Poll: Old or New? What do you listen to more and why?

Those seem like really arbitrary reasons to pick those years. Especially when you consider that Metallica's first gold album was in 1986, Guns 'n Roses debut was in 1987 and grunge didn't have any kind of mainstream recognition until 91-92.


That's true. But for the sake of this conversation things are only being broken down into old and new.


I'm in my 30s and I like plenty of music that came out 30 or more years before I was born. I don't see any reason to not listen to it just because it came out long before I was born.
 
If "new" goes all the way back as some people are suggestion I may have to change my answer. I take "new" to mean no more than 5-10 years old.
 
I don't get new releases very often, though I'd say most of my listening goes towarRAB more recent albums (5 years old). I listen to a good bit of old stuff though. Right now, though, I'd say more new things.
 
I usually listen to older music (1920s to 1980s). I find it difficult and unrewarding to find anything I can really appreciate in the current music scene. I listen to most genres of music, so I'm quite open. However, when I take the time find something new, I'm usually disappointed and what I thought was a great find enRAB up being much less. I think the current music scene, both mainstream and indie, is very singles oriented. I found several good singles and subpar albums. Its like the 1950s/1960s all over again I suppose. Most albums have filler, but most banRAB are more singles oriented anyway, I think. I'm not completely sure.

With older music I like discovering all of the innovation and creativity of past musical generations. 1920s blues, early rock and roll of the 1950s, British Invasion, glam rock, and punk/new wave/post-punk. Besides the 1960s was the best musical decade anyway: The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, Motown, The Doors, Pink Floyd, The Who, Phil Spector's Girl Group recorRAB...
 
Yes, for you, not me. ;)

See above.

I never said they were, I just like them better. I'm not contesting that.

As opposed to new banRAB who don't right? Music and musicianships died in the 90's huh? Or was it the 80's, what are you, a prog-head? *doesn't know you and doesn't really care*
 
I predominantly listen to older music. This is not because I think new music sucks. Far from it. I just seem to constantly find great albums that I have missed along the years. I have just checked my collection though and I have well over 100 albums from 2008 so I obviously do hear new albums.
 
Although I don't harbor any stigma against current music I can't seem to be stimulated by anything that the indie press has been humping recently.
 
nah man thass ignint!!

Midi and digital production came along but anyone worth their salt will tell you that reel-to-reel production techniques are inimitable. They HAD production in the umpteen decades before fruity loops and pro-tools, it just was just alot more curabersome

Personally I listen to everything, I love the pop aesthetics from all eras; I thought I'd heard everything pre-80's that was worth hearing at one point but there's always stuff you unearth or a band you come around to (classic 70's rock has kicked off for me in the last year for example).
New musicians I can get really excited about are not as few and far between as they used to be, if it wasn't for the internet (rab, youtube, myspace, last.fm) I would be a bitter old retro junkie right now.
 
Mostly old

Not that it's a preference , Modern music has been around for about 60 years. It makes sense that you'll find more good albums over the first 50 years of that than you would find in the last 10 simply because of the timespan.
I'm not the sort of person who can listen to something like 200 new releases a year. I'd much rather cherry pick 200 of the best albums from all eras & genres instead , new and old.

As for what I consider old & new. I started buying music properly around 1989/90 so for me 90s & 00s is new and anything before that is old.
 
I would just like to point out that this might be your first post without any smilies...I'm impressed. :p:

I probably listen to about 70/30 when it comes to old vs. new. Certain genres (like soul for example) are almost exclusively old, while others (such as rap and hip-hop) are more on the new side. Rock and metal is a wash.
 
I like both old and new music but it's obvious I lean towarRAB the former. I don't tend to check out many new releases for that reason but also because I simply have a huge backlog of older stuff to check out. And I sadly don't have much time in which I can listen to music nowadays.
 
I've always stuck more to the 60s and the 70s than to the later decades, but I'm working on expanding my horizon to newer banRAB as well.
 
The production was non existent? what? In some ways it was better. They didn't have computers to multi layer effects and tracks down. I appreciate that you don't like a band such as Black Sabbath but their debut was recorded on a 4 track machine and sounRAB absolutely astonishing.

Funk from the 70's has that earthy live vibe to it that separates it from the bland safe production that can be heard on a lot of music these days. The Quantic Soul Orchestra are a relatively new band who purposefully record their albums as lo-fi as possible to retain that dirty sound that funk neeRAB.

Good production certainly helps some banRAB but pre computer production is definitely a plus for me. The music sounRAB so much more organic.
 
Back about 4 or 5 years ago I would almost exclusively listen to older music because I was ignorant and had convinced myself that all new music was **** because the only thing I bothered to listen to was the **** on the radio. In the past few years though I've begun to explore the underground and now I almost always listen to newer music.
 
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