Favorite song of the past few years...skip ahead to the 2:40 mark or so if you'd like. Imagine this as my soundtrack when I make my posts about antinatalism and the like

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pyqn9W2B_bs

one more before I call it a night...most uplifting, infectious, "catchy" song I know:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GBKq3qnnrwo

WTF? This belongs in the lounge, not SMP.

it's a BTM thread experiment about people who are attractive to low value posting....
also highly correlated with people that can't contribute otherwise....

I nominate Matt to go into the lounge with this thread

ez game

What a bizarre thread. Post music you like and see if the OP declares it decent. Here's my favorite song right now and I don't care if anyone likes it: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ytIfSuy_mOA

Hey, has anyone heard any of that modern disco music? How about that modern beat combo from Liverpool with the long hair?

What does LC stand for in this thread?

Lets hope this turns into a scientific experiment into what types of fields/characters like what kind of music before its deleted or moved.

Until you answer this let me take you back in time and challenge the present to match this;

The trick is not to just win the youth of your time but more importantly the youth that has yet to be...This is what makes you a classic.

I tried to discover the music of my parents' youth and it became mine instead. A small sample of a really wide emotional spectrum with decent moving lyrics as bonus, missing in modern pieces;















And for pure talent power without the modern fanfare...(taking a classic and making it something very different than all prior versions)




Science tending question for the thread. How does the taste in music change as you age??? Is there a maximum around our teen years school era music and then the rest are perturbations??? If so i probably think its tough to be teen today but at least its great in another way because with technology they have access to everything that ever existed and this may motivate them to search in time rather than stay enslaved to the present.

Modern? you old git.

Interesting (that's a lie to make it sound a bit sciency) my musical tastes have changed little.

Still listen to the first groups I did, Jam, Sabbath even a little Boomtown rats etc plus modern groups like System of a Down, Radiohead, Warlocks etc

Going to see The Who, Hawkwind and System of a Down this year (big self-brag)

Any mods out there?

Low content.

Of course it is a sort of experiment. Can't really say what the experiment is yet (had several hypotheses - and with no controls, it will just be suggestive at best*), but it is not intending to sort people by musical taste. I don't think it would be possible here. It could possibly be an interesting study in the politics forum.

Interesting. Not part of the experiment, but at what age did you discover that you could enjoy the music of your parents' youth? I knew some in my age-group who did, but they were rare.

Good and interesting questions. Just conjecture, but there are some things that, upon listening to years later, are embarrassingly bad, so maybe there is a refinement of taste over the years for an individual.

The degree of change in taste might also depend on whether the individual continues to listen to as much new music as when younger, whether the person has general tolerance for change, and possibly on the size of the disconnect between the young and old on social issues and worries.

Those who were youths in the late 1960's in the US probably still don't listen to their parent's music. And their parents probably still don't listen to "that hippy crap."

A big factor is that part of being youthful is annoying the older generations. Once a certain age is reached, that becomes less important, which might allow for taste refinement more closely in line with the quality of the music.

*and in the end chez will just say that any findings were perfectly obvious and uninteresting, since that is his job here.

Listening to this now. Again.

http://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/sh...&postcount=184

On Sunday especially, I like making a cappuccino and listening to some Jazz in the morning. Right now I have on Charles Mingus. To be followed by some Sonny Rollins and then perhaps some Brazilian Lounge Music to shoot myself out the door and into whatever idiocies I have planned for myself today.


So yes, a mod is "out there", way out there with Charles Mingus. Cool Jazz.

That's precisely why it stays here. Anyway, the Lounge already has some excellent music threads - the one on Jazz started by your over lording Mod no less.

Music is very mathematical; or from the underside - somewhat inspired by Paul Dirac - Music embodies mathematical beauty.

That isn't the experiment at all. That would be a rude experiment and I wouldn't do that to you people.

He has made some decent posts about existential crises and acts as a nice foil to the more optimistic people here. He makes them explain themselves.

My particular tastes are unimportant. Well, they are important to me.

Your taste in music is your own and you probably are correct in not worrying about whether anyone else here likes your current favorite song.

Not that modern, but a good bass aria never goes out of style.

Forgot that there is also this sort of thing about youth culture requiring different music: https://www.sfu.ca/cmns/courses/2011..._Neotribes.pdf

No need to read it, but musical taste often involves a way of signaling group membership.

Along the vein of Masque's inquiry about changing tastes, is this an acquired taste for you, or were you introduced to such things as a child?

loled - and nodded.

Mmmm. I think he meant are there any MODS out there.

My most listened to song out of the dozen or so I exclusively play on CD when driving. Memories of my 3 month adventure in Oakland, working as a fizz adder to soda canisters and rooming in a house managed by an African American couple who ran a modern dance troupe that practiced in the attic.

Others on my driving dozen or so:

"Cortez the Killer", by Neil Young
"Hey Hey, My My (Into the Black)", by Neil Young
"Eldorado", by Neil Young
"Angie", by The Stones
"Wild Horses", by the Stones
"Sarah Smile", by Hall and Oats
"Forever Young", by Bob Dylan
"I Shall be Released", by Bob Dylan (with The Band)
"What's Goin On", by Marvin Gaye
"Long Train Running", by the Doobie Brothers
"It Keeps you Runnin", by the Doobie Brothers
"The Warmth", by Incubus
"Drive", by Incubus
"Smooth", Carlos Santana
"Gold Dust Woman", Fleetwood Mac
"Go Your Own Way", Fleetwood Mac


PairTheBoard

thank you

I didn't listen to opera for about my first 40 years. No one close to me likes it.

It has taken some effort to get into it, but it has been worth it just for the access to massive amounts of great music I'm not bored with yet.

I'm still not ready to sit through a 4 hour Wagner epic, but I'm a fan of Rossini, Verdi, and Mozart operas.

No no, much very interesting stuff that's totally non-obvious for example how can a high value person be going on about earth wind and fire when nearly all such people would rather insert red hot pokers into them than listen to their music.

Towards the end of a good solid night of even to me stunningly high volumes of high quality alcohol (another non obvious subject), when we have finished discussing finer topic of research mathematics and searched for merit in Rikers posts we get onto the truly difficult stuff such as my struggles with Led Zepplin

and now I've had the proper amount of alcohol for this thread my memory has returned and I can no longer blot out the truth about the first music I loved. Twas not the Jam it was Verdi and Puccini. I even listened to some Rachmaninov with some pleasure though even at 13 I could recognise bewtoven for what it was The sun set on this wasteland when the Jam rescued me from my private hell.

Like this, was it, chez?

I was definitely far more of a rocker. Never was much of a victim of the fitting in nonsense.

Still really looking forward to this.



Top of my list of "things to do before they die" (cutting it very fine by any standards)

hey, I'm just trying to be cool...

and since BTM said it's not only old lamers out here (lolz?), here's 4 LC: