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Originally Posted by dcl1964
This just accured to me reading the thread about our "Least Listened To FM Album." Do we still listen to our favorites as much as we used to? I LOVE McCartney, Beatles (and solo), FM (and solo), Partridge Family/Cassidy, Clapton, and Costello but I don't seem to be listening as much as I used to. Granted I'm listening to other bands and artists but these are the ones that got me into music in the first place. My older brother LOVES Hendrix but he doesn't seem to play him that much either. Is it just me or do you notice yourselves listening less and less to your favorites?
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I love the partridge family: "Echo Valley 2-6809," "Summer Days," "Brown Eyes," etc. I try to listen to partridge albums at least once a month or so. I never loved rock & roll very much but of course as teen & twentysomething & even thirtysomething I listened to it, but never to the exclusion of beethoven, mozart, & debussy & them guys. Of course, "pop" used to be more prevalent in my ears until my record player broke down in my junior year in high school. But, I must say it's hard to grow older with most rock music. I still love Beatles & such, but my diminishing muscle & brain tissue cannot sustain an emotional connection with that stuff. Also, rock tends to be emotionally limited. Of course, "rock" is a comprehensive term & can be just about any form of pop music. The first 1/3 of "Stairway to Heaven" is more english ballad than rock but it's still called rock. "Lay Lady Lay," a dreamy country song, is still discussed in the framework of rock culture. But for most people "rock" means stuff like Bon Jovi, Van Halen, U2, & such. Some of this stuff is really good but emotionally simple, stupid, puerile, naive, banal, &/or insane. It's fun when you're young but tiresome as you grow older. Indeed, one of the appeals of rock as you grow older is that it reminds you of youth. So I still enjoy "Go Your Own Way" or "Sugar Daddy" or "Accidents Will Happen" but I have to think of my younger days & put myself into a different frame of mind -- who I was in the '70s & '80s. That's all well & good, to look back on the younger days, but it's also a form of escapism from the fact of growing older. This is why classical music is better to grow up with, as I did. It expresses timelessness. It's neither young nor old. We need all forms of music. For young folks, I understand why rock is so important. I used to love pop in my teens. But it just doesn't cut it as you grow older.