Do you miss how music was when you were younger?

October 29, 2010 3:05pm CST
I've grown up listening to music from before my time, as my parents used to often play the music that they grew up too. I enjoyed the 80's and 90's as these was very much my era's and I did enjoy up to early 2000's but I find that most music from that point onwards as gotten very boring. Many songs sound similar to others and often enough we see people with very little talent in my opinion making it big. This is mostly to do with shows like Pop idol, X-Factor etc as they seem to choose people based on looks until others complained and now we're getting people who clearly can't perform on the shows but are getting put through because they feel they need too. Whatever happened to being a good signer? Do you also miss how music was when you were younger? I personally do.
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@rappeter13 (8608)
• Romania
29 Oct 10
I like to listen all kind of music, besides the heavy versions of rock and punk. I listen to music from the 70's, 80's, 90's, 00's and the music from now as well. I was born in 1989 so I have to say that I was raised on the music from the 90's and 00's. But I discovered music from the past, mostly Hungarian one, because I am Hungarian and I like it very much. But I like to listen some Queen and Scorpions songs as well. It is funny that their songs are evergreen and I believe that they will be listened to till it will be life on Earth. I have to say that I watched the Hungarian version of Got Talent and the winner is anything else than a good looking guy, he has no scenic movement and he looks like a person who has no confidence in himself. But he has a tremendous voice and he has won. I had the pleasure to see him performing live and I have to say that I have never heard somebody who had such a voice as he has. If you are interested you can search in youtube for Tabani Istvan.( You can write there Tabani Istvan-Bohemian Rhapsody, because he has performed Queen songs as well). Now the Hungarian version of X-factor is running, and I like it very much. If you want to see something really extraordinary you can search for Kiraly Norbert.( he has performed Joe Cocker's You can leave your hat on, if you are interested,maybe this will help you: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kxzns1Vsf7k&feature=related . Please let me know what you think about these two performers.
29 Oct 10
That's pretty cool, Thanks for sharing the video. He really does look like doesn't have confidence but he does sing very well, I really doubt he would get through here because our judges just want a puppet someone that will make them money. At first I saw in two minds if I should take him serious with his dancing! lol Here's a perfect example of the type of singers getting through on the english X-Factor. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fq49Gv3wFB0 Wagner sounds like a karaoke, he as the entertainment factor but can't sing for the laugh of him. Successful on cruise-ships but making it in the charts I'm not sure! :P Thanks for your response mate.
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• United States
29 Oct 10
Oh yes I do miss the music from the 80's & 90's and I will never get use to or like all the rap nonsense that plays today. It is so ridiculous how so many swear they can sing and how others actually call this music. hA!
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29 Oct 10
I know what you mean HWG. There's not many rappers these days I can say I really listen too, I much prefer rock music but even that's taken a decline in recent years. One thing I find funny is how some singers don't sing, they just softly talk. It's beyond me how people can claim they do have a singing voice :/ Thanks for your response.
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@winterose (39887)
• Canada
30 Oct 10
because I still can listen to music in my genre I loved the music of the 70's that will always be the best music to me.
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• United States
30 Oct 10
Yes I do. I remember how music and video merged on MTV. I remember saying I want My MTV and meaning it. I was a teen in the 80's. I wood listen to the radio and I would know 95% of the songs. I also liked on Saturdays to listen to the oldies channel. I got to hear songs from the 50's, 60's , and 70/s.i did love many songs from the 90's too. But the 2000's Not that much. By that time MTV had more shows and less videos. I stopped listening to the radio that often and What I heard i didn't like. It is sad. Back in the day you had groups that very innervated. These days it seems each group is made up and it is te manager who " creates " the sound and the music. Back in the 80's, the group created the sound and managers tried to fine tune it.
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@saizo6 (2199)
• United States
29 Oct 10
Definitely! I don't even listen to the radio anymore when I'm driving because most of the stuff on there is generic and nonsense. Plus, it does not help when they just play the same 10 songs over and over again. I've actually found myself enjoying songs that I clearly remember not liking when I was younger too. But whenever I listen to 80s or 90s music the first thing that comes to my mind is "Why can't today's music sound like this?" The sad thing is that most of these songs out there are not that memorable. They may be popular now but I can say that people won't even remember a majority of them 10 years from now.
29 Oct 10
I'm very much the same. I don't like this new wave of music which uses some of the elements of the 80's but very modern. It feels like some cheap shot at trying to bring back that era and I don't think it really relates to it all that much. That's true, the lyrics are becoming very poor in the sense that have trouble singing along and that you probably won't recall them much in the future. What happened to being able to sing a long to songs? Penny Arcade, Down Town, It's Raining Men and YMCA LOL
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@insulin (2479)
• Philippines
30 Oct 10
Yes I miss the old times especially the 90's music.It's just really different today and I hope I can bring back the memories once.Now the music for me is not that really impressive since all is getting common is less in creativity.
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• United States
30 Oct 10
I don't miss it because I go to youtube or aol radio or to the oldies station on the radio and can play them. It's one of the good things about technology today..we can go back and listen to the oldies. I know that some of the music may not be to our liking; but even the loud music has hold a key to the person who is singing .. For some reason they like the noise..
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@drannhh (15219)
• United States
30 Oct 10
I prefer silence. It is not that I don't like music, but that for me it has a time and place. I do not like it as a background. I prefer to concentrate on what I am doing. But I do subscribe to Rhapsody so I can program my play lists to play what I want to hear without having to mess around with CDs or channels or whatever. I think Dame Kiri te Kanawa is a great singer. I also like the sound of Sarah Brightman's voice. Obviously, so do a whole bunch of other people or she would not be the world's best selling soprano.
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@Hatley (163781)
• Garden Grove, California
31 Oct 10
hi joey much of todays music leaves me cold as I love the classics like beethoven bach and mozart. also love the beatles, and the beach boys, but classical I like best and blues too. music with heart.
@manunulat (604)
• Philippines
30 Oct 10
Yep I miss the old days when there is I think more crisp sound, more romance to it as you can listen to real-life sound crafted with the musical ingenuity of artists, unadulterated by the digital technology. I've nothing against the advancements in sound engineering but I think there is this thing called, "too much is noise". I like the eighties and the seventies because of the poetry and the fact that there are artists then that goes with the basics. I appreciate artists who are going back to basics nowadays, it simply says that going back to the roots brings reconnection to the players and the listeners and I guess that what makes music as the universal language more meaningful; the connection...
@eurekafemme (5877)
• Philippines
30 Oct 10
Yes, I do. I am an 80's baby and yet I love the songs from the 70's. My uncles and aunts played those 70's songs and I learned to appreciate them withour knowing who really the singer was and how they look like. All I was aware then was the melody, and the voice and the lyrics.I don't even have personal favorites then because I think those musics way back were so cool that I love listening to all of them... I hear revivals but they only brought me to yesteryears...
• China
30 Oct 10
i forget it now . maybe you don't know that song that i like when i am younger . i am from china , and like the normal music in our country . so you know that the songs in our country is not so good . and almost so many people don't know chinese. so i have to say that i don;t like any music when i am younger. lol . thank you .
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@sophia18 (106)
• China
30 Oct 10
yeah, I prefer the 80's and 90's music. Of course I also listen to the music nowadays, but I can't find the feelings I had when I listened to the old music. I always feel moved by the old songs like I'm back to the old days,"it's yesterday once more",as it sang.
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