People who truly appreciate music

Chula Vista · 10-17-2014, 10:24 AM

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Originally Posted by Midgar77

I've heard/read stories about how a lot of people used to be like that, back in like the 1970s and 1980s. People would just listen to The Dark Side of the Moon in its entirety and absolutely love it.

I'm 54 and was fortunate to experience all of the great 60s and 70s stuff in real time. Lots of things to consider when trying to imagine what it was like back then.

- no video games, cell phones, home PCs (no email, Facebook, IM, internet, iTunes, etc.)
- most people owned only 1 television and there was no cable and pretty limited programming (that started changing in the mid 70s)
- the formats for music were albums at home and 8 tracks or cassettes in the car. None of which make song hopping very easy.
- a LOT of rock artists were focused on the AOR format instead of singles.

Slapping an album on and listening to the whole thing was just "the thing to do" back then if you were a fan of rock music.

Fans of pop would buy 45s and listen to their fave hits over and over again though.