Your Music Collection:
MayfairBlue
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Like a lot of other's out there, I've not physically bought a Cd or Vinyl for a fair few years (albeit the seldom odd one).
And my collection has been build through the way mp3s through my computer.
I'm into a few genres of which include pop, house/dance/rave, r&b, and a bit of indie/brit pop covering from the 1980s.
I'm in the middle of my 30s, but having looked at my music files, there's very little I have covering the last couple of years, and my main bulk is from the 1990s.
I don't really pay attention to the likes of radio 1 unless I'm in a public place like a gym, and I used to mainly go into HMV to get up to speed.
I know this obviously various in people's tastes and generations, but is the quality of today's music simply not good enough, or are you simply more allured to material from previous eras?
And my collection has been build through the way mp3s through my computer.
I'm into a few genres of which include pop, house/dance/rave, r&b, and a bit of indie/brit pop covering from the 1980s.
I'm in the middle of my 30s, but having looked at my music files, there's very little I have covering the last couple of years, and my main bulk is from the 1990s.
I don't really pay attention to the likes of radio 1 unless I'm in a public place like a gym, and I used to mainly go into HMV to get up to speed.
I know this obviously various in people's tastes and generations, but is the quality of today's music simply not good enough, or are you simply more allured to material from previous eras?
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The seventies would be second, then the early nineties. I lost interest in 'new' stuff around the mid-90s
Most of my music is on CD with a fair bit on vinyl. I use an MP3 player for the train, holidays etc and that's it
I was taking stock (no punn intended!) and it just made me realize.
To be fair, I've not really bothered to try to keep abreast consistently since 2003, but dipped in and out of various genres.
Some of the new dance/electro stuff is just awful, though I do like Calvin Harris's stuff, and Eric Prydz.
I too tend to listen more to stuff from the 1990s and I thought to myself (even for someone more on the younger side of his age) that I was going through some sort of a mid-life crisis!:D
Haha, I bet a lot of that is filled with the Stock Aitken and Waterman
Lol no it all seems quite normal to me.
If you're going through a mid-life crisis then I must be too. :eek:
:)A temporary cure is JLS, but definitely not Justin Bieber!!
I am not ashamed to say yes
The late eighties were good times for me and the music takes you back as a reminder of that era. I just wish the fashions of then would come back around he he :cool:
I'm ashamed to admit that I actually like one of his songs!! :eek::o
Well I don't look at genres or "today's" music or anything like that - I just like music, good or bad. I'll listen to anything and everything from whenever or wherever it is. And i'm certainly older than you at 42
My main music interests now are 80's & various Metal / Rock / Symphonic Metal bands. Majority of music I purchase is either bought online for the metal cd's as the pricing structure in shops is disgusting for non top 40 material, but 80's compilations, I will purchase from the Supermarket or from HMV.
If I was given the choice out of buying a 1D / Bieber CD or rubbing a blunt knife across my nut sack, then blunt knife on my nut sack would win every time. :eek:
I have a confession of my own - and only because this was played a lot on Capital FM, whenever I used to train at my gym!:o:D
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4GuqB1BQVr4
I was only a kid then, but they were probably the best times of my life, and glad that I was in an era where I had the experience of listening to some of the best music on a cassette/cd through a Sony Walkman.
So many to mention, but loved all the SAW stuff as well as Jacko, Madonna, Pet Shop Boys, Aha, Spandau Ballet, Erasure, Banana-rama, and so on....:cool:
Now 17 was my favourite from 1990. There were a series of them that weren't too bad, but like you, I simply gave up on them and it's been like that for quite some time now.
I've just looked at the track list for that, and Disc 2 all I can say is wow :cool: Some dance songs from the start of 1990 I haven't heard in a very long time. Lonnie Gordon is on there too - yay!!
Prince
David Bowie
Peter Gabriel
Fleetwood Mac/Stevie Nicks
Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers
Coldplay
Duran Duran
Dave Matthews Band
INXS
Dire Straits
Pink Floyd
Moody Blues
Santana
Rolling Stones
Kate Bush
Bat For Lashes
Depeche Mode
Tears For Fears
Matchbox Twenty
My music tastes cover the whole spectrum between the 60s to now!! You should see my CD collection which comprise of official realeases to downloaded stuff!! I have whole concert tours of all the above listed, as well as outtakes, demos, rehearsals, aftershows, unreleased music, etc.!! I think I have well over 10,000 CDs!!
I have never got around getting an MP3 Player and loading all my stuff onto that, cos I dont think the quality is the same(I deal mainly in FLAC files). Also, I do have a tendancy to sing along and I doubt very much whether the poor unsuspecting public want to be subjected to that!!!!:D:D
I like to have a physical CD or even a 12 inch LP in my possession.
Latest Vinyl purchases are The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan on double LP audiophile release which plays at 45RPM. Nashville Skyline is next. I bought Tempest on LP plus recently bought a couple of Malaco / Waldoxy soul / blues LPs from Bobby Bland and Artie Blues Boy White. I have about 450 Lps in total dating back to the sixties.
The CD collection consists of most of Bob Dylan's stuff, lots of blues, lots of my type of country (sixties country hits and modern day bluegrass) plus some easy listening jazz and American songbook stuff like Diana Krall, Eliane Elias etc
I will still buy the odd greatest hits CD as they are often cheaper per track than downloads.
Those ages certainly apply to the eras some of my favourite songs were released
..and as an 18 year old in 2013 I can say that definitively does not apply to me!
But i'm trying to build up a vinyl record collection as my music tastes stretch as far back currently as 1926. Sixties acts such as The Beatles, The Beach Boys and Bob Dylan are my main point of interest however.
i think that todays mainstream is pretty poor, it lacks imagination, its lazy, generic, mass produced commercial sounds. ok some say that you arent looking hard enough...but ive heard that said for the last 40 + years as mainstream has always been looked down on by those looking for more, deeper, 'better' material. my argument has always been that you shouldnt have to look hard for 'better' music, because imho when theres been a strong fashion, its always been reprisented in mainstream albeit at the commercial end of the style.
as i see it, its down to taste.... my collection dips and peaks regarding number of tracks owned per year. so maybe we are in a 'dip', maybe things will improve IF a strong new fashion /genre/style can be popularised.
personally i have what i like from every genre, some more then others...i have very little disco! lol... (and thats a fact