From one of the debates in the Katy Perry thread; I was wondering how old people here were when they stopped listening primarily to pop music.
I stopped listening to Top 40 radio when I was 16 in 1988 during the glory days of pop metal, The New Kids on the Block and Madonna. I've never looked back.
Stopped?
:huh:
Quote from: The Brain on April 14, 2009, 12:29:19 PM
Stopped?
I mean for those who have stopped listening primarily to Top 40 radio; or whatever the equivalent is in Europe.
I actually started listening to pop music after I stopped listening to teen crap like heavy metal or folky thingies (like Clannad).
Define pop.
I suppose when I was 14 or so I veered away from anything that could be remotely classed as pop and stuck to punk with a bit of rock. When I was 17 I got back into indie and soon after it entered back into fashion so became vaguely pop and...there I am.
But totally manufactured pop- never really. When I was a kid I was a crazy Queen fan.
I'd say 16 or so. The last 2-3 years I've about completely stopped listening to any music.
As I drive more than I used to now, I guess I actually listen more to pop music than before. Or whatever they play on the radio.
At least I knew who Katy Perry is.
Around 17.
Quote from: Tyr on April 14, 2009, 12:32:38 PM
Define pop.
Songs that are currently in the Top 40.
Well it's not like I listen to pop music exclusively. I guess I have four sources of musical fascination, and each for different reasons.
1. Film music/musicals. I see a movie, like the soundtrack, get it to relive the movie.
2. Indie music. I hear it first on the radio/podcast. Like it for the artistic value, plus usually like the author too (as he or she is being interviewed at the same time).
3. Pop music. I go to a club, have fun dancing to some tune, get it.
4. Classical music. I go to a concert or an opera, or get someone to recommend something to me. I am now on early 20th century composers.
Music 2 and 4 is the kind of music I listen to when I'm home alone, and feel like just sitting down and listening to some music, perhaps while reading a book.
Music 1 and 3 is the kind of music I listen to when I'm traveling, or doing other stuff (e.g. cleaning the flat, preparing to go out, playing WoW).
So I would advance a theory that this has less to do with your musical tastes, and more to your pastimes. For example if you don't go to dance clubs, you are unlikely to get to like some pop piece.
I.e. you are old.
QED.
Quote from: Savonarola on April 14, 2009, 12:39:29 PM
Songs that are currently in the Top 40.
What if you listened to them quite some time before they were in the top 40?
If you mean by "listening to pop music" following charts and knowing what's "hot" and what's not in mainstream music, then it'll be the mid to late 90s, shortly after leaving school and finishing military service. Probably 1996 or 1997, i.e. aged 20/21.
I still check out new bands (rock, pop, metal), but hardly any of them appear in the charts/mainstream media.
For example, my current musical library looks like this:
ABBA - The Definitive Collection
Alanis Morissette - The Collection
Amy Winehouse - Back to Black
Rossini - Overtures
Bronski Beat - Age of Consent
Charles S. McVey - Modern Living
Cher - Believe
Tchaikovsky - 1812
Music from LOTR
Clannad - Legend
Dead Can Dance - Aion, The Serpent's Egg, Towards the Within
Delerium - Karma
Eartha Kitt - The Best Off
Interview with The Vampire OST
Emma Shaplin - Carmine Meo
Enya - Memory of Trees, Watermark
Era - Era
Eurythmics - The Ultimate Collection
Gloria Gaynor - Disco Classics
Johnny Dangerous - White Hot
Katy Perry - One of the Boys
Kylie Minogue - X
Laibach - Jesus Christ Superstar
Led Zeppelin - The Complete Collection
Levi Kresi - The Gospel According to Levi
Madonna - American Life, Hard Candy, Ray of Light
Phantom of the Opera OST
Pet Shop Boys - Pop Art, Yes
Pixies - Wave of Mutilation
Placebo - Covers, Without You I'm Nothing
Queen - Greatest Hits
Red Hot Chili Peppers - Greatest Hits
Rufus Wainwright - Poses, Release the Stars, Want One, Want Two
The Smiths - Louder than Bombs
Solyma - Solyma
Steve Harley & Cockney Rebel - The Human Menagerie
Karol Szymanowski - King Roger, Concerts
Therion - Deggial, Vowin
Tom Goss - Back to Love
Vangelis - El Greco, Oceanic, Portraits, 1492
Brokeback Mountain OST
Dr. Horrible's Sing Along Blog OST
Mamma Mia OST
Moulin Rouge OST
Queer As Folk OST
Dracula OST
Lost Highway OST
Priscilla Queen of the Desert OST
Velvet Goldmine OST
:huh:
There was only a very small window in my life when I spent any time listening to pop music, basically from the early 90's to the late 90's (so basically my teenage years). I started at grunge and abandoned the format around the second coming of the boy bands. I don't miss it. There's plenty of good music out there, just very little of it on the radio.
