My current home project is trying to rip all of my CDs to digital format. I don't really remember the last time a bought a CD or album but I love music. Growing up I was only allowed to tape music from the radio then I started dating a guy who had the BMG membership and he would bring me tapes of ACDC and Ozzy Osbourne. My musical taste was being shaped.
At what point in your life do you stop knowing about new music?
I live in the live music capital of the world but when I hear bands or artists mentioned by name I could not tell you what they sing. I think there is a line drawn in the sand and everything behind the line is classified as my music and everything on the other side is the new stuff. I am trying to determine at what point that line is drawn. I remember my parents talking about the stuff the kids are listening to. I never really identified with the grunge movement in the 90's, give me a glam band any day. The 80's is what I identify with and I like the laid back style of the 70's singers and songwriters. If the music I identify with is in the first two decades of my existence, that's a lot of missed music. Out of touch by 20? That seems extreme but somehow true. You would think that your kids could help you with these new musical discoveries but my kids are listening to Metallica and can sing the choruses to Sweet Home Alabama. I can only hope that they will one day turn the corner and think that they must chart a new course and turn to music as a way to get back at their parents. Let's hope it's not country.
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