Retro Music

[3113]

This might be just me or my neighborhood...but has anyone noticed a decided preponderance of 60's music in stores and restaurants of late? I don't mean places frequented and run by Boomers either. I mean places with college-age kids working behind the counter, and owners in their 20's or 30's. and a wide range age-range of customers.

Today it was just weird! I at lunch at a place playing Beach Boys and "My Boyfriend's Back" and Motown, went into a bookstore playing Stones, stopped at a travel store playing Beatles....

We're not talking about a music mix of oldies here either. Nothing from the 70's, 80's or 90's, just 60's. The clothing in the stores is all 60's and now the music... ohmygawd! Maybe I've been transported into the past?

Hello friends in 2008. I am writing to you from 1968. Please get me out of here! The choices are Humphrey or Nixon!

 

[TheeGoatPig]

Nope. ot the 60s so much. Most of what I hear when I am out is 80s music. Then again, I do live in Jersey, the hair state.

 

[Safe_Bet]

This might be just me or my neighborhood...but has anyone noticed a decided preponderance of 60's music in stores and restaurants of late? I don't mean places frequented and run by Boomers either. I mean places with college-age kids working behind the counter, and owners in their 20's or 30's. and a wide range age-range of customers.

Today it was just weird! I at lunch at a place playing Beach Boys and "My Boyfriend's Back" and Motown, went into a bookstore playing Stones, stopped at a travel store playing Beatles....

We're not talking about a music mix of oldies here either. Nothing from the 70's, 80's or 90's, just 60's. The clothing in the stores is all 60's and now the music... ohmygawd! Maybe I've been transported into the past?

Hello friends in 2008. I am writing to you from 1968. Please get me out of here! The choices are Humphrey or Nixon!

3113 just hang in there. We're trying to get you back to the present before you hear the BeeGee's and commit polyester fashion suicide.

 

[3113]

3113 just hang in there. We're trying to get you back to the present before you hear the BeeGee's and commit polyester fashion suicide.

I'm hanging in here. I've just run across a Love Fest in the park and everyone seems very nice and friendly. They've tie-dyed my shirt and put flowers in my hair. At least the music is good. I'm being invited to see Hendrix. Also being asked if I want to go "tripping." Please advise. Am I being asked to take a road trip?

 

[epiphany65]

I'm hanging in here. I've just run across a Love Fest in the park and everyone seems very nice and friendly. They've tie-dyed my shirt and put flowers in my hair. At least the music is good. I'm being invited to see Hendrix. Also being asked if I want to go "tripping." Please advise. Am I being asked to take a road trip?

Whatver you do -- don't take the brown acid! I hear it's bad, man. I mean, it's your trip, but... man, I hear it's bad.

 

[voluptuary_manque]

What, again? When I was in grad school all the student pizza joint played was Simon and Garfunkel. I was really stoked, yanno? Trippin' away, gnoshing on the pie when it occurred to me that these kids were sittin' there groovin' on their parents' music. Now it's their grandparents! Hasn't anyone got any sounds of their own?

 

[R. Richard]

There is a shop here in town that sells used ladies clothing. Some of the stuff is from way back in the 50s and 60s. That section of the store supposedly plays only 50s 60s music. I collect 50s and 60s music. I happened to talk to the owner and asked about a few classic song titles. She didn't have those specific titles, but she would get them.

 

[voluptuary_manque]

But, Bro, for you it's perfectly reasonable. You were there, then, just like I was. But today's college kids and teenagers are young enough to be our grandchildren. What's their excuse . . . other than it's better than anything coming out, now?

 

[JPMMURPHY]

Well, when you consider that Elvis is at the top of the Forbes Dead Artist list with earnings in the last 12 months of $53 million and that he beat Timberlake who earned only $44 million maybe it makes sense.

And what else you might be noticing are re-makes by current artists of decades old music. There been a lot'a that lately.

 

[voluptuary_manque]

Well, when you consider that Elvis is at the top of the Forbes Dead Artist list with earnings in the last 12 months of $53 million and that he beat Timberlake who earned only $44 million maybe it makes sense.

