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| engrguy42:
james_s, do you not recognize that you're doing exactly the same thing as you accuse the OP of doing? Lighten up. Stop the personal attacks, and if you don't like what someone posts don't read their threads. And get the f*** off my lawn !!!! :-DD |
| Cerebus:
--- Quote from: Dubbie on June 03, 2020, 05:19:11 am ---There was a lot of crap music back in the 60's and 70's as well. It's since been forgotten and only the really good stuff has survived. Old grumpy codgers have been singing your lament ever since old grumpy codgers were first invented. --- End quote --- Grumpy old codgers just aren't what they used to be. When I was a lad we had proper grumpy old codgers. You only had to look at a Parky and he'd be chasing you across the park with his spiked stick before you could say "Jack Robinson". Kids these days don't know what it's like to properly scolded by someone to whom you were just the next scourge after Hitler and the Kaiser and they were ready to tell you so at the drop of a hat: "I didn't fight Hitler for the likes of you to sit around smoking on park benches! Get a job and get your bloody hair cut! Now piss off before this old soldier gives you a taste of his walking stick." They were genuinely scary because they'd lived through two wars, not the "great hair gell shortage of '83" that was the worst that most baby boomers have had to deal with, and would happily lay into you with that walking stick in certain knowledge that any constable that came along would probably get their truncheon out and join in with the old codger. Moaning about "music that kids listen to these days" is strictly amateur hour. Get a walking stick, a Gannex mac, a tweed trilby, some brogues and go and sit on a park bench until some unsuspecting teenager comes into view... |
| tggzzz:
--- Quote from: Cerebus on June 03, 2020, 07:28:11 pm --- --- Quote from: Dubbie on June 03, 2020, 05:19:11 am ---There was a lot of crap music back in the 60's and 70's as well. It's since been forgotten and only the really good stuff has survived. Old grumpy codgers have been singing your lament ever since old grumpy codgers were first invented. --- End quote --- Grumpy old codgers just aren't what they used to be. When I was a lad we had proper grumpy old codgers. You only had to look at a Parky and he'd be chasing you across the park with his spiked stick before you could say "Jack Robinson". Kids these days don't know what it's like to properly scolded by someone to whom you were just the next scourge after Hitler and the Kaiser and they were ready to tell you so at the drop of a hat: "I didn't fight Hitler for the likes of you to sit around smoking on park benches! Get a job and get your bloody hair cut! Now piss off before this old soldier gives you a taste of his walking stick." They were genuinely scary because they'd lived through two wars, not the "great hair gell shortage of '83" that was the worst that most baby boomers have had to deal with, and would happily lay into you with that walking stick in certain knowledge that any constable that came along would probably get their truncheon out and join in with the old codger. Moaning about "music that kids listen to these days" is strictly amateur hour. Get a walking stick, a Gannex mac, a tweed trilby, some brogues and go and sit on a park bench until some unsuspecting teenager comes into view... --- End quote --- Back then we had real grumpy gits like Alf Garnett ('Til death us do part). ISTR reading that the BBC was "afraid" to broadcast them now, but that may be unfounded. Now we merely have Victor Meldrew (One foot in the grave), who is much less aggressive and much less old-school east end working class. I refuse to contemplate that I am beginning to resemble him. |
| TimFox:
About 30 years ago, we ate dinner downtown before attending the Chicago Symphony concert at Orchestra Hall. While we were getting our coats from the cloakroom, a matron somewhat older than I (at the time) told her companion: "I hope they don't do some of that dissonant modern music like Bartok", to which I replied, "Lady, Bartok died before you were born." |
| Cerebus:
--- Quote from: TimFox on June 03, 2020, 07:49:10 pm ---About 30 years ago, we ate dinner downtown before attending the Chicago Symphony concert at Orchestra Hall. While we were getting our coats from the cloakroom, a matron somewhat older than I (at the time) told her companion: "I hope they don't do some of that dissonant modern music like Bartok", to which I replied, "Lady, Bartok died before you were born." --- End quote --- Take a look at some of the British upper classes (Jacob Rees-Mogg anybody?) and you'll realise that to them Bartok is modern. No doubt some of the "my family was on the Mayflower" crowd are similar. |
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