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I would have to rummage through my Dads CDs to find a lot of this stuff. That makes it dated IMO. LOL
Not to say it isn't good. But a lot if this stuff wouldn't pass the Dance floor test at a night club.
Tears For Fears - Songs From The Big Chair and The Seeds Of Love
Dreadzone - Second Light
ELO - Out Of The Blue
Metallica - Master of Puppets
can't believe how 'current' this sounds despite it's 24 year old age
ELO?? E. L. O. ? ? Not dated??!
That's not even funny!
DezB - Member
ELO?? E. L. O. ? ? Not dated??!That's not even funny!
Music is a very personal thing 😆
Dark Side of the Moon.
Music is a very personal thing
Which is why threads such as this are pointless. One might as well call it, "What music do you really like that you still listen to?"
so essentially the question is what music have you got that is old that you still like.
Listen to the voice of yoof above from emsz you old farts
PS Tears for fears is a good one dreadful then dreadful now
[i]Which is why threads such as this are pointless. One might as well call it, "What music do you really like that you still listen to?"[/i]
Exactly. I dug out an old Psychedelic Furs album (from 1980) the other day and was surprised how good it sounds. But dated? Of course it bloody is!
I've got some old stuff I bought last month that isn't dated 🙂
+1 for dreadzone
here's a festive classic which is still giving after all these years.
Still as vibrant and exciting as it was then.
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But a lot if this stuff wouldn't pass the Dance floor test at a night club.
Aaaaaaaaaaaaaag-a-do do do...
...anyone?
Which is why threads such as this are pointless. One might as well call it, "What music do you really like that you still listen to?"
Not really - There's plenty of music that would fit that criteria for me but that I didn't post because it clearly has dated. I can be objective enough about it to say that without seeing that as a critique on my music taste or denigrating the tracks in question - most music does date, it's not a negative statement IMO...
Chris Evans played 'Me and the farmer' by the Housemartins before the 8 o'clock news this morning. I remember listening to that on vinyl (London 0 Hull4) when I was still at school. I'm not far off 40 now. Still sounded super-'fresh'.
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Not really
No. Really.
Some of the tracks posted here sound as dated as a out of date tin of dates.
All music dates FFS.
Nah, not really 😉
Some people maybe but they're just stupid music tryhards 😀
All music dates FFS.
Not if it is so modern its futuristic
Some people maybe but they're just stupid music tryhards
Bollocks, just to add to your earlier bollocks. Clubber in talking bollocks on a Monday morning SHOCKA! 😀
Massive Attack - Blue Lines and Mezzanine
U2 - Achtung Baby
Def Leopard - Hysteria 😆
shiny
I call your b***s and raise you a double bs - you're talking double b***s
so there 😉
Beethoven Symphony No. 9. I thought the whole point of pop was to be of the moment?
+2 for Dreadzone
Leftfield
Orb
Loveless?
Andy
Junkyard - Member
so essentially the question is what music have you got that is old that you still like.
Listen to the voice of yoof above from emsz you old farts
PS Tears for fears is a good one dreadful then dreadful now
I would still boogey to ELO and Tears For Fears on a Friday night in a night club!
I don't think anyone else would though...
I haven't heard anything by Shiny. Are they good?
Frankie Goes To Hollywood - Welcome to The Pleasure Dome
As much i love many of the bands listed above i think music does date. For example Primal Scream are just about to do a tour playing the entire Screamadelica album. Laast time i saw that was in Glastonbury, i was about 17 years old and ripped to the tits on a lot of acid. I'm not sure if today's 17 year olds would have any interest in that at all? I might be completely wrong thou.
By way of an experiemnt i'll pop along to said gig and see what the yoof of today make of it all. I think music has changed, it's just us old gits that have stayed the same.
The The - Infected and Mind Bomb.
Bob - Exodus
Miles - Kind of Blue - Completely timeless.
not sure about albums but songs..
1) donna summer - i feel love. 30+ years old now? wow.
2) stone roses - fools gold.
leftfield stuff,prodigy? possibly.
[i]As much i love many of the bands listed above i think music does date[/i]
My forehead is bruised.
I used to have *such* a crush on her 😳
My forehead is bruised.
😀
LLoyd Cole - Rattlesnakes
Nick Drake - 5 leaves left
Happy Birthday to you
Hokey Cokey
Just because you still like it/listen to it, doesn't mean it hasn't dated!
Massive Attack, Blue Lines.
Exodus - Bob marley. one of the all time greats and not dated at all. Not a duff tune on the album
This is the first thread ever where surely everyone has to agree with TJ?(Or maybe not as no-one has ever reggae like The Wailers did and thus it's forever stuck in its heyday?)
I think any style which has been revisited by bands decades on inherently sounds timeless. There are thus numerous albums from the last decade which sound so much like stuff from the '60s and '70s (bar the reduced boom and mud, extra top and bottom and excess compression of modern production) that the original inspiration becomes timeless. Curiously the more '80s influenced material of the last few years fails to make real '80s stuff sound timeless because the production back then was often so OTT (especially those snare drums!)
+1 for Underworld - Dubnobasswithmyheadman
FSOL - Accelerator
Velvet Underground - Everything they ever did
Public Enemy - Fear of a black planet
Public Enemy - Fear of a black planet
As much as I love that album, any 80's hip hop has dated horribly.
I have to agree with others who have said that all music will date
loads of good stuff mentioned above - but it all sounds absolutely "of its time". I can think of music which was "ahead of it's time" (Sister Lovers by Big Star springs to mind). Or music which is relatively "timeless" (folk/ country/ old style blues type stuff which could have been made in 1990 or 1940) - but I honestly can't think of anything that hasn't - or will never date.
Stuff like Massive Attack might be holding on for a bit longer than most - but it will sound dated in 10/ 15 years (if not sooner)
Doesn't mean you shouldn't enjoy old stuff - I know I do
The Clash London Calling & Combat Rock (although should I stay annoys me)
the The Mind Bomb
a lot of Tom Waits stuff
A lot of the Specials stuff
half of Velvet Underground stuff
Pulp Different Class
I dont listen to Donna summer and i dont own a copy of the song but i chose "I feel love" because theres nothing else i can think of that sounds so fresh for the age that it is.Theres been lots of stuff that i could listen to again and again but its not going to fit in easily with todays music as much as i feel donnas song would.
Does anyone else have a song as fresh sounding and as old as that?
Not to say it isn't good. But a lot if this stuff wouldn't pass the Dance floor test at a night club.
That's because most stuff played at a night club is fundamentally unlistenable outside of that environment. It's music designed specifically for it's beat. That's not to say that there isn't good music that you can dance to, but most wouldn't get played at a modern night club. A lot of Motown is dance music, as is folk music, Capercaillie are a folk band who play dance music. Jigs and reels wouldn't go down well in an urban dance venue though.
There's plenty of stuff that I still listen to after thirty/forty years that sounds as good now as it did then, but there's plenty that sounds very dated now. Music that's reall about the song and melody survives best; folk, blues, jazz influenced lasts best. Although I recently heard some Gentle Giant that I hadn't heard since the mid 70's, and I was surprised how good it sounded, probably because it was very jazzy. Talking Heads still sound fresh to me after thirty something years. And you can dance to a lot of it too; great songs with a solid rhythm section underneath. Works for me.
sunday morning radio - scottish dance music. thread closed!