I wanted a choice that said "I listen to some current music, but most of it sucks due to shows like American Idol and the Justin Bieber effect. Somewhere we lost our musical soul again. It is like the disco era of the 70s. People get caught up in the craze and look back and ask, what was I thinking! Here we are again.

Can't vote on this one as they gave me not choices that apply to me. I enjoy a lot of today's music as well as from my era of the 60's as well as that of my parents era, like 40's & 50's..,..Let's just say from the 40's forward. Depends on my mood. I just don't like the really hard rock....that I can't understand a word they are saying no mater how hard I try and I am not that crazy about most rap (it's getting better)...but, most anything else goes.

Country music!

I listen to GOOD music. When it comes from is irrelevant. Five seconds ago I was hearing Palestrina's Sicut Cervus (written around 1525) and now I'm listening to Something Corporate's The Runaway (2003). Jumping ahead, it's the Beatles' The Ballad of John and Yoko (1969) and Lady Gaga's The Edge of Glory (2011).

Not really sure how typical my view is... I sang and played music in choruses, bands, orchestra's, etc. for about half my life and never really followed any bands because I was too busy making music myself. I finally started to really listen to other people's music when I got to college.

From my perspective, current music is part lyrics, part composition, and part performance. I find that the bulk of pop music gets one or two of the three, but that very few get all, and even fewer bands/musicians get them consistently.

I find that I rarely buy full albums now because so few have more than 2-3 good songs. I mostly buy singles from Amazon and iTunes, so when I look at the full albums of current music I have purchased in the last year or so, it's a really weird list: Adele, Daft Punk, OKGO, and Steve Martin (Bluegrass banjo music). Bizarre.

brumagem wrote:I listen to GOOD music. When it comes from is irrelevant. Five seconds ago I was hearing Palestrina's Sicut Cervus (written around 1525) and now I'm listening to Something Corporate's The Runaway (2003). Jumping ahead, it's the Beatles' The Ballad of John and Yoko (1969) and Lady Gaga's The Edge of Glory (2011).

Pretty much this, the thing I care about the most is the song being catchy or memorable, which leads me to a lot of different genres from all times.

Electronic Music FTW

Does Dubstep and Industrial count as music or Robotic Fornication?

Is listening to "American Pie" 12 times in a row counted as a type of music?

If so, that's what I listen to.

long long time ago....

90s music all the way!

none of the answers were appropriate for me - Some new music is quite lovely, for the most part I listen to older music - here is why

a certain percent of songs released at any time are crap. A certain percent are mindless pop, and a certain percent are actually good.

For example, "Tiptoe through the tulips" might be compared to "Baby baby baby"

each is empty, each is a love song that does nothing to capture the depth or meaning of love, instead demonstrating something more akin to a crush that is believed by the crusher to be love.

Each had it's time in the sun, and each was maligned for it's simplicity, and gimmick quality.

SO, just pull the cream of the crop from each generation, Cull music for the very best, and have a richer, more complex experience for it.

Obviously, to do that, you have to wade through oceans of crap - but if you find those real gems? Totally worth it.

Since most if not all genres are producing current music all the time, this poll really doesn't make sense. I can say for a fact that I listen to current music all the time. So unless you want to get more specific what you mean by current, I really don't know what you mean.

The frustrating thing about these polls is - you almost always have to lie to answer something, because these polls doesn't go anywhere near having complete set of answers. For example in this one I answered "Yes! As long as it is new stuff from the group I've found when I was younger". This is only half-true, because from time to time I also find completely new groups with completely new stuff which I like and listen to.
Also there is no direct connection with old-music => listen, new-music => don't listen. As someone has said above - I listen to good, moody, catchy music not for old one or new one.

Somewhere in between the first and second. I'm constantly looking for new stuff but still listen to bands that have been around for 30 years. Such as Gary Numan's Dead Son Rising or the new live Skinny Puppy disc. But I also love Adele, Avett Bros., Mumford and Sons. I have and eclectic (and expensive) taste in music.

