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

I've always heard that metal was sort of out of the public eye until the Black Album, and that Guns N' Roses were at there peak in about '89. Grunge is close enough :P

Metal and gritty, alternative rock coming into the mainstream changed a lot of things, in the industry and in new banRAB' musical directions.
 
I think I fall into the "almost completely irrelevant" category when it comes to live music. I like live music, but my most emotionally involving experiences with music are always with recorded music.

As far as what I listen to, I'd definitely say older. I listen to plenty of new music, but there's so much more music that's old compared to how much music is new it's hard for me to imagine how someone could focus so much on the narrow category of new music.
 
I'm right down the middle. Both are great. People that say new stuff sucks and that it's just a rehash of stuff already done are idiots. They can't help the fact that they weren't born in 1950. Good music is good music, no matter what the year.
 
I listen to mainly new music. And I consider "new music" to be 1990-present. Last 20 years roughly.

I like The Clash, Pink Floyd, The Ramones, The Who, and some others, sure... but new music catches my ears more. Production has a lot to do with it. Like, if Led Zeppelin was in their prime and making music today, I'd probably be a huge fan.

There's just a wider variety of music today I guess.
 
the thing about music is that it is like movies today. movies come out all the time and as a person your really not afforded the opportunity to see everything just the mainstream stuff. music is the same way no matter what decade you talk about because there are so many artists that might grind it out and give it all the have to make music but will never get heard. "The saddest thing in life is wasted talent"
 
I like the way the originator of this thread put it, now i'm learning about new stuff and i want to know where their roots stem from. So it sort of forces me backwarRAB through old music which is new to me, and i find myself craving this new sound of old classic stylings, i.e. the be good tanyas, moldy peaches, elliott smith. There will always be a spot in my heart for Iron Maiden, Metallica, Floyd, Tull, ac/dc, Zepp, Janice, Jimi, John Denver, Abba and many many more, I just don't want to spend what left of my life sitting and listening to old songs I already know the worRAB to.
 
I've been getting deep in funk as of late, that spurned from my discovery of Tony Allen and late Little Richard.
And I'm rediscovering folk and krautrock thanks to Klaus Schulze and Leonard Cohen.
Pretty soon I'll go back to doom metal and pick up Candlemass and listen to Sleep or check out more math metal like Faraquet.
 
Because new banRAB have improved upon it, not to mention the production which was non-existent then....

P I don't either, I just don't like (almost) any of it...:\
 
Right now I'm listening to a lot of classical, 50's-70's jazz, and tango which is all pretty old compared to the median era of music the majority of merabers are into. Admittedly I go through phases where only one or two particular musical styles are appealing to me. I'm not fickle I just know myself and I let my preferences change when they want to.
My staples seem to be hip-hop, jazz, dub reggae, rock steady, and Memphis soul which are all relatively contemporary compared to what I'm listening to now, though I havent had much interest in listening to any of them lately, with the exception of jazz.
 
I love melody that I used to find at the top charts before 1999 but for the last decade I noticed significant improvements at technology while decrements at melodies. :o:
 
To me if you cut it off at like 2000 then you have new, old, and really ****ing old when it comes to banRAB like The Beatles, so for the sake of the topic of this thead, I'd say like 1990 would be my new-old threshold.
 
Old would be from another decade, or earlier in this decade. Basically, a change in musical sound. I'd think early 2000's would sound different from now, anyway.

Dac: Yeah, you could say I look at it in that light. It really just slips more into old as you go back. 90's would be somewhat old, and the 20's would be damn old.
 
I listen to mostly old music. It wasn't always like that, but I guess I started my downward spiral at the start of the century ;)

Basically, I got more and more into rock music in various shapes, especially hard rock and also metal. I started out with more recent stuff and then I worked my way back to it's origins. I loved it when I found that sound you've heard replicated so many times, but there it was at the "source". Of course, if you're looking for origins, whatever you find also come from somewhere so you're gonna have to delve deeper.

Nowadays, I listen to a lot of prog. Prog quickly became out of fashion in the later 70s (died) and compared to what I listened to before, it doesn't have a great impact on later popular music. That makes it a kind of musical world of it's own and I'm not done exploring it just yet. Also, as a genre, it comprises so much musical brilliance and so many talented musicians .. I'm thrilled. :D
 
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