josht23musiclover

This thread was extremely interesting to me: in fact it was the impetus for me signing up.

I'm a regular poster on a Classical music forum and that (massive umbrella of a) genre is by far my favourite, although I have been exploring other genres more and more lately.

It is guessable then why this thread was of such interest: what is considered 'old music' is, for someone like me, relatively very new in the context of just how far the history of great music goes back. Even a poster who is trying to defend 'old music' can say something like:

"Lol; people who can't appreciate music from before 1980 need a nice kick in the back of the head, as most of what you guys seem to like/appreciate is either diluted, derivative of, or simply influenced heavily from what was done back in the late 60's and 70's anyway (across ALL genres), so what's stopping you from spelunking some and seeing what you might have missed?

Personally, I'm also somewhere in the middle. I keep an eye what comes out regularly, but I don't make-believe that there isn't forty to fifty years of great music behind this generation either."

It's fascinating to me that this poster, defending old music, considers there to be only "forty to fifty years of great music behind this generaton." Classical has literally only been mentioned once in this entire thread: in a thread of 'old music', it is simply as if over a thousand years of music doesn't exist, and that music started fifty years ago.

I don't mean for this post to seem bitter or antagonising (I'm generally very open-minded and accepting of what people listen to/the trends of listening), but rather am simply observing something that seems very unusual to someone with my musical paradigms.