Given the immense vastness of all the music ever created by humanity, it’s such a weird coincidence that the very best songs all happened to be released when I was aged 14-21.
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haha but you knew that post would trigger people even here. By contrast I felt sad that my daughter would grow up not knowing the music I knew from the 60's & 70's. How wrong was I - she's a bigger Beatles fan than me and that's saying a lot. Great music is timeless https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B2Tk1JseYkU
Tapestry; What's Going On; Who's Next; Sticky Fingers; Zep IV; Al Green Gets Next To You; American Pie; There's a Riot Goin' On; Pearl; Imagine; Every Picture Tells A Story; Allmans Fillmore East; Madman Across The Water; Schmillson; Blue; Tupelo Honey....
There have been fun and interesting studies on why we latch onto the sort of music that we listen to within those developmental periods! Also, which music makes cows happiest. 🥛
If I'm racking my memory the right way I believe dairy cows especially love classical music, with things like reggae, country, and lullabies super close after that. It's a fun Google rabbit hole and cool how they measured!🐇
That's so cool. My sister does some animal rescue work and theyve got 3 cows at the moment. I'll have to let her know. They're such interesting beings- they apparently make some pretty tight friendships.
Oh absolutely! I don't usually like the terms 'puppy of the sea' and stuff ppl will use but when it comes to cows? Yeah they are basically just really big dogs and are very intelligent so the saying actually fits them lol !🌹💕
That's actually a really interesting question... Now I'm wondering if early exposure matters to them like us. 🐄 The two facts aren't necessarily connected outside of 'cool studies on music I've read' though. They also both happen to be pretty popular and accessible as far as studies go.
😭 Unfortunately no moo moo babies for me! I'd love to just bring one inside but the SO thinks a cow would be too big for an indoor friend or some rubbish. 🐮🤔
I was like most people who kind of felt that way until I moved to Minneapolis and shortly after this station started. It helped me discover so many great bands and songs and these days I’m constantly looking for hidden musical gems to add to my playlist. https://apps.apple.com/us/app/the-current-music/id1334353737
Listen to the top 100 songs of each year from 1960 to 2000. Great songs across all genres. I don't recognize more than 100 songs written over the last two decades. The industry has killed good music
That’s 77 - 84 for me although I do love 1972 - 1989 across the board if I’m honest. Glam Rock. Punk Rock. Disco. New Wave. Electronic Synthpop. House Music. Acid. An amazing time to be into music and one great youth movement after another. I love these eras more than ever as I age. Now 61
I'm fairly sure I'm a pretty rare person who doesn't believe that the music of their teens is the best. Most of my favourites were released this century.
Many of them were written several hundred years ago, admittedly.
How often do I have this argument with friends? 😅 Yeah, there has been some very good music made since the early 70s but never such an outpouring of youth culture and creativity as we saw in the handful of years leading up to then.
Going to be interested to see how that pans out with our two teens; both heavily into orchestral music and already definitely have Opinions about eg Handel vs Dvorak or Sibelius. Younger one also quite likes Slade, but I fear that’s my fault.
I felt the same way until I heard the new Fontaines DC album last year. I don't think I'd connected with any new music as much as when I was a young person. Gave an old lady new life for real.
Fun fact, there's actual science that shows why everyone thinks the best music is in their teens! I don't remember what it was but I know it exists lol
And an even bigger coincidence is that all people currently age 3 are also going to have the best songs released when then are between 14-21. Mine too🥂
Spot on!! For all of us those seven years are probably our most impressionable years. I'm lucky that '76 was one of my years. So many great, great albums released that year.
I am 74 and came of age during that time. I have learned to appreciate all types of music. It is more than the words or the beat or the instruments, it is finding music that speaks to your soul.
Or perhaps that is the age when your musical tastes are being the most affected by what you hear around you. So you gravitate to that particular style and find it the most comfortable.
I think most of us find the same thing. I am 71 and yet most of my favorite songs are from that same age zone.
Respectfully, please listen to some opera like La Boheme or choral music like Handel’s Messiah or Mozart’s Requiem. Or, try Broadway shows like Les Miserables or Cats. For centuries, gorgeous music has been written & sung by talented composers & musicians. Broaden your horizons. You might enjoy it.
It's perceptual. That's how average people feel about music. They only love the stuff they grew up on. Anything prior to or after that window of time they hate. I'm neurodivergent, so I'm able to enjoy music from multiple time periods.
Hold up hold up hold up say more. Do you think non-neurodivergent folks can’t enjoy music from multiple time periods? (Hoping to god this is a joke tweet that I’m misreading…)
I think it's personal taste. Unless music is out of rhythmic time or the instruments are out of tune, it's still good music to someone. Attempting to invalidate music that doesn't suit one's personal taste isn't helpful to anyone.
