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Post by woolebull on Aug 4, 2013 15:48:46 GMT -5
For me, it comes and goes. Born in '73, got away from following the Top 40 in '91, got back into following the Top 40 back in '97, stayed glues to charts and stuff through 2003 or so, stopped paying attention again until last year.
For me some of it is age, but if the music is good, I will stay hooked. As for the current Top 40, I personally think the Top 3 on both Dees and AT this week is one of the strongest top 3's in decades. I am thoroughly loving Top 40 music right now as I enter my own forties!
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Post by jcs72 on Aug 4, 2013 18:50:41 GMT -5
I really really tried to listen to August 1988 with an open mind. But it is so depressing. Compare it to 5 or 10 or 15 years earlier. It's unbelievable. You're braver than I am. Although I agree with you on your comparison to 5/10/15 years ago I wouldn't touch 1988 with a 10-foot pole! That year sucked for me personally--I mean SUCKED!!! I was 16 in 1988, for the record. |
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Post by chrislc on Aug 4, 2013 20:14:10 GMT -5
What is it specifically that you don't like? There seemed to be quite a bit of variety, from GNR rock to the burgeoning rap hits. The countdown that month was full of veteran acts like Steve Winwood, Elton John, Eric Carmen, Chicago, Robert Palmer, Huey Lewis, Van Halen, Michael Jackson, The Contours, Kenny Loggins, Pat Benatar, Peter Cetera, Def Leppard, REO Speedwagon, Hall & Oates, Cheap Trick, and Joan Jett. Maybe it was too AC leaning for you? No I was just 31 and I'm sure that's the biggest reason. Of the artists you mentioned I like most songs by most of them but not the ones on this countdown from any of them except MJ and Cetera and Cheap Trick. And actually Perfect World is one of only a couple of Huey Lewis songs that I can tolerate. I don't include the Contours in this - that's '62. I never liked Roll With It. Also I wish rap had never burgeoned. That Guns And Roses song typified the whole thing for me. It was like the musical equivalent of when Scooby Doo first came on TV and I thought to myself "I am too old for this - this is for kids - and it sucks." |
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Post by chrislc on Aug 4, 2013 20:26:57 GMT -5
A few weeks ago Casey lite aired a 1989 show that featured Donna, Donny, Doobies, plus Real Life, Synch, McCartney, Benny Mardones, Michael Damian, and Natalie Cole; if there was a hit from Kenny Rogers on the charts at that time, this show could have easily fit just as nicely in Summer of '82! What is this Casey Lite you speak of? I really really tried to listen to August 1988 with an open mind. But it is so depressing. Compare it to 5 or 10 or 15 years earlier. It's unbelievable. Okay so yes I was 31 in 8/88. So is it just an age thing? Or did pop music really go down the toilet in the mid 80s? I liked what happened when Nirvana came around. So that makes me suspect it isn't an age thing? In regard to 1988 music, I think how much you like music from any era has to do with age, specific when you grew up, your teen years. I was only 17 in 1988, so I love this year, in fact I feel the deepest connection with music from my formative years. So if you were 31 in 1988, that made your teen years the early 70s. Are you more in touch with music from that time? Absolutely. You know, I usually don't think of '73 as one of my favorite years, but I can't get enough of this weekend's countdown. We had a brand new TM Stereo Rock station where I lived then and I must have listened to it 24/7 - while I was awake anyway. Tower Of Power and Billy Preston and Three Dog Night and George Harrison and Marvin and Aretha and Bloodstone and so many more. Wow. The Tony Orlando song does suck, though. And I really like most of his stuff. And back then I was another one of those thinking WTF! when Maureen McGovern went to #1. I could not believe it against that competition. Casey sounded a little off balance on that one himself. I would have liked to have been a fly on the wall when he first saw that list. Might have been one of those Shannon Moments. |
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Post by lasvegaskid on Oct 28, 2013 12:28:41 GMT -5
I really really tried to listen to August 1988 with an open mind. But it is so depressing. Compare it to 5 or 10 or 15 years earlier. It's unbelievable. Okay so yes I was 31 in 8/88. So is it just an age thing? Or did pop music really go down the toilet in the mid 80s? I liked what happened when Nirvana came around. So that makes me suspect it isn't an age thing? A person once told me their theory. For most folks, their favorite music is always going to be what they liked when they were 13-14; those tunes played when they first started to socialize (go to Junior High dances), began building their own personal music collection, etc. So to someone of that age Katy Perry is going to be the equivalent Janet Jackson 20 years ago, & Elt twenty years before that. I think it has a lot of credence. The main difference. IMO, is that with all the fragmented formats and different entertainment platforms today I'm not sure any act can capture a captivated audience the way Beatles or other acts did when Casey was counting them down. I think you are seeing this now in those that were teenagers in the late 90s/2000s. I'm not sure they look back at any artist, or small handful of artists, as fondly as those of prior generations. |
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Post by beegee3 on Oct 28, 2013 13:49:39 GMT -5
Just speaking personally, I seem to go in 6- to 7-year cycles. My favorite music eras were 1977-78, 1983-84, 1991-92, and 1997-98. But there are years in between (1982, 1989, 1884 and 1996) that I have very little interest in. I can't point to any reason why, though. But last year was one of my favorites for music, with Goyte, fun., Carly Rae Jepsin, Bruno Mars, and I'm almost 45. So I don't know that it's just age.
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Post by mkarns on Oct 28, 2013 14:36:40 GMT -5
I liked what happened when Nirvana came around. So that makes me suspect it isn't an age thing? A person once told me their theory. For most folks, their favorite music is always going to be what they liked when they were 13-14; those tunes played when they first started to socialize (go to Junior High dances), began building their own personal music collection, etc. So to someone of that age Katy Perry is going to be the equivalent Janet Jackson 20 years ago, & Elt twenty years before that. I think it has a lot of credence. I disagree, for reasons I stated above. I was in my early 20s in the late 1990s and I agree. I liked alternative music more then, and while some of it was doing well at CHR, enough to make me tune in to top 40 now and then, I preferred the Hot AC and modern rock stations. I really got sick of soundalike boy bands and Spice Girls wannabes (pun intended) everywhere. |
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