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In reply to the discussion: Anyone here listen to music that was not made before [View all]pipi_k
(21,020 posts)how old you are, but I find as I get older, I tend to listen more and more to music from my youth because it takes me out of myself (and my aching body) to a more innocent time.
I can listen to various songs and, except for my body still being in the present, be transported back in time. Sights, smells, feelings, everything.
Every night I hop on my iPad and play a few games, look at news sites, and listen to music.
Last night one of the songs I listened to, "Spill The Wine" (Eric Burdon) transported me straight to the summer of 1970 and my mental trip was awesome.
The music of today can't do that. I didn't grow up with it, and it has no deeper meaning for me.
If it's well done, OK. I can like it maybe.
But it's never going to have the emotional impact the music from my own era has.
And that's why some of us "old fogies" still listen to music from before the 80s or 90s.