at the O2 - FANTASTIC!!!

carminaburana · 16/03/2011 11:45

The 70's was a good era ( yes really ) you had punk, ska, etc -

Desperateforthinnerthighs · 16/03/2011 11:46

MooMoo - just seen your comments about Spandau - take it back Grin........I soooooooooo love them :)

MooMooFarm · 16/03/2011 11:49

Desperate I refuse - and I'm waving my Duran Duran silk scarf in the air as I type (with my feet)Grin