Depends what you mean by pop music.
Other than a soft spot for any and all 80s music, including the cheese, I've pretty much stuck with alt rock since that term was invented around the early 90s or so. I still listen to new music (satellite radio is great for that), and by many definitions it can rightly be called pop music.
For the record: I hated the dance pop wave of the mid-90s. At the time we'd go to the dance club in our home town on thursdays - free entry and they played Metallica, Nirvana, Pearl Jam, Faith No More, Henry Rollins, Clawfinger ....
Quote from: Barrister on April 14, 2009, 12:55:33 PM
Depends what you mean by pop music.
Songs currently in the Top 40.
Quote from: Syt on April 14, 2009, 12:48:50 PM
If you mean by "listening to pop music" following charts and knowing what's "hot" and what's not in mainstream music, then it'll be the mid to late 90s, shortly after leaving school and finishing military service. Probably 1996 or 1997, i.e. aged 20/21.
I still check out new bands (rock, pop, metal), but hardly any of them appear in the charts/mainstream media.
Oh, I've never followed the charts like that. I've always found it very boring.
Quote from: Martinus on April 14, 2009, 12:57:38 PM
Quote from: Syt on April 14, 2009, 12:48:50 PM
If you mean by "listening to pop music" following charts and knowing what's "hot" and what's not in mainstream music, then it'll be the mid to late 90s, shortly after leaving school and finishing military service. Probably 1996 or 1997, i.e. aged 20/21.
I still check out new bands (rock, pop, metal), but hardly any of them appear in the charts/mainstream media.
Oh, I've never followed the charts like that. I've always found it very boring.
In the 80s I followed them because my teen sister did. Till 1996 was my MTV time, i.e. when nothing was on tv I had MTV on (at the time MTV still showed videos, even classics and was made from the UK), so I kept current then, too.
Quote from: Savonarola on April 14, 2009, 12:57:29 PM
Quote from: Barrister on April 14, 2009, 12:55:33 PM
Depends what you mean by pop music.
Songs currently in the Top 40.
Top 40 though is pretty damn broad.
I checked out Billboard's Top 40 (well, Top 50 really).
http://www.billboard.com/bbcom/charts/chart_display.jsp?JSESSIONID=j1xTJkQT9HhnBSZHny40LFGtwrpg0MXT3w17gn2wp9h5LhfRTy1C!572034887&g=Singles&f=The+Billboard+Hot+100
Of the Top 10, while I'd heard of many of the artists I couldn't recognize a single song.
But when you get to the Top 50, suddenly a handfull of country acts show up. I listen to country on occasion, and I recognized those songs. Also around 40-50 several alt rock acts start to show up, like Coldplay, Plain White T's, even Nickelback. While those particular artists aren't my absolute faves, it certainly music I listen to on the radio.
So by that definition, I still listen to pop music. :huh:
Quote from: vinraith on April 14, 2009, 12:54:05 PM
There was only a very small window in my life when I spent any time listening to pop music, basically from the early 90's to the late 90's (so basically my teenage years). I started at grunge and abandoned the format around the second coming of the boy bands. I don't miss it. There's plenty of good music out there, just very little of it on the radio.
You're lucky to have been a teenager then. I think the early to mid 90s was the high water mark for Top 40 music since at least the early 80s.
Quote from: Savonarola on April 14, 2009, 12:57:29 PM
Songs currently in the Top 40.
:D Ever feel like a broken record, Sav?
I just checked Austrian charts. First song I know is on 19 (Killers - Human). Same with German charts.
I have an Austrian station I listen to, and while they do play new music, too, they're focusing on rock and classics (it's not uncommon to have Pet Shop Boys sandwiched between Iron Maiden and an Austrian songwriter from the 70s). Their motto is, "We play what we want." Actually, they've even woken me in the morning with the Muppets Show theme. :lol:
Quote from: Savonarola on April 14, 2009, 01:11:01 PM
Quote from: vinraith on April 14, 2009, 12:54:05 PM
There was only a very small window in my life when I spent any time listening to pop music, basically from the early 90's to the late 90's (so basically my teenage years). I started at grunge and abandoned the format around the second coming of the boy bands. I don't miss it. There's plenty of good music out there, just very little of it on the radio.
