Not true for me. I remember often staying awake half the night hoping to hear my favorite popular song of the moment just once on the radio (because we couldn’t afford records), but the first LP I bought with my own money was a performance of Rachmaninoff’s Piano Concerto. It was in a clearance bin, and I had never heard it before, but it’s a favorite to this day.
So the music that was really good back then and that spoke to my heart is all that I care about today – all of the classical music I liked, but a very selective amount of the popular music. One of the posters in MetaFilter wrote about filtering, and I think that’s what has happened for me lately – first with American Idol; then with someone asking me to make DVDs of Austin City Limits for him; and, finally, with a couple of wonderful blogs. Thanks to this one, I am enjoying the soundtrack to “Once” very much now. Thanks for the filtering.
Funny story. I was all set to claim to be the exception to this cartoon because I’m so all about “discovering” and supporting new bands.
Until I remembered I downloaded Humble Pie’s “Live at the Filmore” from 1971 yesterday. *hangs head in shame*
But I still am all about discovering and supporting new bands. Like this one http://myspace.com/ourladyofthehighway
Because, for me, it was 1976 - 1982 — Glory Days!!!
Like this:
PTFMWB
and this:
Brick House
and this:
Hotel California
Good times, good times.
Not entirely off topic…
Why does the man in the comic look like J. Jonah Jameson?
Not true for me. I remember often staying awake half the night hoping to hear my favorite popular song of the moment just once on the radio (because we couldn’t afford records), but the first LP I bought with my own money was a performance of Rachmaninoff’s Piano Concerto. It was in a clearance bin, and I had never heard it before, but it’s a favorite to this day.
So the music that was really good back then and that spoke to my heart is all that I care about today – all of the classical music I liked, but a very selective amount of the popular music. One of the posters in MetaFilter wrote about filtering, and I think that’s what has happened for me lately – first with American Idol; then with someone asking me to make DVDs of Austin City Limits for him; and, finally, with a couple of wonderful blogs. Thanks to this one, I am enjoying the soundtrack to “Once” very much now. Thanks for the filtering.
Clarification: “. . . is all [of the music of my youth] that I care about today. . .”