You know you're getting old.... (1 Viewer)

[Unicron]

When you go to the album launch of some thumped peoples' album and you end up meeting a number of thumped peoples' fully grown adult children.

 

[Jerry Twig]

Just because you can doesn't mean you should

Jesus wept. You and @nuke terrorist were born old!

 

[seanc]

Where I was working today there's a Jurassic Park show. Nothing to do with what I was doing, the JP thing was nearby but off over there. There was loads of parents with kids knocking about. The kids were all super excited about the dinosaurs. It was sweet, couldn't not bring a smile to ones face.

Then I said lets fuck off and look at the dinosaurs. My colleagues laughed. I was serious though. They had to tell me that I'm not allowed to just leave work to look at dinosaurs.

We drank cans after work instead. That was a good, worthwhile and necessary bit of team building, but it wasn't dinosaurs.

Why am I not allowed dinosaurs. I mean, they're fuckin dinosaurs.

 

[nuke terrorist]

Jesus wept. You and @nuke terrorist were born old!

90's music is dinosaur rock for boring middle aged farts!
unknown convict misquoted what I said as a joke.
I have posted some great electronic music in the awesome thread.

 

[Jerry Twig]

90's music is dinosaur rock for boring middle aged farts!

Nonsense. Same goes for every decade. The fact that you think any particular genre of music stopped being good in the past is only a reflection on yourself. There is endless brilliance out there.

 

[nuke terrorist]

The fact that you think any particular genre of music stopped being good in the past is only a reflection on yourself. There is endless brilliance out there.

The problem is - I never said that.
I said there was big decline in the general standard of electronic music after it became a popular medium in the EARLY 1980's.
That means the percentage of people doing great work slowed down hugely as more people got synths.
OK?
Of course there is still lots of great electronic music and there always has been and will be.

I don't think the best stuff now is any better than from 40 plus years ago.

Now if you can misquote me, then I can crack a joke about there being plenty of bad music 25-30 years ago, because there was and many middle aged folks still listen too it.

As time passes the amount of INNOVATION in music slows down. This has been happening for decades.
Things changed rapidly in a few years in the 1960's. That much development takes much longer now.
This was my general (separate) comment about music in the 1990's.

It took a lot more innovation to become a free improviser than it did to develop post rock or metalcore.

Of course there are tens of thousands of great recordings made every year. But many may not be doing anything innovative in what they create and that is OK.

e.g. One the best popular bands of the 90's - NIRVANA - wrote very good songs but were not original stylistically. They were a song writing orientated band and that's fine.

If you want I can name off genres from the 90's that I don't like and why I don't like them.

 

[GARYXKNIFEDX]

Jesus wept. You and @nuke terrorist were born old!

Far from it

 

[Reets]

Where I was working today there's a Jurassic Park show. Nothing to do with what I was doing, the JP thing was nearby but off over there. There was loads of parents with kids knocking about. The kids were all super excited about the dinosaurs. It was sweet, couldn't not bring a smile to ones face.

Then I said lets fuck off and look at the dinosaurs. My colleagues laughed. I was serious though. They had to tell me that I'm not allowed to just leave work to look at dinosaurs.

We drank cans after work instead. That was a good, worthwhile and necessary bit of team building, but it wasn't dinosaurs.

Why am I not allowed dinosaurs. I mean, they're fuckin dinosaurs.

You should have gone to the dinosaurs after 2 or so cans. Some of the best times I’ve had were slightly drunk with Jill hives in museums.

 

[JohnnyRaz]

Where I was working today there's a Jurassic Park show. Nothing to do with what I was doing, the JP thing was nearby but off over there. There was loads of parents with kids knocking about. The kids were all super excited about the dinosaurs. It was sweet, couldn't not bring a smile to ones face.

Then I said lets fuck off and look at the dinosaurs. My colleagues laughed. I was serious though. They had to tell me that I'm not allowed to just leave work to look at dinosaurs.

