I Like Your Old Stuff Better...

[waitingman]

According to a recent survey in the U.K. - people stop listening to 'new' music when they hit 30... or thereabouts. And no - listening to the new album from the band you loved back then doesn't count

I don't agree, personally... Then again, I've never felt I was someone who can be easily quantified, labelled & put in a box, much like the man who once said "A census taker once tried to test me. I ate his liver with some fava beans and a nice Chianti."... Though I'm not as extremely reactive as that. Most days... I also don't disagree quite as vehemently as this writer from the NME does, though he raises an interesting distinction 'Music fanatics don’t stop discovering music after 30, music consumers do. And only streaming services care what they listen to, but they don’t really listen to it. It’s the background noise of their lifestyle, not the central source. By 30 most of them have no need for it anymore, beyond having something pleasant to play in the background at dinner parties, parole celebrations or the last-ditch cocaine all-nighters before their septums give out.'

I turned 30 in 1997. Here's a brief list of all the 'new' musicians I've liked enough to buy music from:

Rammstein
Afro-Celt Sound System
B(if)Tek
Zap Mama
Sarah Blasko
Kate Miller-Heidke
Filter
Calexico
Brad Paisley
Vera Blue
Jason Webley
True Live
Anjani Thomas
Daft Punk
Tool
Decoder Ring
Florence & The Machine
Karma County
Katie Melua
My Chemical Romance
Nitin Sawhney
Mumford & Sons
Sigur Ros
St Vincent
Trey Gunn
Yann Tiersen

And there are probably more, but I'm not in front of the music collection right now & these are all I can think of. This isn't even mentioning the artists I discovered who were well into their careers, like EmmyLou Harris, Sly & Robbie, Richard Thompson, Kinky Friedman, Cassandra Wilson, Sly & The Family Stone, John Cage... & again, many others

Musical Paralysis? More like Osmosis...

Comments

[basefinder]

Hmm. The older stuff from age 15-30 still weighs heavy in my playlist, but since then (1989)... I liked some new stuff and "rediscovered" some old.
Johnny Winter
Booker T. Jones/and the M.G.s
Kid Rock
Live
Amanda Palmer
Cake
Daddy Mack Blues Band
Eagles of Death Metal
Fuel
Ghostfire
Hossam Ramzy
Johnny Cash
Lady GaGa
Pentatonix
The Perturbed
Pink Martini
Pirate Salad
The Railbenders
Tim Rose
Victor Wooten
etc.

I tend to agree, some of us are mere consumers, some of us are fanatics.

[waitingman]

Some common ground there...!

[basefinder]

Agreed! And our visits have been too short and far between... we haven't had that late night, alcohol-fueled conversation about music, yet! :-)