How Old is too Old for a Song?

[ThePhanastasio]

I don't think it's ever too old. I'll listen to music that was composed hundreds of years ago, and music that was just recorded weeks or days ago.

The "music is timeless" statement above pretty much sums it up.

[Howard the Duck]

the oldest stuff I listen to are from the 30s - Woody, Leddy and Rbert Johnson

I wouldn't consider classical music old because they're not recorded the time they were composed - I'm sure they have been permutated into their current form through various interpretations and is not originally like that - i would think Mozart's original works were rowdy noise

[Thom Yorke]

If it's good music, it's good music. When it was made should have no bearing.

[TockTockTock]

[Key]

As it's been stated, if it's music you like, it'll never get old.

There is a case of a band getting a bit boring after a while, but those bands generally always jump back into your library at some point or another.

[starrynight]

Originally Posted by Il Duce

the oldest stuff I listen to are from the 30s - Woody, Leddy and Rbert Johnson

I wouldn't consider classical music old because they're not recorded the time they were composed - I'm sure they have been permutated into their current form through various interpretations and is not originally like that - i would think Mozart's original works were rowdy noise

Well there are period instrument groups who try and replicate the sound they had back then. The technical standard of playing of orchestral and maybe even chamber groups could well be higher now I suppose.

Earliest recorded music I like would be from the 1900s. The early 1900s and 1890s stuff tends to be so distorted as to be very hard to listen to for me.

[CHCl3]

Originally Posted by Jack Pat

Better than some of the stuff being produced today.