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I was listening to the 1980s radio station when I realized that 1980s music right now is older than 1950s "oldies" music was when I was a kid - and when I was a
by massysett 3y ago
I was listening to the 1980s radio station when I realized that 1980s music right now is older than 1950s "oldies" music was when I was a kid - and when I was a kid that stuff seemed ancient - relics of the days of black-and-white television and a segregated South. What seems like yesterday to an older person happened before a younger person was even born.
- conradfr 3y agoAlso if you were young in the 80s you had to ingest maybe two decades of limited great music in addition to the current one. Someone growing up now has like five decades to learn from plus the vast vast music released today.
- laratied 3y ago[dead]
- stcroixx 3y agoYou’d have to have extremely narrow taste for that to be true. It was not uncommon at all for people to be into blues and jazz which goes back further and then of course you can go all the way back to Bach. We had jazz band in high school and punk and metal bands at the local all ages places on the weekends.
- mbg721 3y agoYeah, picture a radio station in 1963 playing "hits from the 20s, 30s, and today".
- stcroixx 3y agoThat happened, was called the folk movement. Was pretty huge at the time. Young cool kids in the 60s revered old blues men and pulled them back into music from obscurity. See Newport Folk festival, for example. Dylan modeling himself after Woodie Guthrie, etc.