People who grew up in the 50's, 60's, 70's, 80's, or 90's: Did your generation dislike the music of the time?

I was born in 1944 and was in high school from 1959-62. All I remember from those years is that the kids in school enjoyed music with a good, strong, danceable beat. Some enjoyed R&B. Many enjoyed the "pop rock" of the early 60s. I remember how HUGE "girl groups" were. If you went to a sock hop, you could be sure many records by the popular girl groups would be thumpin' from the school's jukebox in our gymnasium. My high school's student body had a massive population of Italians, so the popularity of Elvis, Roy Orbison, Connie Francis, Bobby Darin, Bobby Rydell, Jack Scott, Eddie Cochran and Paul Anka was enormous. The Italians made up the vast majority of the "Mondo" clique in school. They were what kids call the "greasers".. Mondo chicks wore the ultra-tight clothes, the enormous bouffants, white, peach or bubblegum-pink lipstick with heavy eye makeup. The Mondos acquired a certain amount of servile fear among the student body. They just about "owned" the jukebox. We listened to what THEY wanted to play. Yes, there was a small percentage of kids who growled whenever a record by the current "teen idol" was played. Idols like "Bobby Vee or Frankie Avalon". Similar to how teens react to Justin Bieber, Miley Cyrus or whatever kids currently dislike.

In college (1963-66) my friends and I listened to more jazz and some R&B. We were trying so hard to drift away from our sock hop days. I never followed the British Invasion of 1964 and thereafter. I thought most of it was too loud and indulged in screaming...especially the Stones and the Kinks.

I stopped listening to modern music in the early 1990s. My kids kept me young by introducing me to current artists during the 1970s and 80, but by 1993 music was WAY too loud and obnoxious for me. To this day I still cringe when I hear "Smells like teen spirit".

I grew up in the late 90s (basically after grunge, and more towards the formation of boy bands). For that general period of time, I still know many people my age that appreciate the late 90s/early 00s music. And of course, many are also fans of Nirvana, Pearl Jam, and other alternative and grunge bands to come out of the era.

Modern music... well, I've done some digging and there are some really good bands out there, and its all a matter of where you look. Obviously, looking at the top 40 would be my last option, but I am fond of a few popular bands, but for the most part would rather listen to indie/more underground bands that *should* deserve more popularity, but do not. :)

Based on footage and accounts from "back in the day", I'd say the youth were pretty stoked about the music of their times. Only recently has there been this trend of kids hating the music/culture of their own era, and that has to mean something.

I was born at the end of '89, and have some musical memories through the 90's but became fully musically conscious around 11 years of age. I think modern music is largely depleted, and it makes sense. Inherent within Western civilization is the constant "drive forward", to "progress" and "innovate", but in music and many other things, this has its limits. When so many possibilities have already been used, it becomes harder to make something novel and you get a bunch of derivative, uninspired "product".

I think this whole society has to evolve and with it the cultural zeitgeist, perhaps to some sort of integration of "Western" and collectivist elements in which music and resources are more sustainable and not based on money. Look up "Resource Based Economy" for more on this.

I grew up in the 70's and I love music from the 50's right up to the 90's. Seriously, today's music blows. You can't blame any kid for preferring Zeppelin and Hendrix to the soulless crap that passes for rock today.

I blame a lot of on all of this sub-genre nonsense. In the 80's I was as big a fan of Billy Joel and Queen as I was The Smiths and Sonic Youth. Music genres seemed to blend and mix a lot more back in the day and we were better off for it.

Back in the 70s, people were either into

more popular music being fans of the big names of the time: Elton John, David Bowie, Neal Young, Various Singer Songwriters - James Taylor, Billy Joel, etc.

The pop category was HUUUGE. So, a lot of people found a lot of great music there

or

rock music being fans of the big names: Rolling Stones, Led Zeppelin, Who, Pink Floyd, etc.

What we didn't have was access to "small bands" The "record" industry decided who made it, who got air time, and who didn't. So, they tended to push this big front of big names at all the baby boomers who were in their teens to early 30s at the time.

It was a fabulous time for music. So, many talented people writing so much great music in many genres that could be loosely considered "popular": soul, r&b, funk, rock, soft rock, pop, hard rock, dance, etc. By the time I was 16 I knew the words to hundreds of songs "on the radio" because we heard them 1000 times over and over again. FM Radio was king then.

All of us had a long list of favorites in all the genres.

Then MTV came along and ruined popular and rock music (I'll use the term loosely) for about 10 years from 1980-1990.

I grew up in the 90s, and most people tended to like 90s music. Me and my friends were into bands like Alice In Chains, STP and Smashing Pumpkins in high school. But we also listened to a lot of classic rock stuff like Zeppelin and Pink Floyd etc.

As far as today's music, I personnally can't stand 95% of it.

no most of those generations had good music(except for most 80's) and theres a reason why so many people cant stand today's music (well this is why i cant) to me music is like a form of poetry, songs like "like a rolling stone" by Bob Dylan and Gloria by Van Morrison's band "Them" are poetry, all i hear on the radio now is stupid lyrics like "the club cant even handle me right now" back in those generations music was inspiring now music is just auto tuned garbage.

im from the eighties and ill tell ya 80s music sucked 90s was pretty good the only good one in the 80s and now is weird al

Honestly, no! Not to say there wasn't crap out there. There was!

i grew up in the 90's and i hated nirvana to the core one lucky band that got so much publicity when other bands of that era didn't get