You're lucky to have been a teenager then. I think the early to mid 90s was the high water mark for Top 40 music since at least the early 80s.
I'd go so far as to call it the best since the late 60's/early 70's, but the 80's are a little hard to categorize. So much crap cheese mixed in with a lot of good stuff. As a kid I thought most of it sucked (and frankly most of it did) but the stuff that's stood the test of time is usually at least amusing and frequently actually quite good.
I stopped having much interest some years ago. I began noticing that the artists of the month that I liked, had gotten their CDs or such, no longer had any appeal to me. Tossed out many CDs, and wondered how I ever liked some of the stuff in the first place. Now there are some popular artists I can't listen to - Springsteen, Madonna (probably like one or two of her songs now), Elton John, Rod Stewart, many others. Never understood the appeal of the Rolling Stones. But each to his/her own; I've just tired of the music. However, there are many individual songs I like from different artists, and a few artists I do like as well.
I'm also usually cynical of the flavor of the month/year boy/girl band, usually made up of people, some talented, others not, made popular by the music industry to make a few bucks from us.
Marty, I approve Led Zeppelin, Queen, and Red Hot Chilli Peppers. Rest is pop. :P
Quote from: Syt on April 14, 2009, 01:02:40 PM
In the 80s I followed them because my teen sister did. Till 1996 was my MTV time, i.e. when nothing was on tv I had MTV on (at the time MTV still showed videos, even classics and was made from the UK), so I kept current then, too.
People act you can't find music videos on tv anymore, I just counted at least 5-6 channels that only play music videos.
Quote from: jimmy olsen on April 14, 2009, 01:42:16 PM
People act you can't find music videos on tv anymore, I just counted at least 5-6 channels that only play music videos.
Can't be me, though, because I constantly point out MTV2, VH-1 and VH-1 Classic whenever that topic comes up.
Quote from: jimmy olsen on April 14, 2009, 01:42:16 PM
Quote from: Syt on April 14, 2009, 01:02:40 PM
In the 80s I followed them because my teen sister did. Till 1996 was my MTV time, i.e. when nothing was on tv I had MTV on (at the time MTV still showed videos, even classics and was made from the UK), so I kept current then, too.
People act you can't find music videos on tv anymore, I just counted at least 5-6 channels that only play music videos.
They keep moving them further up the cable package echelon, though. It's almost impossible to find music videos on basic cable at a normal time of day.
I guess there are a few pop artists I enjoy still...but as I am incredibly neurotic about my music tastes there is no way I am telling anybody who they are.
YOU WILL ALL JUDGE ME!!!!
Quote from: Syt on April 14, 2009, 01:43:45 PM
Can't be me, though, because I constantly point out MTV2, VH-1 and VH-1 Classic whenever that topic comes up.
VH-1 no longer plays videos and the other two aren't on basic cable.
Here's VH-1's lineup tonight:
07:00pm I Love Money 2
08:00pm For the Love of Ray J
09:00pm Tough Love
10:00pm Tough Love
11:00pm Rock of Love Bus With Bret Michaels
12:00am 40 Hottest Hotties of the 90s
01:00am 40 Hottest Hotties of the 90s
02:00am For the Love of Ray J
I started listening to pop music on AM radio when I was 10. when I was 13, I was living in the city, and they had FM, and no station in my market played pop* on FM then.
* the station that did so, called it "soft rock."
Quote from: Valmy on April 14, 2009, 01:50:33 PM
I guess there are a few pop artists I enjoy still...but as I am incredibly neurotic about my music tastes there is no way I am telling anybody who they are.
YOU WILL ALL JUDGE ME!!!!
Dude, I like Foreigner.
I was done with it by the time I entered High School at least.
Quote from: KRonn on April 14, 2009, 01:37:17 PM
I stopped having much interest some years ago. I began noticing that the artists of the month that I liked, had gotten their CDs or such, no longer had any appeal to me.
:lol:
That's a sure sign of old age. When I was 13 there was Peter, Paul and Mary special on PBS. My Dad put it on; but turned it off a couple songs in and told me that one day I'd hear songs that I used to like and wonder why I ever listened to them. Now I wonder why I ever liked Billy Joel. :(
Quote from: Savonarola on April 14, 2009, 02:00:46 PM
That's a sure sign of old age. When I was 13 there was Peter, Paul and Mary special on PBS. My Dad put it on; but turned it off a couple songs in and told me that one day I'd hear songs that I used to like and wonder why I ever listened to them. Now I wonder why I ever liked Billy Joel. :(
:mad: It's still Rock and Roll to me.
