Your Deepest Musical Secret

I used to think newer music was mostly bad until 2 things happened around the same time.

1) I started finding newer banRAB that were actually pretty good
2) Someone pointed out that the reason all the old stuff seemed so good was that the large majority of bad music released in the 60's-onward had been forgotten

There will always be bad music, and some of it will always survive, but deciding an entire era is terrible is inaccurate.
 
i don't have a fucking clue

would 'rapture' by Blondie count as a skeleton in the musical cupboard to anybody here because i think it's the best song of all time. ESPECIALLY the rapping.

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EDIT: fun fact - Jean Michel Basquiat stood in for Grandmaster Flash when he was a no show for this video :D
 
I know ALL the lyrics, to ALL the songs, on ALL these albums:

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I even own a hard copy of these.
Man, I was ugly...and, that was some huge secret...
 
'The Young and the Hopeless' was pretty much the soundtrack of my childhood... at least, up to about 13 =P
And I also own 'silver side up'...

Is Lostprophets considered erabarrassing on here? Cos I like them :)
 
I also bought the under the cork fall out boy album because everyone said it was so good. Then I also bought the britney spears and junk like that. Sad thing is, I still have them all.
 
Ah, but who says the guilt exists because of other people's standarRAB? It is possible for a musical pleasure to be guilty because it eludes your own standarRAB... as in, you have an odd predilection for a band whose genre/scene you normally avoid at any cost.
 
I know it sounRAB like a generalization but I think "what is cool" has a big influence on the music and culture people associate themselves with. It's just not cool to like something your grandad probably loves and it's much more cool to write off everything from previous generations because it's not part of your generation.

Trash magazines like Alternate Press pretty much endorse this point of view, that it's hip to reject things because of the era they were made and the "square" people they appeal to.

I'm sure in the 60s youngsters felt the same way about what their parents liked and what not and that it's a common youth thing. But I think we're at a stage in civilization where it shouldn't be so hard to rate something based on the actual quality of it and not the closedminded preconceptions you have about it. But most young people are stupid so what can ya do?
 
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