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Yeah, me too. Even stuff that I consider "new" is old by my kids standards.
Although, I do enjoy the White Stripes from time to time, and the odd Moby. And Michael Franti. So, I'm not altogether hopeless.
Thing is though Boom Boom, almost all the new stuff sucks. Being a "geezer" means you like music.
And, btw, George Thorogood is older than I am, and I'm a few months shy of the big five-0.
Book'em Danno, Geezer one.
I listen to Greatest Hits by Sly & The Family Stone often, and have been wondering what happened to the man. Here's what I found:
Funk legend Sly Stone homeless and living in a van in LA
Limiting myself to just one pick, I'd have to go with Yo La Tengo's Electr-O-Pura.
Mockingbird Bible by Rodney DeCroo: http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/rodneydecroo2
I'm listening to "Blonde On Blonde" again today - I think it's still my Number One pick for Favourite Album Of All Time, although other Dylan albums such as "Nashville Skyline" are very close.
I have a friend coming over from Holland next summer for a road trip in my truck, I'm pretty sure a couple of Dylan albums along with Led Zep II will be on my music collection for the duration.
I'm going to be putting together a compilation of my Road Trip Albums, maybe we can post our lists here for a road trip?
Detroit with Mitch Ryder - out of print, but an awesome album. I saw them do this live in London (Ontario) at Wonderland. Awesome, hard rock.
Two of my favourites go back to my junior high days. Rumors by Fleetwood Mac and Hotel California by the Eagles. I purchase so many cds these days that I don't listen to any one cd very often. I had few albums to listen too in my adolescence and thus listen to them often and had the opportunity to develop them as favourites.
Out of music I have been introduced to as an adult Liege & Lief by Fairport Convention would be near the top of my list along with U2's Joshua Tree album.
I hate the Eagles. Give me Crosby, Stills, Nash, & Young any day.
You really are old, crotchety and pissed off.
Well no we are just indicating a preference is all. I'm with Tommy on the Zep albums. Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young would be good listening for us as well.
But then again, I've become easily satisfied as I've gotten older. I'm 47 now and running with a rum crowd now and then. My 13 year-old nephew and I like that tune Party Rock ... "is in the house tonight... Everybody have a good time." We seem to connect on that one. The older one digs Zeppelin and Aerosmith. He can play Wish You Were Here and a few more from the Pink Floyd albums. I think it's pretty good. Kids nowadays can appreciate quite a range of music I find.
47! You're still a pup, Fidel.
Every once in awhile, we pull out the old vinyl records. I forgot how much I loved Wing's (Paul McCartney) "Band on the Run" and Stevie Winwood's "Arc of a Diver".
Fidel, I was quoting Boom Boom's signature.
Holy cow.
If I really worked at it I might be able to come up with 10 or 20 favourites.
My list today:
Tonights the Night - Neil Young
My Baby Just cares for Me - Nina SImone
Young Americans (or Ziggy Stardust... it's a toss-up) - David Bowie
Velvet Underground - Velvet Underground
Court and Spark - Joni Mitchell
Who's Next - The Who
Live in Paris - John COltrane
Workingman's Dead - Grateful Dead
Broken English - Marianne Faithfull
Who's to Know - Shankar
Everybody's Talkin' - Fred Neil
Revolver - Beatles
Bass Culture - Linton Kweisi Johnson
Better Git it in Your Soul - Charles Mingus
Nightclubbing - Grace Jones
CLoser - Joy Division
Singles Going Steady - Buzzcocks
Concerto in F Major & Partitas by Bach - Glenn Gould
Open Up and Bleed - The Stooges
Ram - Wings
I was always partial to Judas Priest's 'Screaming for Vengeance' album from 1982.