We drank cans after work instead. That was a good, worthwhile and necessary bit of team building, but it wasn't dinosaurs.

Why am I not allowed dinosaurs. I mean, they're fuckin dinosaurs.

Any chance your colleagues are evangelical Christians who think the earth is only 6000 years old and that god put the bones in the rocks for a laugh?

 

[Reets]

Midlife crisis is in full swing, and so many bad choices made already.
At least I’m too broke now to get a new red car.

 

[magicbastarder]

heh, i just listened to 'the ballad of lucy jordan' for the first time in many, many years - and that made me feel old.
'at the age of 37...'? ouch.

 

[Unicron]

Midlife crisis is in full swing, and so many bad choices made already.
At least I’m too broke now to get a new red car.

Chasing young wans?

 

[JohnnyRaz]

heh, i just listened to 'the ballad of lucy jordan' for the first time in many, many years - and that made me feel old.
'at the age of 37...'? ouch.

you could still pull off the paris/sportscar/warm wind in hair

 

[egg_]

Midlife crisis is in full swing, and so many bad choices made already.
At least I’m too broke now to get a new red car.

Best midlife crisis move I made was paying for therapy ... still though I can't help but be a bit jealous of the similarly-aged fellas down my local who are dealing with it differently, and doing mushies and coke on a Wednesday night

 

[Anthony]

Plans made for last ditch attempt at a family holiday.

I regret that we didn't have more family holidays when the lads were smaller. All that stopped when we got two dogs. Not a great trade really.

 

[Reets]

Chasing young wans?

Of course not, that would be stupid …

 

[magicbastarder]

Best midlife crisis move I made was paying for therapy ...

who did you pay for it for, though?

 

[Jerry Twig]

The problem is - I never said that.
I said there was big decline in the general standard of electronic music after it became a popular medium in the EARLY 1980's.
That means the percentage of people doing great work slowed down hugely as more people got synths.
OK?
Of course there is still lots of great electronic music and there always has been and will be.

I don't think the best stuff now is any better than from 40 plus years ago.

Now if you can misquote me, then I can crack a joke about there being plenty of bad music 25-30 years ago, because there was and many middle aged folks still listen too it.

As time passes the amount of INNOVATION in music slows down. This has been happening for decades.
Things changed rapidly in a few years in the 1960's. That much development takes much longer now.
This was my general (separate) comment about music in the 1990's.

It took a lot more innovation to become a free improviser than it did to develop post rock or metalcore.

Of course there are tens of thousands of great recordings made every year. But many may not be doing anything innovative in what they create and that is OK.

e.g. One the best popular bands of the 90's - NIRVANA - wrote very good songs but were not original stylistically. They were a song writing orientated band and that's fine.

If you want I can name off genres from the 90's that I don't like and why I don't like them.

Ok I see what you’re saying now, mea culpa- we had a different meaning of “innovation”. I’m still not entirely sold though on the theory that innovation happens when equipment/tech is new. Guitars were around for decades in contemporary music, even electric for a long time, and then a new movement erupted in the 60s that spawned new sound innovation. Social forces, not equipment.

 

[Space]

Ok I see what you’re saying now, mea culpa- we had a different meaning of “innovation”. I’m still not entirely sold though on the theory that innovation happens when equipment/tech is new. Guitars were around for decades in contemporary music, even electric for a long time, and then a new movement erupted in the 60s that spawned new sound innovation. Social forces, not equipment.

I'd say the introduction of the Stratocaster in 54 and even more so bigger amps in the early 60s had a lot to do with those sound innovations. Not saying social forces weren't also involved though.

 

[JohnnyRaz]

I'd say the introduction of the Stratocaster in 54 and even more so bigger amps in the early 60s had a lot to do with those sound innovations. Not saying social forces weren't also involved though.

I think its impossible to separate the developments in musical technology from sound innovations. Although the broader technological developments which musical tech is part of (from transistor radios through to smartphones) influenced social changes and movements as well.