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Friday, February 05, 2021
Boomers baffled as their music dies
Back in 1959, on the cusp of the Swinging Sixties, I was posted to Germany as part of my National Service and quickly found myself a new niche. In those days, the Forces radio station played an endless diet of Bing Crosby and Peggy Lee — both wonderful singers, but their music was the sort of thing we young servicemen associated with our parents.
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Try KLVZ Legends 95.3 for oldies; owned by Crawford Broadcasting. Great station for '60s music and with a sprinkling of patriotic moments, especially around noon, Mountain Time.
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The comments are so fuckin hilarious. These young assholes writing in have no clue their music will one day be considered garbage and put down as they are putting down Boomer Music. A couple generations from now kids will be saying todays musicians could not play and that it was all trash. Are they in for a grand awakening or what?
ReplyDeleteFrom the article; "From Elvis and the Beatles to the Rolling Stones and The Who, Bob Dylan and the Kinks, Rod Stewart, Eric Clapton, Elton John, Queen — the music that emerged from that era has more than stood the test of time and is loved by baby boomers and their grandchildren alike."
ReplyDeleteI'm 64 and I can't stand any of that sh!t from those people/bands mentioned! As a matter of fact, that's all iHeart radio plays! There's no such thing as a "classic rock" station anymore. Just iHeart radio! I wanna destroy the garage radio whenever I have it on when I'm drinking a few cold ones. My point is that there are literally thousands of rock songs from the 60s and 70's that pretty much no one from even 10 years ago has ever heard. It's just the same songs from a handful of relics on iHeart radio! And if I hear one more fuckin Ozzy song.... KILL ME! And I have loved 90s music since, well, the 90's. "Boomer" music... WTF!
Well considering most of the radio stations are owned by either iHeart or another company, there is not much selection or difference even in the same city. I really love it when the same song is playing on three different stations esp when they are almost all in sync.
DeleteI wish they would shelve some of the overplayed stuff and play more diverse selection of the vast Rock and Roll catalog available....it is not like they are pushing the latest release by the Who or Cream!
Yup, CDs or external device for most music.
The reason you hear the same tunes over & over is the result of "research" conducted by these mega-owners to pare the playlist down to 400-600 of the highest recall songs, so that no matter what moment you tune in you'll hear a song you like or at least recognize.
DeleteWe can blame the Clintons and Mitt Romney for the disaster called today's "Radio". They changed the law to allow one or two companies to own all the decent signals in each market. I just read an article in the Press-Enterprise about L.A. Radio, that pondered the question of why over 50% of listening is to stations owned by just two companies, iHeart (Romney's company) and Cumulus Broadcasting. And it's the same story or worse in every major market in America.
Yeah, yeah....right. Interesting to compare this with the 60's/70's music video comments on youtube. All sorts of young people saying the music from back then was so much better than the stuff today.
ReplyDeleteI guess if you cherry-pick what you present, you can make a case for anything.
Still, fun to watch the supposed younger generation repeating all the same tropes against the boomer generation that the boomer generation used against the WWII generation.
my music died with Lemmy.
ReplyDeleteWho needs Radio 2 when you've got Spotify? My eclectic playlist has stuff from the fifties all the way through to modern stuff. There is the odd piece by Bach and Mozart too. Much of the music that I used to like in the seventies I don't listen to now because I've heard it to death now. No matter how good a song is, you get tired of it eventually.
ReplyDeleteit is amusing but also pathetic how more recent gens can't help but piss and whine about boomers no matter the subject. they should get their burning itchy twats treated
ReplyDeleteOh I dunno. I'm old myself but I can see their point. I mean, no generation is perfect, pluses and minuses to each one of them, but the boomer generation generally has a lot more to be ashamed of than several other generations both before and after us.
DeleteNot really even thinking about the things they tend to piss and whine about, but rather about our arrogant narcissistic tendencies, about how we grew the bureaucracy, about how we pissed away our nation's wealth and then refused to retire when it was our turn, about how deeply this nation's previous morality has been eroded under our watch.
