I'm 18 and far too young to have lived through or to have paid attention to many of the classic events of the musical yesteryear. I do however, derive much enjoyment from trawling through wikipedia and other such online treasure troves and learning all 'bout that stuff; reading reviews, articles, forums and the like. Classic or like totally way lame?
― Maxemillian, Thursday, 21 August 2008 19:46 (eighteen years ago)
No, you should only learn about music that is occurring from this date forward.
― call all destroyer, Thursday, 21 August 2008 20:12 (eighteen years ago)
classic!
lots of interesting things have happened. already.
― goole, Thursday, 21 August 2008 20:17 (eighteen years ago)
Kind of "classic" by tautology.
― I eat cannibals, Thursday, 21 August 2008 20:34 (eighteen years ago)
Probably preferable to reading up on significant music happenings before they happen.
― collardio gelatinous, Thursday, 21 August 2008 20:53 (eighteen years ago)
But even aside from that yes it's classic, although you will become susceptible to odd syndromes, like the one i call "nostalgia for the twentieth century".
― collardio gelatinous, Thursday, 21 August 2008 20:55 (eighteen years ago)
you also risk becoming a Revisionist...(i.e. "my favorite records from the early 80's were Metal Box and Dub Housing"...no they weren't, you were listening to Asia and Greg Kihn like the rest of us!)...
― henry s, Thursday, 21 August 2008 21:00 (eighteen years ago)
i was listening to the beatles a lot in 1987, at age three, but that doesn't mean they're my favorite music of the eighties.
― ian, Thursday, 21 August 2008 21:43 (eighteen years ago)
the eighties were one big pile of suck, now that you bring it up though.
"Probably preferable to reading up on significant music happenings before they happen."
Jay Z hiring La Monte Young to revamp Madison Square Garden into a hallucinatory Fluxus attack on the semiotics of urban living certainly will be a watershed. Also, who would have expected Merzbow to go to the top of the Hot 100?
― I eat cannibals, Thursday, 21 August 2008 21:48 (eighteen years ago)