Quote from: vinraith on April 14, 2009, 01:50:00 PM
They keep moving them further up the cable package echelon, though. It's almost impossible to find music videos on basic cable at a normal time of day.
I went to an urban college for graduate school. They always had some rap video channel on at the gym. Almost all the rap videos were identical; there were booty-shaking honeys, there were pimped out Cadillac Escalades, the rap star and his friends were hanging out at home and then they went to the club. It was like a day in the life of Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick. It would be a shame that sort of entertainment is no longer widely available.
The pre-internet 90s were the pinnacle of video making. There was some pretty good shit from Tom Petty, Smashing Pumpkins, R.E.M., U2, Aerosmith, Guns'n'Roses, Metallica etc. Now all videos looks bland and boring.
I still listen a LOT to top 40 music. Granted, it's the top 40 of the 80s.
Quote from: The Brain on April 14, 2009, 02:17:16 PM
I still listen a LOT to top 40 music. Granted, it's the top 40 of the 80s.
The top 40 of the 1880s are still unmatched.
Quote from: Syt on April 14, 2009, 02:18:05 PM
Quote from: The Brain on April 14, 2009, 02:17:16 PM
I still listen a LOT to top 40 music. Granted, it's the top 40 of the 80s.
The top 40 of the 1880s are still unmatched.
:yes:
Hey! :mad:
I never really started.
I just looked up the German charts and I know a couple of the songs in the top 40 from the radio. So I guess I never stopped listening to pop music.
Quote from: MadImmortalMan on April 14, 2009, 01:56:02 PM
I was done with it by the time I entered High School at least.
Same. Well, kinda. When I entered high school, I listened to the oldies station a lot, so pop music of the 60s. Then I moved on to rock stations and country stations. Now I don't listen to anything.
Quote from: Savonarola on April 14, 2009, 02:00:46 PM
Quote from: KRonn on April 14, 2009, 01:37:17 PM
I stopped having much interest some years ago. I began noticing that the artists of the month that I liked, had gotten their CDs or such, no longer had any appeal to me.
:lol:
That's a sure sign of old age. When I was 13 there was Peter, Paul and Mary special on PBS. My Dad put it on; but turned it off a couple songs in and told me that one day I'd hear songs that I used to like and wonder why I ever listened to them. Now I wonder why I ever liked Billy Joel. :(
My parents always told me the music of my teens was lousy. Just took me a while to realize how smart my parents actually were! ;)
I never really did. The first two cds I ever bought were Blue Oyster Cult and Weezer. Even today my favorite bands are Jimmy Buffet, Smashing Pumpkins, Weezer, and Sleater Kinney. I've hardly listened to anything after 2000. :lol:
Quote from: Savonarola on April 14, 2009, 02:00:46 PM
Quote from: KRonn on April 14, 2009, 01:37:17 PM
I stopped having much interest some years ago. I began noticing that the artists of the month that I liked, had gotten their CDs or such, no longer had any appeal to me.
:lol:
That's a sure sign of old age. When I was 13 there was Peter, Paul and Mary special on PBS. My Dad put it on; but turned it off a couple songs in and told me that one day I'd hear songs that I used to like and wonder why I ever listened to them. Now I wonder why I ever liked Billy Joel. :(
What's wrong with Billy Joel? :huh:
Quote from: jimmy olsen on April 14, 2009, 03:22:09 PM
What's wrong with Billy Joel? :huh:
Billy Joel songs feature cloying soul-free melodies and either sappy or just plain awful lyrics.
Really, the answer to this question depends on what you mean by "pop music".
You spoiled my joke, vinnie :(
Never really followed it, closest time paths crossed was early 90's when grunge was popular as the bands i listened too were making it big.
Depeche Mode fucking sucks.
Fuck you, Money.
Quote from: Neil on April 14, 2009, 06:17:42 PM
Depeche Mode fucking sucks.
Fuck you, Money.
DIAF.
And really - almost everyone here who says they don't listen to "pop music", in fact listens to pop music. It's quite humourous.
Quote from: Barrister on April 14, 2009, 06:22:43 PM
Quote from: Neil on April 14, 2009, 06:17:42 PM
Depeche Mode fucking sucks.
Fuck you, Money.
DIAF.
And really - almost everyone here who says they don't listen to "pop music", in fact listens to pop music. It's quite humourous.
