OT - Grumpy Old Man Thread

[FearlessF]

ahhh, sure, not even a decade old
I was still discovering stuff from 71

how about released on January 24, 2025?

[betarhoalphadelta]

No matter what, I think we can all agree that Pitbull sucks. 

[FearlessF]

no matter what 

[utee94]

No matter what, I think we can all agree that Pitbull sucks.

I've actually had the grand displeasure of seeing Pitbull live.  It was exactly as awful as you'd imagine.

It was a free concert at Formula1 in Austin, so at least I didn't actually pay for it.

[betarhoalphadelta]

I've actually had the grand displeasure of seeing Pitbull live.  It was exactly as awful as you'd imagine.

It was a free concert at Formula1 in Austin, so at least I didn't actually pay for it.

Sounds like you still got ripped off...

[Honestbuckeye]

I am surrounded by 

There's a ton of new music with guitar and real instruments.  Y'all should venture away from the moldie oldies stations.

I am surrounded by non moldy old music.  All the fam and kids come over and play all kinds of stuff. 
I don’t mind it.  I even hear something I like occasionally.   But rarely are the musical instruments in what they are listening to.  
I suppose I could go searching for it.   Never needed to in the past/ it was more mainstream.  

[Brutus Buckeye]

Metal evolved quite a bit each decade from the 70s to the Ots, but now each newly formed metal band simply picks their favorite style from one of those decades and emulates that sound to the best of their abilities. A lot of those old bands are still around, and they all still sound the same. They trade musicians like baseball teams trade players, but they don't bring their old style into their new band. They just learn their new bands style, while their replacement in their previous band learns that bands style. They all have like 20 albums now. If you're lucky, they still have the same vocalist. 

[MikeDeTiger]

What it is NOT-- is as easy to search for and discover.  To @jgvol 's point, music specifically, and pop culture in general, is more fractured than it was 30-40-50 years ago.  So although there is more of it in pretty much every style you can imagine, it's not as easy to just trip across as it was back when we had relatively few sources steering our musical tastes.

That's a key thing.....I haven't ferreted out good sources of modern music.  Any new music I hear is usually encountered passively....it happens to me....I stumble across it.  Eventually I need to put effort into finding reliable sources or recommendations I know I trust.  

My youngest stepson has been somewhat of a source of new music, but, he also tends to eschew a lot of it in favor of classic rock and folk rock.  So....I don't get as much from him as would be the case if he were hip-deep in music of this generation.  

I will say.....I have found a number of new offerings from old bands/artists that I loved in bygone eras which are good.  But, I feel like they don't count in this discussion since they themselves are old, even if the music is new.  

Anyway, to pull this back on topic.......I don't currently have a trusty source of new music to try, and that makes me grumpy.  There, back OT.  

[utee94]

I am surrounded by I am surrounded by non moldy old music.  All the fam and kids come over and play all kinds of stuff.
I don’t mind it.  I even hear something I like occasionally.  But rarely are the musical instruments in what they are listening to. 
I suppose I could go searching for it.  Never needed to in the past/ it was more mainstream. 

Sure, absolutely.  "Mainstream" doesn't really exist anymore.  The music industry, and indeed pretty much all entertainment industries, are far more fractured than they used to be.  You don't find the best television on the OTA network channels, you have to go searching through the paid streaming services, and similarly you're not finding all the best music on the pop radio stations. 

But I'll say, if all you're hearing from your family and kids is music that "doesn't have instruments" then you're only getting an extremely narrow sample of what's available right now.  Like MDT, your "passive listening" of modern music is not really representative.

[jgvol]

Spectrum on XM is about the only way I hear any new music these days.

[FearlessF]

Sure, absolutely.  "Mainstream" doesn't really exist anymore.  The music industry, and indeed pretty much all entertainment industries, are far more fractured than they used to be.  You don't find the best television on the OTA network channels, you have to go searching through the paid streaming services, and similarly you're not finding all the best music on the pop radio stations.

But I'll say, if all you're hearing from your family and kids is music that "doesn't have instruments" then you're only getting an extremely narrow sample of what's available right now.  Like MDT, your "passive listening" of modern music is not really representative.

sorry, don't have the time or $$$ for that

[betarhoalphadelta]

sorry, don't have the time or $$$ for that

Well, that's just because all your $$$ goes into filling your 'Vette tank with gas and your tank with wings and Bud Fat. 
 

[MikeDeTiger]

sorry, don't have the time or $$$ for that

The money is easy to come by when you don't pay $100 or whatever for cable/satellite.  

We do Netflix, Hulu, and Prime for way less than the cost of cable, and that gets us a ton of enjoyable content.  

Occasionally we cut on Apple TV if there's a new season of Severance out, and check out anything else on that service that we might like.  

[FearlessF]

payin around $150/month just seems crazy for TV entertainment but then, that's not my thing

to each their own

I'd rather enjoy a bud fat and some wings with friends and drive there in my red sports cars than sit in front of the boob tube