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

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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?

MooMoo - I am frantically waving my spandau silk scarf and my spandau wooden coat hanger (dear god, dont ask) whilst wearing my Mrs Tony Hadley thong ....actually, not wearing it but I do have one.....and then sleeping on my Tony Hadley pillow case

YANBU, I agree with you and I'm 23!

I really hope you're joking now . If not, yes, you are the winner

I do sound a bit deranged dont I

In my defence your honour, I have a mad mate who bought me the thong (which I have NEVER worn and never intend to) and pillow case as a b/day joke pressie - DH will not let the pillow case in the bedroom so it is stuffed in the airing cupboard somewhere.

I do however have a coathanger - I wrote all over it in biro in about 1983 and I cant bring myself to chuck it.

Honest, I am sane (ish)...well, sometimes anyway - you can come back in the room, I wont boil your bunny

Ok I'll believe you . But I'm not showing you my Simon Le Bon tattoo!

That's unusual for a 23 yr old - unless you're really into swing/jazz etc - most young people identify with the music of their time.

I did secretly like Duran but of course, being a Spandau fan could never admit that at the time

I have a very eclectic taste (have everything from The Beatles to DMX on my mp3 player), but I feel like the pop music of today is just soulless shite churned out conveyor-belt style.

I like modern rock music, I'm a big post-grunge fan, but on the other hand I LOVE Guns N' Roses, Bon Jovi and the like.

Culture Club, Spandau Ballet, The Eurythemics- the likes of Britney and Rihanna just can't compare!

Oh and GaGa will never be as good as Madonna!

YABU, every generation has good and bad music you just have to be selective. Perhaps your DC just have bad taste?

It's the law to hate the music your children love. Must be an evolutionary necessity.

GaGa is shite!!

mine look at me like im nuts when music channel has an 80`s day/hour!lol

went to see a-ha last nov,they still got it!

Everyone has selective memory as most people point out - you cherrypick the awesome music and forget that most of it was utter garbage. The crap gets forgotten and the brilliant stuff gets replayed and remade endlessly.

You can say the 80s is Annie Lennox, Smiths, Culture Club, Prince, Kraftwerk, Aha (delete whatever doesn't float your boat) but it was also Stock, Aitken & Waterman / Jive Bunny / Big Fun / Europe / Phyllis Nelson and the latter probably sold millions more than the former.

DH and I watched a TV show called "Number Ones of the 1960s" over Christmas expecting a love-in for the Beatles, Stones, Motown & Stax, The Who, The Kinks, Dusty etc. Aside from the Beatles, what it mostly was: Frank Ifield, The New Seekers, Herman's Hermits and Ken effin' Dodd...

For me the era I romantice most is the one when I was a teenager (late 80's & some 90's). And that's probably got more to do with who I had the hugest crush on rather than the quality of their music! I used to sob over my Duran pics because of the depth of my unrequieted love - so hearing them now brings back very strong memories!

Nowadays, cynical old fart that I am, even if I quite fancy somebody on MTV, I don't do crushes anymore so the whole experience is watered-down somewhat!

Meant romanticise

Get yer gramophone out OP, you auld crank

YANBU actually. I hate music these days. Popular music, that is. There is still some good stuff to be found if you're into alternative stuff but Rihanna and 50 Cents and Snoop Dogs Doggs leaves me cold. And fucking Justine Bieber. Grrrrr.

I've never actually seen or heard Justin Bieber singing - I though he was just famous for his hair??

"You can't sell records these days without pumping and grinding and deep-throating the mic"

This is bollocks and you can't judge all of modern music by what a 12yr old is listening to - young teenagers often have appalling taste. Saying modern music is rubbish is, frankly, just displaying one's ignorance of life outwith the Top 40.

You still have all the 70s music now! It doesn't disappear with the turn of the decade. You can still listen to that as well as new stuff.

YANBU it is rubbish. And probably it was better in our parent's day than in ours. They just churn out mass produced drivel IYAM and it is not the artist(s) comingu p with ideas, just studios and marketing.

I agree Granny your generation had it the best in terms of popular music.

I loved my dd's grannies but I can't imagine either of them saying something like "don't elbow into my groove" - you sound like the coolest granny ever! :)

"You can't sell records these days without pumping and grinding and deep-throating the mic" Tryharder

I think that is a little unfair - off top of my head: Lily Allen, Amy Winehouse, Kate Nash, La Roux, Beth Ditto, Paloma Faith, Ellie Goulding, Laura Marling, Leona Lewis, Florence and Machine, Robyn etc etc etc (NB yes I realise I may not be the most cutting edge or up to date in some of these choices)

Pop stars of the 80s also included Sinitta, Sam Fox and an unreconstructed Kylie and it was the era of putting lip synching models in videos when the real singers were deemed not good looking / thin enough. Carol Decker was told to take 5 years off her age when T'Pau first started.

the best of the music industry has been and gone, thank god most of it still clogs up youtube

I really do like all sorts and I was a teen in the 90s. Anything from Garnett silk to Spandau ballet to The Dubliners!

Nah. Music from the 80's/90's tops all. End of. Nee come backs. Jinx. Chequers for life. Skincheys.