Interesting! Not true in my case. I'm really interested in contemporary music, all the time. It's all nostalgic because it all plugs into different eras in my mind (which may have Nothing to do with when the song came out- I'm often a decade off 😂)
Wow. I thought about asking whether perhaps all 14-21 year olds feel the same way and there are the charts to prove it. Instantly stopped my wondering and filled in the facts to incrementally improve my perspective and observations about humanity. Thank you for modeling how facts should work.
I have a friend whose touchstone when meeting new people isn't "how old are you" but "when did you graduate high school?" So much of us is formed in that period: clothes, hair, music, etc.
Of course, unless you happen to also be nearly 70 years old, like I am, the real coincidence is that the best music came out when "I" was that age... 😉
It's fine to still be listening to the music of your formative years but it's kind of sad if that's all you're listening to. I'm 71 years old and still discovering amazing new bands and music. Look up Big Big Train, Dim Gray, Meer, Airbag, John Holden, The Tea Club, Gazpacho and on and on.
I haven't listened to commercial radio since the 90s so I should not say there's no good music on the radio. But I've watched the Grammys and I'm not impressed by anyone nominated. If that's their best...
I agree 😆 even said at the time I was happy I was that age since I got to experience all the music before and all the best bands which were obviously current. Though I will die on the hill that the 90’s was a great time to be a teen/ 20’s because of music (because of course that’s when I was a teen)
I appreciate the joke, but it's not at all true for me. I was 9 when the Beatles hit the US, so lots of great songs before I hit 14. And since then? OMG almost all of Patti Smith's music happened after I turned 22. And all of Talking Heads, Laurie Anderson, Radiohead, Billie Eilish, Taylor Swift...
Even weirder, all the best music in the world seems to have been discovered by me when I was aged 14-21. Some of it is much older than me but it seems only I have the ability to identify the correct music.
The sentiment behind your quip is the reason I always remind myself to be less critical of new music and keep an open mind. Anything to avoid being an old man yelling at clouds 😂
For sure, the chasm is widening. Technology has, in many cases, taken life from music and created a large supply causing music homoginization. I try to remain objective recognizing those that avoided these trappings so at least I can rest easy by giving a true opinion regardless of changing tastes
Music is art and therefore subjective. Those experiments merely prove that music has changed, which should be obvious enough to anyone to not require proof by experimentation.
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The best songs in the world just happened to be released between the day Björk released "Debut" and today, and coincidentally, they all happen to be written by Björk. Crazy.
I'm just happy that they still play a lot of it on the radio. (And that they don't call it "oldies" like they used to - now it's "favorites from the 80s, 90s, and today" stations.)
@steveford00.bsky.social I’m a baby boomer and I think the best singalong music emerged in the 50s to 80s. I learned to play many protest songs on my guitar, egged on by older siblings. Now a couple of them are Republicans! Don’t understand why.
He came well before my time, but no one made love to the guitar like Jimi. I grew up understanding i was lucky to have music heavily influenced by my parents' era. It was actually cool to play your parents' records. Then shit like the Spice Girls happened and I still haven't recovered.
Being as old as a classic chevy we grew up with a turning point in music as it relates to the times. Early it was songs of love. As I grew the war made songs political and written with more depth. Now its just noise I find hard to tolerate. At least for me and maybe people my age.
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Well, I'm sorry but I disagree.
I am older than you and all the best music was actually made whilst I was between the ages of 14 and 21 😊🐈⬛🐈⬛
The irony of me pointing this out does not escape me, either.
Tapestry; What's Going On; Who's Next; Sticky Fingers; Zep IV; Al Green Gets Next To You; American Pie; There's a Riot Goin' On; Pearl; Imagine; Every Picture Tells A Story; Allmans Fillmore East; Madman Across The Water; Schmillson; Blue; Tupelo Honey....
Do cows relax more with music they first heard at a significant time in their lives?
(you got any cows?)
Many of them were written several hundred years ago, admittedly.
Amazing coincidences abound! 😁
A pregnant city with a Catholic mind”
is on my list of best opening song lines. Extra points for opening a first song on a debut album.
Imaginary audience?
Custom hairbrush mic?
I know
Include the late 60s and early 80s and you're covered.
https://youtube.com/watch?v=mp4eXk5ZbeE
I made multiple Spotify playlists for the past 100 years, and there's (subjectively) a lot of great hits!
1172 tracks, 79+ hours!
Still adding more, and I have these as separate lists too (80s, 90s, 40s, etc.)
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/2vOjFpyz9vYpqcnsm2uX6e?si=1dkOumo4TTKXoDNiC0Uq3w&pi=a-WQl6mSFTS4Wd
What would be in your top 10?
That music was alive, litterally.
I am also 80 now.
And ex musician.
When the teen genes are developing its all heart, brains and body.
Emotions run amok.
I think most of us find the same thing. I am 71 and yet most of my favorite songs are from that same age zone.
ME TOO
I can say that because I’m autistic and I do the same shit sometimes.
https://bsky.app/profile/cfcamerer.bsky.social/post/3ldjld6kto22f
It's actually crazy how we all feel the same way, regardless of our age.
We must be twins! 😂
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