Being a fan of much older singers?

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I'm 20 and a huge fan of several 40 year old singers, is that weird?

I just feel awkward telling people my favourite bands have 37, or 40 year old lead singers!

Maybe it's just me?

I don't think it's weird. I'm 21 and I listen to LOTS of music. Some of my favorite artist's are very old. Is the music old or do the people just happen to be still making music well into their forties, fifties etc.? For example Stevie Nicks is still making music, but she is old or do you mean listening to a artist's music from the 70's?

I like Sharon den Adel, she is almost 40 years old and has kids. She is the lead singer of a great metal band.

all my favorite singers are so old they're long-dead.

Pretty much all the singers and their bands I listen to are quite old.

Although I'm not sure if you mean listening to their new material, or old?

e.g:

Bruce Dickinson
Stevie Nicks
Paul McCartney

Same with all of my younger brother's favorite singers. He's 17 and isn't ashamed of loving old singers. In fact, he goes out of his way to make sure that everybody on Facebook knows how much he loves them.

tell him for me

What if you're 20 and regularly listen to Perry Como? Hell what if half your music library was from the 1980s and before? Cuz that's my situation.

Only half? I'd call that a music lover who appreciates the classics.

gee, 99.9% of my music collection is pre-1980 also. you are in the select club, AFAIC.

A lot of my favorite singers are much older then me, usually between 30 and 50 the oldest is, i think, 58.

Last edited by Titangeek on 06 Oct 2011, 11:51 am, edited 1 time in total.

I think MTV was the death of pop music inspired soley by listening, and the birth of something completely new. It began with Madonna ,continued, and has morphed into Lady Ga Ga.

Music: always a reflection of culture from the beginnings of human culture. It appears not everyone is buying modern culture.

At the military gym I go to, they still are playing stuff from the 70's on a regular basis. Music that is 40 years old. It's amazing, participating in a military gymnasium in the 70's, nothing was ever played more than 10 years old, and for the most part it was current music, the same music they are playing close to 40 years later. I think there are some songs I have heard thousands of times in my lifetime, because they never die.

Will any music created today, live a 40 year life, among the same generation of people, I'm thinking it won't, and wonder if the stuff from the 70's will continue on until someone finds a way to replicate it; i'm not sure if that type of creativity will exist in the future, the same may apply to many other artistic areas in life.

the lions' share of music nowadays is mechanistically mass-produced, and like lots of other mass produced things has an intentionally limited shelf life. most music today is faddish and meant only for collective infatuation until the next big thing. it is mostly style and minimal substance. of course, there are those who would say that about any publically consumed thing from the dawn of civilization itself. who knows? not me, for sure.

old as in from the past or old as in elderly?

Tom Waits and Johnny Cash both got better at singing (IMO) as they got older. Same goes for most male country or blues singers.

2 of the 5 most rocking shows I ever saw: Mission of Burma, and No Means No, both had singers in their 50s. With rock/punk, etc, it seems like the people who try to make very complicated music get better as they age and develop the skills to do it. Like singing and playing guitar at the same time, and having the two parts be totally distinct rhythmically and melodically from each other. Much harder than both-in-unison, or one-then-the-other.

Wayne Coyne from Flaming Lips didn't even figure out how to hit pitches with his singing until he was in his late 40s. I liked him more when he was off key anyway, though.

I'm a fan of old music, mainly because mainstream crap takes over everything.

Old musicians/bands I'm into:

Cannibal Corpse
Cream
Death
The Imperials
King Diamond
Led Zeppelin
Megadeth
Mercyful Fate
Newsboys
Ozzy Osbourne
Petra
Slayer
Stratovarius
Stryper

i wish i could go back in time, with portable stereo recording equipment and a ticket for the good seats at the january 1938 benny goodman allstar jazz concert at carnegie hall. that was a sublime performance for the ages.