No, really. They're terrible. I don't know what you old guys were thinking.
But yeah. Everybody listens to pop music, unless they're some kind of freak. Maybe Spellus, who wouldn't see it as being 'intellectual' enough for him.
Quote from: Barrister on April 14, 2009, 06:22:43 PM
And really - almost everyone here who says they don't listen to "pop music", in fact listens to pop music. It's quite humourous.
That would depend on what you mean by pop music.
Quote from: Neil on April 14, 2009, 06:27:53 PM
But yeah. Everybody listens to pop music, unless they're some kind of freak. Maybe Spellus, who wouldn't see it as being 'intellectual' enough for him.
I didn't want to make an overly long or overly confusing title; so in my opening post I asked when you stopped listening primarily to pop music. The question as I intended is more when did you quit listening mostly to Top 40 radio; not when did you stop listening to pop altogether.
Quote from: Neil on April 14, 2009, 06:27:53 PM
Quote from: Barrister on April 14, 2009, 06:22:43 PM
Quote from: Neil on April 14, 2009, 06:17:42 PM
Depeche Mode fucking sucks.
Fuck you, Money.
DIAF.
No, really. They're terrible. I don't know what you old guys were thinking.
They have a new album coming out next week. :punk:
I've never listened to it.
Yes, I'm cool like that. :smoke:
Quote from: Savonarola on April 14, 2009, 06:31:39 PM
Quote from: Neil on April 14, 2009, 06:27:53 PM
But yeah. Everybody listens to pop music, unless they're some kind of freak. Maybe Spellus, who wouldn't see it as being 'intellectual' enough for him.
I didn't want to make an overly long or overly confusing title; so in my opening post I asked when you stopped listening primarily to pop music. The question as I intended is more when did you quit listening mostly to Top 40 radio; not when did you stop listening to pop altogether.
But a hell of a lot of music falls under "top 40" radio, including some of the music that I listen to.
Quote from: Neil on April 14, 2009, 06:27:53 PMBut yeah. Everybody listens to pop music, unless they're some kind of freak. Maybe Spellus, who wouldn't see it as being 'intellectual' enough for him.
I guarantee you he's a They Might Be Giants fan. ^_^
Quote from: Barrister on April 14, 2009, 07:03:00 PM
But a hell of a lot of music falls under "top 40" radio, including some of the music that I listen to.
:x
Quote from: Neil on April 14, 2009, 06:17:42 PM
Depeche Mode fucking sucks.
Fuck you, Money.
GOD DAMN NEIL.
...and also second the DIAF option.
Quote from: Barrister on April 14, 2009, 07:03:00 PM
But a hell of a lot of music falls under "top 40" radio,
Indeed, if I'm not mistaken there are 40 songs at any given time. :smarty:
Quote from: Neil on April 14, 2009, 06:27:53 PM
But yeah. Everybody listens to pop music, unless they're some kind of freak. Maybe Spellus, who wouldn't see it as being 'intellectual' enough for him.
Hey! I'm not a freak or intellecutal!
Quote from: Razgovory on April 14, 2009, 08:58:55 PM
Quote from: Neil on April 14, 2009, 06:27:53 PM
But yeah. Everybody listens to pop music, unless they're some kind of freak. Maybe Spellus, who wouldn't see it as being 'intellectual' enough for him.
Hey! I'm not a freak or intellecutal!
Don't you have a damaged brain?
Quote from: Neil on April 14, 2009, 09:25:55 PM
Quote from: Razgovory on April 14, 2009, 08:58:55 PM
Quote from: Neil on April 14, 2009, 06:27:53 PM
But yeah. Everybody listens to pop music, unless they're some kind of freak. Maybe Spellus, who wouldn't see it as being 'intellectual' enough for him.
Hey! I'm not a freak or intellecutal!
Don't you have a damaged brain?
That's why I'm not an intellectual!
Quote from: Neil on April 14, 2009, 09:25:55 PM
Quote from: Razgovory on April 14, 2009, 08:58:55 PM
Quote from: Neil on April 14, 2009, 06:27:53 PM
But yeah. Everybody listens to pop music, unless they're some kind of freak. Maybe Spellus, who wouldn't see it as being 'intellectual' enough for him.
Hey! I'm not a freak or intellecutal!
Don't you have a damaged brain?
