to feel sorry for young people and the boring music that is popular

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There are three guys who I always switch stations when they come on, and they come on a lot. They are the three that had the biggest sales last year and all sing through their noses and are average / below average looking.

Its hardly rock n roll. Aibu to think they are rubbish music stars?

I quite happily listen to any of them. My dd 17 music tastes is mostly musical theatre, lately into Carol King because Beautiful will be out in west end soon and she already got tickets. I had to get her tickets for Imagine Dragons last week. Cant remember ds 19 listening to much current stuff either.

Bruffin - I was made to watch both imagine dragons and foster the people at last years Glastonbury.

My ears are going red!!

I quite like Radioactive Notquiteruralbliss, i really dont mind most of the music she listens to. My lovely dm liked most of my music as well, the only music she ever criticized was my Squeeze Cool for Cats LP.

I like George Ezra

Take me to Church is an excellent song

I loved Passenger as well

George Ezra doesn't sing Take me to Church, Hozier does. But I'm guessing you know that & I've read your post wrong.

yes I know he doesn't - Blame it on me

just my train of thought

He'd probably do a great cover version.

Live lounge you listening?

I like making the kids roll their eyes.. "Is it Bruno Murs or that Ollie Mars, which one wears the silly hat again?" It exasperates them that I mix their names up totally deliberately

YY Somewhere DSD is 24 now but can still be reduced to a howling mass of rage by DH innocently saying 'do you still like Boys One DSD?' (Instead of Boyzone).

I heard "Ghost town," on the radio the other day and it gave me real shivers - especially at the end. That was just a normal chart tune when it was originally out. Ditto bands line The Jam, U2 etc.

The quality of early 80's music in particular was just incredible. Very political too in many cases.

Now, with the off exception it's just background muzac - often with loads of soft porn thrown in on the video.

60s pop and 70s rock all the way for me. Loathe boy/girl bands. If you can't play in instrument it ain't a band, it's a choir.

really enjoying watching TOPTP 1980 on BBC4.

I just cannot bear listening to 'miserable' music. Sheeran, Ezra, Odell, Smith, Blunt et al. Interchangeable miserable bastards. And the worst offender that I have to leave the room when the song comes on - Hozier - Take me to church!!!! Oh my god - that song - if it was person, I would throttle it.

I agree, thankfully DD (15) is an agreement too, she has heaps of late 90s/early 00s music on her iTunes like Sugagbaes, even Kylie and she has a weird obsession with Westlife. She is very fussy on what current music she listens too, though she loves Ella Henderson and Kelly Clarkson.

Err, Hozier's Take Me To Church is about sex.

But he's got a nice way with an extended metaphor, good lad

Last comment was for hathall, btw.

My mum phoned me one Sunday morning last year to ask me if I wanted her to buy me the Bay City Rollers CD she'd found at a car boot sale. When I said no she got a bit huffy saying 'I thought you liked them. You used to like them when you were little'.

Yes. But that was nearly FORTY YEARS AGO!!!

George Ezra's music is quite upbeat, I wouldn't describe it as miserable and he has a great voice for someone so young. A bit like Scott Walker in the sense of the deep voice.

I nearly posted about this on FB yesterday.

on the way to work, the only songs I ever hear are

George Ezra Budapest
Sam Smith Stay with me
Ed Sheeran The one with the shit video.

And at the end of my shift Seal kiss from a rose

It's such a nice change that our generation thinks that current teen pop is so boring compared to what we listen to, rather than thinking it's so much heavier/hardcore/noisy!

But current mainstream teen pop doesn't represent all of it, and current teen pop in the 90's was all that D:Ream and Four Non Blondes shit - just as we loved Pearl Jam and the Stone Roses then, there's Skrillex on the one hand and bands like First Aid Kit on the other now (just to pick two at random).

Just because all the cool indie stuff doesn't get a look-in on Radio 1 doesn't mean than people aren't listening to it. First Aid Kit sold out in Oxford last week, and lol at anyone trying to get a ticket for that FKA Twigs gig in Camden.

So no, I don't feel sorry for them. Boring kids have always listened to boring music, and there are plenty of properly cool artists kicking around now on Spotify for them to listen to if they so choose, as many do.

DS's likes Skrillex and I have to agree with him, it's not usually my style but I've enjoyed what I've heard so far.
Mind you he listens to the Levellers, Queen, the Duckworth Lewis Method and the Who so his tastes aren't too bad

There has always been bland crap in the charts. I was a teenager in the 80s and while there was some totally fantastic music around, the radio also provided us with the magic of, eg, Rick Astley. Similarly, there's lots of interesting new stuff around at the moment, just not necessarily on chart radio.

Yelle, Jeugd van Tegenwoordig, Tame Impala, Kate Bush, Jai Paul, Juce, Kredo, Cassius, Daft Punk (ok their early stuff is better).....

Why don't you just go and look for music instead of waiting for it to come to you? I have to do lots of digging around on youtube.
I listen to mostly old stuff though.