Modern Music Thread for the Over-50 Crowd
Yes, everyone else is welcome, too 
This is just a thread for those of us that look beyond the music of our childhoods, and are no longer stuck in the past. Nothing wrong with the past, but what are your favorites of the last decade or the last year?
Here's one of favorite somewhat-recent bands 
(With my thanks to the "Lush" channel on somafm.com for introducing me to them)
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Even the a lot of the new stuff I listened to was generally new material by bands I liked from years ago. Some new-ish bands like Muse and Dresden Dolls occasionally snuck in, but it was largely a diet of The Smiths and The Cure and Siouxsie.
Earlier this year I shifted my in-store audio from XM 1st Wave (80s alternative) to XM AltNation (new alternative) and discovered a shit-ton of amazing new bands.
And then the hipster doofuses who run the comic shop I get my nerd books at started introducing me to some of their "You've probably never heard of them" bands like Girl's Names (who are today's answer to The Cure, IMHO)
and indie-giants-but-yeah-I-never-heard-of-em Mountain Goats (who had a song featured in The Walking Dead a few months ago, so now they're probably sellouts and shit)
New music for the win! Now I won't be one of those sad old dudes I laughed at when I was a kid.
Well, I totally will be, but it will be because I'm a comic nerd/sci-fi geek/gamer rather than the dude who never grew out of the music he liked when he was 16.
the greats like the Smiths and the Cure, so it's the best of both worlds. That "Girls Names" song has strong echoes of Joy Division, IMO.
If I were to rank AF albums...Suburbs, Funeral, tie Reflektor/Neon Bible - but it is splitting hairs!
Mildenhall, 1955
will have to Google 
thanks!
You still owe me an ass kicking.
Been an oldies DJ since they were brand new! Love Doo wop, acapella, the 60's, all that good soul, gimme Dion and the Belmonts any day!
There's a lot of great music being made now and since the "good old days." I started this thread mostly to give those of us that either aren't stuck in the past (other than jazz and classical) or perhaps are a bit burnt out on all the "classic rock" posts for music from mostly the 60s.
I may have been born in the early 60s, but that doesn't mean I'm a fan of most of the music created during that decade. And about the only music I still listen to from the 70s are the genres that don't get much airplay anyway, such as electronic, minimalism, and obscure rock (obscure to most of the top-40/100 folks) such as Brian Eno, Robert Fripp, and yes, Bill Nelson. I can't even mention Nelson's name around here without having to tell people I mean the musician, and not the senator. Most have no idea who he is even then
Although, I have been listening to one composition from the 50s recently:
I'm fickle, so it depends what mood I'm in....
Pavement? I've still got a massive soft spot for them after all these years, though I alternately loved or hated their stuff. I thought Wowee Zowee was amongst the greatest stuff I'd ever heard, but on the other hand detested Terror Twilight. But Pavement have aged well, and my daughter now likes them as much as I used to when she she was a baby
Thanks for posting them
(and giving me an opportunity to bump this for the Lounge Crowd again )
Thanks for the reminder!
He always wants me to play Dethklok when we're in the car. 
My husband and daughter will have none of it. 
Gets me every time!
That and "Now, we've never actually tried to awaken a troll before from a Finnish Necronomicon, so please bear with us."
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I know you love me I am loving you mooooooooooooore ... I just listened to that five minutes before I saw this post.
Also, I just heard that Junior Prom song last week for the first time -- cracked me up!
Love some of the ones mentioned (Arcade Fire, The National, Orwells, etc.).
Just saw Franz Ferdinand in concert. It's hard to pick one of their songs but I love this one:
You're never going home!
The Editors are one of my favorite bands ever:
I also like this band, Metric:
This song is really something else, by The xx:
This song by Young the Giant is so catchy no one can resist:
Love this one by White Rabbits:
I could go on and on ...
This is why I love these threads - always find a new thing to love. Never heard of them before just now - will spend the rest of the work day googling them furiously looking for album and tour info and listening to whatever I can find.
My boss does not thank you but I do.
However, the Lounge seems to be populated by that crowd, and why I made this thread for those of us that don't have a taste for those genres or have become burnt out on them due to how overplayed most are.
and the music station they use is something called "The Spectrum" (satellite channel.) While they do play some new stuff, I wouldn't call most of it quality. It's all pretty much what would only get aired on top-40/top-100 stations anyway, with a heavy sprinkling of music from the 60s and 70s. So, I plug in my media player and drown it out.
And yes, they've played Satisfaction too many times, while never playing the one version that I'll conscious stop and listen to: Devo's "Satisfaction"
The other use of older music genres many of us don't necessarily like is in movies and movie credits. As if getting away from the rest of the world for a couple of hours isn't truly allowed.
I would also guess that a majority of people out there have either a low or no taste in music and don't mind being told what to like.
I like their sound. Much better than the majority of the alt-rock out there