And what else you might be noticing are re-makes by current artists of decades old music. There been a lot'a that lately.

I would suppose that's because Rap isn't music.

 

[OhMissScarlett]

Let's blame Amy Winehouse.

 

[DeeZire]

... What's their excuse . . . other than it's better than anything coming out, now?...

I think that's the point. I just got a sampler CD with the latest edition of 'American Songwriter.' I had to skip through nine cuts before I found something that actually had a singable chorus. (Brett Dennen, 'Make You Crazy' from the 'Hope for the Hopeless' CD. He's been opening for John Mayer on tour.)

With all the do-it-yourself artists getting independent label deals, or releasing product on their own labels, you have a whole generation of songwriters who don't know how to write songs. I think it's part of the mindset of the new generation - they want it all and they want it now, but they don't want to take the time to learn the craft. It's comparable to first-time writers who will look back on their early work and cringe some day.

Amy Whinehouse is a good example - good singer, great band, really amateur songwriting. And she won a freakin' grammy! At least her grammy was balanced out with John Mayer's, who knows how to write a decent song.

 

[TheeGoatPig]

I think that's the point. I just got a sampler CD with the latest edition of 'American Songwriter.' I had to skip through nine cuts before I found something that actually had a singable chorus. (Brett Dennen, 'Make You Crazy' from the 'Hope for the Hopeless' CD. He's been opening for John Mayer on tour.)

With all the do-it-yourself artists getting independent label deals, or releasing product on their own labels, you have a whole generation of songwriters who don't know how to write songs. I think it's part of the mindset of the new generation - they want it all and they want it now, but they don't want to take the time to learn the craft. It's comparable to first-time writers who will look back on their early work and cringe some day.

Amy Whinehouse is a good example - good singer, great band, really amateur songwriting. And she won a freakin' grammy! At least her grammy was balanced out with John Mayer's, who knows how to write a decent song.

I know I'm probably the only real metal head here, but I have the same problem with a lot of bands these days. You won't recognize any of the bands that I would mention so I will spare you the details, but there are a slew of them out right now that have no idea what a song is. They just throw a dozen guitar riffs at a few drum beat, drop some vocals over it and call it a day. They think that because they know how to play thier instruments that makes them musicians, but their songs are nearly unlistenable, even to a fan of the genres they are playing in.

 

[epiphany65]

I know I'm probably the only real metal head here, but I have the same problem with a lot of bands these days. You won't recognize any of the bands that I would mention so I will spare you the details, but there are a slew of them out right now that have no idea what a song is. They just throw a dozen guitar riffs at a few drum beat, drop some vocals over it and call it a day. They think that because they know how to play thier instruments that makes them musicians, but their songs are nearly unlistenable, even to a fan of the genres they are playing in.

I stopped listening to new metal after Fast Eddie left Motorhead and Lemmy hired Wurzel.

 

[TheeGoatPig]

I stopped listening to new metal after Fast Eddie left Motorhead and Lemmy hired Wurzel.

I love The Ace of Spades, but Motorhead is easy listening to me I was thinking more of bands (that don't know how to write) like Job for a Cowboy, From a Second Story Window, The Black Dahlia Murder, and so on (great, you made me list names ).

 

[epiphany65]

I love The Ace of Spades, but Motorhead is easy listening to me I was thinking more of bands (that don't know how to write) like Job for a Cowboy, From a Second Story Window, The Black Dahlia Murder, and so on (great, you made me list names ).

I'm so out of touch with new music, especially metal. The last new metal album I listened to was (I think) Sepultura's first. I'm 43, so I guess I'm more of an old school metal-head. Saw Maiden in '84 and was hooked...

 

[WRJames]

My great fear is that we're in for a 70's revival. When you start to see leisure suits -- it's time to panic.

 

[TheeGoatPig]

My great fear is that we're in for a 70's revival. When you start to see leisure suits -- it's time to panic.

I would be tempted to join in just for the ridiculousness of it.

 

[Safe_Bet]

I would be tempted to join in just for the ridiculousness of it.

Please don't tell me that you have something made out of double knit polyester hiding in the back of your closet. Please don't...

