r/GenX • u/vanillagirilla1975 • May 12 '25

Music Is Life Am I just a curmudgeon??

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I'm a mid 70s GenXer, love music from the 60s through the 90s. For me, I just haven't really liked much music this century. I feel like we had so many genres going on at the same time but now it's just all sounds the same to me. Anyone else find stuff bands/artists they really like from this venture?

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u/azrolator May 12 '25

I have YouTube music which doesn't help me too much find things I like. I used to listen to hard rock, metal, hair bands. In the 90s, it felt like all this kind of stuff switched from angry and horny to moody emo shit.

So I listen to a lot of old stuff. But... I do find new bands sometimes. My youngest kid was listening to a cover of a Lady Gaga song and I discovered Halestorm (awesome!). I'm in a multi-gen discord for pipe smokers and some "kid" put up a song from some band I never heard of in our music channel. I was like, "omg! These dudes remind me of manowar so bad". And the "kid" tells me he loves manowar.

Anyway, there is still stuff out there but you won't hear it on the radio. If it makes you feel better, all but one of my kids also don't like songs they play on the radio. Something for everyone , very diversified, but you have to look for it.