hahahaha!!!

OH yes, I can relate!

Wildchild, this did make me laugh!

Last night I watched a documentary called Born To Be Wild:Steppenwolf. (Your online name always makes me think of them. 🤠)

Anyhow, basically it follows the life of John Kay, his life in East Prussia, and his eventual life in North America and the formation of the band Steppenwolf.

Long story short……gosh that was a long time ago. My older sister loved them.

The documentary is worth watching.

https://povmagazine.com/born-to-be-wild-the-story-of-steppenwolf-review-a-worthy-addition-to-the-rock-doc-canon/

So wait - are most of us relating to the dad or the daughter? 😉

Good one! Made me laugh! But what’s really funny is that so many young people have embraced these old rock bands and their songs as their own.

My 26-year-old grandson loves 60s/70s rock classics and has them on his Spotify.

I watched an episode of "101 Ways to Leave a Game Show" (made in UK), and one of the tie breaker questions was "Who is the lead singer for the Rolling Stones?" and neither of the two young women could answer it.

Boy! That's a lot to take in. :0) So true. Looking back, we've lived our lives with some great music.

Some 45 years ago, my then 5 year old son called out to me, "Mom, did you know Paul McCartney was in a band before Wings?"

Yes, my boy, I did know that.

There was a newspaper columnist decades ago who commented one day that he suddenly felt old when one of the two young things in front of him walking down the street said to her friend, "Did you know Paul McCartney was in another band before he was in Wings?

I had a young relative choose "Only You" as a first dance wedding song. The Ringo Starr version. I felt sorry for The Platters.

My teenage crush was Ricky Nelson. Im so old Im not even included in that cartoon! Well, maybe the Oldies. Rolling Stones ? Janis Joplin?

On Directv we listen to Music Choice. DH likes Light Classical (Mozart, Bach, etc) and I switch it to Classical Rock when he is running erands or working outside. He never listened to Rock & Roll growing up and barely tolerates it now. We do ask, who is that person or group when they advertise the popular one now. I have heard of Taylor Swift and that's it.

I can relate to all of that!! My husband is a musician and sound man for local bands. There has never been a generation music gap in our family. Our daughter (mid forties) was in an accident and broke some bones. She asked to borrow a Huey Lewis and the News concert CD while she recovered!!

“But what’s really funny is that so many young people have embraced these old rock bands and their songs as their own.”

Agree!

LOL regarding Paul McCartney!

Only You for me brings up Alison Moyet/Yazoo.

Only You by the Platters takes me back to early junior high dances and my first dances in the gym.

The 20th Century saw a lot of changes in the quality of recorded music, with 33 rpm vinyl records being produced by 1931. Anything before that has relatively poor sound quality, but vinyl records are excellent media for archival purposes.

For this reason, we can only go back to the 1930s to hear music as it was intended, but vinyl records became even more popular in the 1940s, and so a lot of the Big Band era music can be listened today with fairly good fidelity.

By 1951, records got even better, and so the 1950s is possibly the first decade with excellent fidelity, and records from this period can still be listened to today with great sound, but people in the 1950s could still listen to Big Band music, and possibly some jazz from the 1930s.

Ever since the 1950s, people have been able to listen to "oldies" and recognize the era that they were from, and subsequent decades of population have been able to choose from an increasing variety of old music that was not available before the 1950s.

My music collection contains very little music made prior to 1990, but there have been a few exceptional artists/bands in modern times that I have liked and bought - but not nearly the number that I used to buy and enjoy. I have only a tiny collection of hip-hop music that I listen to and pretty much no rap music, as I find it tedious and generally uninteresting. Most 21st century music does not capture my attention, but there are a few rare exceptions. I did not buy much music in the mid 1970s either, but I did buy a lot in the late 1970s and early 80s, and I went to a lot of concerts in the 80s.

Lily316, for me it is "Tears On My Pillow".