Out of curiosity what do people in this thread consider to be the cut off point between what's old and what's new?

I'd kinda say anything before 2001 is old, whereas anything afterwards is new. So an 8 year or so cut-off period.

I'd say 1997.

I don't get new releases very often, though I'd say most of my listening goes towards more recent albums (5 years old). I listen to a good bit of old stuff though. Right now, though, I'd say more new things.

It's hard to say... I don't really consider Radiohead and Oasis and such old, and they got their start in the early 90s

The production was non existent? what? In some ways it was better. They didn't have computers to multi layer effects and tracks down. I appreciate that you don't like a band such as Black Sabbath but their debut was recorded on a 4 track machine and sounds absolutely astonishing.

Funk from the 70's has that earthy live vibe to it that separates it from the bland safe production that can be heard on a lot of music these days. The Quantic Soul Orchestra are a relatively new band who purposefully record their albums as lo-fi as possible to retain that dirty sound that funk needs.

Good production certainly helps some bands but pre computer production is definitely a plus for me. The music sounds so much more organic.

Dac: I'd call that more on the old side myself. I'm also thinking of it in albums, though, so if I were to listen to more new Radiohead than the older stuff, I'd say my taste is more new for them.

I consider stuff before I was born to be "old"

To me if you cut it off at like 2000 then you have new, old, and really ****ing old when it comes to bands like The Beatles, so for the sake of the topic of this thead, I'd say like 1990 would be my new-old threshold.

Old would be from another decade, or earlier in this decade. Basically, a change in musical sound. I'd think early 2000's would sound different from now, anyway.

Dac: Yeah, you could say I look at it in that light. It really just slips more into old as you go back. 90's would be somewhat old, and the 20's would be damn old.