No option for "I listen to what I want to." I just throw on Pandora and let it take me wherever, really. The station I customized the most ranges from Daft Punk to Vivaldi, and all things inbetween.

"Current" as in pop music or current as in actually performed recently regardless of style?

Or current as in dubstep?

I'm 61. Yes, a great-grandmother and a junior high teacher. I love music. It is my companion in my car, while I'm working around the house or when I can't sleep. My iPod includes classical music, as well as favorites from 50's to current music, country and of course, the Beatles, U2 and the Stones. I've lived that music. But I'm still alive and so I search for current music I love too! The Killers, Train, Gotye and the Lumineers'' Ho Hey are fun. American Idol's Phil Phillips' Home is a beautiful song as is Boticelli's The Prayer. I enjoy Nelly's songs and Dead and Gone is just a classic to me. You have to live in the times you are lucky enough to be in. I put it on Shuffle and love it all. I tell my 50' born friends "You live in 2012. You aren't wearing go-go boots and cooling with window fans. Listen to the music from now too! And fill in the blanks with your favorites from all your life!" I just draw the line at most explicit songs because I never know when one of my younger grandkids will be listening with me!

thorozaine wrote:Does Dubstep and Industrial count as music or Robotic Fornication?

Both, and it's awesome

Today's music is played more for my daughters and so some rubs off on the old man, but do I listen to Top 40 on my own? (is the term Top 40 even still used?) Nah, I am usually about 10-20 years behind or ahead. I was listening to ABBA in the late 80's when they were popular in the 70's and then got popular again in the 00's. Does that make me too old or cutting edge. What's the phrase... "if its too loud, you're too old." I guess I'm probably tooooo old.

Hate pretty much all of the newer music. I'll just stick with Meatloaf, Dan Fogelberg, The Eagles, Journey, Foreigner, Bad Company, Boston, Styx, Kansas, Blackfoot, Marshall Tucker Band, Three Dog Night, Firefall, etc.

I listen to new alternative music (I pick it from Pandora or XM AltNation, mostly). BUT - I cannot partake of the poll because I'm old and this ISN'T my generation.

jsdixon wrote:I wanted a choice that said "I listen to some current music, but most of it sucks due to shows like American Idol and the Justin Bieber effect. Somewhere we lost our musical soul again. It is like the disco era of the 70s. People get caught up in the craze and look back and ask, what was I thinking! Here we are again.

Very well put!

jsdixon wrote:I wanted a choice that said "I listen to some current music, but most of it sucks due to shows like American Idol and the Justin Bieber effect. Somewhere we lost our musical soul again. It is like the disco era of the 70s. People get caught up in the craze and look back and ask, what was I thinking! Here we are again.

To quote Tom Griswold's comments on AI, "That's not singing, it's modulating."

I cannot vote on this poll. I listen to new stuff, but not from bands that receive radio airplay. I listen to old stuff as well -- some stuff my parents, and probably most baby boomers, had never even heard of.

Two things I have learned about most people
1)ALL the best music was made when the person in question was 16-25 years old.
2) ALL new music started to suck approximately 1 year after the person stopped buying new music.

There is more great music out right now than EVER. IE ...Girls, Arcade Fire, The XX, Deerhunter, Sleigh Bells, Surfer Blood, Tokyo Police Club, Vampire Weekend,.......so many more. Honestly, The Beatles are not the end all be all. And for you younger folks neither are Nirvana.

I only listen to Electronic music mostly. I'm not a fan of Skrillex either. I do listen to some rock music but only by specific artists... so my response is I listen to new music yes, but not the stuff on the radio. Spotify is my friend... same thing with Pandora.

By "current music" do you mean ground breaking artists such as Brad Mehldau, Taylor Eigsti, The Roots, Jaga Jazzist, Snarky Puppy, Between The Buried and Me, Justice, Animals as Leaders, and SassafraZ? Because if so, then hell yes.



But if "current music" to you means beiber, taylor swift, and drake? then I would kindly like to go vomit at what is wrong with America.

