The Data Is In: You Like The Music You Heard When You Were 14

Discussion in 'Music Corner' started by Shaddam IV, Feb 12, 2018.

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  1. Higlander

    Higlander Well-Known Member

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    EXACTLY!
    Everyone is chiming in trying to say they are different.
     
  2. Higlander

    Higlander Well-Known Member

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    Talk about the subject?:hide:
     
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  3. Kingsley Fats

    Kingsley Fats Forum Resident

    No not commercial radio. The marketing strategists and their targeted audience concept started to unfold in the early 70's. The music industrystarted to become BIG business.
     
  4. Jose Jones

    Jose Jones Outstanding Forum Member

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    I don't like the use of the term "outgrow" in this kind of a discussion, because it has negative connotations and over-simplifies things. I don't view moving on to new forms of music as outgrowing the old music. It's more like adding to the mental and physical collection or continuing the education in music as we grow up and through adulthood. I can see that some people may cringe at some of their youthful musical choices, but others may smile, if only in private. :)
     
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  5. Jose Jones

    Jose Jones Outstanding Forum Member

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    They were the college girl's band of the Y2K era in my recollection. The girls that 10 years earlier would have been listening to Depeche Mode, were listening to DMB. I don't know if the jam band genre is too fashionable these days, but it had a good run, maybe more than it needed.
     
  6. Kingsley Fats

    Kingsley Fats Forum Resident

    The billboard charts follows the biggest sellers. The hits. The music that sold to the most people.
    This a large survey sample. Standard Distribution would be considered normal
    Adding all the people that the survey missed out would not significantly increase the size of the survey sample & would not significantly alter the standar Standard Distribution.

    eg. If we surveyed 100,000 people we would not expect the results to vary by surveying a further 10,000 different people.
     
  7. Kingsley Fats

    Kingsley Fats Forum Resident

    I'm not sure what all the fuss is about my mum nearly 50 years later still treats me like I'm still 14
     
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  8. bzfgt

    bzfgt The Grand High Exalted Mystic Ruler

    Hm, definitely not the case with me.
     
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  9. Jackson

    Jackson Senior Member

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    I could be totally wrong, but i think that person usually has little interest in discovering new or different music, or if they even know how, at least the ones i've known.
     
  10. Champagne Boot

    Champagne Boot Ain't nothin' gonna break my stride

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    Funny how everyone I knew who was really into DMB back then was a bro-ish guy...
     
  11. johnebravo

    johnebravo Forum Resident

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    Hence the cliche phrase "Oh, Honey -- they're playing our song!" ;)
     
  12. Witchy Woman

    Witchy Woman Forum Resident

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    I agree that comments are going to be about personal experiences. But it’s apparent some are not understanding that objectives measures were used, according to the article, when they complain that “blanket statements” are being made and “the net is being thrown too widely.”

    The study used actual data:
    “For this project, the music streaming service Spotify gave me data on how frequently every song is listened to by men and women of each particular age.”

    So ‘average’ here really means average in a statistical sense, not in a common language usage sense.
     
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  13. Kingsley Fats

    Kingsley Fats Forum Resident

    My wife is a primary school teacher. She spends a lot of time explaining to parents that yes your child is average, most children are, being average is a good thing & lot better than being below average.

    Yes ‘average’ here really means average in a statistical sense, not in a common language usage sense
     
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  14. slop101

    slop101 Guitar Geek

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    Nah, for me, a 45 year old, the music I like best and still like is the music I was most into during my early 20s, which is when I got into classic rock (Zeppelin, Kinks, Faces, etc), and when I got into modern British rock (Manic Street Preachers, Radiohead, etc), and that's still what I'm drawn towards. I still like the stuff I listened to when I was 14 (which was mostly punk and alternative rock from the mid-80s), but it didn't have nearly as big an influence on me as the stuff I listened to in my early 20s.

    And I still listen to a ton of new music, but it's new music that captures what I was into in my early 20s.
     
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  15. Endymion

    Endymion Forum Resident

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    According to the article I should love the music made from 1980 to 1983 and I do.
    But I love the music made from 1967 to 1979 a lot more.
    Of course when I was 13-16 I HEARD a lot of older music due to two older brothers having record collections.
     
  16. Silksashbash

    Silksashbash Forum Resident

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    I don't think I was that special. Many guys in my class listened to a lot of music, and everyone had access at least to a portable cassette deck and some blank tapes. Tapes circulated and I had many of which I had no idea where they came from originally. But this was the eighties, I see how it may have been different in an earlier era.
     
  17. David-Shea

    David-Shea Toastmaster General

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    I'm 31 now, at 14 I was all about Metallica, AC/DC, and Van Halen. Still am too...as for my early 20's...Death was pretty much the band I became enthralled with. Again, I still am. Proud of it too.
     
  18. Grant

    Grant Life is a rock, but the radio rolled me!

    I'm not leaving it out, I just don't relate to it.
     
  19. Grant

    Grant Life is a rock, but the radio rolled me!

    And, what a lot of us are saying is that it's too general an assumption, even for most people, I think. It's quite silly to think that we have no music in our lives and then one day at the age of 14...BOOM! You hear music. That's not the way it works.
     
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  20. Say It Right

    Say It Right Not for the Hearing Impaired

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    It's a symptom of a bigger disease on this forum. Seriously, it's happening with greater regularity. No matter what the topic, people have to automatically internalize and then discuss themselves and their "feelings."
     
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  21. HfxBob

    HfxBob Forum Resident

    Damn, I thought it was 17. Must have been a different study...
     
  22. eric777

    eric777 Astral Projectionist

    It sometimes seems as though this disease isn’t limited to just this forum. It’s something I see all the time regarding many different subjects both online and in the real world.
     
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  23. Say It Right

    Say It Right Not for the Hearing Impaired

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    Likely the social media effect. It's not really social at all. "It's all about ME!"

    Don't get me wrong, personal accounts can add a lot to the discussions, but it's just become too much of personal, emotional reaction without much thought.
     
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  24. Raf

    Raf Senior Member

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    I like the music I heard when I was 0–53 (so far).
     
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  25. bare trees

    bare trees Senior Member

    I still love Led Zeppelin, Sabbath, Priest, and Maiden but a lot of the glam metal that I liked at the time has fallen by the wayside. There are also many artists who music I love now but didn't really know or care about when I was 14 ie. Gramm Parsons, Steey Dan, J.J Cale.
     
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