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[oldies76]

Get back to us in 40 years, and we'll see if people are still listening to Justin Timberlake, Kanye West, and Rhiana. I seriously, seriously doubt it.

That's exactly what kids of the50's and 60's were told by their parents, who referred to Frank Sinatra, Glenn Miller and Perry Como as their idea of lasting music.

If the kids of the 50's and 60's, were told by their parents to wait 40 years...well....many stations today still play hits of the 50's and 60's, some songs now pushing 50 years plus. Even some Sinatra songs are still aired.

 

[almaniac27]

Considering the fact that they'll be playing today's disposable, forgettable pop music (Britney Spears, Justin Timberlake) perhaps the new calls should be KRAP.

In what way is this music any different from The Shirelles, The Box Tops, 1910 Fruitgum Company or Looking Glass?

Seriously?? WOW, coming from someone who has been in radio for 50 years....... :

Each generation if not each decade has it's own "personal" disposable music. It's of little interest to anyone older, or, later, anyone younger. It lives with its original partisans and, of course, dies with them. Perhaps a couple of tunes transcend the generation gap, but they are exceptions and don't invalidate the rule.

What's funny is that I know several kids my age who almost exclusively listen to classic rock. I even asked one guy if he had anything recorded after 1985 on his iPod, and he said he didn't think so. Then there are people the same age who won't listen to anything that was released more than a year ago. I don't know why this is. I think to be a better fan of music, you need to disregard how old or new it is. One way is to look at which older artists influenced the newer bands you like. Some fan of Green Day nowadays could look and see that they were influenced by bands like The Clash and The Buzzcocks and start listening to them and a whole new world of music is opened to them. Unfortunately, a lot of people are very closed-minded when it comes to music. I guess what I'm trying to say is that people need to expand their musical horizons.

 

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Another article just posted on KLSX in the (Torrance) Daily Breeze:
http://www.dailybreeze.com/lifeandculture/ci_11793781