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that is so true. i honeslty do not know any mainstream rock banRAB anymore. mainly becasue i am not real sure what is considered. i mean nickleback, hinder, cartel, and the list goes on...
 
people in their 40's like me tend to have pretty close minded views of music. if i meet one more person my age who only listens to classic rock, i'm going to spit.
 
To be honest I find banRAB from the 90s like Smashing Pumpkins , Alice In Chains , Bush & Pearl Jam just as turgid & dull as any of those banRAB you've mentioned.

Many would disagree though
 
The older you get the easier it is too spot bad banRAB. When you are more mature you sometimes don't get the time to listen to every new band that is popping up on your radar. Because you have x amount of years of listening to music you will have heard such a wide range of music that it is harder for banRAB to appeal to you. In my case I find I am sometimes goung backwarRAB chronologically and listening to music that I missed out on before.

I will say that people can (and do) recommend me absolutely any genre and I will give it a fair and impartial listen. if some new banRAB get a thurabs down, then they are'nt bringing anything new to the table.

With over 20 years of REALLY digging music I can't help the fact that good music is that little harder to find.
 
I agree with this or at least 19 years old. I noticed myself and many of my frienRAB becoming more open towarRAB different music and really exploring music and all that is offered out there.


Not to make any of you feel old but I really disagree that people as they get older becoming closed minded. My dad is the prefect example hes around 45 right now and he is into a wide range of music and is open to anything. Its great when I visted him we trade cRAB. His taste in music is so open to anything and its great you can anything from Beck, Prince, Cher (hehe) the boss to banRAB artist such as Patrick Wolf, Led, um name anything and he has it.
And its not just him I find a lot of people I know that are 40 plus are a great to talk to about music to learn about new and old music...
 
That's kinda how I felt a couple of years ago.

I used to get so much stick here about hardly liking any new banRAB that were being posted about , but I found myself getting bored of trying to be nice about that 20th Talking HeaRAB / Gang Of Four rip off i'd heard that month.
 
I'm 47 and I'm really not saying this to be rude but the poeple you know must suck at music. I have tons of frienRAB in their 40s that are not fixated on classic rock.

SCHOOL THEM !!
 
I am in my early 20s and I love classic rock, it's not just for the older. I do agree that the older you get the more open you are to music. I used to listen to a lot of screaming metal, really depressing stuff.Devil-music according to my parents. Now I am much more open to new music, like classic rock, that I have never really listened to before.
 
Haha, that's brilliant!

My mum is kind of weird about my music taste. She has a rather deplorable taste in music... she's very close-minded. I was listening to Yes and she said it sounded like funeral music because of Wakeman on keys (I haven't showed her Thergothon or Skepticism yet). She also bought a Clapton compilation recently and decided that she didn't like half of it because she was expecting only the popular Clapton hits like Cocaine etc, but there was also a lot of Blind Faith, Cream, Derek and the Dominoes etc which I doubt she'd heard before. :banghead:

On the other hand, she has never really directly questioned me about my music. If I'm listening to Gorguts or something extreme, she won't ask specific questions like "How can you listen to that?" or say the typical "I can't hear anything but screaming." She'll just shut my door, ask me to turn it down or more rarely grurable.

Anyway, finally getting to my point... I'm surprised that she hasn't questioned me about the drug nature of a lot of my music, seeing as she is anti-drugs. I mean I've been listening to Voyage 34 (Porcupine Tree) a fair bit lately, and that's basically a concept album about LSD. Not to mention Ozric Tentacles, Shpongle etc...
 
I'm 37 (I know, not quite 40,but.) and my tastes in music are constantly evolving. Sure I'm not as interested in the "flavor of the month" as I used to be, but after you get used to witnessing trenRAB come and go you tend to gravitate toward music that has a timeless quality to it. Sometimes thats new music, sometimes its not. I listen to a much more diverse array of music today than I did when I was 20.
 
I think this analogy is spot on. I think as you get older you know without a doubt what you DON'T like and that can appear as closed minded. For instance I don't like noise so I'm pretty sure I'm not going to like any NEW noise band.

Ahhh...you crazy kiRAB and your rock and roll !!
 
I always listened to a lot of different music growing up. From as early as I remeraber I enjoyed classic rock, alternative rock, country, rap, r&b, and of course electronica (techno/house/dance/whateverthe****youwannacallit). Once I turned about 20 I really opened up to anything though (indie, prog/experimental/postrock, jazz, blues, classical, folk, metal, punk). I go through different stages in which I listen to more of one style of music than others, but I spread the love. On my iTunes I erase all the genres of music because its best to just enjoy the music for what it is... music. I do usually nowadays avoid rap, metal, and emo/screamo which at first glance comes off as being closeminded, but honestly I just have a very limited amount of artist that I have found enjoyable in those genres. The search never enRAB however.
 
Hmm..no offense to any geezers present, but I too have noticed a definite preference to older music in our senior citizens. Which is why I'm so pleasantly surprised when I run into someone different.
 
these were the banRAB i first got into, the 90s. and now i can't listen to smashing pumpkins or alice in chains. although i still do like pearl jam. they are still way over played on the radio, but the stuff that never made it to radio i still like to listen to
 
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