JavaCzar wrote:The frustrating thing about these polls is - you almost always have to lie to answer something, because these polls doesn't go anywhere near having complete set of answers. For example in this one I answered "Yes! As long as it is new stuff from the group I've found when I was younger". This is only half-true, because from time to time I also find completely new groups with completely new stuff which I like and listen to.
Also there is no direct connection with old-music => listen, new-music => don't listen. As someone has said above - I listen to good, moody, catchy music not for old one or new one.

Ditto what he said!

Why is it that the polls never have an answer that fits completely

lobo81865 wrote:Hate pretty much all of the newer music. I'll just stick with Meatloaf, Dan Fogelberg, The Eagles, Journey, Foreigner, Bad Company, Boston, Styx, Kansas, Blackfoot, Marshall Tucker Band, Three Dog Night, Firefall, etc.

I saw Boston live a few weeks ago at the Hard Rock Live in Orlando. Tom Scholz is amazing. One of the best concerts I've ever been to (and I've been to a LOT of concerts.)

Blochead wrote:Two things I have learned about most people
1)ALL the best music was made when the person in question was 16-25 years old.
2) ALL new music started to suck approximately 1 year after the person stopped buying new music.

This should be the next poll!

I wonder if those facts are true, i have to agree with #1, since the music is tied to the "best years" of most peoples lives. I'm not sure about the stopped buying, I might change it to stopped listening.

There is an effect, if you listen to Top40 enough, it becomes good. So there might be something to that...

You like what you listen too.

YES! I listen to it all?

Thanks for the response!!! I assure you this is true. The problem is somewhere in most folks mid 20's they stop buying music so after a couple of years their ears aren't used to the progression music has taken so they dismiss everything new as crap. I've been a huge music geek my entire life and I ABSOLUTELY ASSURE you that right now is a great time for music people. I only listed the relatively BIG indie bands in my initial post. There are tons of bands out there that are great....The Chromatics, James Blake, Grimes, Frankie Rose, The Drums, Cults, Cloud Nothings, The Big Pink......so many more.

All of it vastly unplayed on most radio/tv formats.

nycynik wrote:This should be the next poll!

I wonder if those facts are true, i have to agree with #1, since the music is tied to the "best years" of most peoples lives. I'm not sure about the stopped buying, I might change it to stopped listening.

There is an effect, if you listen to Top40 enough, it becomes good. So there might be something to that...

You like what you listen too.

Honestly, this is an incredible time for music, pretty much no matter what style of music you like. The rate of progress and innovation is absolutely staggering.

Sadly, you have to do most of the legwork to find good stuff yourself, as Top 40 radio is dire, but keeping an open mind and having a sense for musical exploration will go a long ways for you.

Should have had a choice for "All".

I like everything from Bach and Rachmaninoff to Metallica and Shinedown. Country music and rap are jammed in there along with opera and blues.

Listening to my Ipod is like having whiplash, so my husband says. Pandora is great, because all of this stuff is on MY station. Also show tunes and Disney tunes make appearances on all.

Not a music fan. To me, music is just for background noise. Sure there are occasional songs that I like, but after a week or two, they've already faded back into being just background noise.

I only listen to music I don't like. I hate it when someone puts on good music.

Same as someone said above: No choice is applicable. I have a little (ok, a LOT) of everything. I mostly listen to OTR and a music selection that literally ranges from Late 20's-early 30's Big Band/Swing/Jazz records to modern stuff as diverse as Keller Williams, Thievery Corporation, Tragically Hip....and damn near everything in between....I suppose as long as it hasn't been killed on the radio, I'm usually in..."

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nycynik wrote:This should be the next poll!

I wonder if those facts are true, i have to agree with #1, since the music is tied to the "best years" of most peoples lives. I'm not sure about the stopped buying, I might change it to stopped listening.

There is an effect, if you listen to Top40 enough, it becomes good. So there might be something to that...

You like what you listen too.

It doesn't "become good" you just get used to it.

Or is that "develop an immunity" to it? Hehe