I listened to some classic rock today!
UFO ftw !

I agree with this or at least 19 years old. I noticed myself and many of my friends becoming more open towards different music and really exploring music and all that is offered out there.


Not to make any of you feel old but I really disagree that people as they get older becoming closed minded. My dad is the prefect example hes around 45 right now and he is into a wide range of music and is open to anything. Its great when I visted him we trade cds. His taste in music is so open to anything and its great you can anything from Beck, Prince, Cher (hehe) the boss to bands artist such as Patrick Wolf, Led, um name anything and he has it.
And its not just him I find a lot of people I know that are 40 plus are a great to talk to about music to learn about new and old music...

I am in my early 20s and I love classic rock, it's not just for the older. I do agree that the older you get the more open you are to music. I used to listen to a lot of screaming metal, really depressing stuff.Devil-music according to my parents. Now I am much more open to new music, like classic rock, that I have never really listened to before.

Haha, that's brilliant!

My mum is kind of weird about my music taste. She has a rather deplorable taste in music... she's very close-minded. I was listening to Yes and she said it sounded like funeral music because of Wakeman on keys (I haven't showed her Thergothon or Skepticism yet). She also bought a Clapton compilation recently and decided that she didn't like half of it because she was expecting only the popular Clapton hits like Cocaine etc, but there was also a lot of Blind Faith, Cream, Derek and the Dominoes etc which I doubt she'd heard before. :banghead:

On the other hand, she has never really directly questioned me about my music. If I'm listening to Gorguts or something extreme, she won't ask specific questions like "How can you listen to that?" or say the typical "I can't hear anything but screaming." She'll just shut my door, ask me to turn it down or more rarely grumble.

Anyway, finally getting to my point... I'm surprised that she hasn't questioned me about the drug nature of a lot of my music, seeing as she is anti-drugs. I mean I've been listening to Voyage 34 (Porcupine Tree) a fair bit lately, and that's basically a concept album about LSD. Not to mention Ozric Tentacles, Shpongle etc...

I'm 37 (I know, not quite 40,but.) and my tastes in music are constantly evolving. Sure I'm not as interested in the "flavor of the month" as I used to be, but after you get used to witnessing trends come and go you tend to gravitate toward music that has a timeless quality to it. Sometimes thats new music, sometimes its not. I listen to a much more diverse array of music today than I did when I was 20.

I think this analogy is spot on. I think as you get older you know without a doubt what you DON'T like and that can appear as closed minded. For instance I don't like noise so I'm pretty sure I'm not going to like any NEW noise band.

Ahhh...you crazy kids and your rock and roll !!

well hard core bible thumpers are the exception. i actually know who dc talk, audio adrenaline, and jars of clay are.

I always listened to a lot of different music growing up. From as early as I remember I enjoyed classic rock, alternative rock, country, rap, r&b, and of course electronica (techno/house/dance/whateverthe****youwannacallit). Once I turned about 20 I really opened up to anything though (indie, prog/experimental/postrock, jazz, blues, classical, folk, metal, punk). I go through different stages in which I listen to more of one style of music than others, but I spread the love. On my iTunes I erase all the genres of music because its best to just enjoy the music for what it is... music. I do usually nowadays avoid rap, metal, and emo/screamo which at first glance comes off as being closeminded, but honestly I just have a very limited amount of artist that I have found enjoyable in those genres. The search never ends however.

The older I get the more bland mainstream rock music seems to sound to me.

I'll 2nd that, mainstream translates directly to "****ty"