I join the 21st Century (musically)

[sunjester]

My niece recently signed me up for a Spotify account and I have had great fun over the past few weeks.

Now I know every decade has good music and bad music, and sometimes good bad music, but listening choices are predominantly pre-2000.

That's not to say I haven't found artists and material I like more recently, such as George Ezra, Sam Fender and Gary Numan (*I'll digress on Gary's recent output shortly).

But now I have been exploring the likes of Myles Smith, Alex Warren, Shaboozy (there seems to be a bit of a country vibe popular at the moment) and the brilliant Gerry Cinnamon. I'm still listening to the likes of Thin Lizzy, The Who, The Cure, Rush and my other old favourites.

* If you aren't familiar with Garry Numan's material over the past decade or so, check it out. I did some collaboration with Nine Inch Nails a while back and you can see the influence. I particularly recommend the albums Splinter (Songs from a Broken Mind), Savage (Songs from a Broken World) and Intruder. 

[Duke Speedy of Leighton]

Try Waxoohachi too

[Last Hussar]

Bless you.

[Last Hussar]

People's musical favourites tend to be what they liked at puberty. The brain changes, and that sort of sets your culture.

[Ithoriel]

People's musical favourites tend to be what they liked at puberty. The brain changes, and that sort of sets your culture.

My current favourites are things like Saltatio Mortis's "My Mother Told Me", Peyton Parrish's "Drengr", Joyce Jonathan's "On" and Chappell Roan's "Pink Pony Club" - not sure that's what I was hearing back in the 60's

Geoff Castellucci's version of "Ghost Riders in the Sky" or London Grammar's version of "Wicked Game" are probably closer though I prefer the latter's "Lord It's A Feeling."

[sunjester]

Try Waxoohachi too

I will it/them give a look.

People's musical favourites tend to be what they liked at puberty. The brain changes, and that sort of sets your culture.

Certainly not the case with me, my tastes have expanded hugely since then.