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95% of what I listen to is younger than me and my knowledge of when it was made and often even when I first heard it is sketchy. Makes for more a personal time frame than a real world one. Some I know but a lot is stuff I dig out by type and just don't notice or remember.
 
C-Money said:
I was wondering what decades do most of the folks here listen to in relation to your age.

I am 51. Mine would be from most to least the 1980s, 1990s, 2000s, 1970s, 1960s, 2010s, and 1950s.
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Good question !

I will be 74yo in 3 weeks

I mostly listen to :

1950s Jazz
1960s Soul, Pop ,and rock
1970s rock ( before disco )

I do like some music post 1970s depending upon an artist here and there but not as a genre
 
I feel ripped off. I caught the tale end of classic rock but had to bear the brunt of Disco and the terrible wasteland of 80s music. If you never lived through it, then the survivorship has taken some of the sting out of it, but even that proves the point. the 80's canon that survives is clearly an order of magnitude worse than any other decade's surviving canon.

For Pete's sake, my highschool sr. class song was "The Power of Love" or some other Huey Lewis abomination.

There was some good music made in the 80s but in stark contrast to every other decade, none of it, and I mean none, ever made the airwaves.

But in answer to the original question 70s, Post 2000, 80s (nothing from the 80s that got any radio play, though), 90s (all in all also a pretty bad musical decade; higher floor than the 80s, bus also lower ceiling, but at least a good bit of the worthwhile music got airplay).
 
I used to have a "Death Before Disco" T-shirt.

I've moderated that stance a bit and can now enjoy a disco song if it comes on.

The key is, like almost everything in life, Disco is so much better after people stopped taking way too seriously (the disco lifestyle was a whole thing in and of itself). Once people stopped trying to take it seriously, it loosened up a bit and then you can have the freedom to enjoy as the bit of frivolous nonsense it always was.
 
C-Money said:
I was wondering what decades do most of the folks here listen to in relation to your age.

I am 51. Mine would be from most to least the 1980s, 1990s, 2000s, 1970s, 1960s, 2010s, and 1950s.
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I’m 50 and I continue to listen to new music. This past year has been one of the best for new music that I can remember (I’ll post about that another time). More times than not— but certainly not all of time— if I put on an album to listen to from beginning to end, it’ll be an album that came out within the past year.

I’ve got a playlist of songs from my music collection to which I continuously add songs that I really like and that I play if I’m just hanging out and not focusing primarily on the music. It’s made up of songs from as early as the 1930s to as recently as within the past month. As of now it has 2,559 songs that I enjoy listening too. If I were to guess how decades are represented in that playlist from most songs to least, I would guess it would go in this order:
2000s
2010s
1990s
2020s
1970s
1980s
1960s
1950s
1940s
1930s
 
Not sure why 50s music is down the list for some….
I mean, there’s great stuff from other eras. But, dang, the original decade of rock and roll had some incredible stuff.

Check Berry, Johnny Burnette, Elvis, Eddie Cochran, Little Richard….some amazing tunes.

Maybe the best rock singer ever —
 
You've probably heard of these guys in various combinations. This is pretty nice. I'm particularly fond of the guitarist. I have several of his albums.



 
finesse said:
You've probably heard of these guys in various combinations. This is pretty nice. I'm particularly fond of the guitarist. I have several of his albums.



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I confess that I have not heard of these guys, and each time I visit this thread I fear that someone is going to "make" me add another CD/album to my collection. That piece was so so so so good !

Finesse, you are the worst offender, but can you give me a title to that performance ?
 
ole howard1 said:
Not sure why 50s music is down the list for some….
I mean, there’s great stuff from other eras. But, dang, the original decade of rock and roll had some incredible stuff.

Check Berry, Johnny Burnette, Elvis, Eddie Cochran, Little Richard….some amazing tunes.

Maybe the best rock singer ever —
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Maybe because rock n roll really didn't start until 1955 so you don't have a whole decade for it like the 1960s. I do listen to artists like Elvis, Buddy Holly, Little Richard, Chuck Berry, Fats Domino, The Everly Brothers, Ray Charles and The Coasters.
 
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