I've never really owned many albums, although I did have Supertramp's breakfast in america when I was a teenager and played that alot. But if I like an artist I would pretty much take any album they've produced. So, I would take anything from Gordon Lightfoot, Guess Who, Led Zeppelin, Neil Young, Bob Dylan, Holly Cole, James Brown, B.B. King, Albert King, Freddie King (also known as the three kings), Tony Rice, Louis Armstrong, Stevie Nicks, JJ Cale, Dr.John...I guess it would be simpler to say anything blues based.
Just noted I didn't post any of my reggae favourites!
So is music from the 60's and 70's so much better than everything that's come since then, or is this thread simply a reflection of babblers' ages?
Yes.
Don't get me wrong; I like a lot of the music that is coming out now. But I can also see why some people might think the edge has been dulled a bit:
Zappa I'm the Slime (on national TV)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wEA6oRPSmUA
Fela Kuti ITT
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=re2JiVd4gT4
The Pop Group - We Are All Prostitutes
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5VnwL4-Ghn0
Nina Simone - Hollis Brown (Dylan)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AsyQzLauhqI
Last Poets - Wake Up Niggers
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yi3tzxKoxrM
LKJ - Fite Dem Back
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9BKN8C9taZg&feature=related
(though given the context of some of these songs, that might be a good thing. It is not exactly fun listening)
I also like Parliament, Funkadelic, and Bootsy Collins, but there's too much of that to list. Also Earth Wind and Fire, all the soul greats, Motown...
Bob Dylan's "Blonde on Blonde" remains my all time single favourite album, however. I still listen to it a few times each year, as I have since it was first released. I can't say that about any other album in my collection.
I vote for reflection of ages. Given the chance, I would vote that way twice.
@ bagkitty
I don't deny that it is. And I don't actually think that music back then was significantly better - we just remember the good stuff, not the shit.
On the other hand, if the tunes which came up were all current hits, the spectre of age, with a tinge of the pejorative - wouldn't even have been raised, even though it would probably left more people scratching their heads to name the tunes and artists.
Anyone have any current faves they want to name? Please, step up to the plate. I can think of a few in the last 10 years.
Music recorded recently that I like are by Joan Osborne, Perla Batalla, and Nanci Griffith. I brought a new Leonard Cohen album last year and it's okay, not his best.
There's no tinge of pejorative here either. I'm sincerely curious about whether most people reach a point in their lives where they no longer 'get' - or can't be bothered trying to 'get' - newer music? Or was the music that loosely falls under the umbrella category of 'rock' better in its earlier days. I guess I'm wondering because I find I'm markedly less curious about seeking out new music than I was five years ago - which I never thought would happen.
Considering albums as a whole, (in no particular order) these would be on my best-of list over the last 10 years:
Fiery Furnaces - Bitter Tea
Go! Team - Thunder, Lighning, Strike
Wax Mannequin - Saxon
Mastodon - Crack the Skye
Blonde Redhead - Misery is a Butterfly
The Organ - Grab That Gun
The Sadies - Darker Circles
Robyn - s/t
Broken Social Scene - You Forgot it in People
Wilco - Yankee Hotel Foxtrot
Sleater-Kinney - One Beat
The Sadies - In Concert, Volume 1
and just sneaking in under the 10-year mark... Iron Maiden - Rock in Rio
Iron Maiden? Don't make me close this thread, F55...the rest of your selctions save you.
Is it too gauche to say Arcade Fire's Funeral?
This one is 14 years old, but Neutral Milk Hotel's In the Aeroplane over the Sea basically defined the style Arcade Fire would pick up some ten years later. Other gems in the rock/pop genre from the 2000s include Modest Mouse's The Moon & Antarctica and The Constantines self-titled debut. I also loved The Strokes' Is this it? and The White Stripes' White Blood Cells, but those are rather "obvious."
Current faves, without time constraints:
Modern Lovers - Modern Lovers
The Clash - London Calling
X - Los Angeles
Lou Reed - Transformer
To be honest, I've been playing East German Amiga pressings of 1920s and 30s jazz greats: Sidney Lumet, Tommy Dorsey and Jelly Roll Morton. Do those count as "albums"?