 

[Safe_Bet]

I'm hanging in here. I've just run across a Love Fest in the park and everyone seems very nice and friendly. They've tie-dyed my shirt and put flowers in my hair. At least the music is good. I'm being invited to see Hendrix. Also being asked if I want to go "tripping." Please advise. Am I being asked to take a road trip?

Okay, we did some research in the ancient archives and it tells us that "tripping" is a "groovy" and "far out" thing to do. It also leads us to believe that it usually involves a 1965 Volkswagen van with an odd circle containing a multi-pronged symbol painted on the spare tire cover. We have yet to discover the meaning of this symbol, but we believe it has something to do with chickens. BTW, the vehicle should, ideally, be painted several bright colors.

 

[jomar]

But, Bro, for you it's perfectly reasonable. You were there, then, just like I was. But today's college kids and teenagers are young enough to be our grandchildren. What's their excuse . . . other than it's better than anything coming out, now?

There's a ton of good music out there right now, probably mostly on college playlists, though. I listened to regular FM radio some last night and was reminded why I don't miss it.

My kids introduce me to a lot of good stuff and in return, they like a lot of old school music from the 60s to the 80s that I've shared with them.

 

[voluptuary_manque]

Okay, we did some research in the ancient archives and it tells us that "tripping" is a "groovy" and "far out" thing to do. It also leads us to believe that it usually involves a 1965 Volkswagen van with an odd circle containing a multi-pronged symbol painted on the spare tire cover. We have yet to discover the meaning of this symbol, but we believe it has something to do with chickens. BTW, the vehicle should, ideally, be painted several bright colors.

Don't forget that it has to have flowers painted all over it.

 

[TheeGoatPig]

Okay, we did some research in the ancient archives and it tells us that "tripping" is a "groovy" and "far out" thing to do. It also leads us to believe that it usually involves a 1965 Volkswagen van with an odd circle containing a multi-pronged symbol painted on the spare tire cover. We have yet to discover the meaning of this symbol, but we believe it has something to do with chickens. BTW, the vehicle should, ideally, be painted several bright colors.

No I do not. My father might, but I am twice his size. No, I would actually have to go out and spend money on new clothing to fit in with the deplorable 70s revival that you are threatening to unleash on the whole of humanity.

I much preferred the 80s anyway

 

[michchick98]

It's comparable to first-time writers who will look back on their early work and cringe some day.

Odd you should say that, I just read through one of my first stories posted here on Lit and I think "What the hell was I thinking?" Oh my Gawd, my writing was so horrible!

Anyway, most of the stores here in the Metro Detroit area play a wide range, but mostly easy listening stuff.

I notice more and more stores are using local radio stations as opposed to 'canned' music and there are two popular stations here in Detroit that play everything from 50's to present day. It's kind of weird when I get out of the car and go into a store and hear the same song I was just listening to in my car.

Also, I've noticed that decades repeat themselves after awhile. A few years back, we had a rebirth of many different 80's fads/fashions, perhaps the 60's are being reborn in some areas?

I kind of like the fact that the 'younger crowd' is listening to and enjoying stuff I grew up with.

 

[3113]

Okay, we did some research in the ancient archives and it tells us that "tripping" is a "groovy" and "far out" thing to do. It also leads us to believe that it usually involves a 1965 Volkswagen van with an odd circle containing a multi-pronged symbol painted on the spare tire cover. We have yet to discover the meaning of this symbol, but we believe it has something to do with chickens. BTW, the vehicle should, ideally, be painted several bright colors.

Have actually been taken for a drive in said vehicle. As VM predicted, it had flowers painted on it as well as the chicken print. It gets terrible gas milage and reeks of hemp and pachouli, but it's very comfortable. There's no seats in the back, just this big mattress with a lot of blankets. Please advise, what's does "get it on" mean? The two gents and three ladies who own the van have promised me that we'll all be "getting it on" in the van after the concert.

I am currently at the Hendrix show. I think I'm having trouble with 60's food and drink or maybe it was those sugar cubes everyone was urging me to try. I seem to be having hallucinations. I know from my rock history that Hendrix is supposed to set his guitar on fire, but is he supposed to turn into Cthulhu?