But it's not damaged in the dummy way! It's damaged in the crazy way. :cthulu:
Well, that all depends upon your definition of pop music. :P
I use to listen to Nsync, Back Street Boys, Britney Spears, Christina Aguilera, Brandy, and etc. That is pop music to me. But I think I stopped listening to that when I was like 14. I've started listening to it again lately though. :wtf:
I use to listen to Top 40s stuff but I can't find a channel that plays that in my new city. Just a channel that is alternative and soft rock and a channel with a dude that plays whatever the fuck he wants. His name is Steve. I've just started making CDs to listen to while I drive though. And I don't have or want satellite radio.
Quote from: Savonarola on April 14, 2009, 06:31:39 PM
I didn't want to make an overly long or overly confusing title; so in my opening post I asked when you stopped listening primarily to pop music. The question as I intended is more when did you quit listening mostly to Top 40 radio; not when did you stop listening to pop altogether.
There are still radio stations that have a Top 40 format? I thought that mostly went out by the early-mid 70's.
I quit listening to American Top 40 when Casey Kassum (sp?) quit hosting it, but that didn't mark any changes in my musical taste.
I still don't understand the question.
Quote from: Tamas on April 14, 2009, 01:39:23 PM
Marty, I approve Led Zeppelin, Queen, and Red Hot Chilli Peppers. Rest is pop. :P
Ok, so Rolling Stones is pop and Queen isn't. Gotcha!
Early 20s probably, I recognize about 10% of the current top 40.
Quote from: garbon on April 14, 2009, 12:48:09 PM
What if you listened to them quite some time before they were in the top 40?
:huh:
Quote from: dps on April 15, 2009, 12:58:01 AM
Quote from: Savonarola on April 14, 2009, 06:31:39 PM
I didn't want to make an overly long or overly confusing title; so in my opening post I asked when you stopped listening primarily to pop music. The question as I intended is more when did you quit listening mostly to Top 40 radio; not when did you stop listening to pop altogether.
There are still radio stations that have a Top 40 format? I thought that mostly went out by the early-mid 70's.
I quit listening to American Top 40 when Casey Kassum (sp?) quit hosting it, but that didn't mark any changes in my musical taste.
I still don't understand the question.
Kasem. 2nd most famous Lebanese-American!!
I read somewhere that some AM station are still top 40 format.
I stopped listening to chart music when I was about 14-15 years old, in 1987.
The actual top 100 singles chart, except for a couple of names (Kings of Leon, Franz Ferdinand, U2), means almost nothing to me.
L.
Quote from: Korea on April 14, 2009, 10:03:37 PM
I use to listen to Nsync, Back Street Boys, Britney Spears, Christina Aguilera, Brandy, and etc. That is pop music to me. But I think I stopped listening to that when I was like 14. I've started listening to it again lately though. :wtf:
Get your own accound, Ide. Honestly.
There's a little bit of pop in the music I listen to, but I always found the notion of listening to music for it's position on Billboard to be ridiculous (school bus rides with the Q102 pop station playing the same "Number 1" song 3 times in an hour just enforced that to me).
I was raised solidly on WMMR, WYSP, and WMGK (rock, rock, and classic rock); I listen to prog, and my idea of "easy listening" where I don't have to think about the music too much is any rock song under 6 minutes long. ;)
Also, I think the way Sav defines pop music is quite retarded. Does music stop being "pop music" after a while, only because it falls of the charts?
I mean, ABBA, Madonna and Queen are pop music, even though they no longer top the charts. If I listen to "Dancing Queen", I'm listening to pop music, no?
Quote from: Martinus on April 15, 2009, 07:10:40 AM
Also, I think the way Sav defines pop music is quite retarded. Does music stop being "pop music" after a while, only because it falls of the charts?
I mean, ABBA, Madonna and Queen are pop music, even though they no longer top the charts. If I listen to "Dancing Queen", I'm listening to pop music, no?
:yes:
Oh and you have shitty taste in music like you do with films.
:P
Actually, I was a staunch WMMR fan for years until they brought on Barsky, kind of a Howard Stern-lite wannabe. Their current morning yobbos, Preston and Steve, are grossly unentertaining and make me wish I could just go back to the days of The Morning Zoo.
Best car solution at this point: Zune + FM transmitter
Quote from: DontSayBanana on April 15, 2009, 07:18:58 AM
Best car solution at this point: Zune + FM transmitter
:yes:
The Stern-DeBella wars were epic and I'm glad I was around in Philly to listen to them. :cool:
I'm atuck in the 89's, by choice.
Quote from: lustindarkness on April 15, 2009, 07:23:27 AM
I'm atuck in the 89's, by choice.
