New vs Old - Song / Music

Just got back from the gym a little while ago. Got some grief from the wife and kids that I still use my old Zen mp3 player for music, holds like 75 songs...they were insisting I try the iPhone I have (I hate all these devices), they've got 400 + songs on it we share.

So I give it a try...this song comes on...and I'm aghast, start laughing, have no idea who is singing, but start thinking, wow, and these kids today think they write tough songs...the more I listened, the more I realized, now this is the way it's done...got home and found the song in the playlist...

I should've known.....;)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YgylOni0JSI

As you look back over your past you realize that you have made associations between events in your life and songs that were popular or may have been playing at the time. Given the vulgar titles of a lot of today's music, I wonder if the same associations will be made years from now. "I remember the first time we kissed and "$@&% dat (&^&**" was playing on the radio" doesn't seem like a fond memory to me. Maybe I'm just old. :shrug:

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Originally Posted by Phrank

Just got back from the gym a little while ago. Got some grief from the wife and kids that I still use my old Zen mp3 player for music, holds like 75 songs...they were insisting I try the iPhone I have (I hate all these devices), they've got 400 + songs on it we share.

So I give it a try...this song comes on...and I'm aghast, start laughing, have no idea who is singing, but start thinking, wow, and these kids today think they write tough songs...the more I listened, the more I realized, now this is the way it's done...got home and found the song in the playlist...

I should've known.....;)

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And she sings it all the while smiling lol... Got to love a little country :).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OOgd9hitEAE

I like songs about women booze and cars. Don't really care if there's a steel guitar , Eddie van halen 's electric or a Marvin gay sample filling in behind the vocals

I of course knew of Loretta Lynn, in terms of country music, I like old, traditional country music, if and when I listen to it, but until today, I'd never heard that song before....

LOL earcutter....that guy in the video...isn't he the one we were talking about in pixelfixed's thread about the troll with the huge badger knot on his head or face of something....:p

I hate modern country music. It ain't country at all. Just some lame combination of rock, pop and country. Real country is the stuff from the 1920s and 30s and bluegreass. Real stories about real people and the events of the day. That's my type of country.

When I listen to the lyrics of some of the 'modern' music, particularly what came out of rap ........ if you can call that music ........ I feel sorry for young people today, particularly females. Listen to the "Doo-Wop" songs of the '50s and on up into when things changed. Love songs rather than noise filled with obscenities describing what they are going to do to the girl when they get her in the sack.

Jimmy I bet you loved Paul Anka:)

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Originally Posted by pixelfixed

Jimmy I bet you loved Paul Anka:)

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Back in those days The Drifters, Otis Redding, James Brown ........ Dion was real good. Paul Anka, Del Shannon, guys like that were like white bread, Even when I was 9 years old Pat Boone doing Tutti Frutti was a joke. I went for Little Richard and let's not forget the Killer ...... Jerry Lee Lewis, in his early rock 'n roll days.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vv-LAbMbEn4

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LVIttmFAzek

Music (among other things) reflects the society and times we live in. Take a good look around and you should have no doubts about why the music of today is the way it is.