Any of you dudes get banned from TGP?..Why?

[gy1900s]

I started liking Choral music, Opera and Medieval Chant in my 40's. I hated it before that. I have studied the philosophy of scientific method and I fail to see how a method of logical progression from hypothesis to thesis to theory based on evidence and demonstration means I prefer Bon Scott Akka Dakka to Brian Johnson. I think geography and cultural immersion in Oz while they were on the rise has more to do with it.

I now like the Masses and other music of Hummel, which I had never heard until a few years ago. The same is true for many of the CD's I listen to by Classical composers other than Mozart, Haydn and CPE Bach. The symphonies of Louise Farrenc, for instance.

10 years of Bon, 40 of Brian. Half the set-list is Bon. And there are still rumours about how much of Back in Black Bon wrote, given the royalty checks to his family recieve.

We got around 10 years of Bon and around 10 years of Brian. Wouldn't matter who was singing after the early 90's because that style was dead, and they were old.

You like Bon more because that's what was cool when you were discovering music, and that's OK.

You're talking about CD's? I'm middle aged and have never purchased a CD. It's 2024 my friend.

 

[Aelred]

We got around 10 years of Bon and around 10 years of Brian. Wouldn't matter who was singing after the early 90's because that style was dead, and they were old.

You like Bon more because that's what was cool when you were discovering music, and that's OK.

You're talking about CD's? I'm middle aged and have never purchased a CD. It's 2024 my friend.

Yeah, I only have a few thousand CD's and hundreds of vinyl LP's, mostly "Classical" and bought after I turned 40.

I have said repeatedly that it was basically "required" of any young Aussie in the 70's to love AC/DC. It was them or Sherbet (or ABBA) - until I discovered indie/punk stuff. The airwaves - such as they were - insisted.

It's 2024 - and I listen to new (to me) Gregorian Chant whenever I can. I'm still saddend by the retirement of Anonymous 4.

 

[Sascha Franck]

Your brain stops liking new music after your mid 20's.

Not even remotely true in my case.

 

[DrewJD82]

Christ, if my brain stopped liking new stuff past my 20’s I would have taken myself out years ago. It’s specifically the pursuit of new experiences and enjoyment of those experiences that gives me drive to ignore the bullshit life throws at you and keep going.

I do know there’s a subgroup of people that experience this, I refer to them as the ‘kid’s menu’ type.

 

[JiveTurkey]

Christ, if my brain stopped liking new stuff past my 20’s I would have taken myself out years ago. It’s specifically the pursuit of new experiences and enjoyment of those experiences that gives me drive to ignore the bullshit life throws at you and keep going.

I do know there’s a subgroup of people that experience this, I refer to them as the ‘kid’s menu’ type.

 

[gy1900s]

Christ, if my brain stopped liking new stuff past my 20’s I would have taken myself out years ago. It’s specifically the pursuit of new experiences and enjoyment of those experiences that gives me drive to ignore the bullshit life throws at you and keep going.

I do know there’s a subgroup of people that experience this, I refer to them as the ‘kid’s menu’ type.

It's not an absolute.
It's just that it's just that there's a lot of science that shows the parts of your brain that light up when you discover new art stop lighting up as much as they do in your youth.


It's why it's rare for bands to create music that still moves their original fans at some point. Take almost any band from ACDC, to Metallica, to Aerosmith and their original fans will almost always view their early work as their best work. The thing about that is that the fans that came later don't always see it that way because they don't have an emotional connection to the early work. I can say with zero hesitation that the Black album was my favorite Metallica album because I was a kid in the 80's. Guys a decade older than me that were into Metallica hated that album. It's because by the time the black album came out, they were in their mid 20's already and had an emotional connection to Metallica's early sound.

Again, this isn't an absolute, but most people are still listening to the bands they liked in their youth when they're senior citizens, especially non-musicians