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raccoon (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jan-07-10 02:55 PM Original message |
Why do most people like the music they grew up with best? |
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Capn Sunshine (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jan-07-10 03:07 PM Response to Original message |
1. everything was better when you were a kid |
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Captain Hilts (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jan-07-10 03:09 PM Response to Original message |
2. They associate music with memories of youth... |
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GreenPartyVoter (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jan-07-10 08:53 PM Response to Reply #2 |
28. Yep. It's about the memories for me. Not that I don't like some current songs, but man it's all |
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Captain Hilts (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jan-07-10 09:37 PM Response to Reply #28 |
30. I moved nearly every year of my Wonder Years, so I can exactly place the year |
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Blue_In_AK (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jan-07-10 09:46 PM Response to Reply #30 |
33. Music does that to me, too. |
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bif (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jan-07-10 03:13 PM Response to Original message |
3. I don't at all |
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LeftyMom (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jan-07-10 03:14 PM Response to Original message |
4. Because most people didn't have the misfortune to grow up in the eighties. |
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Capn Sunshine (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jan-07-10 03:18 PM Response to Reply #4 |
7. ah yes, good point. |
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SoxFan (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jan-07-10 03:21 PM Response to Reply #7 |
11. You might have been listening to crap like Milli Vanilli; I wasn't! |
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Capn Sunshine (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jan-07-10 03:52 PM Response to Reply #11 |
15. Perhaps you have the wrong idea |
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SoxFan (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jan-07-10 04:03 PM Response to Reply #15 |
18. You've redeemed yourself! |
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Tikki (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jan-08-10 02:30 PM Response to Reply #11 |
37. You are correct... |
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abq e streeter (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jan-09-10 04:19 PM Response to Reply #11 |
50. I'm pretty old but am familiar with the music of almost all these artists |
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SoxFan (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jan-07-10 03:18 PM Response to Reply #4 |
8. Excuse me? |
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LeftyMom (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jan-07-10 03:33 PM Response to Reply #8 |
12. Yes, it's clearly my fault for not finding all of that by the time I turned nine. |
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Captain Hilts (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jan-07-10 09:37 PM Response to Reply #4 |
31. Vastly beats the '70s. nt |
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grace0418 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jan-09-10 04:02 PM Response to Reply #4 |
47. 80s pop music sucked, but I sure love alternative, new wave, and other music from |
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SoxFan (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jan-07-10 03:14 PM Response to Original message |
5. Somewhrere around age 16 seems to be the key point |
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MrScorpio (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jan-07-10 03:17 PM Response to Original message |
6. Sixties and seventies soul, funk and rock will be will be will me until I die |
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Capn Sunshine (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jan-07-10 03:19 PM Response to Reply #6 |
9. When I was young I thought 60s-70s- rock, funk and soul just might be the best music ever |
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gmoney (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jan-07-10 03:19 PM Response to Original message |
10. For me, when I was younger, I kept up with "the music scene" a lot more |
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Initech (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jan-07-10 03:46 PM Response to Original message |
13. I don't. I like the music I listen to now. |
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MrScorpio (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jan-07-10 03:51 PM Response to Reply #13 |
14. Like the stuff that I'm playing tonight |
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Capn Sunshine (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jan-07-10 03:57 PM Response to Reply #14 |
17. Excellent site , Mr. Scorpio |
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Beer Snob-50 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jan-07-10 03:55 PM Response to Original message |
16. great memories |
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Duer 157099 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jan-07-10 04:10 PM Response to Original message |
19. I've thought about this too |
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hippywife (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jan-07-10 07:44 PM Response to Original message |
20. I really don't. |
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EndersDame (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jan-07-10 07:47 PM Response to Original message |
21. Most are stuck in their ways and have grown closeminded |
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Starbucks Anarchist (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jan-07-10 07:53 PM Response to Original message |
22. Most of my music predates my parents or came out before I was born. |
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WT Fuheck (392 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jan-07-10 07:56 PM Response to Original message |
23. In my case, it's because that IS the best music. |
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LostInAnomie (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jan-07-10 07:57 PM Response to Original message |
24. I don't think it's been said yet, but I think Shifting Baselines come into play. |
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Iggo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jan-07-10 08:07 PM Response to Reply #24 |
25. Oh god don't I know it. |
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LostInAnomie (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jan-07-10 08:18 PM Response to Reply #25 |
26. Yeah, I know what you're saying. |
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applegrove (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jan-07-10 08:37 PM Response to Original message |
27. I was in high school in the 1980s. I hate all that music. I hated the time too. |
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Odin2005 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jan-07-10 09:07 PM Response to Original message |
29. Nostalgia. |
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Blue_In_AK (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jan-07-10 09:44 PM Response to Original message |
32. I think it's some imprinting process |
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Enthusiast (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jan-08-10 07:26 AM Response to Original message |
34. Because it was the best. nt |
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Forkboy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jan-08-10 02:10 PM Response to Original message |
35. I'd rather die than keep listening to the same things. |
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Tikki (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jan-08-10 02:28 PM Response to Original message |
36. I listen most often to the music from when I was in my late 20's... |
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old mark (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jan-08-10 04:36 PM Response to Original message |
38. Because I grew up long ago, when music was good. Not recently |
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Odin2005 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jan-08-10 08:17 PM Response to Reply #38 |
39. *Throws rotten vegetables at Old Mark* |
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old mark (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jan-09-10 01:24 AM Response to Reply #39 |
40. Nothing personal - you can't help it-it's just the whim of fate |
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Odin2005 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jan-09-10 11:27 AM Response to Reply #40 |
43. Green Day sucks? Disturbed sucks? Regina Spektor sucks? |
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Kaleva (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jan-09-10 02:25 AM Response to Original message |
41. Certain songs spark memories. |
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S n o w b a l l (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jan-09-10 03:18 AM Response to Original message |
42. I don't really... |
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surrealAmerican (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jan-09-10 03:24 PM Response to Original message |
44. I suspect it may be related to brain development. |
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Fire Walk With Me (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jan-09-10 03:26 PM Response to Original message |
45. I don't. In middle age, I'm becoming very interested in swing and the big bands. |
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es350_ibm (51 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jan-09-10 03:59 PM Response to Original message |
46. nostalgia |
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EastTennesseeDem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jan-09-10 04:09 PM Response to Original message |
48. My taste is a tiny bit retroactive. |
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abq e streeter (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jan-09-10 04:10 PM Response to Original message |
49. I think the association with "your generation" and happy memories of youth etc... |
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