:thumbsup:
Escape Club FTW
Quote from: Martinus on April 15, 2009, 01:00:34 AM
Quote from: Tamas on April 14, 2009, 01:39:23 PM
Marty, I approve Led Zeppelin, Queen, and Red Hot Chilli Peppers. Rest is pop. :P
Ok, so Rolling Stones is pop and Queen isn't. Gotcha!
Okay so I missed the Stones on your list. :P
edit: and Queen IS pop of course. But they were good.
Quote from: Tamas on April 15, 2009, 07:28:20 AM
Quote from: Martinus on April 15, 2009, 01:00:34 AM
Quote from: Tamas on April 14, 2009, 01:39:23 PM
Marty, I approve Led Zeppelin, Queen, and Red Hot Chilli Peppers. Rest is pop. :P
Ok, so Rolling Stones is pop and Queen isn't. Gotcha!
Okay so I missed the Stones on your list. :P
edit: and Queen IS pop of course. But they were good.
Well, half of the albums I listed are classified as "alternative/indie". You can't be both that and "pop".
For example, Rufus Wainwright is not pop.
Quote from: Martinus on April 15, 2009, 07:32:40 AM
For example, Rufus Wainwright is not pop.
Wanna bet?
Yeah maybe but he is sure as hell not "alternative" either. I hate these definitions, and the apparent need to make them btw.
There are utter crap, which by incident make the charts like britney spears and rap and what have you, and there are a LOT more decent music whose quality is up to individual tastes.
Quote from: Martinus on April 15, 2009, 07:10:40 AM
Also, I think the way Sav defines pop music is quite retarded. Does music stop being "pop music" after a while, only because it falls of the charts?
In the context of this thread, yes. I'm asking when you stopped listening to current popular songs; not if you still listen to soul-free dance music from 30 years ago.
One of my main sources of music is radio since I do 95% of my music in the car. I am thus subjected to whatever the DJ du jour has chosen to favour me with, and a lot of the time it's Top XX lists.
Some of it I enjoy, some of it I detest.
I think I would somehow have to transform into a music nerd in order to start categorizing myself as a person who listens to X but not Y since X is the highest form of musical artistry while Y is the essence of vulgarity takes-sniff-on-scented-kerchief-smooths-skirts-and-rearranges-whig.
Edit: But in the end, I guess it depends on what you mean by "pop music"
I thoroughly enjoyed the 90s dance wave and I happily listen to its children of the oughties who are in my opinion doing a good job of keeping it fresh.
After a helpful Facebook debate, I think I stopped listening to pop music shortly after I went to Uni, around 19. I became a Goth about the time the charts became dominated by house music.
Quote from: Slargos on April 15, 2009, 08:12:21 AM
Edit: But in the end, I guess it depends on what you mean by "pop music"
That rap-metal crap you kids are listening to these days.
Quote from: Savonarola on April 15, 2009, 08:17:04 AM
Quote from: Slargos on April 15, 2009, 08:12:21 AM
Edit: But in the end, I guess it depends on what you mean by "pop music"
That rap-metal crap you kids are listening to these days.
Fair enough. I don't think I ever started. :lol:
Quote from: Savonarola on April 15, 2009, 05:35:33 AM
Quote from: Korea on April 14, 2009, 10:03:37 PM
I use to listen to Nsync, Back Street Boys, Britney Spears, Christina Aguilera, Brandy, and etc. That is pop music to me. But I think I stopped listening to that when I was like 14. I've started listening to it again lately though. :wtf:
Get your own accound, Ide. Honestly.
:lol:
Quote from: Savonarola on April 15, 2009, 08:03:03 AM
I’m asking when you stopped listening to current popular songs; not if you still listen to soul-free dance music from 30 years ago.
Even that's not all that helpful. I don't think there's ever been a time that there wasn't something in the current Top 40 that I liked, but there's also never been a time that I liked everything that was in the Top 40, either.
Quote from: Admiral Yi on April 15, 2009, 03:20:30 AM
I read somewhere that some AM station are still top 40 format.
Who the heck listens to music on AM anymore?
Quote from: dps on April 15, 2009, 12:46:38 PM
Even that's not all that helpful. I don't think there's ever been a time that there wasn't something in the current Top 40 that I liked, but there's also never been a time that I liked everything that was in the Top 40, either.
Was there ever a time when you listened mostly to songs in the top 40?
