most rock music is annoying to me. am i just geeting old?

Question

well, most music is annoying to me.

Answer 1

No, I completely agree with you. For me atleast, I love the music that I grew up on so much. Bands like the Beatles, Led Zeppelin, The Who, the Rolling Stones, the Doors, CCR, Van Halen, Aerosmith, along with bands that I started listening to when a teenager. Bands like Nirvana, Green Day, STP, RHCP, and others. I love these bands so much because they mean a lot to me. so the new bands that come out i compare to the bands a love, and most bands now don't compare. so I think that they suck and some do annoy me. there are some new bands that i like, but they are more of the exception than the rule.

Answer 2

Well, I guess it really depends on what you mean by "most rock music is annoying to me."
I'm 28 and happen to find most current "rock" (and I use the term really looselly here) music astoundingly annoying...Good Charlotte, Panic At the Disco, A Simple Plan, My Chemical Romance, and a long etcetera consistently churn out music that annoys me far more than I ever though possible for music actually based on distorted electric guitars. Besides finding their "style" laughable and most of their ideas cliché to the point of being unintentionally cartoonish, I couldn't care less at my age about some kid whining about how his Daddy and Mommy don't understand him and his teachers put him down and the popular chick at school not liking him because he's uncool or some such crap out of a lame movie.

Nevertheless, there is quite a bit of current rock music, as well as a whole lot of older stuff, that I still enjoy a great deal, although I have to admit that I no longer blast out my heavier records as much as I used to when I was younger and infatuated with the Spinal Tap approach to guitar playing.

If, on the other hand, you mean that all rock music started annoying you once you got to a certain age, even the music you used to like when younger, well, I guess that's just a change -or perhaps an evolution- of taste and not so much to do with age. Maybe you just outgrew it, and don't need it anymore.

Answer 3

You are old and probably disappointed in music nowdays if you were coming of age in the years 1963 -1969.
Where do you begin....Buddy Hollie, Elvis, the Fab Four, Stones. Little Stevie Wonder, Them with Van Morison, Beach Boys,Roy Orbison,Bob Dylan, Joan Baez, Chad & Jeremy, Richie Haven, The Zombies. The Animals, Buffalo Springfield, Jimi Hendrix, Muddy Waters. Paul Butterfield Blues Band, Eric Clapton in Spencer Davis Group and Cream , his friend Stevie Windwood in Traffic and Blind Faith, The first and second versions of Blood ,Sweat & Tears, Early Chicago, Santana, Woodstock, Donavan, John Sebastian, The Birds, Don't get me started...MOTOWN! the whole Detriot Soul Music explosionon top of that!and on and on...an explosion of cultures and the youth movement it was a nexus in time that was a Renassiance for the modern new world. Song after song came out daily over the AM radio in top 100 hit formats. KRLA KHJ KROCK these in Los Angeles were what we had before Ipod and even befor e Walkmans...transistior potable radios! No head phones and with one little speaker all this music CRUSHES anthing since then!
You experienced one of the most fantastic creative eras in music!
The only time since to produce such great and interesting time tested music would be maybe the rejection of the really bad era of disco by the second English wave on music in the very late 70's with the appearance of The Police, Boy George. Men at Work, Elvis Costello and the Attractions, The Untouchables,Punk music, New wave music which also was a era of it's own sense of fashion and culture that had an idealism like that of the 60's music revolution.
Sometime about 1975 one guy made a difference almost all by himself....Bruce Springstein. oh yeah another two artist...Phobe Snow and Joan Armitrading and I guess Fleetwood Mac.
Now here is what is hopeful for you...this years Grammy Awards went to a lot of these same old rockers that are still making very original and good music...to have any art that is lasting...you have to have a point of view and something to say that is heart felt that pewople can idenify with in their own real world experience. That can be anything from and from a wide era of years starting back in the begining of blues/jazz/folk/rock stay to Robert Johnson in the 1920's sing about his kind hearted woman to James Blunt crying about his only true love!
Todays music sucks ...that why you can always find comfort listening to the blues of any era...Stevie Ray Vaugan and Double Trouble, Bonnie Raitt, Sarah Jones their are good musicains around the edges playing good music from rappin hebrews to reefer smokin Jamacians man!
Beware though of the so called rappin' poets...their message is not so much about da streets as it is about their own $$$ and both are products of industry that is about profits. The other side to that is the corporate focus group marketing and whoring stylist of fashion for Tweens and the construction of a musician or band and sound that will separate the mommy & daddy allowance from them be it Bratz or Boy bands!...either way you end up with vapid emyty music the corporate music industry shoves at you that is crap.

Find a record player, some old Motown records that aren't scatched and feel the music though a real non digital medium they way it really sounds...it's all a analogue experience when you play music and there is only one grove in a record ablum as well ...making it into on and off bits completely ruins the soul of the intent.

Answer 4

You are never too old to rock. I'm 49 and still like the same stuff I did when I was younger. It's too bad you find it annoying, because music can be very therapeutic and bring back many fond memories of when you were younger. It is NOT true that as you get older your tastes change. I believe that you just add new music to your collection. The only other person in the world I knew of that found it annoying was my mother, and she was married to a musician. Go figure....

Answer 5

That's why I am a fan of real rock music at the time where there was so much variety and individual sound: late 70s and early 80s

Answer 6

Sounds like you are getting a little older. Most peoples taste in stuff change as they get older. Im not sure why. But you can like one thing when you are a kid and when you get older you hate it or the opposite way around.

Answer 7

Now, I am only 24 and I must agree, ROCK IS DEAD.

There are a few bands holding the torch, but the corporate lackeys are all you hear recently.

Answer 8

thats what i use to say, im jus 16 and im bored of music like rap, so i jus listen to a lil of everything, now i listen to rock,reggae,oldies,slow jams, but that hard rock, really is annoying

Answer 9

i'd hate to not like music. but maybe you're growing out of it. i stopped liking most of it in my late teens and early 20's.

Answer 10

Rock isn't dead. You're just not looking in the right places. www.modernrock.com
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