re: Boomers are defined by the music of the 60-70's

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There's a tweener generation between boomers and GenX that might be "defined" by 1970's music.

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That’s me but you can add 80’s music to that as well, along with 90’s…

Some of the best music I liked was played on KKND, The End, back in the 90’s..

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People say this all the time and I ask what exactly they did to piss off millenials. I never get a straight answer. But I will keep asking, hoping that someday, maybe it will be explained.

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Boomers currently hold most of the leavers of power in government and business (Xers coming up fast though).


For older millennials (born in the 80s cohort mostly), the financial crisis hit at a formative time. All the smart boomers running the money and the government fricked up, and all of our expensive degrees were kinda worth shite for a while and the debt made it hard to buy a home when prices were in the gutter.


This cohort is doing pretty well now, but those memories last.

Younger millennials and Zers missed the financial crisis but have endured a generally chaotic 20-30 y/o period with boomers in charge.

I think the power dynamic in the professional world is part of it.

The other comes down to different sensibilities socially. There's a lot less of "what would the neighbors think" in younger generations. I know my folks and in-laws care way more about people dressing weird, men with long hair and women with crazy colors/short hair, and things of that nature way more than the younger generation does.

Which is funny, because it was the Boomers who opened up the culture to be more laid back in their young days. I'm sure us millennials will be bitching about the young generations dress and attitudes as well.

I dunno, that's a lot of what drives it from my perspective at least.

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From what I can tell, it's "they worked their asses off their whole life and made better lives for themselves and their children, and now they have nice houses and money and I'm a young entitled snot nosed brat and I am jealous that I don't have all those nice things".

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People say this all the time and I ask what exactly they did to piss off millenials. I never get a straight answer. But I will keep asking, hoping that someday, maybe it will be explained.

From what I can tell, it's "they worked their asses off their whole life and made better lives for themselves and their children, and now they have nice houses and money and I'm a young entitled snot nosed brat and I am jealous that I don't have all those nice things".

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I believe that with this incessant debate, much like with most others, making blanket statements is more of a detriment to ones stance than anything else. Trying to boil the successes and failures of an entire generation down to one thought or opinion, working to put the whole lot into one little box, is an exercise in futility. It is, frankly, a non-starter when it comes to any legitimate debate.

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People say this all the time and I ask what exactly they did to piss off millenials. I never get a straight answer. But I will keep asking, hoping that someday, maybe it will be explained.

From what I can tell, it's "they worked their asses off their whole life and made better lives for themselves and their children, and now they have nice houses and money and I'm a young entitled snot nosed brat and I am jealous that I don't have all those nice things".

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Spot on.

Old retired guy here, the 60's and 70's produced great stuff and in no particular order

CCR
3 Dog Night
Rolling Stones
Beatles
Wilson Pickett
Otis Redding
Dr. Hook
Temptations
Eagles
Led Zepplen
Loving Spoonful
Aretha Franklin
Carole king
Sam and Dave
Billy Joel

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The rest of it mostly older than that. I don't really listen to hardly anything made in the past 20 years.

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I am your age (born in '78) and I agree with you. Anything past about 2004 is shite to me. The late 90's and early 00's were all about that "Nu Metal" which I find atrocious, even though I like both 80's and 90's rock/metal.

The 90's started off with grunge, progressed to "nerd rock" and then we somehow went to Limp Bizkit (as well as techno) by the end of the decade. Of course, there was regular alternative throughout. (I am omitting the dance/hip-hop/rap scene).

I am sure there are some good bands out there today but since they aren't on the charts or radio, I never hear about them (and don't bother going and seeking them out). We know that no record company is going to give any artist that doesn't rap a chance in hell.

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I am sure there are some good bands out there today but since they aren't on the charts or radio, I never hear about them (and don't bother going and seeking them out). We know that no record company is going to give any artist that doesn't rap a chance in hell.

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I am roughly your age, and there’s two generations before us that abandoned contemporary music once they hit 40, so it’s part of getting old.

However, you do have to search out new music these days because the landscape has changed so much in the last 10-15 years. You can’t just turn on the radio and expect to hear decent rock or pop-rock. That format doesn’t exist for new music.

They actually wrote lyrics back then. Most nowadays is just engineered noise. Some notable exceptions. Billy Strings for example

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Boomers currently hold most of the leavers of power in government and business (Xers coming up fast though).


For older millennials (born in the 80s cohort mostly), the financial crisis hit at a formative time. All the smart boomers running the money and the government fricked up, and all of our expensive degrees were kinda worth shite for a while and the debt made it hard to buy a home when prices were in the gutter.


This cohort is doing pretty well now, but those memories last.

Younger millennials and Zers missed the financial crisis but have endured a generally chaotic 20-30 y/o period with boomers in charge.

I think the power dynamic in the professional world is part of it.

The other comes down to different sensibilities socially. There's a lot less of "what would the neighbors think" in younger generations. I know my folks and in-laws care way more about people dressing weird, men with long hair and women with crazy colors/short hair, and things of that nature way more than the younger generation does.

Which is funny, because it was the Boomers who opened up the culture to be more laid back in their young days. I'm sure us millennials will be bitching about the young generations dress and attitudes as well.

I dunno, that's a lot of what drives it from my perspective at least.

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