Quote from: Savonarola on April 15, 2009, 08:17:04 AM
Quote from: Slargos on April 15, 2009, 08:12:21 AM
Edit: But in the end, I guess it depends on what you mean by "pop music"
That rap-metal crap you kids are listening to these days.
Not in Europe. Dance pop FTL. Even rap-metal would be an improvement. :bleeding:
Quote from: Savonarola on April 15, 2009, 12:53:48 PM
Quote from: dps on April 15, 2009, 12:46:38 PM
Even that's not all that helpful. I don't think there's ever been a time that there wasn't something in the current Top 40 that I liked, but there's also never been a time that I liked everything that was in the Top 40, either.
Was there ever a time when you listened mostly to songs in the top 40?
No.
Quote from: dps on April 15, 2009, 01:18:16 PM
Quote from: Savonarola on April 15, 2009, 12:53:48 PM
Was there ever a time when you listened mostly to songs in the top 40?
No.
Then you never listened primarily to pop music (as defined as music currently on the Top 40.) So the answer to my question, for you, would be never.
Demographics changed radio. Around here there are a lot of "oldies" stations that play music from the 60s-90s but very few stations that play current pop.
As a result the only reason I know anything about current music is because my boys play their Ipods through the family stereo amp from time to time.
Quote from: crazy canuck on April 15, 2009, 01:44:52 PM
Demographics changed radio. Around here there are a lot of "oldies" stations that play music from the 60s-90s but very few stations that play current pop.
As a result the only reason I know anything about current music is because my boys play their Ipods through the family stereo amp from time to time.
Oh the things I have to look forward to! :lol:
Quote from: Savonarola on April 15, 2009, 08:17:04 AM
Quote from: Slargos on April 15, 2009, 08:12:21 AM
Edit: But in the end, I guess it depends on what you mean by "pop music"
That rap-metal crap you kids are listening to these days.
Did I just step through a portal to the beginning of the decade? (or late 90s even)
Quote from: Tyr on April 15, 2009, 03:24:31 PM
Did I just step through a portal to the beginning of the decade? (or late 90s even)
Maybe, Einstein and Rosen said it was mathematically possible.
Quote from: Malthus on April 15, 2009, 01:46:00 PM
Oh the things I have to look forward to! :lol:
Just think. Only about 4 or 5 years away. Do yourself a favour and dont buy Carl an Ipod - or whatever is being used at the time.
Quote from: crazy canuck on April 15, 2009, 03:29:40 PM
Quote from: Malthus on April 15, 2009, 01:46:00 PM
Oh the things I have to look forward to! :lol:
Just think. Only about 4 or 5 years away. Do yourself a favour and dont buy Carl an Ipod - or whatever is being used at the time.
Shit, by the time he's old enough you will probably merely need to wave your hand in the right pattern to pull (crappy preteen) music out of thin air. :lol:
Quote from: Malthus on April 15, 2009, 03:33:15 PM
Quote from: crazy canuck on April 15, 2009, 03:29:40 PM
Quote from: Malthus on April 15, 2009, 01:46:00 PM
Oh the things I have to look forward to! :lol:
Just think. Only about 4 or 5 years away. Do yourself a favour and dont buy Carl an Ipod - or whatever is being used at the time.
Shit, by the time he's old enough you will probably merely need to wave your hand in the right pattern to pull (crappy preteen) music out of thin air. :lol:
You can already do it with funky facial expressions!
My most formative years were in the 80s; I still listen to popular music from the 80s to this day. Pretty much since I started listening to music I always liked stuff from the 60s-70s and then I was a big fan of many of the varied musical movements of the 80s. I haven't really listened to much since that time.
Also from a young age I listened to a lot of stuff from the Baroque/Classical/Romantic periods--a by product of being baby sat by a grandmother who was older than time itself.
I still listen to it in the car sometimes, but I prefer classic rock.
Quote from: Savonarola on April 14, 2009, 12:28:19 PM
From one of the debates in the Katy Perry thread; I was wondering how old people here were when they stopped listening primarily to pop music.
I stopped listening to Top 40 radio when I was 16 in 1988 during the glory days of pop metal, The New Kids on the Block and Madonna. I've never looked back.
about the same age, 14-15, I think, wich makes it about the same time as you :)
Started gradually with Bon Jovi, then Def Leppard, then Gun 'N Roses, then Metallica and it changed my life forevah' :P
I've always listened to a bit of pop music here and there if a song or artist vibed with me. But I've never ever only listened to one genre. I've always been all over the map in terms of what I listen too. Interestingly Radio has played itself out for me. There is no good radio in Vancouver, except CBC.