Not really complaining either way, just trying to be thoughtful about the feedback of those more recent generations. I mean, we TAUGHT them to not be able to help but piss and whine about stuff, no matter the subject. We invented helicopter parenting, while subjecting them to lib teachers who indoctrinated them. Why wouldn't they complain about us?
This really should not surprise anyone. I don't care because, like Stonyground, I have my own music on multiple devices. IMHO some of the best music was from my Dad's generation (the Greatest Generation). The Dorsey's (Jimmy and Tommy), Bennie Goodman, Glenn Miller, Artie Shaw, just to name a very few. I NEVER heard that on any radio stations while I was growing up and I'm 70. It seems music mimics our society - It got to a great point sometime in the 1960s, then started devolving into trash.
ReplyDeleteOldvet, do yourself a favor and give a listen to “One o’Clock Jump” in Benny Goodman’s 1938 Carnegie Hall Jazz Concert. It’s probably on YouTube. Or “Boogie Woogie” as done by Tommy Dorsey. Two of my faves. More recently, “Midnight in Moscow” by Kenny Ball. Of course, watch Artie & Co for a treat: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cCYGyg1H56s (Right now though, I’m doing a lot of listening to the Stones, esp “ It’s All Over Now” and “The Last Time”; Brian Jones and that Vox Mk III: wow!)
DeleteRadio stations quit playing the good stuff many many years ago. They seem to think only late 1970s, 80s and up are acceptable
ReplyDeleteBoomer music - run through the jungle, all along the watch tower, freedom, fortunate son, don't let them take your guns - ya Big Time anti dotgov movement back then, protest music, hide it quick!! Its not the music, its the message.
ReplyDeleteI'm 68 and the only music I listen to from that era is some Jimi Hendrix, Cream, Iron Butterfly and pre-Dark Side Pink Floyd. I now listen to just about only bands like Airbag, Katatonia HammerFall, Opeth, Riverside, Amorphis, Nightwish, Vanden Plas, Eloy, etc. None of which get radio play. And just about anything Blue Oyster Cult did. I NEVER listen to radio. Listening to the radio means I have to listen to what THEY want me to listen to. A cram packed flash drive in the car means I get to listen to what I want to listen to.
ReplyDeletePeople who look down on other's tastes in music must be "good little" democrats.....oh, and fuck all of you for that.....thanks....
ReplyDeleteActually that site is a hotbed of Trump supporters. But they are mostly insane. Vox Day AKA Theodore Beale is a poor little rich boy who has never worked a day in his life. He had some very minor success as a member of a Techno Dance band. He has made a few video games and written some unreadable books. His main claim to fame was running away to Italy a few years ago and spouting off some of the most idiotic bullshit on the internet.
DeleteI get the impression that if you made a bottle big enough to hold Vox's ego, you'd need to use Jupiter as the cork.
DeleteHe's created a very successful publishing house (Castalia House); a new and shockingly successful comics and media label (Arkhaven); a fully functional, successful and "cancel"-proof private, subscription-based alternative to YouTube (Unauthorized DOT tv); a functional alternative to Wikipedia (infogalactic); a successful private, "cancel"-proof, subscription-based alternative to Twitter...and that's not close to an exhaustive list of all the things he's accomplished in the past few years.
DeleteAll while writing some very good to excellent books, both fiction and nonfiction.
What have *you* accomplished lately, Mr. Mallory?
I don't always agree with Vox's opinions, sometimes because I haven't fully grasped them and I'm unsure, sometimes it's a knee-jerk rejection based on thoroughly embedded dogma in my head, and sometimes it's because I understand his point (or believe I do) and just don't agree. But, agree with him or no, only an absolute jackass would try to claim the man doesn't work his ass off all the freaking time, with undeniable results.
God bless him, the Right could use a few more like him. He fights.
Ah, one of Teddy's Vile Feckless Morons shows up. None of those things you mention are "successful" outside Teddy's little group of brainwashed followers. Teddy's books are only "very good to excellent" if you enjoy bad writing. Yes he loves to tout when his book is #1 in some small very selected niche on Amazon. But notice, he pares that niche down to the point the #1 is worthless.
DeleteWhat have I done? I have served God and the only King, the Lord Jesus Christ. I have worked for a living. I have supported my family, cared for my wife. Raised a daughter who is a good person, a straight A student, and a pretty decent athlete. I have served my country. I have lived in the land of my birth, not run away to another nation and thrown shit upon my own people. I have honored my Father and Mother, not whined and cried like a spoiled brat the way Teddy has. His whole "boomer hate" routine is just because he thinks his share of the trust funds should be higher.
Which of his opinions do you support? His searching of the Scriptures for loopholes that enable him to hate? His love of a mass murderer? His bragging about beating up women in sparring matches? (really, bragging about beating a girl?) His denial of the full divinity of the Lord Jesus Christ?
Teddy isn't as smart as he tells you he is. If you havened grasped that he puts out 98% dreck then you might be the midwit he claims you are.
No, the man doesn't work his ass off. He starts a project, underdelivers, makes wild claims of success, then moves on to something else. Like I said, the man has never done a day of honest work in his life. He lives off daddy's money and what cash he can scam out of his followers.
And he evidently lives rent-free in your head, too, Mallory. What's it like, the sensation that your entire life is meaningless and empty because a man you've never met banned you from his blog for being a creepy, spamming anklebiter? What a sad, bleak existence you've made for yourself.
DeleteSorry Wirecutter, I'll leave this poor guy alone now. No point adding to his self-inflicted pain and causing him to make a weepy, "laughing" mess all over your blog. My bad for engaging in the first place.
"My" music is old and unimportant? And why should I GAF what somebody else thinks? I've got vinyl, man. O-riginal. Beatles and Dylan and Willie Nelson and Artie Shaw and Bob Wills. Whosoever thinks "my" music sucks can go eat a big enchilada.
ReplyDeleteI'm creeping up on age 46, so hardly a "boomer". I cherish my collection of LP's and the stuff from maybe 1967 to 1973 or 4 is some of the best stuff. The Allmans, CTA, Stones, Little Feat, Zep, etc., etc. There's still fine music made today if you look around, but to claim the "boomer music" lacks merit is on its face a stupid assertion.
DeleteThe article was a flawed opinion, the comments just prove that the programming is almost complete.
ReplyDeleteAgain: Free American citizens are allowed to have different tastes than you or I. The best music is whatever YOU like.
ReplyDeleteI quit listening to radio because "commercial, commercial, commercial, content, commercial, commercial...
Which is the main reason I don't listen to radio.....
DeleteI love Chuck Berry. I do not listen to the radio either, do not subscribe to spotify but my phone music list runs east and west from Marylin Manson to Marty Robins and north and south from Randy Newman to Ennio Morricone and circles the globe from cypress hill to the monkey's. I like it and that's all that matters to me.
Delete@ Roy: "I quit listening to radio because "commercial, commercial, commercial, content, commercial, commercial..."
DeleteAdd in to that, DJs with no personality who won't shut the fuck up YET never mention the name of the song that they just played (even though there's only about a dozen on the station playlist for the day...)
My music taste is easy to describe-
ReplyDeleteliterally everything except the songs I don't like.
Nobody asked me, but:
https://youtu.be/_BOp4luu40o
(not a complete list.)
=TW=
Elvis, 1958. Hard Headed Woman-one of several he released right before being inducted into the US Army.
ReplyDeleteUnlike other notables like Cassius Clay, Slick Clinton, and bunch of others who refused the call to serve their country.
It's great to be able to choose. "Ever since that sum bitch with a RPG shot my ass out of the sky I've been hearing non stop Black Betty (Spiderbait version) blaring like a 1000 watt loudspeaker 24 hours a day. Thank GOD it wasn't White Rabbit that got stuck in there'"
ReplyDeleteEvery generation thinks they are so much smarter than all the others. Nothing ever changes, except for the music which gets worse each decade. Rather hear the songs from the 20s and 30s, the music of the big bands than anything after 2000.
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